Irish Community
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by Lone Harry
Hello everyone , this article is different from all the other..This article may seem like a complain..My complain about the Irish Community!I am a member of this comminity for 3 months and a very active player(recently less active) . What bothers me is that there are many players in Ireland that double click only. Of course it's up to everyone to chose how much time he wants to spend but at my point of view there is nothing that our community offers so someone could spend more time in-game. It's not my purpose to make anyone lose his life in order to play this game , just if he/she wants to play the game , I would like to add another prospect to it. eRepublik has been a game with so little to do from each own (work and train , then fight) but we - the players - can make the game a lot more interesting.
Parties : We as Ireland have at the moment 9 parties! A huge number if you consider the active citizens of Ireland! At elections it appears that we have many voters (97.5 precisely if we calculate the latest President and Congress elections ) but those people activity lacks from the daily events. In 3 months playing this game I haven't seen a party writing an article about the upcoming (then ) elections whether it was congress or CP or PP . You may say that this is a waste of time as in such a small community everyone knows eachother - less or more- but it isn't like that exactly.More info later.
Military Units: There are not much to say here. The same kind of inactivity that exists in parties (there are exceptions) . The consequences of all will be presented later on , but as you can imagine Ireland as a country of the eWorld can not make steps to the military module.
Newspapers : My favorite module!As you know every since I started playing this game I was intrigued to create a newspaper. I did so and I am an active journalist.. The problem is that very few people do. Except my articles , MOD's and RTK's there are no more articles. I am sure that many of you have writing talent but you are afraid or hesitate to write an article... The sooner you realise that you are capable of writing just like everyone else who does it regurarely , the better for our community! If you are not talented in that , you will realise it. Also I am thinking of making a HOW TO NEWSPAPER article , in order to give you some advices and tricks , from my experience . I am not the best journalist in this game but I hopefully can help you.
The Consequences : The whole point of writing this article is to make clear what consequences the above have. First of all the gameplay for the eIrish becomes boring. That is our biggest problem. If someone is bored then the creativity and inspiration is gone. Second , we can't approach players who want to change their citizenship and meet - play in another country. We are a peaceful country but if there is nothing more interesting here, why should someone choose us? Only double clickers will do.
My Actions :
There is nothing you can change, if you don't change yourself first. I will keep writing articles as often as I can and I will run for president of the ILP . Also as a congressman I will be active in any congress related things. Now it's your turn to change!
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Sad fact about this game:
CrOmega is probably the most active MU in the eWorld.
yes its very inactive. truthfully military is nose diving pretty fast as well. and then we have these events that makes it more attractive for our own members to fight for other countries. terroristas and cromega is too close so i can see you losing some members to them perhaps all.
actually i placed my last article in the indian feed made about 150 iep vs 2 gold spend but ok who cares earlier articles has like 20 endorsements
Great article v+s from me. Also this investing 2 gold to publish an article in a different country is something I need to think about.
Activity in Erepublik is all about investment. If I invest more time, what would I receive in return? The bare minimum is as stated 2-clicking. In which, the return is little progress towards the 2-clicking medals: Hard Worker & Super Soldier. Like any other Facebook game you see. However, If say I run for Congress, and if the stars align and I get in, that puts more demand on my time investment. Of course there is a return on that investment: Interaction with the government message threads. But last I knew, those tended to be of 1 Star (and sometimes less) quality: or as such, a poor return on time invested. Now, I'm not saying that's the norm around these parts, but tends be a cycle. Maybe next month, I'll remember to run for Congress, things might change by then.
Good point mate!You provide a clear side of your view. What if you try to invest few of your gameplay time , in order to create a better investment? By that I mean , like get more in-game friends(interactions) or write an article non eRepublik related or a guide for anything. That might have an unexpected outcome. Don't think with possibilities always (i used to do so) , cause sometimes there are more variables in the equation 🙂
Oh, don't get me wrong, I have invested loads of time in previous eras of this fine little piece of cyberspace we call eIreland. We used to have an active forum with and IRC channel. And when I say active, I mean ppl were there constantly, or on a regular basis. Granted this was literally years ago. idk why, but non-ingame interaction has fallen dramatically from what it once was. The real time action communication that the forums and IRC provided was a great return on the time invested. Just ask some of the dinosaurs like me. 😉
my vote.
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