Talk:Surf station/@comment-130.15.43.238-20120224032031/@comment-4102115-20120224033641

As has been commented, the profitability per hour compared to the Pirate ship is very similar, it is slightly higher. But weighted for time, if you only collect income once or twice a day, the Pirate Ship earns you more $s for the same space.

But - that is somewhat irrelevant, since they both have a much higher profitability than any other water structure, and there is a limit of 3 pirate ships and 3 surf stations, there is never a choice between one or the other. If you want to build a Pirate Ship, you do not do so in place of a Surf Station, and vice versa. The only decision with a Pirate Ship is "do I want to spend 45€ each on them and how many at 45€ each do I want to buy?" Then, if you want to get Surf Stations, that takes so much longer to get, and so you only need to decide if you want to go the effort and $ cost. If you do, then you build them as they're so much more profitable per cell space than waterslides but you don't replace any Pirate Ships.

They are very very expensive in $-equivalent to build as each one needs 6 x Drawing pieces each, which take forever to be offered for sale, and then cost an equivalent of $420,000 of Idol offerings to purchase each piece, unless you have not bought any Scrolls and saved up all your resources over many thousands of income collections. So essentially the "cost" of each Surf Station is $2.52M + $100K actual build cost = $2.62M each, or $7.86M to build all 3. So the ROI time is over 500 income collections just to pay off the purchase cost. But $2.62M each is still 0€, and being such a long long time to accumulate the pieces, that $2.62 to $7.86M cost is spread out over such a long time, that it just makes it a real adventure/task/quest to achieve :)