Interview with Romper

Day 1,093, 13:40 • Published in Greece Philippines • by Nuclear tasos maximous

Romper is the most experienced player in erep and has honored me with a small interview





hello

Q) You have entered the game Oct 11, 2009 was it from an invitation of a friend or you read some where for erepublik

A) There was a spam in comments section in one Croatian web portal, asking people to help eCroatia, so I joined to see what it is about.

Q) Although you are playing for something more than a year you are the most experienced player in erep how do you feel about this?

A) More or less indifferent. This is not what motivates me to play this game. I simply play it according to the rules and versions that game developers present us with and I look at positive side of each version rather then insisting on negative.

Q) Tell me your opinion about v2. What went wrong?

A) First, people were not ready for such a radical change. Second, beta testing was not long enough and game itself had bugs (sry, features) that were rather irritating. All that plus constant whining of people that always whine, no matter what the change is, created negative atmosphere about v2. Honestly, it was a good game! Cheating (multies) did not matter so much on the battlefield, they cleaned the game more or less efficiently from all the fake gold and they narrowed the gap between old and new players. Unfortunately we will never know how good it could have been.

Q) Do you think that if the owners hadn't launched v2 we would had another 200000 players?

A) Not really, at least not real players. V2 military module was maybe not as user friendly as pressing fight and work/train buttons, but there must be some people out there that would enjoy it. One of the reasons people didn’t approve v2 was that it took more time and they didn’t have it. There was a llot of people that remained in this game in v1 only because it took no skill or time to play it and it was likely the simplest multi-player game on the net. I guess those didn’t want to play v2 any more.

Q) Recently new countries were added do you think that they can survive without the protection of a strong alliance even if they are highly populated

A) It depends on each separate case. Nobody really wants to conquer Monte Negro, so they could survive forever. Some other countries will most likely be conquered very soon.

Q) Let's talk about war. Recently we had many glorious battles that eden won how do you explain all this?

A) Rules are same for everyone, gold is used by everyone, tanks are on both sides - so battle ground is equal for all! There are few reasons why EDEN is stronger, in my opinion.
First is the structure of the alliances - PHX is based around Hungary and Serbia as superpowers and all other are there more or less to support the well being of superpowers. I will give you the example - when Romania conquered Bulgaria, the reaction from PHX HQ was to move all Bulgarians to Liaoning to work there. Slovenia was left to be deleted 2 times without real help from alliance. People do not like that kind of treatment. EDEN has its share of problems, but nothing of this magnitude. Countries in EDEN have stronger economies and overall EDEN is not grouped around 2 or 3 superpowers. Everyone is important, that’s why it is called a brotherhood.
Another reason is the way EDEN fights in the battles, but I will not elaborate that here.
It also helps that in RL EDEN nations have no strong historical disputes amongst each other. Game is based on RL so it doesn’t help PHX to have under the same roof the countries that are historically not the best buddies in RL.

Q) Although you have almost 170 battle hero medals you are missing rw medal do you intend of taking this?

A) Not really, I will not waste gold on that. Those BH medals are also just a bonus of hitting at round ends to secure a win in each round. I welcome everyone who decides to hit more than I do and take the medal for it!

Q) And one final question you have proved more than once that you can organise troops how about organising a country? Do you want to be a country president?

A) I do not want to be involved in ANY form of politics, eRep or RL. Ever. So no, I will not run for any country presidency.

thank you very much