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National Goals, motivation for everybody

403 Day 737, 02:57
Dear citizens,

In about two weeks we will once again have presidential elections in the New World. But this time, it will be different. So very different. Elections mean campaigns, and campaigns means promises. And promises made to the population are actually goals for the politicians to achieve. When we take the campaign promises and turn them into national goals for which everybody must work, then we add a bit of national pride as well as competition spirit, we get a new eRepublik feature.

The next presidential candidates will have at their disposal the option to set three national goals, one for each of the following sections:

- Economy: Increase the GDP by x %

- Society: Increase the population by x %

- Military: either keep all current regions, or by the end of mandate own control of specified new regions

It must be said that there is only one way to do this: set up three goals, or set nothing at all. You can't choose only partially, let's say, only one society goal and forget about the rest. You need at least three goals in order to have a valid campaign. Please consider that in the future more goals will be added, for each of the three categories. For now we start simple, to get everybody used with the concept. Also, suggestions and feedback about this are very welcome. The page for creating national goals looks like this.


And now we jump to the election day. Instead of the plain list of candidates, you will see a page similar to this.


The cool thing is that each candidate has his own goals presented to the voters, so you will really vote advisedly. From now on, you will know what you are voting for, not just words! And when the “judgment day” comes, there will be no place for the politicians to hide..

But we keep saying the goals are "national" while just the presidential candidates are proposing them. Yes, it seems personal, but remember with your vote you will be choosing the candidate and the program for your country. Therefor, the moment a candidate wins the elections, his campaign goals turn into national goals. On the country stats page, a new tab lists current national goals, as well as already accomplished ones, in the past months. You can see here a fictive picture illustrating this.


It's normal for the goals to be national, because, after all, to have as a target to conquer X or Y region of the New World by the end of the month, is the whole country's job. Everybody must play smart together. It is not just a one-man job. And mainly the country should be proud of the accomplishments, but of course the leader has his merits too.

“The bigger, the better,” they say. When it comes to the monuments related to fulfilled national goals, this is true. The biggest monument shows proudly that all three goals were accomplished, a wonderful job done. The medium one means that only two of them were "checked", a pretty good job. And the smallest means that only one out of the three national goals was successfully fulfilled. As you can see, you can watch the history of any country in the world, to see what they have managed to achieve in the previous months.

Things to be considered:
- The 2nd day of the month is the last one in which goals can be edited or created.
- Also, the final candidates list for presidential elections is closed in this day.
- On the 4th day of each month the previous goals are analyzed and if fulfilled Monuments that commemorate your nations achievements are created.
- On the 5th we have the new elections and on the 6th we have the new national goals.

Good luck everybody, in your attempts to fulfill national goals and achieve monuments like these!

Regards,
The eRepublik Team

 
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VAdrian
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VAdrian Day 737, 02:58

Good Luck.

 
ARPE
18
ARPE Day 737, 02:59

great
voted

 
FlipmodeBG
31
FlipmodeBG Day 737, 03:01

admins are fun

 
Andreas Bo
41
Andreas Bo Day 737, 03:01

great addition...

 
Srecko Ilic
25
Srecko Ilic Day 737, 03:01

kewl story bro

 
Pip Kelly
26
Pip Kelly Day 737, 03:01

Interesting

 
Domnic
28
Domnic Day 737, 03:02

Thnxx.. !!! nice addition.

 
Crazy Man
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Crazy Man Day 737, 03:02

It's great.

 
Crocky
29
Crocky Day 737, 03:03

looks promising!

 
Himan
25
Himan Day 737, 03:03

I like it.

 
cowox
34
cowox Day 737, 03:04

wow...great!

 
Kenzirok
26
Kenzirok Day 737, 03:05

thanks's

 
RevengerDE
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RevengerDE Day 737, 03:06

yeah good

 
Rangu
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Rangu Day 737, 03:06

what prevents a country from putting:
1-maintain current regions
2-increase gdp by 0.1%
3-increase pop by 0.1%
and still getting the monument?

 
mobster1930
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mobster1930 Day 737, 03:06

nothing special imho

 
Dynimum
24
Dynimum Day 737, 03:06

IT SUCKS!

We want our Society Simulation back, just take away this society-based looking "Age of Empires"!

 
seeinvoices
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seeinvoices Day 737, 03:06

funny

 
Himzo_Cetvrtina
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Himzo_Cetvrtina Day 737, 03:07

vote, gj

 
semarangindah
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semarangindah Day 737, 03:07

ayo ayo Indonesia, sore ini kita harus menang
dung dung dung dung dung

 
drewxyz
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drewxyz Day 737, 03:08

UK controlling romanian regions. LOL THIS BLASPHEMY.

 
Gotrek
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Gotrek Day 737, 03:08

I like this new feature! It helps the nations to be proud of themselves.

Great upgrade! Congrat!

 
Psicopatico
23
Psicopatico Day 737, 03:08

Rather cool.

Thanks

 
teXew
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teXew Day 737, 03:09

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

 
Sahand.M
25
Sahand.M Day 737, 03:09

great !

 
William Sack
28
William Sack Day 737, 03:10

Great !!

 
SukarnosRevenge
21
SukarnosRevenge Day 737, 03:10

Good addition/

 
Griss0m
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Griss0m Day 737, 03:10

nice feature

 
greda23
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greda23 Day 737, 03:10

WE WANT RW MODULE!

 
Profan5
28
Profan5 Day 737, 03:12

perfect!

 
Roger Chan
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Roger Chan Day 737, 03:12

not good, i think all their's goals are similar or same
so it may be meaningless

 
Fritis
24
Fritis Day 737, 03:13

It sucks

 
Uskok
26
Uskok Day 737, 03:13

Wow, this is great!

 
Splash_OS
42
Splash_OS Day 737, 03:14

nice ^^

 
Odagescoo
22
Odagescoo Day 737, 03:15

super. only you should also put as national goal "number of citizens over level 6". that`d be great. a baby-boom doesn`t always reflect the activity of a nation

 
Gauzeroad
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Gauzeroad Day 737, 03:15

Nice!

 
Alexandru Bitea
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Alexandru Bitea Day 737, 03:16

Great! Voted!

 
bartolo
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bartolo Day 737, 03:16

this looks like PEACE propaganda, as usual

 
bmd org
Or
bmd org Day 737, 03:16

cool

 
Bog25
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Bog25 Day 737, 03:17

very very gooood

 
Fitzcarraldo
41
Fitzcarraldo Day 737, 03:17

well

 
LLuX
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LLuX Day 737, 03:17

great admins

 
Sa$a Makaveli
29
Sa$a Makaveli Day 737, 03:18

Vote

 
Luco
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Luco Day 737, 03:18

che cosa inutile

 
Collinar
27
Collinar Day 737, 03:19

Very nice!

 
Chuchi
37
Chuchi Day 737, 03:19

I WANT MY HELICOPTER!!

 
Arthk
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Arthk Day 737, 03:20

according to the GDP formula, if a country president spends 10k GOLD in creating worthless companies and worthless export licences, etc etc etc then the GDP will rise 10k+

So GDP is plain stupid to add as a goal.

 
ecksohh
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ecksohh Day 737, 03:20

This is a nice idea, need to wait and see what other goals can be put down though, it's a little light at the moment though

 
falls
21
falls Day 737, 03:22

nice

 
Erwin Schauman
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Erwin Schauman Day 737, 03:23

Weird. That's all I am going to say.

 
Mcsam
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Mcsam Day 737, 03:23

Great !!!

 
Lemuel Gengulfus
28
Lemuel Gengulfus Day 737, 03:24

Interesting... Well done the admins. Now how about sorting out the RM distribution?

 
Elvroy
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Elvroy Day 737, 03:24

 
Gen
27
Gen Day 737, 03:26

Great!

 
Zaizulia
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Zaizulia Day 737, 03:27

Admins do not work where you should be. It's unable to use chat rooms, the company's tool does not work or show bad results.

How can candidate promise that the GDP will grow, if it is impossible to understand how it is calculated.

FAIL

 
Xavinyo
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Xavinyo Day 737, 03:29

I see only option to increase gdp, and increase population at the social and economic parts. Sounds a bit limited. Looks like all the appliers are forced to make a BET on what will happen in the future?

The military thing seems at least a better, but again, many things are decided by the whole congress or by the president and by the circumstances.ű

So at the end everyone will have excuses, why they failed...

Anyway, for a new GOALs I'd suggest:
Social:
"Make alliance with _this_ country"
"Abolish alliance with _this_ country"

Military:
"Help _this_ ally to defend _this_ area"
"Help _this_ ally to obtain _this_ area"

Economic:
"Lower _this_ tax"
"Increase _this_ tax"

 
RezoRemo
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RezoRemo Day 737, 03:31

From now on, you will know what you are voting for, not just words!

 
scout13
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scout13 Day 737, 03:32

Shouldn't there be some prize (gold) for country if achieves one, two or all 3 national goals? That could help smaller countries with paying mpp-s.

 
Seraosha
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Seraosha Day 737, 03:33

Rubbish.

 
ceselb
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ceselb Day 737, 03:37

Huh? GDP numbers are so random it's not even funny. Why use such a flawed metric?

 
Laza Ede
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Laza Ede Day 737, 03:37

great but i also dont want to see chinkens in the end of the battles...

 
Even  Tide
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Even Tide Day 737, 03:39

Nice addition.

 
Ivan Minkov
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Ivan Minkov Day 737, 03:40

is GDP real stat or not, what about other stats - companies sales ?

 
Scadens
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Scadens Day 737, 03:41

LOL, GDP increase as a goal? I think we all know how good economy indicator that really is.
Sweden is ranked 49th. The following renowned economic mights are ahead: Bolivia (18th), Paraguay (31st), Belgium (33rd), Austria (35th) and Pakistan (38th).

2-click voters who don't read articles just vote for the guy that promises the most. Who cares about monuments, since they don't actually give anything to the nation who gets them?

 
Zelenkooo
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Zelenkooo Day 737, 03:45

10 new regions ?? is this a joke

 
decisiv
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decisiv Day 737, 03:46

nice additions ! good job

/salute

 
capitanmahou
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capitanmahou Day 737, 03:46

no spanish, no vote

 
Musketeer
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Musketeer Day 737, 03:46

Well done Admins. Great job

I can't remember the last time I was thankful from admins!! But I'm really am now!! All Hail Admins!!

 
Doutrus
24
Doutrus Day 737, 03:46

Nice addition.

 
tkgabor
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tkgabor Day 737, 03:47

new economic and war modul?

 
Musketeer
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Musketeer Day 737, 03:47

Voted + Subscribed !! o/

 
Preto Lider
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Preto Lider Day 737, 03:52

So, am I the only one who see no point in this?

 
cemone
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cemone Day 737, 03:53

Good

 
Rangu
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Rangu Day 737, 03:55

no there are a lot of people who see no point

 
Megalexandros
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Megalexandros Day 737, 03:55

Hmmm...interesting. Let's seen how it goes

 
Xaby75
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Xaby75 Day 737, 03:56

hmmm... it seems interesting

 
Kimisworld
27
Kimisworld Day 737, 03:56

awesome.

 
Pan Xenonchik
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Pan Xenonchik Day 737, 03:58

ок

 
Scadens
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Scadens Day 737, 03:59

How about having a monument for something *really* difficult instead? For instance:
-Have your country "travel" around the world - Hungary is pretty close to getting this one, since they have region swapped their way from Urals to Heilongjiang.
-Draw a smiley with your country regions on the map
-Control a region on each continent for a week

 
SMA333M
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SMA333M Day 737, 03:59

Nice.

 
samyplus
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samyplus Day 737, 03:59

Cool! Vote

 
peter81
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peter81 Day 737, 04:00

Well, if Canada sets goal to conquer Florida next month, than USA knows abaout it, and prepares for the attack too.

and what happens when a country finally achieves all of its goals, do we get something then?

 
Scadens
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Scadens Day 737, 04:01

"and what happens when a country finally achieves all of its goals, do we get something then?"

Yes, you get a pretty monument that serves no purpose whatsoever

 
xivanzj
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xivanzj Day 737, 04:02

new economic and war modul?

 
nima1
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nima1 Day 737, 04:02

Very Nice,
Voted

 
NumbuS
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NumbuS Day 737, 04:03

It's better than nothing. Voted.

 
Shauny B
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Shauny B Day 737, 04:05

It really limits what you can do militarily, as couldn't a nation owning the territories that you want then know that you will attack?

 
BroodRoosterNL
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BroodRoosterNL Day 737, 04:06

NOT VOTED!
This will push the game to certain lines! Keep eRepublik free of that. The great thing about this game is that you can choose to promise everything you want. Either put 100 different kind of goals in it which suit every kind of presidential campaign, or don't!
NOT VOTED!

 
Spiry
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Spiry Day 737, 04:08

and what's the punishment for NOT completing the goals?

 
Nagyzee
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Nagyzee Day 737, 04:08

You lost me with using GDP increase as one of the targets. If you want that you should fix the GDP formula first.

 
Alecsandru010-org
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Alecsandru010-org Day 737, 04:09

drewxyz-this is fantasy
Alecsandru010

 
Nagyzee
25
Nagyzee Day 737, 04:11

Also you are forcing the presidential candidates to promise a very limited set of stupid things and I don't know how newbies / two-clickers will react to this module. I find it quite likely that a significant portion of them will vote on who promises the most thus increasing idiots'/liars' chances to win.

 
Constantin Prezan
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Constantin Prezan Day 737, 04:12

Looks like Sid Meyer's Civilisation Series, but it's something new, anyway...

 
archmage2
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archmage2 Day 737, 04:14

looks cool

 
Weird Organization
Or
Weird Organization Day 737, 04:17

SO COOL! YAY!

 
Robh John
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Robh John Day 737, 04:17

Very good feature that you added. Make this game more competetive. Great!

 
peter81
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peter81 Day 737, 04:19

Nagyzee, then all candidates will promise to conquer the world next month, triple country population and have 100% GDP increase. Nothing else makes sense to me

 
D3.V.K2
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D3.V.K2 Day 737, 04:22

Well I dont vote for candidate
but i vote for this

 
el5ro
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el5ro Day 737, 04:24

great job

 
peter81
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peter81 Day 737, 04:25

or you can promise to conquer a region of your neighbour, and they set their goal to have one of your regions

at end of presidency you just swap your regions and than back, so everybody is happy

 
akiller
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akiller Day 737, 04:26

not just words but real plans!!!

great addition