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Education Today Update: Training and Ranks

Day 1,083, 06:52 • Published in USA USA

• by Department of Citizen Affairs

Consider this a new "series" in the DoE, for issues stuck in an awkward limbo between "quiet article update" and "full-blown guide article". The admin recently made a change (albeit a haphazard one) to training that is worth a short article on the subject.

What's Changed?

1. Unit skills and Training
Unit skills are abolished, unit types are not though. This simply means you train without picking a unit, much like you do with working. Training is constant now, and is not adversely affected by low health. When you go to buy a weapon, you can buy whatever is cheapest. Soon enough, the market's prices should equalize for all 4 unit types.

2. Military ranks
There are a plethora of new military ranks, you've probably already been "demoted" from this change. All the Field Marshals are now Lieutenant Colonels, and all of the ranks now have "stars" on the end like Field Marshals used to have. You can see the full list from the admin here.

3. Super Soldier medals
Super Soldier medals are now being awarded again for every 250 strength you get. If you got the equivalent of 250 strength in v2 when Super Soldier medals were deactivated, you got one or several maps thrown into your box yesterday. Unlike in v1, Super Soldier medals are easy to train up to for the time being. This brings us to the next subject...

OBSOLETE: Training Boosters

This idea is obsolete now that Super Soldier medals have been increased to 250 points per medal instead of 100 points, due to greed and not because of multis. The information is historical and should not be used. Sorry, everyone.

Some of our resident experts have deduced that for the first time since forever, training boosters are now profitable to use. The .19 gold booster will get your strength up 50% faster than normal, and you won't lose a dime from it as long as you have 2.66 gold available for capital.

Boot Camp Guy ~~celebrates his rise to usefulness~~ curses at his continued unprofitability.

Here's the long and short of it, you'll get 7.5 strength everytime you train with the .19 gold booster. At 7.5/day, you'll get 105 strength in 14 days, enough for a Super Soldier medal. The resulting treasure map will net you between 4 and 6 gold, outweighing the 2.66 gold cost to get there. This way, you can be as strong as any great with blinding speed and no personal cost to you. If you can sucker two of your friends into registering with your referral link, you can get there even faster with an extra +20% added on for free.

(Naturally, there is a small risk in that the admin may change it again soon. Man, I sure did call this one, didn't I?)

That's all for today's episode. Super Soldier is always awarded in 250 point increments, and there have been reports (mainly myself) of not getting a map at some increments. Ticket admin if it happens to you and you'll get your map when they see it. Next up: New Player FAQ, look out for it within 2 days. 😁

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Until next time,
Blank Keating

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Comments

Blank Keating Day 1,083, 07:17

Sloppilyimplementedchangemaxxxxxx

Sean MacDiarmata Day 1,083, 07:20

Nice, the guide's coming out of the US gives the rest of us something to aim for. Voted as usual.

Cold Hearted Snake Day 1,083, 07:30

Excellent article again!

NGI Biowood Day 1,083, 07:33

thanks!

Sam Crawford Day 1,083, 07:45

BK rocks

Christian Russo Day 1,083, 07:46

I am now educated. Voted.

Sang Satrio Piningit Day 1,083, 07:50

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Department of Citizen Affairs Day 1,083, 07:57

Adde😛 Training is constant now, and is not adversely affected by low health.

Thanks Pearlswine ^-^

Iamnameless Day 1,083, 08:09

nice job, voted!

czar nicholas the second Day 1,083, 08:30

you forgot about the +1 strength you get from the reward

Andrea Lorenz Day 1,083, 09:00

Just became supersoldier and didn't recieve my gold 🙂

SergiuSky Day 1,083, 09:20

V+already subbe😛please do the same.

People!
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/get-some-money-media--1565742/1/20
Please help!

S3RO Day 1,083, 09:28

Voted. Solid info as usual.

Corrupted Day 1,083, 09:41

Hell yeah

Justin McCravok Day 1,083, 09:47

Nice job with the shout link XD. About to shout from all the Interior organizations!

Candor Day 1,083, 09:57

😁😁I agree, thanks for the shout, which brought me to this easy to understand article. Good work and appreciated.

Quanah Parker Day 1,083, 10:04

Voted. Excellent article, thank you.

topspeed Day 1,083, 10:23

excellent work

Astra Kat G Day 1,083, 10:50

For everyone to vote/sub this is my eDying wish. Voted/Subbed!

George Armstrong Custer Day 1,083, 10:51

voted and subscribed (I don't know how I've missed this before!)

KOSOVA Batoa Day 1,083, 10:51

Props.

LuisBatlle Day 1,083, 10:54

Voted!

Nuriessa Day 1,083, 11:17

Woot

Vinny Rumble Day 1,083, 11:51

The logic behind the training boosters portion of this article is unfortunately flawed. First, you did not consider the +1 daily strength reward for working and training in a day. This has skewed the math. Also, you fail to consider that the booster is still costing you about 1 gold per week. This gold is probably better spent on weapons and food, in my opinion.

Blank Keating Day 1,083, 12:07

The +1 is an oversight and would just mean its more worth it rather than less. The booster costs 2.66g without the daily rewards and without referral bonuses, which leaves 1-3g leftover from your treasure maps every two weeks.

2g can buy 3 or so Q5 weapons and some food, which wouldn't be a tremendous amount of rank gain, it's even less important to take into account considering the space between higher ranks now. The speed in which you gain the treasure maps going 50% faster should ultimately make it worth losing that 2g and change out of the maps you gain.

Vinny Rumble Day 1,083, 12:16

I'm not so sure about that, 2 gold is roughly 100 USD which is a lot of food. More food = more fights. More fights means more influence and rank points. I think those are more value than the slightly increased rate of strength gain.

Blank Keating Day 1,083, 12:24

Keep in mind that rank point gains are currently at 10% of what they used to be before the change, and according to our formulas on the forums, strength is more effective in high amounts more so than rank in high amounts.

http://eusforum.com/index.php?topic=31050.0

Vinny Rumble Day 1,083, 14:02

I'm not going to press the issue anymore, but I did the math and this logic is completely faulty. Saving the .19 gold per day and using it to buy food means at least 1 extra fight per day. Despite the fact that you would earn treasure maps at a faster rate, it still costs about 30 gold over the course of the year and the extra fight FAR FAR FAR outweighs in damage/influence any difference caused by the extra strength. There is no question about this and I think that the DOE really needs to rethink the "education" they are providing.

Blank Keating Day 1,083, 14:38

Alrighty, if you say so.

I've been pressing newbies to save any gold they attain for the past month, and I wouldn't go back on that unless I knew the principles were confirmed by sound economic minds. I don't know what math you run, but one extra fight per day would be no more than 20 rank points. You seem to think those rank points are colossal, while the steady +50% gain in strength is miniscule.