First congressional elections in eRepublik V1
Day 340, 01:24
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by Plato
Why should you become a member of Congress?
It is an opportunity to enhance your skills while contributing to your country’s development. Members of Congress, with the help of the president, ensure the political and economic stability of the country.
As member of Congress you can propose the following: a new citizen fee value, the amount of national currency/Gold to be donated from the country's treasury to an organization, tax changes, a new minimum wage and presidential impeachment (propose a forcible removal of the country's president).
You also have the power to express your vote regarding: the message to new citizens, hospital and Defense system acquisitions, mutual protection pacts of your country, declaring war and peace proposals, and stopping trade with other countries.
If you become a member of Congress, you receive 20 experience points. Considering the citizens’ requests in beta, members of Congress now have the ability to change their residence and can also resign from their seat in Congress.
What do you have to do to become member of Congress?
In order to be a candidate for the congressional elections, you need at least 100 experience points (level 12) and you also must convince your party president to nominate you for a congressional seat.
How do elections take place?
On the 25th of each month, the congressional elections take place in eRepublik. You will need to visit the voting polls in order to see the list of candidates. After selecting the candidates of one of the first five parties in your country, you can vote for the one you consider to be the best candidate for a seat in Congress. In these types of elections the uninominal voting system is applied, which means that the first 40 candidates obtaining the total number of votes received become members of Congress.
Recent updates:
1. Removed the fatal errors that appeared after accessing different links from a party page
2. Special characters should work now
3. Fixed fatal errors on send messages
4. Fixed a problem that was appearing during the registration process
5. Removed the possibility to embed on forum
6. Citizen fee issue fixed - if you registered in Moscow, you will receive RUB instead of NOK
7. Company donations of raw materials - now you can donate only the specific raw material needed by a manufacturing/construction company
We are starting to work on small modules improvements. Better trivia questions and improvements to the war module are among our top priorities.
Thank you for your support,
The eRepublik Team
It is an opportunity to enhance your skills while contributing to your country’s development. Members of Congress, with the help of the president, ensure the political and economic stability of the country.
As member of Congress you can propose the following: a new citizen fee value, the amount of national currency/Gold to be donated from the country's treasury to an organization, tax changes, a new minimum wage and presidential impeachment (propose a forcible removal of the country's president).
You also have the power to express your vote regarding: the message to new citizens, hospital and Defense system acquisitions, mutual protection pacts of your country, declaring war and peace proposals, and stopping trade with other countries.
If you become a member of Congress, you receive 20 experience points. Considering the citizens’ requests in beta, members of Congress now have the ability to change their residence and can also resign from their seat in Congress.
What do you have to do to become member of Congress?
In order to be a candidate for the congressional elections, you need at least 100 experience points (level 12) and you also must convince your party president to nominate you for a congressional seat.
How do elections take place?
On the 25th of each month, the congressional elections take place in eRepublik. You will need to visit the voting polls in order to see the list of candidates. After selecting the candidates of one of the first five parties in your country, you can vote for the one you consider to be the best candidate for a seat in Congress. In these types of elections the uninominal voting system is applied, which means that the first 40 candidates obtaining the total number of votes received become members of Congress.
Recent updates:
1. Removed the fatal errors that appeared after accessing different links from a party page
2. Special characters should work now
3. Fixed fatal errors on send messages
4. Fixed a problem that was appearing during the registration process
5. Removed the possibility to embed on forum
6. Citizen fee issue fixed - if you registered in Moscow, you will receive RUB instead of NOK
7. Company donations of raw materials - now you can donate only the specific raw material needed by a manufacturing/construction company
We are starting to work on small modules improvements. Better trivia questions and improvements to the war module are among our top priorities.
Thank you for your support,
The eRepublik Team
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Plese fix the bug that moved Hungarian companies to Romania.
Also there is a canditate fpr the Hungarian congress who now lives in Canada.
So congressmen can move overseas now?
There were 4 votes, now, 0 ? WTF ?
good job admin 😉
😃
Tanx for your works
But another bugs:
1. After 72 hours passed, the employees can't resign
2. Edit profile page has many errors
3. When a company has no money, the manager receives a message, but the name is shown "%%2%%"
Voted
congressman move overseas to comparative study and spend state money
lol
I get this message when trying to attack the wall in Southern Finlan😛
Fatal error: Call to a member function getId() on a non-object in /var/www/production/releases/20081024154825/apps/frontend/modules/trivia/actions/actions.class.php on line 118
This happened three times today and after that I didn't get trivia bonus(I didn't even get to answer the questions, that error appears when there should be the 'Start'-button) so I've lost way more wellness and dealt less damage than I should have because I've always got supershots from the Finland-related questions. Please do something about it, and in my honest opinion 100khp for the wall is too much.
@Kirill Nowakovski: erepublik.com/en/elections/country-11-election-congress-0-date-2008-10
@mamylo and Kuhaa: Thanks for reporting this, we will have a look upon these issues.
When i go to vote i can't scroll down on the list of people who i wanna elect, not sure if anyone is getting this but i can only vote for the top 5-6 people at the moment.
Very bad timing for the inability to access the party page - the party presidents of those parties weren't able to change the congress candidates in time. Also, changing the party wasn't possible because of this. eNorway election results will be very awkward.
I voted this morning, but my candidate get no vote.
The voting system is a big missunderstanding. What happend when only 1 or 2 in all parties get votes, and the rest 0?
@Cristi Badea: Could you change this organizations licenses from norway to finland, because I wan't to live in finland but I won't pay 40G to get licenses to there. Change to Kastelli and Finnforest from Norway to Finland, Please.
@Admins: Could you now when the eating seems to finally work, pay for everyone who has been in this game from beta by raising wellness up to 100 and give some gold to pay for the waiting?
I have found one bug. I write with my newspaper. All my news are shown in Thailand, but newspaper himself is in Finland. WTF?
@SuicideOG every day when it was a problem with "eating", all the citizens received a 5% bonus in wellness.
hey , another problem , when i edit an articole it is white , no words on it.
Heh, there are people living in Finland currently being voted to be in the congress of Norway 😃
great thanks admin
cheers
"In these types of elections the uninominal voting system is applied, which means that the top 40 candidates obtaining the highest number of votes become members of Congress."
This is retarded. What if one party has a candidate that gets a huge amount of votes? Even though that party gets the most votes, they only get 1 spot. Furthermore, you're system for voting is stupid. You're tricking people into only voting for the first candidates on the list, because no one understands how the elections work.
Check this forum topic and go back to the old system: http://www.erepublik.com/en/forum/topic/79478/remove-the-congressmen-elections-system/1
@Bogdan Adamutz: Well I didnt get any wellness bonus? My wellness was at 16 lowest, after that gifts started working and then I got 1 bonus from game, with 10 wellness.
good work!
one bug:
for some reason i cant buy pte or sell gold with my SO account...
it says that i dont have enough currency on the account.... but i do... 😒
Our SO has the same problem as DT enterprises. Companies are located in Eastern Finland but we have to buy export licences to Finland and that doesn't sound right. If you could fix this problem it would be great.
The elections system is bad and unrealistic.
@DT Enterprises: Next week we will make it possible for citizens that are in your situation to buy an export license for the country where the company is situated with 5 Gold. Normally, this license costs 20 Gold, not 40.
"In these types of elections the uninominal voting system is applied, which means that the top 40 candidates obtaining the highest number of votes become members of Congress."
This is a joke.
And some parties cannont midificate their congresmen list... 😒
Why have you changed my list for the congress?
Cristi: Please respond to the comments concerning the article. We would like to know why you have chosen this system, and how you meet the critisicm.
"In these types of elections the uninominal voting system is applied, which means that the top 40 candidates obtaining the highest number of votes become members of Congress."
This is retarded. What if one party has a candidate that gets a huge amount of votes? Even though that party gets the most votes, they only get 1 spot. Furthermore, you're system for voting is stupid. You're tricking people into only voting for the first candidates on the list, because no one understands how the elections work.
Check this forum topic and go back to the old system: http://www.erepublik.com/en/forum/topic/7 9478/remove-the-congressmen-elections-system/1
Can we get elections put on to each users main page e.g.
'It is election day, click here to vote'
as a lot of half active users will have no idea its an election day.
@Danny: First of all lets keep the "retarded" comments aside. The uninominal system is used in several countries in real life. Citizens should have the possibility to elect the person and not a group of persons. With the old system, in many countries after the congress elections were over, you could find members in Congress who didn't even want to occupy this position and many of them were "no-names" for the community. This way, you had the possibility to get an inactive Congress in many countries. With the new power that a Congressman now has, filtering these members is a must and should be done by the entire community, not only by party presidents. Remember that their actions can influence all citizens and at least this right to choose the correct person to take this position should come to each citizen.
"If you become a member of Congress, you receive 20 experience points. Considering the citizens’ requests in beta, members of Congress now have the ability to change their residence and can also resign from their seat in Congress."
Best update EVER! Thank you for not shackling our best soldiers and such to Congress. 🙂
@Kumnaa: You're right...again. I don't think that we can have this today, but I'll make sure that the next elections will have something like a short-cut somewhere on the homepage.
@admin: fix bug menù candidate list please
Cristi: good job but...can change companies location?
@Domi: Not sure is such a good idea for companies to change their location. We'll think about it.
KUMNAA IS ALWAYS RIGHT...
SuicideOG
DT Enterprises
@Cristi Badea: I mean now that I have wood and house company, because I cannot donate from wood company to housing company without putting it on sale and bying, I need to buy the license to both companies. So it would have been 40G, now it is 10.
Could you make it so that the resource companies would donate resources?
@Kumnaa: The voting is kinda on the front page, "Level 6: Remember to vote" or something like that.
@Christi Badea: Please don't ignore me, face the critics, please. I've copied this from my respond to you two articles ago. I posted this in the last article as well, no respond there. Please answer.
True, pretty much all of Sweden is covered with wood. BUT do you really think we go out the garden to chop down a tree for export to all of Europe? Well, that'd be quite incorrect I belive. From the middle of Sweden and down south is mostly populated, the north is pretty much a vasteland. It's from the north the wood comes, that's where the companies are allowed to chop their little trees and sell outborders. Most people consider it annoying having a team of lumberjacks and machines in their back yard, that's why whe force the up north. That's also the reason we want and deserves 2😒 in Wood in our northern regions, and that's not by tomorrow, that's TODAY we deserves it.
You gave us the regions and then removed them, I don't see why you couldn't give them back now when we've made things clear. You did an honest mistake, sure thing, you don't live here and probably know just a little about us. We deserve our 2😒 in wood.
Oh, and speaking of the concentration of resorces; why didn't we get a 2 in Iron then? We've already told you about our massive production from a small area high, high up north, Google "Kiruna", or just check the wiki. You'll see there's going on quite a lot in the iron ore sector there. Actually, they're about to MOVE a whole town just to get better access to the iron ore, that's how profitable it is. Could we please get a 2 i Iron as well, we certainly deserves it. And we want the resorces Now, not whenever you feel like mix everything around a little.
Could you just do the right thing and give Sweden 2😒 in Iron and Wood? You've done an honest miscalulation or something, it can happen the best. Just make sure to correct it now. Thank you and sorry I sound a little harsh from time to time, it's just my way of proving a point.
election system is bad
get 2 vote ~~~> Congratulations you are a Congressman
can you confirm, is it the top 40 like this article, or proportional per party and then the top members in that party get in like the wiki says
@Cristi Badea: About Karl Holm's thing, if resources are given by the real world, then eFinland deserves 2 wood in allmost every region, 2 grain in allmost every, we have a diamond mine in eastern finland ( http://en.gtk.fi/ExplorationFinland/Commodities/Diamond_exploration.html ). So if you could add at least 1 diamond in eastern finland.
So if you give one nation it's real resources, you should give every nation.
Just an answer to Sweden's requests.
Sincerely,
SuicideOG
DT Enterprises
Cristi...a bug in trivia war: Fatal error: Call to a member function getId() on a non-object in /var/www/production/releases/20081024154825/apps/frontend/modules/trivia/actions/actions.class.php on line 118
@Cristi Badea: Another bug, when people are trying to fight in a resistance war in eNorway, when they start the battle it gives an error and takes the 30 wellness. Please fix it for eFinlands sake.
I'll repeat this again - The candidates list makes it almost possible to vote for the bottom candidates. because it is buggy.
FIX VALENCIA VENEZUELA/SPAIN BUG
Election system is not working here, I believe - in reality, where are milions of elector, this system might work (anyhow I belive it does not...), but here, when country has 300 citizens and maybe one third of them will vote, it really means that two votes(i.e. less than 1% of all electors) will make candidate elected... Also, what will happen, when for example 41 candidates will get 2votes? How will be chozen the one, who will not be elected? Otherwise, good job!
The congressional election results will be bizarre, this much is true. Whatever happens if there are only 10 people getting voted and the rest get 0 votes? God (read= admins) knows.
I'd like to get an explanation concerning the missing experience points. Although it's of little importance to me, I would still like to hear how did I suddenly lose 100 experience points? Even if the experience point system was updated to take into consideration the new system how experience points are given, I should still have more than the current amount. Bug in the code or intentional change?