Ten questions with Release the Kraken.
Flaco Jimenez
I asked the Kraken for an interview and posed 10 questions to him. These are his answers raw and unedited for content.
1. What is your age and RL nationality?:
over 40 and south african
2. How long have you been playing eRepublik and what brought you here?:
my ebirthday will tell u that since june 2011 just of the top of my head. what brought me here - south africa is very isolated. america is just a blob. most canadians i knew from poker sites was a*. uk our suppressor for many years. australia and new zealand is to isolated . dutch is to far removed from my home language and i had tried other language games before like german betas and dutch worlds. therefore as i knew any online game boils after a while to a social game i decided on ireland.
3. What nations have you lived in and which has been your favorite?:
I have never lived in any other nation than eIreland. I was also eBorn in eIreland. Obviously my favorite is eIreland.
4. What is your opinion on the dictatorship module?:
It offers some advantages over the normal political module such as 50 citizen applications rather than 40 . Provides protection from CP's stealing as the money is now considered the property of dictator. I dont think how it is applied is how Plato envisaged it so I think overall its ok.
5. Do you think that politics are a useless module in the era of the dictator?:
no because most countries has pseudo dictators.
6. Are there any areas of eRepublik that you think need improvement?:
well i think zero experience fighting in other games called zero mot fighting due to your motivation having an influence on your experience. in most games this has been a very contentious issue. i can see players running from division 1 and 2 rather than fight against uber strong players. so this must be cancelled or nerfed(the pack). Tbh I am doing well economically but I do think they can add computer buyers. and as well make factory prizes comparable with their production . its ridiculous to have a factory cost 8500 that produces 175 vs one of 35 gold producing 250 . other than that perhaps stuff like the stock exchange where a big player can take on investments and pay monthly a determined dividend to his stock holders. atm other than rider accounts most accounts will take a really long time to become profitable without outside help or gold buying.
7. Do you have any regrets during your time in eRepublik?:
no i decided to play a honest game with no cheating when i started years ago. most of what i accomplished i did though time. i could probably regret all the rl time i have wasted here but then on the other hand i think one needs a break from rl from time to time and this is way better than facebook.
8. Do you have any RL hobbies or interests to share?:
atm im into horticulture and will always probably have programming as hobby.
9. What languages do you speak?:
afrikaans is my home language whilst english is my second language. tswana I know a few words in but cant carry a conversation in it.
10. Any final thoughts or statements you would like to make?:
eire abu
I would like to thank Kraken for taking the time to answer these questions and hope you learned something new about him by reading them.
Now for your reward.
Comments
Denied.
woot woot . great article 🙂
What did you do with your reward??...on second thoughts you'd better not answer that question...lol
i think flaco did not have enough pesos for all the stamps.
RtK an Irish legend ahah
perhaps eIrish not really a legend but hey im starting to sound like pesto so thx if u meant it as compliment.
Of course it is !
thats it!!! lol http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EuCOhT0Bg8
My vote
some afrikaans stuff for ya : www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Uee_mcxvrw
actually the co creator of the video roger ballen i am pretty certain played the west with me as 'the black penny' he was also perma banned from the forums for having this elaborate way of answering /debating and commenting on any thing 🙂
i was of course jakkals or the jackal in english
lol
\0/
Nice interview.
interesting