Ceriy said:
cjkfire said:
Ceriy said:
Loosing money with caravans is designed that way, sometimes you make money sometimes you loose. Just like RL.
I would encourage you to re-read the post. Profit = Net income, meaning you have received more money than it costs, however, in this case I am not receiving profit despite the game saying so. In my example the result would have been a loss of 4300 not a profit of 900. In RL I would have had 5300 in my bank not 900.
Do you have a trade patent? If you don't you will loose money, sometimes more, sometimes less. It's because your not one of "them" that you get screwed. Get a patent and you will be making money.
I don't think you fully understand what he is saying.
I've never sent a caravan, but I know it costs a fair amount of money to do so, so I'm just going to make up some numbers to show you what he means.
I send a caravan, costing me 10,000 thaler (this is before I buy any good to put in it). I'm currently down 10,000 thaler
I then buy 5,000 thaler worth of good to put in it. I'm now down 15,000 thaler.
The caravan returns, I have sold the goods I bought for 10,000 thaler, I have earned double the money I spent on the good and the game tells me I've earned 5,000 thaler; the difference between the profit off the goods (10,000 thaler) and the cost of the goods (5,000 thaler).
However I am still down 5,000 thaler rather than profiting 5,000 thaler because of what it cost me to send the caravan in the first place.
I have no clue whether the in-game numbers are anything like this, but the principle remains the same regardless