Unprofitable Barrel, Glass, Jewelry and gold ingot

[MAYEUSULI]

The gold ingots are sold for 7 coins, but if you sell 6 pieces of gold ore, wich is the cost of an ingot, you get 24 coins.
The barrels are sold for 3 coins, but if you sell 4 planks and 1 tool, wich is the cost of a barrel more or less, you get 15 coins.
The pieces of glass are sold for 3 coins, but the selling price of 6 pieces pf quartz is 6 coins.
The jewelry is made of gold so it has the same problem as gold ingots.
So I think the selling price of these products should be higher and the production materials lesser.

[Pico 22]

- It's even worse if you import gems and export jewelry. Try to explain that to all those Amsterdam jewelers.
- I stopped making barrels quite a while ago; too extensive. Much more simple just to import them.
- Similar with glass. I produce it only when I need it for stained glass windows; otherwise I hoard or export quartz.

I guess this is not the way you are meant to play but ATM, it's the only sensible way.

[rkelly17]

Remember that you can't produce wine without barrels. I only produce them so I can get wine for at least one of my taverns, so never thought about the cost. What happens to the value if you use barrels to export wine?

[Vrighty]

Also did notice the challenge in making profit with making these items.
I do have 1 cooper, which produces some barrels. I am making sure I always have atleast 150 Iron in stock.... (by trade) because for some reason the 3 iron deposites and 3 iron smelters could not produce enough for everything.
This made sure all production of tools, common goods ect flourished.

I did the same trick with barrels. I made sure ONLY 1 area could store barrels, right next to the wine production. The minimal I did want to have in stock was 50 barrels. And also my wine production exploded.

In this game it is realy hard to notice the benefit from each production stream. I already posted an idea about showing statistics. Maybe you should build an addition building in the Manor to be able to show these statistics and give a villager a job to count the production stream for like 5 diff products.