:: smeekileaks :: War Surplus Analysis - Day 2687

Day 2,687, 09:16 • Published in Argentina Thailand • by deleted smee
Goodafternoon eRepublikans,

It seems that at the end of every month now we are getting more and more special offers and today Plato decided to bring back the War Surplus packs,

On day 2500 when the packs were first introduced, I analyzed the packs in an article of mine. However, since then many things have changed and therefore a new analysis is warranted, for instance:

Damage from fighting compared to bombs
Since the original war surplus pack my hit has increased and with 50% booster is now over 200,000 per hit. So 7 of my hits is about equal to a small bomb and one double-energy bar is equal to a big bomb.

As you can see, the damage from bombs is not that enormous compared to what it used to be years ago when a small bomb could win you a BH medal.

Damage Accelerator
Bombs used to have the advantage that they could very quickly do a large amount of damage, however, since the introduction of the damage accelerator you can do the same damage with fights instead of bombs.

When you want to drop a bomb you have to select the bomb, then you have to confirm you want to drop the bomb which should take about 2-3 seconds. But, we all know that in epic battles eRepublik servers always lag and you can never drop bombs properly.

If I use a 50% booster and a damage accelerator I make over 1,000,000 damage everytime I click the fight button. My fights will do damage almost as quick as a big bomb can do damage, so there is no real advantage to using bombs.

Epic Battles Prestige Points
For the last month or so epic battles have been giving us x2 prestige points. This is a very important point to keep in mind, since when we tank 25 EB's in an epic battle we get back 10 or 15, but when we waste bombs we get nothing.

x10 BH
On day 2500 I took into account that I could make some money back by getting x10 BH. However it seems they removed x10 BH from the game.

Now, taking the above into account lets look at the new war surplus packs.

5 GOLD PACK



You get a double energy bar worth 2.73 gold and a damage accelerator worth 1g, which total 3.73 gold. You also get 3 small bombs and 25 bazookas.

Personally I will not buy this pack because I have close to 2000 energy bars and dont need more, I have 50 damage accelerators which I bought with gold, 3 small bombs I find useless and the bazookas I dont need since I have 5,000 saved up.

I will not buy this pack, I prefer to buy energy bars instead.

25 GOLD PACK



You get 5 damage accelerator worth 5g, 50 bazookas and 25 million damage worth of bombs.

With 27.3g and a 50% booster I could buy a 10x EB Pack and do with 40,000,000 damage.

I will not buy this pack, I prefer to buy energy bars instead.

50 GOLD PACK



You get 5 damage accelerator worth 5 gold and 5 energy bars worth 13.65gold for a total of 18.65 gold in value. For the remaining 31.35 gold you get 55,000,000 damage worth of bombs.

If I bought energy bars worth 50 gold and a 50% booster I could do 73,260,000 damage with fights. However, I would also get some energy bars back from the weekly challenge and would do even more damage!

I will not buy this pack, I prefer to buy energy bars instead.

100 GOLD PACK



You get 10 damage accelerators worth 10 gold and bombs worth 200,000,000 damage.

If I was to buy EB's for 100gold and use a 50% booster I could do 165,000,000 damage. But, I would get back about 20 more EB's from the weekly challange and do another 40,000,000 million. So the same amount of damage - I win nothing I lose nothing.

This pack also gives a single 100% booster, the question is, is it worth spending 100 gold to get it? For me, no, because I have several 100% boosters, including the ones from the last War Surplus pack, the one from the mission this week and a 24 hour one I won from the powerspin.

I will not buy this pack, I prefer to buy energy bars instead.

250 GOLD PACK



You get 15 damage accelerators worth 15 gold and bombs worth 750,000,000 damage.

If I was to buy EB's for 250gold and use a 100% booster (when I tank this much I open my biggest booster), I could do about 550,000,000 damage. But I would probably be tanking in an EPIC battle and get many EB's back from the weekly challenge, and then more EB's back and so forth and do another 430,000,000 or so damage, for a total of almost 1,000,000,000 damage.

Also, if you tank this many energy bars you will probably reach the next +10 health recovery in the weekly challenge and earn bonus EB's all weeks.

This pack also gives 4x100% boosters, but as I said before I have a couple and I would rather have 250,000,000 extra damage instead of 4 more boosters.

Furthermore, the first time you buy this pack you get +20 energy recover for 5 days, which means some extra PP and you can earn some extra EB's but you are forced to have bombs which expire in 30 days and you are losing over 200,000,000 damage with bombs.

Basically for me it comes down to this, doing 750,000,000 with bombs in about 4-5 minutes or 1,000,000,000 with fights in a couple extra minutes. I choose the bonus damage.

For me, because I would rather not have bombs which expire in 30 days, I will not buy this pack, I prefer to buy energy bars instead.

CONCLUSION

I would love to buy some packs to have fun, but because

- they do not give you rank
- the damage from them does not count in tournaments
- because I can do damage just as fast using damage accelerators
- and especially since bombs expire

I choose not to buy any of the war surplus pack as they are right now because I see no benefit. Yes, it would be fun to once again drop hundreds of bombs but I have had problems several times in the past in epic battles dropping bombs so I choose not to be aggravated again.

After reading this article, keep in mind that I personally have over 100,000 strength and know that personally, instead of bombs I prefer instead to buy energy bars.

until next time,
smee was here.