[miles]Which Training To Choose?

Day 1,534, 11:49 • Published in India USA • by miles247

I wanted to write this sooner, but got caught up with some political babble , then some personal stuff 🙂.

Training is a very important part of your growth. As you might have guessed, this game is about fighting and war and blood and brutality and stuff. In the war, when u fight without bazookas, your damage depends on your strength, rank and quality of weapon of destruction u have chosen. As in the beginning, you have low strength, low rank and low on money for weapons(even if you have money, I would suggest to keep it for future and fighting bare handed), you have to develop all of these. Start with strength. Strength you can get by missions or training. Missions, I guess, you are smart enough to figure out the right time to do them (dont go bankrupt!). Today, I am going to talk about training. There are four trainings: 0 gold(+5 strength), 0.19g(+2.5 strength), 1.49g(+5 strength, stupidest of all) and 1.79g(+10 strength). In the earlier versions of game, when we were allowed only one option, no one even looked at 1.49g option. Now you can select multiple. Only logical combinations I see, in terms of efficacy are:

1) 0 g
2) (0 + 0.19)g
3) (0 + 0.19 + 1.79)g
4) (0 + 0.19 + 1.49 + 1.79)g

For young players, I would suggest option 2 : (0 + 0.19)g. See, point is training of a day, once gone, is not going to return. You have to increase your strength as fast as possible while keeping your eye on the target. Target is making sure that you earn 3.47g daily, so that you can afford option 4. So why 0.19g? Its most efficient in terms of strength/gold, its cheapest within the range and it pays for itself via super soldier medal.

If you train with 0.19g daily, you get 7.5 + 1 reward = 8.5 strength daily. Plus, if you work-train five days in a row, you get 4 strength extra. Thats 0.8 strength daily. So, in all, you get 9.3 strength daily. So number of days it takes to get next SS medal are: 250/9.5 = 26.88, lets say 27. Total cost of gold to reach there: 0.19*27 = 5.13g and you get 5g back as medal. Only 0.13g extra from 27 days, which I am sure you would have no problem affording from your salary or your hard-worker medal.

If you dont want to spend gold on training, and want to build your land first, then you can go for 0g, but I would strongly suggest against it. Coz training of a day once gone doesnt come back and 5g for a month is negligible cost(ask those who spend 3.47g daily 😛).

Dont start on option 3 unless you are pretty sure that you earn more than 2g daily which would take a long time imo. But dont worry, we have bazookas now. You can play an important role in any battle if you save your bazookas and use them wisely. So, NEVER assemble your bazookas unless you intend to use them and fight barehanded. Fighting with weps consumes your money real fast. Money is important 😛. I'll cover rank and bazookas in my next piece. So stay alive, stay active, visit IRC and most of all, PLAY SMART.

If you liked this article, maybe you'll like the one I wrote before this covering in short, all aspects of erepublik life.

Signing off
miles247