Carpal Tunnel Weekly - Issue 7
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CTW - I7 - June 18th, 2012
A quick update on the War Games, they have sort of been sidetracked for a little bit until EZC figures out what to do with its regiments. The new Military module with the 4 new divisions adds a lot to the game and forces new ideas on how to organize a military unit. Gnilraps, the CO of EZC will be releasing info soon on what EZC will be doing in a response to the changes in the game, shortly after that we will figure out a way to run the War Games and then set them up. I will have a more thorough article later on but I might as well start fundraising since the War Games would be nothing without the help of people donating some stuff to a prize pool. So if you want to help just send me a message and we can talk from there. Thanks.
In other quick headlines, things are very similar to what they were before. Poland still winning a lot, Markets staying steady, Gold still going up, Congress still not doing much, Canada still being stupid, Brazil still mad at Terra (they have now left), and thousands of people continue to click fight over and over and over and over again!
Let’s take a look at the map, shall we?
In Europe, Spain continued its dominance of Portugal pushing them to just one territory. Ever since China was kicked out of Europe Portugal has struggled in their endless war with Spain. And as long as the US and Spain have an agreement together Portugal is kind of on their own.
Where is Portugal and what happened to France? Poland continues its stretch across Europe
Things have been going great for Poland as well, as they have continued to win war after war even when they have several going on at once. The Polish seem to be the class of eRep right now taking on Germany, the US and France (with a couple resistance wars from other countries for good measure) at the same time and are still winning . . .
The potential war between Canada (who really wants to be involved in their own war so that their citizens can gain some True Patriot medals) and Ireland sort of fizzled out and nothing ever happened, though there is increasing talk about Canada and the US going at it. It appears the Canadian government has gone crazy (maybe they are on bath salts or something) and is just really bored and wants to troll or something, who knows what will happen.
Although China was kicked out of Europe, they still remain strong controlling most of Pakistan and North Korea like they have done for a while. Indonesia’s journey into South America seems to be coming to an end soon since Brazil has stepped in and started to take regions from them. And New Zealand, after being kicked out of their own regions on the map by Argentina and Australia, have packed up everything and moved in a region in South America.
We had some interesting Party Presidential elections recently. Normally these elections are kind of boring as most parties hold primaries that decide who the Party President will be and then on election day most of the members of a party vote for the person who won the Primary.
However, in the new RLC party things got very interesting. Right before the election, the old republican party decided to merge into the old USMJ party, this was done for a couple reason but the main reason (as stated by Chickensguys, the leader of the old USMJ party at the time) was to get Glove more votes in the next Country Presidential Elections. In order to agree to a merge though the party name had to change and hence the new Republican Liberty Caucus party. And they started off with a bang, moving from 5th place to 3rd place fairly quickly, jumping both Inci and the Feds in the process.
But that's not what caused things to get heated. Words were said, lies were told, truths were stretched, someone's mom was called fat, someone else's mom was apparently #$%@&, though im not sure if she liked it. Dutch Marley won the RLC PP, even with the Feds making an attempt to get Dennis McVicker into PP, an attempt that no other party wanted to help with, and after a while the Feds sort of gave up realizing it would take a miracle for the Feds to pull off this ATO (or PTO depending on what side your side on) attempt alone. So, now General Cartman Lee is now in a top 3 party, and apparently Glove has more than enough votes (even without the Feds) for the next CP election. We will have to wait and see what happens.
But before all of that happens, we have Congressional elections coming up fairly soon. Shortly you will start to see articles flying everywhere about people running for congress in certain states territories. Let the actually fun campaign season of eRep begin!
I honestly don’t know how to explain what's been going on lately in the economic module of eRep. It appears that the economic module has hit rock bottom as for a little over a week prices on Food, Weapons, Raw Materials and Wages have barely fluctuated at all.
But, the one thing that makes no f#$@ing sense at all is Gold. Although the admins recently introduced a new military module into the game that brought an influx of gold into the game. As stated before, the old War Module gave a maximum of 160 gold per war to the players in the game (if the war lasted 15 rounds) while the new war module gives the players up to 420 gold per war (if it lasts 15 rounds). With how many wars occur in this game, the influx should have easily been several thousand gold, which based on the laws of supply and demand should have brought the price of gold way down.
Instead, the price of gold continues to steadily rise. I can’t explain why because it’s unexplainable. Either the influx of gold has caused people to use even more gold than before (though I have not been seeing that, people are getting gold easier but also holding on to it) or the admins
This week I want to introduce some people to a very good newspaper that does a very thorough market analysis. Written by Wilhem Klink, the 1600 Index has excellent information and lots of good analysis and is worth a couple minutes of your time per week to look through and get a good sense of what’s going on in the Markets.
Fat dogs exercising or Cute puppies having fun?
Every week I will be doing a giveaway to one of my subscribers and for this week the winner is Abdelz who wins 50 Q6 Tanks.
Each week I will be doing this, prizes will change from week to week depending on what I have in my storage (may be weapons, food, gold, usd or a combination), and all you have to do to win is be a subscriber! Unfortunately the game does not allow us to see who our subscribers are so I am doing my best to make a list of subscribers. If you do subscribe just say something in the comments below, if you have said something about subscribing to my paper in the past then you are on the list. But if you clicked subscribe and did not say anything there is no way for me to know, so feel free to say something below. If you are not sure whether or not you are on the list you can PM me and I can let you know.
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Comments
v3 + already sub 🙂 o7 good article
I demand to know the name of the chick on the left.
The right too.
easy way to solve your problem, but seems like the EZC leadership is taking long to start their brains.
v8 already subscribed
Good stuff as always.
Voted.. and some tl;dr stuff below this ↓↓↓
as a member of the RLC, I am very glad that Dennis Mcvicker didn't get elected as PP, and that Dutch did get elected.
My personal feelings towards GCL being in a leadership position are; look, we don't know if he's gonna majorly screw over the country more-so than anyone else has, so why not give him a chance?
Goku, you're new, so I understand your willingness to give him a chance, hell, even i said that at one point, but the fact of the matter is, he's been given like 4 or 5 'second' chances now. Fool me once....
once again e5 delivers another superb article, honestly man, i cant figure out why you aren't a MM yet.
Great stuff
V+S Interesting read.
Oh, and people are spending their gold on upgrades and the like. Makes gold disappear.
voted and subbed!
great article 🙂
@John Jay
I understand that thinking, but the change in the military module puts in an additional 4000-6000 gold per day (based on the number of wars and how long they last) into the game, so apparently the players are spending more than that now, causing the price to go up. I'm not sure i'm buying that the new war module has made the players spend $2500-3000 actual USD worth of gold more than they were on a daily basis before.
Voted, already subbed - really like this paper.
there are several recently new factors in play on the monetary market right now.
the addition of the Q2 and Q3 training centers has not only caused a mass gold drain in terms of upgrades, but has also added to the daily gold drain due to more people training with the priced training grounds. any profit from those upgrades due to increased SS medals will not take effect until after the initial investment in paid off.
Then we have the vote buying club where people are selling gold to buy CC in order to afford prices to buy votes/subs for their papers. granted i haven't thought very hard on this issue, but i'm sure it plays some factor in the Monetary Market.
The training ground upgrades take out an amount of gold once, then from then on they normally add gold into the game (granted it might take a while to get the gold at times), and even if people are spending gold to train, they are getting more gold from SS medals.
And the voting club has nothing to do with the price of gold, money just moves from someone who buys votes, to the person who runs it to small amounts to the individuals who click, nothing enters or leaves the game
Nice article e5! Very entertaining!
Don't know why I wasn't subbed before, but I am now. Great Article!