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The citizenship is on its way
Dear citizens,
One of the most awaited feature in eRepublik, if not the most awaited, is citizenship. We can easily understand why, as citizenship is primary just another word for nationality. Patriotism. This is the feeling that drives nations, and the feeling that has started wars throughout human history. The feeling that made you grab your friends and dance on the streets when your national football/soccer team won the World Cup, or the feeling that makes you proud when you answer the simple question “what country are you from?” Patriotism makes you put your country's flag on your avatar because you are proud of your nation. And you want everybody to know that.
eRepublik is about “personal winning,” but it's also about “national winning.” Would it feel so good to be a respectable, successful and appreciated character worldwide, all while your nation struggles in mediocrity? No, it wouldn't - you would do anything to help the rise of your entire nation. Many citizens have sacrificed themselves, and their social status, for the sake of their nations, which only proves how strong the love for the homeland is.
Our team has worked hard in the last months for the introduction of this vital feature, citizenship. Older citizens recall the existence of an incipient concept of having a nationality in Beta, when you had to live in a country for 10 days in order to have the right to vote. But this wasn't enough, that's why we worked hard to improve the concept.
So, let's start describing the citizenship module. If you open a citizen's profile, in addition to old information, you will also see his/her citizenship.
The citizenship will be offered as follows:
-for new citizens, after they have chosen country and region, the citizenship will be granted automatically
-for registered citizens, the citizenship will be granted according to the country they live in at the moment of the citizenship module implementation. So make sure that you are living at home that day!
-if you wish to change your citizenship, you may do that by requesting new citizenship from another country.
A citizen can have one and only one citizenship. So, if you are let's say an Italian and want to become an American, you will have to move to the USA and request American citizenship. Your request will then be added to a list, along with those requests of others, which will then be at the disposal of Congress. There's a formula which limits the maximum number of granted citizenships to 10 % of country's population. So, in the USA each congressman can offer a maximum of around 35 citizenships/month, with the current population/regions configuration. Your request will be visible for five days to all the congressmen of America, in our example. If after five day no one has pushed the “Yes” button, your request will be automatically deleted. After five days you may post another citizenship request. A congressman can only accept a pending request, he can not cancel nor delete it. Also, if you wish to leave the country for which you've requested citizenship, you will have to either cancel the request (you are “tied” to the country, like Congress Members are) or wait until you are offered citizenship.
With the introduction of the citizenship module, the diaspora voting becomes reality. If you have citizenship and decide to move temporarily to another country for a better life, you will be voting for candidates back home, not the ones in your new country. In congressional elections you will vote for candidates in the last region in which you lived before moving to the other country. In the country presidential election, you will have the same list like everybody back home. So, politically you are bonded by your citizenship to your home land. From now on, in which country you reside will have no importance - you will vote according to your citizenship.
The citizenship module is not aiming to completely stop takeovers, but to offer the possibility to fight back and protect from those political takeovers.
We'll be moving around some things on the profile page in order to accommodate the new information. During this evaluation of the home page, we spent time assessing what should go where in order to optimize the page's layout, and one of the changes we wanted to inform you about is the movement of the Ambassador achievement - which will now be considered a honor, and will live next to your citizen name. We thought this was a logical move, since it is not as in-game related as the other achievements - but still a very important acknowledgment that many citizens deserve and are eager to obtain. And on that note, thanks to all of our current ambassadors - the program is a work in progress, so we thank you for your patience while we iron out the wrinkles and get everything up and running smoothly. For now, we will be moving the Ambassador icon from the achievement section and promise it will make its reappearance with the updated profile page in the coming month - being an Ambassador will proceed as usual.
About the time-frame, our team is working on the final details, so we expect to have the new citizenship module implemented in the next two weeks. We hope you will like it!
Further details, and answers to some questions, will be available in future Insiders.
Regards,
The eRepublik Team
One of the most awaited feature in eRepublik, if not the most awaited, is citizenship. We can easily understand why, as citizenship is primary just another word for nationality. Patriotism. This is the feeling that drives nations, and the feeling that has started wars throughout human history. The feeling that made you grab your friends and dance on the streets when your national football/soccer team won the World Cup, or the feeling that makes you proud when you answer the simple question “what country are you from?” Patriotism makes you put your country's flag on your avatar because you are proud of your nation. And you want everybody to know that.
eRepublik is about “personal winning,” but it's also about “national winning.” Would it feel so good to be a respectable, successful and appreciated character worldwide, all while your nation struggles in mediocrity? No, it wouldn't - you would do anything to help the rise of your entire nation. Many citizens have sacrificed themselves, and their social status, for the sake of their nations, which only proves how strong the love for the homeland is.
Our team has worked hard in the last months for the introduction of this vital feature, citizenship. Older citizens recall the existence of an incipient concept of having a nationality in Beta, when you had to live in a country for 10 days in order to have the right to vote. But this wasn't enough, that's why we worked hard to improve the concept.
So, let's start describing the citizenship module. If you open a citizen's profile, in addition to old information, you will also see his/her citizenship.
The citizenship will be offered as follows:
-for new citizens, after they have chosen country and region, the citizenship will be granted automatically
-for registered citizens, the citizenship will be granted according to the country they live in at the moment of the citizenship module implementation. So make sure that you are living at home that day!
-if you wish to change your citizenship, you may do that by requesting new citizenship from another country.
A citizen can have one and only one citizenship. So, if you are let's say an Italian and want to become an American, you will have to move to the USA and request American citizenship. Your request will then be added to a list, along with those requests of others, which will then be at the disposal of Congress. There's a formula which limits the maximum number of granted citizenships to 10 % of country's population. So, in the USA each congressman can offer a maximum of around 35 citizenships/month, with the current population/regions configuration. Your request will be visible for five days to all the congressmen of America, in our example. If after five day no one has pushed the “Yes” button, your request will be automatically deleted. After five days you may post another citizenship request. A congressman can only accept a pending request, he can not cancel nor delete it. Also, if you wish to leave the country for which you've requested citizenship, you will have to either cancel the request (you are “tied” to the country, like Congress Members are) or wait until you are offered citizenship.
With the introduction of the citizenship module, the diaspora voting becomes reality. If you have citizenship and decide to move temporarily to another country for a better life, you will be voting for candidates back home, not the ones in your new country. In congressional elections you will vote for candidates in the last region in which you lived before moving to the other country. In the country presidential election, you will have the same list like everybody back home. So, politically you are bonded by your citizenship to your home land. From now on, in which country you reside will have no importance - you will vote according to your citizenship.
The citizenship module is not aiming to completely stop takeovers, but to offer the possibility to fight back and protect from those political takeovers.
We'll be moving around some things on the profile page in order to accommodate the new information. During this evaluation of the home page, we spent time assessing what should go where in order to optimize the page's layout, and one of the changes we wanted to inform you about is the movement of the Ambassador achievement - which will now be considered a honor, and will live next to your citizen name. We thought this was a logical move, since it is not as in-game related as the other achievements - but still a very important acknowledgment that many citizens deserve and are eager to obtain. And on that note, thanks to all of our current ambassadors - the program is a work in progress, so we thank you for your patience while we iron out the wrinkles and get everything up and running smoothly. For now, we will be moving the Ambassador icon from the achievement section and promise it will make its reappearance with the updated profile page in the coming month - being an Ambassador will proceed as usual.
About the time-frame, our team is working on the final details, so we expect to have the new citizenship module implemented in the next two weeks. We hope you will like it!
Further details, and answers to some questions, will be available in future Insiders.
Regards,
The eRepublik Team
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Finally... Thank you god !
awesome.
viva Spain, viva Hungary
great!
dont really care
Good, now there is lesser PTOs.
great .. ?? YES !
Ive been wainting for this...
Thanks GOD
halaman pertamax...
GREAT !!
Indonesian language !!!
about time
So, this effectively stops PTO's. Right?
a wolven endorsed article
All hail admin!
Finally...
I can see potential problems... But at least Congress has more to do now.
Nice! Can't wait!
Can't wait! eSouthAfrica lives!
great!
this is good, this is good
Awesome
I think we should have 1nationality+1other
how about conquered nations?
Hm, looks interesting. Will players be able to stand candidate from an other country in the elections of the country of their nationality? Or will you still be bound to your country's territory?
How about players that are not comfortable with disclosing their nationality?
Great! I love that!
I thought it would be an improvement!
BETA was better.
PRAISE GOD FROM WHOM ALL BLESSINGS FLOW!!!!!!!!! And I am not being sac-religious either.
CITIZENSHIP FINALLY! Whoooooot....
This means the end of the WP status of a nation or two
omg now peace has to have only one congressman in Croatia.. Then the PTO can happen again... It should have been citizenship granted unless one congressman objects..
Awesome
Thank you admin
Well done
I think it's time for the moving ticket company owners to sell their companies until they can...
Citizenship in about 2 or 3 months so ^^
Thanks !
Great news !
NO MORE PTO! CANADAMAXXX
Bout damn time!
@Natashan Trust: every Congressman has his maximum number of citizenship he can possibly offer. So 20-30 "infiltrated" citizens are pretty useless. Even 100-200 are, compared to a whole nation.
I just hope you warn people with a official date, so we can move to our home countrys...
This is great!
Very good function.
Good job!
OMG Have you thought at the poor hungarians? How will they survive without robbing all the new countries treasuries and some of the older ones???
I'll go hide in case the eWorld explodes in the process...
Just kidding! This is great news. Thank you!!
Alright! Who else thinks this was delayed until PEACE began attacking eUSA? The ultimate balance against PEACE forces...
Amazing article and awesome news, thanks
Hey, wait a god damn second . This was how I suggested citizenship to work in that thread! No credit to me?! lol
do not know if it's done right but it's pretty close to acceptable
What's the world cup?
-American Citizen
It sounds like it should be a fairly decent system. I was honestly expecting it to suck because I didn't see an easy implementation of it, but I think it can work.
Players said, gooning begone, and after 6 months it vanished
Thank you Admin's
The oil and the moving ticket industry has been dying lately but with this change it can be proclaimed totally dead. Thanks.
At least those who live in a diaspora should have to move back to their respective country to be able to vote if they want to. This would create a demand for moving around. Except for that this is a good change.
I miss 2 things.
First:
If a player asks for citizenship, he/she should pay for it.
the cost of the citizenship should be setup by congress. and the nation receive this money.
I think it is also needed to do.
Second:
A short description about why the player want to change citizenship. It could be a help for the congress to decide. It is acceptable or not.
Will the congressman receive XP for accept or deny a citizenship request?
GREAT
Cool, but what about to work at other countries? Some countries doesnt have enough citizen for working?
that's great...
Can't go to do PTO?
LOL!
I'm waiting for fake invasion... there will be PTO! With fake armys.
LOL!
My life is the TO! But after this... There is lot of great PTO Team. After this they will die.
The future is the fake armys'!
Awesome!
yeaaaah good job!!!
What about new world map? This one sucks...
yes! finaly
this is going to ruin the game...
Finally !!!
Super
This is how it should have been in the first place...so how do you now "fix" the damage caused by the game flaw?
LOL, off course Admins don't want to stop PTO, so ROmanio can do more TOs
Death to PTO's.
Daj mi soshku!
YAY!
Croatia never won World Cup in soccer, but we were third once
Yay!
PTOs are effectively done for, unless you want to live in a country for more than 10 days not working.
Did you think about what will happen to the already dying moving industry? At least make it possible to disband a company for, let's say, a 10 golds refunding. Or create some alternative uses for oil and tickets, like energy industry, or god-knows-what.
And are you aware of the fact, that the time of the introductions it will be possible to PTO small countries FOREVER?
Take any country with less the 200 pop. Move in 250 organized citizens, who will receive citizenship and will win the congress easily. From that time, they will have the ability to grant citizenships to their fellow TO-ers, and deny it to anti-TO-ers, or even natives!
Way to ruin a country forever!
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Nah whole hungary will move to States (not occupied part) day before and be granted citizenship.
PTOS will just be longer running process, 1-2-4-8-16...
and whola hun Gremlins all around
Good job Admins.
TWO WEEKS?!
FINALLY!
Only 10% of a countries Population per month could be approved for that countries population?
excellent!
Huge vote from me
And how on Earth will you handle non-existing countries, anyway?
Conquers? Did you really think it over? Did you plan it with Government-in-exile or what?
And if a nation conquers another, they will have the right to deny citizenship to those who live in the occupied regions, they won't be able to represent their nation, or vote at all. Will they be second-class citizens unable to vote just because their nation was conquered?
I appreciate the intention to make the New World a better place, but this proposion fails. Big time.
Not bad, not bad. Quite life like. You have to find a corrupt congressman to make some backstage busniess/donation for your "Yess". )
is it to come in 2 weeks same as the highs were to be rvised in may? Hope so.
HOORAAAH!
"-for registered citizens, the citizenship will be granted according to the country they live in at the moment of the citizenship module implementation. So make sure that you are living at home that day!"
It's not the best way..
@Bosc- Nope, it will just make them harder to carry out after the first full month.
"The citizenship module is not aiming to completely stop takeovers, but to offer the possibility to fight back and protect from those political takeovers."
Meaning if one goes under the radar you're also blocking the chance for others to fight back and help.
Praise Dio \o/
Hurrah.
eSouth Africa!
Ah Von Seelard i'm glad someone else is seeing it the way i am.
WooHoo, can`t wait!!!
Yeh, good points Von Seelard. What happens if your region or country is occupied?
And yes, once TOers get to power and control congress they might only be swept out by external recruiting. Prepare for another round of fake wars!
Yay! this should effectively stop PTOs. Best eRep news I've heard in a LONG time.
I have a few questions, though. First, what about citizenship in currently annexed countries, such as South Korea? Would it simply be impossible to acquire citizenship there at this time? Also, what about the status of citizenship if a territory is conquered? do all inhabitants of that territory automatically gain citizenship of the conquering country? or do they retain their old citizenship?
How do we vote for Congress? We deside where to vote if we are in a foreign country?
bad thing for PEACE
great idea!! but the US Air Force is out of a job
Great. Now i can take over Austria with my RL friends. Not to mention how people will do that with clone armies.
As people mentioned, the moving ticket industry is also done.
Without changing the current MPP system wars are more or less done as well, countries can just turtle and never worry about any chance of them losing any original regions (especially great for the countries with all or nearly all high resources, very bad for those with 1 or 0 of them).
Sigh... why the automatic citizenship for new players, for god's sake? You do know that PTOs will just become something that multiaccounters do, right?
Why not have citizenship that is granted based on what country you started to play? Now you're effectively granting the users one last big push to take over nations in desperation, and deny all but the new players from entering the country's politics as long as the take over group remains in power.
And how will this work in new countries? Only people who start in the country can vote, and only after they've reached level 6? That takes.. what? 2 weeks? At least one election is missed, and no one can run for President or Congressman in the first month since no one has enough levels.
I have a bad feeling about this.
Thank god they finally did this. Lets just hope it doesn't bug out like crazy.
Do not want.