[Fmcv] - Company Upgrade: What should I do?
Fmcv
Hello Dutch people!
The purpose of this article is to help explain the best way to upgrade your companies. I will try to clarify what should you do with food and weapon companies and on the first one I present 2 viable choices on your development as a companie manager, I will focus on production only through Work as Manager (WaM), since productions involving hiring workers are much more complicated to manage and sometimes don’t even give profit.
The first step is to be self-sufficient in food so we never have to invest in it anymore because obviously it only hurts our daily income of CC.
Which leads to the following question: Should I evolve food companies or create Q1’s companies until my goal is reached?
Both methods have their pros and cons.
Evolve Companie
Evolving companies has the advantage of making you pay less taxes and having more free FF to fight your way to commodore/Legend.
The great disadvantage is that you have to front load your gold on upgrades that can get very expensive
[ u] Example [/u]:
In my specific case, this is the method I use, this being my production:
In total I invested 1820 Gold not counting the raw factories.
Create only Q1 factories
The great thing about spam creating Q1 food companies is that it’s way cheaper to get the same method of production with the disadvantage being you pay way more taxes and spend more FF.
Example :
Again, based on my production:
In total I just had to invest 450 Gold .
The raw you spend opting for either method is the same so feel free to use what suits you better.
The “gain” you get from each method differs a lot the Q1 method lets you have return of investment short term the upgrade one makes you more on the long term.
Now that we've looked at the Food Factories, let's move on to Raw's.
First of all, never create a factory / upgrade without having the raw value needed for production as it will force you to go to the market and that is precisely what we want to avoid!
We must always create the best raw companies: Q4 or Q5. In this case, I recommend you look at the market price of gold and see which one pays the most:
Has we can see, Raw Q4 costs about 2x less than Q5 and the value of the raw made per gold spent it’s bigger so I recomend you getting Raw Q4 companies. (except if your going to maximize your daily FF then you should always go for Q5 raws)
This is my Food Production has you can see I make around 2600cc a day, or better saying I don’t spend CC on food and over time I can get a surplus I can sell.
If you want to invest on Weapon companies, a thing that I don’t recommend since it’s profit it’s all over the place ( in the summer the raw price went so low that it gave no profit working on Raw’s because of the work tax). The only piece of advice I can tell you it’s that you should only have Q5 raws and/or Q7 Weapon Companie (since it’s almost the only type of weapon people buy).
Since these companies don’t work with WaM, I will not include them in this article.
In November, eRepublik also discounts Black Friday and all that is. The companies gets a discount so the best advice is this: make the most of this day to invest in what you want / need!
PS: This article was made based on the values practiced on October 11th, 2019 and without company upgrades through the black friday discount.
I hope it was helpful to you and I leave you one typical Portuguese dish the only and only Francesinha (little french girl)
Best regards.
Met vriendelijke groet
🙂
Fmcv
Comments
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Q1 Food Factories truly have a quick return of investment, so they are ideal for someone, who is starting to build his industry, and wants to get his investments back quickly. Q2s work fine too - especially if you suffer from higher taxes, they can sometimes be beter choice than Q1s. And people generally tend to buy those two qualities of Food.
And if you are one of the older rich guys with thousand(s) of Gold, or you have already invested enough in food (which we still lack on the market though, so even surplus production is welcomed). Q7 weapons are a way to go, we can always use more of those, and so can you.
Slight side note: WRM prices indeed varied quite a lot during the year (unlike FRM, which is mostly observed to be useful only for self-production and worthwhile fr making profit). However, if you have a bigger storage, and you can save WRM for month or two in it, it can actually turn into profitable industry as well, usually before some events or wars. Note though, that after last Black Friday, people built a ton of WRM factories (and are expected to do so again), so the prices of WRM were extremely low for the rest of the year.
Voto na francesinha deliciosa 😃
Q1 food companies are most of the time not worth investing in because the working tax is taking away a lot of profit. I would suggest invest in Q2 companies and as soon as you have enough Q2 companies start upgrading to Q3. Upgrading to Q4 is not recommended because the investment is not worth it as long as you still have room for new companies. Or if you just like to have higher Q food companies like myself 😉
I would also suggest to supply your own raws. Try Q4 companies because you don't have to buy gold which you can use to upgrade your companies. Q4 FRM or WRM have a ROI between 100-200 days depending on the sellingprice. That might look long but aren't we here for the long run since we are investing in companies anyways?
If any of you need any advice, feel free to contact me. I am more than happy to help you.
Yup, what Ynotna said I support 100%.
Build Q1 food companies only with the idea to upgrade them to Q2 on Black Friday (the upgrade cost on black Friday is 14G, so the total G invested is 24G).
Depending on the type of game you are playing you may want to build more Q2 Food, so you are not only self sufficient on food, but actually have some additional cc profit. If you don't have a lot of gold stick with Q2 and build more. When you start getting enough gold then cobsider upgrading to Q3 as they are optimal in terms of invested gold, income/energy used, but only do so on black friday (Q2 - > Q3 on BF = 35G).
Another thing - choose your holding location wisely (better ask an experienced player)
Sometimes, in your high resource holding you may find Q2 Food comps for 27G. If there is a lot of time till BF buy some of those. You will make up the 3 G difference with the profit.
Try to always have the raw material produced and gi for Q4 Raw companies (again best to do so ob BF - 1Q4 raw company will cost you 5950cc on BF). Use your G for companies.
Last - the best way for a new player or accoubt with no packs ro get gold is to use the cc profit to get Resistance hero medals. Most countries and MUs have RH lists nowadays. Try to get 1 RH every day.
Is all o7