[ZS] Time to bring peace to our bovine foe

Day 2,194, 00:40 • Published in Pakistan Serbia • by Dio Maximus


Disclaimer:
A fair warning before you start reading this article, it's going to be a long one. There is a whole bunch of things I wanted to write in the last couple of weeks, but unfortunately (as usual) I couldn't find enough time to properly focus on writing them. Therefore those articles will be bundled in this one and I'll try my best to make it readable and properly formatted. English is not my native language, so there will be mistakes, my sincere appologies for that, I'm trying my best here.



We won back Vento Aureo. I'd like to congratulate and thank everyone who contributed to this fair and noble cause. Nyx Lynx also won the country presidency and that is also a considerable feat, congratz on that too. However, the greatest achievment of this month wasn't the ATO of VA, and it wasn't the presidency of Nyx Lynx, although for now, she's kickin' a** and doing a really good job, instead the greatest feat we achieved was something I haven't seen for a while in Pakistan and that was complete and sincere unity of all of our political parties. I must say that I am extremely happy that DPP, PTI, PRF and literally everyone came together and put the betterment of Pakistan in front of their own political interests and agendas. This is quite a feat, it shows how strong can we be when we put our differences aside and work as a cohesive and determined team. I'm proud of you all. You have shown great sense of responsibility for Pakistan.

We've also got an influx of new faces from around the world, both Dioists and non-dioists who have proven their loyalty to Pakistan. There we're few others as well but they are not worthy of any mention, and basically that is sorted out for the time being.

On the other hand the wigs have changed the game once again. They haven't done it particularly because of Pakistan, as they done on one ocassion in history (more about this below) but because of some TWO countries (Serbia, Poland) and China who have been holding a quite large ammount of regions (and countries) under occupation for quite some time. This unfortunately created problems for us as well, because we're holding Malaysia and Philipines ourselves. As you have seen yesterday we lost a ressistance war agaisnt Malaysia due to the newly implemented determination multiplier. The above mentioned countries are in deeper crap as they've been holding their resources for much longer then we did, and the multiplier thingy got seriously bigger.




I've also noticed a fellow Dioist Drumble starting a project called The International Institute of Dioist Teaching, essentially he's trying to bring Dioism closer to anyone willing to learn more about it. A quite noble cause at these precarious times, as most Dioists are silent and the general community isn't interested in anything more then the admin created borders between players like gold, strenght, military ranks and similar things.

I'm willing to contribute to his educational efforts, but I do not deem myself worthy to retell the concepts of Dioism to you, my dear readers. Instead I will give you the words of a true Dioist prophet and one of the last ones still around - dishmcds.

"To understand Dioism, you have to understand what Dioism brought to this game when it was created.

Way back when, before most of you were born, there lived a man named Dio, which came from /v/. He created the Sand, the World, and Pakistan. Pakistan was, at one point, the most powerful and active nation in this game, achieving beyond what any normal country could because it was about group thinking and achievement, rather than singular train of thought. No one cared about "ZOMG taxes" or "LOLUK", because Dioism was above that. It was about /v/akistan, plain and simple. They worked, lived, and breathed one voice. It was about cooperation amongst themselves, yet a noted dislike for all things considered "trendy".

For instance, when the Admins implemented new rules, Dioism went out of its way to improve the game by working around it. They invented the Gift Bomb, they invented Communes (and Communism by extension). They made the game fun because they chose to play the game the way it was intended, creating everything they could to operate.

They were the first country to mobile a full 300 soldiers out of an active population of around 700. Think about that. Half their active population could mobilise and do damage in one day. That, to this day, is still a percentage that not many could muster, and even now at the populations of Serbia, the US, etc, they'd still have a hard time getting that many to one fight in a coordinated manner. They designed most of the things you still use in basic form.

Dio was the head of this, recruiting and implementing them along with his friends. He is, and shall always be known as the God-Emperor of Erepublik not because he had a player account, but because it was with him that this world was created.

Over time, some of the processes and functions that were performed were changed, but the theories remain the same. Work together, stop caring about personal achievements, work for the greater good.

All the Dioist haters out there will tell you he's some made up god. He is not some made up God. They claim to work for the very same things he created in this game, and yet still tell you how it's wrong to believe in him. Imagine that, those who would tell you not to believe in Dio telling you they want those things. The reason they tell you not to believe is that they do not hold those values dear, they merely want to live in their own world, with their own cushy benefits, and working together as Dio preaches would remove any and all association with personality, and implement true equality. That's why people detract from Dio. They don't want equality, they want their own little slice of the pie.

Dio advocates Erepublik the way it should be, not the way the Admin enforces it. He stands in Solidarity with anyone who does or doesn't believe in him, because he's fair in knowing that it merely takes a while to come around to realise his ways are the only way to truly win this game.

The only way to win is by beating the Admins themselves.

Once upon a time, Dio Brando, the God Emperor of Dioism was President of Pakistan. I quote to you the following conversation, which totally happene😛

Dio: Alt, Falc, I can totally declare war. I'm going to bring peace to those dirty Swedes.
Altnabla: DO IT
Dio: SMBTCH, it costs 5,000 Gold to declare war.
Dio: I hereby declare all money earned in Pakistan in Gold donated to myself, we will start this war.

You see, at this point, 5,000 Gold was nearly impossible to gain. You could not buy gold. The only gold you could generate was through businesses or referrals. For almost a month, every believer donated their money to Dio. They worked for minimum wage, receiving only enough food to survive. The war module hadn't been tried yet, and Dio was determined to bring his enemies before their maker (him).

They made 5,000 Gold in less than a month, without buying it. Without earning medals. All the fruity benefits you guys receive today were not available then. Think about that achievement for just a moment.

Dio, in all his wisdom and might, went to declare war. The Admins went "LOLUCRAZY", and disabled the feature. You see, Dio did what the Admins weren't even ready for, so they had to dastardly remove it so Pakistan could not destroy Sweden. This was before even MPPs were an active feature."

Message Sent from the wigs to Dio Brando in response to the event (this is legit):

"Hello Dio Brando,

Thanks a lot for all the involvement and feedback that your community offers to Erepublik. Even if you gave us in the last week some sleepless nights (honestly!) we really think that the project is developing much faster because of the issues that you've raised (server load, debugging, gameplay, etc).

We've meant to create Erepublik more as a political and economical version of the real world so we haven't focused a lot on the military module. In fact the military module that is now hidden (fights, conquering land, etc) is not even finished yet. Plus that we can't launch it without proper testing (we already have problems with modules already launched that have bugs and are stressing our citizens).

We hope that by March we will launch the Military.

Anyway, at this moment, there would be no country standing in front of Pakistan. Would be too easy for you and when it's too easy is not fun.

I believe that we've made a mistake not being open on this issue but, to be honest, we have never thought that a community can organize so well online and gather 5000 gold in a matter of a week.

Thanks a lot for all the involvement and feedback that your community offers to Erepublik. Even if you gave us in the last week some sleepless nights (honestly!) we really think that the project is developing much faster because of the issues that you've raised (server load, debugging, gameplay, etc).

All the best,
The Erepublik Team"

*Dish's text was taken from the US wiki and from the eUSA forums.