McDonald's Video Game is a parody of the business practices of the corporate giant McDonald's, taking the guise of a tycoon-style business-simulation game. The game presents the player with four views: The farmland, the slaughterhouse, the restaurant and the corporate HQ. Want to bring the kids and enjoy some time with the family? Want to celebrate a birthday with Ronald McDonald? Find out about the magic of McDonald's®!
I noticed by reading reviews that many people seem to be having trouble with this game. I posted my strategy in the reviews, but I think it will soon be buried. Therefore, I am reposting it here in hopes it will help more people... though I don't know how many people read these forums... Oh well, without further ado...
Ok, here it is... to all you whiners out there that are saying this game is 'too hard'. This strategy is guaranteed to keep the company making money forever. I personally have gotten to 2100 with over 2 million in the bank before I got bored. I have broken my strategy down into the 4 categories of the game.
First, pause the game as soon as it starts. Perform all the starting actions for each area (detailed below) before resuming the game (fields, pastures, hormones, health official, hire employees)...
Agriculture:
-Create 3 genetically modified soy fields, and 4 cow pastures.
-After 2 soy harvests, turn off genetic enhancement on one field and sell it. (be sure to turn off enhancement before selling it). You only need 2 soy fields, and the extra was just to get the cistern a bit more full to start out.
-When your pastures fertility starts to degrade, wait untill immediately after a cow 'harvest', pause the game, and sell all 4 pastures and create 4 new pastures on fresh squares allowing the land to heal it's self. (you will have to repeat this process throughout the game so get used to keeping an eye on it).
:Note: If you use this rotation strategy correctly, you should only need to demolish 2 squares of rainforest/village. Also, DO NOT CORRUPT THE TOWN TO GET MORE SPACE. There is more than enough without it, and it causes uneeded problems.
Feedlot:
-Turn on hormones and that's it. Do not destroy diseased cows, and do not enable animal flours or industrial waste. The keeper will complain alot, just ignore him completely. You should not even have to look at this screen, because 2 enhanced soy fields is exactly the right ammount of food for 8 hormonized cows (4 fields, 2 cows each).
Fast Food:
-To start, hire only one cashier and one grillman.
-Wait for 2 cow harvests in the agri sector, then hire a full staff.
-Be sure to keep crew smiling with badges or firing/replacing.
:Note: I don't use dicipline as it rarely works and has almost the same negative effects as firing anyway.
Corporate:
-Enable Corrupted health officer and leave it enabled always.
-When you expand to a full crew, enable 'Food Pyramid' and '3rd world' advertising. (don't ever use any other advertising)
-As you fire crew, you will need to temporarily corrupt a politician to prevent problems. Also, you may need to corrupt a Climatologist for a while if you are destroying rain forrests. (you should never need to corrupt a nutritionist because of the food pyramid)
:Note: In general, use the corruptions only when needed (except the health official which should always be on), and pay attention to your 'detractors' to tell when to turn them off. Only use the two advertisements mentioned because they serve dual purposes, and never turn them off.
After your business is established, you should have to do nothing more than rotate pastures, reward/fire/hire crew, and enable/disable corrupted politician.
If you followed my advice correctly, you should be getting on average $2050.00 per month profit (when not corrupting politicians or buying/selling pasture). This should keep the corporate whiners happy for a while. (Eventually they will complain no matter how much money you are making, so just ignore them).
One final note. Using this strategy, you will very very slowly build a surplus of soy. Also, after many years, you may have a shortage of meat. At this point, I recommend adding one pasture for a little while to rebuild the meat stores and kill down the soy surplus. I would not recommend having the extra pasture early on because it's an unneeded expense, and it will run down your soy stores dangerously low.
Mcdonald's Video Game
Good luck, and have fun making millions!!! ^^