Let The eRep Tea Party Begin!

Day 1,298, 22:28 Published in USA USA by Darkskye

♦ Another Major Upheaval
♦ The Fall of the Business Model (since this will be published in the Financial Business Section, might as well talk about business here) 😉
♦ The EREP Tea Party. Yes! Throw it AWAY!


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Another Major Upheaval
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On day 1297, the admins, in their infinite wisdom, decided to make the game better with another massive update without even bothering to ask their loyal players if it was a good idea.

The result was another uproar in the community, as thousands of players threw up their hands in the air in absolute disgust. The community simply DOES NOT WANT all these buildings, candybars, and radical changes in game mechanics, and is left with extremely mixed feelings.

And you know what? The sickening part is, Plato just doesn't care what we think. History has taught us that every time the admins made a change for the worse, they simply kept a deaf ear to our logical protests and continued to do what they wanted to do, making many respected players so frustrated that rage-quitting has become the norm in this society.


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The fall of the business model.......
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About one year ago, when the massive failure called V2 or eRepublik Rising was released, I quickly saw a large potential for profit in the food business. This was the light in the bleak V2 world, where everything else was turning shitty because people were quitting left and right, there was something to look forward to for those of us who remained. This was because, for the first time ever, we were allowed to eat up to 300 food daily, putting a sudden increased demand in Grain and Food.

So I set out to build my little empire during the V2 turmoil. With patience and hard work, I was able to make a significant profit simply by maintaining my 2 core principles in running my eRep business: keep your employees happy, and learn to horde goods to wait for prices to go back to normal, instead of selling at a loss.

But, like everything in eRep, all good things had to end. With the numerous changes done by the admins, it became clear to me that hording goods was dangerously scary because a piece of gold can literally turn to a rock in this chaotic eRep world. Was it because the admins realized that prosperous company owners = very self sufficient = less gold buying = less profit for them?


(I made this sig bar almost a year ago for everyone who survived V2.... who knew that the later eRep versions would keep on getting worse!)

I slowly stopped caring. On January 2011 I made a decision not to hire anyone new. I only wanted to keep the ones I had, because by that time, I realized there was no way you can ever win in business. I believe that no one can maintain a successful business if the admins kept on changing the mechanics.

With the blink of an eye, the admins can take everything we have painstakingly built in this game and turn it into ashes. I can taste the ashes right now, actually.

But is there even any point in protesting? I would truly want to say yes, but I see that Plato has deaf ears, and surrounds himself with the worst advisers known to man. "Get over it or STFU", it seems. So I decided to just vent in this article. And luckily, I have thought of an excellent way for you to join me.


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The EREP Tea Party
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Hell yea! It's time to THROW IT ALL AWAY!

OK, so if you need a history lesson, just click here for the wiki on the RL Boston Tea Party.




Our PROTEST is not high taxes like in the RL Tea Party, but the constant changes to the game mechanics which make it unfair to everyone who worked hard to build up our econ skill. The same changes which keep on destroying the economy. The changes which make this game less enjoyable to play with each update.

OUR TEA, is all the useless Q1 food you keep on accidentally producing from that annoying Q1 factory the admins gave us. Yes, THROW THAT JUNK AWAY TO SHOW YOUR PROTEST!



OUR SEA, well, that's a bit more complicated. The game won't allow us to throw food. We can only donate it. So here's the plan:

Send the Q1 food you want to throw by donating it to my account. On Monday night, I will dump every single Q1 food in my inventory to the very awesome bewbs 4 newbs program.


Yesterday's winner, sent in by Dusty Haynes


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HIT 2 BIRDS WITH 1 STONE
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♦ A unique way to vent out our frustration
♦ Our unwanted food goes to strengthening our newbs




1. If you want to be cool and join the tea party, then work on your Q1 Food Factory to get more Q1 Food. Then donate those useless buggers (any amount, or you can donate them all) by clicking here. PLEASE NOTE: DO NOT DONATE ANYTHING ELSE, JUST Q1 FOOD. BECAUSE I WON'T TRACK MY OTHER STUFF.

2. Go back here, and POST HOW MANY Q1 FOOD YOU DONATED. This will be our Donor List which I will submit to Bewbs 4 Newbs.

3. SHOUT THIS ARTICLE OUT! This is the only way we can get more participants!

4. The TEA PARTY ENDS ON MONDAY NIGHT.

Well, what are you waiting for? Let's start throwing the bloody things! So far, I already have 1,336 Q1 Food from my own storage which I will throw out.




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The EREP Tea Party.... SHOUT IT!
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