Is it the end?
Day 2,254, 00:59
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by AugustusX
Hello my dear friends,
It has been a long time since I wrote an article. In fact, it's been a long time since I did very much other than two click. Christmas, is always that time of year where things get crazy and we find ourselves consumed by RL so as to no longer have the energy or time to play eRepublik. I find myself having fallen into this circumstance and I bet there are many others too.
But I fear that this time is not the same as the years gone by. It is no secret that eRepublik has been a dying game. You can blame it on the mechanics, the administration of the game, the increasingly gold reliance of the game or the lack of community or whatever. The point of this article is not to find blame, but simply to highlight the difficult circumstance we face.
Now as I said before, Christmas is a time of RL. We hang with family, we see the relatives we don't normally see and we need all the energy we can get to stop ourselves from ending up with a life sentence for having finally snapped when that one greedy relative takes the bit of turkey you were eyeing off since the plate hit the table. We celebrate a new year and put behind us the highs and lows of the previous year, whatever they be. We hang with friends, go to parties and enjoy the holidays and time when we get fat, socialise and enjoy the short lives we live.
But then the year swings back into motion. People go back to work, school, university or at least the swell of the holidays drops down. We return to life and it is at this point we again find time for our eLives. We catch up with our eFriends and we enjoy their company when time to hang with RL friends and family becomes less available. We use it to unwind the day or to break up a long evening. Whatever it may be, we come back.
But it seems to me this year has been a little less similar. It feels to me like the holidays have set in more permanently. Whether it's just me in my unique circumstance, or whether it's a feeling more widely recognised because of a common factor; being the game is just not what it used to be. I feel as if many of my friends have not returned either and therefore, eAustralia is missing a big portion of its appeal - for me at least.
So does this mark the end of a generation of eRepublik? Have the old guard and the new now old guard moved on? The names that I once saw so often now extinguished. I know a few still two click, a few have gone completely. Is it the time where many players will now not return, and instead our numbers will be filled with new players who like us, come to eRepublik throughout the year seeking a release and some sort of online easy access social network?
Either way, whatever is happening, I wish everyone here a Happy Year ahead and fun times onwards. I will still be here, 2-clicking. I may surface every now and again, and of course I will answer when called. But I think for now, whilst I love meeting new people, that I am on an outside swirl. It's time for you lads and gals to take charge and have some fun here. But my time is done for now.
Hopefully my friends who are still out there will surface later and we will re-unite again.
It has been a long time since I wrote an article. In fact, it's been a long time since I did very much other than two click. Christmas, is always that time of year where things get crazy and we find ourselves consumed by RL so as to no longer have the energy or time to play eRepublik. I find myself having fallen into this circumstance and I bet there are many others too.
But I fear that this time is not the same as the years gone by. It is no secret that eRepublik has been a dying game. You can blame it on the mechanics, the administration of the game, the increasingly gold reliance of the game or the lack of community or whatever. The point of this article is not to find blame, but simply to highlight the difficult circumstance we face.
Now as I said before, Christmas is a time of RL. We hang with family, we see the relatives we don't normally see and we need all the energy we can get to stop ourselves from ending up with a life sentence for having finally snapped when that one greedy relative takes the bit of turkey you were eyeing off since the plate hit the table. We celebrate a new year and put behind us the highs and lows of the previous year, whatever they be. We hang with friends, go to parties and enjoy the holidays and time when we get fat, socialise and enjoy the short lives we live.
But then the year swings back into motion. People go back to work, school, university or at least the swell of the holidays drops down. We return to life and it is at this point we again find time for our eLives. We catch up with our eFriends and we enjoy their company when time to hang with RL friends and family becomes less available. We use it to unwind the day or to break up a long evening. Whatever it may be, we come back.
But it seems to me this year has been a little less similar. It feels to me like the holidays have set in more permanently. Whether it's just me in my unique circumstance, or whether it's a feeling more widely recognised because of a common factor; being the game is just not what it used to be. I feel as if many of my friends have not returned either and therefore, eAustralia is missing a big portion of its appeal - for me at least.
So does this mark the end of a generation of eRepublik? Have the old guard and the new now old guard moved on? The names that I once saw so often now extinguished. I know a few still two click, a few have gone completely. Is it the time where many players will now not return, and instead our numbers will be filled with new players who like us, come to eRepublik throughout the year seeking a release and some sort of online easy access social network?
Either way, whatever is happening, I wish everyone here a Happy Year ahead and fun times onwards. I will still be here, 2-clicking. I may surface every now and again, and of course I will answer when called. But I think for now, whilst I love meeting new people, that I am on an outside swirl. It's time for you lads and gals to take charge and have some fun here. But my time is done for now.
Hopefully my friends who are still out there will surface later and we will re-unite again.
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I would come back to the ARP if Larni was leader. Come back to us Larni bby!
All that glitters is not gold , not all who wander are lost...
Or, shit like that 😛
RB.
gl man
Welcome back Flatty, yeah sadly it does seem like quite a few are bailing ship
It has felt quieter around here lately, apart from the push for QLD...
I hear that it's the same all over the eWorld. It's getting quieter and more and more players are leaving or simply 2 clicking. MUs are finding it harder to survive and the economy module is shot. These things also play a part in the decline of the game I believe.
Take care Flatty.
Take care mate! All the best!
needs moar Poland v Serbia
noooooooooooooooooooo............
well fuck
Flatty gone, what the fuck will I do to annoy now?
god dammit
I joined up a couple of weeks ago and i'm totally addicted now!
I can say that i'll definately be showing my face daily 🙂
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
Take care Flatty. o7
Yep, i as an 'old guard' only pop in every now and then. I remember the days when you could actually run a company and make some money in game. Now, it is just about war and gold and the constant occupation of Australia. Good Luck mate, RL is ALWAYS better!
i agree erep is dying, time to move on to a better game, a game based on how erep used to be since admins refuse to put it back to how it was
with new forums!
i bought a server and installed forums on them yes 😃
ah shit, see this is what happens when you go away for 1 month 😛
Which game is that Tim? Pm me
and what particular game do you suggest ????
I play GW2 and world of Tanks on the asia server now. This is just a 2 click exercise around day change now with hardly any appeal to get involved.
GW 2 is great! Look me up in GW my name is Arthinian and my Guild is Noobz With Attitude (NWA)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grbSQ6O6kbs. im not dead yet but forgetting more and more to even log on to 2 click
well, I'm gonna need more than that damn cart 😛
Just drifting by....
Well what do you expect Flatty, the game has been over for us Aussies ever since we stopped getting assistance from TWO,that was when Chile attacked, we are still waiting for the hordes to come and save us. there may have been a little help from a few players from some TWO countries. Being dead means you are dead and we are indeed that. Every day I come on and two click because this does seem permanent, our disgusting unwashed enemies from Chile are gutless cowards and the lowest life form in eRepublik, in fact they are snotty nosed little kids, insects, and as we all know, insects outnumber humans (we are the humans obviously but ya'll knew that).. What a disgusting mob of can'ts (as in they can NOT, shame on you for thinking I was somehow swearing ) they won't ever allow us another congress. I say we all go on strike until TWO come and help us ( that gonna happen this year or next decade when there are less than 10 players in the entire eWorld.
It isn't really that we are dead, it's just that the game itself is dead. I hang on just in case someone decides to do something, in other words, the future of this game lies in whether TWO decide to actually win this goddamn war ...... that never ends
1st, TWO has disbanded
2nd, we never laid down and quit when we were occupied by indo for years on years, meaning it has nothing to do with our situation of occupation
3rd, seriously did you just refer to human beings as less than human? you actually tried calling another person subhuman (or in this case even less than that), what the hell is wrong with you? i know you have a (somewhat convoluted) understanding of the second world war... remember that the germans called their enemies subhumans. remember that next time you write such crap and remember that next time you even think that perhaps you are worthy of the nationality of an Australian. atm you do nothing but prove to be everything wrong with Australia.
What you say is very true Tim.
However the behaviour of certain countries can be irritating to players.
Of course it is a war game & certainly there will be victory & defeat & all that stuff.
But the "carry on" of countries that see themselves as mighty empires & somehow possessing some special qualities when all it is down to is numbers ( of people & multies & scripts).
It becomes wearying - and this is not only Australia, you see the RWs being fought that cannot succeed because some fat arrogant country is sitting on them without any feelings or consideration (or for that matter honour)
I do not blame greg for what he has posted even if his language is a bit extreem
sure its frustrating but i dont resort to xenophobia and neither does anyone else
To hell with them, they are the invaders and opressors and to hell with your opinion. opressed people have a right to say whatever they want about those who shit on them. I also never used the word sub-human... I called them insects. To hell with you and your lefty censorship which is in itself a form of oppression, which you lefty La La landers love so dearly. I have no need for a thought policeman thank you very much Mr Stalin.
Look up the name Xenophon dude, he had every right to be fearful, thankfully he won and kicked the Persians to bits, as was his right (the Persian king was trying to kill him and the rest of his army, it was in fact the most democratic army in world history, his fear was real, not imagined so find a better word if you wanna mock me. If you wanna be best mates with the enemy that's your choice but I call it treason.
War is as extreme as it gets BOUDICCA, you should know, you massacred over 70,000 Romans ... P
What would be worse Tim, me calling you an insect or me shooting bullets at you ? (hard to do, I don't even own a gun} what is your preference ??
at this point id like to point out its a game, we aren't actually conquered, we are on the INTERNET playing a pretend game. do you understand that?
we are not RL occupied by chile, we are currently in control of our own country and infact we are soon likely to sign a RL agreement which actually puts us significantly closer to chile economically (we already have a RL free trade agreement with chile)
we actually work together alot in RL due to the fact that we are both primary exporters of metals that other countries need.
does this compute with you? we arent at war with them in RL, we are actually in RL somewhat on the same team
we dont need to use words like that in a pretend game (and a shit game at that). this is supposed to be fun, if you feel the need to use language which calls chileans anything less than the human beings they are then you clearly are not having fun and should quit. understand?
So TWO have packed up and given up, we must be beyond all hope now, with no friends or an alliance than can blow CoT out of the water it is game over, Chile will be here until the game itself ends... I wish the game died right now.
you can quit whenever you like, for us the game would get alot better since we wouldnt have to listen to your crap
Actually if you quit we may have more hope, you are the one talking crap, I bet you haven't a clue as to how to gain our freedom. To hell with the enemy, they need killing.
there is no killing in erep, do you not understand that.
and to be perfectly frank you are the ONLY one talking about how we should kill chileans or any other crap along those lines, so understand that its a game and everyone else understands that, you do not
Thanks TWO for doing bugger all, what a joke.