Manage your Company-Empire

Day 1,852, 11:28 • Published in Russia Germany • by eisenmutter2

all names and characters in the screenshots are completely fictional. any resemblance to citizens of erepublik living or dead is purely coincidental.

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other articles of interest
1. Trading on the Monetary Market
2. Trading on the Product-Market

well, my article Trading on the Monetary Market has shown you how to make some profit in this game. in the article Trading on the Product-Market you have learned how to trade the products you can produce and buy without losing money. in this article i want to show you how you can extend your company-empire the smart way. i would particularly like to thank Versuchskaninchen for pointing out that there are problems with this topic too...

this article is divided in two parts. first i will show you how to manage your product-companies (PC) that is food or weapon. in the second part i will show you how to manage your raw-material-companies (RMC).


1. MANAGING THE PRODUCT COMPANIES

here i will show you first the easy and quick but expensive way and then i will show you the smarter way to get a new PC. are you ready? ok lets start then:


1.1 BUILD A NEW PRODUCT COMPANY
to build a new PC you need to go to the page 'My Places'. In fig.1 you see the page and marked yellow you see the interesting part: the companies. above the companies you see:

+ = building a new company
- = sell/dissolve companies
↑ = upgrade companies

what we need now is building a company. after you push the + you choose 'factories'. there you see that you can build two different kinds of PCs: weapon or food. i will just speak of the different quality-levels because it is the same for food and weapons. you also see that building a q1-production-company will cost 10gold (g). just choose the one you want and click - now you will have a new PC in 'My Place'! but was it a good idea to build a q1-PC for 10g?


fig.1: My Places - working/manager-page



1.2 BUY A PRODUCTION COMPANY
there might be a cheaper way to get a new company. on the company-market you buy companies from other citizens. the prices are limited by the admins and as buyer (but as seller too) you are interested in the lowest possible price so i will give you a short list with the quality-level (q) and the lowest possible price on market in bold. in brackets i will give you the price you would have paid for building and upgrading the company on your own. prices for higher quality companies include 10g for q1 and are calculated for upgrades without special offers. you see the lowest possible price on the company-market is always 10% below the normal price (the highest price would be 10% higher).

q1 – 9.00g - (10)
q2 – 27.00g - (30)
q3 – 72.00g - (80)
q4 – 162.00g - (180)
q5 – 342.00g - (380)
q6 – 702.00g - (780)
q7 – 1107.00g - (1230)

so you see buying a company can be 10% cheaper then building a company and then just upgrading it. but was this the full trick?


1.3 WAIT FOR THE SPECIAL COMPANY-UPGRADE-OFFER
there is an even smarter way – that is if you want to have higher quality PCs. the usual upgrade-costs you have for a q1-company are the numbers in brackets we had above with 10g deducted. but you can save 44% of the upgrade-cost if you wait for the special offer!

example for normal upgrade to q2
if you have a q1-company and want to upgrade to q2 you pay 20g

example for special upgrade to q2
if you have a q1-company and want to upgrade to q2 you just have to pay 11,2g
if you have built the q1 for 10g your whole investment was 21,2g and this is even less then the price of an q2-company on the company-market.
but if you have bought the q1 for 9g on the market and upgraded it then with the special offer your whole investment was just 20,2g and with this even less!

all in a nutshell for product-companies (food or weapon)
- don't build product-companies
- buy your q1-product-company for 9.00g on the company-market if possible
- upgrade your companies just if there is a special offer (44% less for company-upgrades)


2. MANAGING THE RAW-MATERIAL COMPANIES

well here i want to show you how to get the best deal on raw-material-companies. there are two specific features here:
1. the costs of the RMCs are not all in gold but in currency too
2. you can't sell - and with that you also can't buy RMC


2.1 BUILD A RAW-MATERIAL COMPANY
in fig.2 you can see the screen when you try to build RMC for weapon (but it is same with foodraw-companies). the basic productivity is marked red in fig.2 and below you see the number of employees you can employ in the company. so what matters now is, that you have 5 different companies from low production on the left to high production on the right. these are the 5qualities of RMC. and so i won't refer to them with the names but with the qualitylevel you can see in fg.2. you also can see there that just q3-RMC and Q5-RMC are build with gold, 10g and 35g respectively. all the other ones are build with currency. so what does that mean?

yes! the exchange rate on the MM has a big influence on the costs of raw-material-companies! so don't just build the company with the higher productivity.

instead the first thing to do when you want to build ROCs is to take a look at the MM and then you have to decide if it is cheaper to build a company with gold or with currency.

for example with the low MM now at 1g:350cc
1 q2-RMC with basic production of 70units costs 3000cc (= 8.57g)
1 q3-RMC with nearly double production of the oil rig at 125 costs just 10g (= 3500cc)
so if you have the currency to build a q2 it would be smarter to change to currency to gold and build a q3 (same with higher quality)
with low MM (gold is worth little currency) you buy companies in gold

what if the MM goes up to say 1g:2500cc?
1 q4-RMC with basic production 175units costs 8500cc (= 3,4g)
1 q5-RMC with basic production of 250 costs 35g (= 87500cc)
so in that case if you have the gold to build 1 q5-RMC you could easily build 10 salpeter mines instead – and produce much more raw for even less money (because the costs of 10 q4 is just 34g)!!!
with high MM (gold is worth much currency) you buy companies in currency

fig.2: build raw-material companies



2.2 'BOOSTING RAW-MATERIAL COMPANIES (DISSOLVING)
here i want to show you how you can boost the RMC-productivity of companies you already have. there are two ways the first one is to upgrade a company to higher quality and with that you will have higher productivity too. and the second – yeah to downgrade one higher quality company and just build more of a lower quality.

well yeah you can't really upgrade RMCs - i know that. but you already know that the MM has a high influence on the price of the RMCs. the trick is that you dissolve companies (and get half of the buiding costs back) and build a new one in higher or more of a lower quality. i will just give you two examples for each.


A ) upgrading companies to a higher quality:

1 upgrade from currency-company to the next higher level gold-company
lets take a guy like me who has some q4-RMCs. q4 is nice no doubt but wouldn't be q5 even better? yeah it would be! so if i dissolve the q4-company i will get half of what i paid to build it. that would be 4250cc. at the moment with the MM at 1g:350cc this would be just 12,14g and not even near the price for a q5-RMC of 35g. the point to upgrade my q4 will be reached when the MM gets down to 1g:121cc. if it goes even lower i would be able to upgrade the company and i could keep some cash! well i guessi just have to wait and hope then...
btw the break even point for q2 to q3 is 1g:300cc

2 upgrade from gold-company to the next higher level currency-company
here we just can go from q3 to q4. to get the break even point here the calculation is easy: 8500cc you need for a q4 divided by 5g you get for dissolving a q3-RMC makes 1700. so if the MM reaches 1g:1700cc or even higher you can upgrade your q3-RMC to the next higher quality.


B ) downgrading companies and build many of a lower quality:

1 downgrade from currency-company to the next lower level gold-company
well lets take the first example from A) again there i said you could upgrade a q4 to q5 when the MM reaches 1g:121cc, remember? if you look at the basic production you see this will boost your raw production from 175 to 250 (difference of 75). but what if you want more?

well the 4250cc you get from dissolving the q4 would equal ~35g. and with 30g you could also buy 3 q3-RMCs with basic production of 125 each. that would be in sum 375units of raw! that's much more than you would get by upgrading to q5-RMC (with production of 250units). and with this deal you would have 5g left too.

2 downgrade from gold-company to the next lower level currency-company
now then if the MM goes up again you also can downgrade gold companies. lets say you just have a q5-RMC and the MM goes up to 1g:2500cc like in the olden days. dissolving your q5 would give you 17,5g that would equal 43750cc. with that kind of currency you could build at least 5 q4-RMCs. doing so you would boost your basic production from lousy 250units with q5 to the amount of stunning 875units (5x 175) with the q4-RMCs.


problems of downgrading are:
- the productivity of each downgraded company is lower
- working as manager in multple low instead of one high quality company will consume more of your energy
- you probably won't/shouldn't use employees because you would lose money doing that
- you lose places for employees

the last two points will probably just matter when you downgrade from q5.
note that you can't work in an unlimited number of companies if you just have 2400energy per day. that is a maximum of working 240companies a day – but you need energy for fighting too to make the daily order of your military order!!! so be careful with downgrading, please


so what have you learned

well i hope you saw the hidden potentials of company-investments. with a good buy and cheap upgrade of product-companies you can try to make money selling them on the market. easiest done by just buying q1-PCs for 9.00g and selling them for ~10g. i'm doing this all time and it works for me (1company every 10days). but don't forget you need to wait 10days before you can put a new company on market again. and don't think you can sell high quality companies quick. because of admins making a special upgrade offer every couple weeks it is even harder than in the past!

and you also have seen that an investment in raw-material-companies is not gone. you can have profits from the production and selling of raw-material and profit from upgrading and downgrading the companies depending on the mood of the MM.

have fun with your companies!


regards
eisenmutter2




abbreviations
cc - currency
g - gold
MM - monetary market
PC – product-company
RMC - raw-material-company

edit

if you want to invest smart you just should buy companies if either:
a) the produced product brings very much profit

or
b) the company is very cheap
like back then when one q4 raw was about 3gold or even less


new opportunities
note that with the new special offers on RAW-companies (30%off) you got new opportunities to save money and use it for your advantage