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Interesting articles around the world (UPDATED)
Dear citizens,
Today we are going to take the “What's going on in eRepublik journey.” By surfing through media we find out that there is a massive Fortis/Eden counter-attack on the move right now. Everybody is talking about the California-Ontario-Asturias battles. Three opened fronts in three big regions, three simultaneously epic-battles. Of course, other resistance wars or subsequent battles have been opened in order to split damage away from the important battles.
In this article Desertfalcon is analyzing the war events that occurred in The New World in general, and in North America more specific. This citizen is a true living American historian, his newspaper keeping track of almost all the events that took place since the beginning of the Third World War. Of course, today the battle for California is the most important thing for Americans, but the author notices that USA is winning their regions back. Not long ago USA consisted of only two regions, but today they have 18,halfway towards conquering back their homelands.
In Canada, President Jacobi is trying to encourage his fellow citizens here , stating that this is the big day, the day of revenge, the day to win back their capital-region, Ontario. True it is, the 112.200 points wall needs some braveness, against the explosive-growing France, in a 1v1 battle.
The third big battle is the resistance war started in Asturias, again against France. Spain is trying to get their vital high iron region back, and it seems determined to do so. It's clear that France is going to have a hard time against both Canadians and Spaniards, given the fact that they are not helped by MPPs, but neither Spain nor Canada are.
This official French article seems to put Asturias on the very top of priorities, asking the defense of Asturias at all costs. It's easy to understand why, Asturias` iron is vital for Spain.
California,Ontario and Asturias battles are keeping citizens connected to the New World. It's indeed a massive counter-attack against Peace, and we will see in the following hours how the battles will end. For sure, we'll face some great fights and battalions parades toward the final hours, like usually.
Speaking of wars, we have an important announcement to make: starting day 652 of the New World, Presidents will be able to retreat from battles only in the first six hours since the battles beginning. The “retreat” button will be inaccessible after the six hours period has ended.
Regards,
The eRepublik Team
UPDATE:
Maintenance announcement:
eRepublik servers will be inaccessible in day 652 starting 03.00 AM, for about 30 minutes, due to some maintenance work.
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Phishing attempts
Dear citizens,
We would like to warn you about several phishing attempts that have been taking place, which have not necessarily been a widespread problem, but have still nonetheless fooled some of our citizens. And it's always better to be safe than sorry.The mechanism of the phishing attempts is very simple: somebody promises GOLD, or other benefits and all you have to do is to either install a “wonder software” or use an external site where you are asked to enter your eRepublik user name and password. Of course, not only will you not receive anything, but immediately your money and items will be “drained.” Such software, some of them promoted on YouTube and other international sites, asks you for your eRepublik user-name and password and then lets you choose how much Gold you would like to receive. 10? 1000? 10.000 GOLD? Just type it in. Pretty tempting, but instead of a thousand GOLD, you'll loose everything that you worked hard to obtain.
It's all about your password. Please don't choose a weak and easy to guess password. An easy password can be figured out without even using an elaborate program or complicated methods. Keep in mind that eRepublik admins will never ask for your password, so please don't share it with strangers promising you all sorts of goodies. If an eRepublik “admin” asks for your account password, for “verification” or other excuses, report that citizen immediately. And never, never type your password in places other than the erepublik.com. There have been, and we are sure there will be, sites that appear as though they are eRepublik, so be careful when you follow different links. Web pages that promise GOLD, items, etc, are all just ways to get your password and hence everything that you posses.
Private messages like “dude, I found a site where you can get 1000 GOLD in a minute, here's the link” should be reported immediately. And of course, don't follow the link, if you care about your stuff. Also, rumors that X citizen has a cool software that only asks for your password and will make you rich, should be reported in order to stop the spread of the phishing attempt.
You must be careful when you use a shared computer. Be sure that your password is not remembered, and don't forget to log out, especially if other eRepublik citizens use the same computer. There are some ways to retrieve a typed password when there is physical access to a computer, but this falls under your responsibility: make sure your account login details are safe. If you share your password with somebody, or enter it in any place other than www.erepublik.com, it would be entirely your fault for the lost goods.
So, take care of your account and don't let yourself get hoaxed by the “easy money” promises.
Regards,
The eRepublik Team
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200 EI articles
Dear citizens,
We have just celebrated the “200,000 citizens” milestone, but another one has been achieved: this one is the 200th eRepublik Insider article! Two hundred articles published in 645 days - that is one article every three days, for almost two years! And we will keep doing so, because the purpose of the eRepublik Insider is to keep citizens informed about the progress made, future plans, events that happen in eRepublik, and all sorts of other important subjects.
The first article published in eRepublik was this one announcing the very birth of the New World. A shy start, this first article of EI initially received only five comments :). Well, since then other citizens have become interested in reading that first article ever published by admin, hence we have seen many more comments added, such as “Greetings from the future," or even requests to stop "disturbing" the article. Almost religious feelings for this article, but we can understand why.
We move forward several Insiders and reach this one, announcing the first elections held in eRepublik. Also citizens are told that in eRepublik they can choose their leaders by voting. Within weeks of the Beta launch date, the eRepublik world population reached 1000 citizens and this Insider covers the story.
This Insider announced the creation of the first eRepublik National Bank and also the introduction of the gifts industry. We take a jump over time, and a few months later this Insider announced the introduction of "Organizations" and their rules (actually, back then Organization accounts were identical to citizens). Next, eRepublik received its first war module, which was announced here. After another jump we reach the beginning of the summer of 2008, when everyone was working hard for the upcoming version of eRepublik, code-named "V1."This Insider is one of the series, announcing the raw materials which were to appear in the V1.
Exactly 12 months ago, the first public screen shot of the V1 version was released - this article received 505 votes and 226 comments. That's more like it! It was clear that everybody was waiting for V1. The next Insiders explained one by one the main concepts and features of V1, which finally was released on October 14 2008. Back then, there were 35.000 citizens in the New World. On 20th November 2008 we celebrated one year since the birth of eRepublik
Finally we approach more recent times. In the first days of January 2009, the eRepublik team expressed their plans for the first half of 2009. We can see that most of the list is now complete.
Seven months ago the trivia system, which was introduced along with V1, was removed as its removal was highly requested by community. Still, "5/5 supershot" brings back memories to many of our citizens, we are sure :)
You wonder when the "headless chicken" arrived in eRepublik? :D This 6 month old Insider tells you the story.
Four months ago our programmers priority became the citizenship module, at the request of community, and here a brainstorming session is proposed. We approached the end of our journey with the announcement of Spanish Version implementation, three months ago. Starting in June until today, another 25 Insiders have been published, covering various themes like citizen ads, the ticketing system, the new eRepublik map, citizenship, the Third World War and various “record-breakers battles.”
These are just a small fraction of the total articles published by admin. But we can see that by zooming through them we actually sail through the entire eRepublik history, from the beginning until now. This is the Insider's purpose - to keep citizens informed about what's going on in eRepublik. We hope that we are achieving our goal.
Regards,
The eRepublik Team
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eRepublik reaches 200,000 alive citizens
Dear citizens,
There is some news around the world that is worth mentioning, like the fact that two months after the burst of the third World War, PEACE's victorious march seems to have reached a halt point: after being wiped out, Canada slowly recovered most of its regions through Resistance Wars; in Europe, Russia didn't succeed in conquering Finland`s Nord Norge region. Neither Hungary nor Serbia succeeded in the attempt of conquering Central Croatia. Greece defeated Turkey several times during this period. Spain has probably deliberately chosen to be wiped out in order to “get rid” of all those MPPs helping France. Now Spain is doing the same thing as Canada, recovering its regions one after another through resistance wars, and is also declaring war against France. After a long time, the USA is the one pushing the “attack” button, trying to recover one of their regions from Portugal.
A series of victories for Eden/Fortis lately, some of them smaller but good for morale, others very important. All these could announce a more stable balancing of power distribution.
But at least for today, we should forget about the wars, battlefields, guns, strategies, marching soldiers, screams and suffering. Today we should celebrate, all of us, like brothers, no matter the nationality! What is there to celebrate? Well, if we look back over the past two to three months and count the improvements added to eRepublik, we could find some reasons, but the true reason for celebration is that eRepublik has reached 200.000 citizens! One fifth of a million alive citizens, no Organization or dead citizens counted here. A big number that is!
Of course, the eRepublik team is very proud of this achievement. This is the result of two years of hard work, passion and dedication to this project, which aims to offer you, our citizens, a fun time and lots of new friendships. We could not have turned eRepublik into such an interesting game without the help of our citizens, whom we thank. Both the “pillars” who are more than 1 and a half years old and can remember eRepublik having only 3-4000 players, as well as the newer citizens who remember the V1 launch of eRepublik having some 30,000 citizens. Since then, eRepublik has grown ever larger, month after month, now reaching over 200,000 citizens. What a journey, we would say!
When our dear Plato (the historical one) was born, Athens was at the height of its power, and in those times excluding slaves there were some 190,000 citizens. We have more citizens than Plato had townsmen!
In order to celebrate this day, we are proposing you three contests in the forum, and three on Twitter, with questions about eRepublik. The contest will start today (day 643), in the forum at 04:30, 06 and 08 AM, and on Twitter at 04:30, 06 and 12 AM. To participate on Twitter, you need an account in order to follow eRepublik and see the questions. Also, you should answer this way: “@erepublik your_answer.”
Of course, there will be some winners (for example, the funniest eRepublik related story), and the winners will receive some prizes! Good luck!
Updates:
-our first lucky winners from the Twitter contest are Ryo E , pepsiMIN and alby. More will follow !
Regards,
The eRepublik Team read more
The new eRepublik map
Dear citizens,
About a month ago we promised you that pretty soon eRepublik would receive its deserved and much needed professional map. A map to mirror rapid changes that occur in the New World. A map to show you how big your empire is, or what enemies surround the region you live in. A map to show you the richest regions of eRepublik, as well as the most populated ones. A map to develop military strategies as well as a map for managers searching productive regions. A map for everybody!
Well, there we have it, like we have promised! The new map is live (can reach it by clicking Info-World Map) showing you The New World like you have never seen it before. Filtering tools are located in the upper part of the map.
In the far upper left zone we have the zooming tool, which you can use to zoom in order to see more details. For example, when the zoom level is 0, you can see the complete map, with all countries. After a certain level of zooming, the regions constituting countries appear. Once your zooming level is high enough that you can see regions not just countries, additional info is available by just clicking a region: name of the region, country currently owning the region, population of the region, resources available in the region, and constructions (hospital, defense system) built in region. Some of the information is updated virtually in real-time, while other info, such as population number, has a small delay. But the delay for the update is no longer than 24 hours, at most.
Near the zooming tool we have a mini map, which you can use to navigate faster than point-click-drag across the entire regular map. You may hide this mini map, if you wish.
Next we have country selection tool. Here you can quickly navigate to a specific country. By selecting any country from the drop down list, the map automatically moves and centers on the selected country. Also, having choose a particular country will add two more filters: its active MPP`s and trading embargoes.
Next we have set of filters which offers us a range of information. By choosing “Political Map” we see the normal map, showing countries and regions. By choosing “Population” we see the distribution of population across the New World, that is, the densities. The filter “Active Battles” highlights the regions having an active battle in the moment of selection. Next, we have the "Resources" filter, which shows the Iron, Oil, Wood, Diamonds and Grain distribution across the New World. And finally, we have the "Constructions" filter, which can highlight what kind of hospital or defense system are built, what quality and in which region.
The last filter is the date selection. You might be interested how the world looked a week ago, or a month ago, etc. Nothing simpler, just select the desired date, and you'll see the world configuration as it was back then. This “tracking” of history started today, with the implementation of the new map.
One thing that should be taken into consideration: at least at high level of zooming, when there are lots of information on the screen, you need a fairly good computer to manipulate the map fluently. Older generation computers might have problems dragging the map for example, on such high levels of zoom.
We would like to emphasize that the new eRepublik map is in its beta phase, so changes/improvements might occur.
Another changes you may have noticed are on the graphical side: our team redesigned most of the icons seen in eRepublik.
Concerning the Party President Election, we are working on it and will fix it soon.Tomorrow at most we will solve this issue.
The Spanish version of eRepublik has been updated and we encourage native Spanish citizen to use it. Any issues concerning the translation should be reported using the Feedback department.
Regards,
The eRepublik Team
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