Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-2A01:CB00:51C:F800:5901:3AF8:1B28:CBBA-20180331081353/@comment-28169398-20180402200747

MoisesGabby wrote: Alright, I was only teasing!

You're talking about two different pieces of information. Including all incomings and outgoings gives you something akin to operating profit, that's fine and still useful to know. But if a company wants to start a new project, it needs to known the financial implications of that project in isolation. It's no good looking at the company's gross profit, the company might make lots of money but if the new project is not profitable they won't do it!

The only difference here is that we don't expect any "project" to actually be profitable in GC, but to decide whether to engage in the project, the net costs in isolation are far more useful as a comparison between doing it or not doing it. Well you have to consider how you are going to finance the project, no? And some projects, by necessity will not turn a profit form many years... ask Twitter.

And RR3 from the players perspective is more of a Not-For-Profit, at best. Any reserves you build up are done with the understanding that they will later be spent to cover future operating expenses. You can't remove from the game and give yourself a bonus.