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Today, I looked back my newspapers backlog and all I saw was retarded trolling. In my last article’s comment section I saw distress from many readers regarding the lack of my trademark articles, regular war reports unlocking the secrets of seemingly mysterious military maneuvers to the general public. Writing them was a blast to me; comments encouraging to write more and thanking from a great read, votes, top-5 spots and a rising subscriber count were my rewards. I looked forward to log on and see new battles started, analyzing the situation and then starting to write. However, those days are over. I’m not capable to deliver such articles anymore and therefore I’m stopping altogether.

You see, English isn’t my native language. A default war article was two A4-pages long and took 2 hours to write. I frequently used a web dictionary to find lost words or make the text more readable by using lots of adjectives and coherent paragraphs. At summer I had all the time in the world. I wake up early and just finished an article before the World Cup games started. For the misfortune of the majority of eRepublikans, schools and work has started again, and I’m amongst the students who have to drag their asses to school from Monday to Friday. Studying is hard. It takes time, and I don’t have 2 consecutive hours daily to fool around in eRepublik and write quality articles unless I want to sacrifice my good night sleep. In fact, I should be doing something else right now, and its weekend for Christ’s sake.

So, the reason I’ve only written retarded troll articles lately is because I have no time to write good ones, but I still wanted to contribute. War reporting is rewarding in terms of feedback and appreciation, but looking it strictly from numbers’ point of view, you don’t get contributed as you wanted. A normal war article earned me around 10 new subscribers and a range from 250 to 350 votes. My last article which was purely for giggles got 531 votes and hell, even the WTC article which was up only for about 16 hours earned me 7 new subscribers. My decision to write quality articles only to the American media might have had an effect to the amount of subscribers, but honestly speaking, the American media is quite certainly the most read media in the world. As USA is the largest English-speaking nation in the game, her media is easy to read and as the USA is worth mentioning as a social and military power, many of our allies and enemies read our media too.

Our media is also the best media in the world. It has dried a little along with eRepublik Falling, but it’s still an excellent board filled with governmental announcements, top-class newspapers and a huge diversity of smaller newspapers, all having their “thing” they think might draw more subscribers. I encourage everyone to push that “more news”-button and not stick up with the top-5 articles visible on the front page. Also, go to the second page of top-20. There are the newer newspapers that still don’t have enough subscribers to reach the first page or the front page. Experiment and explore new papers, you might very well find something worth reading another time. That’s why the Subscribe-button is for.

The world is filled by war reporters, but the best war report there is should acknowledge the American media as its home. The American public deserves the most accurate, most frequent and most enjoyable war report to broaden their insight on the game. Be it Desertfalcon’s, Aeros’s, Lt. Pooheads of mine, the American media should always have a top-class war report.

That’s why I’m excited to see Lieutenant Scheisskopf returning to war reporting. Earlier, I used to compete with him from the top place of war reports. Once he quit for the summer, I got you all for myself, but frankly, I was just keeping the seat warm. The American media can’t handle two war reports at the same time. Though it would give an even wider glance on the happenings of the world, top-5 would get a bit cramped. Articles stay up for 48 hours, and if important events happen during two consecutive days, top-5 could theoretically carry four war report articles at the same time, two from the day and two from the day earlier. Now when I have time to write mediocre, hasty written articles at best, it’s better to give the keys to American war reporting back to Lt. Scheisskopf for good.

Frequent war reporting was effectively invented by Desertfalcon, as he wrote daily reports from the fields of the North American War to his paper, Global Defense Report. His work was continued by Aeros, who published Defense Intel Review. He wrote articles in parallel with Lt. Scheisskopf, until he immigrated to Australia and effectively stopped writing frequent articles, leaving Lt. S in control of the top spot of the U.S media. I’ve learned lots from these three writers and I’m honored to rise in to a similar position they’ve all been. War reporting has earned me hundreds of eRepublik friends, 2 Media Moguls and endless amounts of joy. The Front Line Journal is the 83rd largest newspaper in the world and 3rd largest privately owned active newspaper in the United States. I thank you all who made this possible.

I’m not stopping to write though. Not at all. I have an original idea I’m planning to put in to action that will take me less time to write but still give you important information around the eWorld. The media is by far the best module in eRepublik. Had it not been so awesome, I’d quitted playing years ago. In fact, I collected lots of information to my war reports from foreign media. The information to everything is out there, being published daily in 48-hour cycles. All you have to do is dig up a little.

But reading through and translating foreign articles is so time consuming. That’s where I come in. I’m planning to round up the best articles of several nations and briefly summarize them in English. It’s not just the battles that shape this virtual world, looking to the foreign media in general can teach us many things about how our allies and enemies are feeling today. Stay tuned.

Tired already? To not to bore you with my ramblings about the American media, there is still another 1134 words about the alleged downfall of Phoenix. Hey, you asked for serious articles! I give 5G to the guy who doesn’t blink once while reading.



Poland ready to hit Liaoning – Are the final days of Phoenix at hand?

Since the successful invasion of Russia’s resource havens by Eden, Phoenix has been in distress and her member nations have gone through vicious fights about spheres of influence, lack of support on the fields and swappings. In midst of internal infighting, a new threat is looming around the leading nation of Phoenix. The two most powerful nations in the world, Poland and Serbia haven’t had a legit war in between them, to the surprise of many. These nations have never bordered each other long enough for either one to declare a war or gain one through chain reaction rule.

Today, Poland was swapped to border Liaoning, and as they attacked Czech Republic, war was finally opened. Poland retreated behind Chinese and North Korean regions for now, but from now on they can hit Liaoning whenever it suits them the best. The distracted and contentious Phoenix is in an underdog position, and the central power Serbia can’t trust anyone but themselves in the future defense of the region. Currently there are over 900 Serbs predeployed in Liaoning, which is a record of deployments on one side. The upcoming battle of Liaoning will be a 1vs1 battle of the two superpowers, representing their respective alliances in an ultimate battle of world domination. Phoenix is tearing apart from the inside and losing Liaoning might be the final straw that will break up the alliance. These three diplomatic incidents all happening within a very short timeframe might result in the breakup.

The Russian downfall.

Starting from the dawn of V2, the third strongest nation of Phoenix has gone nowhere else but downhill. The active population of Russia has decreased severely and the loss of WSR, ES and FER mean they have degraded to a mere regional power. The supreme MPP😒 directed against Russia are handicapping them from doing anything, as Poland separates Russia from USA, the only nation vulnerable to a Russian attack.
As time passes, the only option seems to be either erasing Russia and clearing the MPP😒 or swapping Hungary or Serbia from Europe through Russia to clear Russia from occupiers in a string of 1vs1 battles. Both options are extremely expensive in a world where Gold is scarce. RW:ing the regions back to Russia won’t work either, because Eden has stronger mobile troops and as was seen once in FER, USA can simply attack and conquer the region again.

Russia laid impressive amounts of damage in the RW of FER, but since then they have been practically non-existent on the battlefields. Italy laid more damage in the RW😒 of Bosnia a few days ago, for instance. Phoenix might not be too keen to help Russia in a multi-thousand Gold operation when they have seemingly started the process of sinking to the oblivion.

In V1, Russia was a major financier of Phoenix’s operations, but now when they have lost a significant portion of their population alongside with the richest regions, the void of Russian money is drawing the entire alliance to financial troubles. Eden is slowly invading the entire raw material market, leaving Phoenix dependent of the income manufactured goods and housing industries create. The economical distress can be seen from Phoenix’s recent article.

Troubles with sharing – Hungarian colonialists try to decline titanium from Brazil.

As this issue was formally solved, it’s the smallest problem Phoenix has encountered during the past week. The quarrel grew big enough to be mentioned though, as Brazil attacked South Africa without a warning in a bid to capture a region with titanium. In August, South Africa was PTO:ed by a Hungarian group, which Brazil considered a private mercenary group and attacked their colony as SA didn’t have any MPP😒. The PTO group however had close ties with the Hungarian government, and they were infuriated by the attack which they considered almost as bad if Brazil had attacked Hungarian territories. The incident included Hungarians hijacking the Brazilian media by filling the top-5 with anti-Brazilian articles.

The incident was solved in extensive negotiations between the PTO group, the Hungarian government and their Brazilian counterpart. The pact leaves Gauteng in possession of Brazil and Hungary is bound to help secure it in case it’s attacked. Hungary and SA also have to return the region to Brazil in case it’s lost, and this might come costly if Eden decides to frequently RW Gauteng.

Can’t touch this – Indonesia’s attempts to stay virgin infuriate Serbia.

During the past week, Serbia reached through India and captured two resource-filled regions in Malaysia. Serbia reorganized their ranks and got ready to swap through Indonesia to claim the ultimate prize, titanium from Northern Territory, Australia. Indonesia however suddenly put a halt to their plans, infuriating the Serbians. Indonesia is extraordinary as they have never lost an original region to anyone during the entire history of the game. All the superpowers of eRepublik have lived through the embarrassing moment of having some of their regions captured by the enemy. Only Indonesia has stayed clear. South East of Asia has been under Indonesian control for months, so there are no natural enemies and though Australia attacked Indonesia at one point, they failed to capture anything. The best bet to invade Indonesia was when Malaysia had 18 MPP😒 against them as Indonesia interfered their training wars, but Malaysia refused to attack.

Serbia, who has a very pragmatic view towards the game, is perplexed. Not long ago Serbia let Bulgaria through her own territories and they expect the same kind of behavior from other allies. Swapping through friendly territories indeed is considered normal, but Indonesia wants to stay pure and be one of the very few nations who have never been invaded. Serbia considers this as stupid role play and dissent towards Indonesia has gone through the roof. Indonesia stalled the plans to split Australia enough for Australians to select a native as president, so if Serbia wants to invade Australian regions, they have to fight a full-scale battle instead of an instant retreat from the takeoverist president. Indonesians still control 60% of the congress, denying any MPP-proposals from passing, but they might lose their majority in the next elections as over 100 Indonesian votes were revealed to be cast by multiaccounts in the election checking admins performed after presidential elections. If Indonesia doesn’t let Serbia through before the elections, Serbia can say good bye to their attempts to get titanium and the swappings that cost them hundreds of Gold were all done in vain. That should be enough to piss the Phoenix superpower off and create massive internal squabbling inside Phoenix.

Under these circumstances, the fall of Liaoning would mark a near Eden hegemony over the world. All what stands in between is the strongest nation in the world who has already kept the invaders from their crown jewel twice. Sounds like a worthy challenge to me.