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National goals disaster
As a country president whose country fulfilled a miserable 1 out of 3 goals (and that by the skin of her metaphorical ball bag), I took a look at the other countries' performances and how we compare.
42% of the total national goals in the eWorld were fulfilled.
That's pretty miserable. Here's a quick breakdown of countries fulfilled how many goals:
3 goals fulfilled: 4
2 goals fulfilled: 12
1 goal fulfilled: 20
0 goals fulfilled: 10
No goals: 13
Now a bit more in-depth!
Countries with 3 goals fulfilled (congratulations!):
Netherlands
Norway
Peru
Switzerland
Countries with 2 goals fulfilled (good performance):
Canada
Italy
Pakistan
Philippines
Poland
Republic of Moldava
Russia
Serbia
South Korea
Sweden
Ukraine
United Kingdom
USA
Countries with 1 goal fulfilled (better than nothing):
Argentina
Austria
Bolivia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bulgaria
Chile
Colombia
Croatia
Estonia
Germany
Hungary
Ireland
Japan
Latvia
Lithuania
Mexico
Romania
Singapore
Slovakia
South Africa
Countries with 0 goals fulfilled (nothing):
Australia
Czech Republic
France
India
Indonesia
Iran
Israel
Malaysia
North Korea
Slovenia
Countries with no goals set (cowards):
Belgium
Brazil
China
Denmark
Finland
Greece
Paraguay
Portugal
Spain
Thailand
Turkey
Uruguay
Venezuela
So out of a total of 138 goals, the countries of the eWorld fulfilled 58.
The most accomplished goals were the military ones (mostly keeping regions) at 31 fulfilled. Then, the population growth one with 21 accomplished. Economy (raising the GDP) lagged behind the others with only 6 being achieved.
So all-in-all, I don't feel so bad about only fulfilling one goal, but we should always strive for more. On the other hand, do we really need these goals? All we get is a lousy monument. Woop-di-doo. If admins make it more worthwhile, maybe we can all work towards something more than just a picture.
42% of the total national goals in the eWorld were fulfilled.
That's pretty miserable. Here's a quick breakdown of countries fulfilled how many goals:
3 goals fulfilled: 4
2 goals fulfilled: 12
1 goal fulfilled: 20
0 goals fulfilled: 10
No goals: 13
Now a bit more in-depth!
Countries with 3 goals fulfilled (congratulations!):
Netherlands
Norway
Peru
Switzerland
Countries with 2 goals fulfilled (good performance):
Canada
Italy
Pakistan
Philippines
Poland
Republic of Moldava
Russia
Serbia
South Korea
Sweden
Ukraine
United Kingdom
USA
Countries with 1 goal fulfilled (better than nothing):
Argentina
Austria
Bolivia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bulgaria
Chile
Colombia
Croatia
Estonia
Germany
Hungary
Ireland
Japan
Latvia
Lithuania
Mexico
Romania
Singapore
Slovakia
South Africa
Countries with 0 goals fulfilled (nothing):
Australia
Czech Republic
France
India
Indonesia
Iran
Israel
Malaysia
North Korea
Slovenia
Countries with no goals set (cowards):
Belgium
Brazil
China
Denmark
Finland
Greece
Paraguay
Portugal
Spain
Thailand
Turkey
Uruguay
Venezuela
So out of a total of 138 goals, the countries of the eWorld fulfilled 58.
The most accomplished goals were the military ones (mostly keeping regions) at 31 fulfilled. Then, the population growth one with 21 accomplished. Economy (raising the GDP) lagged behind the others with only 6 being achieved.
So all-in-all, I don't feel so bad about only fulfilling one goal, but we should always strive for more. On the other hand, do we really need these goals? All we get is a lousy monument. Woop-di-doo. If admins make it more worthwhile, maybe we can all work towards something more than just a picture.
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To be honest, it does make you look back over the month and think, well, why didn't we achieve those goals or how difficult it was to achieve those goals.
Thanks Ines, you were a GREAT president in some turbulent times. The fact that we even reached a goal (no matter how close it came to your metaphorical ball bag) is great news!!! And due to everything that was going on, that is one mean feat in itself!
Well done again!!
Norway! \o/
Representing Norway here. I hope the admins do more with this feature, and until then, I'd like to shout out to all of Norway's friends, allies, and EDEN HQ. Good luck with your endeavors!
I like the national goals,the give fuel to work harder
fail...
Vote, but i disagree when you say that the ones who did not set the goals are cowards...
I'm sorry to say, but I couldn't help but chuckle when I saw the economy one.
Unless my maths is very much mistaken, a 10% increase to make 1571 gold implies that we've LOST money since then, as we sit at 890..
Still, it amused me, and that, in my mind at least, is worth much more than a image.
These goals should not be about the medals. It should be about holding our presidential candidates responsible for the promises they made at election time. Great idea if you ask me.
Welington: afraid of failure. That's a coward in my book!
"Countries with no goals set (cowards):
Belgium"
Belgium doesn't exist. 2 regions are part of the UK, the other regions are part of the Netherlands (eUNL)
YEAH! Go eUNL (eNetherlands + eBelgium Union)!
By the way, that GDP is lagging can be because either:
1) People don't know how to influence it. Read <a href="http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/national-goals-gdp-1073577/1/20" target="_blank">http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/nati[..]/1/20</a> for more info about it. ( Hey, maybe that article even contributed to us achieving the GDP goal? )
2) Because it only works in theory, but the RER (recommended exchange rate) in eRep is failing epically.
Your choice which of the two it is...
lol australia did not so good
Very good article, unfortunately a lot of countries who only accomplished one goal had a goal of keeping all regions, now thats not hard.
I totally agree!
how about some tangible reward, like Gold for the countries' Treasuries. a cartoon Monument is nothing; it make the whole module a poor campaign tool, cheap propaganda, and weak strategic distraction.
VIVAT eUKRAINE
Bullshit... a national goal to gain a worthless monument....
needs more awards than a Fmonumanet, in order to work properly:-)
well, candidates will eventually learn to set +1% population, +1% GDP and keep all regions...
i love how eAussy is at the top of the fail list.
Alphabetical order in the categories, Eyebrows. Conspiracy theorist!
Failure
Srbija, BRE !
i say that national goals were a stupid idea in the firstplace
+ there is no serious reward for achieving them
@Eyebrows - that's because it's an alphabetical list. Last time I checked, Australia starts with 'A'.
@Boklevski - I could be wrong, but I think the reason we didn't make the GDP goal is because we didn't have several of our regions for a large part of the month.
While it kind of makes sense for population growth and military goals, until the Admins come up with an intelligent way to calculate the GDP, the economy one will always lag behind.
the national goals are useless. i don't know what is it for? you just set 3 hilarious goal, and no matter how little was it, you get the reward. and then?
What does a country get for achieving a "monument".
Gold, glory, anything?
eMalaysia actually almost reach 2 of its goals
Great article, great stats!
The reward for national goals is fun but worthless.
I suggest that the current president should associate the received monument with 1 region and it could act as a supplimentary DS q1 through to q3. Or it could mean 1% to 3% (cummulative for each monument placed) extra damage or extra productivity or health gained for residents of that region.
The most complex solution would include all the suggestions above and the president could decide not only where the monument is placed but what function it serves: defense, productivity, attack or health.
@ mulderpf - you could very well be right, as I am not aware of the situation in SA. If you did have those regions one month ago, and have less regions now, that will most definitely be (a major part of) the reason. If one month ago you had less or the same amount of regions as now, there probably are other reasons (eRep failing being my #1 guess )
Ines: Brazil had some problems with last elections. Don't know for sure, but the goals were not set not because the president feared failuring, but due a bug in the game. I'm not criticizing the article, it's very good indeed, but some things can't be generalized.
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sorry, we have more important things to do than to worry about "goals". just look at the way GDP is calculated. lol.
Fair enough Welington.
Avraam: What a great idea!
Boklevski: We had an ATO action in colloboration with Brazil, we have the same number of regions now, but were missing 3 for the past week.
Mm, same thing with Malaysia as well--they'd have both their population and territory goals if the landswap wasn't necessary to protect Malaysia from Indonesia.
1 goal is better than none, and in turbulent times as well. You've nothing to be ashamed of Ines, you had a tough term. Well done.
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Yeah, when missing 3 regions somewhere in the last 30 days, you can't really help not getting the GDP thing. Indeed a good extra reason to take into account when discussing the GDP (quite obvious maybe, but I didn't think of it before).
And a good recommendation to raise it..: just conquer your neighbours
bunaly tried to find a bug and he found one...
Not entirely sure if Venezuela was existing when goals were being set. Brazil swallowed them up to save them from that utterly asinine minimum wage and channer majority.
If they had the option later down the line to set them, then maybe you have them there. Still, I don't know if cowardly is the right word for Venezuela.
Countries with 0 goals fulfilled (nothing):
Israel
BAHAHAHA
Quote "Unless my maths is very much mistaken, a 10% increase to make 1571 gold implies that we've LOST money since then, as we sit at 890.."
Well, everyone is spending their money on training now, and is making the economy tough. That just killed the whole economy goal's gettableness.
You set quite ambitious goals. Given the events of the month, you're to be applauded for meeting any of them.
lol Indos on there
Nice one ^^
Great article Ines.
1 out of 3 is not bad at all, considering everything that has happened
I agree, there should be something more than just monuments. I think Avraam has a great idea. I'd like to see something like that implimented. It would make achieving the goals so much more rewarding.
At the same time, like was pointed out, Countries will learn to set their goals at 1% increase and keep all regions, thereby reaching all goals every term. So rewarding something like that, would ruin the game.
Admins should spend their time coding a solution to the Moving Ticket Industry problem...
Travel distance should be dictated by ticket quality. Q5s for travel anywhere and Q1s for adjacent regional travel.
maybe a good goal would be to get territory back.