Schedule 1 Dealer Assignment

Overview

Every customer in Schedule 1 likes some drugs and not others, expects a certain quality, and spends a fixed budget each time they order. Every dealer works from a fixed spot on the map and sells whatever you give them to the customers you hand over.

The Dealer Manager answers a single question: given the customers you have unlocked and what each dealer sells, who should go where? It is a planning tool, not a stock tracker - it tells you where the money should come from, then lets you log what actually arrived.

How matching works

A dealer is checked against a customer on four things, in order. Each one only matters when the ones before it are tied - a dealer next door never makes up for selling the wrong drug.

The drug has to be one they like. Each customer has a feeling about weed, meth, cocaine and shrooms. A dealer who only sells what they dislike is out, whatever the quality or the distance. That is the one failure the tool flags in amber.

Then the quality has to meet their standard. A customer with high standards expects Premium. Below that they still buy, but they are not fully satisfied, so a dealer who meets the standard comes first - even with a drug the customer likes a little less. Going above the standard earns a premium on the price.

Then their favourite drug wins. Between two dealers that both meet the standard, the one selling the drug the customer likes most takes them.

Distance settles the rest. A dealer walks to every deal, so the closest one gets the customer. Myself has no fixed spot and never wins on distance: you come last when everything else is equal.

What a customer actually pays

A customer spends a set budget per order, and how many units that buys depends on your asking price. For a recipe, that is its sell price plus whatever markup you added when you saved it. For a drug type, the tool falls back on the base price of the product, so the figure it shows is a floor.

This is where the tool earns its keep. Because the budget is fixed, a higher price means fewer units. Revenue moves in steps rather than a straight line: two different prices often bring in exactly the same amount, and a price that looks greedier can earn less than a modest one. Price too high for a small budget and the customer buys nothing at all.

On top of that, how often they order depends on the relationship. A loyal customer buys every day; a neutral one sticks to the low end of their range. Set each relationship in the List tab so the weekly figures reflect your actual save.

Hired dealers keep 20% of what they sell. Serving a customer yourself keeps the lot, at the cost of doing the rounds in person.

Building an assignment

Set your save rank first. Customer budgets grow as you progress, and every revenue figure on the page is calculated from that rank. Getting it wrong makes the rest of the numbers meaningless.

Configure each dealer. Pick recipes from your Lab Book, or plain drug types, each with the quality it delivers. Every line becomes a group on the dealer's card, and a dealer with nothing configured has nowhere to put anyone.

Let Auto-assign do the first pass. Assign active works with every dealer who has something to sell, Myself included: it keeps the six customers who spend the most for Myself, shares the rest between your dealers, then gives Myself whoever they could not take. Run it first - Assign hired skips Myself, so anyone it places is no longer waiting when Myself's turn comes. Each card can also fill just that one dealer. Only waiting customers move.

Then adjust by hand, and check the amber. Drag a face into a group, or click it to see every group ranked with its reasons. A mismatched customer is worse than an unassigned one: they occupy a slot and buy nothing.

FAQ

Related tools

The Dealer Manager only distributes what you already have. Where the product comes from, and what it is worth, is decided elsewhere.

• Lab BookThe recipes a dealer can sell all come from here.
• Effect FinderEffects raise a recipe's sell price - find the mix that adds them.
• Recipe OptimizerFind the most profitable mix for a drug before you hand it to a dealer.
• Interactive mapSee where each dealer stands and where their customers live.
• Customer dataEvery customer's tastes, standards and budget, straight from the game.