An interview with LucasFTM

Day 2,792, 12:37 • Published in South Korea Lithuania • by mindebuc

Hello. My nick is mindebuc and I'm a Minister of Culture of Lithuania. Well, this time I'm writing not for the MoC but simply for myself and my country. Today I made an interview with LucasFTM which was a CP at least 4 times in Switzerland and I decided to share it with you. The same interview will show up in other countries, which were in Root.

- Hello Lucas

- Hello

- I see, that you’re playing eRepublik for nearly 2 years. How did you find this game?

- Yeah, my new account have almost 2 years old, however played before with another account and so have 3 years. I was looking in google for geopolitics game and then found erepublik.

- That’s really cool. So, three years ago you joined the game. How did it look like then and compare with the version of the game of these days.

- At the beginning it was amazing once always wanted to play a game like that. Nowadays game strategy is too much dependent of gold and so the game is losing its essence and not bringing fun for most people once all you need to do in a war is have a huge amount of money to win it. In the past you needed to do much strategy for time coordination, distribution of supplies (which is almost not needed today because the CO). In resume game became too easy for the gold players and eventually too boring.

- Well yes, many players says, that the game became a little more boring. Ok, in which country did you start to play this game? Which country did you choose as the starting one?

- I started in Switzerland in april 2012.

- Why did you choose Switzerland? Why not for example Brazil?

- I had in my mind that Brazil would be a big country and could be more funny and easier to play in a small country. It seems I guessed right 😛

- I think, that you also became a president in Switzerland.

- Yes, I was Swiss President once with my former account and three times with my new account.

- And you were the head of the Root alliance.

- Yes, I was official Root Secretary General three times, but even when didn’t assume the position was there to help the other SGs lead the alliance.

- How hard is to coordinate an alliance of small but mighty countries?

- It requests much effort. I honestly believe that may be harder to coordinate an alliance with 6 small countries like Root than an alliance with 6 strong countries for example. Small countries are always fighting against bigger countries and it demands from us most efficient strategies and coordination once any wrong step can injure a small country for months, different of a big country which have many resources and budget to make many movements.

- You also been a MoFA in Lithuania. Of course, before that you’ve got an citizenship of Lithuania. Why did you choose Lithuania? And how you became a MoFA in Lithuania?

- I never had relations with any Lithuanian till talk to Lithuanian governments at Root meetings. Eventually needed to meet the people and the MUs and really liked the Lithuanian people. When you lead an alliance need to know the real life history of your members to have good relationship with their people and so started to learn about Lithuania and fell in love for the country which made me choose Lithuania as my next country. Dimention invited me to be Lithuanian MoFA in January 2015 due to my diplomacy skills in the alliance, I’m very thankful to him for this opportunity.

- Before the end of the interview, I would like to ask you: What do you think about every country which were in Root alliance?


- Root members are amazing countries who knows how to work together. They built a strong brotherhood that lasts till today in many countries. Root got leadership problems in beginning of this year, and even with more than 1 month without a SG (March), Estonia, Georgia, Switzerland, Korea and Slovakia stayed in the alliance with a hope to change. They are great, countries which you can trust and count on them for help. Lithuania and Belarus left the alliance in March after noticing it couldn’t work anymore, but everyone understood their choice to leave, it’s ok. The important is that the time we lasted together under a single alliance flag we had fun, we fought together and we won’t forget the relationship we built there.