Rant about the economy
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by TheJny123
This is a ramble and a rant...
"the economy is broken" and "fix the economy" have become the common phrases of many players, and not just in eUK. Since many months ago the cost of gold against CC has gone a bit mad and prices and wages have dropped but does this really mean the economy is broke?
Its is a question i tackled a while back in an article and was told my suggestion it isn't broken was wrong and to be quiet. However when you actually look at the figures the economy is not really that broken, it just isn't as easy as some may remember it to be. For example wages were once much higher than they are today BUT so were prices, both if items and gold. However that doesn't prove my point because the prices of CC buildings, like saltpeter mines and other raw materials buildings, have not changed in price. If memory serves me right gold was once valued at around 1k CC for 1 gold, which was not a problem because people were making money on that scale. However that would make 10gold for say an aluminium mine cost around 10k CC which is more han salt peter mines so people bought saltpeter mines.
Still not getting this point? Things have swapped around. CC is harder but gold is easier. Why is CC harder? Because the admins have made it so you have to think rather than it just keep landing in your lap. So lies the problem and of course the players who get the most heat about the economy being harder to work out is the gold buyers.
Those evil wicked players who can/want to spend their own money to enhance their experience in the game. How dare they. I myself am a gold buyer. I buy the war stash every month and have done since its release. i see it as membership to erepublik and easy access to gold. In the end of the day there is nothing wrong with gold buying because lets face it if you don't want to spend forever building up the gold then why shouldn't you skip all the work, you are perfectly entitled to. Players who don't buy gold should enjoy the way they do it because im fairly confident players who do buy gold enjoy their way of doing it. If you don't want to buy gold then don't attack other players for doing it.
Either way people can make money they just need to sit and think. If you don't want to have to live off MU supplies then work out a way to make money. We all get access to funding at some point, through medals and super soldier awards. Rather than turning it into CC and buying more supplies with it invest in something. Either save up and buy some raw material production and build up an income, yes it takes time and quite a lot of time to build up a reasonable income but atleast you are getting some return. If you are feeling particularly brave then buy tanks from a country where it is cheaper than eUK then sell them on eUK market for profit. Again it takes some time to be making profit on a large scale but it works.
People simply need to try rather than moan and expect the admins to come up with some magic formula that will make you rich quickly and without much effort.
Here endeth the rant.
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It"s very interesting article TheJny123 !!!.Voted,subed.I am not an economist,bur regurding your article and the second paragrph (I"ve think,its that),says why somebody if want to buy gold and another one wont,suddenly that guy who bougth the gold have been criticised for doing it,becouse it"s stupid and doesn"t mean anything and it"s entirely waste of time",so the guy who bougth a gold for something is ridiculus,and that wouldn"t need that gold at all,which is very stupid.Nowdays gold is priceless and what is the most important is that it will finished to that players any job.That"s my opinion,
Well, it depends much on your own gold income. If you have a q4 TG (weight room) and take some FF medals every month, than i think you are Ok. + a salary wich is around 26 or 28 GBP. The income is not as bad as some people say. but the lvl 4 training ground is a very important aspect.
Now you can easy get 2 employees, than was not possible when you needed pay the 100 cc.in the past
Now you can have an employee for 30 cc daily.
The problem is mainly the fact that the game doesn't have a friendly economic atmosphere to new players which leads into problems with retention for said players. That being said, once you're in the game and have something built up you can figure out things pretty easily.
I'm fairly saddened that there are so few economic articles.
On gold side of economy, it's not broken. It's bad game design, it is uncompetitive game. Gold is a little too abundant, which is unimportant here. Gamers are in disposition. By bad game design, I mean it's like if in a chess tournament, you'd buy extra pieces during the game.
On money side however, there's something terribly wrong. This economy module is not a good market simulator, it's really a bad game this eRep. There's no need to print money. Money is as abundant as gold. Money comes from invisible buyer Plato as a counter weight to overproduction. It's the utter absurd.
I myself get my gold through the monetary market. I agree with what Massacar said about it being noob-unfriendly as the only way to get CC is through wages (which is a pittance), it'd take about 100 days of work (assuming you don't spend money on food which means no fighting) to get a stack of 10 gold from the monetary market to buy a company to begin to make SOME of your own money, not a lot. Then that leads to more CC = more gold = more companies. Endless process.
Gold is easy to come buy for me through medals too, but assuming I had all my companies disappear I'd have a tough time getting my gold income back. So in that sense the economy is not broken since older players gain more income assuming they've invested gold into companies which is how it should be, the longer you play the more money you make overtime, it's just that the economy system is not working as intended, but working nevertheless in a kind of weird odd sense.
good article voted and subbed o7