A thanks to Plato
SintherX
I would like to dedicate this article to Plato.
Dear Plato,
In a little less than one month, I will have been an eRepublik citizen for a year. In this time, I have heard extremely many speak about you in a very negative manner. This I believe is wrong, and here is my article to defend you.
When I started one year ago, I remember taking my first job, and recieving a paycheck of (what I may incorrectly recall) 90 SEK per day. Now, since I am a man with a keen interest in finance and economic stability, I obviously wanted to ensure that my personal production would generate a profit to (in good time of course) make me able to do whatever I would feel like in this eWorld.
As a beginner, I made a few mistakes. One of the biggest ones was purchasing gold. When sale-prices started crashing, I had recently recieved a nice paycheck from The Swedish Military, and figured I'd place the money in something which had great value; Gold.
Looking in retrospect, that was the most stupid decision I have ever done in this game. As the sale-prices of everything plummeted, of course so did the value of gold. I figured "Hey, it can't go down much more! Like a normal market, it should head up again soon. Invest in gold now that it's cheaper than before!" The gold price was at that point around 900 SEK.
Needless to say, I've made A LOT of stupid decisions, and lost A LOT of money.
I've kept the hope up for a recovery of the market, but I am slowly coming to realization that it's not going to happen anytime soon. On my daily salary of now 12 SEK (excluding the few factories I've managed to purchase), it takes me exactly 708,33 days to be able to afford a Saltpeter mine.
Now, since I am not an entirely new player, I have a little bit more income through factories and well-upgraded training facilities, I get by okay. But it is (AND ABSOLUTELY NO CRITIQUE HERE *cough😉
very weird that the price of everything goes down, except for factories and storages.
But hey, let's look on the bright side! Imagine a new player comes into the game, let's call him Sven. Sven has no clue of anything on eRepublik, and is just now figuring out the website-layout. He spends his beginner-gold on warfare, and later comes to the realization that he is unable to sustain his warfare simply through his (almost) monthly SS-medal, one HW-medal, and his monthly salary of 360 SEK (12 SEK/day). Per month, his income is thereby 360 SEK and 10 gold (9.08 gold to be precise).
Let's say that Sven invests his ENTIRE income in the saltpeter-mine he has been drooling over for the past few weeks. It will take him just a little under three months to be able to afford it (counting it as 10 gold/month). He is overjoyed by finally getting a serious business for himself. Soon though, he notices that for his profit to hit break-even (The point at which the investment in the company starts to pay off) is (with todays value of 0,02 SEK per WRM, and a daily production of 175 WRM(No bonuses since we're wiped) making a daily profit of 3,5 SEK excluding food costs) only 2428.6 days, equalling only 6.7 years.
But Sven is ambitious! He doesn't want ONE Saltpeter mine, as that will not cover his needs. He wants dozens! So there, 15-20 years later, Sven has finally managed to get an income he can feel proud of. Then he starts wondering what he has done with his life.
So THANK YOU Plato, for making it neigh on impossible to get anywhere economically. A salute to you.
Kind Regards
SintherX
(This article is written only from my viewpoint, without any other participating party)
P.S THANK YOU for the initiative with the gold mine! Feels so good to know that almighty Poland will get a better budget to keep screwing and oppressing smaller countries.
Comments
Maybe the Polacks cryed to Plato and told them people are mean they fight us back. Oh and some countries refuse to pay us of regions that dont belong to us. So please do a contest so we can get more gold to press these patriots down..! They already got rid off the PINK color but they still be called the PINK cancer ; ) !
Nice article thanks
Must be something like that. I can't believe Plato in his segregation of powerful and weak countries. Thanks for reading : )
Voted!
Fucking voted.
Actually remembering having 45k SEK at one point, earning 150 SEK a day.
Now iam earning 13 SEK a day.
Sad but true!
When I joined a year ago, I was working in a Chinese factory and getting about 340cc/day. Now I get 14 and get fired once a week although I work right after the day change almost everyday.
And instead of trying to fix the economy they come up with random updates, which I don't get at all. They don't seem to be attracting new players nor keeping the old ones interested.
Meanwhile we can enjoy a cup of jasmine tea though : p~
It´s not fun to accept, but it is the truth.
I have been playing this game for one year and seven months, it has sunken A LOT.
I can barely get any money from my companies anymore, I still got some saved money/gold and upgraded training grounds, so I´m fine. But what about a new player?
Seriously, if we can not get new players into this game, it will all crash sooner or later...
TLDR
There are more commersial on Platos start page than on a pornsite.
So true and so sad!!! voted!
I think the competition for a goldmine in Europe is gonna be between Sweden and Serbia.
Köpenhamn e bra om man inte vill va med.