Q4 Training Facilities. Likely?
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by Venerable
(This article doesn't currently account for the 2 strength earned daily from the +1 str/day and the 5 Str/5 days, as it is a constant, and doesn't change.)
Greetings fellow citizens,
Many of you have been wondering if Plato will be dropping a Q4 Training Center upgrade in the near future. After doing some math, here is what I have decided, and how I got there.
Let us look at the current Q3 set up, first.
By looking above, you can see that each day of full training costs 3.47 gold. The next bit of information tells us that we’re going to be using Q4 training centers. This value will then go into the next cell, which contains an equation which multiplies Q1 training centers by the Q4 value, depicting how much maximum strength can be earned. The next value holds the equation of 250 / maximum strength, showing how many days it takes to get an SS medal. The next two cells are self evident. The last cell shows how much gold is retained after earning gold from an SS medal, and subtracting training costs. In this particular picture, the formula would be:
((5/3.7) * 1)) – (1*3.74) = -2.12
This means that every single day, 2.12 gold is being lost.
In this photo, you can see how much gold is lost after 5 days, which is 10.6 gold.
Now, let’s look at potential Q4, Q5, and Q6, training facilities:
As you can see, even in a Q6 company, profits are still not being made from training. Gold is still required to come from some sort of external factor. In fact, it isn’t until a Q8 training facility, as shown below, that a profit is made.
In this one, you can see that a Q8 training facility would provide a profit of in a ratio of .13 gold/per day. So what does this mean? I take it to imply that there WILL be a Q4 training facility, eventually. Plato is still going to need gold buyers, and the initial burst at the drop of new upgrade would prove to be a nice bit of cash in his pocket.
However, what happens with these new “Upgrade Contracts?” Let’s see.
Now check that out. Even on Q3, trainers will be receiving a daily profit of 1.003 gold, if they’re utilizing the 90% discount. What does this imply for Q4 Training Centers? Let’s see what happens after 30 days.
According to the math, after 30 days, which is the duration of the contract, an excess of 43.59 gold will have been generated. However, one must remember that the contract cost 65 gold to purchase. This means that there is actually a gold change of -21.41. So even with a 90% discount, there is a decrease in gold from start to finish.
In other words, Plato is still coming out on top. While it is more likely that the Q4 will not drop until after these contracts expire, nothing can be said for certain. However, it is VERY likely that a Q4 Training Center will drop in the future. Though, I could be wrong.
Enjoy my two cents,
The Venerable One
Commander of the Holy Order
Prophet of Mitos
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nice article
Plato has always been scrutable and transparent. It's always good though when someone takes the time to do the math.
~hyuu~
Good break down of the stats. I keep seeing different numbers cited. Most say there is about 4 Gold to be saved. I wonder what they were counting differently compared to your findings of a 21 Gold loss.
I wonder how many 0.19 Gold trainers bought into the contract. Too bad we can't access eRep Lab records for some good laughs.
I bought the contract, I have all the upgrade and according to Hanibals article I'm making 28g! http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/profitability-of-training-contracts-2119161/1/20#comments
Curious how it hold up with only 1,2 + 4 centers, which is (imo) more common than all four.
Here's some reasoning for you, Code-y, although your point has little to do with my article. You aren't making 28g at all. What you ARE doing is spending 28 LESS gold on training over the span of 30 days. However, as I said, my article is about the likelihood of Q4 training centers, and how the contracts may or may not affect them, not to describe the training contracts as others have already done.
A well thought out article Venerable.
very interesting
v interesting, voted
This article assumes that the decision to implement another Q level of training centers is based on logic.
The reality is that it depends on if (or should I say when) the admins need an influx of cash. This is their business model, come up with another booster, one that will push the limits of the customers tolerance, charge more than the last one, wait long enough that the outrage dies down, repeat.
Heaven forbid you come up with a working game that generates a steady income, (aka V1).
I will buy only the q4 FREE training. The only that have a positive return in the long run.