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Why English? So minority of people who read my newspaper outside this abandoned place can understand what i am writing without babel fish in their eyes.
Since this is in English, but it's 4th pose... what ta hell were first 3 about?
First two were about general gaming rules applied to e-sim. Last was about past and was completely ignore-able unless you care about proper war planing in this game... That means no-one actually cared about it.
What shall this one be about? Well since it is in English, and English is rather international i'll write about...
GOLD.
What you must understand when one talks about gold is that (A) gold is universal currency in this game and (B) it is completely irrelevant how much gold you have to be successful in this game.
Let me write about "A" first.
You will ask me following: "If gold is universal currency doesn't owning it make me rich and by that alone successful?"
Well no. Wealth is not a measure of success in game unless your goal is to be rich. Success in this game is REWARDED with gold, so if you are successful you get gold not if you have gold you are successful. That means you already were having success in one form or other to get gold.
"Well it still is universal currency!" Only because we allow it to be. We might as well conduct all deals in any other currency and even stop printing that currency. So that we can control prices and inflation of world market.
"We don't do that, because for us gold is far more easier to calculate prices!" No it's not you can't even buy a single raw resource with gold unless you overpay, and yes you can calculate it out, but you calculate it from your regional currency and then decide on price. And in game market you use regional currency not gold. (I know about all trade channels I've made plenty of cash there i'm just trying to give explanation about obvious things)
So same as in real life we have assigned gold far more value than it actually has, we have done this not because gold is easy to calculate or comfortable but because we decided to do so, and yes as a result gold has become international universal currency and in some ways a measure of wealth, but not always success.
Now we switch to "b"
From previous point i said that gold is awarded for success so: "COULD it be used as a measure of success?".
Answer is NO!
First let's look at our basic success ratings(a.k.a. what we get gold for from game):
Medals!!! nothing else.
OK so let's look how can we get these medals(and thus gold), and what ways does game offer to spend gold on(no return to community ways)
=X= Getting to level 7;
=X= Getting people to join;
=X= Working and training;
=X= Finding bugs;
=X= Fighting in battles;
=X= Getting elected in to congress.
Why did i stop? Because you can get these with zero gold input from yourself. You can acquire everything you need up till this point with zero gold spent. And with, assuming you earned every single one of them, 30 gold earned! Scariest is you can gain this all within 1st month of the game, can not will.
Now let me address spend<earn gold:
=X= Newspaper.
Yup this is the only single one medal where your spent gold is actually less than earned gold.
So what do we have left?
"President" medal and "Resistance Hero" in both cases you lose more than you gain( bit of an adition in case of RH i took average RH value based on amount needed to be spent to start RW)
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Why did i write all this?
Because these 9 things are actual measure of success in this game, not your damage,since it is not success or fail it simply amount you have done, not your strength,again not a measure of success, not even amount of companies you own,this is rather arbitraly but for many it is true. Game rewards you for success by giving you gold.
However there are two cases here where you don't earn (profit<input) any gold. You actually only spend it and in both cases you are rewarded still, but this time your measure of success goes a bit beyond game mechanics, same would apply for newspapers, but in different way. You get rewarded with THANK YOU and WE OWE YOU and what ever other nonsense there is within your community which get you more supporters and more chances to advance in said comunity... What actually happens is following you spent first month, or two, acquiring gold you later spent to gain last bits of game measured success. Your rewards got you your rewards... Gess what that's a circle of granted success(assuming you get all those medals of course most people won't).
So gold is not a measurement of success it is supposed to be self rewarding system. What about being rich? Well we don't have 1 person per country(yet?) so there are large amounts of gold created for nothing
we can however for those unsuccessful(yes sadly we are) people have a system where they can discard their rewards for :
=X= Donation to country so country can produce currency;
=X= Creating a company;
=X= Buying buffs;
=X= Creating auctions where you pay twice both for creation and last bid (suggestion:do not create auctions for more than 0.01 unless you have a price margin).
However
=X= Is almost never done and is extremely cheap;
=X= Covers only 20g for q1 company and does not guaranty you profit;
=X= Is way too optional;
=X= And last one is only 1% of prices.
So given time people will accumulate gold and unless they spend it recklessly everyone will be wealthy...
Game is 520 days old let me assume that you are an average player who joined 260 days ago. That means that you have earned(at least) 240 gold (assuming you did not skip any days of training and working) and in less than 10 days you will earn 10 more gold, that's ~0.92 gold per day(please correct me if it's not 30 days anymore have been away for long time) and that's deducting:
=X= Salary;
=X= Level 7;
=X= Congressman.
3 most easy to get things (with bh you need a bit of luck but it can be done with zero gold as well)
So yes if you have "large" amounts of gold you are rich, should that be your goal in this game, sure why not there are no rules saying that that's wrong way to do it, but you might as well have zero gold and all achievements known throughout the globe and still be more successful than in this case.
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About the game:
USA as a world power? In E-Sim it is possible!
In E-Sim we have a huge, living world, which is a mirror copy of the Earth. Well, maybe not completely mirrored, because the balance of power in this virtual world looks a bit different than in real life. In E-Sim, USA does not have to be a world superpower, It can be efficiently managed as a much smaller country that has entrepreneurial citizens that support it's foundation. Everything depends on the players themselves and how they decide to shape the political map of the game.
Work for the good of your country and see it rise to an empire.
Activities in this game are divided into several modules. First is the economy as a citizen in a country of your choice you must work to earn money, which you will get to spend for example, on food or purchase of weapons which are critical for your progress as a fighter. You will work in either private companies which are owned by players or government companies which are owned by the state. After progressing in the game you will finally get the opportunity to set up your own business and hire other players. If it prospers, we can even change it into a joint-stock company and enter the stock market and get even more money in this way.
In E-Sim, international wars are nothing out of the ordinary.
Become an influential politician.
The second module is a politics. Just like in real life politics in E-Sim are an extremely powerful tool that can be used for your own purposes. From time to time there are elections in the game in which you will not only vote, but also have the ability to run for the head of the party you're in. You can also apply for congress, where once elected you will be given the right to vote on laws proposed by your fellow congress members or your president and propose laws yourself. Voting on laws is important for your country as it can shape the lives of those around you. You can also try to become the head of a given party, and even take part in presidential elections and decide on the shape of the foreign policy of a given state (for example, who to declare war on). Career in politics is obviously not easy and in order to succeed in it, you have to have a good plan and compete for the votes of voters.
You can go bankrupt or become a rich man while playing the stock market.
The international war.
The last and probably the most important module is military. In E-Sim, countries are constantly fighting each other for control over territories which in return grant them access to more valuable raw materials. For this purpose, they form alliances, they fight international wars, but they also have to deal with, for example, uprisings in conquered countries or civil wars, which may explode on their territory. You can also take part in these clashes, although you are also given the opportunity to lead a life as a pacifist who focuses on other activities in the game (for example, running a successful newspaper or selling products).
At the auction you can sell or buy your dream inventory.
E-Sim is a unique browser game. It's creators ensured realistic representation of the mechanisms present in the real world and gave all power to the players who shape the image of the virtual Earth according to their own. So come and join them and help your country achieve its full potential.
Invest, produce and sell - be an entrepreneur in E-Sim.
Take part in numerous events for the E-Sim community.
