McFarland (Q5) Hospitals for America
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by Max McFarland 2
Citizens,
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One month ago I built a Q5 Defense Systems company in New Jersey, McFarland Defense Systems, with the goal of building and donating these Q5 Defense Systems to the USA. Unfortunately, production only ran for about 11 days before Russia conquered New Jersey. I halted production shortly after the loss of New Jersey, and production will remain halted until the USA re-conquers New Jersey. Significantly, one point was clearly made: the production speed in those 11 days demonstrated that once we re-take New Jersey, I can use this company to produce and donate to the USA one Q5 Defense System roughly every 20 days. However, that is for the future, and for now I must speak of the present.
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I have just completed construction of McFarland Hospitals, a Q5 Hospitals company in Florida. My plan is simple. I will use the profits from my other organizations to fund this project. I paid for the upgrades myself, and I will pay for all raw materials myself. Citizens, I ask for your help on two fronts: (1) I need high-skill constructions workers to work at the volunteer salary of 2 USD, and (2) I need help publicizing this project however possible. At the time McFarland Defense Systems halted production, we had a worker roster with skill levels ranging from 5 through 12+; everyone working for 2 USD salaries. There men and women were patriots, and I seek similar patriots for McFarland Hospitals.
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It is my belief that we should fortify states with major populations with dual Q5 Defense Systems and Hospitals, since many of the folks loyal to those states won’t move, regardless of any fortress state strategy. Following that, we should also look at fortifying all high-resource regions. My plan is simple. I am going to make selecting this option easy for the government. I will keep building Q5 Hospitals in Florida through McFarland Hospitals, and later on Q5 Defense Systems in New Jersey through McFarland Defense Systems. Once again, to be perfectly clear, I plan to donate these products. This will be free for the government. I will cover all expenses out of pocket, in order to help provide for the collective good. I only ask for volunteer patriots to operate the factories and for help making the public aware of my project. McFarland Constructions is a non-profit organization designed to build infrastructure for the USA. If you support my goals and my project, never discount the influence of an article or a shout sending people my direction. I received zero official support recognizing McFarland Defense Systems, and yet through grassroots in-game and in-chat communication achieved a worker roster with skill levels ranging from 5+ to 12+.
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If you are curious, contact me with your questions.
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If you support me, help publicize this project: vote & subscribe; shout, message, or reference this article.
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If you support me, help find high-skill volunteer workers.
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One last note: my project is not designed to be in conflict with other efforts to build hospitals for the USA. The eUSA Red Cross is building Q1 Hospitals for low cost sale to the USA, and citizens Cynic Grim and Habraka Abrivianius have their own operation to gradually build one more Q5 Hospital for at-cost sale to the USA.
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We strive forward for the glory of our nation.
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Max McFarland 2
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Dang, I wish I had some construction skill so I could volunteer xD Voted for sure.
Great to hear this up and running once again. I should be at +5 construction in a few weeks and will join ASAP.
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http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/eusa-conquers-california-925980/1/20" target="_blank">http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/eusa[..]/1/20
Clearly youve taken care of any reservations about this I had before about this regarding your employee welfare (the issue with newbies working at a q5 shop). Best of luck to you, and i look forward to donating wood as soon as we reclaim Pennsylvania.
Voted and subscribed, I will do what I can to spread the word.
This sounds like a great idea
@ Chocolate McSkittles: Yes, regarding the newbies. I am starting this project with the plan I evolved at the last one. To start, I am offering jobs at every skill level. As the worker roster fills out, I trim down to 20 workers a day, cutting the low skill workers. I remove job offers daily that are below the skill level of my lowest worker. For those low skill workers I have at the beginning, the newbies, I help them with food, gifts, moving tickets, and advice, even well after they leave me or I fire them.
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I have unexpectedly become something of a mentor to a few dozen folks now... so this time around I am going to keep my low-skill worker phase as short as possible. It's fun helping them out, but geez it's expensive and time-consuming 🙂. The worst (best?) was when I tried operating in Russia briefly after we lost New Jersey with an unlimited employment roster of low-skilled workers, thinking to exploit the Russian newbies... it backfired, kinda. Over half of my new hires were stranded Americans. I didn't want to see them fall out of the game so I helped them out. I was spending like 2-4 gold daily giving stranded American newbies moving tickets and corresponding with lots of them providing game advice by message. Check my friends list on McFarland Constructions, it's ridiculous. All of them are former workers.
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Max McFarland 2
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/rebuilding-america-infrastructure-926729/1/20" target="_blank">http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/rebu[..]1/20
Spreading the word.
This is exactly what eAmerica needs!
As a eUSA Senator I read your article and approve this action you are taking to fortify this nation. I will forward this to all senators in the eUSA government.
You have my support Max. Well done!
I like it!
This is a great project I fully support this.
I support this project
Interesting project, and I definitely would like to speak to you about it further in the near future.
I full endorse and support this venture.
Voted and subscribed. If this were real America, you sir, would be a hero.
This is a great project and I fully support it.
Voted! Subscribed! Great project!
Voted, subscribed and shouted! Great work!
Ive got a skill 6.8 construction and would be willing to help you out. Let me know when you've got enough workers lined up. My Q5 house means i shouldn't be losing too much per day.
Good on you Max. Voted and subscribed.
Everything comes down to people and human behavior. I hope the 'game mechanics vs role play' crowd is paying attention.
This is great, i look forward to seeing how this develops
If I wasn't a Marine deployed overseas I would work for you. You're doing a good thing, keep it up.
Royamen
My manufacturing level is 3, is that high enough?
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Send me a pm if you want to by wood.
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Maxmaxx!!! Subscribed and voted.
It'll take me 49 more days to reach 5 skill, so I'm probably not who you're looking for, but I'll pass the word!
I would happily sign up for this, but I cant afford to work for 2 usd a day, sorry 😕
you are a great american sir! is there a place where people can donate to your project? perhaps that could help cover the costs of upgrading it for you
@ amko1of1: Thank you. The upgrades are already complete. I sunk 390 gold into it on Saturday to go from zero to Q5, and purchased enough wood to have a stock of over 2,000 on hand. The main thing I need is workers with construction skill; I can cover the expenses 100%. However, if you want to donate, please send any donations to the organization McFarland Constructions or the company McFarland Hospitals.
q1 hospitals are a completelt waste of time and resources.
the policy of putting dual Q5s in multiple regions will only serve to dilute the defense value of high population states, weakening our ability to defend.
people need to remember that this is a game and living in "your own state" means nothing.
also, don't forget the opporutnity of all having all these workers construct these Q5s infrastructure improvements... they aren't contributing the economy recovery due to their low wages and commensurate low tax receipts/consumption.
so, a good idea? in theory yes, in practice no. the benefit of having a large country such as ours is that we can asorb so many attacks and defeats without really feeling it in the way that countries with fewer regions can.
Sounds like some awesome ideas. Carry on good sir!
Voted and subscribed! Your plan is really great. I'd like to help, in any way I can.
I want to organize a lottery to raise Gold in order to build a Defense System and a Hospital in random regions around the world.
I will write an article about your plan and maybe I'll get some people's attention. If they don't want to play the lottery, maybe they want to volunteer working for the hospitals with 2$ per day. Good luck!
I think we showed that we don't have the population to support more than 1 fortress state at this time. This project will ensure that we have none.
@ JH Holdings Inc: Perhaps you're right. Perhaps you're taking one battle, one war, and over-generalizing it across the board; maybe we should not try to build fortress states anymore. Consider some simple facts:
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1. PEACE GC sunk ridiculous amounts of gold into blazing through our territory. Given that they put so much gold into it, of course they overcame our walls. Also, having two fortress states on the east coast offered zero protection against an invasion from the west.
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2. Our economy suffered when we lost all our companies in big production states like California, Texas, New York, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee. This gold was then used to fuel war against us. We need to protect the states that citizens choose to invest in.
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3. Regardless of our fortress state strategy, we cannot convince many people to leave their home states. With hospitals in those states, we can make them productive fighters. Right now they are wasted combat potential.
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4. We were only able to hold Florida, and we would have been better off losing Florida and immediately taking it back via resistance war, in order to cancel all the alliances arrayed against us. So, the fortress state plan failed twice over. It was right for our nation back in the day when it was first implemented, but it no longer fits. We need a new plan.
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5. Ultimately, the decision on whether or not to install new hospitals and defense systems lies with the government. I can and will produce them, and rely upon the wisdom and experience of the national leadership to decide when and where to place them, or to otherwise hold them in a strategic reserve.
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Let me know if you have any questions.
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Max McFarland 2
Voted.
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I think this is a great idea, maybe if you offered a job for 0 skill level i could help...
too bad it'll take a long time...
too bad it'll take a long time...
@ antonman: I scrub my volunteer roster daily to keep the 20 highest-productivity volunteers. This allows for more rapid construction of Q5 Hospitals. I also modify job offers daily, removing all offers below the skill level of my least skilled volunteer.
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Please take any skill level 0 job on the market; you can advance to skill level 2 in six days, and then take a job with McFarland Hospitals advancing our cause.
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Let me know if you have any questions.
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Max McFarland 2
I can't believe that I missed this article.