Seven most breathtaking moments of 2011 in eRepublik

Day 1,508, 16:05 • Published in Slovenia Slovenia • by Ice Killa

People often remember the events that influenced the way they look upon this game in some matter, they think of it as something that is worth mentioning, but the sad thing occurs when they forget it all in a matter of days. Moments worth remembering are those that should be kept in your head forever, for the times so you can remember what once happened, how things were looked upon, it's not something that we can expect to happen daily, those things are worth the mention, they are worth to be talked about and written about, they are worth to be made into living legends, the individuals and some actions that shape shifted the entire history of eRepublik. That is the thing that we aren't aware, we are just looking on what is occuring in front of our eyes without ever asking ourselves what happened before and what will happen in the future. We must foresee, we must be wise and and charish the moments that we participated in, we witnessed them with our own eyes - the whole beauty of it.

So on we go with the most memorable events that happened in the year 2011 of eRepublik.

1. Croatia going to the west
When we think about the country that managed to pass through Italy, Spain, all the way to Mexico, we think of Croatia. The nation that did the impossible. A magnificent plan backed by some wise thinking and the results were there, although we must take it into consideration that they had severe backing from the tanks that pretty much made thing a lot easier for them. Firstly the Croatian advance through Spanish regions was challenged by Serbia, later on Serbian advance through the American regions was stopped and Croats were able to enjoy the fruits of their success, they made it.


Croatia successfully occupied whole of Spain and then continued her advance to the Mexican regions.


The first steps of Croatia into Mexico.

Regarding the influence on the future events in eRepublik, this action could have been thought of as very important. Croatia was able to threaten Serbia and their imperialistic views in Europe, and Serbs were in big problems due to their overexpanding. A complete success for the alliance EDEN. Long-term goals are more or less that Croatia successfully defends the Mexican regions and keeps her influence in the northern countries of South America. They are pretty much unopposed and can roam freely across the "wasteland" of EDEN and Terra countries. This also allows them to fully concentrate on the European front and now, when the tide has turned, they can do the decisive blow and finish a country's dreams for keeping her sovereignty.

2. Kosovo issue
By some regarded as a way for the admins to attract more long dead players to this game, by others a way of showing, which country has bigger influence in this game. Serbians in this occasion showed a great mere of equality and won the referendum with a slight majority. Later many agreed this had nothing to do with the spirit of this game and the admins used real life and political issues just as a way to attract more players to this game - in that way their goal was to earn more money and they pretty much succeeded.


At the end the option for the region to become a part of Serbia won.


The Kosovo issue

3. Turkey switching sides
The whole soap opera began when Spain decided to veto Turkey alongside with Slovenia. The events that followed, including the Kosovo referendum, only increased the tensions and Turks had enough when Iran was invited to ONE. Turkey decided to switch sides and join the EDEN alliance. At start there were some problems due to the fact that Turks don't share a good relationship with Greeks nor Bulgarians and that could had presented some problems, things so far turned to be in order and ONE - after a long time of domination - is again underpowered compared to the opposite alliance.


Disputes with Spain.


Turkey decided to switch sides when Iran was invited into ONE.

4. Poland deleted for the first time in her history after beta
An unprecedented event that was caused due to Turkey switching sides. ONE was underpowered and Croatia, Romania and Bulgaria exploited it and managed to successfully occupy all of the Polish regions for a short period of time. Poles even lost all their colonies in the Netherlands, Germany and before France that had been liberated by the Americans. These days they are trying to reorganize and reach their glory days yet again - the era where they controlled half of the Central Europe.


Poland being deleted for the first time in her history after beta by Romania, Croatia and Bulgaria.

5. ERepublik rebellion
It was an event where country presidents fought for the rights of the entire community, they were against the capitalistic views of this game and wanted more equality for the non-buying gold players as well. All together 13 presidents were banned due to participating in this event - they proposed a new citizen message, where they stated that new players shouldn't join this game and should leave right away.


Logo of the eRepublik rebellion.


Banned presidents.

The further developments didn't bring much success for the banned presidents and to this day they are still banned(including my old profile). Admins later on implented some tasks that eased the pressure for changes in this game and slowly it returned things to its orderly place.

6. The era of big tanks
2011 was the year when tanks made their name known. Romper, Argrob, PedjaT, Scymex, Flausino,... Their role was vital in the way this game advanced from the financial point of view, it started making loads of money and the game creators were able to concentrate on updating the game, which they still haven't achieved in the way it should have been done.


Romper becoming God of war.

7. New countries
In the first month of 2011 Saudi Arabia, UAE and Egypt were added to this game. Later on this proved just as another territory to be taken by the superpowers in this game, Macedonia and Greece later on battled for supremacy in the Middle East and eventually Macedonians proved to be the winning nation.

In november Albania was added to eRepublik, while Kosovo became a region of Serbia.

Talking about the important events these were the main "changing factors" in this game, they caused tension, excitement, cries of joy, fun and cruically changed the way eRepublik can be seen these days. Some can be positive, other can be negative, but we can agree that they all share a common thing in the fact that they shape shifted this game as it is these days. For changes to happen, actions and mistakes are needed and in the future we can see a lot of it coming. The world as we know it in eRepublik will change daily and we are the ones taking part in it. Be aware of that and make sure you treat every moment you spend here with an awarness that it will never happen again.

Best regards,
Ice Killa aka Howly