Another idea

Day 1,659, 10:03 • Published in Greece Greece • by TheKnight Rider
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There have been written many articles in the past about the problems introduced with the changes of the economy module.

It has become very hard to earn the gold needed to play the game from raw companies and food / weapon factories.

Everyone knows that those changes were made because plato needed more money.

However I thought a solution that can increase the money that plato gets and at the same time greatly help all players.



Most will say that this is impossible and it simply wont happen.
But it can be done.

The idea is very simple:
Since plato is a bussinessman it is natural that he needs money. In fact if he doesnt get he wont be able to maintain the servers needed to run erepublik and make a profit. So he has to have an income the question is who will give him that?


Players arent a gold mine. They cant pay all the time dozens or even hundreads of euros for a game. This doesnt feel right and certenly isnt.
Moreover a large majority of players simply refuses to buy gold thus making it impossible for plato to gain money from them.

Plato reacted to this and has increased the cost of living in the e-world thus forcing many players to buy more gold to increase his profit.

For now he achieved his purpose.

But players arent happy and this is important for plato because he needs the players as they are part of the game. One could say that players are the game itself and that is what it makes it unique.

So if players cant provide plato with the necessary money he needs then who will?
It seems we have reached a dead end but we havent.

If you cant do something maybe there is someone else who can do it.

In our case this translates to: If players are unable to pay plato with the necessary money then someone else has to do it (if plato refuses to decrease his income).
But who the heck is this guy who has plenty of money to spend??? Large companies of course!!

We all know that large companies give millions of dollars / euros to promote their products.

Many of you may think that I am proposing plato to turn erepublik into this:


But i dont. If plato does this it will be like forcing everyone to watch adverts even if people dont want that. Instead he can give people the abillity to choose if they want to watch and advertisement or not.
In a few words i am proposing this:

People can choose if they want to watch the advertisement or not and it doesnt cost a penny for them. Also plato will gain a small amount (a few cents) from every ad seen but if you calculate the amount of players you may have millions of euros every month.

This is easy to implement and it guarantees good income while it helps instead of punish young players and those who dont tank.
Images of plato have been borrowed from this article.