Weekend Edition - Cheap Thrills

Day 3,146, 04:12 • Published in USA USA • by James S. Brady Press Room
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WHPR Weekend Edition - Cheap Thrills
Dateline: Friday, July 1, 2016 (Day 3146)
Location: James S. Brady Press Room, The White House

Today's WHPR Track List: 
: 1 : Big Brother
: 2 : Holding Companies
: 3 : Cheap Thrills
: 4 : Piece of My Heart
: 5 : Ball and Chain
: 6 : Vintage Poster
: Newsreel : Ball and Chain - Monterey Pop Festival, 1967

Editor’s Notes: By now you've probably read about all you can stand about placing your Holding Companies so you can get back to business. The Unofficial Official Government guidance has been to wait to see how badly the max resource regions would fill up and how bad the pollution factor would be there. It's sound advice. I held out one day.
At reset this morning I set out to explore House resource regions, and compare both reward (+% production) and penalty (pollution -😵 factors, and see how it all really works.
I asked my old friend, Janis, to help me out.. someday I'm gonna have to tell you about me and Janis.
~~SecMed George Armstrong Custer  

Big Brother

This was the last Resource Wars map

Back on Day 3083, Big Brother Admin announced "the rollout of a set of changes that will impact the New World as we know it." By Day 3089 the eWorld had been plunged into a sleepless month of Resource Wars, in which the importance of battles was no longer territory, but to reset every nation's resources. A new "Unknown Industry" brought a new set of resources, too, and even without knowing why we all just had to have them.

On Day 3118, Big Brother Admin revealed the new industry: Airplanes! And, almost as a footnote, "...even though officially, Day 3,121 is the last day of the Resource Wars, the new resources will not populate the map yet." Well, hell, we'd already elected "the Hero of the Resource Wars" as President, so he could lead the nation through the critical post-War era of getting set up and started with the whole new setup. But no, Big Brother left us hanging for a month, and so, finally, the time has come to start working with the new resources.. though still not the Airplane industry.



Holding Companies

I had a look at a few Regions pages first, to see the new pollution factors after one day, as if that'd be a true indication of a longer term picture. First thing I want to do is get my House Companies back on line, since that's how I'm able to Work a couple times a day.

Go to Community > My Country > Economy > then pick a region from the Country Resources, according to what Industry you're interested in and how many of those resources are in a particular region.

I looked at Washington and Florida, where there's four House resources, and also Alabama (sand and wood) and Arizona (sand only).


So here's Washington State. Why is there no pollution index? Well, there probably just isn't going to be any after just one day. We have no idea how many industries are up and running there, anyways-- or do we?
Look up at the top, where it shows Population. "75 Residents (25 citizens of USA)." I can only imagine 50 foreigners being in Washington State for one reason-- for the Housing industry, and they've already cranked 'em up. So at least 50, probably more, players have God only knows how many individual manufacturing companies running on day one, and there's no pollution.. yet. 

Florida has less people altogether, and less of them are foreigners, and I'm thinking it's in a more defensible position than Washington-- thinking pissed off Serbian hoardes pouring down from the Canadian tundra, versus the closed door to Spain and hopefully decent relations with Cuba.
So I moved to Florida, set up my first Holding Company-- the free one-- and promptly forgot to get a screenshot.

Here's what's next, though. Now I want to put all my House Companies into this Holding Company in Florida. They have to be individually moved, so I'm happy to have just a handful of them. I wonder if maybe one-a them fancy scripts some people run makes it so you can checkbox and move a batch at a time.


Cheap Thrills

Long as I'm in Florida, now with my first holding Company and all my House Companies in it, I'm gonna do my production clicks. Surprise! My employees have been working, getting paid-- I had thought that was frozen till I did this-- so what I'm doing is using my House Raws to get the work done.


So far, so good. Got my free Holding Company set up with all my House Companies, and got the Cheap Thrill of assigning employees and burning some Raws. Boy, lookit that-- 218% production! I'm going to have to revisit the math, and see if maybe now it'll be worth paying employees to make House Raws instead of just buying them.

So, what's next?



Piece of My Heart

I am self sustaining for Food, so let's look at creating that second Holding Company-- the one that's been advertised as costing 25 gold-- and see if I can get that production going again.

Let's first travel to Nebraska.


Same reasoning, go for the max resource bonus-- I might be sorry later, and wish I'd set up in less desireable regions, but let's just live for today and don't start regretting tomorrow ahead of time.

 
Wait, what?  
$10,434 dollars?  


That's not $25 gold. That's Yankee money. So I go to the Monetary Temple to see the money changers...



Well, that's not gonna happen.
Let's see if this gets a coherent response from Big Brother on his fabulous furry freak forums. 

 
Guess my adventure ends here, having gotten my House Companies running but not my Food. That's okay, I can work with this for now.

Well, thanks for joining me on my own journey down Plato's rabbit hole. I hope this was, if not helpful, then at least entertaining.
THERE WILL BE AN UPDATE ARTICLE LATE FRIDAY
FOLLOWUP ARTICLE WILL BE IN CUSTER'S STAND SATURDAY NIGHT

But the WHPR is not my personal rag, it's the official voice and face of The White House, so let's do some official business, okay, then we can write it off as a business expense.


Ball and Chain



Stuff happened. More stuff's gonna happen. Fight smart.

See? Business expense. See y'all on Monday!


Shout this a lot!

WHPR Weekend Edition: Cheap Thrills
Big Brother and his Holding Companies


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