Plans, communication and personal responsibilty
Colin Lantrip 3
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The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
~ Robert Burns
I sometimes forget that most of you aren't involved in all the daily conversations. The back and forth.. who's doing what, why, what we hope to achieve. Should we try this, she would we try that, oh shit.. how did we miss that.. dammit, dammit, dammit.. it's never ending and it's constantly changing. It's fun and exciting.. frustrating and torturous.. all at the same time.
For a small group of players in every community the game is a 24/7 experience. It competes with real life for your attention and it's easy to forget that that is not the case for an overwhelming majority of you.
Before you judge though, it's likely most of you waste a majority of your non working time on meaningless garbage as well. Over my lifetime it has become the nature of western culture.. entertain me.. indulge me.. make me feel something..
I think of a zdlemmy that grabs a nearly dead community by the collar and pulls them up. Inspiring them almost overnight with excitement, confidence, personality and capability.. or a MaM that quietly and patiently works to build a base over a year and half that takes Turkey from being wiped by Finland to being a Top 5 country. Knowing his goals and never letting himself get distracted from them.
I am neither of those guys. I am irritable, I lack patience AND personality. I don't particularly even like most people, much less give a damn about trying to inspire and motivate them. I have neither the time nor the patience, it's just not who I am. It's not that I'm trying to hurt your feelings or offend your sensitivities, I just don't care about them. Not in the intentionally rude way you would assume, but just the same, I don't. I deliver information the same way I prefer to receive it.. straight and to the point. Save the pleasantries for your mom and your girlfriend, I don't need them.
And.. getting to the point.. this is for the US audience..
I am here to help, but I am neither capable of, nor willing to try and single handedly "save" you. I quietly worked helping to set up lines of communication with allies before I came. put my name on the line to buy you some trust and have worked steadily behind the scenes with every administration since to try and figure out how we get out of this mess.. but I am not the larger than life hero you are looking for. The hero we need is inside each and every one of you.
- If you want to do minimum dmg for every BH and ignore the wall, we're going to keep losing.
- If you want to log into erep once or twice a day to dump all you food fights at once in a TP battle, we’re going to keep losing.
- If you want to just blindly dump your dmg on 80% walls 80 minutes into the battle, we’re going to keep losing.
- If you can't take 30 seconds to look at the feed and go through a few battles to use your damage effectively for the national effort, we're going to keep losing.
*Orders are still not perfect, but they are considerably more consistent now than they have been. The country feed is going to be the primary location for these. It should be the first place you look and don’t be afraid to interact there, comment, say hi, ask questions, make polite suggestions. Just get involved.. As important as war is here, it’s still the social interaction that keeps most of us here.
- If you don't care, why should anybody else? That small group of people I mentioned earlier work their asses off to make sure you can work your companies, have battles to fight in, regions to run for congress from, ect..
Does Legend X, Legend XX, millions of cc from your companies or 50 congress medals really mean anything if your country is constantly wiped and occupied? Why are you even here playing? I don’t get it..
Nobody is suggesting that you spend hours and hours a day here, it’s insane that any of us do. But what you can do.. is use the time you are here, be it 5 mins twice a day, 30 mins a day, 2 hrs a day, whatever.. In the most effective way possible. You’ve got to buy in to the larger goal and contribute in whatever way you can. It all adds up and it matters.. Our problems won’t be solved in one eureka moment, they’ll be solved one wall and one battle at a time.
A few random things..
New administration coming in on the 6th, I’ve avoided politics here and I prefer to keep it that way. But let’s make sure we elect someone with the time and motivation to be active. If that doesn’t apply to you, don’t run.
Carlos has done far more than any of you realize, we are losing a tremendous amount of activity and I will miss telling him "that is your decision not mine".
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We need to have a conversation about “farming”. I am not interested in a bunch of full time farmers, but TW’s and the gold you make in them are a vital part of winning here. I have discouraged TW’s to this point because I felt it would be a distraction and our damage is really inconsistent from one day to the next. I am prepared to reconsider this if we can get enough people paying attention to manage those battles and still do some real fighting. The gold is necessary, but if they turn into a shit show of personal grudges and infighting, they will end. There’ll be more on that soon.
One thing I learned in my years in Albania, you don’t have to be the strongest country to win. You just have to be such a pain in the ass to mess with, that people don’t. The people on the other sides of these screens are real people just like you. They have lives and obligations, things they’d like to do other than set in front of that screen for countless hours every day defending a wall or a BH because they know one of us is going to come flip it or take it. You’d be real surprised what a little consistent harassment can do to even the biggest country. Aside from the hours of their time, many have to farm just to keep themselves in paks. When every round takes hundreds of millions or billions to defend, you disrupt these things, you disrupt their lives and the way they are used to playing the game. They start fighting amongst themselves over who is and isn’t “helping”. It takes more than a day.. or a week, but it works.
That’s it for now.. is getting late and I feel like I haven’t slept in a week. My intentions are good, my desire to be part of a strong active community is great, but that is your responsibility as much as it is mine.
I'd love to see you step up to it.
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Outstanding.
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You just said a Lot sir. Fighting the most effective fights with walls of the right size would be GREAT... if we could,
Sorry to say it's VERY hard for those who can only make a diff in the air warz. To get in our maximum food fights we usually have to find battles from the wars page, ommitting all the ground battles. It's only the fault of too few air wars. This will likely change. It's a matter of when.
Check important battles. If none is air, get yourself some FFM or Mercenary milestones to increase your income (or rank at lower cost). In the end, you will be able to help, probably not everyday but sometimes.
i have zero need of cc until i can buy packs for air. i DO wait for rare special battles to use all my ground bombs, etc. Have hundreds of boosters will likely never use.
I also have a lot of useless boosters but I don't really hope for them to be changed any day...
You may be right but i hope i am. i left the game several years ago to discover my once powerful God of war was dwarfed by virtually ALL of my friends and acquaintances with their Titans and legends.
MY best hope is to follow YOUR lead,
The great thing about air is that TP is far less relevant and those battles look a lot more like the battles of old with flags of a dozen different countries flying.
There are plenty of places to fight in air..
Only food/energy needed.[unless stingers or something new become available]. i STRONGLY believe in recommending air fighting to new players. Check the stronger air ranks in the eUSA. ... cam't find ONE above Group Captain. Other nations are much more fortunate.
v32 + s287 please kindly obey the tradition and supply me, for the better game.
Awaiting yours,
Thank you.
Nice one. Also for months I really want to point this one: "- If you want to do minimum dmg for every BH and ignore the wall, we're going to keep losing." ... but as I'm an insignificant player ... it's good that you say it loudly now.
Even without paks.. you can do 20-25k in air full?
You're not going to win a lot of medals, but a great many air battles can be turned with that. You'd be real surprised. Just keep working on the rank.
That's what I do every single day 🙂 ... all day ...
FFM and Mercenaries are a good way of having sme income while fighting in air when no important battle is air.
Good point. My few air heros were kept in total fear... waiting for the timer, cause not even the lowest players showed up, Newbie numbers DO count towards the win.[often]
A good tip is for one to use their lvl up to grab a SH, full ff's + the lvlup, etc,.. Even if you use some bars you still come out ahead, its a good use of the lvlup if there is nothing special going on.
Read it. I'll keep your words.
Our conversation yesterday was as responsible for this as anything
Sure it was.
in a positive way
I thought so. 🙂
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nice article.
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#blamegorki
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Wow.. read and understood, with great respect!
This should be translated and published in all eCountries..
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R.
Ps. If I get approval from you, Colin, I can do translation to Croatian.
It would be my honor to do it, and would be happy if as many as possible eEyes would read this words..
Respect!
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R.
do whatever you need
Run for CP.
https://youtu.be/fDdPuCsOLaQ
I'm sorry i make you do extra work because of my lack activity this month.
Thank you for covering me.
I'm ready to be replaced if needed.
It's not an either or thing.. we all do what we can, when we can..
USA has paid a high price no doubt,
stability,organization and planning will bring some light to the situation,at least that worked for Greece and gave us some hope,
let's not hide behind our fingers money will help also,after all erepublik is a game of numbers no matter what strategy you choose to follow.
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agreed
but numbers is about more than money, as much as that helps, you also have to have bodies paying attention and helping.
Of course,the management of numbers and pressing the correct buttons when needed is an issue of high importance,but there are many steps to go before that.
I agree every single action by the majority of the citizens must be where is needed,it is for sure a good start.
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Voted .Great thoughts and I know how difficult it is to organise even the small countries... I hope the message reach all USA citizens
nothing new so far.
but yeah, it has to be told
Ohhh he got emotional ....
V@G1NA!
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