Война и мир (Л.Толстой - наше всё)

Day 1,703, 00:56 • Published in Belarus Belarus • by Baba Jagodka

ШОВИНИЗМ. Белая собака думает, что она лучше черной.


Пока мы таскаемся за чубы с хохлами и отрываем ножки своим болотным мурашкам, мировая общественность озабочена более другими общечеловеческими проблемами.
Хочу предложить вам взволновавшую меня статью шведского игрока Мишо.
Я печатаю ее в оригинале, не дождавшись разрешения автора на публикацию, и привожу ссылку на статью, чтобы желающие могли оценить еще и качество комментов.


Hate has formed the alliances in eRepublik, furious IRL hate.


Today USA and Spain have announced that they are leaving Terra respectively ONE. Once again countries are setting out to find a new way to play this game and put IRL conflicts aside. It has been tested numerous times before with very sad results.

I remember when we formed ATLANTIS back in 2008 that we tried to achieve the same thing. We had Croatia in ATLANTIS already and, if I remember correctly Serbia was added later as a country. Our goal was clear, we would like to try to settle IRL conflicts aside and what could be a better thing to do then to include both Croatia and Serbia in the same alliance?

Roby Petric, former eUS President and IRL Croatian and at the time eCroatian president shared that goal.

We failed miserably.

The following months eCroatia and eSerbia would completely destroy each others countries with constant PTO's and by creating mass inflation and 100% taxes making it impossible to live in the countries. It was like the Roman empire vs Cartago, the enemy should not only be killed their land should be destroyed for generations to come.

A side result was that thousands of IRL Serbs and Croats joined the game and the hatred was out of control.

For me as an old player in a Nordic country who IRL lives in another country far from 'home' and who really believed in this game, that it could be a 'Civilization online' as one Magazine back in 2008 said it could be, it has been a sad journey to witness that no ingredient has come even close to be as powerful as IRL hate and IRL nationalism in this game.
If you wanted easy results and stir up a conflict it was very easy to play the IRL card, eTurkey always fell for it, eGreece, eMacedonia (Don't you dare FYROM me(!)) could never resist the bate either.

With that said I must say that its very refreshing to see that some countries have tried to create an alliance without IRL conflicts in mind. Perhaps naive but still refreshing.

I would hope that eSerbia and eCroatia and other IRL-enemy countries would have done it first though. Taken the first step and said that enough is enough, we have stopped killing each other IRL so now we will prove that we can come along and co-operate if so only in a web browser game.
But still after four years that has never happened, it hasn't even been close since that day in 2008 when Roby Petric declared that Croatia had done what could be done and that Serbia could not become members.

We tried and failed. Miserably. Obviously no one has even come close after that. In a web browser game during 4 years when you have president elections and congress elections every month.

How sad isn't that?

Yours in Peace
Misho


НЕНАВИСТЬ. Тяжелый багаж. Жизнь слишком коротка, чтобы тратить ее на это, оно того не стоит...

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