[Updated]Eden defeated in Slovenia, land bridge doomed – USA fails at Sindh.

Day 846, 16:52 • Published in USA USA • by Sossu
Firstly I want to explain why this article tells about relatively old events occured during this fast-phased eRepublik day. I intended to publish an article directly after we won the battles of Slovenia, but eRepublik wasn’t accessible after the big battles so I had to rethink when to publish this. However I made the right call, as lots of new stuff has happened.

This picture says it all.



Before I go to the actual article, I want to underline how disappointed I currently am to eRepublik. At crucial times, when thousands of soldiers hit in a very small time window, eRepublik servers crash and sometimes, like yesterday, the server crash decides who wins the battle. This picture, provided by Bogdan_L is a graphical presentation of the last 25 minutes of the battle waged yesterday in Prekmurje, a critical battle in the invasion of Slovenia, as we see further in this article.
The huge gap in the end of the battle is the complete server crash when no one was able to fight. As we know, important battles are often decided in the very last moments, and yesterday in a heroic attempt by Eden, the joint forces or Allied nations decimated over 1,000,000 points of wall in less than 10 minutes, but as no one was able to fight in the last 6 minutes or so, the wall remained at 300,000 and Eden lost the battle.
This is an outrage. A game that doesn’t work is not worth playing. I am not couraging anyone to quit, but I’m pleading the admins to resolve the vast problems eRepublik faces. I’m sure the administration has dreamed of player amounts as huge as today’s numbers are, but countless of players will quit when the game proves to be completely broken.
Sure we want cool assesments to the economic module. Of course we want a more flexible and user-friendly forum. But what we desire the most are fluent, working and reliable basic features. We want a game where 1+1 = 2, instead of 3,65 or Oops, try again. When thousands of working hours and countless amounts of dedication flushes down the toilet in front of our eyes, nothing else can be more couraging to quit this game and give up.

I’m begging you admins. Simplify the military module so battles will work again. Get rid of the constant streams of fighters, as they are clearly proven to be too hard to the servers to handle.

Eden loses in Slovenia

This refreshing change to the many weeks of boredom is now sadly coming to an end. The invasion of Slovenia was a moderate success, but we payed a very hefty price for it and will now face immidiate defeat. In my previous article I overlooked the battles started by Croatia and Poland and here are the results of every battle waged on day 845.

Eden victories

Croatia conquered Inner Carniola, Slovenia
Croatia conquered Lower Carniola, Slovenia
Poland conquered Styria and Carinthia, Slovenia
Poland conquered Upper Carinthia, Slovenia
Poland conquered Slovenian Littoral, Slovenia
Poland secured the Resistance war in Saxony-Anhalt

Phoenix victories

Slovenia secured Prekmurje
Champagne Ardenne was freed to France
Lorraine was freed to France
Hesse was freed to Germany
Poitou Charentes was freed to France
Corsica was freed to France

Eden managed to reduce Slovenia to a one single region, Prekmurje, which was later attacked by Croatia and Poland. Croatia managed to time their attack before any new MPP😒 were activated, but Poland launched the lately signed MPP😒 of Brazil and Indonesia after attacking Prekmurje. There is no rational reason why Poland didn’t attack the same time as Croatia, and this might have had impact on why we lost the battle. All in all it was a blunt mistake.
The attack of Croatia was later chosen to be the battle Eden tried to win, and they apparently caught Phoenix off-guarded as Phoenix thought 1,3 million points is something Eden will not dare to challenge. They did though, and hundreds of Allied soldiers moved to Croatia and pulled the wall from 1,3mil to 300,000. A solid 1 million was tanked in less than 10 minutes.
However due to the server crash the battle was lost, and with no hope of Poland winning their battle, the initiative is soon to be flipped. Prekmurje was the only region of Slovenia, so we can not block them in order to restore initiative. The battle of Prekmurje was a do or die-battle, and now there is nothing much we can do. We could try to isolate Slovenia by using Austria, since the impeachment failed and the Eden-minded president is clinging in power for a week.
However Phoenix will have an easy time to constantly RW the bottlenecks to prevent succesful land swapping.
Slovenia has restored the initiative and has attacked the Polish controlled region of Styria-Carinthia. This is the bottle neck region for the land swap to succeed and as it is inevitably lost, Croatia will find themselves yet again without any possibility to move to Europe or beyond.
Therefore I count the invasion of Slovenia officially ended.

Land bridge has failed.

During the invasion of Slovenia, Eden tanked hard to win those battles and in response Phoenix saved their efforts and liberated 4 French regions, including the critical region of Lorraine, and 1 German region despite some last minute countering from Poland. This subject however is irrelevant as it could have not been done anyway because Croatia is 24 hours away from being isolated again and Eden is back in square one, so I won’t waste effort about writing the various, utopistic plans to recover from this situation. I am a realist, and to me it is impossible to transport Croatia to Asia. We have to find an alternative instead.

Day 2.

Croatia briefly under attack.

At 01:00 am CET Serbia raised alarm levels and eyebrows all around the world as they attacked the critical Croatian region of Slavonia without an apparent reason. This was suspected to be a surprise attemt to gain a foodhold in Croatia, but after only 1 hour of fighting Serbia retreated the battle resulting in a Croatian victory.

After reading some Serbia articles, there apparently was a time window for Croatia to swap further to Polish occupied Austrian regions and preserve the glimmer of hope of a functional land bridge. I however disagree with this as nearly half of the land bridge was practically one giant bottle neck and with a simple RW Phoenix could have halted the Croatian advance and later invade all occupied regions. Therefore an expensive attack would not have been needed, but this is rather irrelevant now as the ultimate result of the Slovenian campaign will favor Phoenix anyway.

USA makes a catastrophic tactical mistake in Sindh.

This battle was started to suck some of Serbian damageduring the battle of Prekmurje, but ultimately USA decided it is worth a shot and tanked the wall down. There has been some complaints about battles lost in Europe due to this unnecesessary operation, but honestly I think we would have won Prekmurje without United States if the game would have worked.
As the Pakistani president is a puppet president of Phoenix, the Serbian president who was awake due to the Slavonia attack was able to attack Balochistan minutes before the RW of Sindh succeeded. After that, Serbian president simply attacked the new Pakistani Sindh again and conquered resulting to a complete tactical failure from the United States. I have a hard time believing the tactical leadership of USA didn’t know Pakistani president is an ally Phoenix.

End of kamikaze: Admin releases new hospital rules.

Admins have decided that starting from tomorrow hospital will not recover any more wellness that has been used to actual fighting. Therefore the armies of the eWorld can no more attack 10 times in one day and recover the next day. This affects everyone, so the power balance will not change, but total damage numbers will reduce and in the future it will cost a lot more of gold to topple huge walls.