Talk:Sponsor a trading voyage to the farthest reaches of the zee/@comment-3400522-20140607122310/@comment-23895476-20140704000418

Even before I knew that Whirring Contraptions took longer to get and cost more to commission I figured that I got a Whirring Contraption that would otherwise have cost me a Collection of Curiosities worth 62.5 Echoes (minus the Action it takes to trade it to the Tomb-Colonists). So that's 62.5 Echoes minus 50 Echoes in 5 + 1 = 6 Actions, which is a little more than 2 Echoes per Action, which was good enough for me. Though now I hardly have any Drops of Prisoner's Honey left, since I had to call in some Bohemian favours just to get the 2000 I needed to try this option. Worth it? Well, apparently I'll need Whirring Contraptions for Ambition: Light Fingers, so I guess I can live with it. But I wasn't very pleased at the time, as I expected some kind of wonder.

Now I've rebuilt my Bohemian connections through public lectures in the Forgotten Quarter, which I actually do for the Revolutionary connections and to get some Suspicion to lose through various actions that reduce it. So with the ability to get more honey at 2.40 Echoes/Action as a side-effect I guess I could now try this option twice in 'only' 2 x (17 + 5) = 44 Actions and 20 Echoes (the cash). If I'd get two Whirring Contraptions that'd be like getting one for the 'new default' 44 Actions and the other for just 20 Echoes, which would be worth it as long as I need them. And  when I use the 44 saved Actions to get Collections of Curiosities the 4000 CPs of Bohemian connection would be worth 1.5 pence/CP instead of the default 0.75 pence/CP : (62.5 x 44 / 35 - 20) / 4000 = 0.01464 Echoes/CP

But what about the alternative success with the 450 Phosphorescent Scarabs? It would help me commission a Whirring Contraption, costing me 60 Memories of Light and an extra Action, but leaving me with 150 extra Phosphorescent Scarabs. So that'd be 17 + 5 + 1 = 23 Actions and 10 (cash) + 30 - 15 = 25 Echoes for a Whirring Contraption that would otherwise take 44 Actions to get. And I could make more than 25 Echoes in the 21 Actions I'd save: (62.5 x 21 / 35 - 25) = 12.5 Echoes. Still better than spending 44 Actions to get a Whirring Contraption from Wilmot's End, but 12.5 / 2000 = 0,00625  Echoes/CP is worse than the default 0.75 pence/CP. Not sure if that matters though?

Perhaps I should visit my Bohemian friends while there is still time...