Earning capital with rooms / teams

[Ravingdork]

If the room or team's Earnings entry says "capital" and a number, it can contribute a bonus on the building's or organization's skilled work check for any type of capital (gp, Goods, Influence, Labor, or Magic). If the Earnings entry lists specific types of capital, it can contribute a bonus on its building's or organization's skilled work checks only for capital of those types. You can apply each room's or team's bonus to any one listed type or capital each day or divide it among multiple listed types of capital. For example, an Alchemy Lab can generate only gp, Goods, or Magic, and not Influence or Labor. One day you could use all +10 of its bonus on the building's capital check to generate gp, on the next day you could use +5 on a check for generating gp and +5 on a check for generating Goods, and so on.

How can you split the bonus, if the bonus is different for each category of capital?

If my collective rooms/teams get me a +15 to roll for goods, and a +25 to roll for labor, how do I split the bonus when getting goods??? Looks like all I have to work with is +15, period.

Can someone explain the above quote to me? It just doesn't seem to make sense.

[Sarrah]

2nd paragraph after Earnings subsection (second half of that paragraph)
You can apply each room's or team's bonus to any one listed type or capital each day or divide it among multiple listed types of capital. For example, an Alchemy Lab can generate only gp, Goods, or Magic, and not Influence or Labor. One day you could use all +10 of its bonus on the building's capital check to generate gp, on the next day you could use +5 on a check for generating gp and +5 on a check for generating Goods, and so on.

[Sarrah]

Oops, sorry same paragraph. lol. Basically, you can allocate resources to be produced in whichever fashion you'd like. Powergamers are going to make every roll possible to receive the biggest possible return - thus allocating at least 1 point to all possible rolls.

In terms of the real world, hypothetically...I run a business. I have 16 employees. I can allocate 8 of my employees to improve other people's properties (granting me $$) (50%) and 8 of my employees towards improving the efficiency of my store (granting me labor) (50%)

[Sarrah]

Division of labor/time management is the answer you are looking for.

Your workers have limited time in a day to do certain things. Either your workers can spend time advertising and selling to clients or they can spend time making stuff to sell.

[Ravingdork]

I'm still confused.

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Let's say my players have the following building:

ALCHEMY AND MAGIC SHOP
Gold | Gds | Infl | Labr | Mag | Rooms/Teams
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+10 | +10 | ----- | ----- | +10 | Alchemy Lab
+03 | ----- | +03 | ----- | ----- | Bedroom
----- | ----- | ----- | ----- | ----- | Furnishings (storefront)
+04 | ----- | +04 | +04 | ----- | Elite Guards
----- | ----- | ----- | ----- | ----- | Escape Route
+08 | +08 | ----- | ----- | ----- | Garden
----- | ----- | ----- | ----- | ----- | Gauntlet (It's for the laboratory mice. Honest!)
+04 | +04 | ----- | ----- | ----- | Kitchen
----- | ----- | ----- | ----- | ----- | Lavatory
+07 | ----- | +07 | ----- | +07 | Mage
----- | ----- | ----- | ----- | ----- | Office
+07 | ----- | +07 | ----- | +07 | Priest
+05 | ----- | +05 | ----- | ----- | Reliquary
----- | ----- | +04 | ----- | ----- | Sitting Room
+02 | ----- | ----- | ----- | ----- | Storage
+10 | +10 | +10 | +10 | +10 | Storefront
----- | ----- | ----- | ----- | ----- | Vaults (2)
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+60 | +32 | +40 | +14 | +34 | Totals

They can make a check for gold with a +60 bonus, or a check for Goods with a +32 bonus, or a check for Influence with a +40 bonus, Labor with +14 bonus, or Magic with a +34.

Where exactly does one get the opportuniy to split bonuses? Or even to make multiple checks in the same day with the same building? Isn't it one check per building?