Expenses
A slimed down interpretation of the expenses:
Estates:
Primrose cottage: rating 2
New system:
- Living component
- Receiving component
- Dining component
- Stables Component
Necessary staf:
- 2 Maids
- 1 footman
- 1 cook, 1 girl (kicthen), 1 footman
- 1 stableboy, 1 driver
- Ladies Maid
- Butler
- Housekeeper
- Footman (7 total male staff)
- Head housemaid, maid (10 total female staff)
24 Friend Street: rating 2
New system:
- Living component x2
- Receiving component x2
Necessary staff:
- 2 footman
- 4 maids
- Lady's maid
- Head housemaid (seperate estate)
- Underbutler (seperate estate)
Agent: Mr. Gardener
Female: 2+1+1 Primrose. 4+1+1, 24 Friend street. Total 10
Male: 1+1+1+1+2 Primrose, 2+1 Friend street. Total 9
Primrose cottage needs an extra 2 maids and a Housekeeper under the new system. Though it has 1 extra footman. 24 Friend street servant count was never defined.
This costs (pounds per month):
- Primrose components: 20
- Primrose servants: 56
- 24 Friend components: 20
- 24 Friend staff: 31
- Agent: 10
For a total of 137 pounds per month.
That's not having any double components on primrose cottage. As it's a small house.
Assuming: Head housemaid in a geographically seperate estate does -not- count for +1 female staff to manage them.
Assuming: If you have 4 female staff in one estate, and 4 female staff in a seperate estate. Then you have 8 female staff and require an additional servant to manage them.
Assuming: If you have a geographically seperate estate you require an underbutler if that estate has more than 0 males.
Because: "Additionally, you require an underbutler for every geographically separate estate with three or more male staff." and "Special: If the separate estate only has female staff, you can replace the Underbutler with an Underhousekeeper." does not cover a case of 1-2 male staff.
This new economic system would mean swiftly dumping 24 Friend Street. Furthermore, Primrose cottage is a small house Miss Gladstone has been living in since she had wealth 2, and she was planning to upgrade to a bigger, more expensive house soon. So currently the expenses should be low.
Larger Estate
I have been waiting till I get either wealth 4 or the new money system has been implemented till I can move to a much bigger house, which Miss Gladstone has been dreaming of for awhile. I will only give the component listings, because I don't have a fully worked out concept for how that house would look like (nor a good picture). This is to give an estimation so that the incomes can be compared for the storyteller.
Module | Upkeep | Staff Required |
---|---|---|
Ballroom | 10 | 2 maids, 2 footman |
Security | 5 | 2 guards |
Garden | 5 | 1 gardener, 1 boy |
Dining | 5 | Chef, 2 maids, 1 footman |
Receiving * 4 | 20 | 3 footman, 2 maids |
Living * 3 | 15 | 6 maids |
Stables | 5 | 1 driver, 1 boy |
atelier | 5 | 1 assistant rank 3 |
Total | 70 | - |
Servants:
- 12 maids (2 in kitchen)
- 2 boy
- 4 footman
- 1 first footman
- 1 second footman
- 2 guards
- 1 gardener
- 1 chef
- 1 driver
- 1 assistant (female)
- 1 butler (always)
- 1 ladies maid (Miss gladstone)
- 1 ladies maid (guest)
- 1 housekeeper (always)
- 1 groom (outside staff: 6)
- 1 footman (male staff: 7, 2 footman promoted)
- head housemaid, maid (female staff: 14)
- 1 girl (kitchen staff: 3, total 30)
Costs = 12*2+2*1+4*3+1*5+1*5+2*5+1*7+1*10+1*5+1*6+1*10+1*6+1*6+1*8+1*5+1*3+1*4+1*2+1*1 = 131
- 10 pounds agent
- 5 pounds coterie club
- 3 horses: 6 pounds
For total expenses of 222. May still make it bigger.
questions
New components: may only have ballroom once?
Was thinking about having a crafts room, personalised atelier with 1-2 supporting personnel, can't combine with ballroom?
Can I still have both my agent Mr gardener and detective if living in single house?
Business 2 shop is worse than business 1 of miss Gladstone just making dresses in terms of income. Also proposal is already a fully upgraded business 2, can't expand it and cannot mechanically influence it, except upgrade it to business 3.
(( note to self : expansion paths: wool/cloth producer and producer of sewing machines ))