The Crash (and why you should be worried)
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by Robert Renolds
eRepublic is broken. We all know this, we just choose to ignore it. However, thanks to the current crash, we cannot ignore it now.
The eRepbot, the amazing "non-existent" fairy that takes your products from your warehouse and leaves money under your pillow, is not buying.
I did a quick calculation to figure out the influence of the bot. Here are the assumptions:
*Price of Q5 weapons was $18.50 before the bot turned off
*Any item sold below this cost is "excess" or "surplus" that the market is not buying
*In order to remain at $18.50, all excess surplus must have been bought by the bot.
# of items for sale below $18.50: 23.4k (yes, I went through the 10 PAGES of excess products)
Day the Crash began: 1556
Today's Day:1560
# of days Bot is off:4
Surplus / # of days: 5.8K
Amount of Q5 the bot buys a day: Almost 6000 units a day.
This is just in the USA Q5 weapon market. Now, add in the rest of the USA economy, then add in the other countries in eRep . . . The bot is buying hundreds of thousands (perhaps millions) of items a day.
Or was.
With the bot dead, we can see that eRep is broken. With only two products to buy (food or weapons) and with the possibility to self-sustain (impossible in some previous times of eRep) there is NO MARKET for the production. If the econ module is not fixed soon, then eRep will die. Newspapers, running for Congress, and clicking war is all that will remain. All of which are dominated by the big players.
In conclusion, should you be worried about the crash? YES. It shows that the game is broken, and that if you are spending REAL MONEY you are buying a broken product. This game may not be here in a few months. WE may just get tired of it and move on.
I hope it gets fixed, as I have been playing or many years and I have enjoyed the people that play this game.
But I can take my time, effort, friends, and money elsewhere.
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The bot is buying my goods. And it has done so for all the days you mentioned.
The bot is off in the USA Q5 market for sure. They must be toying with us to see HOW broken their system is. Hopefully so they can fix it. (HINT HINT eRep!)
the bot also appears to be off in several foreign markets i sell into.
Could it be that the eRep mods believed that we no longer required a bot, and thus turned it off?
I think not. It's the moment.
The bot has been shut off like this in the past also. It will likely be back.
Let us all pray to what ever god you believe in that they do and soon...!
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I miss bot 🙁
A few weeks ago the bot was also off in Portugal for some days. But soon it got back.
Im going bankrupt soon. I have a surplus of weapons not being bought on the market and when my employees come to collect their money I will just lose the little money I have left.
I had to lay off all my employees as my Q5 company can't afford it. I am just holding until the market corrects.
Well maybe you guys should layoff all of your workers, that would lower the supply of weapons and then the prices will rebound. If you want to fix the problem stop producing. But since you guys don't want to do that you may have to keep lowering your prices until your weapons sell, meaning lost profits for you.
Crash = opportunity.
You guys are nuts. the game's econ mod was broken months ago when admins 'fixed' it so that it was fair and everyone could own a company or two. the recent changes and slow down of bots has made it difficult. So now the people that know how to do econ have a chance to take it back over. My best guess is that we need 1 company owner to 10 employees. I would love it if they canceled WAM and brought back the health/productivity restriction. (Not to mention econ skill level.)
What the problem is with the game is everyone must be rich and a god of war or IT'S NOT FAIR. Kinda like T-Ball for the little tykes. No strikes, no outs and no winners or looser.
I haven't sold my share of weapons and food in months here in eUs market, so no worries about the bot ; )
It's simple. Admins cancel the bot when they want players to buy gold. Do you really think it's a coincidence that the bot was turned off when there was a gold sale and the introduction of q2 training centers? Stockpile your goods, fire your employee, and wait. The bot will return when the admins bank balances have increased sufficiently.
well... hate to say it but, my employees and I produce hundreds of Q5 weapons daily. Because of the bot issues, I haven't throw any weapons on the market, fired 10 employees, had a few quit , and had people take a slight paycut (still higher than the market though since i don't laying people off).
Uk is fine