Reflecting on Recent Events
Day 2,842, 16:40
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by Xichael
Things have taken a turn for the worst here recently. As you may have noticed, I set CAF to fight for the dictatorship. This was my payment to Rylde for some 100k+ CO money to fight Germany in the opening battle a couple months ago after thumping Italy. Without that money we may have lost the war and the Netherlands would have been occupied again after we just freed it at great expense. Rylde came up with the money in the early rounds and in exchange I had to promise to support him when he tried to coup again. I made a deal with the devil to secure victory and today he collected on his debt. I am a man of my word and the debt was paid in full.
However, this whole situation has made me start to reflect on this game. Honestly, it's no longer fun anymore. The last month has been a constant shitshow and both sides have been busy hurling venom at the other. I don't mind people like Xander, who are clearly role playing, but the vast majority of venom spewers are personally invested in their attacks. There are people like this on both sides, and I won't name names, but they know who they are. When I thought of the idea of dictatorship, I had an idea it could be fun. Last time, I even made a new banner for the MoD glorifying the eternal leader and was looking forward to playing the role of a member of the Military Council Rylde had formed. However, it's just not fun, because people take things done in this game very personally. Even for role playing and not breaking any rules of the game, you can face hostility on a personal level. It's not uncommon for people to bring up RL during such arguments (such as bringing up someones family life). I know this isn't something that is unique to eRepublik, but eRepublik is the game I invest the most time and energy in and the hostility becomes stressful. It doesn't help that I try to be an appeaser and often find myself in the middle of ugly disputes with both sides vying for my support.
For this reason, I think i'm going to start winding down my energy investment in eRepublik. I'm preparing my application for law school, which is a stressful enough time and I don't need to be dealing with all the hatred being thrown around here. I will still two-click at least and I won't be able to stop myself from doing a few things, like running the NCSP and the CAF (if i'm not voted out by the Military Advisory Council in the next few days), but i'm going to try and become less involved in politics. I already agreed to help out with Orion this month, but I plan to not get involved in partisan activities if I can help it.
The heated debates and discussions can be interesting at times, but these days they are always taken to the personal level. I think we need to step back a bit and really think about what we want from this game. Hatred and stress is not something I want or need and I think other people should start considering this as well.
Here's hoping for a more positive future,
Xichael
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seriously, this is something that absolutely needed to be said. Thank you
Nice article. I just was told I am ruining canada and have a mental problem in a private conversation. This is game, man. I have no idea why anyone gets uptight about a game.
Take a step back if needed but don't abandon me. I was just going to allocate your govt funding to help ze newbs.
I'll keep the NCSP going for sure.
Good to hear. If you felt that strongly you could have went without supporting. They can't stop us anyways.
We have a secret weapon called Connor Macleod from the clan Macleod.
At the end of the day it's just a game and i'm a man of my word. If people want to revile me because of that i'm just going to take a bit of a break. I don't need to be spending as much time as I do on eRep, it's probably a good time to take a step back with all the other stuff I have going on as well.
"I don't mind people like Xander..."
You fkin' love me and you know it. ❤
The hippies are sore losers. It's time they were put to their true purpose and used to fertilize the garden of progress.
Tough position to be in. Though if you're gonna sell your soul to the devil, at least you picked an interesting devil. 🙂
I'm pretty sure too much in game stress is proportional to too much time in game.
Xichael I think you're awesome, thanks for all the help this month 🙂
Thanks Molly, you did great this term and it was good to be a part of the team 🙂
"people take things done in this game very personally"
Agreed. Ignore them. Enjoy the game the way you want.
I have made no effort to bring RL into this with you, Xichael. I cannot speak for anyone else on that, of course.
There is such a thing as being honorable to a fault, and I believe that describes you here. When personal honor demands that you do the wrong thing, I do understand that it's a no win situation.
That said, you made the deal with the devil in the first place. Credit to you for owning it, but debit for making the deal in the first place. You made the wrong decision, but I can at least understand why. The road to hell is paved in good intentions, and you've managed to pave a couple miles today.
I wish you nothing but success in your RL endeavors.
Yeah, you will do some pretty crazy things when it's the 11th hour, you're down 20 points in the opening battle and you've had a few beers. However, we won the battle and my word is my word.
You've missed the point
This is when the game gets fun
Try not to care what people hundreds and thousands of miles away from you behind a computer screen think
I will wait you to fight for democracy soon, in exchange of my money spent in the same battles...
...and your term still sucked, i think Molly showed you the meaning of a good CP term.
In an article discussing the harm done by trolls, only one leather skinned bridge dweller has the kahunas to double down.
Bravo Little Prince, bravo.
in this article he proved that he's a cheap whore and that he deserved everything what he's crying about. I merely pointed out the obvious fact, but thanks for taking the time away from sucking your sugar daddy's D so you could leave a comment here.
I'm still waiting to assy your term Mr. Punisher. Must be nice to sit over there and bitch about people that actually do shit. lololol
*assay
Sorry, my keyboard must have slipped.
Mr. Pickle, i can promise that if i ever get elected, i won't make some rookie mistakes you did, like declaring a war without the NE first. I won't be bitching when the things get rough, like you did during both of your terms. I won't lose our colonies like you did. So i'll let you know when i plan to run, so you could endorse me like you promised.
and i forgot to add, i definitely won't bore people to death like Xichael did. And yes, some of you people do nothing but shit, pure shit, instead of doing something less shitty. I guess there's just good and bad, shitty leaders, and in my book you two are in the top 5 of the worst eCanadian CPs ever.
~insert Muglack's bitching here on how i'm vulgar, therefore not suitable to be a CP.~ 'lololol'
Your vulgarity has 0 to do with why you're not fit to be CP.
whenever i click on reply under Muglack's name i'm afraid i could get herpes.
Why would you be afraid? You can't catch it twice.
guess your mom lied when she said she's clean.
Oh God. You slept with that Tranny who claims to be my mother?
Herpes are the least of your concerns.
Yeah i prolly caught aids and ebola from too much clicking reply button under your name ya filthy whore.
Good luck with law school.
Any form of graduate school can be tough.
Good luck for RL law school
o7
I haven't been on much lately, but I find it hilarious that the CAF logo is attached to an article where a guy explains that he sacrificed his integrity for in-game currency. You should have preserved your integrity and went out with your boots on in Netherlands.
That is the problem with this game. The commitments and representations you make to each other are real and the framework is pretend.
No in-game currency is worth your integrity.
People expect integrity when they see the CAF logo because of the RL associations with it. If you are going to use that logo in-game, act with integrity.
if he had any integrity he'd step down from the Commander position long time ago, but yea, he's just one of the whores, and i don't know how some people fail to realize that.
I agree. You'll do some pretty desperate things when you're at the critical turning point between defeat and victory with all eyes on you awaiting orders. I did not sell my integrity for personal gain, I sold my integrity to ensure victory for our country. Not saying I am perfect, I make mistakes. I don't blame Rylde or anything, that's how he plays the game. However, what I can say is i'm done with the toxic environment that has developed around here.
Try not to be sooooo WEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAK!
Let the butthurt few have their butthurt - The CAF is nothing more than a private MU, owned by the commander, to do with as he chooses
The time that it was an institution has LONG passed, also consider as an institution it was as crooked as they come, a stain worn much worse than anything that was done recently...
I don't think admitting I make mistakes is weak. I'm more concerned about how vicious this game has become then the fact I make mistakes. The little exposition of CAF and the coup wasn't meant to be the main point of the article.
The viciousness is what makes for cheap entertainment
Until someone goes RL crazy and stalks someone to their home and kills them, I say roll with it..
Very few have taken more vitriol than me, I rolled with it and can't imagine anything that would have been more fun
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCss0kZXeyE
These basic sentiments have been expressed to me several times over the last few days. The only reason people play the game is for the community yet we seem determined to destroy it in the name of entertainment.
Nothing brings the community together like the hate on we have for each other....
If we didn't all hate one another so much we'd probably never talk to anyone
~hyuu~
*hugs* (: