Business for Profit

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This tutorial gives you the basic information needed to run a business for profit. After completing this tutorial you will be able to:


 * Identify a gap in the market
 * Know how to calculate the biggest profit margins
 * Compare the profits to be made with different goods.
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Doubloons per labour hour
Each game account can have a maximum of 10 economy slots and those can store 3 days worth of labour. So your maximum potential production is 30 days of labour. This is the common value we'll use. What we want to do is maximise the amount of money you earn per labour hour.
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A captain Selling goods at 200db per hour labour profit will make 1.44 million db every 3 days pure profit. }}

Making Sense of it all
In order to make sense of the economy in PotBS you'll need the help of a tool to calculate prices.

Finding the Right Market

 * Be in regular demand on the Auction House
 * Finding the highest profit margin

The first thing you want to do is find the right market. You're looking for an item which is in regular demand, so you're items don't sit in the Auction House (AH) unsold. You also want to find the item that offers the highest profit margin.

Profit Margin
The items with the highest prices don't necessary have the highest profit margins. You want to find the item with the highest difference between the cost to make and the price on the AH.

The easiest way to do this is with doubloons per labour hour (see the side box).