Really Plato?
Day 2,576, 06:22
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by Hotelier
The problem with the new update
As some of you may know as you logged in this morning, there have been a couple of recent changes with the economy system in Erepublik. No longer shall you receive gold for earning TP, M or FF medals. Instead you will earn 1000cc. While the Erepublik labs claim that this is a method if fixing the economy and helping new players, I personally believe that it is a mechanism to increase the flow of products and increase the value of gold.
Giving players currency instead of gold would make the player more likely to spend it. Gold is somewhat of a rarity, and when people have it, they tend to hold on to it. This will ultimately flood the market with currency. Given the reduced supply of gold (yes, I am bringing in the laws of supply and demand), but still a similar demand, this will cause gold prices to jump exponentially. Already, in the last couple of hours since the update we have seen a 25% jump in price from just around 200cc to 240cc. The prices will ultimately continue to rise.
I also predict that the flow of Q7 weapons will go up, as the price jumps between Q5, Q6 and Q7 weapons reflect their actual demand. Already Q7 weapons prices have increased by just around 1.20cc. While this is good for those who get paid in tanks, not everybody does. I don't believe that the demand for Q1-Q6 weapons will go up, but with this extra influx of currency, I don't see their prices going up anytime soon either.
And so, I shall end this article with my conclusions about the latest update. The goalds (haha sorry) of Erepublik labs are most definitely not to help lower level players, nor are they to fix the economy.
I believe that they are to reduce the ability of non-gold buyers to earn gold normally. A non-gold buyer could average at about 17 gold earned per month** (**Provided all earned currency is put towards gaining gold, see calculations at end of article*
😉on HW and SS medals alone. In the end, the ploy here is to force players to put their hard earned real life money towards buying gold packs instead of waiting it out. In conclusion, I'd like to ask a question; in a game where activity is already dying, must we really make the game even more unattractive?
Hard worker medal = 5 gold every 30 days (.16 gold per day)
Super Soldier medal (w\ Q2 training centre) = 5 gold every 22 days (.23 gold per day)
Salary (43cc) @200 CAD per gold = 1 gold every 5 days (.2 gold per day)
TOTAL = .59 gold per day
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briefly said, the game sucks even more now. Plato is a ****. Nothing new.
Essentially, yes. But the fun resides in telling exactly how he sucks.
"I'd like to ask a question; in a game where activity is already dying, must we really make the game even more unattractive?"
Quoted for truth.
Plato doesn't know which handle to pull next.
Starting Day 2,610 (12th of January), Freedom Fighter, Mercenary and True Patriot medals will award you 1,000 Currency (instead of the current value of 5 Gold).
It says nothing of other medals such as Hard Worker or Super Soldier...
FF had 30-40% profitability.
Both HW and SS are long-term, too slow to earn anything
Too slow if you're talking in terms of 1-2 years. Before FF, I relied on HW and SS to afford my TG upgrades and Q7 weapon factory upgrades.
I win 3.5 golds weekly from the SS medal.
oh I'm glad that it didn't affect Super Soldier. Super Soldier has a massive effect on the economy because it requires gold to train extra. The training medals are also linked to training tickets. It would be a massive gold sink to take out 53 gold and then give that 45 gold in cc. That would totally unstabilize the market.
You're right, I changed the article after my splurge of rage against plato dissipated a bit.
If the change impacted Hard Worker or Super Soldier medals, I believe they would have killed their game in one day. All good will the player had for eRepublik Labs is long since gone. They need to get the focus off their profit margins and start adding new real value to the game before they milk it again.
If you improve on customer service and offer a good game with quality play, then success will take care of itself
And if you don't, you get eRep.
Admin does not recognize customer service or satisfaction. They only understand manipulation and marketing tricks. Power Spin is an extreme example. They take it away so people think it is a big deal when it shows up for a couple of days. Have you ever heard of a 500 gold winner? How much did they spend to get 500 gold?
Well it seems like initial gold increase was just filled with hype. Normal people can only buy 10 gold per day. The massive price increase was caused by orgs buying up gold and since the order book was empty price just shot up. Price is 211 right now.
There's the buying bot, but other than that there's not really a lot of currency dumping.
Currently the currency has been created by the governments who print it. With this change it just means that less money will be printed.
I won a bunch of money from the first missions I completed. I'm pretty sure that this money comes from the game itself and is not created by the player governments, so that means at least some currency is being added into the pool whether or not any printing is going on. Probably not enough to affect gold prices very much but still some nonetheless.
buen análisis de los nuevos cambios que va a introducir plato al juego.
Gracias
Mucho gusto
It is simply an attempt to get people to buy the overproduction of 'stuff' created by Work as Manager. When admin made things 'fair' by reducing the cost of Q1 factories and companies to 10g from 20g it was easier to buy them. When they introduced WaM it allowed people to use factories and companies without workers. Soon the markets were flooded with cheap products and wages crashed. The economy stopped because no one had money to buy even cheap products. Then the buy bots showed up. That helped a lot. Then several of us former corporate owners, the guys that figured out how to get eRich, learned how to play the buy bots. So then Plato removed them. It was at this point I gave up and just started buying gold to get what I wanted. This was exactly what admins wanted me to do, they manipulated me. If I didn't feel it was worth some RL cash to do stuff with friends here I'd have left years ago.
Skip forward to today. The first glaring thing I notice is that gold is not the reference to currency any more, cc is the reference for gold. So players are presented with rewards that easily by overproduction of good while deprived of gold that would upgrade Training Grounds which would generate more gold. Yes, I know, you can still by the gold with your cc reward but c'mon, what n00b is gonna fool with the Money Market?
Face it, their trying to fix their broken shit but do it in a way that makes it even harder to play without buying gold. There is no such thing as a "free browser game" any more just as there is no free cup of coffee at the local diner.
Although you do get free when they are trying a new product and want to drum up support.