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A few things I've learned about land development.

Day 1,475, 16:58 • Published in USA USA

• by Mike Ontry

Things I have learned so far about developing land
^{Thanks to all the coaches}

1. Work hard on upgrading your town center. This is essential in being able to work in the many buildings you will have on your land and being able to fight as well.

2. Your 1^st looooong term goal should be to max out your food company to a Q5 and get 18 cattle farms($153,000 with land) to support 5 employees and yourself. Then you should work on doing the same with your weapons factory. This all should be possible without buying gold but will take a long time. I personally have spent around $20.00 real life money on gold for this game. It gave me a little boost and I don't think I will NEED to spend anymore RL money on it.

3. Always go for the Cattle Farm or the Saltpeter Mine. At this point in eRepublik's economy they are by far the best deal. They are actually cheaper than the Fishery and Aluminium Mine right now while gold is at $1000+ USD and they provide more raws. Get all the cattle farms and saltpeter mines you can before the admins fix this.

4. Never upgrade a company before an upgrade sale. Hopefully there will be another upgrade sale in the future. The drop in the discount this last time has me worried they may either stop it entirly, make it way less frequent, or drop the discount below the 44% they gave during the anniversary sale. They seem to like 30% for some reason. I'm thinking they will be dropping the discount below 44%. I'm hoping they won't change anything and keep the 50% discounts.

5. Everyone should already know this. Save as much money as you can. Use what you produce and try not to buy anything. Working in a commune may also help you save yourself from buying food or weapons. You can play the market and make a profit if the prices are right by selling your USD for gold then selling the gold for USD. If you don't really have time for that there are a couple of ebanks out there that will do this for you and give you weekly interest. Contact Tosh O'Point for Point Bank or Mr. Andrews for eCitizens Bank.

6. Make sure if you hire an employee and sell what they produce that you can't make more money off the raw materials the employee uses. I've made this mistake. Thanks to Gnilraps I've corrected this. I've also made a chart to illustrate this.

This chart does not include tax and uses our current 60% food bonuses.

^{This is food companies only. I didn't make a chart for weapon companies because they should look about the same or worse.}

I'm sure there is more that could be mentioned

Maybe these tips will help someone who is not currently receiving any coaching in this area. Can anyone else add anymore tips?

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Comments

Mister Y Day 1,475, 17:14

Agree and voted.

av khan Day 1,475, 17:26

Great info, voted.

jver1207 Day 1,475, 17:34

Good stuff!! Voted!

Unduli Day 1,475, 17:45

Ignoring the increased health cost ie less fight opportunity, any company beyond Q2 is questionable , even Q2.

Thanks to be 'never ever existed bot' and market regulations , items are nearly priced according to Q level. (if Q1 wep is X USD, Q5 is 5X and go on). So it is wiser to have plenty of Q1s instead of Q3 or more. you pay less and get same revenue. And liquidating a Q1 company is quite easier than higher Qs as constant upgrade discounts makes people reluctant about buying high Q companies.

So if you go with Q1 companies;

Pros
- Easy to liquidate
- More revenue for same gold

Cons
- Need land for each company
- More health spending for working
- Forget employing someone (actually forget it until having Q5 Wep/Food factory)

Bia Pandora Day 1,475, 18:19

Shared with the civilian MU.

Mike Ontry Day 1,475, 18:27

@Unduli - what raw material building are you using in your method? If you were using all Q1 food buildings for raws and product you would need 6 grains and 2 q1 food factories to just make over a days wage. I make 2+ days wage with just my 8 food raw buildings. Yes they may cost a lot at one time but it's still really affordable. Especially since the q4 raw is now cheaper and more efficient than a q3 raw. Just saying.

Unduli Day 1,475, 18:33

Q4 Raws with Q1 Wep/Foods. Q4 Raws are quite feasible. Enough number of Q4 Raws and Q1 factories are enough for a long while. You will just need more land and time to liquidate Q1s when upgrading.

Israel Stevens Day 1,475, 18:34

It is more profitable to buy Raw Materials from the market, than it is to have people make them for you.

Unduli Day 1,475, 18:39

Unlike raw companies, you can sell factories. So think yourself as a raw supplier but using factories to 'enrich' your product for a while.

You sell X amount of grain @0.3 USD but by a Q1 food you enrich it to something (bread) that can be sold for @0.6 USD and you can sell Q1 food in short term.

ChewChewShoe Day 1,475, 18:51

>This is food companies only. I didn't make a chart for weapon companies because they should look about the same.

Probably looks worse for weapons actually. And by that I mean that you profit by having Q5 / Q4 and lose even more with the lower qualities.

Mr Andrews Day 1,475, 18:52

Great article, thanks for mentioning my Bank

Dell Fargus Day 1,475, 18:54

It's WAY cheaper to build a bunch of Q1 and/or Q2 food companies than to upgrade one company to Q5. It's not quite as efficient -you lose 40 more wellness per day my way- but in terms as cost/benefit, 4 fights a day is nowhere near the 320 gold needed to build a Q5 food company.

Dell Fargus Day 1,475, 18:58

Above, I mean in terms of being able to supply yourself with food, not being able to eke out a profit.

Mike Ontry Day 1,475, 19:00

@Unduli - I see what you are saying. Good tip. I can keep my Q3 and build a couple of Q1s to enrich the raws while I save for the Q4 upgrade on my main company. When ready I just sell the Q1 companies for 10 gold on market. About how long will a Q1 company stay on the market?

Dell Fargus Day 1,475, 19:10

Right now, Q1 food companies are going for 10 gold. If you set the sale price for 9.99 gold, you'd probably be able to unload it in a day or two.