Basics for New Players

Day 1,451, 17:28 Published in USA USA by Gnilraps


Department of Getting Started
Day 1,451 of the New World
10 November 2011


I want to focus your attention on the most basic essential pieces of information that will help the new player avoid mistakes and get the most out of their first week or two in this game. Most of this information is included here because I have answered questions regarding these particular issues multiple times over the last month and a half of running the Federalist ECademy, the new-player education arm of the Federalist Party.


Things to do daily:

Meals on Wheels
The fine people at the Department of Interior are dedicated to assisting active new players in advancing their Citizen to higher levels as easily as possible. This cannot be done without some food assistance. If you are below level 20, you should DEFINITELY do this every single day. Be sure to give the volunteers who do the distribution a solid 12 hours or so to get to your request. Here's the link: MEALS ON WHEELS. Your goal? Work and fight so much that you run out of food every single day.


Do first, then

Work your farms first, then work your food factory. Then train in the Training Grounds. Then return to your home screen and collect your daily Experience and Strength Bonus. Do this every day for 30 days to collect an additional 5 Gold bonus! Read This for Additional Information.



Read the News. This is my favorite Link in all of eRepublik. And please. If you like something you've read, vote for it and even Subscribe to the paper. The Subscriptions and Votes are what motivate most publishers to work so hard. (Now would be a great time to subscribe and vote for this paper! Just for practice of course... Scroll to the top. On the left is where you can "Vote" for this article, on the right is where you can "Subscribe" to this paper. Thanks. Now do that for any paper you like.) Oh. And also, there is a list of papers at the end of this article that I find particularly compelling. Check them all out.


Make "Friends". It has been said thousands of times. What makes this game worthwhile is the social dynamics. Here's why you need to send and accept friend requests. This game uses "Shouts" like facebook. Only your friends can see your shouts and you can only see shouts from your friends. So if you want to see what the President shouts, go to his PROFILE page, and click the little "Friend Request" icon. Now do this for everyone who has commented on this article in the comments below. These will all be active players and their shouts will be worth following. Make a few new friends every day.


a lot. At the early stage of your game, don't worry about spending money on weapons. Barehanded fighting is totally fine. The experience you gain for each fight click is more valuable than the rank points right now. In addition, while each barehanded fight click will cost you approximately $3 USD (worth of food), each fight click with a weapon will cost you about $9 USD and will NOT affect your experience points gain. Until you start producing weapons or receiving them from your Military Commune, consider them an extreme luxury item. Your USD will be spent on far more important things as soon as you can save them. So save your cash!




Smart Plays.


Join a Political Party early in life. Seriously. Drawing from my own experience, I can say that every new player that gets linked up with the Federalist Party is treated with utmost respect, is Mentored, is encouraged into leadership, receives assistance in all aspects of the game, and in the long run enjoys the game more than they would have if they had remained “solo”. But I don’t want to turn this into an ad for my Party. The smart play is to get involved one way or another in this aspect of the game. Trust me, unless you end up linked with one of the few weirdoes in this game (such as the one who refers to himself by the name of a fast-food Pizza chain) eRepublik Politics has nothing at all to do with real life politics. In eRepublik, the Political aspect is one great portal to fun.



Don’t be embarrassed about buying Gold. It is absolutely not necessary for fun or success. But it does buy you things in this game. If you decide to spend some real life cash, wait for a sale. Generally speaking, they will run a 30% bonus special once per month or so, meaning instead of getting 6 Gold for 4 bucks you get 7.8 Gold. There’s nothing so important you can’t wait a few weeks.



While we’re on the subject of sales, know this: also about once every month they will run a 50% discount on company upgrades. So instead of upgrading that Food factory for 20 Gold, it will only cost you 10 Gold if you just wait. Once again, it is TOTALLY worth waiting for. This also means that upgrading companies during a 50% off sale is less expensive than buying them from the “Companies for Sale” market.



Vote. You gain 5 Experience Points by voting. If you don’t know for whom to vote, ask someone you trust (once again, avoiding advice from anyone whose name sounds vaguely like a place you might eat a Pizza dinner). Also, don’t get too put off if someone asks you to move before voting. It’s just the way this game works… “states” are meaningless from the perspective of representative government. There are three elections each month. Country Presidents are elected on the 5th, Party Presidents on the 15th, and Congressmen on the 25th.




Register with an outside forum or two. The eUS Forum is great, actually, and you can keep abreast of what Congress is up to along with what everyone else is talking about (Plus if you dig around in the “Welcome” section for something called Bewbs4Newbs, you will have found yet another source for free food daily.) I am also partial to the Federalist Forum where you can find Educational articles, historical archives, information about current game events, and cool people.



smart. It is best, when fighting, to refill your health each time you kill an enemy. This way you will know how much health you have left to kill the next enemy. If you have less than 70 health remaining, you need to think hard about whether to start fighting the next enemy. If you are not sure you will be able to finish him off, don't even start because unless you kill him you will lose all those fight clicks. You only receive the experience and rank points if you kill the enemy. If you don't you've wasted your clicks. However, if you run out of clicks before an enemy is dead, you can wait for your health meter to reload (you get another 100 health to spend each hour) and finish him off then. For this reason it is wise to fight within the first 30 minutes of a minibattle so if you run into trouble your health will reset before the battle has ended. (Battles last at least 90 minutes).


Lastly, ignore people who tell you that this game sucks. A lot of people are just miserable in life and they look to spread their misery. To make matters worse, they don’t even take their own advice and quit this game. They just hang around bitching and complaining. Ignore them.




Check out these great links:

The White House Press Room for official news from the Oval Office
Battle Watcher to see where all the damage is being done
egov4you for all kinds of information
MaxiHellas for even more all kinds of information - probably more than you need right now
IRC web chat filled with real eRepublik Citizens from all over the world
eNPR a blog-talk-radio show which covers national issues.







16 Shells endorses:
The Book of Jude the undead hippie.
Voice of America
Non-dip-shit kooguys' kooguy's fire
Chae Dee Business
Meet the Press
The National Broadcast System
Department of Defense Orders
The WHPR
eNPR
The Treasure Map
Allied War Report
and getting your butt into a military unit.


You may now return to your regularly scheduled clicking