Do you see the Problem?

Day 1,826, 18:30 • Published in USA USA • by Commius

I don’t write much. In fact, I have been almost silent for a few months, but I must speak to not just this nation but all nations that play this game. I look around in disgust of what used to be an awesome game. I wonder, do they notice? Do they notice how bad this game has become and how many people they have lost?

The amount of damage a player can putout has been climbing and climbing with no end in sight. Yet, the only ones who benefit from it are high end players. What of the new players? How do they catch up? Some would say they can catch up by buying gold and training in full. But, if high end players also have the ability to do that then the younger players will never catch up assuming they would invest lots of money in a game they just started playing.

Do you see the problem?

To win a battle hero in division 4 the average amount climbs every day and the younger players are not keeping up. Now, I know I am keeping up but that’s no fun unless the young can actually feel motivated to continue playing because they feel like they can contribute to their nation in battles.

Do you see the problem?

The game is dying because the game’s mechanics are disillusioning many players who were maybe not the strongest players, but definitely were the soul of the game. Between the ever higher damage required to be an effective soldier and the costs associated with keeping up with the damage inflation along with the terribly unpopular new election system; the game is dying at a quicker pace (it was dying slowly before).

The election system has taken out the coordination of elections, the personal responsibility of an individual candidate, and allows little room for new members to enter congress because the older members are entrenched in the party leadership that chooses new congressmen. It’s wrong and gross.

I have lost good friends who are barely making an effort to log on these days because of these two issues alone among many more problems.

The leadership of eRepublik have made very little effort to reach out to the player community to get their feel for their updates and the players’ ideas on how to improve the game’s performance. There used to be a forum for this. Then it was shut down and never came back. That was a huge symbol of how the leadership of eRepublik feels about its players. A huge smack across the face.

Do you see the problem?

I recall still the major complaint the moderators on those old forums used to have about players’ rants. All they did was rant and offer no solutions. So, I offer some solutions:

A) Return the election system to the previous system, there was nothing really wrong with it that justified a total reconfiguration of it.

B. First, compress all players’ strength amounts into a vastly smaller amount like what happened in the V2 to Rising transition thus rewarding players’ with higher strengths with a little (but significant) higher in this new strength system. Give new players a certain amount of time of extra strength above the amount received by older players so they can catch up.

This is just a small example of what can happen if you reach out to the player community. This is the frustration we feel when we think about the game we once loved. But, it doesn't really matter unless the powers that be see the problem. So, I pose the question:

Do you see the problem?