The proprietor of
Rijke Reizen Enterprises is back, having been on an extensive
gossip-gathering fact-finding mission in the capital city. He considers starting a
gossip magazine newspaper, but unfortunately paper is not in sufficient supply yet.
Since I registered my company after turn 2, and now is after turn 8, my expenses should have been 6 groschen, against the starting 4 florins.
Funds: 3 florins, 4 groschen
Small warehouse: 0/10
Ships: None
Enterprises: None
I don't think a woodcarver workshop is worth it at this stage. The whole enterprise makes (0.21 * 10) - (0.48 + 1) = 0.62 florins of profit per turn at current prices, or a mere 6.2 pfennigs of profit per 10% share, with which each share costing 1 florin would take way too long to pay itself back. Question for a1s: for those enterprises which require material input (shipyard, woodcarver's workshop and glassblower's workshop), do we need to purchase an initial load of input, much like an initial load of trinkets for the ship?
I propose
buying a new ship and
sending it to the Nearsouthlands instead. I know Aloysius Shores is the more profitable destination right now, but only marginally (5.9 florins/3 turns vs 3.9 florins/2 turns), and since the Schrullige Tintenfische is heading there now, sending a second ship will only depress the price of bananas further (unless we sacrifice a pig to the wind gods or something to sail faster and return first).
The following is a contract for the purchase of a merchant vessel, the 'Zuverlässiger Schwertfisch', and an initial load of 10 trinkets, which should cost 12 florins and 1 groschen. The ship will be taken to the Nearsouthlands for trade in sand.
There will be 10 shares, and each of the undersigned parties will contribute 1 florin, 2 groschen and 1 pfennig for 1 share, or correspondingly more for more shares. Once all 10 shares are accounted for, the purchase of the vessel will occur, followed by its operation.
-Rijke Reizen Enterprises (2 shares)
Normal operation of the Zuverlässiger Schwertfisch will be as such: sail to the Nearsouthlands, trade all trinkets for sand, and return to the Republic. On its return to port, the 10 units of sand will be sold at current market prices, and another 10 units of trinkets purchased. The surplus funds will be considered profit, and be distributed to the shareholders at 10% of the profit per share held. In the event that the profit is not evenly divisible by 10, it will be rounded down to the nearest divisible amount, and the excess held in the Schwertfisch account until such time as another excess renders it divisible by 10, whereupon it shall be distributed.
Any amendments to the normal operation will require the agreement of the shareholders of at least 6 shares.
Only 1 florin, 2 groschen and 1 pfenning per share, come get yours now!
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