Finally, company upgrades!

Day 1,884, 02:17 Published in USA Germany by Edelmann


[tl;dr below]

Hey everyone,

great, company upgrades. Finally. 45% off, you'll only have to spend a little more than the half of the normal price for getting one of those Q7s. 🙂

Let's do some basic maths, assuming regular market activity only (i.e. no black market sales). Time of the snapshot: Day 1884, 02:02 eRep.
Q7 tanks are sold for ~9.50 USD each, taxes are 0.4524 each. Also you'll need 200 WRM which are currently sold for 0.04 USD.

Sales price - taxes - WRM expenses = Profit
9.50 - 0.4524 - 200*0.04 = 1.0476 USD

Wow. A whole dollar profit per Q7 tank. And remember, that is only for manager work.
When you're hiring an employee, you'll have to add (salary/production) to the cost of a tank. Salary is about 18 USD, production right now is 16 Q7 tanks per worker = additional costs of 1.125 USD per tank.

So, as you can see, with the current market prices, there is no profit to be made with workers. Only a minimal profit can be achieved when using managerwork (MW).
The return of your investments when MWing is a sad thing to calculate, let's do it anyways. 10 gold to build a Q1 weapons company, 671 gold to upgrade it to Q7. Total of 681 gold, with 339 USD for 1 gold on the monetary market right now. So we have expenses of 681 gold * 339 USD/gold = 230,859 USD for a daily profit of 16 * 1.0476 = 16.7616 USD.

A quick division tells us the whole story: 230,859 / 16.7616 = 13,773.09 days.

Oh yes, it takes more than 13,000 days to get your money back from the company. That's nearly 38 years of managerworking (of course assuming that all the variables are constant from now on which is not going to happen, but who says that changes will make it better..?).

So, long story short, if you want to have a Q7 for profiting from it, it's a really really long-term investment and with the current state of the market, you'll have to use the black market for getting a higher profit than about a lousy dollar per tank. Or you can wait 38 years, maybe your children will appreciate the Q7 you'll leave to them.
..and remember, that is during a promo where companies are A LOT cheaper than normally. I won't present the calculation for upgrading without the discount, it makes me too sad.

[tl;dr version]

Before upgrading, do some maths.
Reaction after having calculated the profitability of a Q7 company:


Alternatively:

(In this case, the number that doesn't exist would be the profit.)

Signed,

Edelmann o/