Confusions about the interview with Plato

Day 1,628, 14:59 • Published in Sweden Pakistan • by Kevin Bartholomew

Good Day comrades,
Most of you have probably read this aricle. Some statements are unclear in my opinion. This is my own thoughts. This article was meant to be posted yesterday, however I lost my wallet in real life and had to search for it. Yes, I found it!
“I have the same mission: to try to keep eRepublik as close as possible to its original values.”
What is the original values? Tell me. We might have different values.

“We’re getting almost 1,000 tickets per day “
Is that something to be proud of? I’d say no. Erepublik has about 50 000 active players. At least 1000 are unsatisfied in one way. I think the high number clearly shows that something is not right. If the tickets are about game mechanics or something else I don’t know. But the number is high. 2% is a lot.

“eRepublik is really not about gold but about having fun, the gold is created only if you want to have more fun right in this very moment and not later.”
Are you high? I mean you no harm, but hey, the whole game is about gold. You need 280 gold to own all Q3 training grounds and then at least 500 gold in companies - just to gain 3.47 gold to train in all grounds. Don’t forget that that people are spending hundreds of golds in battles. I don’t have fun when one player can buy 3000 gold and fight alone against a whole country.

“Since the military module is the ones that involves the higher number of citizens, it’s normal from our side to try to bring him in a final form”
We don’t have an economic module or a political module so of course the military module involves most citizens. There would be much more people enjoying the economic module if it was more complex and offered us a challenge. The same goes with the political module. What can a congressman do? Vote once a day and nothing more.

“About future intentions I can share with you that we’ll come up soon with a survey and we’ll add a link where we’ll publish releases about current or future changes.”
I like this. But the future is not a time measurement. The future is tomorrow. The future is next year. I hope that you’ll add this survey as soon as possible. And what’s stopping you from publish future changes today? I’d love to hear about at least one future change in a week. That would make us, the players, have something to look forward to and talk and discuss about.

“For this we have weapons industry and food industry”
We don’t have a weapon or food industry. We have a Q6 weapon industry and a Q5 food industry. No one buys something else. I remember when I started to play. Fighting with weapons was considered as luxury. Even Q1 weapons was a luxury. Now Q6 weapons is not even considered as luxury.
Plato, I know that you are against articles like this. But remember that you are the only one who can stop us from posting critical articles. The first step is to listen and the second step is to take action. If you choose to listen before you take action is up to you.

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