When Will eAustralia Take a Risk?
Day 2,202, 18:48
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by Mr Crumpets
Good Afternoon eAustralia,
We are soon about to face an invasion from eChile and most likely eIndonesia.
In any other country there would be heaps of articles, a call to arms, and even a baiting of the opposition... but not here in eAustralia.
Why, as a newbie you might? Because as a nation we are conditioned to expect it and automatically go into back foot mode.
The inevitable invasion comes, we get wiped and then spend weeks figuring out how to RW our way out of it, or look for a NAP deal.
It's something that's happened to us countless amounts of times over the last 5 years.
A definition of insanity is to do the same thing over and over again and expect a different result.
I read that some are hopeful we will get a babyboom out of the invasion... that same hope has been found to be false EVERY SINGLE TIME.
Of all my 5 years of playing this game (on and off many times), the only time we got a babyboom was WHEN WE TOOK A RISK.
This was around November 2009 - Early 2010.
The liberation of WA by Australian and EDEN forces saw an end of an 18 month occupation. Soon after we were attacked by eBrazil, and after a week or so of invasion, we booted them from our land.
Now, instead of the usual conservative play we seen over the last 4 years, we did something bold... we chased Brazil into South Africa and attacked them.
It was the first time eAustralia had tried anything like that. It was going so well, it dragged eArgentina into the fight and we had some ripping battles.
During this time, eAustralia was at it's most active in the way of players, parties and newspaper articles. There was plenty to do and heaps to talk about.
The only thing that brought it all undone was admin taking their eye off the ball. The 'bugged battle of WA', which wrongly gave the win to eIndonesia, which was followed by the multies attack on our country, while admin was introducing eRepublik version 2 simply killed the spirit and activity. A lot of players quit the game and all our good work was brought undone.
As mentioned at the top of the article, there is nothing inspiring eAustralians to write articles, get involved and pick up that eGun.
We are playing this conservative approach to what... protect out budget... to save money to defend against our next butt whipping... or after we saving $$$ for the butt whipping after that one?
FOR FIVE YEARS I've seen us play the same approach. Look at it from the eyes of our enemy... we're an easy target, not just because of our low numbers, but because we do the same old tactics over again and again and again.
RINSE AND REPEAT.
When the mention of an Airstrike came up in senate, I thought as an eAustralia, "Boy, that sounds like FUN"
FUN
FUN
FUN!
Ask yourself... when was the last time you saw something in this game that made you think, WOW, this looks like FUN!
I think for too many who have played this game, they have taken it a bit too seriously and forgotten the most basic thing of all... WE ARE PLAYING A GAME.
That's why our babyboom's fail... we are conservative and give a negative response to most new ideas... that kills any interest of new players.
Other countries succeed not just on number, but they take a RISK, because they know the game is meant to be FUN!
So to those senators who talked down the Airstrike proposal...
"Who cares if it fails, let's learn what we can do with this and have some FUN!".
MrCrumpets
*Reminding everyone that we are playing a game and games are meant to be fun*
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an Airstrike is one thing but being fiscally conservative for no reason other than to save for a rainy day (then on that rainy day to refuse to dish out money) is stupid
we dont even need an AS, we have plenty borders and fun we can have in our own neighbourhood, afterall we live in one of the most active military wise areas in the game
Indeed. I haven't been paying too much attention to what's happening in eSouth Africa currently, but I always thought to be an interesting option to attack through.
possibly, if we can find a way to get through in agreement with South Africa
i think the best option we have now is the option of beating chile back and fighting them throughout South America
South Africa is a little different these days. We stand a real chance of them kicking our arses. Challenge sounds good after we put down Chile for violating the Argentine NAP 😉
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I vote that we attack Chile. 😃
I cannot see the point? What extra fun will we get?
Chile are in the process of declaring us us their natural enemy (vote 29/2 in favour 11.5 hrs to go), we should do the same to them. But why rush to attack them when we are going to be attacked. Queensland will be the target so if we win that battle, then we can take the battle to Chile through Chimor.
We will get all the fun we can handle by tomorrow Mr Crumpets
unfortunately, chile are that gutless that they will rw Chimor so we cannot go through there
Chile? New Australia!
Can we not use this knowledge against eChile. I would assume that eChile has several enemies and knowing that they have chosen eAus as their next target and subsequently voting us as their natural enemy this allows other countries that are enemies of eChile to set eChile as their natural enemy and attack them. I understand it wouldn't be very beneficial to the enemy of eChile, but I am one to believe that multiple small nations that talk and strategize well should be able to keep a large enemy like eChile at bay or at least from totally conquering all regions. In response we could help if they are in time of need, next time around.
Yes, we are very conservative, but I don't think it has anything to do with saving money. we've been spending more than we earn for a long time now whether we're at peace, at war, or conquered. I don't think I saw anyone arguing that we shouldn't go ahead with an AS because it would cost too much. I think it is more to do with trying to survive - as you say it is a game and at the moment our definition of 'win' is 'don't lose'. We rarely have an opportunity to do anything other than defend ourselves or resist an invasion. We didn't have to wait long for another opportunity to come along now did we 😉.
You seem to think we choose to be constantly under invasion and fighting to survive. It is not our choice, we live in a bad neighbourhood. We have to be tough, play smart, and fight above our weight to survive. We can't afford to play the game by chasing butterflies through a minefield.
I do agree though that we don't use the opportunities we have well enough to develop a sense of national unity and purpose that helps recruitment and retention of new citizens.
I think it is a tad unfair to blame some of the loss of population and baby boom just on this.
Look, from my prior experience, we did lose a lot of aussies to the changes erep made. eAus thrived under the economic module as the people who joined had other things to do than just fighting battles all the time, particularly where, even when we have a decent population of 600 or so, we couldn't keep up with our countries be they multies or other.
So many people on my friends list are dead since 2009 - and most of them played not for the war module, but the economics one. Here, it also helped people because the people in economics didn't feel like they had to always buy gold to keep up with the joneses, like it is now.
Not that I disagree largely with your post, MC. But find babyboom here really is a buzz word, and, unless there is such a jump that Aus can cold it's own in a world stage context (or at least feel it is a major contributor to an alliance, opposed to always absolutely NEEDING one to bail it out) I don't think a babyboom is truly an achievable thing for us, unless we come up with other outlets outside of the war module to make it fun.
I suspect in part this contributes to the role playing of some of the older peeps here. as it is largely all we have that is not self-defeating.
Again, this is not a criticism, I largely agree with your post. But an observation over time from experience.
RB
Meh, lets liven things up and kick some ass.
Poor donkeys.
Easy solution.... do not let them win a single territory, stupid to wait till we lost all, get in and kick their asses all the way back to the Americas and wipe them, they are weak as piss, easy meat, lets hang them out to dry. They are devoid of any tactic but looking for the weakest spot they can find, kill 'em, obliterate...... insert other cool words here >>>> ..............
Best article I have read.