Investment Calculator
Alright, here it goes. I’ve been working on this for a little while now. I wanted to provide you all with a basic tool that really helped me out. I made this first off in an excel spreadsheet, and then transferred it into a script.
How it works:
Simple. Enter the number of each property that you own and click the submit button. The properties will then be displayed with the best investment at the top. The cost / income ratio is determined and will tell you a price. The price for each property represents how much money you would need to invest into that property to return $1 per hour (55 min for rogue) in income. Using this you can easily determine which property offers the best income for the price you pay. Tell your fellow guild members, it’ll help you all out.
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September 14th, 2008 at 3:13 am
Nice. It should be noted for people using this calculator that even when undeveloped property looks like the best deal, buying a bunch of plains or town squares will also drive up the cost of developed properties that depend on them. It may not be a good idea to gobble up a bunch of them even when they look like they provide the best ROI.
September 14th, 2008 at 5:12 pm
hey i’ve got a suggestion that would make the calculator more “user friendly”. When you click the back button to take you back to the number entry page: could you make it so that, instead of refreshing the calculator with empty text boxes, it saves the number of properties that you entered so you don’t need to re-enter the number each time you use it.
September 14th, 2008 at 5:21 pm
Request received and implemented. The ‘BACK’ link should now no longer wipe the contents of the form. Let me know if there is still a problem.
September 18th, 2008 at 12:19 pm
This is a great calculator. Helped me a lot already! Got a question for you though — is the formula for these figures simply a matter of taking the most current cost of a property and dividing it by the income amount? I’m curious because I want to do something like this for Mobsters and it APPEARS that’s how it might work. Thanks…for a great tool and for your future response.
September 18th, 2008 at 12:28 pm
The calc uses the number of properties entered to first determine the current purchase price of properties. It then adds the purchase price of any undeveloped land needed (if any) to the price, it then divides the total by the income.
March 28th, 2009 at 9:54 pm
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