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.
Ok, then if this is what truly is the case, then the bug is not what is occurring (my losses) but how it is worded.
my new proposed "issue" would be that the trader inappropriately tells you that you received a profit when you actually received a loss as a result of the trade. The only way it would not be a bug is if the "profit" is only measured at the time of the sale and it disregards the cost of the caravan. In simple accounting, this would be ignoring the cost of goods sold and only reporting sales revenue as your gross income. My issue is that these traders are disregarding the cost of the caravan when calculating profit, breaching simple rules of finance. Because of this, a message would never appear stating that you received a loss as a result of the previous trade.
Case: When I delivered a caravan just now I get a message that reads: "All the caravan goods have been sold. After calculating all your expenses, you count a profit of 1120."
In basic accounting, this means that after the cost of the caravan, which was 4364, I profited 1120, meaning that I should have in my inventory 5480 (1120+4364). I actually only received 1120 after investing 4364. The trade SHOULD have noted: "All the caravan goods have been sold. After calculating all your expenses, you count a loss of 3244.
Note on the patent: since this is a low price good (butter in this case), the tax doesn't affect it and the quest to purchase a patent wouldn't yet appear. The patent is to relive taxes on expensive goods, or at least the mayor of Warsaw said that during trade dialog.