Investing in companies - Part 5 - Weapons

Day 4,583, 11:25 • Published in Germany Germany • by plnet
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Another week has passed and today we want to take a closer look at the production of weapons.
We are again based on the current market prices, which are as follows: WRM 10.5 CC, Q1 2.9 CC, Q2 7.5 CC, Q3 14 CC, Q4 23 CC, Q5 37 CC, Q6 70 CC, Q7 120 CC. These have fallen in recent weeks and are approaching the level of early March.

As with all other branches of production, the resource bonus determines whether we can build profitable production or not.
If you look at the individual regions, you will again find regions where a resource bonus of 200% is possible. We therefore calculate 200% for all qualities in our calculation.

The investment cost for weapons are as high as those for food, so we have to invest more than 800,000 CC for Q7.



The number of employees who can be deployed is identical to that for food. However, the output is different. While we produce for food 100 pieces per employee without bonus, the production is only 10 for weapons.
We use the maximum possible number of employees again and calculate WaM and employees separately.



The cost of WaM amounts to 2 CC, which is due to the 10 EP that have to be compensated by food. With the current wage level of 2100 CC we get up to 24.000 CC in costs for Q7.

Based on the current wages and raw material costs, we get the following picture for each quality level:



In terms of revenue, we can achieve 24,000 CC with employees on Q7. If we use WaM we get to 2,400 CC.



VAT and work tax also apply:



The result of our calculations: We also get a similar picture for the production of weapons as for the other types of production. The use of employees is not worthwhile, at least as long as you take into account the current wage costs.



If we concentrate on the production with WaM, however, we get a different picture than with food. While the RoI for food was fastest at Q1, this is currently the case with weapons at Q2. But the RoI times for Q5, Q6 and Q7 also differ significantly from those for food. We are close together at Q5-Q7 with 422 to 429 days. In the field of food production, on the other hand, we have high three-digit to four-digit ROI times.

In my view, the production of weapons is therefore more worthwhile for prospective large-scale industrialists than the production of food.

Next time we will deal with the production of houses. Stay tuned!