Hello fellow Patricians!
I am a newcomer to this truly awesome game... where the heck have I been all these years ?!
I started my trading career just doing the standard trades in the baltic sea, and then I began to persue my passion which is to produce my own goods. I started producing bricks and iron goods in my home town, and it was going very well. The prices I was paying for producing them was very competitive with what the town would charge for it's production.
But then I started to expand to other towns and I began to build facilities there. For example, I build 3 sawmills in Torun to feed my hungry facilities at home with cheap timber.
Except my dreams were crushed when the game was showing my production cost of timber was significantly higher than the prices I was buying them off the town for. How could this be possible? Is it because my sawmills are not employed 100% yet? I was really expecting them to produce timber with a reported cost of maybe 45-50 per load. However the game was showing them costing me 65 or more per load. What a rip off! I hope there is a logical explanation for this, for my real passion is to setup a nice supply chain across the baltic sea.