I’m closing in on level 5 (and hopefully I’ll get involved in some battles then and get my health up). So I should be getting to six soon and making my gold donation. After that, as soon as I get the money together, I could move wherever you guys would like and try my hand at smuggling, though someone would have to give me instructions on the basics of how it works.
I’m reluctant to do it myself, but if nobody chime in and says he will take care of that, I’ll write to them, give raises and post new offers for today. We’ve already paid to train two guys who have left now that they could began to actually produce something, and that we’ll have to replace, and there’s at least one other who can resign today if I’m not mistaken.
We really need to decide who does what.
OK my problem is that i got a little over excited.
I was getting close to begin a corporal. I had some extra gold and was buying some weapons to make it happen faster. Then I moved to Xinjiang, Indonesia to work for the company and fight more. I faied at doing the proper math and fought to many times without looking at my food stores. I had stacks of Q3 food and for got to check on my quantity.
I fought one last time without looking at my wellness. it was at 41 or something. So that dropped me to 31. I got corporal but I am now in poorish shape. I will be fine in a couple days. No big deal. If I can get to 40 I will fight and heal and chill out a bit.
clairobscur All transactions went smoothly thanks.
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I gave a raise to 2.1 IDR (the salary we’re currently offering to skill 1 candidates) to…pucko…puckosomethingmaster who’ the guy who has already worked for three days. I also wrote to him to tell him we could discuss other benefits if he wants to stay.
I also gave the same raise to RandMcNally, since he was paid less than our other employees.
I didn’t do anything else.
Hmmm…I also gave raises to a few people yesterday, based on market rates. Hopefully we’re not overcompensating them.
I see three main functions within the company:
- HR: hiring, firing, setting salaries, etc.
- Buyer: ensuring sufficient iron is on-hand; finding best prices, etc.
- Seller: putting produced items on the market.
I think others are more interested in doing the HR stuff than I am. I don’t mind being the Buyer, Seller, or both.
I don’t think so. At about 2 IDR for a skill 1, we’re making money. Besides, I used the salary you were proposing for skill level 1. Plus, the guy who joined with a skill level 3 for a salary of 1.6 IDR or somesuch (I’m wondering why he did so) probably won’t be satisfied with that and is certainly not going to stay.
Frankly, I don’t think we need to divide tasks that much. It seems to me it would be better if mostly everything was done by the same person. Or, as I proposed, a couple of people who would communicate together hence act in agreement, so that if one can’t log the other could do the job, or if one notices that there won’t be enough iron, or that there’s a good deal, or whatever, he could immediately react. ** Diosipede ** (IIRC) volunteered too, so I would vote for you and him to manage the company.
tr0psn3j (I’m sure I got it wrong again) proposed to take the human resources part. That could be a different job, since it implies negotiating with employees, offering them alternative deals and such things.
As for smuggling, since ** CapnPitt** mentioned it : as far as I can tell, at the moment, there’s no problem with selling weapons in Indonesia, especially since we don’t produce much. However, if it was possible to find buyers willing to pay more in the USA, why not? But out of my head, they’re sold for the equivalent of more than USD 11 in Indonesia. Do they cost more in the USA? Or in other countries?
Yeah, I’ll take HR. It should be fun. Also, I didn’t get around to talking to the employees last night but I have some free time at work today.
Messages sent.
I went to read them, and you already got an answer : someone wants a raise for reaching skill 1. 
I just gave him a raise. Also, is Darko_K one of us? He seems to be working for 1.6IDR and has a skill level of 3.
Yes, I noticed that. That’s the guy I was referring to above. If he’s a doper, he never stated so in this thread. And I can’t figure out why he picked this job. Maybe he clicked on “apply” by mistake? 
But I think it’s your job to investigate the matter 
My maths for yesterday .I think I took into account only the employees who worked , at the skill they had yesterday, but with the pay they had today. I also assumed Iron costing 0.46, since IIRC, it was what was paid last time. I didn’t take into account the two workers who resigned, even though I think they worked too. Since they had a skill 0, it would raise the cost a bit.
I came up with :
About 15 weapons produced (maybe Raza, who keeps the book, could say if this figure is about right?) at 4.51 IDR apiece. The production cost for each worker, excluding the two extremes (a guy who still was at skill 0, and the mysterious skill 3 worker who is paid 1.6 IDR), range from 3.94 to 5.29. About 75 Iron should have been used. ** Raza ** sold them for 6.5 to 6.7 IDR, IIRC. We should have been making money (about 1 gold) yesterday. However, adding the estimated value of the stock and what cash/gold we have, we had lost about 0.5 gold since the beginning, when I checked 12 hours ago or so, if I’m not mistaken.
Today, there are 13 workers. Even though it’s lowering productivity, I assume (complete guess) that it might be compensated by a higher production. As long as they actually work, since otherwise they produce nothing but diminish the productivity of other workers. I noticed that one worked two days ago for the last time. Maybe he should be fired, or maybe we should wait and see, or maybe he should be asked if he’s still playing/working.
A very rough estimate (I assumed everybody has 70 wellness, for instance) of the iron consumption if they all worked would be about 85. So, I think the Iron stock should be kept higher, maybe at 150-200 so that there can’t be a shortage (in case nobody buys Iron, plenty of workers work late in the evening and then early in the morning, they gain skill/wellness and produce more, etc…) resulting in workers resigning because they can’t work.
** Nicolas Bourbaki ** and **fifty-six ** donated 5 gold each yesterday.
Let me know if making/posting these computation is unneeded (for instance, if ** Raza ** is already doing the maths, there’s no point in me doing them a second time). Also, again, I think that a small forum would be a more convenient place to post this sort of things.
I did that again moments ago. We invested 55 gold. 25 were used to create the organization and the company, so we had 30 left.
Today, we have 23 gold+4.2 gold in IDR+2.6 gold in guns (estimated at 6.6 IDR)+0.6 gold in Iron (estimated at 0.46 IDR) = 30.4 gold.
So, I think we did began to make a profit. I hope we’ll keep making 1 gold/day or, hopefully, more. And that Indonesia will stand firm against Romania, so that they will keep fighting for a long time and attract customers for us.
I had forgotten : there’s also the possibility of buying an export license in a country were guns are sold for more and that has low taxes (import tax and VAT).
I bought 236 (Q1 equivalent) iron at 0.445 (Q1 equivalent), yielding a weapon materials cost of 2.225 each. That iron stock will likely last us through the weekend, but I’ll keep an eye on it. Q2 iron is consistently the best deal, with Q3 just slightly behind.
I placed our current stock of a dozen for sale at net (after tax) of 6.43; four sold immediately, and hopefully the rest will sell quickly so that our IDR balance comes back up.
I’ll look into creating a forum; it might be Saturday before it’s operational.
ETA: anyone have any experience/opinions on Google Groups? I’m not opposed to creating our own forum/pages; I’ve got plenty of Web space and installation with CPanel is a snap. But I’m wondering if others would find Google Groups preferable.
Keep up doing the updates Clair, it’s nice to know what’s going on and you seam to have your fingers into a little bit of everything.
Precisely. I’d rather not have my fingers in everything., especially in this company. I’d rather prevent conflicts of attributions, for instance, resentments or conflicting actions.
I’m willing to keep calculating costs and such, say, every two days or so, but I’d like it better if there was someone (or as I said, two persons) in charge of the actual management, so that I wouldn’t have to wonder whether I should change the selling price, raise someone or buy iron , or if someone else has planned to do so later when I look into the company.
By the way, if someone could decide at what price we could buy weapons from the company for ourselves, I’d be interested to know. For people living in Indonesia, it’s not a problem, since they can buy them at the lowest local market price anyway, but weapons are costlier in France, and perhaps also in the USA and Slovakia, so I would like to be able to buy them from eDOPE. Now, I only used three weapons since the beginning of the game (I bravely fought for the freedom of Greece and my wellness two days ago), but I, and maybe others, might need weapons more often as time passes. Especially those who envision to become mighty warriors.
Last time I looked yesterday, there was a number of unsold weapons, and almost a dozen companies were offering better prices than us, some proposing up to 70 weapons for sale. I assumed that our weapons wouldn’t sell, but when I looked this morning (French time), they were nevertheless gone.
There’s something I forgot to mention this morning : daily expenses (iron+salaries) should be about 80 IDR (2.6 gold) currently.
ETA : All weapons have already been sold, apparently.
My “marketing rationale” :dubious: is not necessarily be the cheapest price, as I really don’t want to lead the prevailing price downward if I can help it. Rather, I try to be close to the cheapest. I am willing to be #4, say, if the first 3 have relatively few items for sale.
Right now we’re not churning out a huge number of weapons, so I think it is reasonable to have things sit on the shelf for a day or so until we get our price. OTOH, it seems unproductive to quibble over hundredths of an IDR, so if dropping our price from 6.62 to 6.58 means we’re in a significantly better position, I’d probably do it.
I wasn’t criticizing your rationale. Just noting that weapons were selling much more easily than I expected. Hence that the weapons you had put on the market would probably be sold too. And they were before I finished my post.