100,011.93 Time for a Strength Pack?
Misho
Hi,
Another milestone reached, almost as big as reaching 7.00 strength once was back in the days.
What new things have we seen since the "7 strength" days? Well a lot I would say but mainly there has been a shift from a game focusing on community, social interaction and a curiosity of how we - the players - should build a country together. To be a game much more focusing on the players account.
The countries have for some reason, been turned into some muddy thing in the back ground which few seem to care much about.
In today's eRepublik the country gives bonuses to the player account. The only benefit you give back are taxes. Before you could spot a rich eCountry, a well functioned eCountry by just looking at it. eSweden was rich and had Q4 hospitals in every core region. eSweden made trade agreements with eFinland and ePoland including donations of one very expensive Q4 hospital to each of these countries.
Later we had defense buildings, bunkers. A rich country built bunkers to help fend of aggressions.
Even before that we had gifts. A whole industry built around a very nice feature which meant that players constantly had to seek at least a minimum of interaction 'Hi buddy, can you gift me - I'll gift you back?'.
Gifts gave health, and any well functioned army had to make sure to have a good gift system and enough gifts to her soldiers. As I remember it this was a function which often attracted female players in eSweden. Call it the Florence Nightingale syndrome if you like but it did work - even in a web browser game.
My hopes for the future?
I hope we will see features focused on building eCountries and strengthen the community rather than feature strengthening the individual accounts. I am confident that is what most players also want. The skilled community builder can be so much stronger then any Strength Pack can buy and far beyond 100k+
Yours in Peace,
Misho
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pole 100k 🙂
Congratulations on entering the select club of 100k
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Back in the days where you started with 50% wellness and as a new player you had to choose if to train or to work to afford the daily bread .Gifts were for the rich because they required diamonds and I've played for some months before fighting (it was in Little Poland because Sweden had an agreement to release Polish regions ,yeah ..imagine that Poland needed an agreement with Sweden for the release of some regions).
Yes I remember that, Populos I think the name of the Polish president was and in Sweden we had Flammbar. Poland honoured the agreement and that was the beginning of years of great Polish-Swedish alliance.
I lead a Polish regiment in the first eWW when the eSwedish Army went to fight for Romania vs Hungary.
And yes, you could definetily not afford to fight every day..
I remember the Swedish paratroopers 🙂
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Congrats on the milestone!
PS. A great article with some excellent points!
Thanks!
Nice article.
ps. congratulations 🙂 I'll be in the club in 4 days, more or less 🙂
Gratulerar!
Sjukt starkt av dig att fortfarande tillhöra top5.
Its all thanks to your food, proWtein Q2 food! 😛
Nöjet är helt på min sida! 🙂
Grattis. 🙂
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Well the sad thing is this shift has turned players looking to buy resources instead of getting them from the state. This means the weak state gives the deveopers more income.
Yes, and the community, the feeling of building a state together, is what attracts players. If we are only here to pile gold on our own accounts and add pixel medals I guess its only the old farts that will stay, since we are 'over invested'. But why should new guys and gals stay around when no body really need them here..?
Well, Admin don't give a shit bc newguys don't pay enough. It is us overinvested old farts that pays their cars and houses.
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Mycket text... 🙂
Completely forgot this 'Hi buddy, can you gift me - I'll gift you back?'. It looks like it was ages ago. 🙂
Congrats on 100k. o7
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Took me back, almost 2 years ago, one of my articles 🙂
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/top-5-erepublik-busavg--2220643/1/20
Hehe, still the same guys, err accounts, in top 5. Not much action going on there..
Grattis! 🙂
I agree! Much of eRepublik is now focused on individual account as you said, and many people have left because now there is only work, train, and fight. There is little incentive to become involved any further, and many go day to day without the littlest of contact with others, military units and political parties included.
Many people have left due to the game structure simplification, but I have not given up yet in hopes that they bring back national pride, to allow people to think they are doing more for their country than just fighting a battle, but to allow less populous and active citizen nations to compete with people and resource rich nations.
Also, I remember when I started, people within my political parties and military units would assist those who asked and needed it, from resources to tutorials within game. I couldn't afford to buy thinks with real money back then, and it meant the world to me that kind and informative people would help new players like me to learn to enjoy it. The camaraderie and friendships created could last, even if the two were in enemy countries.
If I was a newcomer now, I don;t think that eRepublik would retain my interest, and would probably leave within the first few days.
Misho at the beach -> http://bit.ly/1mLKzpT