Some eRepublik updates

Day 787, 07:53 • Published in • by Plato

Dear citizens,

We are sure that many of you are wondering how "admin" has been recently, because it has been several days since you last heard from “him”. Well, the entire eRepublik team is very busy right now; coffee is consumed in industrial quantities, quick-snacks are venerated almost as religious objects, and sleeping time has shrunk unnaturally. Of course, the reason for all this is that the new modules that are under construction, because almost everybody from the team has his job to do for the project. And by working together, our tiny bits of work come together to make one big picture. And yeah, we are on schedule 🙂

It's true that all engines are pushed full throttle towards the future, but let's not forget the present! We would like to salute the 330.000+ citizens of eRepublik! We are on a positive trend which brings new citizens from all over the New World. Especially for them we have several improvements under development, but older citizens will benefit also; small things, but sometimes with big impacts.

It usually takes a while before citizens understand what is that number below their blue silhouette on their homepage. A tool-tip will explain what wellness is, on mouseover. Also, in the side bar, below your character's picture, you now find the level bar. Just a quick look on the sidebar is enough to let you know exactly how many experience points you need before reaching the next level!

The “fight” button used to be placed at the bottom of the fight-page, which required unnecessary scrolls down every time. We can only imagine the hard work of the guys fighting dozens of times. We will fix that very soon by moving the fight button upwards , so it will be much easier to fight! You still don't believe that we really do care about time-consuming and boring scroll downs? OK, then we will remember that you have read the 1-20 comments, so when you press the “view all comments” button, you'll return exactly where you were, at comment 20. This also will come live very soon. OK, we admit it, all these are little tweaks which are part of a bigger plan regarding the improvement of pages loading times.

But we make your life easier with one hand, and harder with the other? Are we really that sadistic? Why on Earth did we insert the “view more/less” button in company page? Trust us, this has a very big impact on pages loading times. Most of the citizens which only want to work are not bothered by the stripped company page, the problem is for the company owners. OK, your constructive feedback convinced us to react very fast, and we are already working on removing the button, so that the company page will be like before for managers.

Another cool modification: on your home page you now have the articles listed based upon your citizenship, not your current location (one browser "clear cache" might be needed). If somebody is traveling in a foreign country full of complete strangers speaking an unknown language, most likely would like to read the news in their language, from home, from people they know. Well, you can now travel as much as you like, no matter where you will be, you will remain in touch with the news from back home. You can feel at “home” in any foreign country, mixing the benefits of maybe a bigger salary and also being immersed in your homeland!

Languages: We have uploaded Polish, which was in the translation process for a while. The next wave of translated versions of eRepublik, which we expect to be live in about a month, includes Serbian, Croatian, Turkish, Greek and Bosnian.

Regards,
The eRepublik Team