Market Update [Day 1766] Time for a Change

Day 1,766, 14:20 • Published in USA USA • by Jetsmets

Hello readers and welcome the the latest and greatest issue of the eNY Times. Here you can find out the day-to-day prices of food, weapons, currency, and jobs and how it relates to you, the reader. Today is Day 1766 and I went to the markets at 13:00. After holding steady for a looooong time, the market has finally had some change over the last 3 days. Unfortunately, it went down. Now onto the report.

Food
Q|Price|Price per HP|Change
Q1|$0.03|$0.015|-25.0%
Q2|$0.05|$0.013|-16.7%
Q3|$0.08|$0.013|-11.1%
Q4|$0.11|$0.014|-31.3%
Q5|$0.34|$0.034|-5.6%
Q6|$0.47|$0.039|-36.5%
Q7|$1.00|$0.050|-3.8%

FRM|$0.02|0.0%

Weapons
Q|Price|Price per Hit|Change
Q1|$0.80|$0.80|-5.9%
Q2|$1.06|$0.53|-15.2%
Q3|$2.29|$0.76|1.8%
Q4|$4.62|$1.16|-1.5%
Q5|$7.00|$1.88|-2.8%
Q6|$9.40|$1.57|-3.1%
Q7|$24.20|$2.42|-4.1%

WRM|$0.10|-9.1%

Money Market
Gold|$655.00|-4.1%
USD|0.002 G|0.0%

Salary
USD|$50.00|-2.0%
Gold|0.076 G|2.2%


There was a recent change in the Political Module effecting the Congressional Elections. (See previous article for details.) Now, it doesn't matter how many regions a country has in relation to stopping ATOs because citizens vote for Parties instead of individual Congress members for each region. This makes the Government's current war strategy of giving up regions useless since all the enemies of the USA are in one place, the American Freedom Alliance, a European PTO party.

From an economical standpoint the new voting system is great. Now that having more regions doesn't increase a PTO threat, the government can go back to holding 100/100 bonuses. When we went down to 80/80 bonuses food wasn't affected at all, but Weapons felt the hit immediately. All Q Weps have gone down in price continuously since Day 1752 (when we went to 80/80 bonuses.) Being back at 100/100 bonuses will mostly help newer players since they will be able to make more food and weapons for themselves. Salaries will also increase since company owners will be able to make more items per employee. That's all for now. Check back soon for another Market Update.