America the Destroyer

Day 3,082, 06:47 Published in USA USA by Israel Stevens



America the Destroyer

We’re boned.

Like, super boned.

The admins announced some changes that they are planning to the game. Some of these changes harken back to the earlier versions of this game.

A version where Poland had 50,000 citizens. Where actual thousands of citizens voted in our elections, not just a few hundred. A version that was a sandbox, and had infinite more potential.

And if they somehow manage to pull this off without messing it up?

Oh my good god, we’re in trouble.




You see, the problem is that the most active portion of our community exists solely to protect their own legacy or mini-empire. They’re here to settle old political scores. To block people from doing something new. They aren’t here to build anything new. Or to work together to improve our country. They’re not builders, they’re destroyers.

We’ve always been divided, and that’s fine. The mil guys like to roleplay as soldiers and win battles and medals. The political class likes the arguing part of the game. Arguing over laws and budgets and whatever else. There’s like 1 business guy out there trying to make money (looking at you Pearlswine). And Gnil and I like to write stuff.
Point is, everyone has their own part of the game that they like to focus on. And it’s always been like that. Again, that’s not the problem.

The problem is that the people at the highest levels of both the military and political side of things, aren’t here to build anything anymore.
You look at Congress, and a new person will ask about the tax policy and get a vitriol filled response from Kemal or someone else.
You look at the Military Units, and the commanders that have been entrenched there for years. Who would sacrifice anything for their military unit, but not the country as a whole.

They’re both part of the problem.

I get it, we figured out how to ‘win’ the game a long time ago. But the kid that joined the game 6 months ago, and only now got involved with politics, doesn’t know that.
Congressmen say things like ‘we have this discussion every month. Maybe read the library before you post.’
The Congressional Library is 87 pages long. And that’s just the list of threads. Never mind how long the various threads are. It is a ridiculous notion that new players should read that, or even know what to look for.
But instead of answering their question, or explaining our tax policy in a few lines, people get talked down to.

They’re here not to solve problems, but to beat their chests and say ‘I told you so.’.

The military side of things isn’t any better. I haven’t been a part of a MU for years because I got tired of seeing the same people in charge of the same MUs for years. They would slowly insulate themselves in their echo chamber of sycophants, until they believed their own hype. Anyone that challenged their position was derided and bullied until they threw up their hands and quit (politicians do this too).


People aren’t here to build. They’re here to point to their own successes and accomplishments. They just want to say ”I figured this out years ago. Why haven’t you?” To them, the game isn’t eRepublik. It’s eUS Congress or eMilitary Simulator.




So let’s circle back to why we’re boned (protip: we’re super boned).

If the admins manage to return this game to what it once was. Or even make it better than it is now, we’re going to be stuck with a ruling class that is burnt out. A ruling class that doesn’t want to make change, that only wants to settle half-decade long scores.

What are we going to do if we start to get actual new players joining the country? What’s going to happen when they run into the buzz saw of Congress? Or find that they can’t advance beyond a mid level officer, because the top is so clogged?

If you think we’re divided now, just wait until there is an entire tier of hungary, ambitious new players. Less than a year old. But already chomping at the bit to become Congressmen and President. Or lead a Military Unit. Or take charge of our Foreign Affairs.

Will we be builders? Or destroyers?