understanding FIGHTing in eRepublik

Day 714, 06:54 • Published in Philippines Philippines • by GODD

This is a rather important part of the game it self, so it goes without saying that if you don't understand it, you will level up very slow, you might spend money for nothing and miss all or some of the fun.

In order to FIGHT you must reach level 5 and have wellnes (LP) over 40

DAMAGE

BEFORE a fight, buy a WEAPON. After each fight, one weapon is used, so to fight 5 times you need 5 weapons. In a fight you do some DAMAGE. This damage is related directly to your strength, wellness (LP), military rank and weapon.

1. WEAPONS and DAMAGE

NO weapons = 50% damage
Q1 weapons = 120%
Q2 weapons = 140%
Q3 weapons = 160%
Q4 weapons = 180%
Q5 weapons = 200%

2. MILITARY RANK

This is determined by the damage you do, as follows:

Private = damage 0/249 – Damage bonus 20%
Corporal = 250/749 – Damage bonus 40%
Sergeant = 750/1499 – Damage bonus 60%
Lieutenant = 1500/4499 – Damage bonus 80%
Captain = 4500/8999 – Damage bonus 100%
Colonel = 9000/24999 – Damage bonus 120%
General = 25000/74999 – Damage bonus 140%
Field Marshall = 75000+ - Damage bonus 160%

3. WELLNESS (LP)

In fact, it's better to read here about it.

4. STRENGTH

You start from strength 1 and you will advance if you will train daily, as follows:
Strength Days
1 0
2 2
3 7
4 17
5 42
6 67
7 92
8 117
9 142
10 167
11 192
12 217
13 242
14 267
15 292
20 417
25 542
30 667

You can CALCULATE your damage with this tool

FIRST time around, since you are at the beginning, your LP is mostly like 40-50, fight ONLY ONCE and then HEAL (if you did like I said, you should be able to use a Q5 hospital).

REMEMBER, you can HEAL only once a day in a hospital and only after you fight.

AFTER a fight, you lose 10LP, a weapon from your inventory (the highest Q you have first, if you have any weapons) and receive 2XP.

HOW TO FIGHT?

TRAIN - FIGHT - HEAL - WORK

In a normal day to day situation, fight 5 times to reach 50 LP, heal to 100 LP.

If you need a 6th fight, you can, once a day, heal another 10 LP with gifts from your friend. More on gifts here

You can also buy a WELLNESS BOX, but it is expensive. It might be worth the money if you defend your country.
Every citizen is allowed to acquire a maximum of 20 wellness boxes per day.
If your citizen is level 15 or above, you can purchase 40 Wellness boxes per day.
Each wellness box costs 2 GOLD and it adds 10 wellness to your health.

WAR takes 24 hours. this will allow you to fight 2 times, during 2 consecutive days.
So always have at the end of the day as close as possible to 100LP so you can fight maximum times possible.
NEVER fight after HEAL, if it is not a special occasion, like defending your country.

HOW DOES THIS FIGHTING REALLY WORKS?

Every region has a WALL. Every time you do damage, a number of points equal to the damage you did from that region's wall is subtracted/added (depending if you are an attacker or defender). More info on the BATTLEFIELD.

If you do this right, CHEAPEST WAY TO ADVANCE IS:

Corporal by day 11 with 17 Q1 weapons - 93.5 PHP
Sergeant by day 16 with 43 Q1 weapons - 236.5
Lieutenant by day 22 with 74 Q1 weapons - 407
Captain by day 42 with 171 Q1 weapons - 940.5
Colonel by day 64 with 281 Q1 weapons - 1545.5
General by day 120 with 561 Q1 weapons - 3085.5
Field Marshal by day 229 with 1106 Q1 weapons - 6083 PHP

Price of Q1 weapons might differ a little in time, I took it as 5.5 PHP now.
(jut realized that in ePhilippines you can hardly buy this amount of weapons if all are to fight after this pattern)

FASTEST WAY is to use Q5 weapons. It will take you about 165 days and 48000 PHP. This is several times more and it's just not worth the money, better wait.
In fact, if you start to use even Q2 weapons, it will double the costs and the time is more or less the same.

HAVE FUN!!!