Talk:Profitability/@comment-5047704-20120427192535

Is Buying the Oracle of Fortification Profitable? Three cost €270. Compare to spending € on special buildings instead. Cash saved from time and repairs vs profit gained from special buildings. Say you have your island full of Hotel Sea Breeze, thats the most profitable regular building, Buying 3 Oracles saves 30% on fix time and cost. Cost to fix is $462,827 fully upgraded. 30% of cost to fix is $138,848. Hotel Sea Breeze generates $5200phr. Fix time is 11hrs. 30% of 11hrs= 3h18m x $5200phr= $17,160 thats the amount of cash you can now make with the time saved repairing. Add this $17,160 to the $138,848= $156,008 extra per repair, x20 facilities= 3,120,160 saved from buying Oracles. Now the Areostat is the most $ producing building available and brings in $200 more than the Hotel Sea Breeze including repair cost. $200 times the amount of hours it takes a Hotel Sea Breeze to need repairs will give the $ amount to compare to. I'm in over my head here, how often does a repair happen? I think i read it's 7% of the time. I can't find a way to calculate this. If we assume it takes an average of 14 collections per repair, than it would be 22hrs for the Hotel Sea Breeze to make it's first collection. 14 x 22hrs= 308hrs. 308hrs x $200 = $61,600. For the price of three Oracles you can almost get four Areostats so let's throw in the extra €10 to get 4. Now multiply that $61,600 x 4 buildings= $246,400. So 3 million compared to 200k. Let me know if i'm wrong here, but it definitely seems profitable to get the Oracles before special buildings. However you can always buy Oracles, but if you don't have enoughf € some special building are only offered once for a limited time. You might consider saving €100 extra before buying Oracles to save for when special buldings are offered.