WHPR 4th of July - Holding Companies part 2; Tomorrow's Election Results
James S. Brady Press Room
Dateline: Monday, July 4, 2016 (Day 314
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Location: James S. Brady Press Room, The White House
In Today's WHPR:
: 1 : Holding Companies (part 2)
: 2 : War Map & Analysis
: 3 : Neodynium Regions
: 4 : Manticores Sighted
: 5 : Tomorrow's Election Results
: 6 : Caption This:
: 7 : Holiday Poster
: Patriotic Video : Our National Anthem: a film by Robert Surgeoner, narrated by Jack Webb
Editor’s Notes: Today is National Barbecue, Baseball and Beer Day in the USA. USA! USA! USA!
Actually, we have several holidays like that. This one, though, originally marked the signing of the Declaration of Independence from Great Britain, in 1776. That date was certainly not the end of the War for Independence. That war wasn't even the end of conflict between these nations. The War of 1812 renewed the same struggle for American freedom, and in 1814 there was one battle in particular that was documented by a Baltimore attorney, as a poem which would become our national anthem.
Click the link, watch the video.. and just maybe appreciate that next cold brewski a little more.
Holding Companies (part 2)
continued from Friday's WHPR
by George Armstrong Custer
To be quite blunt, I f----ed up. I hope no one figured I'm so expert at this that you followed my steps to the letter. I saw that House pollution wasn't so bad in Florida and Washington State, and against best advice went for Max Bonuses. My first click to work my employees got me 218% production-- well below the full amount of Country Bonus plus Region Bonus, but still I felt pretty smart.. till the next day.
More House industry in Florida, more pollution, less bonus.. down to 193%, in fact, which is less than Country Bonus and no Region Bonus!
I decided on a different tack for my second Holding Company. This time, I looked at regions with no resources, specifically those with zero pollution.
List of US regions with no resources:
So I clicked through those, now looking for zero pollution.
Now, ain't that a purty sight. Well, they're not all like that. You'll have to pick your way through the links above, because they're going to change day to day, and find yourself some nice quiet place no one else has discovered... yet.
You may feel cocky about finding Bumf--k first, but even your own existence there will create pollution, and then the next guy and the next after that. So don't get your heart set on even basic 200% Country Bonus, 'cause it won't last.
Maybe it's smarter to find a 2-resource region with relatively low pollution, because idiots like me are going to the extremes and a middle road may pay off better in the long run.
But let's continue with what I did, and you decide for yourself what you should do.
Okay, so I surfed and compared and contemplated. One thing that occurred to me is that there are states that have not been occupied at all, not in a War or even a Training War, since mid-2013. Now, that gives me just a little added sense of security-- scratch the whole east coast.
Time to pay for my new Holding Company. Plato lives in some parallel universe, where laying out all the details ahead of launch is just not necessary, 'cause we'll just muddle through and figure it out sooner or later. And Plato's interpretation of "your second Holding Company will cost 25 gold" is not actually 25 gold, but "a cash equivalent of 25 gold, based on the average offers in the past 24 hours." Plato's Bizarro World.
I also learned to not buy cash for gold, but to put up a gold offer for cash-- I saved a bunch of money doing that.
As you see, I chose Illinois. Don't you go and choose Illinois, because I'm already polluting there, and you'll only make it worse. Do your own due diligence, and click all them links open and have a look for yourself. There's a bunch of clean states left.
There's a screenshot I forgot to grab, probably because I was in such a hurry to screw this up.
After creating the Holding Company, Purple Berries (an extra $100 to the first in the Comments who knows the reference), it's time to move production Companies into it.
There's a narrow little dropdown menu. I did not see it. I especially did not see that the sonofabitch is default set to my first Holding Company in Florida. So with my brand new Holding Company set up in Illinois, I promptly sent my Food Companies to the goddam Holding company in Florida.
Watch out for that. You've been warned. It'll cost ya.
So right there next to the Industry icon, below to the familiar green Upgrade arrow, is a new blue horizontal arrow.. for moving the damn Company.
My Q3 Food Company cost, as you see above, $1965 to move from one Holding company to the other. They even give you a nice itemized bill for the lube job, there. My Fisheries cost $248 each to move. Plenty less than starting over with new, but still enough to sting.
Screwing up costs money. Don't screw up.
Now I want to WAM (Work As Manager) my Food Companies.. click, like normal, and coolio there's my 200% Production. Persistence pays. It costs, but it pays.
I notice, though.. when those things were in Florida there were little yellow triangle icons, like a Hazard sign, telling me I could not work my Florida Food Companies while I was in Illinois. Made sense.
But here I am in Illinois, and there's no little yellow icons telling me I can't work my House companies that are in Florida.
Click.. and wow.. like, wow! I just worked my House companies in Florida without going to Florida.
That whole thing about moving twice a day to work your stuff only counts for WAMs, and Houses don't WAM. Neither will Airplanes, when they come into play.
Well, I hope this was of some value to you. Maybe it'll be easier for you to do the thing, maybe you won't be in such a rush that you'll f--- up like I did. Maybe you'll find entirely new ways to f--- it up.. If so, please do share your misadventures with us-- we'd all love to get a good laugh at your expense.
War Maps & Analysis
Spain reclaimed Galicia from the US in its RW; Spain continues to operate in Mexico, holding firm to regions along its southern border. I did say on Friday that this bears watching. I trust that our NSC is watching.
(correcte
😛thanks, Nimnul)
After all the big fuss over who got the four rare Airplane industry's Neodynium, I thought we'd have a look at where they are, and maybe try a little conjecture.
😛thanks, Nimnul)
Pakistan is playing "all or nothing" with only one region, and it's loaded for Airplanes. Once Plato starts the new industry, expect all their nice neighbors to pounce.
As for the USA, we didn't get our precious Neodynium. So what. Our Airplane industry is well stacked and well placed, and compared to the four nations who did get it we'll have the least trouble and probably most success building and deploying our new Air Force.
Manticores Sighted
Tomorrow's Election Results
With the final day for Parties to post their Endorsements (July 2) having come and gone without Derphoof securing even one, tomorrow's Presidential election is all but a foregone conclusion. All that remains is to determine whether greeling or Ajay Bruno will become Yui MCHP001's insurance policy against impeachment.
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🙂Here's links to both their most recent articles, in a convenient Shout format you can use to show support for both of these decent guys:
Yui: The High Road
www.erepublik.com/en/article/2604609/1/20
Derphoof: The End of the Road
www.erepublik.com/en/article/2604511/1/20
Props to both of them.
Full election results will be posted in the Wednesday edition of the USAF Newsletter.
Caption This:
Click on over to Hadrian X's one-pic wonder article, and if you do one like that (and link it in our Comments) we'll send you a hundred bucks!
Holiday Poster
Shout this a lot!
www.erepublik.com/en/article/2604528/1/20
Holding Companies part 2
Tomorrow's Election Results
War Map; Neodynium; Caption This
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Comments
WHPR 4th of July
www.erepublik.com/en/article/2604528/1/20
Holding Companies part 2
Tomorrow's Election Results
War Map; Neodynium; Caption This
also this:
Yui: The High Road
www.erepublik.com/en/article/2604609/1/20
Derphoof: The End of the Road
www.erepublik.com/en/article/2604511/1/20
Props to both of them.
YAY CUSTER
Good to know we can work in house companies everywhere we are.
I think you could wait some days for build a new Holding: I'm pretty sure in some weeks admins will fix this creepy pollution cause it's too high everywhere. Actually 2 factories means above than 2% pollution, and it's a shame.
You can also calculate the right % now, cause I think you're the only one who has factories in Illinois
having the tiny percentages at the far right of the Companies page is cool. I see that Florida's Q3 Housing rose to 194.45%, while the Q1 and Q1 Houses stuck at 193%.
Just got an hint: you should add this in the Holyday images:
https://s32.postimg.org/nl0390t4l/4th_july2013.jpg
It was the 4th July 2013, someone still remember?
that would be worthy of a full article.. from how that war was started to Josh Frost buying the US back from our occupiers, it's all very interesting and relevant US history. people do need to remember times like that when they go off saber rattling and chest beating.
Nice read, always
Happy July 4th!!
Happy 4th!
I'm new at this game, can anyone help me with any tank, food, or money ??
the game itself will give you a lot of free gold up to a certain level.
many military units and political parties help new players get along.
this is a game of Community. make friends, they'll guide you.
Congrats America!
Happy July 4th!
1. http://i938.photobucket.com/albums/ad221/ArmyPublicAffairsOffice/ArmyPublicAffairsOffice171/Screen%20Shot%202016-07-03%20at%2011.54.24%20PM_zpseax2hd0c.png
Need to swap inscriptions "Spain" and "Mexico"
Spain continues to eat Mexico, holding firm to regions along _Mexican_ southern border.
2. Mazuria is an original region of Poland, not Lithuanian.
(correcte😛 thanks, Nimnul)
I have only looked at US regions for resources and pollution. is Russia experiencing the same issues?
Caption:
I've looked over this list of candidates for CP and Derphoof, you may as well take that feather, stick it in your cap and call yourself Macaroni, because neither name is a candidate.
good read o7
I got your "Caption This" right here Custer.
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/-happy-4th-of-july--2604590/1/20
Happy 4th amigo!
-HX
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NEEDS MORE GREELING!!!
the caption is "Declaration of Independence? How about a Declaration of Greeling"
I still gotta figure the holding company details out. I might just go and love my good ol' home state of NJ.
Caption: "Franklin: Uh, TJ, did you just happen to forget to mention slavery? Adams: Oh look a butterfly."
Jersey's all clean (0% pollution) across the board except a small tick at Q1 Food. my own Illinois is showing small signs of deterioration already. my favorite pristine clean region at the moment is Minnesota.
Added your article as a reference to negative production 🙂
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/pollution-aftermath-2604563/1/20
Derphoof does not need an election, all he needs a wrestling ring and your top contender. You cannot stop the inevitable force of Derphoof with your back room politics.
Imagine though another election in the eUSA that is already decided before the first vote. How unusual.
Another 2 years and EU citizens might also be celebrating Independence Day, eating burnt meat and setting off fireworks on the 23th of June...
Caption this:
Preposterous! You expect me to sign this for fifty bucks?
Thanks Custer. I haven't WAMed for the past week with the sole intention to assess the effect of pollution. Cheers for reiterating on this.
Your 1-pic Wonder Challenge:
Find out why Independence had to Happen
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/2604741/1/20