Six years is a good run, is it not?
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by Wilhem Klink
Welp, the time has arrived to end the Captains of Industry's Daily Order Program.
I've been part of the Captains of Industry slave pits since September of 2012. I particpated as a pit-owner for several years helping to fund Fridays Fights and then the Daily Order Reward program until Goran retired and I took over the Daily Order program in April 2016.
We were a straight Q6 weapons production until we switched to Q7s in May of 2015 and we've produced, and distributed over 425,000 weapons.
Which brings me this announcement. The game's getting a bit stale and I'm losing interest in checking in every day, record-keeping, paying out, and trying to still have some level of enjoyment. I'm on a 3,900 day work streak and its one thing to just login, work, fight, logout but the record keeping piece is now just a grind and I often find myself forgetting to give out DO rewards or pay slaves weekly.
I'll wind the pits down and payout the remaining tanks in the next couple of months. We'll have some specials where the payouts are higher. To be clear, its not a lack of cash or employees that's driving this. Partly its that Q7s are not as important as they used to be with the advent of air battles in each round. That plays out in the slumping market price of Q7 weapons. Additionally (and mostly) I'm just lacking motivation to run this.
Pit workers.
, I'll adjust your salary to 2650cc per work, with a super-bonus Q7 payout next week and then pay no longer includes Q7s
Its been fun for most of this, but the curtain is drawing down.
Special thanks to long-term slave pit workers:
Diamond Hands (start date Dec 2014) followed the pit location when it changed from USA to Turkey to Serbia to Canada
BettyNT (start date Jan 2017)
ScottMo (Start date July 2016)
Duder ( Feb 2016 to Jan 2021) *dead citizen*
All the other pit owners over the years (at least the ones I can remember)
Goran Thrax
Joey JoJo Shabbadoo
Sally Willis
ScottMo
And the many, many folks who've donated.
Captains of Industry will continue to be a MU, just not one that distributes Q7s.
Thanks all for role-playing with us.
Wilhem Klink
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Comments
Remarkable that you've kept something going so long considering how bad this game has become.
"The game's getting a bit stale" is putting it politely to say the least.
Should have written "the game's gotten a bit stale".
I can appreciate how difficult it may be to keep introducing new elements to a simple browser game, but it really doesn't appear the Admins are trying. I dunno, maybe they are and have no clue on how to improve this thing.
X2
I'm amazed by your record keeping. 3900 days of working of continuous working is no small feat. Every time I try to keep my streak up, it breaks for one reason or another.
Shame pits are fading out of this game. Producing used to be quite difficult, but now everybody can easily afford to be self sufficient.
Thanks for the work!
Technically, today was 3,898 so I'm rounding a bit. I still remember a couple of summer vacations where I went out to the car every morning to log in via cellphone data. 3G! Took a bit before the beachhouse got wifi. Logged in from London and Paris too, but hotels had wifi by then
Definately a great run making you one of the greats I used to burn out supplying Cordis after 6months to a year.
~hyuu~
Thank you for all your efforts over these several years. ❤
I had no idea a program like even still existed. Amazing you did this, this long. The most fun I ever had in this game was when MU communes made economic sense. o7
end of an era.
now thats dedication
Good for you for keeping it going for that long. Nice to know a piece of real eCanada history endured.
This comes a little late, but thank you keeping it going for so long as it has. My interest waned a while ago and I was lucky enough to have a tool to remind me to check in but once my office blocked this site it went downhill from there.