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From Russia with love, by Romania's Ambassador in USA

76 Day 404, 14:25 USA
I am sorry for ruining your plans in Russia, and for being a badass pig disgusting imperialist powerful country. I am sorry for not having a border with France. Or Italy. I am sorry for being surrounded by so many weak countries and for having to conquer so many regions* to reach a border with PEACE.

But Benn’s external politics are like driving a flashy Corvette around the neighborhood. And you don’t even know all the roads you’re going. Here is the official statement written yesterday by our Minister of External Affairs. Here is an unofficial article written two moths ago by me (the one you are reading now is official). I was saying we’ll support our allies in Atlantis. Here are the official statistics for the latest Atlantis battles. The numbers speak for themselves, Romania was always in the top half (in one battle it even made 54% of the total Atlantis damage).

Sure, Romania should have informed USA of it’s plans. I do apologize for the late information, and I also hope it will never happen again. On a less official note I might add that I’m not surprised it happened once. –1 to Alex Craciun for his too big ego. But Alex also had good reasons to be discreet about this war even in Altantis. Getting back to an official approach I’m stunned by USA’s reaction.

USA was very eager to conquer French regions, but failed to hold them. Also USA is criticizing Romania for not getting involved enough in the French war, which is NOT true – while Romania is criticizing USA for not accepting a plan in that war that might have worked better (both from Romania’s and Sweden’s experience). Regarding USA's military organization, we even offered to look under the Corvette's hood with US's engineers, tune up the engine a little. No response. Now USA lost the French regions and is back at protecting small countries. This doesn’t feel right. Romania was never hypocritical - we said we'll sustain Atlantis, and we did, as for the countires that aren't in Atlantis or our friends... we don't promise anything. Romania's leaders are all highly educated persons who don't sustain any kind of violence in real life. But erepublik is a game, and we are playing it our way.

It’s unpleasant to see eUSA acting like real life USA. Plus, in the field of military power eUSA is not like RL USA. The erepublik equivalent of RL USA is eSpain or eRomania. eUSA has only the biggest population but it’s more like RL Russia. So taking in consideration only the military power:
eUSA = RL Russia
eRomania = RL USA.

So Benn’s actions are like the President of Russia publicly threatening USA for the war in Iraq (funny, it was also for oil). Do you realize how bad this looks? It is unacceptable. Have you read Dsalageanu’s article about deterrence in erepublik? It’s Dr. Strangelove all over the place. Seriously now, I’m sure there won’t be any aggressive actions between eUSA and eRomania, and I hope there won’t be any cold… relations.

I want to thank Benn for his preoccupation about the public opinion in Romania regarding this war. It’s true a lot of people don’t fully realize how this looks from the viewpoint of everybody around the world (or feel like Romania is invincible and capable of conquering half the world - which definitely not the case). But most people accept the downsides for the gains war offers in this Game.

I hope we’ll put aside our exaggerated ego’s – Benn please take off your Ego Power Armor (+10 to ego) – read this article again, and reestablish the friendship between Romania and USA.


Romania’s Ambassador in USA,
Shadow Figure

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* except Ukraine which was conquered completely, but there isn’t a Ukrainian community in eR. If there will be one complaining about it I’m sure we’ll give them their country. Though they’ll have to fight for the resources – it’s a game after all, remember that when you are taking yourselves too serious.

 
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Chisholm
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Chisholm Day 404, 14:32

If your calling eUSA RL Russia for population your awfully wrong there, Russia is in top (what 5 or 6)? when it comes to populations but technically if you calling someone out on highest population you'd be calling the RL China, or at least India. But anyways, Romania may apologize for breaking the ATLANTIS treaty, but unless almost all other ATLANTIS nations forgive them, Romania still has to pay up 100 gold to each ATLANTIS nation.

 
Shadow Figure
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Shadow Figure Day 404, 14:35

@Chisholm: I really didn't wanted to draw any kind of line betwen eUSA and those countries.

 
Jamon Tyler
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Jamon Tyler Day 404, 14:38

ya did lol. Maybe you should take off +10 to ego. I agree though, Benn Dover is doing a terrible job (just my opinion). I am one for being open and not keeping secrets, but Benn should not be boasting his opinions within seconds of events and damaging the image of the eUSA. Take a breather, wait a few days, consult some eAdvisors, and then write an article. There shouldn't be any problem. Romania can do what they want, we won't get involved, we didn't know about it beforehand so we are not responsible. eUSA should be a mostly isolationist country, not the imperialistic country it is now (in RL and in eRepublik.

 
Benn Dover
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Benn Dover Day 404, 14:38

Why have you not responded to either of my PMs...?

 
Inwegen
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Inwegen Day 404, 14:41

You're not doing such a great job at rebuilding relations by attacking our country and our leader. +infinity to douche bag points

 
Benn Dover
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Benn Dover Day 404, 14:42

@Jamon: I created that article about two days after the initial war declaration. Also - Isolationist... Atlantis... the two don't exactly go together :p
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@Shadow: Imo, these RL references are a lot more offensive than myself publishing an article on my feelings towards the war.

 
Shadow Figure
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Shadow Figure Day 404, 14:42

Sorry, I published the article about 4 times because of some bugs that were making text do dissapear.

 
Coliba
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Coliba Day 404, 14:43

"consult some eAdvisors, and then write an article."

He is OUR voice.We, the romanians, are totally agree with him.


 
Chisholm
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Chisholm Day 404, 14:49

You don't always have to put complete faith in someone who is your voice? Unless I misunderstand what your saying there Coliba

 
Coliba
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Coliba Day 404, 14:59

Take it as you want. It's not hard to predict the future...

 
Shadow Figure
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Shadow Figure Day 404, 15:03

@Benn: ok, you can be RL USA and eRomania RL Russia. The point of those references it's not to prove eRomania is stronger that eUSA, we have no intention to convince you of that.

The point it that you article was seen as an unaceptable act of aggresion, and was wrong for USA's foreing policy with Romania.

 
Zagarius
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Zagarius Day 404, 15:19

Curious, how is the USA Imperialsts? Do we have any lands other than those within our borders???

Hmm... NO! SO Romania and stick their pompous statement where it belongs! The USA stands for freedom and respect, We attack when threatened you Attack for Gain! and Attack with lies and bribery!

Your day is coming soon!

 
Han Solo
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Han Solo Day 404, 15:20

and there are some other points but Benn should give some answers on the Atlantis forum. I will address there our questions.

P.S.
Nice to see that William Shafer is back in business after his "holiday" in Russia.

 
Shadow Figure
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Shadow Figure Day 404, 15:21

@Zagarius: I'm not a native english speaker, but I think you know less english than me. The first paragraph it's all about Romania, read it again.

 
Han Solo
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Han Solo Day 404, 15:22

Zagarius, how do you call the USA invasion in France and the the goal of your president to have a border with Italy?
How do you call USA interference in Russia and South Africa?
Don't tell me, France is an american soil, I forgot

 
mindflay
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mindflay Day 404, 15:27

This sounds like a Government problem, I beleive we should just the boys on the hill work this crap out with the Romanians. I do agree that the public statement coming from our leader was a bit to much. You are the leader of the Largest Country in the eRep world so you prolly should not be the first one to jump about this problem in Russia. Hell just pm me and tell me what the problem is and Ill give them hell for it if you want or maybe a congressmen.

Romania.... Dont worry to much about relationships, I personally feel very bad for the Russian people and I will be an advocate for giving them back there country just so long as they do not decide to join our enemies. Beyond that we have bigger fish to fry and I say we get on with it.

 
Peter McLag
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Peter McLag Day 404, 15:43

You sure you're an Ambassador?

Because, like Inwegen said, I consider this article an offense to our country and to our leader.
I'm with our President, you people are in an Alliance, which is based on a treaty, now, this is a game and you can go rogue and do whatever the hell you want, but you can't deny that there are consequences to your in-game actions. And quite frankly, trying to antagonize us doesn't help much.

 
Benn Dover
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Benn Dover Day 404, 15:47

"The point it that you article was seen as an unaceptable act of aggresion, and was wrong for USA's foreing policy with Romania."

I don't believe you. Get Alex or Dsal to comment saying that my article was an act of aggression against Romania and I will believe you.

 
Shadow Figure
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Shadow Figure Day 404, 16:21

@Peter McLag: I think I choose my word with diplomacy.

I didn't used "urge" like in : "Romania, I urge you NOT to enter battle with Russia".

I didn't mentioned anything about sending troops against an Atlantis ally like "we realize that sending military forces to Russia will do nothing."

I don't call you "brainwashed" for suporting your president like in "In my opinion, you brainwashed Romanians" because in my opinion it's totally normal to suport your president in this situation.

 
sebahmah
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sebahmah Day 404, 16:22

besides this..

how do you comment the next episode:

General Shaffer who was the leader of the Russian army for the last few days, a fought against romania came back to USA. No problem untill now, a mercenary is a mercenary.. just to warmly greeted by his president: Ben Dover. Maybe i am over racting..but that is the second capital diplomatic mistake. That was something like, good job shaffer in handling our "allies".

 
Peter McLag
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Peter McLag Day 404, 16:24

I don't think he said Romanians are brainwashed.

 
Gilroy
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Gilroy Day 404, 16:38

Well Russia has no where near the top population is the world. It's around 140 million people. RL US has more then that. Those comparisons made no sense at all. All they tried to accomplish is to say that eRomania is better then eUSA. I definetile see lots of bitterness from RL there.

Also, why all Romanians keep calling this just a game and then make comparisons to RL.

I think if Romania keeps up its actions, after next election a war might be in the making.

 
sebahmah
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sebahmah Day 404, 16:42

yeah, go ahead and threaten your allies..
really nice.

 
Gilroy
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Gilroy Day 404, 16:44

Well considering, I don't hold any political power, this can't be a threat. Just a statement from an observer.

 
Shadow Figure
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Shadow Figure Day 404, 17:03

I see a lot of bitterness from erepublik.

 
Victor Petrescu
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Victor Petrescu Day 404, 17:20

@Gilroy, you're young, not that I should care or hold it against you or feel that age is an issue.
But you act like a PEACE spy.

You showed up .. rather recently.
Contest: how many days would it take a user to reach level 7?
Wait, sorry, you're 11 days old. The events are more recent than 11 days.



 
Shadow Figure
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Shadow Figure Day 404, 17:31

@Gilroy: if you disregard population and take into consideration only military power it makes sense, but maybe I shouldn't have used RL comparisons, plus whoever you or I might think it's better doesn't matter for this issue. I don't see any war.

 
Gilroy
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Gilroy Day 404, 17:49

Taking back that comparison makes you look a little better now.

Next subject, "Wait, sorry, you're 11 days old. The events are more recent than 11 days." I really don't understand what you are trying to say there, old sport.

You can call me a PEACE spy all you want, that just solidifies my belief that your intentions are inherently evil.

 
Victor Petrescu
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Victor Petrescu Day 404, 17:52

The comparison would be like this:

RL USA (Romania, not the largest population, best army) attacks RL Iraq and RL China (not the best army, largest population) threatens RL USA.

Or even better.
RL USA attacks Iraq and an ALLY (let's say the UK) says the NATO charter was not respected .. on terms of "we were not informed" and makes a media scandal.
And then what happens?

Then RL Arabs + Russians + Chinese (here PEACE) start flooding the media with messages to stir trouble between the 2 allies ..
And a UK general is found in Iraq, training the army of Iraq..

 
Victor Petrescu
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Victor Petrescu Day 404, 17:54

@Gilroy, before seeing you are 11 days old I actually added up the experience points .. I worked for that result too much, the comment was written and the joke was good.. too good not too publish it.
But honestly, you behave like a PEACE propaganda machine.
11 days and you speak like an old player.

 
Gilroy
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Gilroy Day 404, 17:55

I really don't understand what is the point of RL comparisons. Remember this is only a game.

The situation is already pretty clear/

 
dsalageanu
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dsalageanu Day 404, 19:51

KIDZZZZZZZ, CUT THE CRAP! THIS IS A LOCKER ROOM ARGUMENT! WHE ARE NOT IN HIGH SCHOOL (any more)!

Benn, should we put the water-hose in action ?

)

 
SkizZ
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SkizZ Day 404, 20:51

Now I'm sorry that i fought with USA Soldiers in "French Toast" Operation..

 
Mystery Johnson
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Mystery Johnson Day 404, 21:07

One last thing I promise. This "game" isn't to far from real life, because there are real people in this eWorld, behind every citizen is a RL person at a keyboard, therefore, this game compares to RL easily. Grow up y'all.

 
Shadow Figure
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Shadow Figure Day 404, 21:59

Another thing. If you say real world would be better without any wars you'll get almost everybody to agree, including me. If you're saying erepublik would be better without wars you:
a. are trying to build a value that ads good game experience, but
b. don't realize erepublik like all games is better with wars or
c. are using it as an excuse for your inferior army and also
d. are using it as cheap propaganda against a superior army
e. are plain hypocritical

FIST was all about war when they had the upper hand, and when they lost it they changed their name into PEACE. If they'll ever get the upper hand again PEACE's name will be WAR. So let's get ourselves together and don't let them get the upper hand.

It's fine not to sustain Romania's war, but if you are against it you're in one of the situations above.

Mystery Johnson have some strong points. For example I hate that people don't really read my article but they listen that propaganda crap PEACE is pouring into their heads. And then they go complaining about "Romania is doing whatever they like, they'll attack Norway next". WTF.

 
Han Solo
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Han Solo Day 405, 00:39

@Chisholm: Totally agree with you that Benn is still the president of USA. But a president of USA and an ally country can NOT and DO NOT make some kind of affirmations regarding an ally country like : "Romanian leaders are hotheaded", "you have brainwashed your citizens" or "Romania was not so active in the French war" .
After he siad that, he lost all the resppect of the Romanian soldiers which by the way were fought even on american battles during French war.

So, respect is something which you should carefully take care of. It is granted for free but it will not last forever, no matter you are doing or saying.

 
marpool
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marpool Day 405, 01:37

yes eRomania is in some ways like RL USA. There is an idiot in charge to start a war (I mean Bush not Obama).

 
Joshua Tree
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Joshua Tree Day 405, 04:02

lol

PASSION! I LOVE IT!!!

 
mindflay
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mindflay Day 405, 05:43

WOW, ok so are you all finished yet?

 
Shadow Figure
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Shadow Figure Day 405, 06:03

@Chisholm: I understand your point.

 
Gab Bud
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Gab Bud Day 405, 07:07

Well done Mr. Ambassador!
Somebody has to say to eUS president, that disregarding and publicly insulting an allied ecountry such as eRomania is completely wrong!

 
Guud Basher
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Guud Basher Day 405, 07:18

Let's put it this way:

Atlantis is very happy to have Romania as an ally. I know personally I'd rather Romania on our side. That having been said, I understand Benn's position for two reasons.

1. Romania is part of Atlantis, of which there are steps to be followed when any of us decide to go to war. Romania decided to side step these rules and do their own thing. I'm sure there were reasons for it and I'm sure they're realizing that it should have been done differently, but what's the use of crying over spilled milk?

2. There are a good amount of US citizens in Russia, and are more of a friend than a foe to the Atlantis cause. Romania could've gone to the west, but they chose to go to the east. I think it's left a sour taste in some players mouths, especially with the current war with PEACE.

I don't feel like this means we can't be friends, but if a friend makes a poor judgment, isn't it our responsibility to say something about it? A good friend will stand up and speak to you directly and bluntly on any issue he may disagree with you over. A poor friend will just roll over and not say anything.

There isn't much of an opinion I have on the situation, but given the choice, I would've much rather seen Romania head towards the west.

 
Victor Petrescu
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Victor Petrescu Day 405, 07:44

@Guud - I for one had no idea the USA had an operation underway in Russia.
You people take this "secret" business to seriously.
And we did inform the allies.
Benn is upset he heard it from Shadow (a week ago) and not from Alex. He is offended but HE DID KNOW.

 
Mystery Johnson
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Mystery Johnson Day 405, 08:10

@Chrisholm, Thank you for giving reason and not just arguing over something petty. However, I don't believe that I said that this is "completely" RL. I said it relates to RL because the people behind the screen names are RL people. So in that since it can be related to RL easily. I'm not sure if Shadow agrees with that or not, but even if he doesn't, just because we don't agree on that point, it doesn't make half of what I said up there untrue.

Also, you're right we did have help in a much different way. But what no one seems to realize is this: We attacked France, along with all the other Atlantis nations bordering it. Which opened up many fronts that France had to fight against. Yes the had direct help from their allies, but they had to divide that PEACE force among multiple fronts. Someone can only fight so many times a day without losing a large amount of cash (for gifts) or wellness. So, in effect, if say we had attacked with all the of our allies on a single front, then it would've just turned into, a shoving match of who is bigger, but attacking on multiple fronts forced PEACE to be more organized in order to fight us ALL back, which they succeeded in doing!

@Guud, You made some good points that I simply can't argue with, however, Benn went about it in the wrong way. If he had gone straight to the president of Romania and said something to him directly and bluntly, then that would've been fine. However, he didn't do that, he called out his ally in front of the whole eWorld. Everyone can see that now. He bashes, belittles, and insults the Romania people and their president in front of everyone unnecessarily. If someone had done that to the eUSA, Benn would have been outraged, and likely wouldn't be their ally any longer. However, the Romanian people are taking it quite well, not acting brashly and foolishly as Benn had. He need not push his allies too far else they can easily leave and join our enemies.

 
Guud Basher
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Guud Basher Day 405, 08:12

Not so much an operation underway, just citizens of the US who are residing in Russia, and with that kind of population and mindframe, it's like attacking someone who would potentially be an Atlantis ally.

If what you say is true, then I will take you at your word. But from what I've heard, most of Atlantis was not aware of your plans (and by most, i don't mean all the members, but rather those in office who should be privy to their allies info). I'm sure there are two sides to the story, and from what has been written here, it seems like Romania admits to being secretive about it. I'm not making a huge thing out of it, I just understand where Benn is coming from.

 
Shadow Figure
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Shadow Figure Day 405, 08:17

@Victor: I only told Benn we are going to do something, he didn't know what. So USA's frustration and sour taste is understandable. But on the other hand I didn't know either anything about USA's plans.

 
Shadow Figure
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Shadow Figure Day 405, 08:39

@Mystery Johnson: I don't really relate much to RL. I just used that RL comparisons because I though there are a lot of new citizens in USA who don't know so much about the new world in erepublik. Maybe not a very good choice.

I do agree with you because you did understand the article. It is a bad display of foreign relations but so was Benn's article. That's the end of it, if you understand that things are settled and we're all good.

 
Lucius Varenus
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Lucius Varenus Day 405, 09:18

"Now I'm sorry that i fought with USA Soldiers in "French Toast" Operation.."
Don't be. Why offend your brothers in arms who fought with you side by side over some political issue?
As you might know, a soldier is most likely NOT a politician of any kind.

And without any political intentions I say Shadow Figure is right: the eUS Army has to be improved very soon..

 
Victor Petrescu
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Victor Petrescu Day 405, 09:20

@Shadow: all ATLANTIS representatives I've seen in the media say that an official announcement was made 48 hours before the attack on the ATLANTIS forums. (Augustus Baldwin from Canada is one to confirm)

Benn needed a private message from Alex to find out about the war.
I know this was a lack of courtesy from our President, but I believe the announcement on the forum makes our actions according to the Charter.

What does this mean? I cannot believe no high ranking American official read the ATLANTIS forum news 48 hours before the war.
And if that is true and they didn't read that announcement, something needs to change in our communication system.

 
Cj Will Win
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Cj Will Win Day 405, 09:47

Sorry couldn't take you seriously after you said the war in Iraq was about oil.

 
Victor Petrescu
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Victor Petrescu Day 405, 10:14

@Cj: it might not be so. But the World opinion is that it was about oil.

 
Cjs business manager
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Cjs business manager Day 405, 11:37

The world is full of morons. I'm not even saying we went into Iraq for good reasons, or that I even know the reasons we went in, but to think it was over oil is completely ridiculous.

 
Chisholm
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Chisholm Day 405, 12:41

@Victor you make complete sense of what I've been saying, YES Romania has violated the Treaty they signed and to my knowledge has not paid the required debt to all other ATLANTIS nations for the offense. They can apologize all they want but they still haven't taken the action required by the treaty to "right the wrong" So what does that make the ATLANTIS treaty? Something nations can run over when they feel like it? That hurts the foundation of the alliance as a whole

 
Han Solo
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Han Solo Day 405, 13:05

Chishlom, Romania did not violate anything. Ask your president about it.

 
Chisholm
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Chisholm Day 405, 13:20

He already stated no prior information on the invasion was received, if that's not a violation of article VI I don't know what is, which means, Romania must pay 100 gold to all other ATLANTIS members, unless they are excused of it. I have not heard that they have paid, nor been excused of it by the rest (4/5's) of the alliance

 
Chisholm
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Chisholm Day 405, 13:24

@ Han yeah, have you even read the article? He states himself that they didn't inform other nations

 
Han Solo
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Han Solo Day 405, 14:37

Chisholm: having in mind that I have access on the Atlantis forum I suppose I know better about this issue.

 
Shino
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Shino Day 405, 15:05

"KIDZZZZZZZ, CUT THE CRAP! THIS IS A LOCKER ROOM ARGUMENT! WHE ARE NOT IN HIGH SCHOOL (any more)!"

umm...... actually, I am in high school

 
Victor Petrescu
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Victor Petrescu Day 405, 15:48

@Shino: you should know that thanks to the invitation system, before V1 the average age of the eRepublik citizen was 26 years old. Long time after highschool.

 
Mystery Johnson
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Mystery Johnson Day 405, 17:13

Well my final statement is that this whole thing has been a big to do over nothing at all. Benn jumped the gun and called Romania out before considering it, and personally if I was you Romanians I would require Benn to give public apology. However, that's just my opinion on the subject.

Second, I believe that the eUSA military needs to be drastically increased. I'm in the military and we've fought two battles recently, and I haven't seen a weapon one. I fought 4-5 times a day before I became a trooper, I only joined so that I could help my nation a little more, because personally I can't afford weapons on my salary. However, from what I've seen so far, being in the military is no different than not being in the military. There is no benefit of any kind, we still don't receive weapons, we pay for our own gifts during peace time and we don't get any money to buy weapons with. If the eUSA wants an effective military then I think something needs to be done, I only joined because I was promised weapons... not like it benefits me none, I still get the 2 EP from it and thats all I really want... however, how is it beneficial to the eUSA when I'm fighting barefisted only getting about 8-9 per fight.....

 
Guud Basher
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Guud Basher Day 405, 21:12

Mystery:

We have the largest population in republik. Do you have any idea how much it would cost to arm our entire army? Especially those with low strength? For what? An extra few points? Obviously there is an issue of cash and gun supply for everyone. Hence why the military is going through some reorganization, and weapons aren't being given out freely. But when the battles truly matter, the weapons are being given out to those who can do the most damage, and as your strength increases over time, the more you'll be involved with the fighting.

I'm in the military and I've gotten a few weapons, but I've paid more out of pocket for weapons. And I understand, it makes sense. You could buy me 5 Q1 weapons, have me fight 5 times (35ish damage per fight), and my total damage probably wouldn't equal one battle of a super solider with a single Q5 weapon. Financially it doesn't make sense to waste all that money on someone who isn't at least 5-6 strength.

Our strength is in numbers. take 8-9 damage per fight, by 5 times, that's 40 damage, now imagine we have 1-2k active american's around your level fighting the same way, that gets to be 40-75k worth of damage, then with the super soldiers putting in close to the same amount of damage with 1/100 of the numbers. It adds up.

 
Chisholm
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Chisholm Day 405, 22:50

@Guud, yeah really, do people really expect the government to pay for the THOUSANDS of Q1 weapons that get burnt through in a war? It's just not nonsensical, cost waay too much

 
MartinMesa
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MartinMesa Day 405, 23:12

INDONESIA ATTACKS ARGENTINA NOW, MPP ACTIVE, PLEASE HELP ALLIES http://www.erepublik.com/en/wars/show/334

 
alex_da_fixeru
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alex_da_fixeru Day 406, 03:27

And Argentina is loosing - badly... already at 9389/73000 points and 19 hours to go.

 
Victor Petrescu
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Victor Petrescu Day 406, 04:27

Yeah, well Northern is 27K under the wall ..

 
Victor Petrescu
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Victor Petrescu Day 406, 04:32

Also, Romania directed some war effort towards Argentina:
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/argentina-este-atacata-ordine-pentru-cei-ramasi-in-tara-715618/1

You people in the states should help defend Argentina, most Romanian soldiers are in Norway.

 
empyrion_martyr
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empyrion_martyr Day 406, 06:56

@Guud Basher, there is some logic with several low strength fighters versus 2-3 tanks or high-level warriors.

The lower strength fighters increase in rank this way. I'm sure you know very well that rank increase means more damage per fight, still using the same q weapons. This way, you'd have a lot more potential tanks and good fighters in the future.

This is just like the RL issue of low taxes, versus high taxes. Low taxes provide long term growth, while huge taxes would give you a lot of money right away, but is not that great of a procedure in the long run.

 
Victor Petrescu
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Victor Petrescu Day 406, 08:16

Tanks will fight at 100% wellness at all times with gold from the budget.
Weaker soldiers will fight 5 times each day and get to become tanks, eventually.

 
Shadow Figure
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Shadow Figure Day 406, 11:34

@Mystery Johnson: Thank you for your opinion. I'm not going to ask for public apology firstly because I got off my Ego Power Armor and secondly because what's left of my ego got me to resign.

 
WindowOrMirror
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WindowOrMirror Day 406, 13:59

Let me get this straight Shadow Figure... you write like that and you are the ambassador to the eUSA? What the hell would this article look like if you were an enemy to the eUSA?

Indeed... it would look much like it does already; wouldn't it?

 
Mystery Johnson
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Mystery Johnson Day 406, 19:07

@Guud, Well it seems that you bring up a good point there. I never actually did the numbers on it.. I'll be fighting with q2 weapons tomorrow morning and I will then see as to what effect it has in damage, however, I do have to agree with victor and empyrion on this though, getting people up in rank by providing them with proper weapons has got to be a more useful tactic for the long run. However, there is one other thing to consider. The eUSA doesn't have very many fighting men. However, it does have over 8k people. So the taxes from the 8k should surely provide for the select few fighting men. And lastly, if it is as hard as you say to provide Q1 weapons then how was the eUSA able to afford to give every soldier a weekly pay, as well as gifts, and weapons before? All I'm saying is that the gov. should provide weapons... the RL gov. does at least...Wait and one last thing, if it's so hard for the eUSA to provide weapons, then what was the point of my joining the eUSA military? It benefits me none, heck I never intended for it to benefit me any, however, I expected it to benefit the country some and it still doesn't do that....

 
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Shadow Figure Day 407, 07:11

@WidnowOrMirror: the article stands in an unfavorable context, I'm sure you know that. I do apologize if you felt offended.

 
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Shadow Figure Day 889, 18:12

Afer so much time, I have to say: this article is quite a FAIL )
All the stuff in it is true, but it was too impulsive for diplomacy.