old new idea, storing weps and food.
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by ComputerSpeaker
we know the usa is storing about 1.5 millon a month currency. we know we have not had a major war for 2 years. so the usa must have about 40 million in reserve. I was a congressman and was told the reserve is all cash.
what does this mean for you?
the reserves will be used when a major war is happening. this will most likely be the time you also will want to fight. well if 40 million buys weps thats almost 5 million q7 weps. how many q7 weps are on the market?
at page 7 the price of weps is 50 usd per wep! at about 20 thousand weps a page,
so only 140k weps could be filled. but the usa has enough currency to buy 30 times that.
so that means wep prices would rise way above 50 usd per wep the next time we have a war.
plan for the future! either if you can hold way more weps than you need so you can sell some to the idiotic usa government at 75 usd per wep.
or maybe always keep enough on hand to supply yourself instead of paying the price gouged wep prices.
please buy weps now before you find yourself using q1 weps because all the other weps have gotten too high to be worth it!
and maybe the government if your listening, do not put all your eggs in one basket, holding purely currency will be worse than a diversified portfolio in the event of war!
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the currency can also be used for combat order which is probably where a major portion of it will go.
if 100% goes to combat orders, and 10% of the people who get the combat orders buy weps, still 500k weps would be bought. and that's almost 3 times the current number of weps on the market! i can guarantee more than 10% of the combat orders would be used for weps.
you have heard the trickle effect. if someone gets money they buy weps raising the price of weps so a wep producer raises wages then the worker can buy more weps.
so if even 0.1% of the reserve was used for combat orders it would impact the markets significantly, being it is pure cash.
Your approach while interesting is flawed imo for a number of reasons. The paramount one being the fact that there are other countries with markets and actual people (unbelieveable!) which you fail to account for.
This would influence the scenario you describe as follows:
I: People would buy their good abroad. Maybe some younger players would still buy the expensive US weaps but Tanks, MUs, domestic and foreign traders with licences and the gov would buy abroad and possibly import the weapons.
II: The US has currently ~20 MPPs which implies that not everyone fighting for the US is located in the US.
Furthermore:
I There are private and MU stashes that may be used or sold if the prices increase.
II Your idea implies that a fixed amount of the money used for COs would be spent on US weapons. But this only applies for people online and fighting for the US, located in the US with no access to stored weapons who chose not to buy abroad. While there is a potential that prices increase globally and even more so in the US I doubt that the effect would be as severe as you describe.
III The amount of damage produced for the US in a single battle is not only limited by the number of weapons available. In fact the ratio of CC/DMG increases rapidly if not exponentially to the point that money gained through CO would greatly exceed the costs for weapons while the rest would be stored or used otherwise (for energy bars f.e.)
Furthermore I may add that I firmly believe the trickle down effect to be a neoliberal wet dream to cleanse their guilty conscience
even if not, I doubt it can be applied to eRep where mobility in terms of jobs and buying habits is greatly superior to what it would be IRL
so i do agree i make huge assumption, and the reserve is not really too close to 40 million. so maybe your right. but if your wrong i want to be prepared and i want others to be prepared. even if you are right it would be better for players to store some weps for wars because the simple increase in demand makes prices rise.
sorry if I came accross too aggressively - got carried away. The effect that you describe could very much happen but as the US gov would be the one causing it they could make preparations when the time is due.
Anyway you're ofc right that ppl should always have an eye on the tank prices as that is a good way to make money (but also consider events and updates)
well alright there are assumptions i have made, I do not know how much cash Poland nor Serbia have saved in the event of a war 🙁 them being more powerful countries they should have more cash. but look at gold and wep prices. gold is 50% more than it was a year ago. 300 current vs 200 past.
however Poland and Serbia might own lots of weps instead of cash. but i am not too sure of that. relying on foreign powers (or citizens) to negate our governments idiocy seems very foolish.
wep prices are going up. maybe a bit can be summer related.
what really i am trying to issue is more of a warning to people to not be surprised if gold goes really high nor if weps go really high. and i want people to clearly see the connection between high wep prices and governments hoarding cash!