Plato's retirement! (by Carla) [Update 3, Day 979]

Day 976, 05:20 • Published in • by Plato
UPDATE 3: Day 979, eRepublik time: 02:00

More good news: the engineers have just updated the automatic health and happiness gain process (which runs at the beginning of each eRepublik day). From now on: you will receive both the bonuses from your food and house and the “70 health check” if you fought in the previous day.

The change was set in motion since two hours ago and the team encountered no technical difficulties when this process ran this morning.

UPDATE 2: Day 977, eRepublik time: 07:40

We’ve got some good news! Since Day 975, we have enriched our team with four new Community Officers in order to deal with the high number of tickets that we have received from you in the past two weeks. We would like to share with you the fact that the number of tickets submitted by you has increased with around 100% since v1. This is the main reason why you experience the current delay in receiving an answer.
We want to apologize for the late reply and to assure you that in the next period, everyone will receive a proper answer from us.

Thanks a lot for your understanding and support!

UPDATE 1: Day 976, eRepublik time: 07:39

I’m happy to announce you that the team has just solved an annoying bug regarding citizenship: when you moved to another country, due to some display errors, the citizenship was shown incorrectly (the new country’s citizenship was displayed instead of the accurate one).




Hello everybody!

I`m sure that most of you have noticed me in the past days but I would like to introduce myself: I am Carla, your new Advisor. Before you even think about it - no, I had nothing to do with Plato's retirement! The old man was already on his way out, I suppose. Anyway, my job will be to keep you informed, if you need help along the way. Of course, my top priority will be the new citizens, which have so many things to learn in their first days in the New World.

Today I want to share some gossip with you, some news about bug fixes and also a list of known issues which my colleagues are working on at the moment. What would you like me to start with? Of course ... the gossip! Here you go: I caught some whispers around here that the team is considering the option to change the customization of hospitals, like durability, and so on. Also, it seems that pretty much everybody considers the military bonuses almost useless, so the team is also analyzing the idea of making the bonuses more effective. I am sure they will give you an update on this as soon as they come to a conclusion. You didn't hear this from me, ok?

Oh, before I forget: I discovered a very nice video on the Internet, about the military module. You can give it a try and maybe share it with your friends.

Now, let's have a look at some solved issues. If you don't know what we're talking about, even better, this probably means you didn’t encounter those bugs 😉

1. Search issue. The feature only worked on the homepage but nowhere else. The bug has been solved.
2. Job market bug. This affected some types of companies, mostly in the manufacturing and construction sectors, which were unable to post job offers. This is no longer an issue.
3. Help text in battles. It was impossible to make the help text disappear as the turning off had no effect. The bug was solved.
4. Issue money law bug. Some countries were unable to correctly issue money. Solved.
5. Military help page bug. We discovered some old information on the help page, especially regarding the bonuses, who gets advantage on what terrain against who, and so on. Help page updated.



I also would like to remind you of some two things:

We received some complains that there is a bug with Gold donations. Actually, there is no problem with Gold donations, but you should know that citizens are unable to donate their Gold until they reach a certain level. This was one of the measures implemented by the anti-cheating project.

Also, the Alliance expiration date was reported as bugged. We checked it and found no problem. Actually, it is the timing which is confusing and the source for misunderstandings and maybe sometime we'll be able to work on such minor details too. For now, if an Alliance is about to expire in two days and 23 hours, the system will report that the Alliance will expire in three days. Please keep this in mind.

Last but not least, there are some problems which the team is aware of but have no estimations yet when they will be solved. It could be tomorrow, it could be in one or two weeks time.

1. Avatar bug. We know that you can't change avatars right now. There is something dodgy going on with the server at the moment. We'll fix this as soon as possible.
2. Company migration bug. Some managers sent tickets asking to migrate their companies into tank or helicopters companies, which did not happen yet. We can't estimate when this will be done, but hopefully pretty soon everybody will receive their shiny new companies.
3. Buying buildings bug. Presidents are unable to buy and deploy buildings in any region. This is an important issue and our engineers are working hard to fix it.



The eRepublik team would like to apologize for the 8 hours downtime of the military module on day 974. We have learned a lot from those hours and this will help us in future. Also, for 12 hours, in the same unlucky day 974 the productivity had gone with the wind and employees worked for nothing as no new stocks were created. Well, the productivity will be added back in companies, today, by the end of the day.

In this very Insider we can all see two things: that there are still some issues and that the team is working hard on fixing them. As your Advisor, I would recommend you to refrain yourself from posting articles complaining about every technical issue. I am telling you this not because the team wants to censor your opinions but, like we told you several times now, the team needs to use this time to solve your problems and answer your tickets, not investing it reading and moderate articles and comments. Every hour invested in media means a few tickets solved less. Think about it. This is the best way to go, to construct your feedback in a positive and comprehensible manner. Furthermore, if you have some pertinent questions, feel free to post it as a comment to this Insider.

Thanks for your support,
Carla & eRepublik team