Well that was fun...

Day 2,478, 18:07 • Published in Canada Spain • by Doggstar

To complete the Plato missions I have to write some articles so I thought a review of the recent Kill Rush Fiasco Tournament would be good.

I'd like to congratulate the Admin group and Plato for what will unquestionably go down as the "Most Fail Tournament" in eRepublik history. It was so so poorly thought out from start to finish that even after they modified the rules, it was still a 500 kilogram pile of excrement covered in burning hair. As a matter of fact it's hard not to think that it was a grand set up from the start to shift massive wealth to the largest players in the game.

HOWEVER as an eternal optimist, perhaps we should focus on the learnings from the tournament. Let's go eCanada!

First lesson, size matters. It's the only thing that matters. This tournament was slanted towards absolute TOTAL power. From now on, hopefully the administration team will combine their IQ points to get above room temperature and not use percentages, rather numerical rankings. It was less than one day and we saw that the tournament was over with one big winner. This could have been at least partially alleviated by using numerical ranking, rather than percentages. To repeat, the contest was over in less than half of a day. This is less of the problem than the fact that at that point of the tournament there was no silver medal, bronze medal, participation ribbon, boobie prize, etc. WINNAR TAKE ALL!

Hurray! This tournament served to crush the spirits of smaller players and countries while pushing assets to the giants.

I would suggest the second major lesson we learned was that the eRepublik administration team fully endorses and condones the practice of larger countries coming in to raid and steal from smaller countries. For example, please take a look at this MU :

http://www.erepublik.com/en/main/group-show/4459

At the beginning of the (sham) tournament this MU had 61 members, 4 of whom were eCanadian. Now I (kind of) understand allowing different nationalities in an MU but when less that 10% of the group are domestic it is just $%#@ing ridiculous. It's stupid. It's an exploit. It's ill conceived. It's a scam. Period. There is no valid reason that an MU should exist like this.

But let's just say that it's ok, maybe they are setting up a nice MU to help eCanada. This was the suggestion of one noted Canadian liar, a suggestion that he repeated. This is the same liar who facilitated a lot of this filth coming into the country in the first place. This "rogue" MU was nowhere to be found in any relevant capacity in any eCanadian battle. Furthermore, and this speaks directly to the scam that this whole situation was, there are currently only 30 members in the MU at present. Over half of the rats have left the nest.

For the slow minded, this MU was created and set up exclusively to come to eCanada and harvest tournament prizes. Not to help us. Not because they wanted to be eCanadians. They wanted to pick our pockets and in doing so prevented other groups from getting anything. Unsurprisingly, this MU dominated division 4 by a very large margin. Let's face it, eCanada is a small place with only so many heavy hitters. The prizes this MU will get should be going primarily to eCanada. This is why prizes were given at both the world and country level.

So to summarize learning point #2, eRepublik fully condones and supports stronger county groups moving in and shoving smaller citizens aside for tournament gain. Absolutely disgusting and lazy.

Hurray! This tournament served to crush the spirits of smaller players and countries while pushing assets to the giants.

Our third learning is that there will always be players who are angry and unsatisfied with their lives looking to take it out on the internet. We need to keep this is mind when we see chains of events in our eCountry that will ultimately end in it's downfall. It was rather obvious that there was an eSerbian infiltration coming into eCanada. Certain liars were fully supporting and facilitating it. Certain "dim bulbs", "useful idiots" and "simpletons" played along because it seemed fun. Hopefully we get out of this situation just losing some tournament prizes, but the worse threat of destabilization still exists. As a country we struggle enough and the fact that there are people who thrive on taking away the little bit of fun left in this game is sickening. In order to complete these newspaper missions I may write further on this subject.

To summarize learning point #3 for eCanada, ruining other people's fun seems like a good time until you realize that even you lose.

So the inevitable question from someone is going to be UMAD? First I'd like to say no. Second, I'd like to point out that anyone who uses that phrase UMAD towards another is either a 30+ year old autistic man child who sleeps under 300 empty Dorito bags or a 12 year old who looks in the mirror and sees Tupac. Either way you lose.

I'm not mad because ultimately I'm a big enough player that I can play comfortably. I'm embarrassed for whoever cooked this up and more than a little disappointed though. What should be of concern is that with a crumbling economy and eroding player base, eRepublik so obviously acts in the worst interest of new / small players and countries. I recognize the need to reward supporters, I am a supporter. However there are always ways to cover the various generations of eRepublik players. Again, the fact that this tournament was over in less than half a day means it was constructed wrong. The fact that rules were changed means it was constructed wrong. I'm sure we'd be happy to forgive and forget so please don't make a habit of this sort of complete abandonment of foresight.

P.S. Special thanks for speedy delivery of the prizes and notification of who won. Your rules were about as clear as the outhouse in the Mariana Trench.