I disagree this game is not that simple. Tbh I still don't understand the mechanics of the company and I can't because of the bankrupt which comes very early game
But it really is simple, if you know how to do this. First, concentrate on research for the first few days, before you even hire your first girl (you do get Stephanie in 0.8.1, keep her - she's expensive but good). Once you have the first serum ready (just basic medicines), start hiring the supply and production girls until you have about three of each. You should have a positive cash flow already, so you can start investing in policies - batch size is a good investment at the start. Hire a HR girl, and continue hiring suppliers and producers, pausing to sell the serums once a day. When you have about ten suppliers and ten producers, hire a marketing girl, and a research team (I use two or three researchers usually).
The mechanics works this way:
- suppliers buy raw supplies, $1 for each unit I think,
- producers turn them into serums, the "production cost" is in supplies per batch,
- marketing sells the serum for the given $$ price per unit, increased by %% determined by the sluttiness of your marketing uniform.
The first serum has cost of 40 and price of $22. You start with the batch size of 5. So:
- you need 40 units of supply ($40) to produce a single batch,
- you can sell that single batch for 5*$22 = $110.
So you earn $70 on each batch. This needs to be enough to pay the salaries of everybody involved.
The character detail screen shows you how much effort (supply, production, research, etc.) a given girl can put in per period.