strange revenue

Revenue is not the same as profit.

 (UPDATE: While revenue is defined as raw income, I have no idea what it means for this tool tip)

If you are missing something i am missing it too.

If revenue means:

1. Amount of money the resource produced is yielding, it should be +43$
2. Amount of money the resource produced minus the resource used, it should be 0$
3. Amount of money the resource produced minus the resource used, minus power used, it should be -4.4$

Now +20$ does not make any sense. The only way i can come close to a 20 value is by the following:

• Ignore the +100% efficiency. So you have 1 iron -> 0.5 steel
• Calculate the revenue of the operation: -21.5$
• Invert the sign: 21.5$!

Now, it does not make any sense either.

Oh and also:

If you know something more, please explain.

It might be the average of the steel mills? As the middle 2 steel mills ARE profitable.

The screenshot shows +3.5 steel production so:

3.5 * (43$) - 3 * (43$) = 21.5$ of revenue

From the 4 steel mill present it is not possible. I assume the "Off" steel mill does not provide any bonus and there is a steel mill alone somewhere.

My point was that its understandable that its not -$4, because revenue is supposed to be without costs.  According to the screen and the tooltip together he's generating +3.5 steel, and consuming -3 iron because of the bonuses.  So, $43*3.5 - $43*3.0 is the $21.5 you arrived at.  So, I guess it is profit after all.  I can't account for the remaining 1.5 with what we can see.  Maybe the sale price is being adjusted by how much the price would decrease selling that 3.5 steel.

UPDATE:  I was trying to rationalize the .5 extra steel coming from somewhere I can't figure, and lost sight of the fact that the $20 revenue would not be correct if all three steel mills were reporting $20.  I have no idea how this calculation is working.

That seems reasonable.

Also the total cost of power is 0.2 * 4 * -22$ = -17.6$. So is it definitely not accounted for. But i think it is correct not to include it.

I would appreciate some dev clarification on this, because this is not at all clear. I don't think that the revenue is the average revenue from all steel mills, because I get different values from facilities with different adjacency bonuses.

This is interesting info! We need to summon a dev by the holy beta tester power.

I put up one steel mill for testing and I can make no sense of the revenue.  Iron seems spot on.

 I assume the "Off" steel mill does not provide any bonus 

Off buildings definitely provide adjacency bonuses.

I am a dev and I had no idea this feature was in the game. I will summon Soren to explain himself.

-Scott-