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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cedric" data-source="post: 863829" data-attributes="member: 2044">That's just from her share of the Coffee Houses. The plantation itself will have the same income, assuming she sells the beans to herself at fair market price (which is not what I was assuming, I was assuming a discount on the beans of "sell at cost"). Of course, she could take the Coca~Cola* route and screw one part of her business the help the other. In which case, you would need to take the 13750 right off of the top of what the plantation makes. Meaning she could have losing years reasonably often at the plantation, but then she would recognize a much larger reward from the Coffee Houses. In light of taxation and such though, this is probably not the optimal plan. The optimal plan would be a result of selling her own beans to her own Coffee Houses at cost (about $7500 a year). This is already figured into the Coffee Houses ROI, and will leave the Plantation largely unaffected, with just a small reduction in yearly profits (1500gp). End result, plantation makes it's profit as described above, then subtract 1500gp. Coffee House returns a profit of 15,500, but from this profit will come unaccounted for expenses like bribes, campaigns and deals with the mercantile houses. At the very least, she'll likely have to purchase a guild membership and pay 10% of her profit in dues. (of course, everyone tries to lie about how much profit they made that year).Cedric* Coca~Cola routinely "Screws" their bottling division out of a TON of money, in order to pad the revenue of their other marketing, production and sales divisions (then writes off the loses from the bottling divisions for a tax break). Investors closely watch the finances of the Bottling Company, because if Coca~Cola ever messes up the math on this juggling act, Wall Street would be years in recovering from the aftermath.</blockquote>

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