1 Year ERepublik

Day 1,453, 14:38 • Published in Brazil Romania • by cerclo
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And here it is; 1 year since I started playing eRepublik.

The time has come to sum up everything and take a look back at all my successes and failures.

First thing that comes to my mind on doing is to take a look at my rankings:



Ohh…bravo!!! nice, congratz!!! etc…you name it?!

…but haven’t you noticed anything weird?

You invested gold!

Yes, but that’s not it

Let’s take another look at the previous graph.

XP position 100, meaning that in one year I worked harder and fought more than some did in 4
years, congrats!

Medals position 145, Nice

Military Rank position 170, congrats!

1*Q5 position 1098 ???? what happened?

I mean you that worked and fought more in one year than others worked and fought in 4 years, you
that got piles of medals, you weren’t able to reach at least top 200 in the strength of your hit?

NO. Why?

Simply because the strength of the hit depends mostly on strength of the user….

Strength position 1502: This is too much for me to bare. There must be a mistake somewhere.

Nope, no mistake and even more, this is considered to be part of the normal flow of the game by the
majority of the users

I’ll prove you now how this is not right. In most of the online games that you invest real money in,
you are able to reach top 100 in, at the most, 3 months though that’s not the case in eRepublik.
The following rational question is: Why not ?

You know what my 1st question was after joining the game?

cerclo: when did the game start?
gobelin89: it’s been 3 years now,
cerclo: and when will it reset ?
gobelin89: well, it won’t
cerclo: ... let’s look for another game ...

Anyone can reach my profile and realize that I’m not that bad





I doing fine in all areas and I can even help others from time to time.

But let’s just forget about cerclo’s account and analyse this objectively from the standing point of a
1st day user in eRepublik:

Young player:

We’ll take the 1st one that pops in….and no, it is not a clone…and don’t start telling me that only
clones create new accounts on eRepublik….

Nope, it seems I found a Mr.Y 😉 that is not a clone

Welcome to the game!

You start working here! You vote for that person! Fight there! What are you doing? Don’t tell me you
already want a BH medal! Why did you join that party? You want to steal the leadership of it? Whose
clone are you? Wait before you will be allowed to candidate for congress!

But don’t worry, you’ll grow up as well in 4 years, time at which I will stop playing this game
and..even if I decide to come back, I’ll still be better than you.

When Mr.Y takes a look at the strength rankings (which cannot be found on eRepublik), he spots a
user that has 11,393.61 in strength (and compares that with 16, as that is what he has)

Simple mathematics prove to us that if Mr.Y is very lucky: being located in a country that
permanently has a NE, has two friends invited by him, he can gain 25 strength points per day, 26
now with the new modification brought to the game.

So 11393/26=438 days It takes more than one year and two months for this guy to reach the
strength level of the top ranked one, under the assumption that the big shot has given up playing
the game ever since, and the small one keeps investing gold massively every day.

Now let’s be serious, doesn’t this sound stupid to start a game where you can only reach to the top
after one year and even that conditioned by the big shot’s decision to meanwhile quit the game?

Or better asked, the standings/rankings to be set by the registration date?

Mr. Y is a perseverant guy so he does not lose hope and starts calculating:

365 days x 26 = 9490 for Mr. Y

11393 + 9490 = 20883 for the super tank

To summarize this, after one year Mr. Y can reach at the level of 45,44% (100*9490/20883) of the
strength of a user that has been playing this game since the beginning.

Let’s take a further look into the future: after 6 years of playing this game, the big shot will have
30373 and the one that started in year 4 will still be trailing at 18980*100/30373 = 62,48% of the big
shot’s level, 71,41% in year 7, 76,91% in year 8 and from here on, things start to stabilize.

It is clear for everyone that the gap cannot be closed under any circumstance. Not to add the fact
of NOT using gold for training.

At the same time, a user that starts in year 5 has only 31,24% of the big shot’s value; 23,8% for one
that starts in year 6 and so on, on overall, from bad to worse.

You will tell me that the new users can use gold when fighting and rank up faster in order to reach
the old big shots…

You might be correct, but let’s take a look again at simple mathematics:

Take again the example of Mr.Y after one year:

9490 strength , rank wold class force ** influence 6033
9490 strength , rank wold class force *** influence 6132
9490 strength , rank legendary force influence 6231
9490 strength , rank legendary force* influence 6330
9490 strength , rank legendary force** influence 6429
9490 strength , rank legendary force*** influence 6527
9490 strength , rank GOD of WAR influence 6626

it is obvious that the progress is kept at a minimum, barely exceeding 500 damage extra, though the
financial costs are huge.

On the other hand, the old big shot:

20883 strength being only a commander ** will have a war influence of 7023,39, and when reaching
the World Class Force ** rank (56), he will hit close to double in damage 12982,63

As it can be seen in the war influence formula I = [(R-1)/20 + 0.3] × (S/10+40) x (1 + FirePower/100)
, the rank is divided by 20 when the strength is only divided by 10 which has an extra fixed value of
40 added (this might not be enough), and as this wouldn’t be enough 🙂 , the rank stabilizes at 62 when
the strength level grows with 9490 every year.

I= [(56-1)/20 + 0,3] x (20883/10+40) x (1+100/100)
I= (55/20+0,3) x (2088,3+40) x (1+1)
I= (2,75+0,3) x 2128,3 x 2
I= 3,05 x 2128,3 x 2

it can be noticed here that the value of the rank added into the formula will be withing one year at a 0.14% of the strength value, of 0.099% within 2 years, a meaningless 0.075 in 3 years and so on.
In other words, the value of the rank in the formula is not only stabilized in time but it also tend towards 0.

In other words said the rank is useless as RANK = 0 😮

What do you mean you didn’t know? You struggled to rank up for nothing

It is clear to me that the mathematical formula has to be revised as soon as possible!

If this goes on as it is now (favouring the old users), eRepublik will become a gang game (which
actually it already is) which will only be played by those that had the chance of entering the game in
its initial phase or by those that managed to buy old accounts during the process. Those that start
today or those that cannot keep the pace in training with gold will give up on this game or they will
become totally irrelevant during the battles.

You’ll tell me again that that is not the case, that the creators of this game continuously look to
innovate.

YES, YOU ARE RIGHT, the young user has the chance to get a BH every month and that without any
certainty, whereas the old one can do the same every 6 hours or sometimes even faster.

But why do the young users need to get that BH medal? Why can’t they get into something else?
Like politics or economy…

Why shouldn they do it? Why shouldn't the big shots handle politics due to their high level of experience and in doing so, leave the young players to get the BH medals?

Why? Simply because the gold obtained from BH represents a source to finance the gold training.

In other words, the ones that come from behind pay for those that have been in the game before

them

The big tank:

But we have been here since the game started.

And look now how eRepublik repays us, by giving away bazookas to all the newbies? So they can
come an steal my BH medal.

If the young user spends 4 euros per day, he will hit the same as I do. (this giving the fact that the
newbie has to invest that money 3-4 times per day when the old one doesn’t have to invest
at all and what’s more, with 4 euros you get 8 gold whereas getting the BH medal gives you
only 5 gold)

…….

Waiting for other arguments

……..

I do have to state that changing the formula will give a slight disadvantage to the young users
because the old ones already have the rank.

As an overall conclusion I doing fine as I had the chance to join this game while the big shots only
had 4k in strength advantage towards me. Slowly but surely I will overtake those that leave
for holidays and cannot leave the account to someone else to take care off while gone (the
idea has not yet been developed in eRepublik)

But you, the one that starts today, you have no chance of reaching my level, not to talk about the
level of the big shots that I’m planning on reaching.

OK…So what are you suggesting?

I’m suggesting a lot and I am willing to collaborate with the creators of this game if they are
interested, reachable through phone or skype (though not in English, but French and
Romanian).

Let’s not forget one thing though, eRepublik is just a game and for us to enjoy this game, a server
has to exist, a software and people to assure maintenance and work on it.

This process incurs a cost.

Therefore eRepublik has to raise funds in order to offer to us this game, it needs funds to innovate
and develop this game and of course in the end, to generate profit, as that is the idea of a
business.

This needs keep on growing constantly. And if 4 years ago, a computer, a table and a chair would
have done the job, today eRepublik is looking towards a different situation. It requires
offices, partners, etc…

For this, the game needs to attract and to keep even more users in this artificial world.

Again, let’s be serious, the knocks on their heads and the banning of the new users won’t help in any
way.

Now seriously I propose the war influence formula to be revised. This formula was written a long
time ago when the daily strength gain was 0.12 (or something like that) and it has been only
once altered since then.

Simply modifying the formula won’t do. It has to be revised every year.

It’s true that in comparison to other games, eRepublik does not reset every year; it doesn’t have
more than one server. It does however represent a normal situation as the investments put
in the game are not easy to be made profitable, especially in an economy where everyone is
an owner and no one is a worker or a consumer for that matter.

NOT only that the rank has to have a bigger influence in the WI formula, but

I suggest that the strength level to be divided by 10 every year.

Let’s analyse this mathematically again:

The one with 11,393.61 becomes 1139,36 and in an year will be 1139,36 + 9490 = 10629,36 which
will take it to 1062,93 by the end of the year which will put him against 949 that the new
user will have.

It is to be noticed that the old user will still have an advantage over the new one though the
difference will become more acceptable. This would work for the old ones as well, who were
absent for a will because of certain reasons.

After a 2 months leave/absence the user loses 60X26=1560 strength which will never be recovered,
though with my idea, the user that enjoyed their vacation will still have a second chance to
get back into the game.

Of course they can gain 30 strength per day so they will not lose the strength capital when the reset
is done.

(1139,36 + 365*30)/10 = (1139,36 + 10950)/10 = 1208,9 against 1095

This will also be beneficial for those that train without gold, as the difference between them and the
ones that do train with gold will be kept at realistic levels and it will give them the chance to
start training with gold when the new year starts.

Besides this, (1208,9 - 1095)/30 = 113,9 /30 = 3,79, which means that if an old player is not training
for 4 days it will allow the young user to overcome him and the other way around.

In the current version, the big shot can easily take one year off of eRepublik and still come back and
be in front of the user that started playing only from year 4.

Of course there can be other solutions as well, though one this is for sure:

The one with high levels of strength cannot be reached from behind and this is unfair.

Respect

Cerclo
PS: Usually I tell you that I give away free toilet paper for the trolls, though today you can only get it
from the opposite corner of the street as the other has filled last time 😛