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Mission Statement:
This paper looks back Two Hundred Days from the current date and examines the progress one citizen made over the course of his first Two Hundred Days in eRepublik. Also, there will always be at least TWO hotties in every issue.


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Two Hundred Days ago, I started Day 718 as a brand-new Sergeant with 98.29 Wellness. The night before, I had ended up at 97.77 Wellness, so I gained 0.52 Wellness overnight with Q1 food and no house. I realized I needed to get myself at least a Q1 house ASAP so I could start getting better value from my limited food budget. My plan was to remedy that today.



I had my 5 Gold I had been holding on to but not much in the way of cash - only 2.52 USD total. At that point I wasn't comfortable using the black market even though there appeared to be a brisk trade in houses, and prices advertised in the eUS forum Flea Market consistently beat those in the eRep Marketplace. It's been said that "when you ain't got nothing, you got nothing to lose", but when you just got a little you want to make sure you don't get screwed out of it - at least that was my feeling. So by default I felt I had to go with the Marketplace, since at least I knew the transaction would be safe.



Q1 homes at the time were going for about 115 USD, so some quick figuring showed I needed to convert about 2.75 G into USD (at 40 USD / 1 G) to get 110 USD. I still had to get my work in for the day to seal the deal, but finally I was able to buy my first Q1 house for 116.15 USD (or the equivalent of about 2.9 G). I was left with only 1.37 USD but still had 2.25 G, not to mention a definite boost to my eRep self-esteem.

It felt great to get off the streets.



I finished Day 718 @ 2335 eRep time (2:35 AM on November 8th 2009 irl). I was almost-but-not-quite at Level 14, so that was something to look forward to for Day 719. What I was really looking forward to was seeing what difference my first night's sleep in a Q1 house would make in my Wellness. I had gained 0.52 Wellness the night before with no house - would I gain as much as a whole point? Or maybe a point for the house plus the 0.52? Something to dream about beneath my new roof.

As always,

Go eUS!