Why recent MU changes will change everything we know about eRepublik

Day 2,080, 14:53 • Published in Ireland Ireland • by Death and Taxes


Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose

So, after my last article here: http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/military-vs-political-modules-a-hands-down-winner-2297069/1/20 this is the follow-up article designed to examine a creeping raft of changes made to the military module. Changes that will affect us all, and not necessarily for the better.



So let's go back to where this all starte😛

In the original MU competition some time ago, apart from the rewards doled out to both successful MU's and their members, there was one vital important introduction.



The facility to allow the top 50 units a organisation under their control and apart from the normal government structures, gave for the first time, a genuine autonomy for MU's to separate them from the country they reside in.

The second and most recent MU competition retained the theme, but this time the reward has changed to CC rather than gold, although the next part of the jigsaw is not so far away.



Put into perspective, tomorrow morning some 6,000,000 cc is going to be distributed to the top 50 MU of eRepublik. Nice money if you can get it. Unfortunately, the admins have decided to restrict how this money shall be spent, in fact, there's only one way to spend this money now.



With the new combat orders now we have turned full circle. Now all MU's rather than the top 50 have their own bespoke piggybank. Now every member over 25 can contribute to the piggybank, and more relevantly, this cash can only be used as an incentive to influence campaigns perceived as important to the MU.



So why is this important? Well, traditionally MU's fought on the basis of what was good for their country. They existed in communes that allowed them to supply weapons to their members. In addition, their country would supply weapons through IRC channels for damage inflicted for campaigns considered to be important to these countries.

This link has now been irrecoverably broken. The top 50 MU's no longer have to pick campaigns based on their government's wishes, they can pick whatever campaign suits their commander's fancy.

As we all know, the only thing guaranteed as a given in eRepublik, is that each soldier will do his 25 kills per day for their energy bar. While previously all this damage was associated with government MPP's, for the top 50 MU's this is no longer the given it used to be.



Now that would be fine if we still had the restrictions on joining an MU based on your citizenship. But now this too, has changed. You can now join an MU of your choice, as long as the MU consider you to be worthy of inclusion.



So what does all this mean exactly? Well the truth is we can't say for certain, but what we can guess is the following:

First of all, as we will have repeat MU tournaments, and that the top 50 become more and more important, you can expect that anyone over GoW* will be 'tapped up' to join MU's currently just outside the top 50.

Secondly, completing the DO for an energy bar will be a minor event. The main event will be completing the other 50 kills maximising your cash return for fighting for the highest paid campaign for damage you can find. Picking the right one for the maximum reward will pay for your weapon and food requirements on a daily basis.

Thirdly, that while these incentives were drying out today, the influx of 6m cc into the top 50 MU's which can only be used for these same combat orders, will ensure a massive amount of loot available for all and sundry over the next few weeks.

Fourthly, that the notion of a genuinely independent MU, with a separate agenda from its country of origin, on the same lines that Libertad espoused, is now financially viable. As for example, the MU can set up an combat order on IRC that sets a rule that blatantly favours its members at a pre-ordained time to spread the cash around, and then turn it off like magic.

As outlined in my previous article. The military module exists just to make the strong stronger. These rules enforce the elitism of the module and further weakens all other modules at its expense. It also ensures the death-knell of smaller countries as the best fighters migrate to the top 50 MU's.

The likelihood is that by the end of the year. Alliances will be formed by MU's and not by countries.....



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