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En:

A lot of controversy has been caused by admins desicion to increase the cost of MPPs. I wrote an article emphasizing the fact that not every citizen in this game is here to fight against others. Moreover, other articles appeared explaining the consequences of such decission offering different possible solutions but admins told their final word...

Admins: "To start from the beginning, eRepublik is a game. And games are meant to be fun."

I totally agree that this is the game and it must to be fun. But let me ask who is getting advantage of fun? How such country as eLithuania could have fun in fighting? Should we conquer ePoland or eRussia? These countries are much bigger here in game and in reality as well... We will never be able to nothing against them becouse our contry will never be as big and strong as these mentioned above. Moreover, eRussia is supposed to be our friend in game and I am really happy about this (we are in the same ally).

What about eLatvia then?.. Why we should want to do something against our brothers? Would it be fun?.. The only funny thing I could see that the war cannot bring fun to us because we are already loosers by being small country in RL. Thus, why to play the game, which supposed not to be FUN?.. I allready answered that - many people especially from smaller countries are here not to play the game of war, we are here to get fun from other things: politics, business, society building etc.


Admins: "No matter what angle we look at it from , the history of the New World shows us that political/economic/media modules are, to some extent, vital tools for the war module. Political, to have the President pushing the button. Economic, to have the money a war needs. Media, to make place to create propaganda, or to make new friends that will eventually support your war. It is the wars most citizens consider to be fun and exciting, and we can understand why.

Finally I understood how imature the gods of eRepublik are... They do not want to understand that the war could be fun but only then if all countries could have the same possibilities to conquer the world by default. But we have country-based war strategy game (as admins described it), which means that population in RL provides the advantage of war, thus, small countries are doomed.


Admins: "The chance to turn your country into the biggest eRepublik empire is a strong enough reason to have fun. Also, very importantly, to have the chance to liberate your occupied country, after hard work which can sometimes take almost a year, is just as fun.

Where is this chance? I would really like to turn my country into the biggest empire, but... it is impossible - we are small country in RL. If eLithuania would be conquered by ePoland, we won't get our regions back - it is impossible because we are much much smaller in RL and we do not have such potential to grow...

Moreover, admins today once more proved that they don't care...

Admins: If an alliance is activated today, there is no reason for it to remain activated indefinitely, no matter what. The logical solution is that an activated alliance, (which offers you the defensive and offensive manpower of your ally, in any battle which implies you as the main actor, anywhere in the world) should remain active only as long as that alliance is renewed. That is, if in an enemy attacks you and activates ten alliances, you will have the support of all your allies, just like before. But if the next day six alliances expire and are not renewed, you will be left with just the other four active allies. The rest of your six allies disappear from all your active wars. To go further in time, if several months later you decide to sign again an alliance with one of your former active ally, that alliance would not turn active by default (because it used to be so sometime in the past). It would be just an alarm system, waiting to get activated. If an alliance expires right in the middle of a battle, it will disappear from the alliances war list, but not from the battle. It will remain active until the battle ends.The new rule will be implemented next week.

This means that small countries not only will have to pay till being attacked but also spend all income for dayly protection. Moreover, this means that if attacked we won't be secure after MPP's ends. Furthermore, this means that we won't have chance to wait for a good moment to take our revange with stronger allies in our side. Finally, this also stops TW's. Thus, should people of small countries not to play this game because we are already loosers and nobody else cares about it?..

I have one suggestion for the game lords - let's change the name of the game to eWARmaxxx?..

Thank you for reading!

M.

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LT:

Daugybę diskusijų tarptautinėje spaudoje sukėlė žaidimo kūrėjų sprendimas pabranginti alijansus. Aš jau buvau parašęs savo nuomonę, kad karas - tai ne vienintelė šio žaidimo forma, tačiau visai neseniai admin'ai atskleidė, ką jie mano apie mažas valstybes ir piliečius, kurie kitaip suvokia šį žaidimą...

Adminai pabrėžia, kad eRepublik - tai žaidimas, kuris turi būti smagus. Su tuo aš visiškai sutinku, bet iš tikro kam jis yra smagus? Kaip tokios šalys kaip Lietuva gali patirti smagumą kovoje? Ar mums reiktų pabandyti užkariauti eLenkiją arba eRusiją, kad mums būtų smagu? Šios šalys yra daug didesnės už mus tiek žaidime, tiek realybėje ir mes niekada nebūsime tokie stiprūs, kad keltume joms grėsmę vieni.

O kaip su Latvija? Kodėl turėtume smagintis, bandydami užkariauti savo brolius? Dauguma žmonių suvokia, kad jie čia ne tam, kad smagintųsi kariaudami, kai realiai nėra tam galimybės, todėl čia esantys žmonės dažnai smaginasi kitaip; verslaudami, politikuodami, rašinėdami ar isterikuodami ir t.t.

Pasak adminų, visa ekonomiką, politika, žiniasklaida šiame žaidime yra tik skirtingi moduliai, palaikantys karini modulį. Tačiau tai labai nebrandus požiūris iš pačių žaidimo kūrėjų į savo produktą, o tuo pačiu valstybes ir jų tarpusavio santykį. Jie nesupranta, kad karas visiems smagus gali būti tik tada, kai kiekvienas turi nuo pat pradžių vienodas galimybes laimėti ir tik procesiniai veiksmai apspręstų nugalėtoją. Šiuo atveju mažos valstybės yra pasmerktos vien jau tuo, kad jos yra mažos.

Mes neturime galimybių tapti stipriausia ir didžiausia valstybe, nes paprasčiausiai neturime tam potencialo. Dar daugiau, praradus savo valstybingumą, be sąjungininkų pagalbos mes jo greičiausiai nebeatgautume, nes tiesiog mūsų yra labai nedaug ir mūsų valstybė neturi tiek potencialo realybėje.

Tačiau šiandien adminai dar kartą įrodė, kad mažos valstybės jiems nerūpi...

Jie planuoja naują taisyklę, pagal kurią, mus užpuolus priešams, apsauga galiotų tik tol, kol tęstųsi mūsų gynybos sutartis su sąjungininkais. Tai reiškia, kad saugumas kainuos nebe iki tada, kol būtume užpulti, bet nuolatos, nes nebebūsime saugūs MPP pasibaigus. Tai taip pat reikškia, kad nebegalėsime su aktyvuotais MPP laukti tinkamo šanso atsikeršyti mūsų skriaudėjui. Tai pabaigs mažesnių šalių dalyvavimą treniruočių karuose. Gal mums daugiau nebežaisti, jei niekam nerūpi mažų šalių problemos?..

O gal reiktų pakeisti pavadinimą šiam žaidimui į eKaramaksas?..

Dėkui už dėmesį!

M.