The Benefit of Self Sufficiency
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by ePocalypse
Back on day 1150, the admins had a brainwave. They decided it would be a good idea to allow managers to work in all of their companies. It caused various problems with overproduction and inequality but that’s not the reason for today’s article. One benefit that the feature did have for individuals was that with a little planning and enough funds, they could become entirely self sufficient. This article is to explain why being self sufficient is good for you and the country. I also offer you a tool to enable you to calculate your food and grain company production from manager working alone.
The main benefit of being self sufficient, of course, is that you can produce your full 300 wellness of food every day without the need to purchase food from the market. If you have the right mix of companies you can do this without any cost at all.
The further potential benefits of this are as follows:
• More fighting due to increased food supply
• More xp due to extra fights
• Quicker military ranking up due to extra fights
• More influence for your nation/allies
• Quicker ranking up in work skill due to additional working
• More money to spend on what you like (including houses - which allow you to fight even more)
• Surplus stock can be sold to get even more money
There is a downside. You won’t be buying food off the markets and you won’t be paying tax on the goods you are producing. I’m sure that won’t disappoint you but it does have an effect on government income and the demand for food in the marketplace. You can always spend your money on houses, weapons, etc. to keep the markets going and improve your citizen even further.
Personally, I think the country gains much more from the additional fighting and ranking up that self sufficiency brings, than it would from you struggling to get by and buying everything off the market daily.
Now, on to the spreadsheet I have created to help you calculate your optimum set up. I’ll start with a basic screenshot.
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It should be fairly self explanatory. There are drop down boxes for work skill, boosters and bonuses. You will also need to input the number of food and grain companies you have (or want to work out for). I have set the region bonuses to the UK figures as default and so you won’t need to change those unless your companies are in another country.
You can see how much food and grain you are producing as well as any surplus that can be sold or any deficit.
You can download the file here. It’s a .xlsx file which I have shared on mediafire. I created the spreadsheet myself tonight and assure you it is safe to download.
One thing I did overlook was that you can only choose one booster on my spreadsheet. If you use a different booster in one of the companies then the figures will be wrong. In food and grain companies, most managers seem to use the standard 10% booster anyway. Once you have downloaded the file though, you can amend it how you wish (the spreadsheet is protected to stop general users breaking formulas but there is no password so it’s easy to change).
Hope this helps some of you. If you like it, why not vote and sub?
Dan Moir.
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Voted!
But low Q products are now less efficient to produce, due to the latest update : / I'm gonna sell my Q1 weapons company to upgrade a food company to Q2.
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Thanks! Quite useful
Good informative article so voted.
The real question (that I've not seen debeated elsewhere) is what exactly do you do with the surplus goods you produce?
As they are essentially free then you can sell them off for 0.01 if you so choose but what damage is all this doing to the UK labour markets especially in consideration of the latest changes to the food sector and the coming RM production change.
Dan's the man! Thank you.
Voted like a polariod picture.
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@ Alfagrem - that's the problem but I would expect that the increased demand for weapons, houses, etc. would go some way towards keeping the labour markets going. If people don't need to buy food, they will spend their money on other things.
Not downloaded the spreadsheet, but his last spreadsheet was amazing, and so I'd highly recommend everyone who doesn't already have companies to download and use it.
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no one needs food you can join the army! But go self sufficiency! I like it. Good article.
I'm currently trying to use my companies to make profit using employees and my surplus to pay for boosters so I don't need so many companies. As we all know everytime you work as a manager it costs a fight.
Nice article Dan!
Today i produced 92 Q4 food using the standard 10% booster. That means that every day i am producing over double the amount of food i can actually eat. If i can actually sell this surplus on the markets somehow then i could use the money gained to buy weapons.
I imagine that is a big IF though.
Nice article.
Great tool, great article.
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"I created the spreadsheet myself tonight and assure you it is safe to download."
That is just silly - I don't trust you but you expect me to trust your assurance that you are indeed trustworthy.
Also, good job uploading a picture of a table (hint: you realized that uploading a picture of your article is silly) and making an .xslx file available for download (which is a bad idea unless you really, really need advanced Excel features such as pivot tables, etc, since not everyone will have the latest version of MS Excel - Google Docs or Open Document are much better choices)
Interesting article (Voted)
Great article.
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@AliceBrennan - don't download it then. Don't believe any of these people, I don't care.
Also .xlsx files will convert for older versions of excel - I checked before I uploaded it. I did my last spreadsheet on gdocs but in order for them to fill in the inputs, you have to make it editable for everyone which results in people either breaking it by accident or purposely.
I don't know what you are talking about with the picture. Seems a sensible way of showing you what the tool does so that you can see if you want to download it.
The best way si to put a locked version on google docs so people can't edit it but they can copy and save it as their own.
Voted and downloaded.
Very useful as always Dan 🙂 Thanks!