Pleasure circus in a 3025 campaign

[Stjames]

had this in Non-Canon

My Affiliations: Magistracy of Canopus: I have a two lance mech unit, a Merchant JumpShip, a Union Class and a Monarch Class DropShip.

My GM would like to know why the Monarch Class?

I said I like to run a pleasure circus in the campaign and I came up with a monthly income for the Monarch Class DropShip.

It has 266 passengers room with 66 of them being Luxury Rooms and the other 200 are Staterooms. From the MechWarrior third edition it has: Luxury Suite at 350 a night (350 x 30 nights = 10,500 x 66 Luxury Suite = 693,000 monthly if all rooms are full. The Staterooms (High Class) at 100 a night (100 x 30 nights = 3,000 x 200 Staterooms = 600,000 monthly if all rooms are full.

Now not all room will be full every night, so for each month I will roll a 1D100 for the percentages of the 66 Luxury Rooms and the 200 Staterooms that is used.
So for the Luxury Rooms in a month’s: the rent might turn out to be: Luxury Rooms Roll 59 % x 66 rooms = 38.94 % of the 693,000 = 408,870 C-Bill for that month.
Now the Staterooms in a month’s: the rent might turn out to be: Staterooms Roll 45 % x 200 rooms = 90 % of the 600,000 = 540,000 C-Bill for that month.

Now I need to subtract some thing from my War Chest of 408,870 + 540,000 = 948,870 C-Bill for this month like: crew pay, ship upkeep, repair, full, food and supplies for my end of the month War Chest.

What do you think?

[soshi]

employees of the pleasure circus ,   space and personal for the game rooms,     shuttles,  advertisement,  research,  acquiring exotic items, entertainment, special events lots of over things.   

I assume you plan on catering to the high class,  so about a 40% cost of ops for capacity  should be good place to start.   So every month you have a flat 40% of your max capacity as a cost to cover everything.
The other thing main thing  is I would apply a monthly bonus or penalty of a few percentage points to that roll,   one quarter(a 3 month period) a -10 or -15 % penalty   for 2 quarters (a 6 month period) I would apply 0 to 10% modifier to the capacity roll.  For one quarter I would apply a 10 - 30 % modifier to the capacity roll. 

[Stjames]

First of all THX for the reply.
If I get this right: My War Chest for this month is 948,870 C-Bill - 40% costs of ops for employees of the pleasure circus, space and personal for the game rooms, shuttles, advertisement, research, acquiring exotic items, entertainment and other special events. So War Chest of 948,870 x 40% = 379,548 ops costs and bank the 569,322 and do this each month.
The -10 or -15 % penalty for 2 quarters, is this to simulate slow time of the year for circus? And apply a 10 - 30 % modifier to the capacity roll for the good time?

[soshi]

I didn't explain it very well,   I meant the 30 to 40 % of the max capacity of the ship as your monthly cost.    whether you have 10 people or 200 people a day,  you will have to have enough cleaning staff, bell hops, entertainment directors ect.  The way i see a pleasure circus is that it is a casino/resort thing.  your selling an exotic vacation.   

in the simple form  it will not be easy to hire people fast,  so you need to have them around. 

so your max capacity is about 1.3 million c-bill  per month, take 30% of that,  is what your monthly costs are.  390,000 c-bills per month or 40% 520,000. 

I wouldn't view the % rolls as how many people you are getting in per day per month  but instead what you are charging them per day per month.  (or a mix of how many people and what you are charging them).   the modifiers to the % roll represent the good times and slow times(as you said)-  not sure if you plan on traveling to planets or just hanging out at jump points.  Either location has pros and cons.  If you traveling to a planet you will not be taking on business while in transit and you will probably have a slow start the first week or so and you will probably have a slow down around when you leave.  Staying at a jump point means you can get jumpship dropship crews/passengers while they waiting for k-f drives to recharge but it is dependent on how much jump traffic they get (an RCT passing by will probably be a good month).

I would base the % roll from what you charge for the rooms,  not the total value.   
lets say 50% roll for both types of rooms,   50% of 350 c-bills is 175 * 30 (days) = 5250 * 66 (rooms) = 345,400.  50% of 100 is 50 * 30 = 1500 * 200 = 300,000    for a combined total of 645,400 revenue.  I would recommend using 40% (520,000)  to do your monthly costs.