Living la vida Iranian
Day 4,139, 14:12
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by Mael Dunbar
Fellow citizens of the eNetherlands, this concerns you all.
Returning to eRepublik, I started by making my residence in Amsterdam (as Southern Netherlands was under German rule), created my holding there, moved my companies in the holding...
Learning that Q2 weapons weren't viable anymore, I dissolved my weapons raw and weapons production companies and got more food raws and another food production company.
So came about that I was producing 112 bread per company every day and with the job I found on the job market making some NLG too! eRepublik hadn't changed all that much since I had left, except for the holding and the military module!
That was: until recently I noticed my companies weren't producing as much as they used to. I figured at first som "30 day return bonus" or so had ran out.
Today I learned that our country is leasing out our national resources to Iran, our ally in Orion. Read the (belated) publishing of the deal.
So that explains why my production is falling back by 10 bread per company, per day!
Curious of the country in our alliance that we rent our resources out to, I went on a trip and visited a city in Iran:
The city of Semnan, Iran has some nice bonusses on production, mainly in food and weapons. When you look at the nationalities that have taken up residence there, you will find it a very multicultural city:
You can see that there is only one Iranian national in the top 10 of residents. If you look further to the top 20, 5 more Iranians pop up:
So that means only 1 in 4 citizens in the top is actually from Iran. Who knew Iran was so interesting for expats!
But wait! There's more...
Have you noticed? Who is that Dutch guy at number 11 in the rankings?
OUR OWN COUNTRY PRESIDENT! *proud*
What is that, you ask? Why, no... you're right, it IS weird that our president doesn't live in our country.
Yes, it IS a coincidence that we rent out our resources to that same country.
Yes, he has a holding there. He has 110 companies in "Home Food Comp...", which means he gets a boost from the NL resource concession to Iran.
Yes, the deal started some 200 days ago. No, I'm not sure when Janty F came to
the eNetherlands or if it has anything to do with it.
What I do know: our CP personally profits from this deal and our government profits from the deal. But how do the Dutch citizens that don't have off-shore holdings in Iran profit from the deal?
They don't. They are the ones actually paying for the deal with their loss in production.
So here is my question to our members of congress and our CP:
How will you compensate the loss of our citizens that have no off-shore holdings in places with a higher resource bonus?
Critically yours,
Mael Dunbar
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This renting of resources is going all over the eWorld. Please have a look at "latest update" and there is 2 explanations for those who have not been around when all this happened.
You will find these in day 3898 and 3923 these updates were named
Determination & Resource concession and Resource Concession: Clarifications & Updates
Don't know that i've ever seen anyone else so knowledgeable about holdings, concessions, etc...
Wish you could help me inform eUSA about concessioins... a subject up for debate. FAR too many have some misinformed idea that renting them impacts native productivity. They argue that despite numerous wiki links to the admin info.
https://www.erepublik.com/en/article/-moha-economic-bonuses-and-where-to-find-them-2693316
This article was recently published over here in eNL. I dont know who you referred on knowledgeable (it certainly not me 😃 ). Have a read and hopefully you will find out something useful in it, even it is targeted to eNL citizens.
If knowledgeable is too strong i'll say you show enough INTEREST, so must be much more knowing than MOST. [yer just modest]
I;ll check out your link, now.
As I stated on another occasion: You have some catching up to do. It may appear not much is changed but there is. Producing goods in NL has (almost) never been rewarding but all players nowadays can produce wherever they want. Just create a holding there and place your comps. Main challenge: Pick a place where there is a high bonus of your desired product(s) and hope the nation does not get attacked. And make sure to visit the place of your holding daily to be able to work...
"Just creating a holding and place your comps" is expensive for players in general. at least 25 gold for creating the holding, and then NLG for moving a company to the new holding (cost calculated per level and distance, per company).
These updates also caused a total mayhem when there was a limited time you could replace your holding company to new location. The aftermath of this was that certain lucrative areas got targeted because of the resource bonuses. Many players have at least 2 Holding Companies out here in eWorld. To collect the maximum bonuses you need to be resident n that particular area. This may seem strange but that is the reason of "strange" places some has their residency in, so there is a logic into this and no conspiracy behind it.
Here is a wiki thingy on this subject.
http://wiki.erepublik.com/index.php/Resource_concession
Some governments also helped out citizens to move their holdings when this took place and also because of the fact not everyone was paying attention of the current situation.
Obviously you could not know about all this before you came back into game play. So this whole thing is kinda tricky, where to put a second holding, is that region gonna be wiped out and traveling back and forth in the holding some where in an exotic place.
You can also use the map feature, where there are in the left corner a box you can click to get resources visible.
As a totally biased eNL citizen who also has been living in Iran for a long time (I had my residence there even before the concession started, I guess Janty F also did), I can say that this concession deal is quite good, both for Iran and for eNL.
They get the bonuses, making Iran a very interesting country for people to have their holdings in, which gives them a tax boost, which is more than enough to compensate for the concession cost, despite their low (1😵 taxes.
And eNL gets a huge income boost, allowing us to have programs such as the Flying Dutchman, which cost our gov heaps of money (25000 NLG per week). That is the return our poor citizens without Iranian holdings get for this deal. Without this deal, the program could only reward our citizens with around 10000 NLG/week. If there is one program, I am proud eNL has, it is this program, specifically aimed at our newer citizens (which are probably exactly those without these Iranian holdings). It has boosted our air power significantly, by actively rewarding those citizens who are willing to go the extra mile and improve their air rank. This motivates these citizens to keep doing this, and even try harder...
Thanks for pointing out the pro's of the deal. I was thinking of how it affected me personally (not eligible for any of the programs) and how it would impact new players just starting out. But I guess it benefits those who stick around for a bit
Well, I'm glad you can't pull that trick on me. Amsterdam represent!
How will you respond to your I&W Party President living in Mecca of all places?!
https://www.erepublik.com/en/citizen/profile/77981
The honestly sh*t worth of our bonuses do not make the difference between 'profitable' and 'non-profitable' production here in the eNetherlands. In fact, that 100,000 that we receive each month and is spent on our citizens is actually economically more profitable for our citizens 😉. So that answer your question in what way citizens are being compensated.
100cc for the media effort though 😃
that is for religious reasons
Shouldn't one of your government agencies give me money for my well-researched article? And the raising of some important ethical questions? 😛
Oh crap, I really hoped you stumbled on a huge scandal. But after reading the comments some are convinced it's legit. Bummer. Back to real life politics to hear the scandals.
That is how far the rot goes. Banker and politicians also think what they are doing is legit
Do you know our commune factories, which produce tanks for Green Berets, are also in Iran?
Do you know that people with foreign holdings still pay taxes to Dutch Treasury? To the point majority of our tax income is caused by these people? Be it Iran, Russia, France, or any other country, which advertised itself well during the resource wars, and therefore attracted foreign citizens. Bonuses allow people to grow factories faster, thus bringing more tax profit for governments to spend on.
Do you know your party has opposed lowering of Work Tax (suggested by Congress member named Janty F), which was focused to help people, who are still stuck in Netherlands, and need to pay high taxes for no bonuses?
As said above - you have a lot of catching up to do. Feel free to contact the government at any time, if you need some professional help with it 😉 .
I have evolved from blaming you to blaming game mechanics 😛
It has been said, but I will stress it. With the new bonus system, one can participate in one country politics while having decent bonus somewhere else. Most of us are in Iran, others in USA, Poland, Spain...
I recommend you set your holdings where you can produce more (if you have enough production to justify the cost of moving the holding) we can accept some less tax in this case as to have our citizens almost twice as rich. Certainly, the CP being there is not a scandal, the game has evolved, maybe you missed this transition but you will find that anyone who has some productive power is abroad.
Seeing as this is pretty much accepted as normal means it is not the best game development. things like this should have more economical and political impact.
Also, travel is way to fast. There should be a limit to how far you can travel, a max number of regions per x-hours or something. that would make concious planning much more critical, off-shore production less profitable and common, and war plans much more detailed.
R.I.P. Politics Module
Absolutely LOVE this article... but if there's ONE point that needs to be made, it's to choose holdings well from the START. Once created, additional ones cost, exponential, more and more... dissolving/deleting is WORSE than nothing. At least with multiple holdings you MAY have very low salary jobs showing.
I totally agree that you should NOT dissolve/delete your holding company, since you will loose a lot of cc in that process. I did not fully understand how much the second holding would cost me mainly because the confusing information given out.
It took me way to long to figure it out... LEARNED THE HARD WAY.
While i'm commenting here, should mention i have over 200% productivity [or near that] for all 5q houses in 2 regions... 155 in a third, which i rarely use... Over 200% for weapons, too. i own a deer holding but never use because eRep food has always been cheap and always will be. It's the admins base of the economy, including wage inflation.
You can't dissolve the first holding (or at least not until you have a second one)?
No. i did it after i got my 2nd.