Free Market: Ridiculous Q7 Prices
Day 2,230, 04:07
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Published in South Africa 
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by Henock Haukongo
Here's the thing with Free Markets, they can decide to screw you. Sometimes this reality is lost in ideological tug of war debates, but its nevertheless, a reality.
Not too long ago, i noticed an unchecked rise in Q7 prices.
This was worrisome to me because i primarily fight with Q7 tanks (debate on why that apparently might be wrong is for another day). So i came up with an idea for a Proudly eSouth African Initiative, a government program that buys weapons from manufacturers and sells them at discounted prices. The proposed selling price was 10 ZAR. The Initiative was limited to eSA producers only.
The measure passed, but the forum admin forgot some of the laws and (single handedly) invalided the vote on the basis that as Congressional Moderator i did not have the "authority", which he later learned i did but by that time the damage was done. Despite being a moderately good idea negative propaganda picked up steam and a second vote on the initiative failed.
And lo, NOW this is happening:
Yes, those are Q7 tank weapon prices as of Day 2,230 03:04 eRep Time. Im guessing if you do not produce Q7 weapons or have some in storage, you are not going crazy shopping for some right now.
THERE IS NO REASON THESE PRICES SHOULD BE THIS HIGH
But an unchecked "Free Market" breeds a goblin mentality, self-devouring until no one is left standing. Government Regulation is not communism unless you have an IQ below 80 and therefore rely on the definition of socialism and communism Rush Limbaugh, and Glenn Beck gave you.
My father had a saying in my native language of Oshiwambo which roughly translated is
"You need not be not selfish, thats not human nature. But lost at sea, save your friend from drowning because you'll need him to distract the sharks with when you make your escape. But save him from the sharks because you'll need something to eat on the island you wash up on. But feed on the coconuts instead because you'll need an offering when the natives attack. You get the point"
Benefits of the Proudly eSouth Initiative
- Affordable Q7 prices for the populace
- Producers sell their weapons at prices they see fit, i.e. production costs + profits covered
- Limited to eSA citizens only
- Stability in the market. Prices will never be too high or too low, both producers and consumers will be happy.
We have tax reserves, we CAN afford this. We also dont need a foreign policy thats all over the place, lets identify our allies, get them to rent a region or two and use the funds to uplift our community with initiatives like these and also to fund an aggressive war against enemies who have long not respected this great nation.
Only we are holding ourselves back from achieving our potential.
Henock
Director of Communications & Information
Quick Recap: The Proudly eSouth Africa Initiative is a government program that buys Q7 weapons from eSA producers and sells them to eSA citizens at affordable prices. Read all about it on the official forums here or on eRepublik here.
Contact your Congressman to support it.
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The prices are high because they were artificially lowered by flooding the market with cheap tanks, driving down prices and further flooding the market with people constantly trying to beat eachothers already low prices.
Now supply is down and demand is high so the prices have inflated.
Stop messing with the market and this wouldn't have happened.
And as predicted and promised, both me and Niffobti cashed in by not playing the artificially lowered prices. We held our supply and waited for the bubble to burst. And now we're making booku bucks. Sure, we could lower the prices. But why? We lost money during the time we couldn't sell in your artificially lowered market and now have to make up those loses.
"artificially lowered by flooding the market with cheap tanks, driving down prices and further flooding the market with people constantly trying to beat eachothers already low prices"
"both me and Niffobti cashed in by not playing the artificially lowered prices. We held our supply and waited for the bubble to burst. And now we're making booku bucks. Sure, we could lower the prices. But why?"
Sums up the initiative's goals perfectly.
So the goal is to create a bubble that bursts and creates a market where only the rich will profit, average Q7 owners are driven out of business, and newer players aren't encouraged to upgrade their companies?
"And now we're making booku bucks. Sure, we could lower the prices. But why?"
For 2 weeks we make some mone back to cover the 50 weeks we break even. Yep ... We are the evil ones for sure.
The only person whose prices are reasonable are ChubbZilla.
So we buy the cheapest shit in Poland. My money is going out of country. Woot woot.
This is NOT good for eSA.
Its a shame thats where we have to turn to now.
This is a self inflicted gunshot wound. We could, and still can, easily point the gun somewhere else.
No, you are correct. My post was out of frustration. There simply must be a better way to do things. I do feel obligated to help those who are trying to sell at low price, like Chubzilla, i will buy local, cheapest local. But honestly hope government can come up with a plan to assist fighters to keep fighting.
Exact.
We need this money to stimulate the local economy, instead its going out of the country.
Consumers will buy wherever they find the best price, theres no reason we cant attempt to make that here.
Heading should read ... How to fcuk up a countries economy and cheat Plato out of some VISA card money. It will benefit a few and be bad for most. Insider trading is pretty much fowned upon by Plato and freinds as this cheats them out of real currency that would have been invested by ppl buying factories etc.
Who can afford to buy factories? How many 'non-cheating' Q7 producers are there in eSA right now?
Do not feed the trolls.
ppl actually spend money on this game not me, but ppl do
"How to fcuk up a countries economy and cheat Plato out of some VISA card money" I agree!!! great title, lets do THAT! erm, Except Plato already fraked the economy, can we still do the second part? lol
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