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UNIVERSAL EREPUBLIK REFERENDUM

The time has come! The time when EREPUBLIK POPULATION decides its own way of life.

We, GAETANO GATTO, are organizing the first EREPUBLIK UNIVERSAL REFERENDUM by NOVEMBER 14th-17th 2008, a poll of the entire eRepublik population on several issues about life in the V1.
This article is aimed to make everyone advised, to explain exhaustively each issue of this initiative, to receive eventual suggestions (you’ll see this article changed according to your instructions).

1.BUGS, inevitably present in every not tested code (as Beta & V1 eRepublik ones), and INGENUOUS CHOICES have made ECONOMICAL & POLITICAL SITUATION troublesome and FALSE:

•A lot of citizens lost PROPERTIES (inventory items upon the coming of the V1, money and gold for a bug in the donation module, …) and PRIVILEGES (wellness points for the lack of their own inventory, work continuity because of the bug in the work module, …);

•Hungary lost its independence only because of the famous bug in the war module;

•Fake accounts proliferated and several citizens enriched dishonestly (see the 5th issue) because of gold as a prize to each citizen who invited a new one;

•Etc.

It’d be fair to RESET EREPUBLIK HISTORY: each citizen will as a new-born citizen (everyone has got only a minimum amount of money, everyone has no job, zero skill points, zero strength points, …), each real country will have its own independence again.

Compromise
To reset ONLY HYSTORY OF COUNTRIES, that is to say only eRepublik political map.

It is obvious bugs and wrong choices must be corrected before every kind of reset of eRepublik history.


WOULD YOU LIKE TO RESET EREPUBLIK HISTORY?

YES

ONLY HYSTORY OF COUNTRIES

NO



2.Answering a QUIZ upon working or training appears quite bizarre: eRepublik was born as a NOT TIME-EXPENSIVE GAME!
The result has been a sharp decrease of working/training citizens upon the quiz coming.

Compromise
It’d be better to answer thematic questions (questions about weapons for a guy who works in a weapon factory, for example).


WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO DO IN ORDER TO WORK/TRAIN?

A) JUST CLICK ON A WORK/TRAIN BUTTON

😎 ANSWER A THEMATIC QUIZ

C) ANSWER A GENERAL-CULTURE QUIZ



3.JOB WORLD is a chaos: every WORKER can resign hourly, leaving its company without necessary work force to produce energetically, such as every COMPANY can dismiss one of its workers hourly, leaving its workers with no livings.

It’d be better to introduce CONTRACTS OF EMPLOYMENT (fixing duration and pay for a job relationship), so that every worker has a SECURED AND NOT-SWITCHABLE PAY for a certain period, and every company has a SECURED AND NOT-SWITCHABLE WORK FORCE for the same period.
(More complicated shapes of employment contract may be thinked after referendum).

It is obvious a worker/company will be fined if it doesn’t respect the contract.


WOULD YOU LIKE TO INTRODUCE CONTRACTS OF EMPLOYMENT?

YES

NO



4.eRepublik is a SIMULATION GAME and it should be gamed with VIRTUAL ITEMS ONLY: it’s bleak to see users paying real money to obtain more gold or a greater inventory.

eRepublik statute affirms all citizens are equal, it is to say ALL CITIZENS MUST HAVE EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES, while now richer users in the reality have greater opportunities.

It’d be fair to obtain gold only from money market, invites (see the 5th issue) and mines and a fixed-capacity inventory for each citizen (maybe an unlimited-capacity inventory for citizens with a house in their living place, a limited-capacity one for the others).

If admins want to earn by eRepublik, they should find no discriminatory ways (contributions by European Union, for example).


WOULD YOU LIKE TO REMOVE POSSIBILITY OF USING REAL MONEY?

YES

NO



5.FAKE ACCOUNTS was created in order to obtain gold as a prize for or dispose more fighting people during a war.

To avoid this disgust, it’d be better to give these privileges (gold, possibility of fighting in wars, …) when invited user reaches a 1 YEAR’S LIFE & 10 EXPERIENCE LEVEL in eRepublik.


YOU WOULD LIKE AN INVITE FRUITS PRIVILEGES TO INVITING USER WHEN INVITED USER…

REACHES A 1 YEAR’S LIFE & 10TH EXPERIENCE LEVEL

REACHES A 1 YEAR’S LIFE

REACHES 10TH EXPERIENCE LEVEL

CREATES ITS ACCOUNT



6.We experienced situations where people from a populous country moved to a little one and took its political direction, leaving native people as stranger.

Every citizen should have a NOT-SWITCHABLE NATIONALITY to simulate the real life.


WOULD YOU LIKE A NOT-SWITCHABLE NATIONALITY?

YES

NO



7.LOCAL POLITICAL GOVERNMENTS have been removed into the V1.

It’d be better to have also local governments in eRepublik world in order to free national governments from decisions more proper to a local direction.


WOULD YOU LIKE TO HAVE A LOCAL GOVERNMENT?

YES

NO



8.V1 graphics don’t let anyone understand clearly and quickly how much its pay is, which days itself has worked/trained, …, differently from Beta version graphics.

It’d be better to return to Beta version graphics.


WOULD YOU LIKE TO RETURN TO BETA VERSION GRAPHICS?

YES

NO




ADMINS have been informed because they are forced to change eRepublik code according to the poll results. If they will ignore us, we invite each user to abandon the game, leaving ‘NO REFERENDUM, NO EREPUBLIK’ written on its own shout textfield.

PRESIDENTS of each country have been informed because they will take care our article will be translated into the official language of their country and published on the national newspaper. (or being lazy they 'll just post it into their newspaper)

EVERY CITIZEN is invited to vote this article ( http://www.erepublik.com/index.php/en/article/universal-erepublik-referendum-692012/1 ) and to advise so much people as possible, so that the whole eRepublik population will know the Referendum.



EVERY CITIZEN IS INVITED TO GO TO VOTE ON 14th-17th NOVEMBER 2008!

Slothful citizens aren’t worth to be citizens.

Reactionary citizens are fakers, rich users or anyone with aforesaid privileges: DON’T LET YOURLSELVES DISSUADE!


We wait for your comments and suggestions in order to better referendum text.


22nd OCTOBER 2008
“Rex est populus” - Thomas Hobbes

Author: Gaetano_Gatto