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Miss Gladstones new Financial Bookkeeping

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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*2 10 2 gardener, 2 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 75 -

Servants:

  • 12 maids (2 in kitchen)
  • 3 boy
  • 4 footman
  • 1 first footman
  • 1 second footman
  • 2 guards
  • 2 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: 8)
  • 1 footman (male staff: 7, 2 footman promoted)
  • head housemaid, maid (female staff: 14)
  • 1 girl (kitchen staff: 3, total 30)

Costs = 12*2+3*1+4*3+1*5+1*5+2*5+2*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 = 139

  • 10 pounds agent
  • 5 pounds coterie club
  • 3 horses: 6 pounds

For total expenses of 235. 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 ))