Training Day

Day 1,594, 05:15 • Published in South Africa South Africa • by Luc Praetor


Ekurhuleni, Gauteng - This is not one of my regular articles, as it is not satire nor political promotion. Yet, I was surprised as to the results of a question that have kept crossing my mind a few times. Till today, I've not bothered to look into it:

- Should I upgrade my Training Facilities to quality two?
- Should I upgrade all of my buildings?
- Which training regimen is the most expensive, or perhaps most efficient?

Well, I'm not answering all of these questions here, but perhaps this information will be a good indication.



Note: For this article, Building A means the Climbing Centre, Building B means the Shooting Range, and Building C means the Special Forces Center.

When the Q2 Training Facilities were launched, I went with a gut-feel that I needed two of them to be upgraded. The idea being that when I have extra gold to spare in a budget cycle, that I can then choose to use that facility and benefit from the doubling effect. I also did not want to waste twenty gold on an upgrade to a building that I rarely use (especially since I've managed to survive and train well on only weapon and food sales).


I only discuss three of the many options available, so there is lots more data available if you want to go into greater detail.

Scenario A - All buildings are Q2, but Building B is not in use.

Scenario B - All buildings are Q2, and all buildings are in use.

Scenario C - All buildings are Q1, and Building B is not in use.




Because working five days in a row gains you a total of nine strength points bonus (one strength for four days, and five strength on the fifth day), those points apply to our cost calculation. As seen in the table above, although your visual strength gain was 35.00 in Scenario A, after a successive five days your daily gain was actually 36.80.

Now we can use this value to calculate how quickly we'll get to a Super Soldier medal, and from that calculate the actual cost of training for these three scenarios.



I was a bit shocked to see that citizens spending some gold on training in Q1 facilities, pay the highest price per strength point in these scenarios.

These examples also make it clear that if you need to gain strength quickly, and you're willing to spend the gold with Scenario B, that you will race ahead in your strength build, but still at a high price for strength.

If you're on Scenario C... it seems clear; either stop using gold in your training, or invest in the upgrade of those facilities! It seems to me to be a terrible ratio of strength to gold in the long term.

Scenario A is the cheapest of these three, but you'll always be just over 24% slower at strength gain than fellow citizens using Scenario B. As for myself, it seems my original choice suits my budget, and so I'll stick to Scenario A.

After all of this... does it mean that 1 gold really buys you 27 strength?



Edit * - K9 Jazpurr has pointed out that if you use the Q2 Free Building in conjunction with Q2 Building A, that you will make +/- 1 gold a week.

Edit * - Of course, I did not calculate food expense into these numbers. This would throw open the range of variable values for food. I can say that eR does at least feed you enough to survive (if you did the tutorial properly), and I think food use in training is included.



Please help out if you spot any anomalies, thank you.

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