The End of History
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by Sir Humphrey Appleby
The end of an era
Good afternoon ladies and gents o/,
Today’s article is dedicated to Horice and all the other members of our community that have either left the eUK or eRepublik altogether. We should reflect on the colossal amount of past work that has been invested into our national community by players from all over the globe, the majority of which are no longer with us. I will try and echo in this article why we are seeing more and more people either leave, become disinterested or simply disillusioned to the point their efforts for our country are minimal.
The most obvious root factor is the mechanics of the game itself. Actual strategy has been reduced to a playground state of affairs. The economic module effectively gives no room for newer players to establish themselves without a considerable investment of real, as opposed to virtual, funds. The war module is exactly the same. Your base damage, strength, is reliant on boosters that are wholly disproportionate to any viable economic income from the game itself. Again, the only way you can establish yourself is through real money.
The basic philosophy of these modules means that political parties are irrelevant, as there is only one way of doing things. Parties are now nothing more than micro-communities within our own national one. Competing ideologies are dead in favour of whoever has the most gold to spend on companies, advertisements and incentives for people to join any one political party. More people join a certain party because of the people already there, rather than the principles and policy that these groups supposedly stand for. This is because of the death of anything to apply these principles to. The only viable policy is hoarding more gold.
The community aspect has always been considered strong in the eUK; however, there was only a certain amount of time where the new modules of the game would finally erode the institutions built on former versions; where community projects, games and discussions die out due to lack of anything to base them on. The simplicity of the market, the complete devaluation of currency thanks to Platobot, and the poor national damage that most countries in this game commands inevitably leads to a lack of interest. A lack of interest is what kills those communities based off the game.
An incentive to kindly continue reading
We should consider the actions of the game itself. We are embroiled in misplaced national pride on the issue of Kosovo. Communities that stood together in alliances are ripped apart by issues that should not arise on this game. Bitterness, ultimatums and a general shitstorm in the Balkans once again successfully derails any cross-community projects and interest on the global stage. More gold is spent on winning completely irrelevant wars, more bots are created and medium to small countries like the eUK become increasingly immaterial.
What we are effectively left with is the end of any real value of history for the eUK. The politics the players in the game create may still be recorded, but the lack of strategy and ability for the community to feel any real meaning effectively results in a slow death of inertia and disinterest. The game is divided into the new that have no hope of matching some people’s influence, and the old who become increasingly discontented and disenchanted. As more and more notable contributors to our community leave, we are left with a country that is struggling to fill the gaps and effectively find the energy to give the punch we once had the unity to give.
The draconian and empty headedness of the auditors that run this game are apparent to even the newborn. The sheer lack of hope of any real update, improvement or chance of change has successfully disheartened those that have been contributing for years. What is the point in going out of your way and spending a considerable amount of your time for something that will have virtually no impact on anything? Just how prepared is the average sign up willing to sit in the side-lines for a game that has no recognition of individual creativity and independent thought?
We have entered a vicious circle where less and less people are prepared to step up to the requirements of operating a country fully like the eUK. We are left with poor services, armed forces, political parties and a defunct media. We are left with no vigour or confidence to continue our irrelevance. We have ultimately reached the end of our history.
Just a thought.
Appleby
The utopia that is what the game was supposed to be
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I'd like to dedicate this comment to SHA
Horice o/
Only issue with that Utopia, is that not everyone can fit on that bench 🙁
Damnly great article.
agreed and voted
Agreed =[
It's a sad truth.
I have to say, I don't think I've seen a better written article.
Good article, though I think the game is still what you make of it.
Has it not always been the case that essentially it is geared up to make money?
The removal of the top 5 articles is the single crappiest update ever though.
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Didn't read coz too lazy. Appleby usually writes decent stuff though so I assume it's good.
Thankfully though, the tits pic gave me the incentive to scroll down to the beautiful utopia pic.
Just how prepared is the average sign up willing to sit in the side-lines for a game that has no recognition of individual creativity and independent thought?
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The removal of the top 5 articles is the single crappiest update ever though.
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Just an absolute shame, what this thing has become.
Very compelling, and unfortunately entirely true.
Nice work SHA
Noone can even be arsed to protest like a many did a few months back. I've been apathetic about the game before, but never this badly; I'm here out of habit, nothing else.
Too many good games on the horizon to play this much longer, and a load of MMOs are changing from subscribed to free to play too. Can the Erep admins compete? I doubt it. There must be so few paying players now that they should be getting worried though.
Maybe the admins are followers of Harold Camping - if they are they won't care much about the future.
>The community aspect has always been considered strong in the eUK;
I'll give you credit for having a sense of humour
Actually read this afterall. p much sums this shit up
voted and shouted
The end of history
shouts out to Francis Fukayama
I have to say, I don't think I've seen a better written article. x2
Even my ego has to admit this is extremely well done, and entirely true.
So true :/
Good job.
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/referendum1-1886420/1/20
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rly nice
true
Sad day indeed
Great article... a lot of valid considerations that are true for a lot of other countries.
This article is full of truth.
Thanks for the article, it was a pleasure to read it. I agree with it completely.
>obvious copy of my article
Also, the eUK actually has pretty good services.
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Nah Tomaz, you're article was shit compared to this.
so true, but in next article you can try to find answer why we're still playing...
Agreed! Admins have ruined what was a pretty good community game. All for money too. Wonder is it worth it? Will it be worth it when it's only the gold beasts left with nothing to fight over cos everyone else will have gone, and then they too will leave?! To quote a famous front page headline;
"...will the last person to leave Britain please turn out the lights."
Only nationalist Europeans and third world people find this game relavant.
Well written indeed. You have my vote. Not that it will change anything...
These are some sad facts. I can say only one thing: I left that Eastern European shitstorm and came here, but eUK was not a random pick. It's still quite fun in here.
Compared.
UK is irrelevant because of their ingame actions not because there are funner wars elsewhere. thats what happens if no one respects or trusts your country
lol shadow, you keep saying that. It gets funnier each time.
Irishboy, just because he spent 5x more time on it doesn't make it less of a copy~
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Shadow a game is meant to be fun. If the eUK, Ireland & Canada never had these wars, it be hell of a boring game.
"The draconian and empty headedness of the auditors that run this game are apparent to even the newborn. The sheer lack of hope of any real update, improvement or chance of change has successfully disheartened those that have been contributing for years. What is the point in going out of your way and spending a considerable amount of your time for something that will have virtually no impact on anything? Just how prepared is the average sign up willing to sit in the side-lines for a game that has no recognition of individual creativity and independent thought?"
Do you not think that you personally banning most of the people who make new posts on the forums may have contributed to there being nothing interesting to log on for?
Too bad you will just label this trolling and ignore it, I've lost hope of having a rational conversation with anyone in your clique.
Good article. The best is the last picture. I must think about going there instead of sticking to eRepublic because friends are playing it... Sad story it is 🙁
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an accurate and beautiful article.
you sir, are good with words.
keep up the good work!