[MoE] Upgrade your Training Ground!

Day 2,150, 12:23 • Published in Switzerland Switzerland • by Swiss Federal Chancellery
Please ladies and gentlemen,

As you probably noticed you can upgrade your Training Grounds for 45% less Gold in the next hours.
We’re now going to explain you why upgrading your Training Facilities is so convenient.
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Let’s start from a very basic situation: you just entered the new world, so you probably own only level 1 training buildings.
If you don’t want to spend gold, the only way to increase your strength is using your free training ground, which allows you to gain your 5 daily strength points.

Training is doubtless the best way to earn gold, since every 250 strength points you will be awarded with a Super Soldier achievement and 5 gold.
But now the time for a big leap in quality has come: upgrading.
Let’s see why this is convenient:

Training ground quality - - - -
Q1
Q2
Q3
Q4 		Daily strength gain - - - -
5
10
15
20 		Days to Super Soldier Achievement
50
25
17
13

Let’s now look at the costs:
Training ground quality - - - -
Q1 to Q2
Q2 to Q3
Q3 to Q4 		Normal upgrade cost - - - -
20
50
100 		Discount period cost
11
27,5
55

The advantage is quite obvious: you will need almost 2 SS Achievements to have your investment repaid, but in the meantime your daily strength gain will be doubled.
Remember: more strength means more influence, more influence means easier Battle Hero achievements (and related gold).

This is our hint: first of all focus on your Training ground (free facility): your main goal should be upgrading it (completely at a discounted price) to level 4.
Only at that point you could shift your focus to Climbing Center (the one costing 0,19 gold per training).

Both the first and the second training facilities will always keep your balance sheet POSITIVE, so you will never spend more gold than the amount you earn with SS achievements.

The difference is all in the monthly income. Let’s look at this simple table:

Training facilities - - - - - - - -
Free Q1
Free Q2
Free Q3
Free Q4
Free Q4 + 0,19 Q1
Free Q4 + 0,19 Q2
Free Q4 + 0,19 Q3
Free Q4 + 0,19 Q4 		Monthly strength gain - - - -
150
300
450
600
675
750
825
900 		Monthly gold income
3
6
9
12
7,8
9,3
10,8
12,3

Note: daily task strength bonus was not considered.

For a more detailed and complex analysis you can look at this useful tool. Try all the training combinations and decide which one fits with your desires.

For further information about Training facilities, refer to the official eRepublik wiki page
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Focus: What is a Battle Hero (BH)?

Battle Hero is an award given to a citizen for achieving the highest amount of damage in any battle. – eRepublik Wiki

BH is the only achievement based on Battle Divisions.
Battle divisions is the way eRepublik groups players, according to their experience level.

1-24 lv players belong to I Div, 25-29 to II one, 30-36 to III one. Starting lv 37, players enter IV division, which is currently the highest one.
This distinction should allow also low-level players to achieve a BH medal, because they will never face players whose influence in battle is way higher.

How to get prepared to win a BH medal?

First of all, you have to be prepared to put some important dam
age (which is not the regular one you make for your daily order). Players with a low value of influence should try catching a BH using their bazookas, so they can inflict a more considerable damage.

First preparatory step, then, is to stockpile some bazookas (I would suggest at least 30 bazookas).
Second step is to stockpile some health energy bars.

Remember: no BH can be won using just your available health, you surely will need to use some bars.

Third step: choosing a battle. This step is fundamental: in some battles putting 200k damage could be enough to be the BH, in others you could lose with 400k.

Hot battles are never the best choice, so avoid all “Campaign of the Day” wars, because probably a lot of damage will be required there.
Let’s now imagine we made all the previous steps. We’re approaching the battlefield with enough bazookas and bars, we found a battle where the BH values are quite regular (around 300k is an acceptable amount of damage to put for a BH medal).

At the beginning of the new round, we should let other players know we’re trying to catch the BH (this will prevent us from having too many competitors). To do so, let’s put some damage at the very beginning of the round (around 120k could be a good choice).

Next thing we need to do is watch how the situation evolves: as we see a player putting some relevant damage, we should pay attention and if he gets too close to us, we should fight a little more (let’s say we reach 180k damage).

One of the biggest dangers when trying to catch a BH are BH-Hunters. Those are players who spend their time seeking for BH medals and try to put a huge amount of damage at the end of the round, when the current BH leader could be distracted or relaxed.

Usually this kind of players don’t care about winning or losing the battle, so they will put damage also if the battle is manifestly won or lost.
If you did everything properly, at the end of the round you will be notified (through a pop-up message) that you won a BH achievement.

Remember: Every battle (usually called round), ends when one of the two countries reaches 1800 domination points or after 2 hours (in this case, the country with the highest domination score is the winner).
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How to become a tanker
Tank is the name people use to refer to those players who can inflict a huge amount of damage.
There are some strategies a new player should follow to become a potential tank:

1. Do not fight too much. Military rank is important, but the most relevant part in determining your final influence is played by strength, not by military rank. Focus on increasing your strength.
The cons of fighting too much are be a rapid level increase, with the obvious consequence of moving to the upper division faster.

Remember: a higher division means stronger player and harder BH (even if the prize in gold is higher, it won’t pay the increased difficulty in winning a BH achievement).

2. Always try to fight with high quality weapons: you will earn the same xp points but you will inflict more damage and receive more military rank points.

3. Once more: always try to enter III Division with a high amount of strength. You can still correct your mistakes in II Division, from III Division on you will start suffering because of them. It’s better to fight more rarely then to enter IV Division with 20k strength points.

We hope you will find this guide useful. Should you have any questions, any suggestions, complaints an so on, please feel free to express here in the comments or contacting the Minister of Education
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Tomas Franceschin,
Minister of Education

Alexandre Walen,
President of eSwitzerland