The Economist ~ An extremely short and relevent bit of advice.
Day 1,432, 15:27
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Do not buy upgrades, half price or not, unless you have the money to go all the way to Q5.
The profitability increase Q-to-Q is about 2/3 of the profitability of a new Saltpetre. The only advantage comes at Q5 where you can hire workers/cycle workers for big profits. Upgrading to just Q2/3/4 is a waste of money. Especially the higher Qs- Q4 upgrade costs 50g and yields under 100 currency more per day from WAM. Atm that is 500 days to recoup the loss. WRM costs a fifth of that and has a higher return WAM even with dropping prices.
Ironically everyone buying gold makes the profit margin for selling gold and buying saltpetre even higher. So yeh, do it.
Iain
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I agree with u
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Good point..
You are right I knew it all the time, but new and old players just want to have a company of higher level, they don't want to stop and think, Also even q5 company is a question if it is worth managing comparing to a lot of RM companies...
to the boone!🙂 v+s
Going to Q2 might not be bad. Its just 2*Q1 cost, saves 1500 local currency for land, saves some clicks and reduces storage requirement.
Any Higher is waste until Q5
noob ; )
All hail Peace GC \o/
I told it on the first time to the people on chat they had tell me:
Im stupid...
Thanks PPL!
The problem with Raw is that the prices are very elastic and is therfore more unsafe then Q weapons and food.
agreed...
and more agreed with this:
Going to Q2 might not be bad. Its just 2*Q1 cost, saves 1500 local currency for land, saves some clicks and reduces storage requirement.
Any Higher is waste until Q5
I voted, but only if you're looking for profit. I have 2 q3 food companies and that' enough for me and my daily FF. I have no intentions to make profit from them, so it's ok for me to have q3 food company.
Weapon all under q5 are irrelevant.
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Thanks
~hyuu~
I upgraded only raw companies.
I was helped by the depreciation of the currency. So, for me this "situation" was profitable.
You should actually tell everybody that money right now lies within raws and not in Q5s.
even if you want to self supply food selling rm and buying food is more cost effective
Can't agree more
So many good points in the article and comments. Hope to introduce one more.
If the objective is to have a WQ5 in future, why not take advantage of this and all the promotions? Why should I wait to have all the gold needed for the Q5 upgrade?
I know raw Q4 companies are the best investment, but if I continue to invest in these type of companies I'll never have the gold for the WQ5... And what if everyone had made investments only in raw Q4 companies?
I think there should be a balance between raw companies and factories. We fight with food and weapons, not raws.
The trick is to make growth continuous- so it's not a steady increase of savings, but a steady increase of income. All income is in currency, so you need to translate it into gold to upgrade companies. However spending 40g on upgrading won't speed the pace of income growth a great deal, whereas buying more WAM companies will. Eventually you'll get to the point where you make several gold a day. In theory you could get to the point where you make enough to max out your gold transfer.
ישראלים:
אם לדוגמא יש לך חברת אוכל ברמה 1, ואתה עדיין לא מייצר מספיק אוכל כל יום, כדאי לך לשדרג את החברה לרמה 2.
הסיבה היא שבד"כ אתה תצטרך 10 גולד+אדמה כדי להשיג עוד 100 אוכל(+בונוסים) ע"י קניית חברת אוכל רמה 1, עכשיו אתה יכול לוותר על קניית האדמה (כי עולה לך רק 10 גולד לשדרג את החברה לרמה 2, וזה מכפיל את הייצור).
לעומת זאת, הוא צודק במקרה שבו אתה כבר מייצר מספיק אוכל ביום, ואז עדיף להמשיך במסלול הקניית חברות משאבים.
אממ... מקווה שהבנתם.
One more thing upgrading to Q2 also allows you to at a later date downgrade back to Q1 and get all your investment(10G) back.
Imagine the day admin stops buying from the market (if it ever occurs), raws will be nearly unsellable...
Imagine the day admin stops buying from the market (if it ever occurs), raws will be nearly unsellable...
in theory if u reduce the raws so much this means that t price for food/weps must go down but we have a greedy businessman so i dont think they will drop the price of weapons.
On the other hand if the bot stops to buy goods the gold price must go down (because the money flow in the economies will stay the same or fall(due to players buying firms lets say Q4 WRM) and there will be more gold in the economy, but if plato makes that this will mean that the gold will get depreciated(more gold for less money) so ppl who dont pay for gold will have a easyer way to get the gold and Plato does not want that.
If the bot ever stopped buying from the market the world economy would crash in a day. Of course the solution to that is making a better economy module, but I think what'll happen instead is the bot will just buy more 😛