Best Jobs in the New World

Day 863, 14:56 • Published in USA Canada • by Buck Roger

I am writing to you live from Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, in the midst of a week-long cruise. Yet neither snow, nor sleet, nor hail, nor surf, nor margaritas on the beach will keep the articles from going through. The articles must go through!



Winners of the House Giveaway

The numbers for the giveaway were drawn by the lovely Tina Roger through a random number generator, and the houses were distributed to the lucky winners today. (You got into this drawing by responding to the offer for free Food and Gifts a while ago. There were about 1700 entries.) Here are their names.

GRAND PRIZE WINNER: Bored DEAD (random number 390)
This player received a free Q5 House.
quote: "Great, now I can never curse my luck again"

SECOND PLACE WINNER: dzonue (random number 82😎
This player received a free Q3 House.

Runner-up Winner: KwameJackson23 (random number 1504)
This player received a free Q1 House.

Runner-up Winner: Raven_547 (random number 131)
This player received a free Q1 House.

Runner-up Winner: spranker (random number 1096)
This player received a free Q1 House.

Runner-up Winner: Ivek F (random number 295)
This player received a free Q1 House.



How to Survive the Wellness Changes

I promised the readers an article on how to survive the Wellness changes. Being on vacation still, I haven't done anything very elaborate. I will save that analysis for later, when I look at the options available to business owners and policy makers.

For the worker, without any restrictions holding them from moving across country borders, the optimal solution becomes fairly obvious in short order: no matter what combination of House, Food, and Gifts you end up using, you should use the difference in the value of labor in various national economies to your full advantage. What does this mean?

In practical terms, it means that the first 5 GOLD that a player gets, at level 6, should go into an Organization, which they place somewhere that the prices are good. I recommend going to ereptools.net every day for a few days and observing the prices on Q1 Gifts, Q1 Weapons, and other items that you're likely to purchase. Once you're happy with a place that offers good availability and prices (consistency is just as important as being low; it's no good if it's only a good price a couple times a month), make your Organization there.

Then, use the following guides, your own job-hunting, and the Monetary Market in order to exploit the global economy's inefficiencies (and thank the myopic congress members everywhere who want high import taxes at all times). Make your own cocktail of Food, Gifts, and (when you can afford it) a House in order to recoup the Wellness lost to work and training.

Keep in mind rules of thumb. One such rule is that 80 wellness is what you need to fight five times and preserve your experience progression and most of your rank progression. When at around 80 Wellness, you can recover 2 Wellness with just a Q3 Food (or Q1 House and Q2 Food), and this can save you a lot over trying to maintain 100 Wellness. Gifts tend to become the best option as you lose lots of Wellness daily and/or try to maintain Wellness close to 100 daily. Review my earlier articles and the Wellness rules on the wiki.

All units are in GOLD. Income tax for the country and industry has already been deducted.
All of the following data was collected on Sunday, March 28, so keep that in mind.

Best Jobs: "EDEN-Allied" Areas







Best Jobs: "Neutral" Areas







Best Jobs: "Phoenix" Areas







You can also click these images to see the spreadsheets compiled by Tina Roger. Thank Tina! 🙂

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