Erepublik
We're back!
Dear citizens,
We are as happy as you are to have the New World back online. As we have previously announced, the migration to a new cluster architecture has been scheduled for today.
But in the world of informatics often things don't work as planned. That's why we have backups. What happens when your backups get corrupted? We got to find out the hard way! Huge corrupt data set (over 2 TB) combined with corrupt backups make for a long long day!
Thankfully, our backups have backups, so our engineers managed to put everything back together.
The New World is on the move again, but we would like to ask you to report any problems you might encounter, by submitting a ticket to our Report a Bug department. We're watching and waiting to fix issues as they come in.
Thank you for your support,
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eRepublik available in four more languages[UPDATED]
Dear citizens,
One of our biggest wish is to offer eRepublik experience in as many languages as possible, and we constantly work for this achievement. As some of you might have noticed, starting a couple of days ago eRepublik is available in several new languages. On the upper right part of the eRepublik log-in page you can choose between four new versions: German, French, Portuguese and Russian. If we add English and Spanish, currently eRepublik is available in six languages.
The new languages come with their own admin, as follows:
admin DE - for German version ;
admin FR - for French version ;
admin PT - for Portuguese version ;
admin RU - for Russian version .
Each of them has a newspaper, where translated versions of the official eRepublik Insider articles will be published. For this reason we strongly encourage citizens to subscribe to their local admin newspaper in order to keep in touch with eRepublik world news and events.
We would be glad to listen to your feedback, so please feel free to send us a ticket through Contact Page, to the new department “ Feedback on Language Versions ”. Also, if you encounter any problem using any of the new language versions, please let us know.
We could not have achieved this without the hard work of some truly eRepublik passionate citizens, that helped us with all these translations:
PT - Cavalcanti,Henrique G, Artiga, Raikael , Acoutinho, Arthk;
RU - Edward Edison, Adin_Odmin, Eugene Rozov, Rodmis-73, Karolina Jesieniecka;
FR - marcchelala, Papa Frantz, Eldorino, Colansi, Christian Doe ;
DE - Chicco, Starkad Rorlikson, Franz Sigel, Isy, Markus Scierski, Herr Schmidt, Lucius Varenus.
All of them are now eRepublik Ambassadors and should soon receive the honors and rewards.
We hope you'll enjoy the new versions available, and that your eRepublik experience will increase. Of course, we'll keep adding more and more language versions, so stay tuned !
Regards,
The eRepublik Team
Reminder: We would like to remind you that today, day 687of the New World, eRepublik server will be taken offline starting 02.00 AM (eRepublik time) for about four hours, due to scheduled maintenance. read more
Migrating to a new cluster architecture
Dear citizens,
As you've probably read in one of the previous Insiders, the technical team here at eRepublik has been working hard to keep the game up and running. In fact, we're sure you've noticed some speed improvements in the past month or so. Ever since January this year, we've been continuously trying out some new things (and learned from our mistakes) thus at this point, we would like to tie up some loose ends and move to a new clustering architecture.
In spite of our best efforts to make this transition as painless as possible for everybody, some downtime will be needed in order to complete our setup. Therefore, on Wednesday, day 687 of the New World, the game will be offline for scheduled maintenance for about 4 hours starting 02:00 eRepublik time.
During this time, our team of engineers will rush to reinstall everything from load balancers, reverse proxies, web nodes, cache and database servers to accommodate the new setup.
The finished cluster will essentially mean better performance as new features and modules are coming online and more and more people are joining the New World.
In case you wonder what the new cluster looks like, here and here are some smug shots of 384GB RAM and 120CPU Cores Nehalem Xeons all ready to tackle the game :).
Regards,
The Tech Team
Update: Starting Monday, day 685 of the New World, by eating food citizens will no longer receive 1 XP. Instead, they'll receive 2 XP by "training," hence the total amount of received XP remains the same.
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[Citizens Insiders] 500 days of eRepublik
Dear citizens,
We would like to talk a bit more about our citizen-written Insiders project, and to clarify some aspects. Most of our citizens liked the idea, and many of them expressed their desire to participate. On the other hand, we have received many e-mails containing links to articles having nothing to do with the proposed subject.
As we have stated before, you have to write about specific topics, which are publicly announced. We would like to promote original and good articles of our talented journalists, so please focus on the proposed themes, don't send us links to various random articles.
Below we have a nice article condensing a 500 days experience of eRepublik world, about learned lessons, friendships,enemies, and real-life influences, written by citizen atilaa. You can find his newspaper here
“Three times during these 500 days I wanted to leave this game, but it was like something would miss in my real life. eRepublik is now part of my life. And I'm not regretful for that. You know why? Because..
I have learned a lot of things here in eRepublik, which are really useful in real life:
-I have learned how to be a politician;
-I have learned how to be calm when I'm angry;
-I have learned how to get angry;
-I have learned that friendships don't last forever;
-I have learned that being enemy with someone lasts less than being friend;
-I have seen many friends becoming enemies;
-I have seen many enemies becoming friends;
-I have found out what is the real meaning of double crossing;
-I have found out what is like to be honest;
-I have seen how profits are better than benefits;
-I have found out how profits are sacrificed for benefits.
And beside these..
eRepublik made me look after many things..
-When I wanted to make a new party, I went looking after some politics manuals, and it was really hard to find some good ones.
-While I was arguing with hasan1, I was really interested to see what real fascist are like, and also what their beliefs are.
-When I became president for the first time, I went looking after business terms, `cause I knew nothing about that. And also, I've realized that the English we have learned in university wasn't enough for at least saying some greetings, so I attended English classes.(still I don't know much :D)
Want to say more?Alright.
-When we've been to Norway to fight in the RW started by Romanians, my blood adrenalin was so high that I couldn't sleep for 2 days!!
-When we've lost the Northwest Territories battle, I broke the smoking record!!
-When I found a girl-friend here, I was very excited but after I found out that it was a GUY actually, I was more excited :D
-When I made a party which everyone hates, but still all of them are members of it, I was so proud of myself.
-When I saw that some old players are here to make me leave this game, I got more determined to stay :D
ANYWAY! I LOVE U EREPUBLIK AND I WOULDN'T TRADE YOU FOR ANYTHING ELSE!“
The topics for the next Insider which YOU might write, are: “How do you think eRepublik will be like five years from now? Use your imagination!” and "What does it mean to have success in eRepublik?" You can choose either one to write about.
The deadline is: until articles with these topics will get published in EI. Usually the deadline will be one week.
Maintenance announcement: Tomorrow, day 681 of the New World, servers will be taken offline for about two hours, starting 00:30 AM (eRepublik time) for scheduled maintenance.
Regards,
The eRepublik Team
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Promoting high quality journalism
Dear citizens,
Sometimes we like to see eRepublik as a giant living organism, glued together by many many individuals having their own unique feelings and thoughts. But of course sharing feelings with their friends and nation. And indeed, the New World grows, it's in constant activity, sometimes it gets sick, later it gets better, sometimes is sleepy, other time is full of energy. The economy module feeds citizen's pocket and quality of life, the war module feeds the heart and pride, and the media module feeds the brain and joy of life.
If not the most important, the media module is at least one of the most important aspects of the game. Some even say that if you don't “exist” in media, you don't exist at all. Media module is the fertile ground to plant ideas and thoughts, to spread beliefs and to battle or debate countless happenings and subjects of the New World. And most importantly, the media module is a precious fuel for the social interactions of citizens, beside forum and chats.
Since the creation of eRepublik there have been published 271.428 articles in 675 days. Now, that's a big number! This shows how much our citizens enjoy writing articles. We are seeing many really talented writers, which are able to move masses, to make citizens laugh, to make them feel sad, even to start or stop wars! A good journalist adds value both to his nation and to eRepublik as a whole.
This is exactly what we are intending to do: promote talented journalists, by publishing some nice articles a couple of times per month in the eRepublik Insider. Of course, an article must be really good and interesting in order to get published in EI. There are some requests that need to be checked before your article could possibly get chosen:
- your article must be written in English and must not exceed 2500 characters;
- it must be related to eRepublik world and events;
- no propaganda or personal feelings concerning a group/country/alliance expressed;
- it must be really interesting;
- you will find the proposed themes in the last paragraph of some Insiders;
- Only articles debating the proposed subject for that week are eligible.
So, would like to have your article published integrally in the biggest newspaper of eRepublik? Would you like to have your ideas spread to thousands of citizens? If “yes,” get your fingers on the keyboard and do a good job! We would be happy to share it with everybody, because we consider the high quality journalism something that definitely deserves to be promoted. Please send us your articles which you consider to fulfill the requests posted above at the e-mail address insiders@erepublik.com.And keep your eyes on the Insider, you may see your article posted there someday! Also, link to your profile and your newspaper, which may help you a lot achieving the media mogul medal for example.
Announcement: we would like to announce that nine new countries are able to buy Gold through the SMS payment method. These countries are: Denmark, Estonia, Israel, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Norway, Poland, Russia and Switzerland. If you encounter any problem using this service, please send us a ticket through the Contact Page.
And here we go: the theme for the first citizen-written Insider is "Real friends I met because of eRepublik."
Regards,
The eRepublik Team
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