The End Of Time [BBC]
I wrote this article with the intention of publishing a few recent comments in various debates. Here is a compiled version of my stance on the Romanian foreign affairs strategy:
First, I think that peace, in the New World, is the silent death. If all that we want is a few digital and anonymous regions, soulless and with just a name tag attached, that we call "eCountry", and all our "eLife" is just a few daily clicks, a few comments and a few frustrated articles: we can safely go to sleep forever. There is nothing left to miss out on. There are no other events for us. This is the End Of Time.
Groups, companies, even matter itself will start decomposing and spreading around the universe, leaving behind just a frozen and dark soup of atoms, which will also slowly, very slowly, start to decay.
A good friend told me that a direct confrontation with Hungary would be "suicidal" and asked me in a comment the following: Quote: "The question really is: how much are you willing to sacrifice for entertainment?" End Quote.
Now, with all due respect:
WHAT KIND OF A PUSSY QUESTION IS THAT ?!?!?!
In here? Everything! You know why?
Because I am not REALLY "dsalageanu" , the former president of an empire. I am just a fat middle-aged consultant with hair on my back who created "dsalageanu" in order TO HAVE FUN.
My personna EXISTS for my (real) entertainment. I play this game because IN HERE, I don't have much to loose. I cannot loose my life, my friends or my community, my "wealth" (currently estimated at around 100 Gold) is worth in real life a dinner and a movie, and most of the other concepts (like "resources", "hospitals", bla) are pretty much worthless in a dead world.
What can we REALLY loose?
Resources? Which ones?
Hospitals? Who gives a shit? Tactically speaking you need only one...
Our country? THAT is really a longshot but OK, EVEN THEN, let's see what we're made of.
We don't KNOW that we cannot do it. We just THINK that we can't do it. There NEVER WAS a direct confrontation between Hungary and Romania on our soil.
We are just loosing in our minds.
We start with the assumption that we are going to loose, which, guess what, is usually a self-fulfilling prophecy. As long as we do that -> yup, we are gonna loose.
But, worse then loosing, is not even trying.
Just the cold and frozen soup of atoms I described at the top of my article. I would rather see the end of eRomania as we know it today, than the End Of Time, or the end of eRomania as it could be, sometime in the future.
Look at the mighty empires of Pakistan, Sweden, Norway, Iran, Italy and others. They have all turned peaceful and quiet, until they were just a handfew of people left. Then, they didn't matter so much no more.
This is the point of no return.
We can still matter. We can still make a difference. We can still exist. All we need to do is be a little PROACTIVE!!!
Stop worrying about what Hungary (or whoever) "should do". It is only relevant what WE should do:
Press the freakin' button!
Well, before that, would be useful to:
- Wipe-out weapons from the market. I know the stocks are big, but I doubt they are big enough
- Prepare recruitment campaign for all military units
- Mobilize population and provide proper instructions. Motivate, motivate, motivate.
- Prepare a shitload of moving tickets and instruct population to prepare the eviction of border regions, just in case...
- Communicate thoroughly with all E/F countries and request troops and resources. Provide proper jobs for all incoming soldier.
- Mobilize Romanian and international tanks and allocate a decent tanking budget. Try to fundraise high-Q weapons for all tanks.
Then -> click -> BANG!
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Let's play the game! Attack us! PLEASE! =)
A Magyar Nemzet Szava:
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/rom-[..]/1/20
Its spelt "losing" and "lose" as in:
"what kind of loser corrects spelling on the internet."
Click and Bang, let`s do it.
good plan:)
You do realize this would not be about Romania or Hungary, right?
ma, candideaza luna viitoare la presedentzie, apasa butonul si gata, go 2 sleep.
dsalageanu, you know my opinion... :D
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/-vot[..]1/all
:)) tot ungurii te citesc
I'm a liking the sound of this
Dragilor, e irelevant ce fac si ce nu fac ungurii. Conteaza ce facem noi, si cum ne asiguram ca o facem bine.
we need WAR.
No PEACE, Eden, Fortis, MPPs, Croatia, USA, Indo,
it is time for the real game.
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Zoli promoting this article in his shouts says a lot about what we SHOULD NOT do.
The most valuable amount to be lost is not related to resources, hospitals or teritories, it's related to PLAYERS. I gave you in my other article some examples of countries in which being on the losing side meant utter destruction, meaning lots of players leaving the game instead of working their way up to get the country back. This is the most likely effect based on previous experience with eRepublik. There is no FUN in losing.
And yes, we KNOW we're gonna lose. It's a simple fact - numbers vs. numbers. It's not a draw, it's not luck, it's not even close to a tie so we could say it could go both ways. I don't have to put my hand into the fire to KNOW it will burn, I already know that based on simple logic and general knowledge.
So basically you're saying let's put our hands into the fire (I think there was a song with those lyrics...) and maybe after we get burned, we'll grow some new hands (and we haven't seen any hands growing so far), while me and others are saying let's go make a steak using the fire, let's put our tent up and explore the forest, and hopefully in the future we'll have some water to put on the fire instead of using our hands.
BOoOM
P.S. Please give me a buzz on YM, just to be sure it's you writing the articles and not some Zoli-type figure that hacked your account :D
"Bring it on!"
vote!
@andyr - In my shout I said that this article is a must read. Nothing else. And look at Hungary. Hungary grew back the arm Romania cut in the past!
A big vote for you Dsalageanu :)