Editing A Business Economics View on EL (section)

== Time is money ==
Yes, it is. In EL you can convert time to money indirectly by harvesting stuff and selling it. One of the most efficient ways to do so is to harvest blue lupines in Portland and selling them at the flower shop. Depending on your harvesting level and maximum load you can make 3600 gc or even more in one hour.

'''That's why an EL second is worth at least 1 gc'''

Using the time/money equivalence you can assess any production plan. For example, does it pay off to harvest Cotton and make your own thread?

  Time to harvest 150 cotton (harv level 74, with excavator cape): 150 seconds
  Time to harvest a veg: 1 sec
  Time to mix 30 thread: 10 sec, result: 28 thread (2 crits) 
  
  Overall calculation: 161 sec for 28 thread

In the same time, we could have made 161 gcs from flowers to buy 80 thread!

But wait, what about the XP we get?