Talk:Profitability/@comment-217.162.151.111-20110716145518

Hi, the profitability of a building mainly depends on the interval of collecting the money. It is totally different if you collect the money every five minutes, every 2 hours, or only once a day. Therefore, those charts and values should not be taken as a definitive guidline for playing the real-life game.

For this purpose, I made a Paradise Island Simulator. It's written in JavaScript, meant to be run with Rhino and outputs a CSV file. (See Downloads below.) It is based on my (guessed) daily collection cycle and calculates the income for 365 days. It shouldn't be a problem to customize for those who are a bit familiar with JavaScript.

It reveals some interesting values (in $ per hour): Restaurant Burito 5: 1830.3 • Cafe 5: 1346.3 • Bed-and-Breakfast 5: 1264.5 • Wild West Hotel 5: 1120.2 • Lightning Catamaran 5: 716.8

DOWNLOADS

Simulator: http://www.mediafire.com/?fkq2ogi2akh8gnr • Rhino: http://www.mozilla.org/rhino/download.html

RUN

java -jar js.jar -f Simulator.js > Simulation.csv