[MoF] 2341 - War expenses and Swift reward for National Shield Competition

Day 2,341, 12:53 Published in Belgium Belgium by NBB-BNB


Greetings eBelgium,

A lot of material this time. We will be covering
- War expenses thanks to our beloved ePakistan airstriking us
- Rewards for National Shield Competition
- Financial status



War expenses

As part of the strategy (yes there was a strategy and a plan even), we tried to fight off the ePakistan landing in eBelgium. We did all we could with numerous supplies, CO's, calling in our allies and friends. As we already announced in the media we are very grateful for the efforts made by everyone.

Financially speaking we would like to express our gratitude to all MU's who put CO on our battles, as well as to the people who donated cold hard cash as well as supplies to aid in our battles. These actions came on top of the supplies funded by the eBe state.

When counting all expenses made by eBe itself after the first campaign we came to 75K CC that was spend on either CO, or tanks. Thanks to everyone who helped with the financial transactions to make sure money was available during the battles. Again, these are the expenses made by eBe only, and do not cover the expenses made by MU's, and donations we got from individuals.

In addition to the expenses above we also signed MPP's sooner than normal leaving us with 4 active MPP's at the moment. This is covered later on.



Rewards for National Shield Competition

After a (relatively) short debate in congress, a new proposal has been voted for handing out rewards to top 50 fighters in the National Shield Competition ranking.

With a total prize money of 1000 gold, the proposal aims to distribute 200 gold to our top 50 fighters in the normal ranking, and 100 gold to the top 50 fighters in the junior ranking. Considering we don't have the details of the damage done in the junior ranking, two different methods apply.

For the junior ranking:

IMPORTANT: ACTION TO BE TAKEN BY CITIZENS

Citizens who ranked in the top 50 of the National Shield Competition have received a profile page decoration.

Anyone who has this decoration should contact SX80 with their profile link (like this: http://www.erepublik.com/en/citizen/profile/5673402) and will be granted 2 gold each. The gold will only be donated after these citizens request the gold.

For the normal ranking:

We have the full list of fighters thanks to tommot! Rewards will be distributed later today or early tomorrow. The full distribution list can be found here. The list of top 50 players can be found here. (each time click on the spoiler to see the details).



Financial status

Due to the war we had more epxenses. Due to the current occupation we also have lower income (taxes go to occupying country). 2 additional MPP's were signed that overlap with the previous MPP's, so we currently have 4 active MPP's.

We had an in-game promo for training centers and factories. Two loans were granted for a total of 40 gold. 10 gold has been returned to the state already, 1 loan remains open.

Last round of Monetary Market netted us 2.066 CC, mainly because only part of the gold got sold. We spread out our offers on different days to see if this will improve the situation.

Average income in the last 30 days was 14.000 CC.

Our current balance is the following:
252,891 CC (-22.255 from last report)
846.25 gold (-640 from last report)*

* 300 already taken off that still has to be distributed as reward money, and part of the war expenses were covered by exchanging gold into CC)



tl;dr
- War costed us roughly 75k CC
- TOP 50 of the junior ranking has to contact SX80 to get 2 gold
- TOP 50 of the normal ranking will be getting rewards later today or tomorrow
- We are still spending more than we earn, war expenses excluded (MPP cost + ABC > tax income + MM income)
- We now have only 280 gold, or roughly 58K cc worth, more than before the tournament

Kind regards,
SX80, MoF
Vincent Pain, vMoF