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As a scriba, you earn 6-7 denarii per period. Already cooked food cost $18 for 6 portions. So to buy finished food, you have to work for at least 3 periods out of 4. If you buy grain and cook it, it costs $10 for 6 portions. So you need to work only 2 periods, but it has to been cooked. However, you can offset this by utilizing your servants. Household servant can cook food for the entire villa. Work servant can earn small income at the warehouse ($12-$16 per day). Pit fighter can earn decent income if you bet on her and she wins (up to $40 per day, but it is very hard). Brothel servant can earn more than work servant, but needs libido training first. If you have a decent brothel servant, you don't have to work at all, she will cover all expenses ($20-$24 per day). If you complete a first quest for Livia, you will get a first farm basically for free, which will help with food too. You also have some food and money at the start.

This is to simulate the hard beginning of any business. It is very well doable in many ways, but you have to plan. I have tested it many times and I was able to always start the business with these conditions.

Hunger system is mentioned in a kitchen tutorial, that pops up when you first enter kitchen. It also describes how food works.

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That last part is exactly the issue. I never walked to the kitchen. Why would I have any need to if I am unaware of there being a hunger system and the tutorial thus far only tells me about working at my office and training the slave? You buy the slave, the tutorial says take her home. Then, you talk to your servant who says she can help train the slave but never has a command to do so (and whenever the slave is being trained there is a different NPC doing it in her room and the one we are discussing now is wandering the house at the same time). That same NPC also teaches you about the scribe job and then that is it, at that point, you have a quest to buy five high quality meat and a red wine for her, and then the bottom of the screen says to train and sell your slave. So, the typical player is going to focus on the training of the slave and the acquisition of the meat and wine as nothing says to go explore the house for more tutorials or anything about the food system.


Also, if I'm supposed to get paid 6 or 7 rather than 3 each time I do the scribe job, I wasn't getting it. I got at most 5 and only twice. The rest of the times it was giving me 3.  Be it a glitch or whatever, IDK, but I stand by my statement. I'd take a screenshot, but as I said I uninstalled already. Best of luck on the game, though. Sincerely. The concept seems really good and I hope it goes well for you.