[MoF]Rational Erepublik!
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by Sweet Drinker
It's tough to say what the new economy will look like.
But let me explain the line of reasoning which drove our resource choices:
New industry might be exciting and all, but it's only useful to ppl who own new industry companies. We've no idea how many of our own ppl might actually build. Would it even be useful to us? If not, do we really want to create a renter region?
Our existing population already own wpn/food companies. Even if those turn out to be bad industries in the new economy, our players already have investments made in them, so the resources will help our players no matter what, from day1.
Housing has been a poor industry in every previous version of this game. Perhaps it becomes the pillar of the new economy, but that would be a hell of a gamble for us to take. And once again, do many of us actually own housing co's? Do many of us intend to buy significant housing infrastructure to make it worth centering our economy on? Do you want to make a renter region play?
So we focused our future economy on as high a weapon bonus we could attain, and supplement our food production with whatever allotments we had remaining.
It's pragmatic, yet ambitious because wpn resources are so highly contested. I think this approach is typical of the administration: focus on what we actually have, and what we might be able to do with it.
We're very disappointed to have been blocked out of rubber. Tried so hard. But we're still trying to deliver the best we can for the community.
I'm sure everyone is aware our last resource objective is Oil, and there wont be many opportunities left to get it. If we do fail to get Oil, we will use our last resource allotment to improve our food bonus. It's far from glamorous, but is likely to improve the lives of our citizens more than some middling off-resource or a renter region play.
eLife is,
Sw33t
Finance Minister of the Empty National Bank
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Also, we like soldiers, and soldiers like guns&food.
Soldiers might like other things in the future, but they are still going to like guns anyway.
For a country of our size, with so many sabotages from other countries and even wrong fighting without caring for Irish interests from the inside, we've done the best possible job already. Many people envy Ireland in this moment.
Houses aint bad if you have full bonuses and work tickets
everything has some value.
but when you put everything on a scale together housing still looks like it hangs out on the bottom of it.
its not wrm but if you have a lot of tickets not a bad option.
not regretting our resource decisions one bit as of about 5min ago lol \o/
How about a State-runned housing scheme?
We're still sorta guessing at the upcoming economic model.
But it looks like it would be a terribly ill-advised investment for anyone to place a House Co, or a NewItem Co, inside our economy. eIrish producers of these items would want to place those Companies on the appropriate node regions of other countries.
As for Housing supply in eIreland, we'll drop the trade tariffs very low so our citizens have fairly priced access to those items available.
In rl Ireland bananas are affordable, but they come from boxes instead of trees because we just don't have the climate. We're hoping Houses and NewItems in eIreland can be like tropical fruit in RL Ireland if we encourage it with low trade tariffs.