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As most of us have probably seen by now, our inventories are vastly different. If you own a company (or multiple companies) you will notice all the raw materials and products mixed together with 1 combined source of money. So basically, if you don't have a lot of money and you buy raw materials for 1 company, your other companies and your personal fund will go down.

Personally, I liked the separation of money. If one company experienced a loss in profits, it would be isolated to that company and the other companies wouldn't be affected. Also, it may at times be more profitable to sell raw materials from a company (iron for example) rather than to make it into a product. Well no more! Don't worry citizens of the New World, The admins are here to make everything better! Because now, oh you'll love this, if you have such a company and wish to sell iron on its own, you'll have to do it before people from your weapons company work, since it won't distinguish the iron produced from iron bought. Splendid! Also, oh this is the kicker right here, storage is limited to 1000 units.

For someone who doesn't own a company this is great. For someone who does, well they'll feel like throwing their computers out their windows onto old people walking bellow. If the average worker makes about 250 units of raw material, and you have 10 workers (like those lovely admins so graciously recommend we have) then only 4 people will be able to work and the other 6 will have to sit on their bums waiting around. So basically, you have to sit on the computer ALL DAY on erepublik to manage your companies.



The admins have come up with a way to help those companies who need more than 1000 units of storage! They will make expansions possible after day 1250 (most likely purchasable through high amounts of local currency or gold - what a shocker.)

And so you people don't think I'm joking, note the following Q&A created by the admins to help us out in these times of hardship.

(Note the annoying tone the 'Plato' uses)


"Questions and Answers

INVENTORY

Q: What happens with my inventory?
A: All the products from your inventory will be moved into the new storage.

Q: Wow! So I can now store up to 1,000 items instead of just 20 items?
A: Until Day 1,250 you will actually be able to store an unlimited number of items.
But, to answer your question, after Day 1,250 a new-born citizen will indeed be able to store 1,000 items instead of just 20 items, as it can now.

Q: Will there be any capacity extensions available?
A: It hasn't yet been reached a final form, but capacity extensions may be activated for each company.
For example, each company might increase the total storage capacity with 5,000

Q: What else will be moved into the new storage?
A: All the products and raw materials from your companies will be moved into the new storage

COMPANIES

Q: It was really hard to use the products I created. Will it now be easier?
Yes, completed goods created in the company and raws extracted in the company are directly deposited in the storage.

Q: What if, after Day 1250, I reach the storage limit?
A: If your storage is full, you will not be able to receive donations, buy from marketplace or extract raw materials.
However, you will be able to create final products in your companies, as there are less products being created than raw materials being used.

Q: How will companies be able to function if they do not have raw materials deposited in them?
A: Companies will now use raw materials directly from the storage.

Q: Thank you! I was loosing so much time with making sure all companies each have enough raws.
That reminds me, I was also loosing a lot of time investing currency...
A: Problem solved dear citizen, all currencies are now merged in one unified money account

Q: And what are the implications of the unified money account?
A: Companies use currency directly from the unified money account for paying salaries and Income Tax will be applied only to salaries, no more Income tax applied to Collect

MARKET LICENSES

Q: The Storage Facility also has the ability of putting offers on the Marketplace?
A: Yes, you will now directly be able to sell, even if you do not own a company.

Q: But won't I need a market license?
A: Everyone will receive one license for their citizenship country (citizenship at birth for new citizens, current citizenship for old citizens)

Q: And what can I sell with that license?
A: Well, dear citizen, market licenses have just been made awesome: a market license for country A will allow selling any raw material and any product of any quality in that country.

Q: What about the licenses for which I payed Gold?
A: You will receive a number (let's call it "X") of FREE licenses to assign to whatever countries you may think is best.
X = Total Number of Licenses Your Companies Now Have - Total Number of Companies You Now Have

Q: How much time will I have for deciding to what countries will I assign my free licenses?
A: Don't worry about that, you may even decide to keep certain free licenses available in order to use them for the countries that will be implemented in the future.

USED PRODUCTS

Q: Can I also sell used products?
A: No, Used Products cannot be put on-sale or donated

Q: I had several used *insert item type and quality*. Now I have only 1.
A: This new storage allows having only 1 used item of a certain quality of a certain product type.

Q: That sounds reasonable. But what happened with the other used products?
A: If you had 2 or more used products, their durability was summed and, if possible, complete products were created, remaining durability after creating complete products being assigned to only one used product.

Q: Please tell, what house will be used daily and what food will be consumed by default?
A: The House/Food with the highest quality will be used."

Unfortunately, this is reality. Are there some good things? Yeah, some. Are they outweighed by the bad things? Most certainly.

Also, don't forget, there's no more income tax for companies so a lot of governments will be experiencing a massive lack of funds. In addition, the VAT has changed. The tax % is still the same, but when you post a product price on the market, it will sell for that price. So for example, if I sell q1 food for 400 pounds, and the tax is 50%, it will sell for 400 pounds but I will only get 200 pounds out of it. (that's actually a somewhat reasonable change, but you better watch out to make sure you don't lose money.)

My companies:


That is all.

(The nature of this article and quoted text from Plato was not worthy of any pictures of hope or of lions.)

"Accepting your thanks in advance, Plato Your eRepublik Governor"
- Yeah.