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1) Days 103 - 116
2) Days 117 - 130
3) Days 131 - 144
4) Days 145 - 158
Welcome to the fifth article in my continuing series on Gold Usage, covering Days 159 to 172 (January 31st through February 13th).
Another month has gone by, which I have added to my Weapon Usage Trends.
Q5 Usage is down this month, likely due to the fact that Equipment drops are based on number of hits rather than total damage. They are still at 5%, so roughly no change since December.
Q4 Usage remains on life support at 0.33%. Despite always being the least used quality of weapon, it continues to trend downward. I blame
Q3 Usage is remarkably flat at 3% for almost 3 months. There are some people (mostly Indonesians) who only use these instead of Q1. Apparently they are the only ones, and they aren't stopping.
Q2 Usage is down dramatically to 1.5%, with no real explanation other than lack of demand. It seems to be headed for Q4 status.
Last but certainly not least, Q1 Usage is up: 56.4% of all hits are with a Q1 weapon.
Overall weapon expenditures were up 0.4% this period, rising from 124,609g to 125,123g. This could be a leveling off point or the fallout of a market recovering from an equipment-fueled spending binge. For instance, when
Countries Ranked by Total Gold Spent on Weapons
The entire top 8 remains mostly unchanged, with Greece falling from 3rd down to 5th place behind Serbia and Lithuania. Poland appears to have suffered a brutal recession, losing 116 Active Citizens (-10%) and spending 990 less gold (-8.8%) this period. Meanwhile, USA's expenses were up 7.5%, shrinking the gap between them and Poland to a mere 555g. Things are really starting to look up for the USA... I'm only kidding. They totally pillaged their Treasury in one final gasp before they expired, alledgely paying 1000's of gold to American MU's for "merc" damage. There is a large gap between them and #3 Serbia, but I would not be surprised to see a new #2 in two weeks.
Countries Ranked by Average Gold Spent on Weapons per *Active Citizen
*Active: someone who fought during this period.
Montenegro's per capita spending snapped back to reality this period, from a jaw-dropping 34.4g per citizen down to 24.6g, but they still held on to the #1 slot. Austria jumped 12 places to #2 while only gaining 2 citizens, one of whom was reported to be wearing a mighty fine hat. Let's see if he can single-handedly carry an entire Empire to economic greatness.
EDIT: I had an error in my chart that showed SK having a population of 258 instead of their actual 160. This showed them much lower on the Per Capita rank than the #3 they should have had. The 258 number actually belonged to Turkey, which was blank on the previous chart. Sorry for the mistake.
Russia jumped up 21 places to #4, due to
Military Units Ranked by Total Gold Spent on Weapons
Gloria Victis spent 723 less gold this period, allowing GUNKOSTRAD (spending unchanged) to take over the top slot. GAMA, losing a major force in
Citizens Ranked by Total Gold Spent on Weapons
Last period,
Most Expensive Battle
The most expensive battle was Alaska , Lithuania's opening attack in the invasion of the USA, with 3,497g worth of weapons used:
Q1 : 38,824
Q2 : 725
Q3 : 3,354
Q4 : 374
Q5 : 7,389
The defenders spent 162 more gold than the attackers, mostly on an extra 1,580 Q5 weapons.
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