You're producing quite a lot of stuff already! Happy to have you on the THE Cartel team.
My personal strategy is to start bottom-up, so first invest in more weapon and alcohol production before I build my Pharmaceutical Lab level 2. In this way the next upgrade will also be reached quicker. (on the other hand, extra drug production leads to more Steem payout, which can be used to buy upgrades outright)
I decided also to take the road of weapons and alcohol.
As a result the steem payout in the next days will be less but I agree that it is a smarter approach.
Will not invest anymore steem in the game. All my next upgrades do cost a lot!
True, the first upgrades are priced reasonably well, but the rest is simply too expensive. Especially when you are someone, like me, who powers up most of his liquid Steem anyway.
I normally am also continuingly powering up all the liquid steem I have. But I did learn that it is always good to have some liquid steem at hand.
This did came in handy when drugwars went life, it did came in handy when steemslotgames went life and so on.
So I am now trying to keep at least 20 to 25 liquid steem in wallet. Even have some 30 in the saving. Will take 3 days to free it, but much better than the need to power down!
Sounds like a wise strategy. I had about 5 Steem the moment DrugWars went live and just see the difference between you and me now...
I changed payout preferences from 100% SP to 50-50% again, so hope to increase the speed of growth of my liquid holdings from now on. The DrugWars daily rewards should help with that too of course.
Power down is a no-no for me too for the time being.
The 50-50 could be a wise move if the SBD crawls back above the $. Then it would feel like getting free steem :)