Is anybody there?
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by Orinocco
My second Article to you the few that's left.
Today I was going through my friends list and deleted another 10+ inactive players and a few of them were quite well known as very active. For a while now there have been articles of erepublik dying and I will be one who will be leaving as soon as I get to Titan unless the game becomes more exciting.
I'll give you a few reasons why I will be leaving, you may or may not agree. Let me know.
1: markets have flatlined and Plato has done nothing about it.
2: the weekly rewards give no more incentive to attack. I have more storage than I will ever need and don't use moving tickets. 1 EB is not really going to make much difference to my attack total.
3: Admin has got far too greedy.
4: Can't afford to keep buying gold and only getting about 200cc for it.
5: Company upgrades are way to expensive to get to lv6.
6: Don't get many missions to do and when you do it's the same format as the last one. The rewards for the missions are also crap now.
7: Each upgrade to game is worse than the version before.
8: this game benefits only those who buy gold, meaning newbies get bored quickly and leave as they have nothing to do at the start.
9: Too many crooks have become PM and rob the treasury and Admin does nothing about it.
10: The Game has become way to boring and repetitive.
I Could go on but theses are the main ones for me.
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well said orinocco
I understand your frustration, I can only hope that something will improve so players like yourself stick around.
they are hitting all time lows
word \./
o/
o7
I agree with a lot of what you've written however I hope you stay around o/
o7
Got it in one! (well ten actually) o7
nothing new, been dieing for years now
With a lot of games with economies, there always tends to be a life point where the economy will start to unbalance as time goes on with any fixes likely to be delaying fate. For me, Plato screwed it up with the (joint) decision to:
1) Remove individual national currencies. Before then, exchange rate fluctuations offered protection to the smaller countries. Certainly I remember import taxes being a lot more powerful and relevant. You also had the section of the player base who liked to play the market and get their fun as traders.
2) The removal of the rules that states in order to fight in a battle you had to be in the region you wanted to fight in, but you couldn't move from your country of residence if you had a job (which you couldn't quit a new one for 3 days). In essence people either became workers or professional soldiers (who couldn't work but were paid by tax revenue). So what was the effect of this? In the most basic sense, every's army would be half the size of the population so that the difference in relative size of ours, and say Poland's, would be a lot less. Since their workers who were supporting the army couldn't invade the eUK, but the eUK workers could fight in defence of the eUK lands, this made it difficult for the largest populated countries from simply steamrolling the smaller ones and made the strategy side of things more important.
Maybe a lesser killer of the game was the removal of specialist worker skills rather than the "everyone works the same". For those not old enough, there used to be about a dozen industries of which the longer you worked in them, the more skilled a worker you became and more productive to the employer. Hence you could become a specialist lumberjack whose wood would be converted into moving tickets, or a skilled miner whose ore would be used as the gunsmiths to make weapons. The fact there were 6 industries - guns, food, moving tickets, hospitals, houses and defense mechanisms - meant that if a market was
satorated, then the wages would drop and people would switch to looking for jobs in other industries that were under resourced and whose employers needed to pay higher wages for anyone with decent skill.
I really can't help but think that if Plato could role back the above things that the game would improve a lot more as there would suddenly be a lot more strategy and complexity to the game rather than simply two-clicking. However, whether or not Plato would have the guts and think of a way to pacify the oldfag gold buyers in terms of compensation is unlikely. This game will ultimately die as there is no easy solution without PLato pishing off all the gold buyers who have supported the game for so long.
I'm just too apathetic to leave.
I'm new, and liking it! Lets hope for the best.
I agree that the game needs some major tweaks to make it attractive again - all the points you made are very valid. I really don't like the new fighting format either - seems every upgrade is a step backwards...
i like the new battlefield, it's soo much faster. :3