Chapter 1610 Income and Expenditure Issues, Mobile Phone Plan
The last item is a legacy of the old system and is used to purchase various magic items from Tower of Time members. If this item disappears, the income from the sales of other magic items will also disappear simultaneously.
In the past, the capital flow of the Tower of Time basically circulated on this line, but now it is just replaced by the sales income and salary expenses of mass-produced magic items.
As for the maintenance fee, it is an internal maintenance cost of the Tower of Time. Although it has been rising steadily, it is also a relatively fixed silent cost. Xia Duo has not included it in the overall income and expenditure items.
If you really want to make a detailed calculation, the production cost of mass-produced magic items can also be included in it.
Here Xia Duo only counts the revenue and expenditure relationship between the Tower of Time itself and the outside. As for the internal part, it is temporarily ignored.
After all, the Tower of Time has now entered a stable period after the transformation, and it is not appropriate to make too many internal changes.
In addition, Shado did not include the income from smuggling with Lord Collins. After all, it had little to do with the Tower of Time itself.
Similar to the difference between personal funds and company funds.
And when he listed all the relationships on the paper, everything became very clear. Xia Duo found that there was almost only one choice in front of him, and that was——
Increase sales revenue from mass-produced magic items!
Currently, the Tower of Time has four kinds of magic items that have been mass-produced - communication tools, warning amulets (named amulets but actually in the form of statues), missile wands, and demon-slaying amulets (real amulets, high-end goods).
Among them, the Demon-Slaying Amulet, although it was still sold after the underground war, was completely different from the concept before the war.
In addition, although the Missile Wand has also achieved mass production, because it is an offensive consumable, the actual sales are very unstable, and the total sales volume is not even as good as the Alert Talisman.
As for the Vigilance Talisman, it is generally only purchased by adventurers who are not spellcasters. From the time it was first launched to the present, sales have been getting weaker and weaker.
If we look at it over a long period of time, we will be overtaken by the Missile Wand sooner or later.
What really supports the operation of the Tower of Time is actually the communication weapon, which is also the product that Sha Duo has the highest hopes for. Niya even changed her original research direction for this reason.
It's just that the market for communication instruments in Netheril is far from saturated. This can also be seen from the fact that it can sell as much as it produces every month.
If possible, Xia Duo really doesn't want to mention any upgrades at this time.
But if you don’t upgrade, how can you increase your income all of a sudden?
It is possible to expand production, but on the one hand, the market is not yet saturated, and other Mage Tower organizations are also seizing the time to ship goods. Once the Tower of Time expands production, it will indeed increase revenue in the short term, but in the long run, it will be vulnerable to other Mage Tower organizations. of joint boycott.
The Tower of Time has made all the money, what else can others make?
Upgrading and entering the high-end market is not the case. On the one hand, the market is very large, and the high-end and low-end do not affect each other. On the other hand, this can be regarded as opening up a new high-end market for other Mage Tower organizations in advance.
In fact, what Xia Duo wants to do is to directly upgrade to the communication mystery lock. That way it is not a one-time deal, and the various subsequent mystery lock services are the bulk of the charges.
Unlike now, even if it is a high-end communication weapon with a high premium, if someone else buys it back, the transaction will end there, and there is no need to give the Tower of Time even a single copper in the future.
It's just that Niya's communication mystery lock has not even been seen yet, so it is completely useless this time.
After much thought, Xia Duo thought that if he wanted to increase his income through normal means, he would probably have to launch high-end communication tools in advance.
For other mass-produced magic items, on the one hand, mass production takes time, and on the other hand, they are not as easy to cut as communication tools, which almost everyone has a potential need for.
Of course, in addition to this, you can also make some extra money, such as starting a private customization business of high-quality magic items, or increasing the smuggling of Cormanthor.
He even hid his identity and quickly released a batch of arcane crystals, but after [Mythra] was made public in the future, others would be able to lock in his identity without guessing. This kind of almost costless and profitless behavior of cutting leeks is really demeaning.
Shado gave up the idea after just thinking about it, and started to buy high-grade mithril. Although he was cutting leeks hard, because Netheril's current mithril refining technology was limited, it was actually still a way to save character. !
But this approach also has hidden dangers. It can easily attract the attention, vigilance, hostility, and even direct investigation and intervention of the elves, especially the Yerlan Moonhorn family, which monopolizes most of the high-grade mithril trade in Netheril.
Xia Duo has already reached a certain cooperation intention with Hildalanna of the Yuejiao family. If nothing special happens, he is not prepared to overly stimulate the other party.
Of course, in addition to the above methods of making money, Xia Duo can also choose to embrace Iolum's lap.
It's just that money is easy to repay but favors are hard to repay. He will definitely seek help from Iolum, but it is certainly impossible to rely on him completely.
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After making the decision, Shado immediately returned to the Tower of Time. After discussing with Niya, not surprisingly, he received Niya's full support.
At the same time, this incident also stimulated Niya, who wanted to complete the design of the communication mystery lock as soon as possible. Of course, before that, she must first complete the "Promotion Package" tailor-made for her by Sha Duo.
In front of the projection window in the study room on the top floor, Niya was immersed in studying, while Shado began to re-examine the details of the plan to upgrade the communication magic weapon in the past from the perspective of a great arcanist.
What he was thinking at that time was to refer to Penguin Communication in his hometown, so that it would be easier to implement the function and there would be traces to follow for upgrades.
But now, Xia Duo wants to use the upgrade route of mobile phones in his hometown as a reference, from a mobile phone that can only make calls, to a feature phone with simple functions, and then to a smart phone.
The main reason is that he found that if communication is only the selling point, it will not be easy to sell it at a high price even if there are upgrades in functionality and experience.
The Nese people have never used or heard of communication software on Earth before, so the Nese people may not necessarily buy into the upgrade of communication.
And Xia Duo no longer has much time to discipline consumers, so he must upgrade the communication device with the attitude of making a mobile phone from scratch.
In addition to communication, there should be at least one new function that Nese mages can't put down, so that they are willing to pay a high price.
As for the styling, it can only be regarded as an extra bonus, not a core element.
As he thought deeply, a vague idea appeared in Xia Duo's mind, but it couldn't be fully formed for a while, so he simply picked out the communication functions first and redesigned it from his current perspective.