[President] - Oh dear... + Updates
BigAnt
** I will keep this short
Right, basically since Iain's Gov left I have temporary taken over the MoF to watch accounts until Talon returns from his sunny holiday. For those who have complained about this, well its hard luck sorry, the guys I wanted are not available this month (exams/holiday) and I will not pick a MoF who I don't 100% trust. That would be irresponsible of me and when I was elected as CP, one of my responsibilities is to monitor and protect the countries monies.
Anyway back on subject, our income has dropped drastically. Now i'm not sure when this started, mostly like after Q7 was introduced and weapon prices dropped. But the figures are worrying and it will force me into making changes. With Talon leaving as well, I have no information to carry into this month which doesn't help either but hey ho.
So coming into this month I was expecting 35/45k Daily income. This is the picture for my first 3days...
7/8/12 accounts - 22 .26 GOLD £378139 (Starting Ingame cash 8pm)
8/8/12 accounts - 22 .26 GOLD £394445 (26,306k)
9/8/12 accounts - 22 .26 GOLD £412239 (27,794k)
I really hope this is a blip, but if im being honest its not. This will hinder my plans to improve BEF supplies, continue NHS, MPP's, WRM costs and supplies for big battles this month. So Again we will start another Donation Campaign for our NHS MU, so watch out for the article or you can donate direct to BlueandEvil now.
So for those that received the first batch of Q7 weapons in the BEF yesterday, these are short lived and will be postponed for the foreseeable future until I can assess our Taxes and NHS costs etc.
AirStrikes
In short a terrible idea by the admins (their getting good at this), too expensive. For those interested it would cost us over 2million GBP to make an attack and I think poland worked theirs out at 9million + lol.
BEF
Another reminded for those in 2nd and 4th BEF, please move across into the British Expeditionary Force Count Drakula is heading this merge so if you have any question or require any assistance in moving across just send him a mail.
Like mentioned above the Q7 supplies have been halted for now, whilst I sort out our financial stability. One thing I want to make sure this month, is that our national accounts remain in good shape.
Ireland
We are now closing the war with the Irish and this will mark the end of a successful region swoop. For the coming term I will be pushing my MoHA to make it publicly known that continued RW's with Scotland and Dublin are simply a waste of our time and effort. So hopefully this will reduce the number of RW's started this month in theory...... whether that happens in reality - time will tell.
Stay tuned,
BigAnt
Comments
Carlini for MOF!
So you decided to go with Q7s before making sure we could actually afford it?
Scrap the NHS MU and dont try to compete with private MU's if you cant afford it. Massive fuck up i feel
Like I said the cost of introducing Q7 was after selling our Q6 from workers about 3/4k extra for 35% more damage.. and yes after not been giving any information regarding our accounts from the previous Gov I was under the impression like most of UK, that we gained 35k+ daily
Also I thought yesterday was a one off, but after looking at today's amount, that looks unlikely now.
It is after all common for our tax revenue to blip a day but not 2
lol gotta say I did post in the previous article providing that many Q7's would be a loss
I obviously just under-estimated by how much lol
Q7 is a government investment, yes it would cost, but to make the National Army 35% stronger, yes please
being able to afford this if we earn 35K+ daily is not a problem..
The problem is our income has halved.... :3 that's not my fault this time, just the game xD
Yet we were supplying all allied countries with Q7s yesterday for a battle of no significance with no effect on resources.
I think that waynes suggestion of looking to roll the NHS into the BEF would serve better to cut costs. what are you now supplying the BEF Bigant?
Dan it was Q6, and I never instructed them to supply for allies, that aside.
Neb and Kcrip have never supplied before, and they are learning the ways of supplying, I think its a little harsh to slap them in the face. When they are trying to help and spend their own time helping the UK.
RFeist BEF will be back on 14Q6 daily, which only costs the Gov the cost of WRM.
The last couple weeks of my term our income averaged between 28 and 40k a day. Maybe this is just a downward blip, though of course we were at war then and people were probably buying more stuff. Plus players are leaving the game every day 🙂 The thing is these figures can change so quickly that the only time they're really meaningful is the time you take them. Last month's figures would just show you a stead income.
Biggest expense is the NHS, and for the smallest benefit.
I think we need an MU dedicated to producing WRM's and I have an MU thats not doing anything. If you can find some producers send them my way if they can complete their daily orders without needing their log in health to do it.
The more health they have and the more of them there are the better it will boost our WRM's output significantly and even give the UK the WRM's it so badly needs.
As a member of the NHS MU thanks for the supplies but if the money isn't there then cutting supplies to us is an option that should be taken.
If you cut the number of tanks supplied daily it should significantly reduce costs. If needed people can always go to #MOD for supplies which are there if the battle is important enough.
As for the suggestion to disband the NHS MU, I should ignore it as it comes from someone that professes to support National MUs but has no intention of personally putting that "support" into practice by joining the BEF.
I've always found that if words and actions differ, its much safer to believe actions
NHS is by far the best program, because it increases the number of players. What about not wasting weapons in silly Irish wars? or what about importing WRM and lowering import taxes for WRM?
I didn't count our MPP cost 😃
So we a little better off , updated figures but my point still stands of this month being alot tighter
maybe a war will help the bank 😃 muwhaha
investment in a powerful army that fight in useless Irish wars is not a bright idea. Investment in real economy is, build more oil rigs, state owned or whatever, create banks, etc. q7? no thanks.
reduce national army, start national industry.
I don't think you actually understand how the game works.
People need supplies for growth. You want people leveling up for the 5% boost each time. Q7s make this much faster.
Change the structure of supplying the NHS MU.
Still give them the same amount of food but change how you distribute the weapons.
Keep it at the current Q but only give them 1 per 5 kills (capped at 5 tanks) this way it will encourage them to fight more often rather than logging on for 5 kills and getting 5 tanks the next day.
This way if they are playing the game smartly they will be getting the full benefit of the NHS & they will be completing the DO.
Sexagenarian: Looking at the state of our finances, knowing how much Iain pumped into the eUK goes to show that the NHS MU is a compete waste of time, effort and money we aint got. You guys would be better off learning to become self sufficient rather them relying on hand outs. If everyone joined the BEF the problem would be magnified. I'm not taking anything from the government, in fact my taxes pay for your tanks. I would rather the money got put to better use. I never had Q6's when...
I first started, i learned the game off my own back and quickly become self sufficient, rather then accepting hand outs why not take the time to learn and understand the game!
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/economic-program-to-ba-seven-simple-measures-to-boost-economy-in-just-two-days-2099116/1/20
Im not dropping NHS MU wayne, try you might it will not happen under my term
Ive been practically self sufficient since the start and that was before I started using my own money to buy gold for my training costs to speed up my training.
Im not sure what the rest of you are going to do but personally I think we need to seriously think about getting people producing more of their own gear and using their heads to balance both their own economics and their military strength together because you cant have one without the other.
You dont see Yin without seeing Yang simple.
If you finally get the supply to BEF going with Q7, you should try and stick to a realistic amount....providing 6 x Q7 a day is not far off supplying 14 Q6 in terms of dmg caused. and the 6 x Q7 sell for more if the worker goes down that route.
Also having supply to high in BEF just draws more people there then can be supported, which will probably end up with a non consistent supply and people quitting
Import tax also doesn't help...Private MU's tend to send their suppliers to Poland, this means selling back into the UK you get stung with a massive tax bill per unit sold that it's just not worth it.
I'd imagine this is a potential loss of some revenue
I just think education and guidance are more valuable then a log-ins worth of food and a few tanks BA, especially when we can't afford it. All i'm saying is stick D1 back into the BEF, where theres a wealth of food, tanks and information waiting to be handed out to those that can be arsed to ask and get involved with the community.
"All i'm saying is stick D1 back into the BEF"
If you think the BEF is such a good idea for D1 people are you encouraging your Navy D1 people to join? I very much doubt it. When you start doing as you say, you might be worth listening to, until then I do hope you and your hypocrisy are happy together.
as a normal citizen playing this game why is it always standard practice to slate the new administration before they have had a chance to settle in and to get things in order. and yes i know i have not been playing this game for long but have been playing games like it for years and years, you will always have the players that dabble a bit, the players who play a few times a week when they are bored, then there are the players that live for the game and spend as much time as they can playing it.
If any player want's to leave RN I have no problem with that, would I actively push our players towards another MU, of course not are you retarded? Ask any of our D1 players who have left the NHS MU which is better. Pretty sure they will say the RN. Why? Because we have enough guys to be able to give advice when needed, supplies when asked for, a place that's fun, friendly and active. Something the BEF could supply to players such as yourself. If i'm a hypocrite for wanting a better....
@ Sexagenarian No one said BEF was a good idea, just if you insist on keeping both the NHS and BEF they could be more aligned. RN has also lost a lot of it's Div 1 players to NHS....many return when they realise they stop receiving resources though lol
Sad fact is the Job market has all but died, obviously having a large impact on tax received. I can only imagine this is because Q7 owners dropped their wages to try and make a profit.
New player earning 70 GBP a day isn't buying many weps
deal for the new guys then so be it. If i'm a hypocrite for wanting to bring the new players into the wider community rather then cocooning them away then so be it. The NHS MU was set up to help retain and train new players. Not to cripple us financially, having all new guys in with the established players in my eyes is a better deal, not only for the tax payer (who pays for NHS) but for the new guy entering this god forsaken game.
Thing is, this was a very obvious mistake to make. Especially without even having two days of finance reports. It seems like a very amateur mistake and I predict that it'll be a theme throughout this term since we decided to elect someone with very little experience and a penchant for knee jerk reactions.
You know what Ive read everything here and all I see is a lot of people not listening to each others points at all. Just all of you shut the hell up and go do what your talking about.
If it succeeds on a small scale then we'll talk about putting it into a bigger scale opperation if not then you need to suck it up and appollegise to everyone who's time you've wasted reading this and I dont care if you agree to do it or not but I expect you to watch as I crash the WRM market.
There are a lot of people selling grey market these days in mass deals, loosing all that VAT must be hurting, they need to be encouraged to selling on the proper market and pay their taxes.
Thats where I intend to hit and I plan on hitting hard. If you want to help then watch for my big offer and jump in. I want to get all the horder's in one big landslide.
We need a realistic import tax rate too so people living abroad but still wanting to pay some dues can sell on UK market without 99% tax rate!!
You should publish an article on what you want to do with this:
http://www.erepublik.com/en/country/military/United-Kingdom
I've put some of my excess food in, if we fill it up we can save it up for the future - though I'm not sure when it would be worthwhile.
lol @ Chaos297 how exactly do you plan on crashing the market on your own?
It's a case of supply and demand, and simply put the demand currently out weighs supply by quite a bit
I'll put as much into the supply as I can and hopefuly catch a few of the people hoarding their stocks of WRM's out and get them to dump it all in thinking the price will drop drasticly. I.E. I intend to make the fools panic and sell off their stocks too early to make the massive profits they expect to make by hoarding.
although I didn't vote for him and have slated the minority-mandate by which he got elected, at least BigAnt has the balls to admit to an error publicly & in-game instead of slinking off to the forums like the last administration
guess my mind just got opened o7
Thats why I voted for him because I sensed qualities of a leader who could be trusted. Guess its an instinctive thing about people with ESP.
If people sell their WRM, not only will the country make money from tax, the prices of WRM will go down...
this is what i said in my paper, yet it needs to be encouraged.
Sexagenarian wrote:
"As for the suggestion to disband the NHS MU, I should ignore it as it comes from someone that professes to support National MUs but has no intention of personally putting that "support" into practice by joining the BEF."
Are you saying that people aren't entitled to comment on the NHS MU unless they are part of it?? The RN supplies 7 Q7 weapons daily (provided beginning of week) and enough wages to buy more or less enough food to complete the daily order. Are you..
implying a person should leave a self suffiencent unit to join the bankrupt NHS / BEF?
The principle of the NHS MU is good, but the cloth must be cut accordingly. The fact that most, if not all, private MUs are self supplying and financing would suggest that the private business module has merits that could be adopted at national level. BA has always seemed to be anti-MUs though and wants the control to be central.
Ergo Deus wrote:
"Thing is, this was a very obvious mistake to make. "
Indeed. If you read both BA's plans for the NHS pre-election and his first post election press releases, people mentioned the problems that have since arrived and some even pointed out that his plans would be a major loss making exercise and how did BA plan to finance it. And then when the negative things come to pass, BA is suddenly surprised.... Of course, it isn't Big Ant's fault that his grand schemes to be the...
... saviour of the army by equiping everyone with Q7 weapons and making everyone 35% stronger isn't affordable. As indicated by Big Ant, the blame falls on Ian Keer for "not been giving any information regarding our accounts from the previous Gov". The giving away of weapons to foreign nationals for pointles wars were the fault of Neb and Kcrip but they aren't to blame as they have no experience helping them. It is also the fault of the eUK citizens for not generating enough taxation for him
to spend on our behalf. It is also the fault of the Finance Minister for not advising him of the financial position so it is his fault.... And the Finance Minister is currently Big Ant of whose "one of my responsibilities is to monitor and protect the countries monies." Of course, it isn't Big Ant's fault as either the PM or Finance Minister so the fault is.... is.... is.... erm... It is Plato's fault for introducing Q7 buildings.... Yes.... it is Plato's fault... All hail Big Ant... Hooray!
BigAnt, you know I am a friendly voice. Step down the supply of Q7, and make NHS and BEF units affordable. Simple as that.