[MoF] Subsidies of the eNetherlands
Ministerie van Economische Zak
Dear citizens of the eNetherlands,
Over the past few months we've seen an increase of Governmental Programs to aid you, the citizen. The well-known 'Flying Dutchmen' Program has surely not been left unnoticed to you, but there are also other minor programs aiming to get you up and running as (hopefully) successful and self-sufficient citizen! This article will provide you with a short overview of the several subsidies that the eNetherlands offer. We continuously strive to improve and expand upon our initiatives (in so far possible with our finances) and suggest and discussions are greatly appreciated!
🛩️ 🛩️ 🛩️ Promotion of Air Warfare - ''Flying Dutchmen'' 🛩️ 🛩️ 🛩️
In this program citizens are being paid based on their accomplishment in Air Warfare. Each week there is a reward for the amount of kills done, in addition to an one-time reward for every rank you increase. By far the most expensive program we run, but in turn also the most lucrative for our citizens! For more details see the Rules of the Flying Dutchman.
🏠🏠🏠 Promotion of House Usage - ''Everyone a House!'' 🏠🏠🏠
In this program citizens of the eNetherlands are eligible for a one-time gift of 50% of the price of a Quality 1 House. Not only does it give you more health - and therefore more opportunity to fight - it also allows you to work multiple times a day. This results in a Quality 1 House being self-sufficient to use, even without this subsidy! For more details about the benefits of Housing and the rules regarding the subsidy see Everyone a House!
📰📰📰 Promotion of Media - ''Community Media Project'' 📰📰📰
The eNetherlands can - despite its small size - pride itself with its very active media. The Government wants to keep capitalize on this to keep it going in the 'Community Media Project'. 1) Citizens can apply for the cost of purchasing their Newspaper (2 Gold) after writing their first article 2) Every qualitative article gets rewards with 1000 cc and 3) each month the best article will receive a bonus prize. For more details see the Community Media Project.
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💪Promotion of Strength - ''Training Ground Subsidy''
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Every citizen should strive to be as strong as possible. While it might not be possible to catch-up to the most strongest players in the game, upgrading your Training Facilities (especially the first one) proves to be invaluable in regards to your finances as well. The Government offers 93.5 Gold to fully upgrade your first Training Facility (half of which is a loan that needs to be paid back). For more details see Training Facilities Subsidy.
NoTie112,
Minister of Finance
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The article also provides overview of some of the Plato emojis, which we should be utilizing more (the airplane one, for example 😃 )
Great summary! o7
Maybe we should also consider offering some financial aid to citizens that have become pilots (do not care about XP) and thus are able to work in several companies every day to manufacture their own food.
I'm thinking something like, be an active citizen for two montha (get 2 hard worker medals) and you can apply for economic support.
The goal would be a 2x a Q1 food factory and the Food Raw Material required to operate them as a manager. (E.g. 2x Q3 or Q4 FRM (Fishery or Cattle farm).
Total cost 9-10 gold for Q1 food company can buy from the market for 9 most of the time) and 10 gold of 8500cc for FRM.
Total cost companies 20+20 = 40 gold or 20gold+17000cc.
In currency the accumulates to about 21k - 30k cc
As this is not something we give to everyone we could offer this to one or two players each term.
I feel that becoming a pilot is the right decision for new players anyway. Playing the "no-XP" game removes lots of fun from the game itself. Basically players would be 2-clicking all the time, except possibly for some participation in the media or politics. But most of the new players do not join for those reasons as far as I can tell...
I also think there are plenty of players willing to donate food to the new players. I don't particularly see the need for them to have their own companies. How much food can they produce for that ~40 gold?
Food is ridiculously cheap right now and it looks like it will stay like that in the l/r. Giving them food instead of helping them build companies would make more sense to me (Unless you want to trick them into paying WT 😉 )
About 400q1 food a day = 80% of full energy bar for new players. If they upgrade one of those Q1 to a Q2 they are fully selfsustained.
Define fully self-sustained? 800-1200 energy is enough to work, train and do 25 hits?
If they work, then that is 1000 NLG salary, or 2000 NLG if they also own a house. A house is 5000 NLG, so ~700 per day, which leaves 1300 for the soldiers. Weirdly enough this is enough to buy ~1300/0.16=~8000 units of energy.
So they can just as easily get food on the market it seems.
How many days would the players need to work to produce the 40 gold equivalent in food? 20000 NLG / (0.16 NLG/energy) / (800 energy/day) = 156 days, i.e. almost half a year. And this is excluding work tax, which they would also have to pay to work in their own companies.
I don't know exactly how high the work tax is at the moment, but I know I have my 4 food companies at Q4 and Q5 for a reason, instead of having 9 companies at Q2, which would be a lot cheaper to build. And yes, I use almost all of that energy, I'm most definitely not self-sufficient at ~1000 energy/day.
Self sustained - "800-1200 energy is enough to work, train and do 25 hits?" I guess that is a definition yes. We're talking beginners in the game (2 months of playing). They could buy the food of the market as well of course. This means we need producers like Janty F, Europecrisiswar, Mark Decius and MaartenW to sell at a low price(internationally). These players would benefit (if they can sell at a profit). If they can sell at a profit that means producing yourself is cheaper...
I don't own any companies, I generally just put half of the food I bulk buy on the market
Awesome stuff!
I like very much that media promotion! No wonder the media has been more active, great work you do out here.