The Answer to All Our v1 Problems

Day 846, 16:10 • Published in Romania Canada • by Buck Roger
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Q5 Moving Tickets


Yes, you heard me right. Quality-5 Moving Tickets. "WTF," you say? Good question.

Wondering when the v1 economy will bottom out?

Wonder no more. Q5 Moving Tickets are the answer. As soon as we can produce enough of them to sell them a bit above 0.4 GOLD each, the Manufacture labor market will be defined in competition with Q5 Moving Tickets. The other labor market for finished goods, Constructions, is relatively healthy already. And the Land labor market has a way of distributing itself efficiently among the wars over High resources, opening and closing of companies, and migration of workers.

Wondering why the price of 0.4 GOLD for a Q5 Moving Ticket is magical?

Glad you wondered! Q5 Moving Tickets bestow 2 Wellness per use. Use five of them, and you will regain 10 Wellness. This is similar to the 2 GOLD wellness box. What are the advantages and disadvantages of each?

Wellness Box
- (disadvantage) Deletes 2 GOLD
- (disadvantage) Maximum of 40 per day
- (advantage) Less clicking
- (advantage) No company infrastructure required

5 Q5 Moving Tickets
- (advantage) Deletes the product of Manufacture labor and Oil
- (advantage) No maximum per day
- (disadvantage) More clicking
- (disadvantage) Company infrastructure required

Wondering whether this is just a pipe dream?

It isn't. The cost of Manufacture labor is already low enough in many countries to allow even private enterprise to produce Q5 Moving Tickets at a cost below 0.4 GOLD.

For example, in Romania, using ten workers for 7 RON each, at 6.5 skill and 100 Wellness, for a labor cost of 1.33 GOLD per day and raw materials cost of 0.67 GOLD per day (2 GOLD per day), a Q5 Moving Tickets company can produce 5.85 products per day. That's a cost of 0.34 GOLD each.

You may say that this is a pretty narrow margin for a Q5 company, and you may be right. However, the labor is only getting cheaper. More importantly, the benefit to the most interested parties, armies, is enormous enough that it could even move forward starting now.

Wondering how armies benefit?

Armies that are privately funded ("militias&quot😉 have a way to put their very best Manufacture labor to work in a company and produce the one thing that they have always had to procure with profits instea😛 wellness, in excess of that already allowed by Gifts, Food, a House, and the Hospital. Think of groups like the Theocrats that have great wealth and high strength people but still throw so much away in the form of Wellness boxes. The investment into Q5 Moving Tickets would pay off well.

Armies that are publicly funded have even more to gain! The tanking that governments sometimes fund can be extremely expensive. This competes with all the other expenses on the balance sheet that require hard GOLD such as the signing of MPP and the opening of battles. Instead of requiring hard GOLD funding, Q5 Moving Tickets requires the labor of Manufacture workers and the product of Oil Land workers. All of the expenses can be covered by a combination of payment in currency and taking advantage of the military's own workers.

Wondering why that matters?

Saving GOLD or deleting GOLD is the root cause of all GOLD deflation. This phenomenon is crippling the ability of governments to use the economy, taxes, and sales of government-issued currency to obtain GOLD that is oh-so-necessary for everything the governments do. By converting from deletion of GOLD for Wellness boxes over to the use of Q5 Moving Tickets, we breathe new life into the eRepublik economy.

Wondering how it solves "All" our problems?

Okay, it's a slight exaggeration. However, given how time-intensive tanking by Q5 Moving Tickets would be, relative to tanking by Wellness boxes, there is an incentive here to move the orders for tanks to strike well before the t-5 very last minute. This would allow armies to attempt to take hold of the lead in the battle earlier, thus preventing the chicken from snatching defeat out of the jaws of victory. The use of Wellness boxes could be reserved just for actual very-last-minute tanks.

Wondering whether this all becomes moot with v2 coming?

Yes and no, but mostly no. The Admin have already committed to giving us Moving Tickets that are even more viable than the current ones at high Quality. So, in fact, this move would be entirely reasonable within the framework of a v1 that will eventually change over to a new economy module.

The amount of paralysis in some people's minds over v2 is disgusting! It should not be a reason to stop making reasoned decisions just because "v2 is coming." If that were the answer to everything, we would just suspend fighting all battles except training wars and 2-click until the cows come home.

So, whenever someone complains about v1, remind them of the answer.

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Q5 Moving Tickets