Base Income:
Ok folks, it seems that some of you are rather lacking in the base income department. I realize that you are probably in a hurry to level up, that's fine if you don't care about having money to purchase military units, land, or being a really cheap sanction, (I love those last players), but realize, YOU ARE GOING TO GET PUMMELED.
Now, for those of you who do care about your base, here are some helpful hints...
Every base structure that makes money has it's minimum income that comes with the initial purchase. Then, you have three more upgrades you can make after that. The initial upgrade increases that base's income by a factor of 1.6, (i.e. if the base income is initially $1,000,000, then the first upgrade will increase it to $1,600,000), and that initial upgrade dollar amount is the increase from there on out, (it does NOT increase by a multiplier of 1.6 from there on out, it increases by that first dollar amount from there on.)
Example: Military Saloon and Sandals Resort (makes $1,000,000 per hour with NO stars)
1 star = $1.6 million/hour
2 star = $2.2 million/hour
3 star = $2.8 million/hour, (and complimentary cocktails at the Sunset Bar)
You can use that simple formula for figuring out how much any income base structure tops out at. The only difference is the amount per hour, (as they collect anywhere from 45 minutes to 24 hours depending on the structure and what kind of player you are).
Knowing that above formula, you need to then decide how often you are going to log on and collect. Can you collect every 45 minutes, (IT Center), or only every four to eight hours?
Then with that in mind, how much do you wish to earn per day? How expensive do you want to make yourself to sanction?
Below are some of the top tiered base structures for income that vary on collection times. My favorites are the IT Center, (lowest initial price for the greatest return, but you have to log on every 45 minutes), and the Nuclear Power Plant, (collect every 1.5 hours, so you get more time to relax from the game AND it actually makes more per hour than the IT Center when topped out), the NASA Facility gives you even more time off, (4.5 hours), and makes less per hour, but it frees you from the game too.
Now, I set my player up as a money earner, so I earn income faster than the other types, but it will give you a general idea of what's good for the times.
IT Center: Initial income is $1,500,000, 1 star - $2,400,000 2 star-$3,300,000 3 star-$4,200,000
(topped out, it averages $5,586,000 per hour income at 45 minute collection times per structure)
**This base structure is the cheapest to build with the second highest income per hour of all of them, BUT remember, it's only good if you can log in every 45 minutes or so...
Science Center: Initial income is $3,000,000, 1 star - $4,800,000 2 star-$6,600,000 3 star-$8,400,000
(topped out, it averages $2,800,000 per hour income at 3 hour collection times per structure)
Nuclear Power Plant: Initial income is $3,300,000, 1 star - $5,280,000 2 star-$7,260,000 3 star-$9,240,000
(topped out, it averages $6,098,400 per hour income at 1.5 hour collection times per structure)
**this is the highest income per hour base structure out there.
Nasa Facility: Initial income is $6,000,000, 1 star - $9,600,000 2 star-$13,200,000 3 star-$16,800,000
(topped out, it averages $3,733,333 per hour income at 4.5 hour collection times per structure)
Pentagon: Initial income is $9,000,000, 1 star - $14,400,000 2 star-$19,800,000 3 star-$25,200,000
(topped out, it averages $2,800,000 per hour income at 9 hour collection times per structure)
Hope this tidbit helps out for income, now for how to get those land purchases...
You can purchase land four ways, (Money, Gold, Honor Points, and Oil). All of them are initially easy to purchase, but they get progressively more expensive. So thinking about this and how things change as you level up, I'd suggest the following.
Get all the cheapies out of the way asap. Then, once you have a good initial amount of land and good bases, remember this very simple fact. As you level up, you get more honor points per battle. So don't worry about the land purchases with Honor Points till your level 200 or more for anything over 100K Honor Point Cost. It just takes too much time to collect them early due to the poor payout per battle, (unless you've got 300 Supplies).
Instead, concentrate on that Daily Bonus, collect that free gold for land purchases and get those out of the way.
Build Oil Refineries and max them out ASAP. Why? Easy, maxed out on upgrades, an Oil Refinery nets you 56,000 bbl of oil every 1.5 hours. If you have five maxed out, that's 280,000 bbl of oil every 1.5 hours. It's easy to collect if you're on often and earn those final pieces of land. And then if you get all the oil purchased land units out of the way, you can convert all but one to INCOME EARNERS! You don't have to have them as oil refineries any more and it frees up land for income to purchase either more land or units, (or if you're like me, SANCTIONS)...
That's all for now, hope this helps a little for you inexperienced players. Ask away if you have anything else you have questions about.
Machiavelli
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