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Our journey so far in 2009
Dear citizens,
In an Insider article at the beginning of 2009, we shared with you some of our summer deadlines, which included our plans and challenges regarding game improvements. Now it's time to see what we have accomplished.
-New citizen laws. Done. The previous set of laws has been replaced with a better one earlier this year. Of course, just like in real life, laws need constant improvements and modifications to keep up with the realities of the New World.
-eRepublik shop. Done. Different types of T-shirts, passports, are available. Other eRepublik branded souvenirs will come soon.
-Translation in other languages. Done. First steps are always the hardest, and we have done that with the Spanish version of eRepublik. More translations will follow.
-Adviser system. Done. Plato is ready to guide all citizens through the New World. He also loves to advise newly born citizens. But he's most proud because he became an actor in the eRepublik video tutorials.
-API system. This application offers many opportunities to citizens willing to develop various eRepublik-related applications. These applications have their dedicated server ready to supply them with the desired information, and their purpose is to make the life of each citizen easier by providing different game related stats. The eRepublik API system will be improved throughout the entire year, with many features coming soon.
-Add new countries. Done. In the past months fifteen countries have joined us: Chile, Serbia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, North Korea, Bolivia, Colombia, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay.
-Moderator module. Done. Our team grew considerably by recruiting moderators from within the community, which has helped us a lot in our moderation efforts. For citizen, the moderators module means much faster answers to your problems concerning inappropriate content you encounter in eRepublik articles, comments, etc. The moderators program is a success, and we would like to thank all the participants.
-Citizen ads. Done. Citizens have a powerful tool available to advertise their ideas, articles, products, parties, and so much more. The excellent targeting options assure the well balanced costs-benefits ratio.
-Citizenship. This feature wasn't on our to-do list six months ago, but our team focused on it and brought citizenship to the New World due to the large amount of requests from within the community. Our goal is to improve citizen experience, so we carefully listened to your request, and will continue to do so.
Poll system, visual improvements and customization – these were either postponed or partially done, like some visual improvements. We'll keep working on it, and we will let you know about our progress.
The list also contained three more things, that are also highly requested by the community: a new map, a new war module, and general manager's tools. All of them are “in production.” The reason for the delay is their complexity and also work done for other unplanned features, like citizenship.
In the near feature the new eRepublik map will be the first to arrive, in about two weeks. Details and a sneak preview can be found in one of our previous Insiders.
Company's tools will also be implemented in September, offering managers a much more professional way of managing their business.
The new war module is also in production, but the complete redesign of it asks for a tremendous amount of work, and we can't provide a certain time frame for its implementation. Anyway, we'll need several months more to finish this new war module.
As you can see, pretty soon (within just weeks), only the war module will be left on our to-do list from that insider related to major features that need to be added in eRepublik. We have come a long way from the V1 launch, but we are sure that there are many other features that would improve your eRepublik experience. Listening to the citizens' requests is incredibly important to us, and because of this, the top three requirements from the community (citizenship, company tools and the world map) that were extracted from the survey a couple of months ago, have now been implemented or are down the pipe with the 'soon to come' status.
Of course we are planning to make many further improvements and we will be sharing these with you for feedback progressively.
Thanks for your support and feel free to express your thoughts regarding our journey so far in a comment to this article.
The eRepublik Team
In an Insider article at the beginning of 2009, we shared with you some of our summer deadlines, which included our plans and challenges regarding game improvements. Now it's time to see what we have accomplished.
-New citizen laws. Done. The previous set of laws has been replaced with a better one earlier this year. Of course, just like in real life, laws need constant improvements and modifications to keep up with the realities of the New World.
-eRepublik shop. Done. Different types of T-shirts, passports, are available. Other eRepublik branded souvenirs will come soon.
-Translation in other languages. Done. First steps are always the hardest, and we have done that with the Spanish version of eRepublik. More translations will follow.
-Adviser system. Done. Plato is ready to guide all citizens through the New World. He also loves to advise newly born citizens. But he's most proud because he became an actor in the eRepublik video tutorials.
-API system. This application offers many opportunities to citizens willing to develop various eRepublik-related applications. These applications have their dedicated server ready to supply them with the desired information, and their purpose is to make the life of each citizen easier by providing different game related stats. The eRepublik API system will be improved throughout the entire year, with many features coming soon.
-Add new countries. Done. In the past months fifteen countries have joined us: Chile, Serbia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, North Korea, Bolivia, Colombia, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay.
-Moderator module. Done. Our team grew considerably by recruiting moderators from within the community, which has helped us a lot in our moderation efforts. For citizen, the moderators module means much faster answers to your problems concerning inappropriate content you encounter in eRepublik articles, comments, etc. The moderators program is a success, and we would like to thank all the participants.
-Citizen ads. Done. Citizens have a powerful tool available to advertise their ideas, articles, products, parties, and so much more. The excellent targeting options assure the well balanced costs-benefits ratio.
-Citizenship. This feature wasn't on our to-do list six months ago, but our team focused on it and brought citizenship to the New World due to the large amount of requests from within the community. Our goal is to improve citizen experience, so we carefully listened to your request, and will continue to do so.
Poll system, visual improvements and customization – these were either postponed or partially done, like some visual improvements. We'll keep working on it, and we will let you know about our progress.
The list also contained three more things, that are also highly requested by the community: a new map, a new war module, and general manager's tools. All of them are “in production.” The reason for the delay is their complexity and also work done for other unplanned features, like citizenship.
In the near feature the new eRepublik map will be the first to arrive, in about two weeks. Details and a sneak preview can be found in one of our previous Insiders.
Company's tools will also be implemented in September, offering managers a much more professional way of managing their business.
The new war module is also in production, but the complete redesign of it asks for a tremendous amount of work, and we can't provide a certain time frame for its implementation. Anyway, we'll need several months more to finish this new war module.
As you can see, pretty soon (within just weeks), only the war module will be left on our to-do list from that insider related to major features that need to be added in eRepublik. We have come a long way from the V1 launch, but we are sure that there are many other features that would improve your eRepublik experience. Listening to the citizens' requests is incredibly important to us, and because of this, the top three requirements from the community (citizenship, company tools and the world map) that were extracted from the survey a couple of months ago, have now been implemented or are down the pipe with the 'soon to come' status.
Of course we are planning to make many further improvements and we will be sharing these with you for feedback progressively.
Thanks for your support and feel free to express your thoughts regarding our journey so far in a comment to this article.
The eRepublik Team
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Good.
Nice.
cool!
odlićno
Impressive!
The team is doing a fantastic job.
Congratulations!
Portugal!!!
hey yall
Merci !
great!
Good Job
first page?
very good.voted.
RupeTot, congrats on passing the 20 Strength barrier!
Great news! Go Canada and USA!!
Long Live eRepublik \o/
Good job.
yeeeah
nice
good job admins!
What is next?
Fivehundert.
Great job by the way!
When avatars come back?
Remove the wall, PvP PvP PvP alllllll the way .
Good stuff. Voted.
It'a community game ..so provide tools for communities .A good forum for example
voted
up the irish gooooooo oooooooooonnnnn
nice
Even this grumpy user approves of the fast development lately, though I still remain reserved about the rulings and the design of the modules.
raw material redistribution?
Excellent.
Very impressive.
Thank you, Admins. ~
48th. Nice job.
" More translations will follow. "
I hope in French
49th, lol.
Darn should have gone onto erep earlier.
ciganin hvali svoga konja...
Awesome, looking forward for the GM improvements in September.
I think you forget one thing though, Raw Material redistrubution, it has been promised for half a year now (?). Should be one of the things on your "to do list".
When I think about it though, I'm missing the most important improvement of all here, you have to improve the economy. But well, good job anyway.
good job
Well done!
If u made that online shop (when it wasn't needed, a lot other stuff to do), at least put some products in it besides those 2 t-shirts and that passport
Carry on (my wayward son )
As i've seen, there are some player that reached the 500k damage.
Given the fact that Field Marshall is the highest rank, u can put the Major rank between Captain and Colonel, and lower the people's ranks. And for the new Field Marshal Mile Stone put something like 4 Mil dmg. That should do it
Resources... undone?
You forgot about this? I can't believe!
Poland still doesn't have any HIGH resource. Blehhh, and You even don't mention about that in this article.
Not enough countries though...
great job guys! Keep up the good work! eRepublik rocks! I'd like to give some suggestions as well. Will do so on the forum!
Good Job! When we know more news about the Moderation Module?
Regards
good...but still plenty of work...and as for me-it's too slow...
thanks for all
god job!!!
thanks for all admin
Thanks for the fantastic job!
I hope it will continue!
Great job guys, you created realy interesting game to play
"Adviser system. Done. Plato is ready to guide all citizens through the New World. "
yeah, but what if i don't want him to guide me?
Thanks you Admins, the citizenship module is really appreciated!
Good Luck and Good Job!
Well I don't really care for the spanish version and all those countries you added in the same part of the world (really why not add one in Africa where you only have one country!) where only 300 or so people live but I like the new add module and I can grow to like citizenship. If you want to make the game better you should try and expand what can be done in the game by average players, maybe add new improvements to regions other then just hospitals and defense systems such as roads, police stations (could introduce a crime module where if the protection in your region isn't high enough you could see some of your money stolen), factories, farms, airports, quarries, lumber yards, you name it. Then you could bring back Mayors to manage these improvements.
Just my 2 cents.
The erep law system is not really righteous and working. I have a suggestion:
<a href="http://www.erepublik.com/en/forum/topic/111039/suggestion-to-make-the-jurisdiction-better/2" target="_blank">http://www.erepublik.com/en/forum/topic/[..]ter/2</a>
meh
new war module? what's going to be changed?
+1 great.
New War module! yaay! cant wait.
Screw the admins.
Admins, good job!
Adviser system is like vista. annoying and not helpful at all.
Thank God it pops up only once!
would this map refresh at least every day?
API though, that's a really great improvement! i must take my hat off
gJ
Improving again, cool!
good job
Lets smile!
"The new war module is also in production, but the complete redesign of it asks for a tremendous amount of work, and we can't provide a certain time frame for its implementation. Anyway, we'll need several months more to finish this new war module."
Is this the module where every time a region is attacked Indonesia automatically conquers it?
Cool, but You have promised us (players) that You will make some changes in high regions (medium too) few weeks ago...
Great job. I've been on since April, and I've taken to making this part of my morning routine before work.
Here is my suggestion in going forward:
* Provide for a contracting mechanism between raw materials producers and finished good manufacturers. It is inefficient to the running of both businesses to have to post on the marketplace everyday instead of just shipping the material out.
keep up the good work
Admins Rock lol
\m/
great!
btw, about the citizenchip, i just realized that in RL it is posible to vote even if you'r not in you'r country, will that be posible here???
That new map is gonna be great
Awesome except for the fact that you repeatedly screwed over the eUS in our battle with PEACE.
Good job
Is the resource redistribution still going forward or has it been canceled?
peace propaganda.
how come your servers have so many bugs and problems?
Too bad North Korea just got wiped off the map by PEACE - I forsee a big downturn in activity as PEACE takes over the world.
ADD eMALTA
Give Serbia their theritory(KOSOVO&METOHIJA),we wrote many peticions,and if you do not want to do that at list give us an answer....
THANKS.
what new countries are planned in the near future?
Great work!
Latviāaaaaaa
Independent Åland! I think your priority number one should be freeing Åland.
y la de pleno empleo que ? eh?
thank u !
Thanks!
In September we can do better management
Awesome! Great work! Looking forward to the new war module!
Great! Yay to GM tools
Good...
..But the eRep shop... what a joke
Excellent!