The Questions and Answers Insider - Day 1009

Day 1,009, 09:10 • Published in • by Plato

Dear citizens,

We know that we are a little late than usual, but better late than never, so here is the Q&A insider with some of your last week questions and problems:

Q1. Why are we forced to lose health everyday for nothing?

A1. This features comes as an answer to the following question: “How will citizens die if you change the current automatic method of consuming food?” Although many of you will disagree with this, you must acknowledge the fact that this is a game and you need such a game play feature in order to give people various motivations to play.

Q2. What measures do you take against PTO?

A2. We put this question here because we want to bring to your attention to one case in particular, that we dealt with today. We’ve spotted a case of PTO in US Congress elections. To be more specific, the Republican Party entered in the top 5 parties using unlawful methods so we so we had to take action and interfere, thus: the illegal citizen accounts used were permanently suspended, the candidates were removed from the race and so there are only 4 parties participating to this election. All that we can say now is “may the best win!”

Q3. Why do I lose happiness if I own a house?

A3. At the moment all citizens lose happiness in order to create competitiveness in the house market. This being said we are taking under consideration to make some changes in this feature, if necessary, in the near future.

Q4. I cannot run for congress for Bolivia, what is happening?

A4. We are aware of this situation, but unfortunately we cannot help you, since these are the current rules. The error that some of you encounter is due to the fact that one day before the elections, Bolivia didn't have any regions. This is how the system is intended to work, creating a strategy approach regarding the best time frame to recover your independence.

When we will work on improving the political module, this will be one of the first issues that we'll take into account.

Q5. What happens with Q1 food company now with the new food consumption feature?

A5. We’ve received these kind of complains from many citizens. This “problem”, as some of you you call it will be solved in time. Why do we say this? Because the economy will balance itself so that neither companies will lose. For example: if you want to fight and you need food fast, it's better to have a high quality food in your inventory because that will offer you the possibility to save some precious time, of course at a higher price. In other cases, you will probably need cheaper food so this will direct your attention to the low quality food companies. The economy has only one rule: the rule of supply and demand. The price of food will be one of the important factors which will bring “the order in the volatile markets”.

Q6. Why do the turn time in a battle is so long?

A6. As we’ve already announced in a past Insider, we’ve reduced the turn time to 2 minutes. Unfortunately this wasn’t enough for many players so we’ve decided to listen to all of you. Please note that in the next few hours, we will change the turn time to 90 seconds.

This is all for today, we hope that we’ve cleared up some of your issues and we are waiting for your questions for the next Insider.

Regards,
The eRepublik team