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I want to give Canada Org's workers (who are employed at either Canada Grain or Canada Food) a pay increase beyond 10 Q5 Food. Right now, I'm not quite sure how to go about doing this.
We have two main options: (1) starting two new companies (one raw and one manufacturing) to go beyond the production of food alone; and, (2) trading our surplus Q5 Food for other products. In addition to these two options, we have sub-options regarding the type of product we should be producing/trading for.
My Commentary:
Starting two new companies costs a significant amount of gold. Although we can afford it right now, our government would lose a huge chunk of money that could go towards the operation of government, which may include some declarations of war in the future. As such, I would recommend that we find trade partners who will exchange our Q5 food for another product. Some Canadians are currently mulling over starting their own companies, and we could arrange a deal with them for a consistent supply of their product.
Regarding the type of product, I really want to hear your opinions. I did a quick calculation (using rough estimates mind you) and found that our production could be used to achieve maximum damage by trading our food for weapons rather than gifts. We could probably trade to get 10 Q2 gifts for our workers daily, which would result in a 40% increase in damage (and experience) over 10 Q5 food alone. You could get 23.75 Q1 weapons for the same price as 10 Q2 gifts, which would result in a 66.5% increase of damage (but no additional experience).
If we choose to focus on maximizing damage over all else, then we could trade away an extra 2 Q5 food per worker to get more weapons. Again, this would be less experience, but higher damage. Each worker would get 8 Q5 food. Alternatively, we could trade down to 10 Q4 food per worker to get the same number of hits (and experience) as 8 Q5 food in addition to a little more cash which could be used to buy even more weapons.
If we choose gifts, then we could do something similar to the idea above by trading down to 10 Q4 food and upgrading to 10 Q3 gifts, but that wouldn't actually be any better than 10 Q5 food and 10 Q2 gifts. I haven't done the numbers for this, but I suspect that we would not be able to make the jump from Q2 gifts to Q4 gifts (which is the only way we could increase our experience potential) without sacrificing on the food side of the equation.
Your Opinions:
As I said, I want to hear your opinions. These aren't our only options, but they're the ones I believe we should be choosing from. We can either choose to focus on gaining experience (gifts) or doing damage (weapons).
There is also the matter of whether we should start up companies to produce our supply of additional product ourselves, or trade. In this regard, I very strongly recommend the trade option at this juncture. When our per worker productivity has gone up, that's when I believe we should seriously take a look at starting new companies. Still, if you feel strongly one way or the other, let me know.
If we decide that we want to maximize damage completely, then we'd have to sacrifice some extra food so that our workers would only receive 8 Q5 food (or 10 Q4 food) but more weapons. If we were to take the weapons option, do you think we should sacrifice food supply for damage maximization?
Let me hear your comments,
- Jamada
P.S. Comments from all Canadians are appreciated, but I will only be giving weight to the opinions of Canada Org's employees to come to a decision regarding this matter - they are the ones who are being paid after all.
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