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No Fridays without updates
Dear citizens,
We have several announcements to do, but first of all: congratulations to all the winners of Presidential elections. A complete list of the new Presidents of the New World can be found here. We wish all of them good luck and tons of wisdom while leading their nations.
Now, about the alliances, which has been one of the main subjects lately: as some of you know, the alliances cost increased. In order to smooth the war mechanism we need to adjust one more rule, about the activated alliances. On the other hand, we know that for many of our citizens, in particular new ones, all these things about alliances, activated alliances, price and implications, are a bit confusing. For them we will try to explain things in a not to technical manner.
By signing an alliance countries are installing with each other an alarm system, just like a real life bank has. Of course, this alarm system costs some money monthly. By paying the tax every month, the buyer is making sure that in case somebody would try to smash the door in the middle of the night, its properties would be protected. Not by the alarm system itself, but by a bunch of strong security guards that would rush within a minute or two to the bank. We say that the alarm (alliance) got activated, and the blood thirsty guards are the activated alliance. After they've done their job, normally the muscle boys should return to their headquarters, and if they were be paid furthermore, they'd keep watching the monitors for the alarm system, ready to rush in again.
This is in real-life (or perhaps a movie we saw yesterday). But in eRepublik, once activated the alliance remains this way. And the muscle boys, instead of returning home, bring some beds and sleep in front of the bank. Moreover, they are willing to travel all over the world in order to solve any kind of disputes. Moreover, even if they weren't paid anymore, they would keep doing so forever, until the bank would disappear.
We think all of you agree that this second scenario it's not OK. If an alliance is activated today, there is no reason for it to remain activated indefinitely, no matter what. The logical solution is that an activated alliance, (which offers you the defensive and offensive manpower of your ally, in any battle which implies you as the main actor, anywhere in the world) should remain active only as long as that alliance is renewed. That is, if in an enemy attacks you and activates ten alliances, you will have the support of all your allies, just like before. But if the next day six alliances expire and are not renewed, you will be left with just the other four active allies. The rest of your six allies disappear from all your active wars. To go further in time, if several months later you decide to sign again an alliance with one of your former active ally, that alliance would not turn active by default (because it used to be so sometime in the past). It would be just an alarm system, waiting to get activated. If an alliance expires right in the middle of a battle, it will disappear from the alliances war list, but not from the battle. It will remain active until the battle ends.The new rule will be implemented next week.
Another topic is about something which was misinterpreted by some of your citizens, due to an incomplete information provided by us: several months ago the “six hours retreat” rule was implemented. This rule stated that Presidents are able to retreat from the battlefields only in the first six hours from the battle beginning. The incomplete information is that only the attacking Presidents are constrained by this rule. The defender is allowed to retreat from the battlefield anytime he wants, after all it is his regions which he leaves in the hands of attackers. We won't go again into the details of why the attacker should not be allowed to retreat (and attack again) anytime he wants. But this rule has no reason to be applied to defenders as well.
The last topic is about the new incentivized offers (beta), available in the “Gold and Extras” section. Essentially, for the "free offers" (that are clearly labeled as such) this is all about earning some GOLD, by spending some time, sharing your opinions, personal info or joining a website you may like. There are also paying offers from advertisers such as Netflix for example (online DVD rentals service in the USA) that promote a service that you might be interested in. In this case you will get eRepublik gold (sponsored by the advertiser) in return for becoming a subscriber to their service either on a payment basis or on a trial basis.
We have asked our offer providers to only promote the best offers on eRepublik but you should still check each offer conditions carefully as these are provided by a third party service (the offer provider), not by eRepublik. Based upon your real-life location, you may receive offers from advertisers interested only in targetting people who live in your country. Also, some countries may not have any offers available at all or no free offers, this is something that we do not control since the offer providers and advertisers decide in wich countries they want to make offers available. Still we will try to add more offer providers in the future to expand the coverage.
Also each offer is limited in number, for example, a specific offer might be limited to 100 people- which means that only 100 of you might have the chance to take it. As soon as that number is reached, the offer disappears from the eRepublik site. So, sometimes you may see some offers listed and at others they might not be available anymore. It's a “first come, first served” situation, so make sure you check that section often. Please remember that these offers are provided by a third party service, not by eRepublik. Good luck to everybody in earning GOLD, we hope that some of those offers will be of interest to you and don't forget to read carefully the FAQ.
Regards,
The eRepublik Team
We have several announcements to do, but first of all: congratulations to all the winners of Presidential elections. A complete list of the new Presidents of the New World can be found here. We wish all of them good luck and tons of wisdom while leading their nations.
Now, about the alliances, which has been one of the main subjects lately: as some of you know, the alliances cost increased. In order to smooth the war mechanism we need to adjust one more rule, about the activated alliances. On the other hand, we know that for many of our citizens, in particular new ones, all these things about alliances, activated alliances, price and implications, are a bit confusing. For them we will try to explain things in a not to technical manner.
By signing an alliance countries are installing with each other an alarm system, just like a real life bank has. Of course, this alarm system costs some money monthly. By paying the tax every month, the buyer is making sure that in case somebody would try to smash the door in the middle of the night, its properties would be protected. Not by the alarm system itself, but by a bunch of strong security guards that would rush within a minute or two to the bank. We say that the alarm (alliance) got activated, and the blood thirsty guards are the activated alliance. After they've done their job, normally the muscle boys should return to their headquarters, and if they were be paid furthermore, they'd keep watching the monitors for the alarm system, ready to rush in again.
This is in real-life (or perhaps a movie we saw yesterday). But in eRepublik, once activated the alliance remains this way. And the muscle boys, instead of returning home, bring some beds and sleep in front of the bank. Moreover, they are willing to travel all over the world in order to solve any kind of disputes. Moreover, even if they weren't paid anymore, they would keep doing so forever, until the bank would disappear.
We think all of you agree that this second scenario it's not OK. If an alliance is activated today, there is no reason for it to remain activated indefinitely, no matter what. The logical solution is that an activated alliance, (which offers you the defensive and offensive manpower of your ally, in any battle which implies you as the main actor, anywhere in the world) should remain active only as long as that alliance is renewed. That is, if in an enemy attacks you and activates ten alliances, you will have the support of all your allies, just like before. But if the next day six alliances expire and are not renewed, you will be left with just the other four active allies. The rest of your six allies disappear from all your active wars. To go further in time, if several months later you decide to sign again an alliance with one of your former active ally, that alliance would not turn active by default (because it used to be so sometime in the past). It would be just an alarm system, waiting to get activated. If an alliance expires right in the middle of a battle, it will disappear from the alliances war list, but not from the battle. It will remain active until the battle ends.The new rule will be implemented next week.
Another topic is about something which was misinterpreted by some of your citizens, due to an incomplete information provided by us: several months ago the “six hours retreat” rule was implemented. This rule stated that Presidents are able to retreat from the battlefields only in the first six hours from the battle beginning. The incomplete information is that only the attacking Presidents are constrained by this rule. The defender is allowed to retreat from the battlefield anytime he wants, after all it is his regions which he leaves in the hands of attackers. We won't go again into the details of why the attacker should not be allowed to retreat (and attack again) anytime he wants. But this rule has no reason to be applied to defenders as well.
The last topic is about the new incentivized offers (beta), available in the “Gold and Extras” section. Essentially, for the "free offers" (that are clearly labeled as such) this is all about earning some GOLD, by spending some time, sharing your opinions, personal info or joining a website you may like. There are also paying offers from advertisers such as Netflix for example (online DVD rentals service in the USA) that promote a service that you might be interested in. In this case you will get eRepublik gold (sponsored by the advertiser) in return for becoming a subscriber to their service either on a payment basis or on a trial basis.
We have asked our offer providers to only promote the best offers on eRepublik but you should still check each offer conditions carefully as these are provided by a third party service (the offer provider), not by eRepublik. Based upon your real-life location, you may receive offers from advertisers interested only in targetting people who live in your country. Also, some countries may not have any offers available at all or no free offers, this is something that we do not control since the offer providers and advertisers decide in wich countries they want to make offers available. Still we will try to add more offer providers in the future to expand the coverage.
Also each offer is limited in number, for example, a specific offer might be limited to 100 people- which means that only 100 of you might have the chance to take it. As soon as that number is reached, the offer disappears from the eRepublik site. So, sometimes you may see some offers listed and at others they might not be available anymore. It's a “first come, first served” situation, so make sure you check that section often. Please remember that these offers are provided by a third party service, not by eRepublik. Good luck to everybody in earning GOLD, we hope that some of those offers will be of interest to you and don't forget to read carefully the FAQ.
Regards,
The eRepublik Team
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Awesome
voted
interesting
Awesome
great!
que chuli no?
Hey ho, let's go!
vote
Nice!
Get it!
good for serbia, turkey and hungary, other nations = screwed m why didnt you reapay them in some way ?
You'll ruin the game with free gold. Only RL rich countries like USA, Germany and Spain are interesting for advertisers, and citizens of those countries will get a lot more of free gold.
Just you keep changing that war module
fRIDAYS FTW... I got nothing better than to sit around at a friday night and watch eReps news. Still, new allieance rules dont effect me at all, still only a bit when i get lvl 5
semms interesting
Sigh. I think its a bad move :S
Goodbye war-games. \o
omg my comment is gone? Who will pay me for my time, it took 5 mins to write it!
\o/
"You'll ruin the game with free gold. Only RL rich countries like USA, Germany and Spain are interesting for advertisers, and citizens of those countries will get a lot more of free gold."
+1
Hell yeah, way the go admins
NANANANNANANANANNANANNANANANANANAN What will now Croats do?They need to pay minimum 500-600 gold for their Alliances to be safe from us Attack us while you still have those MPP's activated
voteeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Good changes
"Good luck to everybody in earning GOLD"
Well its not really earning now is it?
cring cring !
Good article.
Vote!
I'm about done with this game.
Admins gone crazyy..... !!!! almost killed smaller nations.
voted
nice nice nice
vote
Great job admins. Vote
great job admins. thanx.
Hail PEACE!
Nice updates.
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"Users in different countries may see different offers presented to them. Some offers are for US residents only" - ofcourse I did'nt find any offer for me, in Serbia ...
This is favorizing US citizens !!! Make some balance ...
Cek cek, niste valjda i vi gledali juce film sa Brus Vilisom kada onaj Nemac ili sta li je pljacka banku u sred Nju Jorka )))))
The new MPP rule could be a death warrant for this game,starting from the smaller countries :-<
Yet you claim this is a FREE game!
But thanks for the effort
Howerver, please find a way for us living in "poor" countries to earn some free gold )))
it was about time!
very bad move... only helping the big countries.. shame..
worst change ever made to alliances
Economically speaking, I totally understand admin's decision about the gold-for-service implementation - it brings you RL money. But I totally agree with foksa. Imagine an offer of this kind in Iran, BiH, Serbia etc. This might tip the scale EDENwards a bit.
those updates make no sense
ريدي
Voted!!!!!
Add eAlgeria plox.
how convenient... BAD ADMINS, BAD!!!!!
"providers and advertisers decide in witch countries they want to make offers available." Witch?? WITCH??? WITCH??? IT'S WHICH FFS :@
Nice
ahh was on my org
1. ATLANTIS activates MPPs, which continue indefinitely
2. PEACE uses said MPP's to take down Spain, Canada, USA.
3. USA and anti-PEACE nations now are able to repeat action #2
4. Admin change the rules, screwing USA and anti-PEACE.
Hmm....
I just had a look at that list, and it isn't 'free' by any stretch of the imagination. As only suckers are going to be biting, I doubt that it will have much effect on the game.
I find your lack of faith in admins disturbing!
Alright. That explains the recent insane attacks (are you sure someone didn't leak this information beforehand?).
Please write that rule in comprehensive form since I really couldn't understand what you were trying to say. I'd appreciate an *exact* set of rules for the change *without* any chance left for interpretation so the retreat issue won't resurface again due to bad wording (and also that you're left with zero room to change the rules because the code doesn't work like it was suppose to).
What I could gather is that the system works as follows:
- Active MPPs have to be renewed before they expire in order for them to remain active in war/wars.
- Only the MPP expiration date matters, not when the MPP is activated so an attack 23 hours before the expiration of an MPP will lead to that MPP becoming inactive after the initial battle unless it was re-proposed an hour or more earlier.
- MPP that has expired will cease to apply in any and all wars it was previously part of, and it cannot be made active by signing the MPP again at later point.
Is that anywhere close to what you tried to say?
I´m disappointed.
I like it.
Wargames are screwed anyway...
jeeze admins way to make MPPs too damn expensive
These rules changes are going to give a massive advantage to large countries. Small countries will not be able to pay for a sufficient amount of MPPs to protect themselves.
I predict that we will see the formation of larger empires, mostly made up of small countries, in this future.
The Gold and Extras feature coulnd't be more low rent. Why bother creating a profitable company if you can earn 20 gold just by subscribing to Netflix?
This is great! All world will be in war.
"Economically speaking, I totally understand admin's decision about the gold-for-service implementation - it brings you RL money. But I totally agree with foksa. Imagine an offer of this kind in Iran, BiH, Serbia etc. This might tip the scale EDENwards a bit."
dont count on it. all the "free" offers are total rip offs
this is ti! finally reason to stop playing this game, this is your worst decision ever!
From my understanding of the economics in the game, I have my doubts that it will lead to much, if any, increase in RL revenue. Players buy gold, not states, and states acquire gold on the monetary market using the proceeds of taxation and seigniorage. Unless the MPP rule gets players to buy more gold (I don't believe so), the effect will probably be a reduction in tanking and in MPPs (less tanking by a small fraction for the large countries, and fewer MPPs by a large fraction for the small ones).
If states raise their taxes to try to make up for their increased needs, it could very well reduce gold purchases (I'm guessing that buying gold to start or upgrade companies is a major use of bought gold).
BOOO!!! STill hate new alliance prices...
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First they double alliance prices now they make those expensive alliances temporary. Does this remind anyone of the frog in the boiling water story?
We Want Free Hot Dogs !!!!
Big trouble for Kroasans.
Good!Supporting
Ah Admins, you never fail to make me start remembering why I quit this terrible, terrible game in the first place.
I LIKE YOUR STYLE.
Maybe the scenario with the alliances is not ok, but considering the cost of signing alliances and starting wars, it's also not ok to reduce their usability.
Excellent news! Good job admins!
I think this is a good decision, no more age old activated MPPs, countries will have to pick alliances carefully, there will be no more invincible 20MPP walls, game will become more dynamic...
Why do you keep changin war module every other day? PEACE activates tons of MPPs -> Activated MPPs don't stay activated anymore. You are evil!
PEACE propaganda! xD
i like this. bye bye wargames. i didn't like the wargames. I love real battles
Jolius attack Turkey when you still have the chance
I am calling shenanigans on the admins.
tl;dr
- Game creators CAN listen public opinion, also they can chose that they wont listen public opinion it is their choice... They will have satisfied customers, or they will not have satisfied customers...
- They are owners and creators of this game.
- Personally I do not have problems with that policy. But I have problems with time line of starting new constraints, rules.
You should to consider prolongation big enough for community. Time is to SHORT.
this decision will kill a game. it sucks. it really sucks. it's not fair for the smaller countries.
did i mention that this decision sucks!!!!
Erepublik is getting more and more creepy everyday.
What do you mean by "some of your citizens"? Did you mean "Our citizens?"
What's the deal with the advertisers? Are you guys going to sell ads on Erepublik?
It must be the recesion...
High region for ePoland!
eSerbia and eHungary will crush you ALL
Do the admins even consult with the players before things are implemented?
smaller countries will probably be...., actually there will be no smaller countries with this decision, only if few of them join in one big country they have a chance to survive...
zzz admins bad idea.
peace countrys kept there mpp's active for like 6+ months untill they were ready to invade usa/eden.
now that usa/eden are getting the upper hand and are able to use the mpp's peace activated, your just gunna deactivate them.
i dont mind the idea, but your timeing is horrable.
Great correction about MPP.
Now let's think about that new war module that you mentioned earlier.
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In a couple of months, there will be a total of ten countries in the entire world. As a consequence, the userbase will drop massively because people will stop playing, and the entire game will crumble to pieces. Good job.
RIP small countries. RIP erepublik. Great job admins!
worth idea ever Admins
you are braking your own game
new alliance sucks, no vote
Few days ago EDEN was happy with decision of 100 golds per MPP and now they dont like new idea...
I dont have problem with this idea only thing that worries me are War games.
Anyway just leave military section of game like it is right now
nice
"I am calling shenanigans on the admins" -Gaius Julius
I soooo second that, SHENANIGANS!
Or in more modern Terms BULL****!!
No 100 gold per Alliance! No new rule on MPPs!
You have f***ed us over WAY to many times.
Respectfully, F*** Off.