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yes. Global Baby boom ! 😃

YES!!! fight against the Gold buyers and therefore limmit their effect.

Well done!

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Don't take more happy people their lives and money away... : (

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In Spain there are 16000 soldiers, and spain is the most popular country in the world \o/

I like the idea, but imagine if eRep had 1,000,000 active players, around 3 times the current amount.
It would be impossible to become a congressman, because there would be too many people.
The Media Module would be flooded with articles, such as that no new player could have a voice
MU's and Parties would lose the individual element, because it would be impossible to keep track of players individually.
It would be impossible to win a BH or CH medal with Bazookas, with too many contenders

Governments would be unable to keep up. For example, imagine our Handouts program with 3 times the number of people
Plato would eventually have to completely change the game to handle so many people.
Some of these problems, like the Congress issue, could be fixed by adding regions, but the lag between a huge BabyBoom and action by Plato would cause absolute havoc
I do think more people should play, but the game would suck with too many people.
Think about it, guys!

GameChanger: If more people play, the admins will not have to bend to the will of a FEW Gold buyers, as more people would buy Gold. The admins would then have more wriggle-room between their depters and player's needs. The game currectly has 250K odd players. Most of those are not very active.

with the aspect of congress it'll be come the players with the best manifestos who get elected as you would have to appeal to the masses to survive, yes government handouts would be harder but there would be more ppl to pull staff from and could be run more like an organisation fully

GameChanger:

- Governments would be able to keep up as more people would be playing, therefore more people would work for the governments and more people would be paying taxes.

- Plato will change the game whatever happens and 'he' will do whatever 'he' wants anyway.

I think you believe this plan will turn the world upside down. I hope to bring a couple of hundred people to the game. lol

@Chemical Chaos: But how do you get your manifesto out if there are 50 articles in the Political Analysis section. Most players would just read the top manifestos, and not bother reading the rest. The result would be that new players would have a hard time getting into congress.
@Max Blue: I get your point, but you have concede mine is true as well. Is the diluting of Gold power really worth destroying the Political, Economic, and Media modules? Do you really want to lose individuality?

one person's view of ideas would be unimportant, as they would get washed away in the masses of bourgeois doing the same thing. I thing gradual growth would be a better solution, rather than a destructive BabyBoom

GameChanger: You would have to build up a reputation and a base of followers and/or spend time canvasing voters (what people should have to be doing today).

The political scene will not be effected as that is what should currently be happening there. People SHOULD NOT be getting elected for the 'lulz' or just for the 5 Gold which is currently happening. More people would help to stop this happening.

The economic would not change as more people would mean more taxes being paid, which equals more handouts. The media module in the UK is to small and weak, people should have to work to gain acknowledgement and respect, then when you do get it, it would mean more as you have had to earn it.

Babybooms are far from destructive, they always have been the most positive things in the game.

I think you should change your name to 'StagnentGame'. 😛

@Max Blue: That was uncalled for... perhaps you should be called Angry Anarchist. (Jk)
I do think we should have more people, but an enormous Babyboom would cause enormous issues, like I said.
We all know that the Dev team at eRep is slow as %#*!, so the ensuing chaos might drive off more players in the meantime. I think that if more regions were added, and the Media Module reformed, the game could handle more players.

GameChanger: As I said I expect to bring a couple of hundred people to the game with this plan. Most probably won't stay, but I want to do something to help the game. Also bear in mind thousands and thousands join the game daily already.

More players would work out pretty well I think. There are nations far bigger in numbers but not in regions than eUK and they can handle it.
More players will give more balance who will get in the congress. I think quality would become bigger. The ones only being a biot active will not get chosen with 3 times the numbers of population there is now.

Then again you wont get into Congress if you don't want to! It will be so much more harder and well deserved! Presidential. Elections would be amazing to watch! Just think of the potential more players can bring.

I'm not sure about how the Marketplace would be affected. More people would be buying and also more people will be selling at the same time. Alliances would change as well.

The more the better I think

@Max Blue: I like your idea, of attracting a few hundred a day. I just don't like the idea of a massive,global Babyboom. I think that the more people the U.K. has the better.
I think a good article in the future would be to analyze the potential growth each nation has, including population, internet access, and finances. Some countries, like Macedonia, have already reached their potential growth. I think the U.K. has the potential to become a global superpower, if you look at the stats!

GameChanger: You have completly missed the point. If this goes well it may bring in a couple of hundred people - full stop. It may bring in as many as 30 or 40 people a month to the whole of eRepublik! XD

More people means more people to fight against the Gold buyers and therefore limit their effect
Implies new players can't buy gold. If the people that keep playing are statistically equivalent to the ones we already have playing, it won't make a diffrence, we'll only have both more tanks and more people that don't matter. - And ofcourse plato gets more money.

The only problem I see is that you are using your own referrers link, instead of the normal join link, so instead of showing that you do this only to gain members to the eSociety, you do this to gain Gold to your own account. That might be a way to fight the gold buyers, but it isn't the right way 😉

Pretty cool Max

New players would join, and a lot of them would buy gold to compete, nice idea but I don't think it would work out as you think Finest.

Too many new players reduces the bond between existing players. Imagine having loads of newspapers clamouring for attention, rather than a few we actually enjoy looking at.

If there were a million players they could increase the depth of the political/country system so that it went down to the regional level, just like in RL. Regional congresses would run local matters and national congresses would run international matters. You could even have regional news etc.

1. If there are more players and more tanks the admins will make more money and therefore are MORE likely to stop bending to the will of huge Gold buyers as they will have paid off their huge loan quicker and will then be able to build the game in a more solid, long term, less Gold buyer relient way.

2. 'New players reduce the bond between existing players.' - lol

3. Oscdar I am making a lot of effort, if I want to include my referal link, I think I am more than justified in doing so. :/

GameChanger:
"Is the diluting of Gold power really worth destroying the Political, Economic, and Media modules?"

lol....You forgot to mention the only module which is not yet destroyed...😃

And You better read some MMORPG history. Influx of new players is never bad for admins or old players -the only exception being if the influx is so large that admins restart the game (skill, experience, etc.) - and even that sometimes is good for old players in longer term.

NPP

@Danie Fox: I agree with all of your points, but these changes, like hat Danie said about local Gov., would take AGES for Plato to implement. It would require a big change in game infrastructure to bring regional matters to the table.

I just have no faith in Plato's ability to keep up with the changing demographics.

@Nakts Pieder Putniem: I agree about the history thing, but eRep is not exactly Wow or Cod here.

GameChanger

"I just have no faith in Plato's ability to keep up with the changing demographics."

Well, the worst things to the game have happened when the number of players was shrinking (exception might be eRep V2, if i remember, numberof players was still growing when it was introduced).

With all respect to the author of ths article, imo the most he can do is to find neew players in place of those who are leaving - thus keeping player base the same.

... Which would also be consistent with Yoor wishes (unchanging or slowly growing/decreasing number of players). I do not thing it is possible to get much more players to come to this game, unless it changes a lot to the good side. In most countries it already has been advertised heavily - most of those, who could potentially have joined have already done so. Another aspect - previously I and others, we were proud to advertise this game to our friends and conctacts, and defended it against...

...critique. Now I, and I know, some others, we feel guilty and bad to advertise the game to our friends knowing what has become of it...Thus I really think Your worries are ungrounded. If You do not beleive, try to get at least 20 players to join the game and stay in it actively for more than 2 weeks. You will see it won't be easy...

IMHO,
NPP

..... hes making a facebook page, not personally inviting the whole of china to come and play. no offence but it wont gather many new players, its just another way to let all the current ones talk, youre all acting like hes paying 4 billion to advertise to the world, if e republik themselves cant get up to 1million players why would a facebook page suddenly be more successful 😛 talk about making mountains out of molehills guys 😛 either way, nice idea max

In a conservative estimation, in order to have 1 million playing people, we need at least 3 million active citizens 🙂

Also , please give me a good reason for a baby to boom.