Maximum labor throughput

Maximum labor throughput or maximum labor output is the highest amount of labor a shoppe or stall can use in a given amount of time. Each type of shoppe or stall has different limits for each grade of labor (basic, skilled, and expert).

=How Labor is Used=
 * Main article: Labor

Labor is polled automatically in a round-robin fashion from a shoppe's list of employees, filling expert labor first, then skilled labor, then basic labor. A shoppe or stall cannot use more labor hours in a real-time hour than its labor throughput for each grade of labor, and it can never use more than its basic labor throughput in combined labor. For instance, a stall with labor limits of 4 hours basic, 2 hours skilled, and 1 hour expert with an order of blue dye (which requires 2 hours skilled labor and 4 hours basic labor) could not finish the product in one hour, because only 2 hours of skilled labor and 2 hours of basic could be used that hour.

=Labor Throughputs=

=Example= Imagine you managed a medium apothecary stall with three employees, and received an order for a green dye. Green dye requires two hours of skilled labor and four hours of basic labor. Your stall has a labor throughput of two skilled labor hours per real-time hour, and four basic labor hours per real-time hour.

During the first hour after the product was ordered, the game would poll your staff in search of an employee who can provide skilled labor. First it would check employee A, who cannot provide skilled labor, so employee B is checked, and he or she can. One hour of offline skilled labor is provided by employee B, and the game moves on to check employee C. Employee C can also provide skilled labor, and one of his or her labor hours is used. The stall cannot use any additional skilled labor this hour, for its labor limit for skilled labor has been reached, but the stall does not need any more skilled labor. The stall can still provide two more hours of basic labor this hour, for a total of four. Employees A and B each have another hour removed, and the dye labor is continued.

The next hour, the stall checks employee C again, picking up where it left off last hour. Employee C provides an hour of basic labor. The stall then checks employee A again, who, they discover, has used up his or her 24 hours of labor foraging. The stall passes employee A and moves to employee B, who provides the final hour of basic labor, completing the green dye.

=External links=
 * Faulkston's Labor Throughputs