When running a gas station “in the middle of nowhere” things are not always black and white. There are many shades of gray in between and you are unlikely to avoid them while playing the game.
It is thus advised to look into security when hiring people to help you run your gas station. Reliable employees that are also security conscious can be a big advantage when you become a target of fraudulent customers or really shady characters.
Gas Station Simulator has multiple pools of somewhat random events triggered by a series of influencing factors such as revenue, expansion level, customer traffic or time of day.
These event are things like customers trying to steal something from the shelfs in the shop area, people trying to drive off without paying for fuel or some shady characters deciding it’s a good idea to attempt a robbery.
Not to mention really shady characters telling you what pity it would be if something would happen to your large glass windows or educating you on the dangers of dealing with fuel…
Negative events isn’t where it ends. There are also pools of potentially positive events with deals clearly on the shady side. Let’s look at one example that’s representative of various similar events on the supply side of running your gas station. In order to sell fuel to your customers, you obviously have to buy large quantities of fuels and store them in underground depots of your gas station.
You usually buy from known providers and representatives of large fuel delivery companies. But every now and then you might be approached by some shady character offering you a fuel delivery at a significantly lower price, sometimes even half of what you’d normally had to pay.
Certainly a tempting proposition, no question about it. But it comes with some risks. You might not get your delivery or not get it on time. Or the quality might be lower. It can happen, but it doesn’t need to. Actually, you can risk it a few times and discover that some shady characters are more reliable than others. Once you figure out which ones, you can consider seriously cutting your costs making these kind of deals part of your supply chain.