[MoF]What to do with your money ?

Day 1,661, 10:31 • Published in United Kingdom United Kingdom • by Bank of England


In erepublik you have two kinds of money: GBP and gold. Today we will look at what you can do with both of them in the hope of getting rich. The first is GBP, We all have GBP from working and selling stuff on the market and we use that GBP to buy food or weapons. This is all great but you can do some more things with your GBP! You can use it the create your very own economical empire.
With GBP you can buy the following raw material companies. Every company needs raw materials in order to produce weapons or food. In the table you can find the amount of GBP you will need to spend to build one of the companies. The raw materials you produce with the current economical bonuses of the eUK(60% on weapons and 40% on food). The current income you will get every day by selling all of the production on the market on market prices, and the Return on Investment(ROI).



As you can see from the table it’s not very smart to invest in raw materials at the moment. We have sufficient supply and the demand is still very low. It’s better to save you’re GBP instead of spending it on those kind of companies. The PBT will tell you the payback time. How many days it will take to get your investment back. So if you intend to play this game for more than a year, be my guest and invest!

Other than spending GBP you can also spend some gold. I mean a lot of gold. For a Q6 you pay around 780 gold, for a Q5 380 gold. The ROI is very low because of this and the fluctuations of the prices but in a situation where you have companies, is it useful to staff them with workers?
Let’s see. In the table you can find Q5 food and Q5/6 weapons. You can see how much raw materials you need every day for every workers(this include if you work as a manager) and how much finished products this will get you. In maximum wage you see the total income minus raw material cost, this is how much you can pay every worker without making a loss. I have also given the profit for every worker with the current wages. If wages goes up and prices go down this will change off course.



But at the moment with the current VAT and prices for food, weapons and raw materials all those companies could make profit. It’s not a lot of course but still! You can employ up to ten people and work as manager so a fully staffed Q6 weapons company can get you around 1825,2 GBP a day if you sell everything. As you can see employing people in a Q5 food is almost at the breakeven point but working as a manager i will still earn you an income of 203 GBP net daily.

If you don’t want to buy raw materials on the market you can see how many Q4 you need per worker and how much health this will cost you. For ten workers and yourself you will use 450 health to work in a fully self-sufficient Q6 weapons company.

So what advice can I give you? If you have the companies, use them. Employ people and sell products! If you just have the GBP or the gold it’s up to you. If you are a new player planning on sticking around you can think about a company. However it is a long term investment in a difficult market

Alan Hammond, Master Hofkens
Ministry of Finance