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***The following article is not a simple presentation. It's an analysis and it contains some author's comments and opinions.***

Hello eRepublikans.

Today Admins announced a new "competition"

National Shield


Let's take a closer look on this new competition.

As you can see in the Latest Updates Article the tournament will last 1 week (7 days) from day 2087 to day 2093.

There will be two (2) targets. One national target and one individual target for each citizen.
The targets are to inflict a certain damage.

Let's start from the Citizen target.
Each citizen will have to inflict a certain damage depending on his military capability (strength , rank points etc).
For Example Mister X who has 10.000 strength and his rank is World Class Force ** will have to inflict 4.827.093 damage. (The number is completely random , so don't take it as a fact that if you have this strength and rank you will have to inflict this damage.)
Now , the same citizen Mister X can reach his target and get the first reward.
BUT this doesn't end here.
You can inflict more damage and get more rewards for it.
You can read about the rewards in the Latest Updates so I will just Copy-Paste the Rewards and then explain how this whole thing works.

- During the tournament, the player will be rewarded when reaching certain milestones based on his initial target:

- 100% (the target is reached) - +25 Strength
- 110% (surpassed the target by 10😵 - +50 Energy Center for 7 days
- 125% - receive a number of Rank Points equal to this target damage divided by 10
(Ex: if the 125% target is 10 million damage, the player receives 1 million Rank Points)
- 150% - 50% Damage Booster for 8 hours
- 200% - 10 Energy bars
- 300% - +50 Energy Center for 30 days
- 500% - 50% Damage Booster for 24 hours
- 750% - 20 Energy bars
- 1 000% - 25 Gold
- 1 500% - +100 Energy Center for 30 days
- 2 000% - 15 Energy Bars
- 2 500% - 50% Damage Booster for 24 hours
- 3 000% - 20 Energy Bars
- 4 000% - 25 Energy Bars
- 5 000% - 50 Gold
- 6 000% - 25 Energy Bars
- For every 1 000% more - 25 Energy Bars

So let's see what this means.
If Mister Y has to inflict 1.000.000 damage , once he reaches this target he gets his first reward : +25 Strength
If he , then , inflicts 100.000 more damage which is the 10% percent of his initial target he reaches 110% percent of the target and he gets his second reward : +50 Energy Center for 7 days

And so goes on.
For example , for the same person Mister Y, he needs to inflict 1.000.000 for the +25 strength , 1.100.000 for the health center for 7 days , 125% for the rank points , 1.500.000 for damage booster etc. So it's simple mathematics. See what's your initial target , check which reward you aim for (or which is your limit) and do the maths to understand how much damage you have to inflict.

Additional info
-The top 50 player of every country (those who have inflicted more damage will receive a badge. (I suppose that it will be something like the MU Tournament badges.
-You can collect the reward from the banner in the homepage (the one that I have used in the beginning of the article) . This rule is also concerning the Damage Booster rewards.
-As far as the Boosters:
If you win a 50% damage booster for 8 h and then a 50% booster of 24 hours you will have in total a 50% damage booster available for 32 h





IMPORTANT INFO
The damage from guerillas , boosters, bazookas and of course weapons counts for the targets and the rankings.
But the damage of the rockets , small bombs , big bombs does NOT count neither for the targets nor for the rankings.

If you change CS during the competition ALL your damage will count for your initial country (for the country in which you were when the competition started).

Rankings
You will be able to see the ranking in the banner in the homepage.
Something really important .
The rankings are based on the percentage and not on the damage inflicted.
Let's see a simple example as in the Admin's Article and analyze it a bit.
Mister A 's initial target is to inflict 100.000 damage , while Mister B has to inflict 500.000 damage.
If A inflicts 500.000 damage and B 1.000.000 damage Mister A will be higher in ranking as he has reached 500% of his target while Mister B has reached 200%.

In my opinion this is more balanced and fair for the smaller levels and the small divisions.
If the rankings were formed according the biggest damage ..it would be the same thing again...the top 50 tanks with the biggest strength , rank and pocket would win for sure.
Now the younger players have also the opportunity to place higher in the rankings. (Although I believe the same tanks will place first again but anyway xD) . At least THIS TIME admins tried to balance things a bit. That's a good start. In the future this balance might improve.

The ranking are updated every hour and they show the first 100 players of each country (+ your place in the ranking if you are not on the first 100).

National target and rewards
The same things go for the national target. Every country has an initial country according to its military capability (fighters , ranking etc).
The Country Rewards are:

- 100% (reached the target) - 250 Gold
- 110% (surpassed the target by 10😵 - 100 Gold
- 125% - 150 Gold
- 150% - 200 Gold
- 200% - 300 Gold
- 300% - 400 Gold
- 500% - 500 Gold
- 750% - 600 Gold
- 1 000% - 700 Gold
- 1 500% - 800 Gold
- 2 000% - 1 000 Gold
- 2 500% - 1 500 Gold
- 3 000% - 2 000 Gold
- 4 000% - 2 500 Gold
- 5 000% - 3 000 Gold
- 6 000% - 3 500 Gold
- 7 000% - 4 000 Gold
- For every 1 000% more - another 1 000 Gold

All this gold from the percentage of the target that one country reaches is added to the country treasury.
It's a really good way for the countries , even the weaker ones , to earn some gold so that they start using their
organisations in order to earn some profit and be able to support new players and open supplies form when an important
battle is in progress.
The interesting thing in these rewards is that we don't know what will happen to the Monetary Market.
With so much gold "on the market" and with the already falling price of gold how will the exchange rate change?
Will the price of the gold go down even more?
Maybe we are expecting another change in the economy module?
Are there new companies and training grounds coming in the upcoming weeks and the countries need gold to aid their citizens?
We do not know yet.

Example for the Gold Rewards so that you can all understand the gold rewards.
If you get 500% you dont get 500 gold in total. You get 250 (from 100😵 + 100 +150 + 200 + 300 + 400 +500
So it is really worth it to try and get as much gold as possible.

*NEW FEATURE*
DEFENCE SHIELD

So this is a new feature (or maybe an old one 😃 ) .
I guess they are trying to bring back the Defence Systems.
In this competition each country will get a Defence Shield.
The Defence Shield rewards are :

- Places 1 to 10 - Quality 7 Defence Shield
- Places 11 - 20 - Quality 6 Defence Shield
- Places 21 - 30 - Quality 5 Defence Shield
- Places 31 - 40 - Quality 4 Defence Shield
- Places 41 - 50 - Quality 3 Defence Shield
- Places 51 - 60 - Quality 2 Defence Shield
- Places 61 - 70 - Quality 1 Defence Shield

So the first 10 countries will get a Q7 Defence Shield.
Places 11-20 get a q6 D.S. etc.

Let's see how much damage each D.S. (Defence Shield) absorbs.

- Quality 7: 10 billions damage
- Quality 6: 8 billions damage
- Quality 5: 6 billions damage
- Quality 4: 4 billions damage
- Quality 3: 3 billions damage
- Quality 2: 2 billions damage
- Quality 1: 1 billion damage

As we know there are 70 countries in the New World so each country will get one DS. I think it's a good way to let
every country try this out.
Admins didn't let us know much about the DS in this Latest Update.
They promised , though , that they will write a new Article in the next days about it and inform us.
It will be really interesting to see how will the DS work.
How will the countries be able to use it?
Will it change the balance of the ongoing wars?
When it absorbs all the damage that it is able to what will happen with the DS?
Will the CP be the only one able to use this ?
Will the countries be able to buy a new DS?
Maybe that's what the gold from the rewards is for...

The rankings are easily accessible from the banner on the homepage.

So that's all about the rewards and the competition.

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Message for members of the Hellenic community only:
Αγαπητοί συμπατριώτες.
Όπως ίσως διαβάσατε στο Αγγλικό κείμενο τα οφελή του Διαγωνισμού είναι και ατομικά και Εθνικά.
Πέρα από το DS που κατα πασα πιθανότητα θα το παρουμε υπάρχει και όφελος σε χρυσό που θα πάει στο κράτος.
Αυτό σημαίνει ότι ο χρυσός μπορεί να χρησιμοποιηθεί για επιδοτήσεις αλλά και για αγορά DS αν οι αντμινς
επιτρέψουν την αγορά τους.

Προτείνω λοιπόν επιστροφή όλων των ξενιτεμένων άμεσα. Κι επειδή είναι λίγα τα περιθώρια να μην τηρηθούν για σήμερα
οι διαδικασίες.

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