The most fun I've had in this game in a long time (Rant)
LordOther
The chorus of this is the best example of what I was feeling during the following story. Also the article later turns into a major rant.
I've been playing this game since around 2011 but with this "character" (I guess) since 2013, and I have never stuck with the game into the anniversary event. Mainly because November was also deep into the school schedule and so I had always got burnt out or distracted with other work that eRep really became an after thought. For example my first tenure in this game went from Jan '13 to Oct '13, then I think Aug '14 to maybe Oct again, and then again in Oct '16 and I doubt I stayed around for 2 weeks cause college and stuff. This time around I rejoined around Christmas since I was off, which in hindsight I probably would've come back anyway cause Covid. This is the longest continuous time I've been in eRep and it is just now nearing a year.
So, this is where the anniversary event comes in, I've never taken part in it and wanted to actually win it since everyone on here has the different skins, so it's a little challenge to give myself and shake things up. However, I'm dumb and focused more on the amazing journey event instead of focusing on reaching 80k prestige points. So yesterday I was able to get up to about 20-30k and thought that getting to 80 would be nothing. By the time I get home and have ate and everything I have like 7ish hours till day change and for the last week or so the epics have almost always started in the first 20 minutes of the battle so I'll have plenty of time to drop a lot of damage if I wait. It gets to about 1am (an hour before day change for me) and there have been no epics yet so I'm just like
So I just start dropping damage in a random air battle that is still early on that way I have plenty of time to gain prestige points, all the while I'm running the power spin on another monitor trying to gain more prestige booster things and energy bars. As I'm dropping all this damage I notice I'm basically stealing this guy's SH and know that he is dropping a bunch of damage to stay ahead.
So in my third monitor I'm quickly typing up a message to him just being like "yo I'll give you the gold so you don't need to drain damage there." Thankfully he understood but as I was sending that message I get an alert that an epic finally started, so I have to quickly stop my deployment so I can shift it to that. After only a little bit however I have only about 5 to 10 minutes left, 70k prestige, and very rapidly diminishing my energy bars, so now I've evolved into looking like this
Back to the original song I'm just having the chorus run over and over in my head cause there's no way I'm loading it up cause I don't want to risk messing with either my internet or toaster oven of a computer. So I sit there, every time the deploy finishes I reload the home screen and check if I got it and if not I spend a bit more gold on bars cause when I'm this close I don't care that I could actually invest those bars and instead want a new skin for my tank bruh, cause I totally won't get more gold. /s
And finally, with 3 minutes left I finally hit the magic number.
Now I get to do the whole thing over again, with no supplies for a new skin, for a plane, in a game, that may not exist in a few years. But this is still the most fun or excitement in a while, since I recently graduated in May this event was the closest thing to starting a 10 or 20 page paper the day of and turning it in 5 minutes before the midnight deadline.
Now the reason I'm writing this
This also leads me to another aspect of this game that seems to be stagnate and that is that there is no big sides. By that I mean there is CODE and Asteria, but there are also 5 other minor alliances which should give the view of multiple vying powers, but in reality 4 of the 5 are basically side alliances of Asteria. This helps me lead into my point and reference George Barkers recent article, where he goes over how a couple Indonesians switched sides years ago and help the US cause "You need two sides to make a game, a game." Instead of fighting for their country, where they would have most likely earned production or any other things (I have no memory of how the game worked back then), they fought for the US because it made the game more exciting. So in my opinion, while CODE has more members they are not really on the same level of Asteria, and as such makes the game quite boring and filled with TW's. I wish there was another EDEN vs. ONE, or CoT vs. TWO. Most people say since so few people play the game now compared to then, that it will never happen. But I believe that since people can drop such huge amounts of damage it should make up for smaller amounts of people, and still have a degree of chance and concern if two equally powered countries are fighting. I feel this doesn't matter unless major power alliances are broken up, but that would require people to look at eRepublik not as what is the best for me to earn more medals, but instead what would shake things up. Like Apollo vs. Hydra or Nebula vs. Pacifica, maybe even a split in CODE or Asteria, where half go with Romania and half go with Serbia or half go with Hungary and half go with Croatia and both sides just fight, as to have some difference in this game that's been effectively the same for a long while.
Now that my ramblings are done, and I was able to tell my little story while still addressing something I see in the game, I'm curious what other people think. Do you think I'm right or wrong, am I just blind and there's a huge war going on right now between equal sides. Does everything I said not matter because no one cares enough about the game to make a slight difference just because why not.
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First because why not
You definitely know way more about the intricacies of the game than I do. o>
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good luck with mission
19 to go.
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unlock mission with 10 gold
"So in my third monitor" - at this point, I was just thinking where do you hold your 17th monitor
Also there is no right or wrong here, things are the way they are
liked article very much, sub
Bruh you obviously put your 17th monitor in the hole you carved in your 16th monitor all while you live in your 15th monitor
This is a good article
I hope national leaders spare time to consume and digest what you've offered them here.
Best of luck reaching a goal this week!
Bruh they ain't gonna and everyone gonna stay in one super alliance and wonder why the game boring
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Nice article!
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Good article
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Thunderous rhythmic applause.
Congratz for your 3 minutes tank skin!
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Funny artical in this dump shit E-world
Well done! I personally gave up at 65k pp on Monday. 80k just wasn't reachable with my resources without dumping in RL monies - no thanks.
Great article,
I agree that it would be more fun. o7
That will be me this week
Excellent article
Haha nice, I never thought a battle in erepublik could be so engaging. Good fighting, interesting viewpoints at the end.
Looks like you joined the mastercard empire comrade. How many EBs did you have to use to get to 80k ?
Damn good article.
Eh im 62k points into Air plane skin but out of resources. Worth it to pop up my wallet?
Good article, thanks!
Lord nooooooooooooooooooo, come back!