Welcome to the tenth article in my continuing series on Gold Usage, covering Days 229 to 242 (April 11th through April 24th).
Despite a World War event, overall weapon expenditures were only up 1.6% this period, increasing from 156,362g to 158,895g. While Q5 weapon usage increased by almost 20%, it was offset by lower usage of Q1 and Q3 weapons over the two week period.
Countries Ranked by Total Gold Spent on Weapons
Blue Team captain Poland increased its spending by 4.5% to almost 14,000 gold, while its red team counterpart, Lithuania, increased spending by 4.0% to 11,183g. Poland's use of 25k Q5 weapons seems noteworthy.
Thanks mostly to mmacke4 , USA continues to raise weapon spending and even managed to gain a rank with #6.
Iran has made a ridiculous leap from 15th place last period (3,959g) to 5th (6,988g). That is a 76.5% increase in spending!
Countries Ranked by Average Gold Spent on Weapons per *Active Citizen
*Active: someone who fought during this period.
South Korea remains on top by spending almost 34 gold per citizen. Malaysia is a close 2nd with 33 gold per citizen.
Greece makes an impressive 3rd place given their large population, but really their spending pattern did not change much from last period. Instead, Pakistan, Australia, Sweden, and Denmark all took a tumble, although the first two are due to significant increases in headcount.
Denmark is almost completely gone from the world stage, spending 650g total - barely more than Rec . Peru has not made the corresponding gains I had expected...
Military Units Ranked by Total Gold Spent on Weapons
Heavyweight Gloria Victis is still on top with no significant change in damage or spending from last period. Again they used more Q5 weapons (14k) than any country outside of Poland.
Citizens Ranked by Total Gold Spent on Weapons
Another day, another citizen leaderboard with Rec head and shoulders above the competition.
Most Expensive Battle
The most expensive battle was Sumatra with 4,285g worth of weapons used. That is a far cry from the usual 6k+ gold spending seen in past periods.
Obviously that is because of this:
Most Expensive World War
Yes, Secura's first World War was this period, forcing all other battles to take a break while alliances were flipped on their head and countries duked it out to the tune of 30,632 gold.
Fighters: 4,978
Q1 : 290,370
Q2 : 6,726
Q3 : 16,640
Q4 : 2,664 (where the hell did these come from???)
Q5 : 70,090
The winning Blue Team represents the following from those totals:
So, I guess the average Blue team fighter spent 6.2g and received a medkit plus a medal worth 5g. Not too bad.
I was surprised to see that less than half of the Active population participated in the battle.
Let's look at the breakdowns:
Top 30 Countries
Top 30 Military Units
Top 30 Citizens
Congratulations to Psyho , no relation to #30 EF Golub (right, XenosGV ?), for spending 192 gold on a single battle.
In closing, I do want to say that I think this will be my last bi-weekly gold update. I will try to do it at least once a month and include weapon trends. That means the next one should be at the end of May.
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