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To my faithful subscribers:
The last issue was published in Hungary. It is centered on other fine points of the game (the Political Takeovers). Those who want to learn more about what this apparently simple game has to offer should definitely take the time to read it. However in today’s issue we’re back to Resistance dirty-tricks.

If you remember our last issue about being an effective wolverine also talked about contacting your American co-workers and instructing them on how to sabotage the enemy employer. PMs can be a powerful instrument in building an underground organization. And if you get positive reactions you should move to the next phase:

The Clandestine Weapons Factory

In order to set up a “clandestine” weapons factory we need to have at least skill 4 in manufacturing and to find 9 other wolverines interested in the project.

The purpose is to set up a weapons factory which would allow you to manufacture your own weapons AND to drive other enemy weapons factories into bankruptcy.

Step 1: collect 0.5 gold from each of you and with the 5 gold set up an organization.

Step 2: donate 2 gold each to that organization and then use the 20 gold in the organization to incorporate a Q1 weapons factory.

Important!!!! Once opened the factories CANNOT be relocated. This is a game, not Real Life. So if you want to manufacture for the American market later on, open your factory in an American state under Indonesian occupation like California or Hawaii. If you want to operate behind the enemy lines AFTER Hawaii and California are liberated then open your factory in some Indonesian key province like Java.

Step 3: Offer 10 jobs at MINIMUM wage (currently 1.2 IDR) for skill 4 and upwards. If your group has say 2 people with skills in the 4.0 – 4.99 range, 4 people with skills in the 5.0 – 5.99 range and 4 people with skills above 7.0 then you will put 2 job offers for skill 4, 4 job offers for skill 5 and 4 job offers for skill 7. All at the MIMIMUM wage. That would serve 2 purposes:

- It’s highly unlikely any outsider would apply for that job, which means you won’t have to fire those who are not part of your wolverines group;

- It would hurt the Indonesian government because the income tax collected on your wages will be minimal

Step 4: All the 10 of you get your wellness back to 90+ (by fighting once and then recovering in the hospital) then each of you apply for a job in that company. If somehow there were other people who joined in spite of the rock-bottom wage, fire them until all your people are in.

Step 5: now that you’re in the company you need to donate some more to the organization owning it:
- In order for you to be able to produce the weapons the company needs to be able to pay you. So each of you should donate 1.2 IDR (the value of the minimum wage) to the org and the org would invest it in the company. The trick is to put the money for wages in the company AFTER everybody from the group has joined in. This way the outsiders cannot work before being fired and you don’t lose any money on their wages 😉

- Also in order to produce the weapons the company needs to have a stock of iron. Each Q1 weapon needs 5 units of Q1 iron. If all of you have at least skill 4 in manufacturing and work with 90+ wellness you will be able to produce a total of AT LEAST 32.4 weapons daily. Which means you need to have AT LEAST 32.4 x5 = 162 units of Q1 iron in the factory. If your manufacturing skill is above 4 then you will be able to make more weapons and therefore it would be best to have more than 162 units of Q1 Iron in stock. Otherwise all that high skill would be wasted.

To know exactly how many weapons can each of you make daily use one of the many productivity calculators available. Like the one here. A weapon also uses 5 productivity units so whatever number comes out of that productivity calculator you should divide it by 5 to get the actual number of weapons.

For now let’s assume you only need 162 units of Q1 iron. Here is a neat trick: you can buy 162 Q1 units of iron (total cost today IDR 87.4😎 or 81 units of Q2 Iron (IDR 59.94) or 54 units of Q3 iron (again IDR 59.4) or 41 units of Q4 iron (IDR 60.6😎. At the time this article was published there was no Q5 Iron on the Indonesian market. The trick is this: 1 unit of Q5 raw material equals 5 units of Q1 raw material and so on. By looking at the total cost you see the cheapest would be to buy 81 units of Q2 iron or 53 units of Q3 iron, for a total of IDR 59.94. Of course the prices change in time so you should always pay attention to the offers on the market.

Since you are 10 associates in the clandestine weapons factory each of you should donate 6 IDR to the org in order to buy the iron needed for the first production day.

Step 6. Work. The total production will be at least 32 weapons, for a total cost of 12 IDR (total wages) + 59.94 (the cost of iron). That is a total of 71.94 IDR. Selling 32 weapons on the Indonesian market would bring you 156.67 IDR after deducting the 1% VAT - . Not bad, right?

Step 7. Planning the next day. You know for the next day you will need to put aside 12 IDR for wages and 59.94 for the iron. So go ahead and buy the iron for tomorrow. After that you will have 156.67 – 59.94 – 12 = 84.73 IDR available for TAX EVASION.

Step 8. Evading the Indonesian corporate tax. You need to transfer the 84.73 IDR from your weapons factory to the account of your organization. If you take the profit the Indonesian government would cut 10% of it in taxes. Since this is a clandestine weapons factory you must screw the Indonesian government by paying ZERO taxes. So here’s how you do it. 84.73 IDR means 2.63 gold. One of you will donate 0.01gold to the organization owning the company. Then the organization would put an offer “Sell 0.01 gold, 1 gold = 8473 IDR”. That is an outrageous exchange rate so nobody would take it. Nobody except your factory 😉 This way 0.01 gold would go to your factory and your organization would get 84.73 IDR TAX FREE. Then the org would go on the monetary market, buy 0.01 gold and donate it back to where it came from.

Step 9. Paying the dividends. Once the profit is in the org there are several things you could do with it:
- Buy weapons. 84.4 IDR (you bought 0.01 gold and returned it, remember?) can buy 15 weapons. You buy 10 weapons and donate 1 o each associate and keep the rest of the money in reserve;
- Distribute the whole amount as dividends. That means each associate receives 8.44 IDR on top of the 1.08 IDR (after tax).

That’s a net of only 2.32 IDR for the first day, after subtracting the initial donation of 1.2 IDR for the startup wages and 6 IDR for the initial stock of iron. However as you remember at step 6 you’ve planned the next day and secured both the money for the wages and the stock of iron needed to restart production.

So from day 2 on you will make AT LEAST 9.52 IDR (0.29512 gold) every day. Which means you will recuperate de 0.5 gold invested in setting up the organization after 2 days and the 2 gold invested in setting up the clandestine factory in another 7 days. After 9 days you have recuperated your whole investment. From then on everything is pure profit. Do keep in mind every day your skill increases so every day you are more productive and your dividend gets bigger. TAX FREE! You start by making as much as you would make working for somebody else and from that day onwards you would make more and more. All that while the Indonesian government collects 10% on the minimum wage and 1% VAT . Not exactly good for the Indonesian war effort 😉

When you work as a saboteur for an Indonesian company the Indonesian government collects 10% of your wage. That is 9 times more than you work in a clandestine weapons factory 😉 That’s one reason why a clandestine factory hurts more than the individual acts of sabotage. The other reason is this:

When each associate gets a skill above 7 your daily output becomes twice as big as the one of a factory with the average skill of 4. So what happens if you start selling the cheapest weapons on the market? Of course you profit would suffer a little. But because of your clandestine factory 2 Indonesian ones would not be able to unload their production that day while the owner had to pay his workers. The next day you’ll do the same. And the day after that. And the day after that. Eventually 2 Indonesian companies will go bankrupt because of you. Then 2 more and so on. And your manufacturing skill keeps growing every day you work 😉.

Yes, your profits will keep decreasing as well but you would never go bankrupt. And what exactly can you “buy” with the eRepublik “money” or “gold”? Only the satisfaction of defeating the enemy. And that’s exactly what will happen if his companies are collapsing one after the other!


So work hard and screw them harder! USA FTW!