Training Contracts Offer - You /could/ save 24.49 Gold per month
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by Max Blue
In this article I am going to help you work out the costs/benefits of purchasing a training contract.
The ability to purchase the training contacts finishes at the end of day 2786. If you can't afford a training contract or have missed the offer read on anyway as you might be able to take up the offer next time. There are two different contracts on offer, 50% off the cost or 90% off the cost. It is 'or' not 'and', as you can only chose one. If you are going to purchase one it should be the 90% offers as it is better value for money in terms of initial cost verses long term training costs.
The benefits
These vary from person to person, depending if you use all of your training facilities each day. To work out if it is worth it: take the cost of each training facility you use and times it by the amount of times you use it over a 30 day period (how long a training contract lasts). Add the different training facility costs you have worked out above together. Now you have a number that if your total training expenditure on training in a 30 day period. Now you need to work out 90% of that figure and take this off the total. To work out 90% off, move the decimal point one place to the left* (dividing by ten has this exact effect) then times this number by nine. So for example...
The total cost for 30 days training is 86.10 Gold.
86.10 divided by 10 is 8.61 Gold. 8.61 times 9 is 77.49.
So 90% of 86.10 Gold is 77.49 Gold. To find out how much this would cost you take the discount off the total regular expenditure figure. 86.10 minus 77.49 equals 8.61 Gold.
8.61 becomes the cost of your training grounds over 30 days. Of course add in the cost of the 90% training contract which is 53 Gold. So 8.61 Gold plus 53 Gold is 61.61 Gold. Using all training grounds and having the training contract will save you 24.49 Gold (86.10 minus 61.61).
How do I get a training contact?
Go to 'Gold and Extras' in the bar at the top of the page then select 'Special Items' and you will see the contracts on the top right as shown below.
If they are not there this is because the offer only lasts for day 2786 and you have missed it. Don't worry though, at least now you have worked out that you can benefit from taking out this offer so the next time it comes around you can jump on it.
You /could/ save 24.49 Gold per month
I have upgraded all of my training grounds and I purchase training contracts whenever I can, this means instead of 86.10 Gold every 30 days I pay out a total of 61.61 Gold (training costs plus the cost of a training contract). That is a saving of 24.49 Gold per month. However lets go further and work out how much I earn in 'Super Soldier' medals (5 Gold is awarded per SS medal). Each day I get 90 strength from using my training grounds and 1 strength from completing the work + train bonus. So each day I gain 91 strength; times this by 30 days equals 2730 strength. It takes just 250 strength to earn a SS medal, so in 30 days I get 10.92 SS medals. 10.92 medals times the 5 Gold a medal equals 54.6 Gold.
How low can I get my cost per day?
When I take my total strength gaining expenditure (training cost and training contract) which is 61.61 Gold and I take off the money earned in SS medals: 54.60 Gold, I get 7.01 Gold. So, every 30 days I spend 7.01 Gold and I gain 2730 strength! That works out at a cost of less than 0.24 Gold a day!
If I take the Gold from my 'Hard Worker' medal (earned after 30 days of work) and invest this into training I only have to find another 2.01 Gold over the 30 day period. Now the cost per day is 0.067 Gold!
How to get to the stage where this is cost effective
Fully upgraded training facilities make cheap training cost effective. It is worth pointing out that to fully upgrade training grounds from Q1 to Q4 it costs 170 Gold for each facility.
If you only upgrade your grounds when there's a sale on (and you definatly should wait for the sales), you'll get a discount of 45%. This makes each upgrade just 93.5 Gold rather than 170 Gold. If you have not upgraded any of your training building it will cost you 374 Gold when using the 45% discount. These may seem like large numbers but few people will upgrade all buildings in one go. Upgrading buildings as offers come up is the way to go. If you are not doing all the upgrades at once; do the ones that are better value for money first, so upgrade the first training ground, then the second then the fourth then the third. This order is based on which grounds provide the most strength for Gold.
It does take some investment to get to a position where it's worth buying the 90% contract to train, but once you're there it's a great position to be in.
Subscribe for more general news, the next in my admin suggestions series and UK Ministry of Information articles where I bring you news of what is going on behind closed doors in the government and congress as well as educational articles.
What levels are your 4 training facilities at, and do you buy the 90% off training contracts?
The ability to purchase the training contacts finishes at the end of day 2786. If you can't afford a training contract or have missed the offer read on anyway as you might be able to take up the offer next time. There are two different contracts on offer, 50% off the cost or 90% off the cost. It is 'or' not 'and', as you can only chose one. If you are going to purchase one it should be the 90% offers as it is better value for money in terms of initial cost verses long term training costs.
The benefits
These vary from person to person, depending if you use all of your training facilities each day. To work out if it is worth it: take the cost of each training facility you use and times it by the amount of times you use it over a 30 day period (how long a training contract lasts). Add the different training facility costs you have worked out above together. Now you have a number that if your total training expenditure on training in a 30 day period. Now you need to work out 90% of that figure and take this off the total. To work out 90% off, move the decimal point one place to the left* (dividing by ten has this exact effect) then times this number by nine. So for example...
The total cost for 30 days training is 86.10 Gold.
86.10 divided by 10 is 8.61 Gold. 8.61 times 9 is 77.49.
So 90% of 86.10 Gold is 77.49 Gold. To find out how much this would cost you take the discount off the total regular expenditure figure. 86.10 minus 77.49 equals 8.61 Gold.
8.61 becomes the cost of your training grounds over 30 days. Of course add in the cost of the 90% training contract which is 53 Gold. So 8.61 Gold plus 53 Gold is 61.61 Gold. Using all training grounds and having the training contract will save you 24.49 Gold (86.10 minus 61.61).
How do I get a training contact?
Go to 'Gold and Extras' in the bar at the top of the page then select 'Special Items' and you will see the contracts on the top right as shown below.
If they are not there this is because the offer only lasts for day 2786 and you have missed it. Don't worry though, at least now you have worked out that you can benefit from taking out this offer so the next time it comes around you can jump on it.
You /could/ save 24.49 Gold per month
I have upgraded all of my training grounds and I purchase training contracts whenever I can, this means instead of 86.10 Gold every 30 days I pay out a total of 61.61 Gold (training costs plus the cost of a training contract). That is a saving of 24.49 Gold per month. However lets go further and work out how much I earn in 'Super Soldier' medals (5 Gold is awarded per SS medal). Each day I get 90 strength from using my training grounds and 1 strength from completing the work + train bonus. So each day I gain 91 strength; times this by 30 days equals 2730 strength. It takes just 250 strength to earn a SS medal, so in 30 days I get 10.92 SS medals. 10.92 medals times the 5 Gold a medal equals 54.6 Gold.
How low can I get my cost per day?
When I take my total strength gaining expenditure (training cost and training contract) which is 61.61 Gold and I take off the money earned in SS medals: 54.60 Gold, I get 7.01 Gold. So, every 30 days I spend 7.01 Gold and I gain 2730 strength! That works out at a cost of less than 0.24 Gold a day!
If I take the Gold from my 'Hard Worker' medal (earned after 30 days of work) and invest this into training I only have to find another 2.01 Gold over the 30 day period. Now the cost per day is 0.067 Gold!
How to get to the stage where this is cost effective
Fully upgraded training facilities make cheap training cost effective. It is worth pointing out that to fully upgrade training grounds from Q1 to Q4 it costs 170 Gold for each facility.
If you only upgrade your grounds when there's a sale on (and you definatly should wait for the sales), you'll get a discount of 45%. This makes each upgrade just 93.5 Gold rather than 170 Gold. If you have not upgraded any of your training building it will cost you 374 Gold when using the 45% discount. These may seem like large numbers but few people will upgrade all buildings in one go. Upgrading buildings as offers come up is the way to go. If you are not doing all the upgrades at once; do the ones that are better value for money first, so upgrade the first training ground, then the second then the fourth then the third. This order is based on which grounds provide the most strength for Gold.
It does take some investment to get to a position where it's worth buying the 90% contract to train, but once you're there it's a great position to be in.
Subscribe for more general news, the next in my admin suggestions series and UK Ministry of Information articles where I bring you news of what is going on behind closed doors in the government and congress as well as educational articles.
What levels are your 4 training facilities at, and do you buy the 90% off training contracts?
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Use all your gold on upgrading TGs during the sales.
When they're all fully upgraded, buy a 90% training contract.
I'd also add this: take advantage of loans and - better still - generous offers from your MU to get there quicker. Many people are very happy to help out.
I recently took this path (read about it here - http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/-eso-tg-loans-are-awesome-2533286/1/20) and heartily recommend it.
Think I missed the last MU TG loan, I will jump on the next.
Your article titles make you sound like one of those PPI or energy comparison companies.
Good content though I guess...