I wasn’t being snarky about anything you wrote, clairobscur - just emphasizing that my eRepublik marketing-foo isn’t particularly noteworthy, or even necessarily adequate.
I’d like to add that it shouldn’t be a big problem if we make some mistakes. We are all new to this and it should be expected that we’ll screw up once in a while when we’re getting the hang of running a company.
I like the idea of having a mini forum too. It’ll help us be a little more organized.
I think discussions about the game in general - particularly those discussions that would get other dopers interested in playing - should be kept here at SDMB.
But the fine details of running our operation/global takeover projects can go here:
http://www.edope.info/mb/index.php
Thanks for opening the forum. I joined.
Yes, I think we should keep a thread here, but besides the forum being more convenient to share infos about the company or further operations, I suspect that at this point this thread has to be mightily boring for people who aren’t playing/involved in the company.
I wonder if we shouldn’t rather open a new thread.
Ok, I screwed up. I decided I should fight in a war, so I went to help Ukraine. Well, I fought, lost my 10 and now I can’t figure out how to use a hospital. So my health is really low. Suggestions?
In order to use a hospital you have to live in an area that has one. There are two ways to use the hospital, from the battle field there is a blue hospial link in the middle of the page. It will take you to the state screen (going directly to the page is the other way) there will be a button next to the star rating of your hospital that says heal. Click it and you will get back 10x the number of stars in wellness. Florida and New Jersey have 5 stars and California has 4.
The evening was quite intense, in eFrance.
Spain attacked Sardinia, which is the only Italian province with a Q5 hospital. eSpain being eFrance’s most hated enemy, and eItaly our closest ally, and the battle being a very close call (while most of the time it ends after 24 hours because one side has a large advantage), people in the French forum were riveted to the battle progress, commenting the points marked or lost during the last hour of the fight.
eSpain eventually won, leaving eItaly without Q5 hospital. The battle ended some minutes ago, and Spain just launched an attack in Southern France. The front in the ATLANTIS/PEACE unending war seems to have moved from Asia to Europe.
I’ve just been told that you can only use the hospital on the same day you fought (I’m assuming it’s true, don’t know for sure). Maybe that’s the problem? Did you fight yesterday and tried to use the hospital today (game time)?
The hospital in your area is Q2, and you currently have about 33 wellness. If you didn’t use it yet (and fought today), you should be able to get back to 50+ wellness (and maybe then wait for the next training in Baja or something like that). Though if you can afford a moving ticket, you’d be better off going to a state with a better hospital.
As of 3 hours ago eIndonesia signed an alliance with eItaly, which is good 'cuz there aren’t any battles going on in my country and I’m looking for a fight.
Also, the eFrench president and minister of defence being both absent, the organization of eFrance defence has devolved to the Secretary of State for conscription and military supplies. Fun times.
And something else. The amount of the expenses for the battle in Sardinia are staggering. 10 000, 20 000 gold, nobody knows for sure. That’s…40 years of our profits?? :eek:
I’ve been shown the profile of a single Spanish player who, alone, donated about 700 gold today. :eek::eek:
Thanks! I swear it wasn’t on the battlefield screen, but I found it on the state page. So I’m healthier than when I started now. Cool.
Looks like the eUSA is now allied with eSpain. I’m actually rooting for eFrance just because that’s where you are clair. Will the war run up the price of guns?
The eFrench forum is extremely active a t the moment. Quite fun, really.
I posted again because I wanted to share that :eFrench war propaganda picture (the text says “between the hammer and the anvil”)
I found that interesting mostly for the mere fact that war propaganda is produced, but actually, it really looks like mid-20th century propaganda. I’ve seen too a just published article explaining how the Spanish victory is actually a defeat , and how we’re going to beat the crap of the stupid Spaniards, but of course,it’s in French. The proposed accompanying music is from “Starship troopers”.
Another trivia about yesterday’s battle in Sardinia :
It involved 3,958 players, and 3,648,992 damages were dealt :eek:
ETA : I’ll post a weapon production cost approximation later in the day in the forum
I was just reading that a bunch of the people donating gold for Spain are temporarily banned for using fake gold. It could be interesting if some get perma banned it could devastate Spain’s army.
It seems that local wars have more of an effect than wars in Europe (fortunately,there’s an uprising in South-Africa, currently under Indonesian control). Weapon prices seems to change quite a bit and quickly. They fell below 6 IDR yesterday, and are now at about 6.30 IDR.
There are quite a lot of people moving around, but I suspect most of those are powerful fighters who don’t buy our small Q1 weapons. And probably also receive their weapons from governments, who have probably their own networks (I mentioned France sign contracts with providers, for instance) and probably also often their own factories.
In France, however, the price of Q1 weapons went through the roof . They were sold for the equivalent of 11 IDR at the beginning of the day, though the price since fell to about 7.5 IDR . I understand that French GMs stockpile weapons, waiting for an opportunity like that to sell them at high prices. I assume it’s true also for other countries, but maybe not in Indonesia, since this country seems to be in an almost permanent state of war.
Also, it would be fine if people would chime in on the forum created by Raza, since we’re yet to have decided about everything.
I was seeking for Q3 food and noticed that an Indonesian company proposed the third best price in the world, so I used eDOPE to buy 10 of it (I considered buying more, but didn’t have the cash myself for more, and didn’t know if other people would be interested by Q3 food). I reimbursed eDOPE, of course.
It costs IDR 2.97 or 0.104 gold. If someone wants to buy some, send me an ingame mail. Otherwise, I’ll just keep it, since it’s what I eat.
clairobscur, do you see much advantage in eating Q3 food, in the grand scheme? Since I’ve been fighting, I’ve not paid a whole lot of attention to my food. I typically fight until I’m in the low 40s, then hospital-up to the 90s (I have a Q5 hospital). Is 2 extra points a day worth the premium price?
Food don’t give exactly 1 wellness point/quality. The higher your wellness is, the less you gain when eating (there’s one thing that gives exactly one point/quality, and I can’t remember if it is houses or gifts). So, it’s difficult to keep a high wellness if you don’t fight.
And my circumstances are peculiar :
-There rarely are battles in France (contrarily to USA or Indonesia), so I can’t count on that to raise my wellness
-I work for a Q3 company (I got a Q1 house for cheap that’s why I’m working there+plus the owner is a very pleasant gal), so I spend a lot of wellness points.
-My employer pays more as long as my wellness is above 90 (about IDR 1.50 more), so I don’t let it drop below that while waiting for an unlikely new battle.
Actually, I eat Q2 or Q3 food, depending on the day. I was just above 90 wellness today, that’s why I wanted to buy Q3 food. In fact I hadn’t realized I could fight in Sardinia, so I actually didn’t need it. But I probably will in the future (I can stockpile it in a government’s organization if I want to eat lower quality food meanwhile).
But thinking about it, you’re right : I’m probably the only doper who needs higher quality food.