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The New World's gold rush scandal: what Admin do not want you to know
Striking gold has long brought good living and lovin' for many a prospector throughout history. So how did you feel a few weeks ago when you saw 'Complete offers and get eRepublik gold beta' section in the 'Get Gold and Extras' menu?
If you are anything like me, you started droolin' like a hound dog on BBQ day.
I immediately went to work, completing the offers. Genuinely? No, of course not, I'm not an idiot. The internet's array of disposable email sites gave me the tool I needed to complete the offers without impinging on the sanctity of my inbox. Mr Fanny Bottom, of 5 Red Rd Albany NSW, if he exists, is about to get a whole lot of junk mail.
I earned over 30 gold from my exploits in the 'Complete offers and get eRepublik gold beta' section. I bought my first company, the Australian Q1 food organisation, Aussie Joey's, with the spoils of the new offers. But then it occurred to me: what effect does all this extra gold coming into our pockets without any in game work, have on our economy?
We have always had the option of buying gold, but, as the site warns us, we can only buy gold once per week (twice if you purchase an sms top up) - 'to avoid gold inflation'.
So if gold inflation is an issue? Why can we complete offers external to the game to earn gold?
Will the commercial nature of eRepublik, it's need to make a profit, destroy our in game economies?
The Ranting Loon contacted Admin for comment. We asked three questions, here are the verbatim responses:
1) Do you believe the Complete offers and get eRepublik Gold beta system will remove the incentive to be productive?
A: The new system will not affect the will of citizens to contribute to eRepublik, by working, training, etc.
2) What impact on our virtual economies will citizens being able to earn 1 gold (and therefore it's equivalent in local currencies), without contributing anything to the game model (work etc) have?
A: We are still analyzing, this is why the module is in Beta staging.
3) How much gold has been earned by eAustralian citizens through the new scheme?
A: The answer is confidential.
Confidential? Why is it that admin won't let us know how much gold has been injected into our economies artificially?
In any sense, beta or not, this is active and according to Admin's responses, they unleashed this beast upon our global economies without conducting modeling to analyse the potential effect.
My theory, is that the figure is so high, that to publish it would send shockwaves throughout our economies.
The value of gold would plummet even more than this new incentive scheme will cause.
How much gold has been injected artificially around the world since the scheme began? 500 thousand? 1 million? 2 million?
I am no economist, but I write this article to raise global debate on what has the potential to be a massive issue.
In the meantime, let's log onto Guerilla Mail and see if I can buy another company without putting a day's work into our economy...
I call for an end to this madness. I call for Admin to openly publish results and statistics relating to the beta test and, if the impact is what I assume, to devalue gold globally, I call for the incentive scheme to end.
"It takes many hours to produce The Ranting Loon. I hope it informs and entertains and if so, I always appreciate you voting the article up. If you would like to receive The Ranting Loon's new articles when they are published, please subscribe. This will also help me achieve my goal of becoming eAustralia's first media mogul, through quality reporting, great entertainment and dare I suggest, more than a little ranting lunacy! Aggggh! Aggggh!
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If you are anything like me, you started droolin' like a hound dog on BBQ day.
I immediately went to work, completing the offers. Genuinely? No, of course not, I'm not an idiot. The internet's array of disposable email sites gave me the tool I needed to complete the offers without impinging on the sanctity of my inbox. Mr Fanny Bottom, of 5 Red Rd Albany NSW, if he exists, is about to get a whole lot of junk mail.
I earned over 30 gold from my exploits in the 'Complete offers and get eRepublik gold beta' section. I bought my first company, the Australian Q1 food organisation, Aussie Joey's, with the spoils of the new offers. But then it occurred to me: what effect does all this extra gold coming into our pockets without any in game work, have on our economy?
We have always had the option of buying gold, but, as the site warns us, we can only buy gold once per week (twice if you purchase an sms top up) - 'to avoid gold inflation'.
So if gold inflation is an issue? Why can we complete offers external to the game to earn gold?
Will the commercial nature of eRepublik, it's need to make a profit, destroy our in game economies?
The Ranting Loon contacted Admin for comment. We asked three questions, here are the verbatim responses:
1) Do you believe the Complete offers and get eRepublik Gold beta system will remove the incentive to be productive?
A: The new system will not affect the will of citizens to contribute to eRepublik, by working, training, etc.
2) What impact on our virtual economies will citizens being able to earn 1 gold (and therefore it's equivalent in local currencies), without contributing anything to the game model (work etc) have?
A: We are still analyzing, this is why the module is in Beta staging.
3) How much gold has been earned by eAustralian citizens through the new scheme?
A: The answer is confidential.
Confidential? Why is it that admin won't let us know how much gold has been injected into our economies artificially?
In any sense, beta or not, this is active and according to Admin's responses, they unleashed this beast upon our global economies without conducting modeling to analyse the potential effect.
My theory, is that the figure is so high, that to publish it would send shockwaves throughout our economies.
The value of gold would plummet even more than this new incentive scheme will cause.
How much gold has been injected artificially around the world since the scheme began? 500 thousand? 1 million? 2 million?
I am no economist, but I write this article to raise global debate on what has the potential to be a massive issue.
In the meantime, let's log onto Guerilla Mail and see if I can buy another company without putting a day's work into our economy...
I call for an end to this madness. I call for Admin to openly publish results and statistics relating to the beta test and, if the impact is what I assume, to devalue gold globally, I call for the incentive scheme to end.
"It takes many hours to produce The Ranting Loon. I hope it informs and entertains and if so, I always appreciate you voting the article up. If you would like to receive The Ranting Loon's new articles when they are published, please subscribe. This will also help me achieve my goal of becoming eAustralia's first media mogul, through quality reporting, great entertainment and dare I suggest, more than a little ranting lunacy! Aggggh! Aggggh!
Ultimate Guinan
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It would certainly be nice to have more economy-related data available, but I wouldn't recommend anyone to complete any of these Gold offers. Not because of Gold inflation, but because of the privacy policy that comes with the offers:
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most of us in the world doesnt even have one offer available, while other like you earn 30 golds from it
Without company i have to work 40 days (without spending anything) to earn it
This game is getting worse by the day.
Stolen gold from our banks, pure game interface, game developers in hiding, loonies elections and now free gold for all!
Maybe is time to give it a rest.
I tested it watched a cpl vids to get gold got jack disabled ad bloc fire walls etc got nada 0 nuffin lodged complaint zip rip off.
With easy access to gold, one in every six blokes in the world has a company (32k companies, 200k citizens). There are over 800k Q1 grain on the market worldwide. (www.ereptools.pl) Grain and food prices are about 1/3rd of what they were in May.
I think the current economies in the world will crash inflation wise within the next few months, what will most likely be salvation will be the new economics module coming out in January or February. I think the post above me sums up the imminent economic crisis, the bubble is growing, and the admins know it.
Note: This is often because offers are just $0.23 cents or what, but since the min is 1 gold, admin actually lose $0.77. I suggest, change it into offergold, 10 offergold = 1 gold since the offer system does not accept decimals. Make it that you can only earn 10 gold per week from offers.
the admin dont lose that gold imo, people will still buy gold as the offers take time and you can only do so many before your fingers bleed and your eyes fall out (true story). since the gold is fake made up the admin which means all the money they make is pure profit
23c per ad profit
100000 ads completed
100000x0.23=23000 dorra!!!,
that number seems really high so they probably dont make 23c an ad?