[Tutorial] Tips

Day 1,776, 03:11 • Published in Ireland Ireland • by Irasian

This article is to help citizens with some of the dangers of erepublik and possible ways to avoid them as well as examples of these things that have happened to me personally.

Account Hacking

Beware of website links, some of them may have ways of hacking your account. Check the url of the website before trying to login to erepublik as there are some people who create websites to get your account name and password.

If your account gets hacked there is no need to quit the game. Just report what has happened to your account and the administrators of the game will do their best to help you.

I have been hacked once all my companies were dissolved into gold and then all my currency and gold was taken. I sent a ticket to the admins and they gave me back all my companies, currency and gold within 3-4 days.

You can send a ticket to the admins by clicking on the contact button at the bottom of your homepage as shown in the image below


Don’t worry, be happy

This is just a game, take everything people say with a large pinch of sugar/salt or however that saying goes.
The point of this game is for the share holders to earn money for players to have fun. If someone says something really offensive to you just ignore them they could be trying to provoke a reaction from you, in other words trolling.

I was once trolled by a new citizen not long after joining this game. He accused me of treating him like a child and said he was going to report me for being offensive and things like that. I did what any kind hearted citizen would do and tried to apologise to him and so he just trolled me more.
I should have just ignored him and carried on gaming instead of prolonging the torment. It was probably one of the times I seriously thought about quitting.

URL links

As mentioned before, be careful of what links you decide to click on.

I was on the IRC in the channel #irisharmy and there was this chap named Padraig. I curiously clicked on one of his links and I don’t think I will ever forget what I saw...
There were 3 nude old men in a shower and the f**king browser kept jumping over my monitor so I had to close it the hard way using task manager. It still haunts me to this day...

Scammers

The admin will never ask you for your email or password so if someone asks for it don’t give it to them unless you really want to that is but you could get banned for more than one person using the same account.

If someone offers you a deal too good to be true, it probably is.

When I was young and foolish some new citizen I was helping said a mate of his was quitting the game and leaving his mate the account. He said he would split the gold with me if I gave him 2 gold so I did and he kept it for himself. I never saw any gold coming from him after that. I pm’ed him and said he scammed me etc.

I am sure if you wanted to know some names of scammers Viktor Kurgan would be happy to assist you with that.

Article writing

Before posting your article, copy and paste it into something else like notepad or a word document as erepublik loves to log you out just as soon as you have finished writing it.

I just finished writing an article called “Miscellaneous tips” for new players and clicked publish and the blasted game logged me out taking out about 30 minutes of work in under 2 seconds and so I had to write it out again from scratch.

Staying active

Staying interested in this game can be a bit hard if you are only working, training and fighting every day. The thing that really makes erepublik stand out is the thriving community beneath the games surface. It can be daunting at first to break the surface and actually get into the game but the rewards greatly surpass the effort required.

The IRC is probably one of the main sources of communication. It can be a “scary” if you don’t know how to use it. There is an irc tutorial in one of my past articles if interested.

Forums tend to be a good way to communicate too but people seem to have lost interest in the eIrish ones probably since we went through about 3 of them in the period of a year.

Military units tend to be a good support especially if you join one with the same values as yourself and people who are active and fun to talk to but beware of trolls.

By asking to join one of the Ministries can be an important step in your career if your ultimate goal is to be CP. By becoming anAmbassador to other countries it is possible to make overseas contacts is invaluable. It can be great fun and also occasionally learning to speak can be an interesting experience.

Let’s see an unfortunate experience that has happened to me as an ambassador. I was once the ambassador to all the Spanish speaking countries as we were running really short on ambassadors. I sent a personal message to the cp of Brazil at the time all in Spanish, I had forgot that in Brazil that Spanish is not a primary language. I was kicking myself for days after that.

General Tips
• Work, train, make friends, have fun. Don’t give up. The game is fun if you don't let the "little minded" people belittle you (Lanyislost http://www.erepublik.com/en/citizen/profile/1653365)
• Come on the irc and chill (xNosferatux http://www.erepublik.com/en/citizen/profile/4813976)
• Usually do not use weapons, work on your economy side until you can get enough food to be self sufficient, join the forums, make use of the free stuff threads and find some kind of community to be a part of. People who last tend to last because they are part of a community, whether it is political or military or w/e (Dan Moir http://www.erepublik.com/en/citizen/profile/1830883)
• Save your gold, don’t spend it on wars, health packs or others things. Different companies when he have some companies for to sustain him economy, he can do anything he want with that (Aldea Oculta de la Hoja http://www.erepublik.com/en/citizen/profile/4474625)
• The best advice would be, be on IRC as long as you can (ave-imperator http://www.erepublik.com/en/citizen/profile/2772392)
• o7 is supposed to look like a guy saluting, IRC is the best way to communicate, IRC is the biggest time waster I have ever known (Patrick O’Leary http://www.erepublik.com/en/citizen/profile/4453563)
• Save gold for companies. Join a militia to get daily supplies and to try and get as involved in the community as they can (Jade Anon http://www.erepublik.com/en/citizen/profile/1837913)
• Save gold for 3x Q2 Food, and one Q5 wep factory. Buy raw industry only for local currency. Join military to get more wep and food, and for the love of God join the chat or you will die from boredom. The goals you need to reach are: 1) Enough food for all your daily hits. 2) Enough weapons. 3) All the training boosters every day. Collecting all the medals is also a nice goal for a new player. And it is doable in a reasonable amount of time. (Igorb31 http://www.erepublik.com/en/citizen/profile/1682806)
• If you have too many small companies you end up spending all your time working and not being able to fight much, this game is built on war now days not economy so it becomes counterproductive. (Raw Materials )Q4 is the cheapest for non gold buyers, but only effective for manager work, only Q5 companies are worthy of employees (Henry The 8th http://www.erepublik.com/en/citizen/profile/2391383)

Military tips
• I usually puts 400k at the start showing i mean business that usually puts some BH hunters off cause they see it as your medal then at the end with 10 min to golog on again and see if anyone wanna snipe you if they are 100k off you or already did assume they will snipe you check if they are online if they are keep waiting until the last 2 minutes and add damage to useless battles there are a lot of factors actually anyone who has more than 40 BH had a lot of misses and close calls they are more experienced unless they are just rich then it’s just pretty much tanking and tanking and tanking but some other players usually relate to snipe idea is put damage out first to mean commited business this drives off majority of the BH hunters then come back online in the last 10 minutes to see who else has committed look their stats up strength, ranking, and BH medal amount, and if they are online the more bh they have the more likely they will snipe you but most new players will snipe in the last 5 minutes whilst the older players will snipe literally in the last seconds (srg91 http://www.erepublik.com/en/citizen/profile/1343894 and Schoft http://www.erepublik.com/en/citizen/profile/1231115)

Political tips
• Try to interact with fellow citizens, you will never get elected for congress, party president or country president if you don’t talk and let people get to know you. (Darragh Davis http://www.erepublik.com/en/citizen/profile/1409360)

Economical tips
• Work on getting a few Food RM companies and then some Q2 Food Company, after that work on weapon supplies. If they get that far they will have a good grasp on the game. Stick with Q1, unless there's an upgrade offer going on. I always wait for them. (EZStreet http://www.erepublik.com/en/citizen/profile/1599919 and Wally Cleaver http://www.erepublik.com/en/citizen/profile/4525449)