Discussion: Lower Construction Import Prices?
Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2018 11:11 pm
As context, Winchester and myself are trying to move into manufacturing. The thing that is really holding us back is concrete.
Concrete production (to my knowledge - correct me if I'm wrong) requires:
1 stone mine
1 clay mine
1 limestone mine
1 manufactory (combines stone + clay to make aggregate)
and finally, a concrete plant (takes aggregate and limestone to make concrete)
Ultimately we need the manufactory anyway, however the only purpose we have for concrete itself (given our goals), is that 150 concrete is required to make a steel refinery.
The cost of imported concrete is 3s60d (versus 5d export), which means we would pay 540s to import all of the concrete just for the steel refinery (plus the base cost of 150s + tax). I can't speak to what the price should be (as I don't know the economics surrounding production), but is this a bit much? The price should obviously higher than production cost however this is a little prohibitive.
For testing specifically, I think we might already be spread too thin just by the jobs required in the steel pipeline, so I somewhat doubt we can get concrete up and running anyway.
Thoughts?
Concrete production (to my knowledge - correct me if I'm wrong) requires:
1 stone mine
1 clay mine
1 limestone mine
1 manufactory (combines stone + clay to make aggregate)
and finally, a concrete plant (takes aggregate and limestone to make concrete)
Ultimately we need the manufactory anyway, however the only purpose we have for concrete itself (given our goals), is that 150 concrete is required to make a steel refinery.
The cost of imported concrete is 3s60d (versus 5d export), which means we would pay 540s to import all of the concrete just for the steel refinery (plus the base cost of 150s + tax). I can't speak to what the price should be (as I don't know the economics surrounding production), but is this a bit much? The price should obviously higher than production cost however this is a little prohibitive.
For testing specifically, I think we might already be spread too thin just by the jobs required in the steel pipeline, so I somewhat doubt we can get concrete up and running anyway.
Thoughts?