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Dateline: Friday, July 8, 2016 (Day 3153)
Location: James S. Brady Press Room, The White House

In Today's WHPR: 
: 1 : Holding Companies (part 3)
: 2 : War Map & Analysis
: 3 : Forum Thread Games
: 4 : Caption This:
: 5 : Vintage Poster
: Newsreel : WWI Air Combat footage, 1918

Editor’s Notes: I did not intend to write a "part 3" to the Holding Companies series, but it is not only an ongoing news story, it's the only news story.


Holding Companies (part 3)
_{by George Armstrong Custer}

First, a couple handy links, for reference: WHPR editions, Holding Companies part 1, and part 2.
This series illustrates only my own experience, and may serve as somewhat of a guide for you but is definitely not intended as "official guidance" offered by your government.

Before Gnilraps' article, Make eUSA Housing Pollution-Free, which I will discuss further into this segment, I had already taken steps to hedge my bets regarding the pollution factor in my Housing production.

The tiny text at the far right of your Companies page will tell you what you'll be dealing with as you click to Work each of your factories, wherever you've placed them. Plus, I've been checking daily the pollution charts at both my max-resources Florida and no-resources Illinois facilities.
At first, there was no Housing pollution in Illinois, so I moved my three Q1 factories there. 200% is better than 193%.



Then I read Gnilraps' article, which suggests an "even days, odd days" method of splitting up production between regions, thus cutting pollution and increasing production on those days you work at each of those regions.
edit: Gnilraps has published another article, focusing strictly on the math.

I won't go into the holes I find in his theory.. much. The Comments to his article outline a lot of players' thoughts on the matter, and, really, bottom line, you have to make your own decisions and take your own actions as best you see fit for yourself.

My main objection to Gnilraps' theory is that it might work fine for those well funded players who can afford to have set up in both max-resource regions and can afford to build duplicate factories in both. Well, that ain't me, and I daresay that's probably not you, either.

But the concept is not without merit, and I think I've found a way to make it work for "the little guy" who only has a few companies.. and for whom every decision and course of action becomes very critical, because we really don't have the flex funds to fix a bad move.

What I did was to also move some of my Q2 companies over to Illinois, so now (see the graphic, above) my production is divided between the max-resources and no-resources regions.
I only have two employees. I gave up on doing ten employees and selling Houses every day, etc.-- it just wasn't working out for me at all. Now I make Houses for myself, and a couple times a week I do have extras to sell, but it's nothing like the daily math burn I was doing before.

My two employees give me an average of six or seven Works per day, so I can work those House companies one day in one region, and the other day in the other region. And I will stick to Gnilraps' plan of "finished Houses on even days in Florida" and do my odd days in Illinois.
I buy House Raws anyways-- that's another math mindbender I'd just as soon not do. So far, Food Raws and Food on a daily basis have not been a pollution issue in Illinois.

In closing, be thoughtful about whatever you do. Take Gnilraps' advice and my experience with whatever size grain of salt as you can fit in your little red wagon. Even a small wagon can carry a pretty damn big grain of salt.
And don't move your stuff to Illinois, huh?! Do your own due diligence, research the Country > Regions > Society pages and look at the pollution charts. Here's that list of no-resource regions from the other day-- it's a good place to start shopping for a place for your second Holding Company if you haven't already placed it.

List of US regions with no resources:





War Maps & Analysis



Still very little to report on: Training Wars continue with Ireland-- fight for US in direct wars, for Ireland in RWs.
The US is withdrawing from Spain, promising invasion partners that we will return if asked to keep Spain wiped.

Closer to home, Spain is keeping their activities in Mexico limited to the southern regions; Portugal is in Cuba.


Werewolves and other Forum Thread Games


You've seen the promotions for the Dept of Citizen Affairs' forum based game, Werewolves! The first round of that game has started, and while it's too late to join in you can follow the action and maybe you'll dig it enough to sign up for the next round.

What CoSecDoCA Ilene Dover is up to is to offer a gentle introduction to using the eUSAforums. Sure, there's plenty of sections and threads that are frequented by hostile actors. But there's also plenty of fun to be had, too, away from the trolls and metalords. In just the eRep Thread Games section alone, there's currently four games running-- two of which are permanently pinned. You can start a game there, yourself, if you want.

Up one level, at General Erepublik Discussion, you'll find a variety of interesting threads, and you'll have to decide for yourself whether or not you want to engage or just read on through.
One more level up is the base Forum page, where you'll find the full menu of sections, from Government branches (Executive and Legislative) to Military Units and Political Parties. Again, parental discretion is advised.

So if you've never been to the eUSAforums, give it a try. If you've "been there, done that, the t-shirt sucked," I urge you to try again, and start off easy with the Thread Games.


Caption This:


A Norman Rockwell painting, for the Saturday Evening Post, from WWI. Airplanes were still very new, and using them in warfare was a really big deal.






Vintage Poster




Shout this a lot!

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