What's More Efficient?

[Adam007]

I'm still trying to figure out what's more cost/time efficient.

 

1. Buying planks at around 500 each from players and levelling off larders with a butler (19 per run using the larder and table)

 

 

 

or

 

 

 

2. Using your own purchased 100gp each logs with the log notes to sawmill to inventory which is slower but costs only 350 each, which is 150 less than what it would normally cost. The butler has to do more runs though so there's a larger charge there.

 

 

 

What I want to figure out is factoring in that the butler will have to do less runs the first way so you're actually saving money there, and you're also saving time, is the 150 gp saved per log using the 2nd method worth it or not? I plan on buying 20,000 oak logs or planks to get to 77 construction from where I'm at, and I'm wondering which would be a better way to go.

[kwimbob]

I would get the logs and make the butler do the planking like this:

 

 

 

Bring only a saw, a hammer, a ton of money, and all your noted logs. So once you have the 24 oak planks do this: Tear down the larder. Build an oak larder. Tear down the larder. Build an oak larder. Give the butler 24 noted logs to unnote (you'll still have 8 more planks at this point). Tear down the larder and build another oak larder before the butler gets back. When he gets back he'll give you 24 oak logs, use one on him and tell him to make planks. When he leaves tear down the larder. He'll bring you 24 more planks. Build the 2 larders, give him the notes, build the next one, make him do planks, remove the larder, take the planks, repeat.

 

 

 

In this way you're wasting no time and even doing something everytime he leaves :D. Also, because you don't have tele runes or anything you can manage to fit 24 planks and you'll be able to make larders quicker and I believe that makes the butler actually ask for pay less often, making this method cheap too!