New players : to fight or not to fight ? (TG upgrade)
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New players : to fight or not to fight ? (TG upgrade)
Should a new player fight as much as possible in his early months in eRepublik ?
To fight or not to fight, that is the question indeed.
Some older players would tend to answer no to this question, arguing that what matters the most is strength and not experience points. Fighting provides xp points, and so, the more you fight, the fastest you're levelling up. The goal of having the biggest strength as possible before to "division" up is to be able to deal more damages when you will be Division 2, having a bigger influence on rounds, and collecting more battle hero’s medals.
The downside, underlined by some others players, is that it is almost impossible to keep new players active and to not quitting the game without promoting wars, kills and fighting rewards. On a personal level, I believe that once they will have understand why not fighting while in Division 1 is important (well, important, everything is relative in eBelgium), and that reaching D2 with the biggest strength will have become a real goal, they will focus on that. Getting more involved in the community will also help fighting the possible boredom, for example by becoming a Belgian Ambassador abroad or by joining the FUN ministry… What is certain however, is that no new player should spend gold on bars to fight more ! Save your gold and save your bars, it will be useful in few months !
Moreover, new players shouldn't focus on anything else than strength because eRepublik has a crippled economy and investing gold in companies to get supplies for fighting or to try earning money is a dead-end especially when you doesn't have a large sum to invest. On the contrary, upgrading his training grounds is the better option for a new player, starting by the free one. It will allow them to gain more strength, to collect more super soldiers medals, and to be able to invest faster in the upgrade of the others training grounds. For example, the free training ground, upgraded to Q4, will provide a +20 strength/day instead of 5, thus increasing the monthly income of training (via super soldier medals) from 4.08 gold to 13.08 gold. If you also have the 0.19g training ground upgraded, you will be get +30str/day and a monthly income of 13.38 gold. You can make your own calculations on this website : Training Calculator.
But how much does it cost to upgrade it training grounds ? Normally it cost 20 gold from Q1 to Q2, 70 gold from Q1 to Q3 and 170 gold from Q1 to Q4, but once a while admins launch promotions and it cost 45% less gold to upgrade them, making it "only" 93.5 gold to have a Q4 TG. New players do earn some gold/bef via medals and job (do you have a Q1 house to be able to work twice a day ?), but it remains an important sum to invest. And as the sooner is the better, you can loan gold from the Government or from older players to be ready for the next promo ! Don't forget that there is a 10g/day limit on donations, so you should be planning it as soon as possible. Of course, you have to be trustworthy : being active every day (with Hard Worker medals) and being involved in the community helps... To repay the loan, you will have the training monthly income of 13g, plus ~7/8g from salary saving (working twice a day, seven day a week, earning 2800 bef a month minus 1160cc for 4 Q1 houses), plus 5g from one hard worker medal, which make around 25g per month of savings. Open a thread here, and make your documented request : http://www.erepbelgium.com/f14-economy.
I found today in a french government article a table made by Chortippus, which shows the expected strength a new player should have at each level in Division 1 (the strength indicated should be even higher): Level/Strength table. Let's check the development of some of our most active new players :
Healthfrite : level 23, "ideal" strength at next level : 600, actual str : 297
John Pistol : level 24, "ideal" strength at next level : 1000, actual str : 422
Elmermouth : level 24, "ideal" strength at next level : 1000, actual str : 543
Denko1 : level 25, "ideal" strength at next level : 1400, actual str : 487
bastienaikidoEC : level 25, "ideal" strength at next level : 1400, actual str : 646
DAVISTAN5100 : level 24, "ideal" strength at next level : 1000, actual str : 580
Durantax : level 23, "ideal" strength at next level : 600, actual str : 462
Everything is not lost, the situation is not that bad, but some improvements could be done !
Don’t be afraid, work twice and train daily, get more involved in the community, request a government/private loan for upgrading your training grounds ! Of course, everyone is concerned about gaining more strength, and a lot of eBelgians citizens as experienced as nogex1, Teddy beer eBE, Bobby Teuchan or Boklevski could also plan a training ground upgrade…
Let’s strengthen our nation !
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ThomasRed
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My advice to new players: Enjoy the game, no one knows until when will this game.
If you want to become a strong soldier in D1, you need to train for a year ( this is boring period ).
My thoughts exactly. The smart thing would be to only train, but then the player would have to be the kind of player who gets enjoyment out of playing the political part of the game. Which is a pity, not everyone is interested enough to only play that module for a year, and those players will quit the game rather quickly.
Whatever a player choose about fighting or not, if he plans to stay active on a daily basis, he should plan upgrading his training grounds as soon as possible, and this is also one of the focus of this article... 😉
i didn't use upgrade TG a long time, i have some regret. I will not make a new account like a lot of players. Yes the fun it's to be active in wars.
Sure Thomas shares that we can wait and make other things in this time.
But if you see my str and my rank... i prefer the fun 🙂
The game has the possibility of attracting a variety of player types, but to be honest, you'll only keep those who are interested in the more social aspect of the political module. The others only if they buy gold, or the really addicted 🙂
I prefer to fight to bypass the "boring period" however whit the recent medal changes i'll probably make an article to investigate a possible profitable way fighting, till i have done that i am temporarly on [fighting off} modus.
I mostly fight as much as i can but this indeed results in a low strenght.
I upgraded my last TG to Q4 around 2 months ago o7
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This game without fighting at least several times a month and doing only training sessions wouldn't be interesting at all.
Although without strength you can't win anything or almost anything.
So for me advice for the new players would be; invest and upgrade TC's and fight occasionally.
Ok i promise, i'll work on this 😉
Thanks for the advice
This article is really interesting, i realize that i haven't a lot of strenght and I never forget to train/work daily but i have a q2 free training ground and to enhance it, it costs gold (a lots of gold 🙁 ) and to win gold, i have to fight.. I fought a lot this few day to earn the "freedom fighter" to earn as many golds as i can. Since yesterday, i think that this archievement doesn't give golds anymore 🙁
Freedom fighters, mercenary and true patriot medals don't give gold anymore indeed. It's now 1000cc
Nice advice, I'll stop fighting so much!
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The most important is not so to don't fight that much (even if it does count), but mainly to plan upgrading your Training Grounds ! 😉
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Thomas, I am really impressed with your articles, they are very good, especially for new players! I wish Poland had such a writer for our nnewborns... Keep up the good work!
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and yes, ONLY STRENGTH is what matters!
very interesting
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Merci ThomasRed, très intéressant.
Pour le moment, je faisais pratiquement chaque jour les 25 combats de la mission de la MU. Dois je continuer ou il vaut mieux les faire un jour sur deux ou sur trois?
Tout dépend de comment tu envisages ton jeu dans quelques mois... Si tu es prêt à "sacrifier" quelque mois pour au final collecter les BHs (même en fin de D1), l'idéal est de work/train/reward avec le maximum de TG Q4 (minimum le free et le 0.19, qui ne nécessite pas de payer pour train) et basta. Maintenant un petit DO de temps en temps ne vas pas ruiner ton développement...
Missing the vital recommendation to use Guerrilla Fight to minimize experience gain while maximizing rank and prestige gains for those that prefer to fight.
Feel free to give more explanations for our readers... 😉
In short: Guerrilla Fights are the only way to lose energy without gaining experience.
You do however gain rank points, influence in battle and and prestige points.
So the benefits for the new player, even when losing:
- Rank up faster in proportion to his level (= higher rank bonus)
- Gain less experience for the same energy used
- Gain more prestige points in proportion to his level (= more weekly rewards)
- Possibility to do more damage by spending less on weapons
I dont think i have a huge option to not or to fight,
We have to get Belgium on the feet, standing tall and strong as always!