Talk:Hiring & Pricing

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Re: University Courses and Pricing.

Husbandry and Horticulture need not necessarily result in a lowering of your per unit prices on the open market relative to your former yields. Rather, on the open market one should keep the prices established by off-season calculations so as not to undercut those who have yet to master the courses resulting in no sales at all for them. The extra knowledge instead results in extra profits for those who do master the courses (Also remember that animals, scarecrows, and a steward all contribute towards the maximum yield as well.).

If you indeed find yourself in a position to be generous and wish to forgo the extra profit so as to be helpful to newbies, your town, temple, or VR, the Private market and sell to TH only options are a better place to post discounted goods. Passing along the extra profit to your TH by letting them post goods at the standard open-market rates that you sold to TH for less is a good way to keep your Town Solvent without the use of taxes.

RE: Pricing
eg of pricing calculations:

If you pay ~32.10F to 3 players to work your wheat farm (and include a price of an oats for roundness and/or other distributive costs such as animal feed, steward fee, scarecrow maintenance) you can say that your cost of production is -100F. If you produce 10 bags of wheat, then each bag has a cost of -10F and must be sold for at least 10F for you to break even. If you sell it for 12F, your profit will be +20F This is a profit of only 2F a day over the course of a 10 day wheat cycle.

If you pay only 16F however and use the same rounding, you only pay -50F. If you produce 8 bags of wheat, they cost only 6.25F each. If you sell them at 11F, your profit is 38F (4.75F*8) Though your wheat cycle will be almost twice as as long, 19 days: resulting in a daily profit of 2F.

Thus the former and the latter make you the same profit yet have different effects on the economy.

Re: This chart
Depending on the replies to that thread, I would recommend a chart that looks something like this:

Remember, the rule of thumb is: "The more money you pay, the less money you make." If you can get someone for 28F, then there is no reason to pay 38F.