Why work?
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by Semper5
For the last couple of days I was thinking about what was left of an economy in eRepublik. I'm trying hard to find any sense of running a company, of employing workers and even getting a job.
And whatever I do, in any way I put things, every time I get the same conclusion - it's pointless. It has no sense.
Here are my thoughts:
1. today almost everyone can start a company. Starting a company became cheap.
2. every company owner can work in his own companies, so why to pay somebody else to work if you can do it by yourself and save money for salaries.
3. why to buy products on the market if you can produce it by yourself for your needs. You need food - you produce it by yourself. You need weapon - you produce it by yourself. You need raw - you produce it by yourself.
So, why to pay someone else if you can do it by yourself. Moreover, working in your own company makes your working skill raising faster.
4. Selling products at the marketplace became unprofitable and pointless. Why to produce and sell if your income is less then production cost? It's stupid to do such thing.
So, we have a situation in which everyone is self-sufficient. Since the war module is the only functional module left, everything I need to fight I can produce by myself. I don't need others.
What is even more ridiculous - now we don't buy gold packs anymore. I used to buy gold packs in order to invest it into my business. To grow economically, since the economy module that I was interested in. But back then it had sense. Buying gold, investing it to make something bigger used to make sense. And it was fun. But now we have nothing to invest to. So, why to buy gold packs? It's a nonsense.
It is a nonsense to invest in something that will never pay off. It is nonsense to buy gold packs to recover health if we can recover it by eating food that we produced on our own. Why to buy gold packs to buy weapons if we can produce it by ourselves. Gold packs will buy a few "tanks" for tanking, but that's all.
Maybe I'm stupid, but I really don't get it. I don't understand what they are trying to achieve. I really don't...
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You should work, because if you train every day you will have a a chunk of wellness that is less than 10 but more than 5 so you may as well use 1-5 of that wellness up on a wage😁
Yes. Why ?
I don't have any employees, so I earn money no matter what. And my job pays me 5 CAD and 8 food a day. I have no worries about the economy for me. Or for my general manager, he still earns enough money from me to pay me.
either manager working or the daily limit for wellness usage needs to be eliminate in order for the game to be playable again. It really is amazing how many times the admins can get things wrong.
cyber ninja, your manager can't earn. To be more precisely, he can't make a positive profit. Not at current product prices at the marketplace. If producing cost is higher then income, that is negative profit or loss.
There will be some drastic changes in eEconomy when storage limited capacity comes in effect...🙂
S.DaN: Bad News, thats in 33/days. But that won't change anything. Because its a production layer issue, not a storage capacity issue. As long as widgets can be churned out like water and they swamp demand, prices fall.
The better solution would be if widgets had expiration dates.
wtf i like how it works now! you dont need to buy gold packs!
i can believe my eyes! youre yelling at the admins because you want to pay them your real monney!? ahahahahahahahahhahahhahahahahahhahahhhhhahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahha...
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Semper5
Please work as you now have a job with me and I will pay you a good wage. If you work at 100 health you get top CAD wage. I really do not care about my company losing money but I do need you to help pay my rent.
hits nail on head!
You were totally drunk when you wrote this.
Why don't you ask the governments to adjust taxes to make it more challenging/fun, what about the admins.
If you don't work you're a filthy redcoat.
Nice.
There is no point to work anymore. All my employees quit from my weapons plant, didnt really matter cause i was going to fire them today anyway. My bank account is bleeding money cause of the new editions. MY iron company is just holding on.
I sell my iron to buy weapons and save ~1 CAD each. I don't know what the Weapon manufacturers are thinking, selling weapons below materials cost, but there it is. I work for someone else because the poor sucker pays for enough food to regain 300 health/day.
Like you, I'm certainly not buying gold again until they transfer my export licenses from organizations to citizen, though. At the moment, I'm just hoarding gold, and I don't even know what to do with it.
When has anything the admins have done since rolling out V2 made ANY SENSE?
If we all had a dollar for every mindless change in the game sine then we could all buy an X-box or Playstation and play that instead.
Exactly. The economy has been dead since they did away with quality of goods on raw materials. I remember scrimping and saving and buying donor packs to get up to Q5 so I could start making some money.
I continue to run the company at a loss because my workers seem like ok people and there's still lots of money and not a lot for me to buy.
I get my two clicks in per day. I don't know why, except that I've come this far and don't want to let go. I nearly let my character die out because of all the changes, but I keep going for some mindless reason. But it happens everywhere; Facebook is changed so much that were it not for the profile photo, it wouldn't even resemble what I started with a couple of years ago. I guess the development geeks have to have something to give them an excuse to have a job.