v0.27 | Keep him or fire him? A cheat sheet for owners and presidents

• Every day at 00:00 UTC each company gets 3 new job candidates. Each card shows one thing about him: one of his stats, his trait, or his training potential.

• Hiring costs 10 energy. You see his full card only after you hire him.

• He takes a wage every hour from your gold. If you cannot pay, nobody works that hour.

• Training costs 10 energy, once a day per worker. Each worker can be trained 3 to 10 times (his card shows it as training potential, e.g. 1/7).

• The same 10 energy spent working in your own company would make 3 to 6 gold. That is the real price of every hire and every training.

Open the worker's card. Next to his happiness there are two small % chips: the bonus chip (pickaxe) and the wage chip (coins).

• Daily profit on his card is what he earns you today. Green: keep him.

• Red? See how far his wage chip is above his bonus chip. Not above: keep him. Up to 20 points above: keep him and wait. More than 20: fire him.

• Example (a worker without a trait): wage +8%, bonus -4%. The wage is 12 points higher, so he starts paying in 12 days.

• Why wait? His bonus chip goes up by 1 every day for 20 days, as he gets used to the product (specialization).

• Firing is free, but the next worker costs 10 energy again.

• Half of all new workers come with one trait. You see it after hiring.

• His wage pays only for his own skill. The extra Production from a trait is free, so a good trait is pure profit.

• An ordinary worker brings you 0.37 a day. The list shows what a trait adds on top of that.

• Best in any company: Specialist, Craftsman (factories) and Laborer (raw goods). Each adds about 2.2 gold a day.

• Best in a team: Cosmopolitan, Mentor and Rival.

• Fire him or train it away: Homesick (if he works abroad) and Xenophobe (if he has foreign coworkers).

• A Loner working alone makes 2.29 gold a day. Three ordinary workers make 1.10 together.

• Never give a Loner coworkers: his bonus disappears and he becomes ordinary.

• A company holds a 2nd and 3rd worker only after the Break Room upgrade: 100 steel in total, paid once (about 198 gold). Buy it only for workers with good traits: three workers with a +3 Production trait make 7.70 a day.

• Each training shows you 3 cards. You keep one.

• Cheap worker (wage chip -20% or lower): take Production. +4 Production earns you about 29 gold a month.

• Expensive worker (wage chip +20% or higher): take Negotiation, which lowers his wage. A Production card makes him work more but also raises his wage. You keep only the gap between his bonus and his wage %: big on a cheap worker, nothing on an expensive one.

• New habit (a card) teaches him a random good trait. Most traits only work in some companies, so on average it is worth about 8 gold a month, sometimes up to 88.

• Rehab (a card) removes a bad trait. Take it when that trait is costing you.

• A manager is a player who runs your company. He adds up to +22% to your workers' production and cheers one of them up every day.

• He is paid for each point of his Management skill. Today the cheapest top manager costs 24 gold a day and adds only 1 to 3 gold a day. A weaker one costs less but adds less.

• Be a manager instead: the job pays 24 to 73 gold a day (from player level 10).

• These are the game's starting prices for managers. Check again when they change.

• On an average product an ordinary worker brings 0.37 a day. The product moves that a lot.

• Cooked fish, steak and bread pay best: about 0.9 gold a day per worker.

• Iron and steel earn a little: about 0.3 a day.

• Grain and livestock lose money, even after 20 days. Switch.

• A company in your own country (a region that was yours from the start) gets +5%, and everyone got one free company move.

Hover Daily income on your country page. Each type boosts different lines:

• Republic doubles the income from your own regions, but conquered regions pay nothing.

• Autocracy adds 25% to the income of all your regions. It also removes your congress and ministers.

• Plutocracy adds 50% to your strategic resources and 40% to the tax your workers and managers pay.

• Germany today: Republic would add 947 gold a day, Plutocracy 776, Autocracy 349. So Republic, for now. The picture shows where each number comes from.

• Conquered land changes the answer (second picture): under Republic it earns you nothing, under the other types it keeps paying.

• Plutocracy grows with the tax your workers and managers pay. Every new worker in your country adds a little.

• Each bar: how much tax a day your country must collect before Plutocracy beats Republic. The dot: what it collects today.

• Sweden passes on today's estimate, but its income tax was just cut to 0.1%, so its dot will move left. Lithuania, Venezuela, Pakistan and Croatia need nothing: Plutocracy pays them more already, thanks to conquered land or rich resources.

• When your dot passes your bar, switch. A type change is a law: congress votes for 24 hours, it costs paper, and then you wait 30 days before the next change.

• Cutting income tax moves your dot left, so you switch later. Not on the list? Use your own country page and the sums in the section above.

• An enemy attacks your land: Homeland Front. The top bonus, and your battle orders are free.

• You attack abroad: Mercenary State. Its battle orders give double the bonus, but cost double.

• Your sworn enemy: Nationalist State. The top bonus, and battle orders are cheaper.

• Helping allies: Federation. The only type with an ally bonus, and half-price orders in allies' battles.

• No bonus goes above 95% (115% in a revolt). Where several types reach it, pick the one with cheaper orders.

• Each 1% of income tax makes every worker 1 point less happy, and he works 1% less. The owners pay for that.

• The state collects the most at 20 to 22%. Above that, workers start to quit.

• Some countries cut it to 3-5% today. That keeps players richer, but at 5% the state collects less than a third of what 20% brings.

• Never go above 22%.

• The idea: allies move their companies into one Plutocracy. The game pays that country 40% extra on the tax.

• Moving costs the owners their 5% home bonus. Below 12.5% tax that loss is bigger than the extra tax.

• Example: at 20% tax, 7,000 companies with 2 workers each bring the alliance +642 gold a day.

• A Plutocracy cannot send gold to other countries. To pay its allies, the hub must change type first, and that takes 30 days.