Raise the Voting Age (Open Letter)

Day 881, 23:18 • Published in Greece Canada • by Buck Roger


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Recently, Afanasiy Drago published a popular article on how to be an eligible voter in one day for new players (which has been translated into Greek here). For those who are less motivated, the same feat can be achieved in half an hour, if you start just before the end of day.

I believe that moving the fighting age to level 3 was a good idea in and of itself, as it makes the game more interesting for new players, who used to be obligated to two-click for 7 days before becoming able to fight at level 5. Now, they can do that on their first day and are more likely to stay.

However, even with a time period of 7 days from the creation of a "multi" to its ability to collect 5 GOLD and vote in an election (or start a resistance war or what-have-you), it has been very difficult for players to detect these accounts, report them, and have them banned before they can do their damage. Even if we found them on their first day of life, the process on eRepublik's part often takes many days.

Meanwhile, giving players GOLD after a week is a nice way to keep them interested in the game. Giving it to them after a couple days is a good way to encourage "multi" making and give a reward to genuine players that they really don't usually know yet how to handle.

I propose that the time to receive GOLD be restored to about a week and that the time to vote be increased to about two weeks. Staggering the two events will also make it a little easier, sometimes, to detect the multi before it can make serious damage to world events, like the PTO of a country, as happened in Norway (and had to be reversed by admin intervention). As I said then, a lasting solution must involve more measures to reduce how easy it is to do this.

You can see the current list of level-up rewards at the Experience points page on the wiki. Here is my proposal.

Keep the time to enter a party at level 7, for those who want to get involved in the political module early in their eRepublik life. Not an issue.

Change the time to receive the first Treasure Map from leveling to level 11, which is about one week for an average player and is also when they can create an Organization, one of the most useful things you can do with GOLD.

Change the time to be able to vote to level 14, which is about two weeks for an average player.

Change the time to be able to run for congress to level 15, the time to be able to run for Party President or to create a party to level 16, the time to be able to run for president to level 17, and the time to be able to use 40 wellness boxes to level 18. Not only are these more logical at this time in the history of eRepublik, they give players more things to which they can look forward in terms of unlocking abilities (and might get eRepublik some "unlock abilities" sales from the impatient).

There may be other steps that can be taken to prevent the exploitation of multiple accounts, but these steps can be taken now with a minimum of coding requirements and can do real good immediately upon implementation.

If you agree with the ideas or at least the spirit of the ideas and want fair elections please sign the open letter.

Click Here and Sign - Raise the Level Needed to Vote

yours,
Buck Roger