The Economist ~ How to get rich from day one

Day 1,337, 19:11 • Published in United Kingdom United Kingdom • by Spite313


Dear friends,

A lot of people ask me how to get rich. It's not that hard, you just need to prioritise and be willing to sacrifice the present for the future. Here is how I would do it were I banned today and have to start again. Hopefully this will give me somewhere to send new players asking questions- and give you somewhere to send them too 😛

Please note: this is UK-based, so there are things like free land grants, army support etc that aren't available elsewhere. Also, I wrote this at 3am because I was bored. There are BOUND to be mistakes with maths and so on, but the point is to give you an idea of the potential new players have, not to mess around with the fine detail.

Also, I know a lot of people will probably want a stats article. I will make one when I stop raging about how irrelevant changes are making national incomes.



Basically, this is what you do.

First day:

Work (in all 4 of your companies, plus the one you're hired in), train, upload avatar: 15 points

Second day: same again minus avatar: 28 points. You should have 320 Q1 food = 640 health = 64 fights. Fight 64 times. By now you should have £200 in wages and 10g from leveling up. Buy a 10g Food Raw Material company. 92 exp.

Third day: work, train. Sell the 225 excess RM from your new company for £81. You should now have £381 in total. Buy 586 food. Along with your own food (160) you should have 746 food in total. that makes about 149 hits. Hit 149 times. You now have 254 XP and 7 more gold from leveling.

Fourth day: work, train. Sell FRM as above. Use the £181 to buy food. You should have 438 food. That is 876 health, or 87 hits. Hit 87 times. You now have 354 XP.

Fifth day: as above. You now have 456 XP.

Sixth day: as avove. You now have 554 XP and are level 20. You have 10g. Buy an additional FRM company.



Stage 2:

Your daily income is now £100 (wage) plus £162 in sold FRM. Stop fighting. Sell your Q1 food every day (160*0.65=£104). Your total income is now £366 per day.

By day 27, you will have raised about £7500 depending on the market. Buy a £7500 Weapons RM company. WRM is usually a bit more valuable than food raw material, since new players don't start with it. This company produces 280 WRM per day, worth around £115. Your daily income is now £481 per day. Less than a month old and earning 0.8g a day. You now have 869 XP.

By day 35 you will have about £4000. Because you worked every day, you will have 5g bonus from Hard Worker. You will also have 1g from reaching level 21, and now have 1009 experience points. Sell the gold, giving you about £7500. Buy a second RM company of the same type as the first. Your income is now £596 a day.

By day 48 you will have raised £7750. You know what's coming here- buy another WRM company for £7500. 1161 XP. Daily income is now £711, or about 1.2g a day. Well done.

By day 55 you will have raised about £5000 more. You should have got your super soldier medal (250 str) on day 50. Sell that for about £3000, combine and buy a fourth saltpetre mine. Your daily income is now £826. 1308 XP.
To recap, you now have:

3 grain
1 Q1 food
2 fish
4 saltpetre



Stage 3

Basically you have two choices here. You can either go for a military route, or an economic route. I will outline the possibilities for both here:



Military

By day 73 you will have raised about £14800. Use this to buy 10 gold (or put it up as you earn it, depending how patient you are). You will have 10g and £8800. Buy food raw material (7500£) and Q1 food (10g) (extra is for land which you don't get a grant for).

You now produce enough food to hit 64 times a day. Join the UKAF, quit your civilian job. They will give you 320 wellness in extra food, plus 2 Q5 guns (which is nice). You can now hit 83 times a day after working and training - which is a lot. You probably upgraded your town hall a bit along the way too.

Your food companies are now self sufficient- and will provide you with everything you need (for now) plus a bit extra surplus RM you can sell.

You have 4 saltpetre mines which will produce 1120 WRM a day worth about £450. If I were you, I'd save this and reinvest in more companies. Once you have around £1000 a day income (just save, invest, repeat) then you can afford to sell currency to train with gold. I'd advise never spending more than half your daily income on lana. It might seem counter-intuitive, but the more you invest, the more you will make, the more you can spend later on fighting and gold training. It's up to you though, and with some RM companies you have a fairly simple production line for the non-economically minded.



Economic

Simple stuff- keep investing. The ultimate goal is to get Q5 weapons- the holy grail really. You can cheat and buy gold if you want to rush things- even making 5g a day it would take 2 1/2 months to save. But look at it realistically- most of the players with Q5s are over a year old, and they walked the same path (maybe a little less straight than you). Slowly building your resources is part of the fun part of the game. With changes to the economy module, the price of goods proportional to wages is rising, and it's becoming possible to employ people in lower-Q companies. Buying a rubber company for 35g might seem to be a mistake, but with workers you can make about £60 profit per worker. £300 extra a day (0.5g) isn't to be sneezed at. Little things like that will build up, and I estimate it would probably take me (doing it from scratch) 3-4 months to buy a Q5 from day 72, presuming there were no "admin offers" in that time to help. At the same time, you'd be building up the RM companies you'll need to power a Q5 company. A Q5 company can make a good 1g a day as well as supplying you with some nice weapons- and once you're there saving up for other stuff is much easier if you're not inclined to spend your riches.


And that's it! Long, full of text, lots of maths, probably irrelevant to many of you. I don't expect 9000 votes, since I'm not calling EDEN names, but it'll give me something to direct people to when they ask me questions- maybe it will save you time too 😛


all the best,

Iain



Stuff about the armed forces supplies

Land Grants (free land!)

Free companies the UK Government is giving away for crying out loud