How to increase business profits?

[bearfieldlee]

I have a brewery which brings in about 100 a day and I was wondering how to increase its profits. I went to the town where I bought it and did not see an option to go and inspect it or to drop off any extra beer or anything. How does it work?

[Einar]

From what i understand and players perspective it seems to be random. You have to look at neighboring villages and see what best suits workshop to stand a chance to mediocore profit. Example if you see village that has silver ore, bar you sit up the jewelery workshop or whatever that one is that uses silver. Brewery im guessing would be the wheat one. (Im refering to the tied villages to the town your operating in, have workshops.) and neighboring ones.

Anyhow ive gone to the extent to flood the town Market with my workshops needed raw materials in it and seems to only increase minor. You want to own all 3 workshops in a town if you can. If you can only have 1 or 2 make sure there isnt a double workshop. Like two tannery's. Even if you own both tannery's they will compete, not profit.

My final comment is , I liked Warbands system better for workshops. If you put the raw materiel directly at bussiness from raiding or even buying cheap from another town you would have big profit. In bannerlord... seems like you have to flood raw materiel of your towns market and even then its not worth the small steady profit, time and effort since caravans will buy out etc.

Thats just my observation, way i feel. Others may have more to say but all the hours i played thats what i see, understand about "Workshops"

[Scottx125]

In short, the profit of your workshop is affected by the local production. If your beer workshop is surrounded by places that produce beer. The value of the beer produces is gonna be low, hence profits low. Find a place with plenty of raw resources but where none or few of the nearby towns produce what you want to produce.

[Rhapsody]

Originally posted by Scottx125:

In short, the profit of your workshop is affected by the local production.

This is the only concrete decision that can be done. Everything else is affected by variables far beyond (but not completely) beyond your control.

Originally posted by Einar:

My final comment is , I liked Warbands system better for workshops. If you put the raw materiel directly at bussiness from raiding or even buying cheap from another town you would have big profit. In bannerlord... seems like you have to flood raw materiel of your towns market and even then its not worth the small steady profit, time and effort since caravans will buy out etc.

That wouldn't be a bad thing, but generally speaking, it is better to establish your workshops somewhere sufficiently far away from potential enemy factions, so in practice you'd have less and less opportunity to visit those workshops as time goes on and your realm grows in size.