[EN] Thoughts on the latest energy updates

Day 1,745, 03:52 • Published in Germany Germany • by Mr. Enya

Dear readers,

So. We have a new health energy system now. I'm doing the analysis for you (yes, I know, others also chewed a few numbers for you yesterday, but I'd like to extend that a bit)

Before the change: Assuming you're a total newbie, but also assume that you have enough food. So, even with town center level 1, you could still deal out 29 food fights (ff) at once at a given time - how this?

Fight 1 time, you have 9 ff left. Recover.
The health bar will let you recover 9ff now and 10ff one hour later.
Wait almost one hour.
Fight 10 times. Recover health. Fight 9 times.
Wait until the hour has passed completely. Recover, fight 10 times.

The same strategy applied if you had TC2, TC3, TC4, TC5 or additional houses (+50 and +100 health buildings) - you could just add another 10ff to the sum. With a TC5, you could deliver 69ff (almost) at once.

The new system changes this quite a lot.
Fight 1 time, you have 9 ff left. Recover.
The health bar will let you recover 9ff now and 10ff 6 minutes later - so you have to fight immediately. If you want to save lots of energy, you have to have big town centers. Upgrading your TC1 to TC2 does not add 10 health to your maximum health, but add 20 energy to your maximum energy now.

The sooner a newbie upgrades his town center, the better he is in the fights, especially in the low divisions.



So, I heard that this change benefits the small players because you can accumulate more energy before challenging the big tanks who mainly use energy bars (ebs) to restore their energy.
I daresay that this isn't exactly true: The big tanks can now relax a little while longer in their fancy energy centers before they start pounding on the small players.

Oh wait! There is a limited time offer, even you as a small player may buy the +100 energy center for 111 gold instead of 199 gold. How generous. Congratulations, Plato.

Also, there is a limited time offer (three days starting today) to double the amount of energy you can recover with energy bars (eb). So... regarding the low food prices and the low food raw prices...
Anyone else who thinks that the admins want to implement a big change regarding ebs once the special offer wears off? Is this special offer a last hint to use them up before the Big Bang happens?
My guess is that they either abolish ebs (and implement something else as a replacement) or that they implement eb factories (a.k.a. rocket factories for food).

As always, thanks for reading.
Mr. Enya



ANNEX A:
Other interesting articles on the topic:
New Update Explained
From Health 2 Energy
Analysis
Recovering energy... Why?
Energy - the hell is this?
Fake upgrade!


ANNEX B:
From Health to energy
Hello,
Beginning on day 1743, the concept of “Health” is renamed to “Energy”. Working, training and fighting consume the same amount of Energy as they did with Health before. Likewise, Food will recover an equal amount of Energy.
Apart from the name change there are some minor other changes that you can find here: http://www.erepublik.com/en/main/latest-updates/0/10
Regards,
Your eRepublik team

ANNEX C:
More energy, more fun!
Dear citizen,
Starting today, for a limited period of time (Day 174😎, all the energy bars you own, get by doing the daily order or purchased, will bring you a double amount of energy!!
So, after you reach the energy limit by eating your food, using an energy bar will give you 200 energy instead of 100.
Check your energy bars stock in the inventory or get some more from the special items page special items page
Enjoy your gaming,
The eRepublik Team

ANNEX D :