[WAL] The Ranking that Mattered (2922)
Walhallah
Hi People of eNL, and especially a warm welcome to our new and young citizens,
The question I asked myself is, what are the best choices to make in this game. We all face many choices every day, yet we can do so little sometimes. I am slowly working towards a general view how to approach this game in an optimal way. This is very difficult, because there really is no optimal way. The optimal way would bore you to death and you would quit, being the most effective player ever. So there are tons of options you have that are trade-offs between the maximum efficiency and 'just-enough-fun-to-keep-you-playing'.
Picture this somehow as a line that starts at zero, but goes not in a two-dimensional graph, not even in a three-dimensional graph but somewhere in a complex multidimensional infinity. I have tried a little linear programming to calculate this optimal path. But I gave up. This makes my brain boil.
There are certain lessons from this exercise that I regularly share with you. These lessons are 'ingredients' that you can use to improve your own game. But they are by no means the only way, and they are by no means the optimal way to play this game (optimal including the component 'fun').
One of the most important lessons is that XP is sticky, dirty stuff. Actually, that is not true. Well, it is true because it can stop you from achieving your goals. The game presents this as a valuable asset for you. The ranking is based on XP, sometimes you get it as a reward in missions and last but certainly not least for most everything you do on a daily basis (work, train, fight etc.). Even today, the weekly challenges are a trade-off between XP incurred (albeit called 'prestige' there and cash for weapons and food versus gifts that you can obtain. (some of these gifts incite you to get even MORE prestige (XP)
To understand why XP is dirty, you should picture yourself as a young player in D1 with 0 XP. What are your ambitions? Whatever they are, you will probably need gold to accomplish those ambitions. From day 1 you will want to:
1) be able to afford weapons and food. (so you can fight and have fun, I think those are the most modest ambitions)
There are VERY limited ways to get this kind of money. Working in your own companies will earn you small change of around 5 cc per day. Working in a commune can earn you up to 45 cc (in eNL anyway), working for an employer you can find up to 25 cc per day. Then you can beg your friends for gold or supplies. But mainly you can go for achievements (medals). Here comes the catch. Some medals are not profitable (TP, MM) depending on how you play (SS) or limited to one per month (CP,Congress,HW) or just near to impossible to get when you are in D1-3 (CH, TF).
Basically there is only ONE medal that is infinitely available, fun to get and profitable, and that is BH. In order to tap into this resource you will need to be able to do a certain amount of damage on average while incurring minimal XP. For D1 you need around 200k, for D2 over 1 million and for D3 around 3-5 million. If you cannot do that kind of damage with around 10-20 clicks you have no sustainable access to this resource. THen you should DEFENITELY not rank up, because it will get only WORSE.
Im telling you this to create the right mindset, not because its the undisputed truth. If you ever want to achieve this goal in reasonable time, you will need to harvest this BH medal. And you can only succesfully do this by following an optimized path that im presenting you here. This optimal path is based on incurring little XP when you do maximum influence. In order to achieve this you will need to start training hard. That should be your first goal, to gather enough gold so you can train at 90.
When you train at 90, your strength will increase at maximum speed. If and when you hit during this time, you will gather MORE rankpoints per XP. Training hard will bring down the amount of XP you will need to trade off to get the next BH. Bringing down the amount of XP you incur will allow you to stay longer in your division and tap into this resource. Yesterday somebody stole a BH i was aiming for with 6 clicks. 6 clicks to a million damage in D2, for somebody who has lower XP than me is awesome. He will probably stay in that division a long time and already had over 500 BH medals. (1500 gold) Imagine what you can do with that kind of gold.
In order to get attention for this i am presenting you with a regular Ranking, based on XP/S. Because this is a clear indicator of how succesful you are doing in your Div. The actual indicator should probably include rankpoints (or HitQ7) but X/S is a very good, easy to understand, measure.
THE RANKING THAT MATTERS.
I want all of you not to make the mistake I made, and actually try to get up on that ladder Erep presents you. Instead, try to improve your ranking below!
For reasons why, read my previous articles.
To give you a small interpretation. (subjective and debatable, please do)
X/S 1 3 6
Mind you, D4 is added on request. For D4 this is not entirely relevant. Altho you never know when the game changes.
In fact, since the game-changing packs like Infantry Pack and the likes, with XP Annihilator, these theories are in need of updating, However the basic understanding is still required.
We also notice that there are considerably less citizens in the egov database than in former editions. Lets hope this is a fluke!
For those that are clueless what im talking about here, read for example this:
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/mijmeringen-van-een-strateeg-x-s--2308365/1/20
Added to that, there are 2 things you should keep in mind in order to benefit from this ranking:
1) top prio, enjoy the game. Dont ruin your game by sticking to wallies rules.
2) Train harder, rather than fighting less, in order to improve on the ranking and make wallie happy
Its crucial to train as hard as possible. To do that, the optimal training path is presented below.
The green cells are the optimal parth. Daily net profit is presented there. The first two fully upgraded training grounds are still profitable, while you are already incurring 30S per day. Thats actually not enough to do your DO daily. You can save this gold so you can upgrade your other traininggrounds. As soon as all 4 are upgraded you can buy a training contract 90% and you can train for a month almost cost-neutral, and you will be incurring 2700 Strength.
Regards,
Wallie, your personal drill sergeant
Dont hesitate to ask for personalized advice.
And dont forget to join BG in the process!
Comments
c+s+v some gifts?
Jammer hoor, om mij buiten te sluiten. Misschien tijd om ook mn DAF uniform maar uit te trekken.
are you in egov?
Geen idee? Ik heb wel in eerdere lijstjes gestaan van je.
de egov database heeft maar 90 NL cs nu, dat was 200 dus er missen denk ik een heleboel mensen.
Dus heb je geen goede ranking nu.
nee inderdaad niet
Ik neem aan dat dit niet met opzet is 🙂 je krijgt ten slot van rekening een beter overzicht als de opgenomen doelgroep groot is.
Maybe start using http://www.erepublik-deutschland.de/en/tools/playerrankings
Ik sta er niet in 🙁
Ha onder de 2! Das niet rot als je zag waar ik vandaan kom!!!
Great to see this article 😃
Thanks Walhallah!
Biggest problem is for new players that they have such a low possibility to get any BH medals. The second problem is now when there is dictatorships around they won't get 5gold for getting into congress. So main concern is how to motivate new players to continue beyond few days to 2 weeks??? Oh right they can buy stuff with RL money 😃 . I was judging the situation realistically when I started and understood what I can get and what not in here (if you're a free player). There are things to experience here but most new players will never get to that point (sad but true).
Other players help you a lot out here, depending how you present you're self and if you are some what active.
I know for a fact that how I fight is totally against most of the rules but for me it works since as I mentioned, know what you can or can't get out here.
Where am I? 😮
Division 1, 31,103.10 strength, 31960 XP, so X/S=1.0276
So you are between Master Goku and Goemies. 😉
Thx!
I will just ask one question, is it worth to fight at all as a beginner? Will it ever get to point that worth it?
Because I think it will take year just to get free tc upgrade or more...
How many new players will wait to start fighting over here? The fact is you can never get into the same stats as the D1 campers out here. There have been great articles about this problem lately.
My conclusion is that fighting never worth it for us new players, at best upgrading the free center and 0,19 gold one will worth. But training is only to make gold ,nothing more, not to fight. Since there are players with 100k str in D1 and supposedly there are paid packs that makes them impossible to get into higher divisions. So there are 100k str gap which only will get worse, since cant upgrade to higher grounds right now, but only after years. 5g from HW/monthly and also SS medals thats all
I tend to agree that with infantry packs screwing up the chances of new players to get BH medals, the military module might be hopeless for them...
The only reason why you do stand a chance is that that in the long run everyone's strength increases at the same rate if they have the same training grounds. If everyone gets 91.8 strength/day, then 5 years from now, everyone will have 167.5k more strength. So someone who has 100k strength now will only have 1.6 times higher strength (thus also 1.6 times higher damage). The gap gets smaller.
But notice this ridiculously high time period of 5 years I used in the calculation. At timespans that are realistic for new players to stay in this game, there is no chance in hell that you can compete fairly...
So the admins definitely need to change something.
Acceptable training ooh :3
Div 1 : X/S 1.42 Not on the list, but I came from>10. Just for the info. I'm proud to be @ 1.42!
WTF , ik besta ineens ook niet meer , zelf mn geest waart niet meer rond 🙁 en heb wel egov .....maar kom dr nooit misschien dat daarom ik er niet meer bij sta :,,,(((((((
138.584 xp
80.524 strength
think i'm on 1.72 in div 3 😃😃😃😃😃, if thats correct i'm leading div 3 finally YAAAAAAY
Ik sta er ook niet in, wel in egov.
Ik heb een X/S van 0.57 in Div 1 😃
I think if you have not fought in a while you are left off the list.
So, when we do what is needed to get a better ranking, we get no ranking at all....... Funny.
I'm sure you'll be listed next time. 😉
Walhallah needs to switch to that German erep site, mentioned by Fhaemita and his X/S ranking should be a lot more complete.
-VOTADO-
I was planning to do a similar article, then my schedule availability (and laziness did not allow me). The article is good, leads to reflection and to have an overview of how each of us is doing. I would just say that this indicator is very useful in lower divisions (D1-D2) from D3 losing its "specific weight" and D4 could say that is practically unenforceable.
Best regards and good article o7