Not so EPIC

Day 2,838, 16:28 Published in Latvia Latvia by Tutenis


Greetings, again!

As many of you know, because epic battles were absent all day long, an initiative was started to fix that. A total of 161,5k cc was raised with donations, 7 of which came from abroad of Latvia. Almost 300k cc was spent during two rounds in pursuit of an epic battle – unfortunately without success. Before I go into further details of what went wrong, I would like to express my sincerest gratitude to everyone who helped with this project – whether you simply voted the article, donated cc, fought on either side or helped spread the word. We were in good position to succeed, unfortunately I guess it wasn`t meant to be.

What happened?

TAKE ONE

10:00:00: eRepublik time: RW starts, COs are set
10:15:00: eRepublik time: our battle is doing great, there is nice damage layed in the battle already, battle between Greece-Bulgaria becomes full scale with 30-70% wall
10:15:01: Noone gives a s*** about RW
10:15:02: COs are raised to 35cc with 60% wall on Latvian side, 30cc with 99% wall on North Korean side
10:15:03: Still zero f**** are given about RW
10:20:00: Take one gets cancelled, battle between Greece and Bulgaria becomes epic within minutes

TAKE TWO

1) 30cc CO with 150k cc budget and 99% wall is set on North Korean side. This side has 1.61x determination.
2) The budget ends. Battle is still a cold war. The dissapointment-meter has encountered an error because of overwork.

Observations and what can be made out of this

1) More than 250 players voted the intitial article, which is like almost half of active players in eRepublik, so players were intrigued by the idea.
2) Donations for this initiative worth 7k cc came from abroad. Very few trust smaller countries.
3) Battle between Greece and Bulgaria took off in just about the worst possible time for this operation.
4) The game is so dead that 35 and 30 cc COs at the same time, on either side, with walls at 60% and 99% attracts 5 DIV4 players.
5) Epic battle formula is as big of a mistery as the lost city of Atlantis or Bigfoot.
6) We are free-stuff-hungry wh***, we don`t care about the results of battles. As soon as it stays within 49-51%, it`s all good.

On a serious note. What went wrong was that we had 2 competing battles – Ryanggang RW and GR-BG NE battle. You can guess on which battle there were total of 37 NEs involved. It`s extremely hard to compete with that. We did what we could, unfortunately this time it wasn`t enough. Thank you to everyone for support and have a nice weekend!