Join the new world

I'm speechless.

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Good luck in RL. Lol, that sounds nerdy. But yeah, good luck for wherever your future takes you : )

It's like Paul Hamon all over again.
If your hold on the game was this thin, good riddance that you didn't win the elections. Takes more than fancy words to run a country.

Sad to hear this flatty, you have made a great contribution

would you have quit if you won? why do people do this.... constantly. i don't get it.

Try reading 'infin' and you might get an idea. Wait you can't.

oo a scotish fold down

On a serious note if your real life is more important why did you run for CP. I'm not calling you a sore looser because I am in a similar situation. But I have cut back on eRep and there would be no way I could find the time to be CP, so why do you think you run in the first place?

"I am leaving this game due to my real life commitments.". Yup I read it.

My bad wording. Fixed

🙁

Good luck Flatty!

Flatty your leaving after not winning cp? 🙁 don't leave

I PROMISE ILL BE BETTER, ILL CHANGE. DONT LEAVE

No one ever considers the value that "two-clickers" have to the game. They keep in touch but dont get involved. Not everyone can be CP not everyone has to be a mega soldier or super entrepenuer - It is simple a fact of numbers - but when it comes to a democracy and a free market system it is the silent majority that make this place work. For those stuck in the rut of becoming more and more involved in this place dont throw it all away in a rage - there is a simple alternative become a "two-clicker" and one day soon I hope to join you.

Goodbye Flatty! I wish you all the best in real life! I'll miss you. ;_;

If you're shipping out, can I have all your money, gold and inventory?

Its a shame, Flatty, that you are leaving. Its a shame that those you were talking about can't read between the lines, or even if they could that it would be meaningful to them.

I'll implore you once again not to leave. You can still be a positive instrument of change without putting your entire life into the game. Limit your time per day - that's what I've been (trying) to do.

You have a group of friends that understands exactly how you feel, as these friends are going through the same thing. Why don't you try hanging out 30 more days in a low exposure modes and see how that works for you?

WW

thanks for trying flatty o/

That's right lets play the blame game Wilson...

Natural selection has decided that Flatty is not the fittest for survival.

I go for 5 days and flatty leaves. One of the better examples of a person devoted to real change.

Good luck flatty, although i wish it diddn't need to be goodbye.

Dude just 2 click, you have earned your place in erep and are a valued friend, just spend 5 mins a day till you feel like having another go, you may regret not doing this and the friends you will lose.
Other than that good luck mate and all the best
Talk soon
Later

Hmm cya man.
Don't like the fact you leave when you lose, you should try hader next time!
Oh well. Good luck with real life.

sorry to see you go...Too many dickheads in this game. I agree 100% with what you have said. I voted for you.
Good luck with your schooling.

Hinokai, this is a game, not a real country. You should try and remember that when you mouth off with self-righteousness. It's that attitude that people are sick of, hinokai.

^This

Bye Flatty 🙁 I hope u decide to two click for a bit.

I'm going to have to agree here with Flatty. This game is utterly ridiculous. I could go post an article about how about how australia needs to change and yadaya and the response would be "Get off your ass and do it yourself?" But how can I? How can any of us when the minority of players who hold the majority of influnce are not ready for change.

I fear Only the elites can fix eAustralia as the problems lies therein.

Flatty, Farewell.

I may consider following your footsteps.
Leaving is not a cowardly act, more are realist one.
In the end this country is finished.

god i hope it's bin night.......

Arthinian, what I'm sick of is people whining about nothing changing and everything being crap, yet doing absolutely nothing to change it.

Flatty could have chosen to stay around and create change from the inside, yet he's leaving instead. If he doesn't have the guts to try and change it regardless of whether he wins CP or not, then as I said, it's damn lucky he didn't win CP elections cause he obviously doesn't have the kind of fortitude to run the country which, real or not, contains real people and the CP is responsible for them.

John Zenith, 'How can any of us when the minority of players who hold the majority of influnce are not ready for change.'

A tip - nobody held influence when they started, nobody has continued to hold the same influence forever. If people want change, don't go 'OH NOES I HAS NO CHANCE'. Suck it up and MAKE things change. You don't have to be CP, you don't have to be a senator. All you have to do is stop whining when other people offend you and do something about it.

Hinokai,
The point is, there is this unwritten demand that everyone HAS to be on the forums 24/7 and on IRC every moment of the day. This is just false. You can be CP or a Senator or anything else without having to play this game for 6 hours a day. The problem is that many of us 'older' guys (elites?) are addicted to this game and forget that it should be played in fun, not in such a serious manner as some are in the habit. It really isn't that difficult to run a country. Game mechanics only allow certain things to happen.
Maybe if people like yourself stopped being negative when people voiced there views and opinions then maybe would still have more people in eAus. Face it, many of you have been dickheads for too long. Many of you have abused far too many people and have caused many people to leave this game. You are just too immature to own up to it and change your ways. The real complaining comes from mostyl the old guard fighting each other.
Look how many votes the major articles get in the media? 30-50? wow thats alot of players, NOT!
Start changing your freakin attitude and stop thinking because you play fantasy roles on a forum that you own this game.
Its time to wake up to yourself.

http://www.erepublik.com/es/article/-iexcl-iexcl-iexcl-vi-algo-por-el-foro-nacional-y-me-emocione--1703838/1/20 vote if you like

Haha, oh wow. Have you ever bothered to listen to yourself Arthinian?
You go on about how people are hostile towards eachother and so on, then you make a long winded comment about how I and other old players are evil people damaging the community because apparently we all think people should be online all day playing the game as SRS BSNS.

Well, you know, when you blame everyone else, say they're the problem, they are at fault, especially when you know absolutely nothing on the topic (you only rejoined the game what, a week ago?) and know nothing about me, THAT is the kind of attitude that is wrong here. The people who think they're unrelated and stand on the sidelines pointing the finger are the people who aggravate the situation and are the catalyst of this so called community ruin.

The fact of the matter is, the job of CP isn't a walk in the park, and that regardless of it being a game role, you're still in charge of the direction of a country consisting of a couple hundred people. Ask any competent CP and they will say that it takes a lot of hard work. Flatty has shown he wouldn't be suitable for it, I said that straight out. I was unaware telling truths regardless of how harsh they may turn out was somehow a negative thing.

The key to success in anything is persistence. Giving up easily is the LEAST DESIRABLE quality in a CP candidate.

Hinokai, You obviously have no idea what i'm talking about.

Tell me then if I am in my present situation, a new player with little influence over others I cannot change things.

"nobody held influence when they started, nobody has continued to hold the same influence forever".

Yes you are perfectly right, BUT to gain the influence takes time, time this country doesn't have. People WITH the influence need to do these things and do them right.

^Let me rephrase that. I've never pointed fingers at anyone regarding the ruin of this country (except maybe Discrate) and i'm not sitting on the sidelines waiting for change to happen.

Nor am I complaining about how crap this country is, i just hope that this country can pull through. The problem, I admit lies with no one type of person. It doesn't lie with just the older players, but the WHOLE of the country's active players.

keep twisting words Hinokai, i am sure it earns you many friends in the Real World.
Grow up Hinokai, i joined the game again after 3-4 months off, i had been playing long enough (over a year) to know how your pattern of behaviour.
Show me where i have jumped on someones article and called them a multi and started harrasing them for it? Show me where i have been a negative Knob Jockey and fighting other players over a make believe constitution that means stuff all?
Show me where i spend all my time trolling other peoples articles?
Show me where i bring people down and tell them they don't have the experience or personality to be a senator or CP?
thought so...laugh all you want.
Maybe try and be positive for a change?
Maybe try and encourage new players and their views?
Maybe realise this is just a game where we have FUN, or have you seriously forgotten that?
*sigh
I don't really care who runs the country...

Good luck Flatty, your choice is very understandable but I implore you to maybe take a few days to make your final decision. I regularly have week long breaks from the game when I go away for work and find that my enthusiasm is recharged in my time off. Australia needs all the active people it can get and you will be a great loss.

I would like to say one thing about the country from my perspective, the country had for a very long time been run by a group of people who have due to the attrition of their supporters and the rise of newer players has now been replaced by a new group.

This is causing friction but the sky is not falling in. New players have always found it difficult to get to positions of power not because of our community, but because of the game mechanics (ie the game does have the functions for a inclusive democratic government) so our eancestors created a time intensive off site based process in which to run in game government affairs.

This is not perfect and had many holes but is a symptom of an incomplete game not a deliberately insular community.

'Show me where i have been a negative Knob Jockey and fighting other players over a make believe constitution that means stuff all?
Show me where i spend all my time trolling other peoples articles?
Show me where i bring people down and tell them they don't have the experience or personality to be a senator or CP?'

Hey, dude, show me where *I* have.

I don't see how I'm twisting words, if you look at your previous comment you quite clearly did call me what I pointed out. If anything you're the one making shit up here. Sure, I called that dude a multi, but that's cause he's a multi. Other than that, all your claims about me are false. If you want to complain about me, research and make accurate accusations. God knows there aren't ones out there.

John Zenith, sure, you're a new player with not much 'influence over others'. But you're speaking as if you have to control people to make them change. There's only two ways thing will change, one, like you said, the main offenders change themselves. Considering most of the main offenders are like Arthinian here not realising their own problems, it's unlikely.
Second is for a third party to either influence them to change or create an environment to change. This could be through media, through forum threads, could be through creation of a charity or militia, an initiative, anything. And even if you're a new player, you can typically get involved and will get a boost up by other players as long as you show motivation and interest, so there's not really a limit on ages.
Regardless, if you think it's a problem, you should give it a try, no matter your age.

It's sad that an article from a person who is leaving due to whatever RL reason they have resorts to a fest between Hinokai and others.

Shame.

It's sad that an article from a person who is leaving due to whatever RL reason they have resorts to a fest between Hinokai and others.

Shame.

hinokai owning in this article..

Flatty writes an article quitting because of devisions in australia.

Everyone splits and plays the blame game.

People flame.

Hinokai join in.

Others flame Hinokai.

A history of this article so far just so people don't need to read all the comments.
If it seems wrong that this has happened on this article join the club. We have lemon, lime and a whole heap of bitter.

all so innocent yeah?
Never done anything wrong?
Thought so...

that at me?

hahaha, i haven't been around for 3-4 months...i return and this place is a crap hole...yeah, its ALL my fault! 🙂
Surely your commenting for lulz yeah...lol

Um?

Look, the ones who want change will be the ones who stand up and show some initiative. I am not regarded as a high member of eaustralia but i have help ran 2 militias i ran a successful month as Mentor Director and ran a charity until the admins decided that you can no longer mass message. What i am saying is that you don't need to be in Government or Senate to make change. In fact they are some of the people destroying us internally. The people who have stood up and took matters into there own hands are the ones who should be thanked as they are the ones saving the country.

Then there are those who just point fingers and think they are being productive.

It is your choice which side you want to be on. And it is unfortunate that Flatty has chosen the other way.

Wise words srg.

Good luck with everything Flatty, I know you would have given CP a good go and I hope u return to try again some day.

Sadly I think the comments validate your point bro. Can't even just get a thanks for everything and a nice good bye around here....