Don't Say admin Never Loved You
Buck Roger
My faith in the admin staff at eRepublik has been restored. What do I mean? I mean that, at least, they are listening and acting upon our feedback. This is great news for everyone who loves the game and wants fair play with integrity.
I know that many people are going to be upset, claiming biases, and so on. This has happened since the dawn of eRepublik. What hasn't happened that often, especially recently, has been direct admin involvement in world events. There was a lot of this at the start of the game, but it seemed for a long time that we had no recourse if there were foul play. However, at this time, the admin has made an action with regards to the war of Norway with Russia and war of Norway with UK.
I believe we all knew that the election of seko38 was bogus. It has become especially easy in recent times to manipulate elections by multi action, since the fighting age has been reduced to level 3 but the voting age (level) remains the same. This allows you to create a mulit and vote in an election in very short time, with 2 xp per fight. Obviously, that is ridiculous. There is no time to be able to find these accounts, report them, have them banned, and prevent fraud.
Just as obviously, even though the action by admin is a good sign of faith for the people of eRepublik, we all should hope it is not a permanent solution to the manipulation of votes by multi. Here are some ideas to make these kinds of intervention less necessary:
1 - Raise the voting level requirement. It should go back to taking at least a week or even longer.
2 - Raise the level requirement for the 5 GOLD payout, as it is far too tempting for cheaters.
3 - Put in a Turing test ("captcha" or other) for fighting among new players. For example, one test per 5 fights until you reach the voting age. This prevents a lot of automated multi creation.
4 - Flag accounts with automated research by the server (based on cookies, shared IP address, country of computer's origin and country of eRepublik birth discrepancy, etc).
Once again, I know that this will be upsetting to some people who think the admin are biased in some way, but I hope personally that the admin will continue to show their care for the people who play the game and their interest in fairness, whether that favors your country or mine. It is good for the game. Thanks, admin, and I love you too.
PS - Please read the open letter from GLaDOS.
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Le fu.
vote hard!
at last admins will clean up mess with multiaccounts.
Love!
voted!
I <3 admin
I've gone 3 months without being able to contact the admins about my broken contract.
Phoenix cheatings again...
Thanks, admin, and I love you too.
A positive sign indeed.
Cheers Buck
I luvs you Admin.
Cheaters suck.
😁
Plz someone report me for saying that
YEAH! Sure, they've done some pretty bad stuff, but the Admin aren't horrible.
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Still don't make me love the Admins.
It was justice.
You don't love the judge for justice.
That's why they call it Justice.
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It isn't justice for the many new citizens like me who had no idea what PTOs and mult-accounts were, I just saw Scotland attacked, saw the eUK retaliate, fought for my country just to see it taken away by an invisible force called Admins. Great for you eUK haters, sucks for us new guys. I will wait a couple of days to see how this pans out, but I doubt very much I will stay. Essentially it seems that we can officially attack countries but then have it countered by admins, so how do I know what countries we are allowed to attack or not? Sucks big time, which is a shame as it seems like it could have been kinda fun. Meh, maybe I'll just 2 click and troll Canadian forums for a bit with shit jokes and crappy lifted images, doesn't seem to be doing you any harm Tyler.
@ Ian Dixon: It's easy.. If people stop cheating, the admins won't intervene. The oportunity to invade, was because of one thing, and one thing only - cheating. And cheating should never be promoted, it's as simple as that.
But welcome to the game, I hope you enjoy it as much as the rest of us.
v-s
Ian Dixon,
It all comes around and goes around.
I remember when UK occupied Alberta and a couple of the Atlantic Canadian regions...o'course we took them back...😉
Canada lost a good 1000 2-clickers cuz of that war.
That was when Citizenship was introduced.
Whatever region you were born into was your nationality.
IMO you got off EASY.
ktxbai
I will be extremely upset if the admins only interfere on multi account PTOs this once. If they make it a regular thing, then I suppose it is fair. But PTOs using multis has been going on forever, and nothing is done about it until now? Either continue to intervene in illegal PTOs or just don't intervene at all. Also... why was UKs hospital given to Norway? they put a hospital there, and when the regions were returned, it was still there.
I believe UK should petition for the restoration of what they have lost in the war.
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Looks like the UK is already on top of it.
http://forum.erepublik.com/showthread.php/89908-YOU-OWE-THE-UNITED-KINGDOM-500-GOLD" target="_blank">http://forum.erepublik.com/showthread.ph[..]-GOLD
This is exactly what I believe too! It's a sign that we can play a fair game!
Yes, it's true, unfortunately the reverse action hit UK... but this is it! We have to accept this action and hope that the game will be more fair play from now on! 🙂
great suggestion
vote 204 sub 5078
I <3 admin
Sorry... Not signing GlaDOS's open letter.
I agree with your anti-PTO-multi suggestions, however.
I clikced war with Russia link and it seems russia now has an MPP with Poland?
I <3 admin x2
Good suggestions Buck Roger! Thank you for your support!
I take this action as a good thing, a sign that cheat will not be accepted. Cheating is low and contemptible. GLaDOS knew it was under handed and cheap, even though his move was not actually against the rules, and did it anyway. Now not only is he a Turncoat, he is back stabber and even his own citizens want his head.
Voted. I like the ideas, except the one about the captcha, that thing drives me crazy 😛
Constantinos, the captcha would be only for new players.
I have filled out thousands. They can do a dozen, for the sake of fairness, before they get to vote.
"3 - Put in captcha for fighting among new players. For example, one captcha per 5 fights until you reach the voting age. This prevents a lot of automated multi creation."
It does not. Captcha is only annoying to human players. Scripts auto-fill captcha. Try skipscreen plugin for firefox, it fills captchas on almost all filesharing sites (I can't name them here since it is forbiden by erep rules)
Ludak021
Ludak021, thanks for the note.
Looks like they need another form of automated script protection, then.
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Admin Victory over Phoenix Cheaters
you definitely aren't one to talk about this you have won the society builder medal 113 times that means you have invited 1,130 people and gotten them to level 6 if that isn't cheating i don't know what is
if you want to know if someone has multiples check the MAC number, they are unique to a computer
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good article……
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Dont Spam Plzzzzz
When they ban all Croats multiaccounts in Slovenia then we can say that admins are fer (i can give list of more then 50 of them and there are at least 50 (to 100) more and 30 Croats witch gain Slo. citizenship from 11 congressman witch were cro. multi.-spme have bin ban for that)
what does this mean?
"Flag accounts with automated research by the server (based on cookies, shared IP address, country of computer's origin and country of eRepublik birth discrepancy, etc)" i don't understand it sorry. voted!
Yeah.. No players under level 15 shouldn't have the right to vote !
I noticed that account hack of South Africa's former president Roneli, that made Brazil and Argentina defeat SA in a day, didn't provoked any kind of action by admins... And it was obvious that a hacked account got tons of multi votes to win CP elections.
Vote for a fair game