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.

Servants:

• 12 maids (2 in kitchen)
• 2 boy
• 3 footman
• 1 first footman
• 2 guards
• 1 gardener
• 1 chef
• 1 driver
• 1 butler (always)
• 1 ladies maid (Miss gladstone)
• 1 ladies maid (guest)
• 1 housekeeper (always)
• 1 groom (outside staff: 6)
• 1 footman (male staff: 5, footman promoted)
• head housemaid, maid (female staff: 13)
• 1 girl (kitchen staff: 3, total 27)

Costs = 12*2+2*1+4*3+2*5+1*7+1*10+1*5+1*10+1*6+1*6+1*8+1*4+1*2+1*5+1*3 = 114 (old)

For an estate expenses of 169. 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 ))