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105 Day 606, 14:05 USA
How did we end up in this???

I read this question in another article, from an eAmerican newbie (Elizabeth Jones - how do you do?), and it was so heartfelt, I almost heard it ringing in my ears... and I saw the answers for it, but they were so woefully inadequate, that I decided to give you one, and I am only asking you to read it first and not dismiss it as PEACE propaganda.

For I am from PEACE, more specifically from Hungary, a country and an alliance that is your enemy, and doing our best to conquer your lands. Yeah, now you know, I am not making excuses, we went to war to win. But as per your question, I, as an outsider can tell you the answer, if only you care to listen.

As far as I can remember, and that is over 7 months now, I saw eUSA on the top of the population rankings, having always more citizens than any other country. I was starting my carreer when you attacked France together with the most of Atlantis, and I saw the dogs of war yelping at the gates of Paris. I moved to France daily to put my then small bricks to the wall, and I was sure that the war could only end one way - eUSA conquering most of France, and Spain, Sweden, Canada and UK dividing the rest. I was oh so wrong... your attacks were repelled like it was so many bugs only, as soon as PEACE could organize its forces. eUSA turned out to be a big, but empty balloon...

To understand this I have researched a lot, for those times there weren't as many marvelous tools as today. I had a company there, I talked to people, I wrote articles there, and I tried to understand this phenomena. What I found then is no secret today, but it was a revelation to me then: eUSA's citizens are mostly dead or dying. You have huge numbers as citizens, but if you check any statistic tool, you will see that about half of them are dying, most of them has bad wellness, and only a fractions is healthy. Why is that so and what does it cause?

It was so, because you only had 2 Q5 hospitals in the whole country, while your citizens mostly lived in their RL regions, scattered in the country - and you still seem to want to stay this way no matter how bad is it for you and your country. It was so, because you had no education programs, mentor-system, tutorials to help new people to get into the game, to understand it, and make the most of it. It was so because you had incompetent leaders, who lived in the dream of a huge country, with most citizens and did nothing to make those citizens active, as you yourself said, to be heard. It was so because you had no training wars or real ones to develop the population and raise general wellness levels.

What did it cause? Well, working and fighting with low wellness makes economy work bad (check eUSA's GDP vs eHungary's here: http://www.erepublik.com/en/rankings/countries/1/4), not competitive, producing not enough goods and for a high price - producing less in way of taxes too for the government to spend on war for example. My company in the USA worked with imported Hungarian workforce, people whom I mentored and taught and helped to learn to play tis game...

Also, because the population has low wellness, because they are not organized, and communication lines are not implemented for them - they (you) are practically worthless in battles, as a citizen-army, because your government cannot order you to fght in the right place at the right time, and your damage is far to low to make a difference anyway. So eUSA had to, and still has to rely on tanks - but you have less tanks too than PEACE, in fact less than eHungary, because for a good 4 months we have honed our army and aour citizen-army to perfection - meaning to make and coordinate the most damage from the least ammount of gold, while you have to tank battles for a lot of gold, meaning high taxes, and citizens not able to buy their weapons, therefore not developing still...

In the meanwhile, you continued to have a big mouth and proclaim yourselves the Nr 1 power on erep, alienating your allies and turning the other side's attention to you, as main target... so, you failed in economy, in education, in military organisation, and in politics too... that is how you came to be in this predicament. Believing too much in your RL power and not noticing that in this game the power comes differently.

You must work hard to get it.

Like we did, eHungarians.

I wish you luck in rectifying these mistakes. Maybe your generation will actually learn from the mistakes of the previous ones.

And then eUSA can be really live up to its potential.

Quicksilver
(former president of eHungary)

A magyar olvasóknak: ez az amerikaiaknak íródott, leírva a hibákat amiket elkövettek, és amik miatt most ebben a kulimászban vannak. Mi már tudjuk mik ezek.

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gonde
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gonde Day 606, 14:08

voted

 
gonde
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gonde Day 606, 14:08

pertamaxxx )

 
poker
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poker Day 606, 14:10

eUSA please make more mistake

 
carthagebrujah
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carthagebrujah Day 606, 14:11

Sad but true. I honed my skills fighting in the Romania-Indo, rather than sitting around at home twiddling thumbs.

 
ekszer
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ekszer Day 606, 14:16

voted

 
Zoli
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Zoli Day 606, 14:16

These mistakes will be corrected.

People learn from their own mistakes. Intelligent people learn from other peoples mistakes!

 
Ikarti
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Ikarti Day 606, 14:18

No no no, if I chant "USA #1" enough it will be true!

PEACE PROPAGANDA PEACE PROPAGANDA! *breaks down and starts sobbing uncontrollably*

 
Aatticus Draco
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Aatticus Draco Day 606, 14:19

>I wish you luck in rectifying these mistakes. Maybe your generation will actually learn from the mistakes of the previous ones.

And then eUSA can be really live up to its potential<

Thanx for the free advice QS

 
Lunatic2903
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Lunatic2903 Day 606, 14:19

great article, voted with pleasure

 
Zoli
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Zoli Day 606, 14:21

Quicksilver stop mentioning those god damm Q5 hospitals or you will be labeled a PEACEnick and PEACE propaganda agent.

 
Ikarti
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Ikarti Day 606, 14:21

USA should permanently rid themselves of Emerick and they'd probably be a lot better off

 
Quicksilver
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Quicksilver Day 606, 14:25

Lessons of these kind are really hard.

 
Zoli
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Zoli Day 606, 14:26

@Ikarti: Emerick is Great! Praise his name! On the other hand Ajay Bruno Give Ajay Bruno to eHungary and we shall sign a PEACE treaty with the eUSA!

 
Quicksilver
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Quicksilver Day 606, 14:27

Zoli, I know, it is a risk - but I am less labelled as a PEACE propagandist as you

 
Aleksandar Milenkovic
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Aleksandar Milenkovic Day 606, 14:28

Those advices are too important to be free. )))

 
adi nobody
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adi nobody Day 606, 14:31

Straight to the point,as allways QS.

 
cruyff
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cruyff Day 606, 14:32

great article ...it is true what you say i must recognize..the eAmericans are not so great like rthe real ones..maybe thay don-t care in this game....but if they rise as the real USA army..it will be hard for PEACE ...

 
gonzo23
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gonzo23 Day 606, 14:32

Harrison quotes:

"PEACE still does intend to strike the United States.Or, maybe, PEACE chickened out." < 6 days ago

"we have the strongest army in the world, the best economy in the world, and the potential to be the strongest PTO force in the world" < 6 days ago

"PEACE has always been too afraid to attack a unified United States" < 6 days ago

 
Hekter
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Hekter Day 606, 14:35

Not bad, but you ignore one vital part: Hungary started out from scratch as a nation dominated by another.

The eUS has never been invaded until now--there was little reason for the lower citizens to get involved as eHungary had to to liberate itself. There are now extensive programs dedicated to this very process, but this invasion is the real spark. After this, the eUS will have a new life and a new way of playing the game--the way Hungary can play it now.

 
Khyron Kravshera
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Khyron Kravshera Day 606, 14:37

Well, at least you're honest.

 
Tormod
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Tormod Day 606, 14:39

@Zoli

Ajay is too self centered to help his country and not go to Hungary, we've all tried to get him to move. Hes just too selfish.

 
Quicksilver
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Quicksilver Day 606, 14:46

Hekter: it is true. But still does not explain why your leaders have always ignored the new citizens, aside from their numbers, and why they pursued this '2 hospital is enough' policy, coupled with not moving people there.

Besides it is really not necessary to play the game hard, I know - but then on what base have you proclaimed to be Nr1 power?

 
payta
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payta Day 606, 14:52

@ikarti: why dont you waste your time trying to bring lenin back to life or something like that

 
Ikarti
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Ikarti Day 606, 15:00

I still have a better chance of doing that than the eUS does of not being total failures.

 
Hekter
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Hekter Day 606, 15:07

@Quicksilver

I cannot speak for the rest of our 'leaders'--there are things that are always said to boost confidence and nothing else. Not every word they have uttered they take seriously.

As for the hospitals, militarily and economically, it makes sense. Try organizing the production and payment for 51 Q5s and see how well that ends up for you

New citizens are a focus, but you have to understand that average American browser gamer does not look below the surface. There is only so much, that we, as citizens and program-runners, can do to create interest. There have been great strides in this, but if you present an average American browser gamer with the information required to thrive here, and it generally drives them off. That is a decently large social barrier to get through.

 
clawy
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clawy Day 606, 15:12

@Hekter: i doubt anybody would say that you should build 51 q5 hospitals. But not having on in California, New York or Texas, states with big RL population, is just stupid.
I am especially amused about the "2 forts" theory, which i a gigantic failure. How can you have 2 forts, when there are over 10 states besides that which can be attacked?

 
Petrica Somalezu
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Petrica Somalezu Day 606, 15:50

This article sounds like a spanking

 
Karpat-Medence
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Karpat-Medence Day 606, 15:53

Voted!
Good article!

 
leandros
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leandros Day 606, 16:06

Good article Quick, and I agree with it, though I am fighting for USA. Romania just purchased its last Q5 hospital today, in the last original region that did not have one (Crisana). There was only a Q4 hospital (that will dissappear now), and Crisana is not a very populated region. Well, nothing like California or Texas.

 
JoeBones
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JoeBones Day 606, 16:59

Excellent points re: mentorship programs Quicksilver. Never realised eUSA never had one. Must be why they're getting the s@°%t kicked out of them right now.

eSwedes, eRomanians, eSpaniards, eCroats, ePoles, even my adopted hosts, the eGreeks, cause more damage per citizen soldier than the eUS citizen soldiers currently. So much manpower, but just not used effectively.

I hope the eUSA remember these hard lessons after the dust has settled.

 
Quicksilver
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Quicksilver Day 606, 22:45

Hekter: nobody said anything about 51 hospitals. Q5 hospitals in this game are strategic elements and should be handled as such. We have a Q5 in 5 of the 7 original regions (they are for giving chance of fighting to the whole of our population), and strategic ones where the resources are (because people raise the wall and they only go to a region if there is a Q5 hospital there). I do not want to give advice here, now, but anyhow, check a population map, like the one at egobba's, and start deploying hospitals where the population demands it, and where you can expect an attack (you should have done one in Alaska too, and make people move there). Also teaching people to move where it is necessary is a must here.

About the social element: that is why you must target newbies from many sides. It is not enough to throw a tutorial at them and expect them to be perfect from game mechanics. Mostly you cannot even expect them to read it. You have to convey information from many sources. An off-game tutorial, even a video one is a must; frequent articles about specific points in the media; a designated chatroom where they can ask questions and even publishing excerpts of those chatlogs in the forum so anyone can find them; extensive mentor-systems, where one mentor works with max. 10 newbies, until they reach 'adulthood', a sponsor system, in which people who are richer but have no time to mentor, give the newbies food/gift/weapon; and a good community, where they are heard, where they can and dare to ask. These are all needed. Basically... you must be tenacious and bombard newbies with information from all sides, because you cannot know which method will work with specific people.

 
Bececenev
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Bececenev Day 606, 23:18

A repülőgép mindig széllel szemben száll fel, sohasem hátszéllel.
Ahogy eMagyarország csinálta - eRomániával szemben.
Ma eMagyarország szuperhatalom.

 
Alex Raynor
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Alex Raynor Day 606, 23:24

Good article, voted.

 
kVaVa
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kVaVa Day 607, 00:42

I think Hekter gets the point

I really think that this war is to refresh the life in erepublik. After the eRomanian empire broke the fun was out of the play.

Now -hopefully-, a new enemy borns, and shows what it worth!

(The other thing is, that the new players coming gonna be aggressive, so when they have a chance to strike back they will want everything in return this conquer. Means they are still silly like IRL )

Good luck anyway!

 
Lord ICO
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Lord ICO Day 607, 00:59

like most of the times, a pleasure to read your articles, voted!

 
Log. Company
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Log. Company Day 607, 02:12

Good article, active and informed players/citizens are essential for any country.

 
cowox
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cowox Day 607, 03:04

mega voted..!

 
logamac
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logamac Day 607, 05:16

You never help people like czech republic its under TO threat and you havent helped us your supposed to help the world.

 
simplex
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simplex Day 607, 05:39

Very good article, it would be nice if people would take it to heart. This is a game, and not real life, so success depends on following the rules of the game.

~simplex

 
Lucion McElwain
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Lucion McElwain Day 607, 11:33

Nice article I am not voting for it though, simply because we need to keep our papers in the top 5. Some of your observations are true in a way.
We do have active mentor ship programs and we have a highly organized Army our citizenship army needs help but we can not make them do things.

As for the Q5 hospital thing you have to remember we have 51, 51 regions to make that many Q5's would be really expensive I'm sure we are working on that situation, but right now most of our money is being spent in a war.

 
OgreBoo
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OgreBoo Day 607, 12:08

voted!!

 
damselflie
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damselflie Day 607, 12:16

yawn

 
Gaius Julius
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Gaius Julius Day 607, 12:20

You comparison the eUS to Hungary is correct for the most part but falls short in adequately describing the key differences. Its like comparing an apple to a coconut. Both are fruits, but how they came to be and their ultimate state at a fixed state of time will always be radically different.

 
Jodoh
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Jodoh Day 607, 12:21

Interesting. I may be on the opposite side of Hungary in this here war. However... what you say here seem to be the truth. I've been researching what has been going on (As I'm a newbie as well)... and I'll be damned.

I'll still continue to defend the eUSA as it is my home. But I for one will work for some kind of change here.

 
vladb
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vladb Day 607, 12:50

Most of the info is accurate ..besides the fact that USA tanked more then Peace .Peace pulled from the hat again some thousands of gold to tank more .

Details about the fights so far can be found here :

<a href="http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/why-peace-is-winning-update--861713/1/20" target="_blank">http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/why-[..]/1/20</a>

 
loftedraptor
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loftedraptor Day 607, 13:00

Good article Thank you/

 
Bobbyluigi
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Bobbyluigi Day 607, 13:06

yay peace propoganda! Just like them to reference a sh***y noob article

 
Emperor Rick
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Emperor Rick Day 607, 13:17

>>eUSA conquering most of France, and Spain, Sweden, Canada and UK dividing the rest.... wait what?

 
H. McCoy
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H. McCoy Day 607, 13:32


This strikes me as true. Not to say it will *stay* true, but it does sound accurate as an assessment of recent history.

On the plus side, I see and read all sorts of things now about how to really play this game, and it involves much more than simply standing on a soapbox and shouting "America is Great!". I take this as a very positive sign, and, thus, am optimistic about the future. Things are changing here, for the better.

So, while PEACE certainly has the upper hand today, I'd be willing to bet in a short time that the playing field will level off considerably. To any Americans reading this, despair not. We have been complacent, certainly, but better days are coming. Count on it.

 
Ryan_5
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Ryan_5 Day 607, 13:36

the eUSA is not eHungary. I just don't think the average american is that interested in this game, thats why they are inactive, easy come easy go. we have 51 original regions, more than twice any others nations. Perhaps Alaska should of had a Q5. but we really do have a way to communicate war orders. For other things, the government fails, not that the flooding of our media helped, but Fortis was not announced in game until it had been voted on.

 
Chris Sko
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Chris Sko Day 607, 13:38

Why do Hungarians write so many articles in the US media? You are our enemy, in a war with us, and are trying to help us? I don't understand.

 
Jonathan McCravy
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Jonathan McCravy Day 607, 13:45

I didn't read all of this article, but on the note of the article you linked; I agree we shouldn't put down and insult people, especially our own citizens. We should tell them the right answer and skip all the childish insults.

 
Stoneyhead
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Stoneyhead Day 607, 13:55

I agree with a lot of things you said quicksilver, but if the hungarian army is as strong as you say, then why does it take all of peace to take a US region?
Maybe because you know your asses would be handed to you on a plate if you tried it alone?

 
Hoyle
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Hoyle Day 607, 14:29

Cool story brah!

 
Peterbond
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Peterbond Day 607, 14:43

Stoneyhead: Becouse you have 14 MPP-s. 1 against 14 is a bit hard .
1 on 1 USA dosent have a chanse. You can see it in the battles. USA hit 800K while Hungary hit 1.7 million.
You have Romania, Spain and other strong Armys that is stronger than France, Italy, Iran.

 
Peterbond
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Peterbond Day 607, 14:45

Together Atlantis ( Or Eden + Fortis as you prefer) is almost as strong as Peace. but not as well orginised. Thats why we win battles in row.

 
Elderon Zakath
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Elderon Zakath Day 607, 15:05

Or we can just buy into this. Start it off nice and sweet, put in some truth to get the eyes opening up, then bring in the misconceptions and whatnot to hook em, then bring in their own misguided solutions to hook em.

Now, I can easily tell that the first part of it. Ok, sounds good. Plausible. Well done.

Beyond that, crap. I started off in the eUS, read the "New Citizen" words that pop up, and knew exactly what I needed to do. I was also mentored about how things worked, as they are much different than real life, since it's a game. Also mentored into why we have 2 Q5 hospitals too, and I hadn't even begun fighting in wars ( At the time, scrabman was starting to organize war games ).

Why are people dieing in the eUS? Simple. They lose interest because they don't want to read, otherwise anybody would realize exactly how the eUS is setup and why.

I highly doubt sticking a Q5 Hospital in say, Mississippi ( My actual real life state here ), would keep all those people in the state alive. They're inactive and dead, and have been that way for a long time. People just lose interest. It happens. The biggest thing that new people need to realize is that this is a social game. Simple as that. Some people have it, others do not.

/off the soapbox

 
Elderon Zakath
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Elderon Zakath Day 607, 15:09

"It was so, because you only had 2 Q5 hospitals in the whole country, while your citizens mostly lived in their RL regions, scattered in the country - and you still seem to want to stay this way no matter how bad is it for you and your country. It was so, because you had no education programs, mentor-system, tutorials to help new people to get into the game, to understand it, and make the most of it. It was so because you had incompetent leaders, who lived in the dream of a huge country, with most citizens and did nothing to make those citizens active, as you yourself said, to be heard. It was so because you had no training wars or real ones to develop the population and raise general wellness levels."


This is where you're wrong. And that's the hook you're using to bait people into believing your propaganda.

In fact, we did and still do, have mentor programs. We did and still do, have other programs. Quite a few in fact.

I came into this game by complete accident, checked it out, and was already in the know of what to do and what was going on within 1 day of activating.

Anybody else who has trouble with it, must have trouble reading, which will hinder them "playing this game".

 
thebrokenbox
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thebrokenbox Day 607, 15:13

PEACE propoganda!

 
Ken Rayadon
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Ken Rayadon Day 607, 15:34

Well written, even though we are fighting eachother, it would take a fool to reject your words. Voted.

 
Pierre Bourdieu
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Pierre Bourdieu Day 607, 15:37

"Believing too much in your RL power and not noticing that in this game the power comes differently."

Voted. American propaganda automatically assumes that e-US=IRL US in terms of influence and power. If you hadn't noticed Hungary and Indonesia are the two strongest countries in the game. IRL politics and perceptions don't apply.

 
Elderon Zakath
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Elderon Zakath Day 607, 16:56

Comments clearly show that people nitpick certain parts to vote on for when they don't percieve the misconceptions of the entirety here.

Either that or they're from PEACE aligned countries trying to come off as a eUS supporter. There's a few here who are trying to do that ( Might want to request admins to have a shout cover up ).

Well, good job QuickSilver.

 
nardo inc
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nardo inc Day 607, 17:00

i am not happy about it but it is true

 
Juanita Brown
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Juanita Brown Day 607, 17:09

Thanks for your thoughtful post, Legendarium.

 
iamyourleader
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iamyourleader Day 607, 17:20

booooorrrrrrriiiiiinnnnnnnggggggg

 
Perrin
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Perrin Day 607, 17:45

Way to give them ammunition Elizabeth

 
Jeffoh1990
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Jeffoh1990 Day 607, 18:07

Thanks for the tips. I know it's no fun when a war is one sided.

Your tips will probably make the game more fun.

 
Max McFarland 2
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Max McFarland 2 Day 607, 18:13

"I wish you luck in rectifying these mistakes. Maybe your generation will actually learn from the mistakes of the previous ones. And then eUSA can be really live up to its potential."
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We will . Thank you for waking up our nation. Seriously, all joking aside, thank you. Once we secure our territory, I can't wait to see which PEACE nation we take first. Cheers

 
Mumbly
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Mumbly Day 607, 18:27

Omg ... is this PEACE trying to play the victim?!? Truly a country full of complete asshats.

I don't mind the war part, it's a game and PEACE is trying to play as warlords. Fine. But they don't just play, their PR stuff is arrogant, unnecessary and just general d!ckheaded. I don't know that i've read a single bit of Indonesia propaganda.

UK ... buncha backstabbing weasel.

It's about HOW you do what you do.

 
Max McFarland 2
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Max McFarland 2 Day 607, 18:30

@ Mumbly: Have a sense of humor . Yes, their propaganda is arrogant, but more importantly it's FUNNY. We should have similar content when we turn the tide of war and start conquering their regions... it's friendly competition and it makes the game more fun.

 
SRSdude
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SRSdude Day 607, 18:44

Go Russia!

 
Phineas Nutleberg
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Phineas Nutleberg Day 607, 18:51

Hopefully we learn from those mistakes and pull a Hungary. I look forward to invading your country in the future.

 
Darth Ozy
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Darth Ozy Day 607, 19:47

"Believing too much in your RL power and not noticing that in this game the power comes differently.

You must work hard to get it."

Are you implying the RL America didn't work hard for it's current power? I know the current generation thinks everything they want and need should be handed to them on a silver platter. But America was founded and grew to its current power under some harsh conditions.

 
Jon Reardon
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Jon Reardon Day 607, 20:04

 
Kinjiru
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Kinjiru Day 607, 20:25

There's no doubt that it's difficult to maintain wellness when people resist moving from their RL regions in a country with 50 states in it. Smaller countries or countries with less individual states/provinces would be much easier to keep wellness up / keep high-Q hospitals.

 
Double Team Supreme
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Double Team Supreme Day 607, 20:45

lol so true. our country is a joke with leadership and organization. Good presentation

 

Damnit. Is there an eBarack around? My eCountry sucks ass.

 
spARTa299
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spARTa299 Day 607, 22:26

Ya and the real life power is what matters. Dont think you are better then the USA because you are beating us in a game. Live up to your name PEACE bro.

 
Quicksilver
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Quicksilver Day 607, 22:50

ok, aside for the expected 'propaganda, shit, disregard it' type of comments, generally you all feel the truth of what I wrote. Which is good I suppose, an occassional eye-opener is not a bad thing.

Answering a few comments:

The matter of hospitals: I wrote about it in an earlier comment, check it out. Nobody said anything about 51 hospitals, but the 'two forts' theory is plain stupid, Zoli wrote a lot about it earlier, so I won't start again.

Darth Ozy: I rarely talk ingame about RL. Of course I meant ingame eUSA, for here, you did not work hard to achieve power so you did not achieve it. I said that here you live in the dream of your country's RL power.

Stoneyhead: your question quite clearly shows that you know very little or nothing how the war module works here, and what is the present international situation.

Emperor Rick: that part was referring to the Operation French Toast, before you came into the game. Almost the whole of Atlantis attacked France from all sides... the present MPPs on France's side live since.

 
FoxtrotZero
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FoxtrotZero Day 607, 23:26

The end of your post in hungarian reads the following:

The Hungarian readers: this is the Americans was written describing the problems they were committed, and because they are now in the kulimászban. We already know what they are.

What do you mean you know what we are?

 
Inderpreet
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Inderpreet Day 607, 23:57

I'm afraid its true.

 
Mining Company
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Mining Company Day 608, 00:11

lol to johnplauljones... now i understand why america can fail in this war.

 
Raw Holdings Corporation
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Raw Holdings Corporation Day 608, 00:23

Maybe it has already been said in the comments, but the reason the eUS has so many dead and dying citizens compared to countries like Hungary is because of the amount of choice the average real life American has when it comes to playing video games.

Americans can afford to buy machines that can play games that are far more advanced than a simple browser game like eRepublik. How are you going to get people to stick around for the extremely slow paced eRepublik when they have played the likes of Fallout 3, Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, or a host of other games?

Look at how few Japanese people play eRepublik...

 
smilinreap
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smilinreap Day 608, 00:49

USA will pull through, no worries there never a time in history where we didn't.

 
draconins
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draconins Day 608, 01:24

> Americans can afford to buy machines that can play games that are far more advanced than a simple browser game like eRepublik. How are you going to get people to stick around for the extremely slow paced eRepublik when they have played the likes of Fallout 3, Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, or a host of other games?

It may be true, but if you are comparing it to another game, I am not sure as many other browser game I played with are dominated by American. If you are comparing to Indonesia, it become even more complicated. Many Indonesian are simply can afford so called advanced games as long they can buy machines (which is probably a bit expensive but affordable, probably except the ridiculous PS3), as pirated games are common (tough not so common as few year ago). And cheaper pirated games = more choice of games. And cheaper here is at least about 80% cheaper.

>Look at how few Japanese people play eRepublik...

I believe the main problem for Japanese is language, and similar thing can be said about China and Korea. Their language are so different, as they are using very different "symbol".

 
Boomerdudess
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Boomerdudess Day 608, 02:37

It's called individualism.
Also, when TPTB take eUSA citizens off-line for over 24hrs due to "maintenance" so that those on their 30th day of employment can't work and so lose 5 gold.....well that's just fine and dandy for PEACE, isn't it?

 
Mistwalker
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Mistwalker Day 608, 02:40

The article is pretty far apart from the title and it's still propaganda

 
Quicksilver
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Quicksilver Day 608, 04:14

Foxtrot Zero: that 'they' refer to the problems. Google translate not always perfect... I meant that Hungarian readers mostly well know what mistakes eAmericans made.

Raw Holdings org: Seriously, you think that as an argument? We use the very same internet in Hungary with all the games available, we have all the same games in the shops, why would an average American have a greater choice what to play?

   
Project 2501
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Project 2501 Day 608, 06:41

Zoli is a

 
Bosc
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Bosc Day 608, 07:06

We have corrected many of the mistakes you point out. Things are constantly changing. Things move very fast in this game. It's hard to keep up with what's going on. But there is a parallel between this game and RL, 20% of the people do 80% of the work. You are right, activity drives this game.

   
burakkocamis
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burakkocamis Day 608, 09:34

Somebody should fix management of US.Or conquering will continue forever.

 
masterlaz
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masterlaz Day 608, 09:39

ive been wanting a few more hospitals for a while now, especially since the article zoli wrote on it.
id also love to see two layers of Q5 defense systems on ALL of our borders, since a friendly zone, once conquered, is no longer friendly. its like saving money on a seatbelt by using a string, sure, you have more money now, but when you need the seatbelt, POP! there you go through the glass.
and roleplayers just hurt my brain, we have to take full advantage of the system in place, use the rules to our advantage. mario doesnt feel bad when he stomps turtles, why feel bad for smashing an enemy here?

morality is for real life. spread the blood of our enemies.

 
FuzzyJello
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FuzzyJello Day 608, 11:16

Rawr

 
Psychedelic Sicilian
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Psychedelic Sicilian Day 608, 11:20

Dude chill out, it's a game

 
Chris Dakteer
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Chris Dakteer Day 608, 11:27

I appreciate your honesty and frankness. It is good to hear a voice from PEACE that isn't simply attempting to undermine eUSA with slander, but rather is willing to share insight into the problems he sees, in hopes of a more...competitive...game.

Thanks

 
Quicksilver
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Quicksilver Day 608, 12:50

It is good to hear voices that actually consider the problems mentioned and not dismissing them as propaganda.

You are welcome.

 
Falxus
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Falxus Day 608, 13:05

Hah, I love the first part. We're bullies and try to conquer you guys, so logically you should conquer us.
The rest of the article is dead on, though. Good writing. Just be prepared to have your advice taken. It isn't too late for eAmerica yet.

 
Polgar_1984
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Polgar_1984 Day 608, 13:42

Good article, but i dont think they will learn this fast, and even if they start this, its months as U get benefit. Building hospitals is late, such as defense systems. And the new babies will become good soldiers in about 2 months.