mbrasher1
03-31-2009, 04:52
I was poking around the stat files and discovered some things about plantations. They offer you income through taxes, as well as on trade. If you look on the wealth of your province, it indicates the number of units times the current world price. You get that amount times your tax rate.
Also, if you look at the trade income, you can sell the same quantity that was just taxed to a trading partner.
Say a small plantation which costs you 1250 and produces 15 units of sugar or whatever. Assuming tax rates of 33% and commodity price of 15/unit, that means you earn 75/turn from the taxes. Plus you produce an additional 225/turn from trade.
That is a return of 300/turn, so plantations pay for themselves in 4 turns -- 2 years.
Also, I have noticed that if you look at a province and compare its stated commodity totals from plantations to the totals listed on each plantation, they often do not match. I looked at old saved games from the French and Spanish, and it is true in many places. Sometimes the bonus is 100% (ie, the large plantation says it creates 25 sugars but the tax and trade totals say 50 were created. That means plantations can pay back in a single year.
The bonus sometimes is 50% or 75%. Or sometimes there is no bonus, and the pnatation yields what is described. Sometimes more, but never less.
Also, if you look at the trade income, you can sell the same quantity that was just taxed to a trading partner.
Say a small plantation which costs you 1250 and produces 15 units of sugar or whatever. Assuming tax rates of 33% and commodity price of 15/unit, that means you earn 75/turn from the taxes. Plus you produce an additional 225/turn from trade.
That is a return of 300/turn, so plantations pay for themselves in 4 turns -- 2 years.
Also, I have noticed that if you look at a province and compare its stated commodity totals from plantations to the totals listed on each plantation, they often do not match. I looked at old saved games from the French and Spanish, and it is true in many places. Sometimes the bonus is 100% (ie, the large plantation says it creates 25 sugars but the tax and trade totals say 50 were created. That means plantations can pay back in a single year.
The bonus sometimes is 50% or 75%. Or sometimes there is no bonus, and the pnatation yields what is described. Sometimes more, but never less.