UK; the experiment failed.

Day 735, 09:46 • Published in United Kingdom USA • by Necrosis
Use your time and memorize the lullaby of the day
Process the data and throw it away
And each little question doesn't get me thinking
And the lies of my life still buzz around my brain...
Sad State of Affairs – Descendants

I’m going to start this article off with a table, based on the damage stats of the battle for Nordjylland. For whatever reason, eRepublik decided to reset the damage stats for the war, allowing for a reasonable look at the damage that each side could pump out. It pretty much confirmed what everyone already knew. The UK’s damage dealing capabilities are laughable at best.


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First of all, what other factors could have influenced this battle? Sweden was involved in the Philippines – Malaysia training war, which overlapped the attack by around three hours. Despite Swedish official orders being to hold fire, and then edited to the version you see above, it is a good bet that some damage was lost there, both during the Nordjylland battle, and before. Indonesia also Malaysiap again, a war in which Sweden was involved via an MPP. There was about 9 hours of this battle while the Nordjylland battle went on, and it is a safe bet that some damage was lost there also. The UK had no such distractions, and thus we can assume that there was very little to no wasted damage on that side. If it were not for the goings on in South East Asia, one would be wise to assume the deficit would be larger.

EDIT: The UK was involved in North Korean wars via a Russian MPP, my mistake.

So, with this in mind, what do the numbers in the table actually mean? The UK had over 2,000 more fights done overall than Sweden; while bigger here is better, its still not every good. If we look at the fights/pop column, we see that Sweden had nearly double the fights per citizen. Thats fine, because the UK has more than double the population, so therefore its all good, right?

No. The damage column shows quite clearly why this is; and as a result all other measures of damage are well in favour of Sweden. The UK’s damage per person, per voter, and per fight is very much sub par; the vast majority of other nations can easily match these numbers, while still spending as little as the UK did.

But why is this?
Several months ago, when the UK joined PEACE, one of the main reasons cited was to increase the fun factor for the people at home. People who had been having a few training wars here and there, and not much else since a failed attack on France over 6 months previously. At the time, it seemed like a good option; I myself was a very strong proponent of the switch, I believed that there would be more fun for the UK; and thus a better game for everyone. Boy was I wrong. Several more months down the line, all that has happened is an ill fated attack on Norway, which resulted in a damage deficit of over 1million in favour of the Norwegians.

PEACE did not bring the level of fun that I expected, and others did too. There were a few Canadian RWs, which might’ve brought a small amount of fun for a few weeks, sporadically. Ultimately, and unsurprisingly, the UK was soundly beaten without much effort from the forces arrayed against them.

The PEACE experiment failed. It was supposed to bring life to an otherwise lifeless country. To galvanise the population into doing something.

It is quite obvious to anyone looking at the above statistics that this is definitely not the case. Do something to get people involved, get them off the sidelines and into the game Do something, anything. Who knows, if you actually do something, you might have fun.

Necrosis