[VP] The Closing Note
Bharatiya Rashtrapati Office
As we step out of our office at the end of our term, it is time for one last update from me as the VP of eIndia.
It has been a highly successful and productive time in office for us. Our objective was to make eIndia better than what it was when we took over and we went ahead in our job with complete determination irrespective of all the troubles and obstacles. And we have been more than successful in achieving our objective and more.
To write what we have done this term would mean that I would have to set an Erepublik record in writing the longest article in its history, which will be hard to break even in the future throughout the lifetime of this game. To avoid the readers from such torture, I suggest them to go through the updates published regularly by Hemanathankumar (CP), Fireredsky (MOD), Commius (MOF), Shakti Rocks (MOIA), Justnosfe (MOFA) and me to get an idea about the accomplishments this term.
However before we step out, there is one topic that I would like to elucidate. The topic is that of National Companies, as the future Governments need to carry on with the work we started.
As I have already mentioned in my last article, we have decided to form National Weapons Companies with 3 players namely Ashwamedh, Fireredsky and Justnosfe. Let me clarify here the details of the contracts with these 3 players:
Ashwamedh- Ashwamedh, or Ash as he is fondly called, has let the Government use his Q6 Weapons Company as the National Company.
He will employ 20 employees in his company through commune and pay each of these players 5 Q6 weapons as daily wage. At the current market price this would imply INR 200+ daily wage for each of these players.
Ashwamedh will supply the rest of the weapons to Government and the Government in turn will pay him for the daily WRM cost through INR. Any player interested to work in Ashwamedh’s company please send him a in game message stating your intent. Preference will be given to newer, active eIndian Players.
Ashwamedh also has decided to let the Government to use his Q4 Weapons Company that we have decided to upgrade to Q5 Company. Hence for this the Government will have to transfer 100 Gold to him to upgrade the company to Q5 during the 50% discount offer. Once the company is upgraded to Q5, Ashwamedh will manage the company in the same way mentioned above in case of the Q6 Company.
Fireredsky- Fireredsky has a Q4 weapons company that the Government has decided to undertake and upgrade to Q5. As such we have decided to transfer 100 golds required to upgrade the Company from Q4 to Q5 Weapons Company during the 50% discount offer.
We have already transferred 80 Gold to him; the next Government needs to transfer the remaining 20 Gold to him. As such the Government will have 58% stake in the Q5 Company.
Fireredsky has agreed to deliver on average 100 Q5 weapons/day to Government, depending on the market conditions, on completion of the upgrade. As above the Government will pay for the cost the Weapons delivered through INR to him.
Justnosfe- Justnosfe has a Q2 Weapons Company that the Government has decided to undertake and upgrade to Q5 Company.
For this we have decided to transfer 60 Gold to him. We have already transferred 30 Gold to Justnosfe; the next Government needs to transfer the remaining 30 Gold. As such the Government will have 35% stake in the company.
Justnosfe has agreed to deliver on average 60Q5 Weapons/day to Government, depending on market conditions, on completion of the upgrade during 50% discount offer. As Above the Government will pay for the cost of the Weapons delivered in INR.
Our objective was to start with an internal production and stocking of 1000-2000 Q5 weapons/week and 1000+ Q6 weapons /week and we are able to achieve this through the formation of these national Companies.
The future governments need to decide whether they want to pay the entire cost of Q5 companies, in terms of gold, to these players and hence take complete ownership of the companies or they want to convert the grants given to the company owners to long-term loans, with an interest rate, which the players will repay through transfer of weapons to government.
Ashwamedh is the designated stockier for the Government and all the other company owners will send their output to him for stocking.
We have also bought and stocked 2000 Q6 weapons for any future war efforts.
I had thoroughly enjoyed my time in office as VP this term. Governing a nation like eIndia is a truly challenging job which was made pleasurable through valuable contributions from Hemanathankumar, Fireredsky, Commius, Justnosfe, Shakti Rocks. Kismu, vaibhavftp, Ashwamedh, King Hannibal of Asia, India101, Bharathi Mohan, Chrxstos. Forgive me if my failing memory is making me forget any names. You guys really rock and its you who have made this term so successful and productive.
I like to wind up by mentioning about our CP, Hemanathankumar. He had worked tirelessly and had carried out the herculean task of being CP with aplomb. Its his leadership capabilities and his insightful ideas which is the foundation to this Government’s success. Ideally he should have published this article but as most of know RL obstacles in the aftermath of Cyclone Thane has left him without internet connection for the last few days.
The election for a new CP and government is in progress as I publish this article. I urge my fellow countrymen to choose wisely and bring to office a capable CP and cabinet. May the best man win.
Wishing a wonderful elife as well real life to all of you.
Signing off!!!
JAI HIND
HAIL EDEN
Suvajit
Departing Vice President of eIndia
Comments
First
Good job. Voted. It was indeed a good term.
A good term despite some problems.
Kudos to Hemanathan and the cabinet.
Brother you were great. And we both know you will be busy this month one way or another.
Govt gives close to 300g for friends to upgrade companies, including 20g to another friend when gold loans didn't exist, but my 100k INR loan application was "too much". Good thing equality isn't a major issue if erepublik politics : D
This presidents term was great.
Not very comfortable with the gold transfers/govt companies though. We have already lost 1200gold worth government companies previously quite casually and no one came forward to be accountable for this. With at most 200 active Indians think how how of a loss this was.
Besides Ashwam we could have found 2 other folks who already had Q5 and if we couldn't find someone immediately the sky wouldn't fall. After all it is based on the cooperation of the Q5 owners.
What really does 58% and so on really mean in practical terms? Nothing. In the end if the companies/gold cannot be got back, lets say admin changes, player leaver, whatever who will be accountable for this?
Jai hind! Awesome term and glad I served o>
@Hamturk We never gave 300 G. I sent Fire 80 G and I cancelled Justnosfe's loan which he converted to gold on the mm. So max 110 G and we get access to 3 companies. Sounds like a bargain.
I denied your 100k loan because A) the previous record is Neeraj at 80k and 😎 you're a dick. I don't know who you are to tell people what to do. Sounds like I am not the only one who needs to take a break from the game.If you say my ego is big then yours is bigger by having some God complex that you really aren't. You live a life where you hide and take shots at people through comment sections and troll irc channels. You live a pathetic life. I am going to go live mine, I hope you wise up because the only people who like you are the political hacks you support.
@Chandra Those are reasonable concerns and we had a very long debate on it all I can say these are people who we felt could combine enthusiasm of running the companies and do it honestly. Yes, there were other options but as I said it was a long debate with many people.
to be honest I dont really need this gold for company upgrade! so its best advised to only think about sending once other companies have been upgraded (or as Chandragupta said - we find other Q5 company owners)
I think Chandragupta makes a lot of sense and gold being the critical commodity that it is, should be conserved!
I propose that we first check out how many weapons we make vs how many get used and THEN decide on how many more companies we need.
If we really need, I can upgrade that Q4 to Q5 on my own, no worries... the gov MUST have gold in the treasury for times of crisis. (well not the treasury, in the CBI!)
o7
Great term from the govt ...... Hoping the new govt. will follow up equally good .....
I dont understand the gold upgrade part...
We can definitely find people who have Q6 food & weapon companies among us... that should be our first option. Gold is for war conditions, it has to be preserved...
navin has two or maybe 3, SVV has, neeraj has, sharry has, timeberjack has, I have one,
I think we should make contracts with these folks...
All I am saying is that in order to maximise things for India, we need to save gold and use it sparingly.
I welcomed all the policies of the govt, but this last one is a dampener...
Atleast, the existing Q6 owners could have been asked before this decision has been taken... The open bid system used for procuring weapons could have been done for this also..
Voted Hard !
hi Bharathi - agreed absolutely! Its not a set policy anyway and it was an idea from Suvajit that can be built upon. The important thing is for Q6 owners to get together and set it in motion : )
I would be happy to not be a part of it since Im already quite busy with retention and meida BUT if the gov needs, I am always available! irrespective of whichever president is elected.
I would still say... pls invest in RM companies... Give loans to newbies (eligible & interested) in INR...
More the RM, we have a better chance of exporting...
Believe me, India has a good potential to export tanks with steady 60% bonus and keep our citizens work in local companies
"to be honest I dont really need this gold for company upgrade! so its best advised to only think about sending once other companies have been upgraded (or as Chandragupta said - we find other Q5 company owners)
I think Chandragupta makes a lot of sense and gold being the critical commodity that it is, should be conserved!
I propose that we first check out how many weapons we make vs how many get used and THEN decide on how many more companies we need.
If we really need, I can upgrade that Q4 to Q5 on my own, no worries... the gov MUST have gold in the treasury for times of crisis. (well not the treasury, in the CBI!)"
+1
Voted! Was indeed a good term 🙂
voted nice articles.
and it's a good term..
keep up the good work guys.
regards
@Hamturk- we chose 3 eIndian with capability, integrity n reputation beyond anyone's question and nt because they a only our friends. Of course they are friends bt so are u mate. As i have mentioned in my article countries like Turkey has 50-60 companies. We have started making three. If we ever reach those levels do u think that it will be among "friend" or "enemies??
@chandra- very valid concerns mate..we had long discussions regarding them. but we felt that this is the best possible solution n we wnt knw abt all the problems n hence the solutions until we start it. As commius said we chose these players on their expertise,commitment and integrity. Let me clarify some of ur concerns tho. The reason for starting National Companies with pvt players is that admin has little control over players unlike national orgs and hence cannot make them defunct as they did with the companies in national org. Btw we started a communication with admin trying to transfer the companies in org in order to activate them. What happens if the player leaves the game. In that case the understanding with player is he will liquidate the company and pay the gov the money given to him
@Bharathi- let me clarify this mate. The idea behind National Company is that the gov takes ownership of the company and not do it through cooperation or coordination. In that way the gov gets definite fixed output which is not ambiguous and dependent on the cooperation of company owners. So if gov owns 58% of Fireredsky's company, then 58% of the output from the company goes to gov. There is no ambiguity about it. ( I think this will also clarify one of chandra's concern)
Also since the gov is taking ownership of an asset we believed the gov shud pay for it and hence the cost remains the same irrespective whether its existing or the gov helps in making it. For eg if navin owns a Q5 company and the gov decides to take its ownership and make it a national co then the gov shud pay him the cost for building the Q5 company which is 195 gold with 50% discount offer. We believed that the gov shud pay the player the cost for building the asset since the gov is taking away the asset which he has spent personal gold to build and also taking away the potential earning of the player through sale of output from the asset. In that case it doesnt matter whether the gov decides to take an existing company or help in building it. The nation's gold shud be for its citizen and not vice the versa.
We also believed that it wud be easier to make national co with players by helping to build the company rather than from an exisitng Q5 owner who may not be willing to part ways with his earning asset.
Tho Ash told me that we dont need to pay him anything for using his two companies we felt that we shud compensate him in some way for undertaking his two assets and hence we proposed that the gov will upgrade his Q4 company and hence pay the 100 gold required for the up gradation to Q5. We believed that 100 gold is a bare minimum for getting 1Q6 and 1Q5 companies.
Our aim was to internally produce 1000+ Q6 weapons/week and 1000-2000Q5 weapons/week and we got that through co with these 2 guys.
Also as i have said earlier we wanted these to be the start to a project and we hoped that many such companies to be built in future and hence this was not be restricted to these 3 people only.
The National companies help the country in building stock of cheap weapons and also allows the gov to help its citizen by producing jobs. Any nation shud have at least 15k Q5 and Q6 weapons in its stock to be used for dispatch during war. For example we had to search frantically for Q5 and Q6 when we were stocking up for the FYROM adventure as we didnt have adequate stock for the war if it came to us. In such scenarios the gov spends a lot of gold to buy those weapons from national and international players. National companies help in these scenarios by continuous indigenous production of cheap weapons. The gold spent in making national companies have a much higher and permanent value than gold spent by gov in buying weapons for stocking and dispatching for war.( U actually have to read my earlier article to get an idea about this : D)
our belief was Whats the use of keeping gold in treasury if we dont use it for national development.
But as i have mentioned in my article it is the decision of the future gov whether they want to spend the gold on building these companies or give it as long term loans to the players which they will pay through supply of cheap weapons to the gov.
We believed in making permanent companies rather than loan as this will give us assets rather than weapons which will be expendable.
But this is ultimately the decision of the future gov if they want to carry on with the project or not.
I hope these long comments clarifies the doubts that u were having.
o7
although India is Iran enemy in paper but i have many good friends in your country like your XCP and Prabal
I wish one day I can see my friends in a same alliance
o7
So are u Hajariyan...tho our countries are in opposing alliances u are a trusted friend 🙂
And i also hope to welcome u one day to EDEN...
How did the elections go in eIran this time btw..
o7
Vote
almost indeed
Good Job
I don't think national companies are needed in private hands. If somebody leave erepublik then all is lost and if admin ban somebody all is lost. Govt. should buy weapons from the market on regular basis if needed to stock.
Very good job in general by Hemant.
suvajit
we have good cp this month .
because of turkey I dont think we can come to your alliance .
we should see what will happen between iran and turkey
although India is Iran enemy in paper but i have many good Indian friends
I wish one day I can see my friends in a same alliance
+1
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