The Story of the Swiss Community (Please join the Discord!)
Joseph Rich
Ladies and Gentlemen,
eRepublik for a lot of us is the first online community we ever joined. My conclusion drawn from discussions over the years with hundreds of different players is that they found this game during their teen years and continued to play it as they aged. It's certainly true for me.
This article is part of a push I'd like to see from members of the Swiss community. A push to make our official discord sever active and to see more new people as well as our friends join!
As we've aged, our community has taken to methods outside of eRepublik to communicate and organise, especially in the early days when it was the only method of doing things in secret! First it was IRC which, sadly, seems to have died along with the majority of the older Swiss community.
Last night I rejoined our old IRC channel, #eSwitzerland, which was empty. The channel title still contained battle orders from Day 1,890, which evidently was the last time it was used. I remember many late nights with Rican, Monsieur Guillotine and Uros95 on that channel, as well as different interactions with many members of our community.
As those who were around at the time would remember, IRC was famous for such secrets as the "Graub-und-Run" plan which was devised by previous President (& Swiss Great). After months of Slovenian occupation, Walen organised an airstrike into Canada that would eventually save the nation for several months.
I also distinctly remember the French war when we won Alsace and Lorraine back in 2014. The organisation for this battle all took place over IRC, with then Minister of Defence Felllix and Rican distributing supplies and coordinating damage.
Upon returning to the game though, it seems these outside means of communication are all but lost.
Our beloved forums also became lost. It was here where Switzerland started to foster a growing community. The forums enabled us to be ourselves outside of the game - facades came down and friendships were made.
These outside community aspects of eRepublik were what made the game so amazing for me, so where are they now? Well, we do have a discord but it seems that no one knows about it or seems to care.
It's important that we foster a strong community in this game, as it will always be our friends that come to help us, not our enemies. I think it is imperative for every Swiss citizen to join our Discord and partake in the community!
If you're Swiss, or a friend of eSwitzerland, make sure you join the discord!
All Hail Switzerland!
Yours Sincerely,
Joseph Rich.
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I don't know how many sleepless nights I have spent on IRC. A period of my life I cherish dearly. I would love for everyone to be active on Discord and have a good time like in the good old days.
Miss #eSwitzerland
thanks for the memories.
we were certainly involved back then.
Chris is currently in charge of our Discord channel and I'm sure he would love to share the responsibilities with you.
I'll let him know.
Hugs
C+V+E
~hyuu~
Mary how are you and Rylde kickin?
He's been e-retired for a while, but checks in every now and then.
I'm still kicking, trying to get in some fights here and there, esp since rylde was disappointed to see I two clicked for most of his leave.
Sad story, big vote.
an excellent article about old and new moments of glory from the e-swiss community!
i still remember our old, epic wars VS e-slovenia, when they always tried to wipe our country away, and that we kept fighting back...
or the 2014-2015 invasion of the e-romanian MU ''nemesis'', when they tried to take over our regions for e-romania, and when that failed and we fought back, they did a massive PTO attack on all of our top parties and they took over everything, which resulted in rican, mungos, wallen, vincent, tim and me fighting in a long resistance war and rican doing a surprise twist: taking over e-switzerland as a ''dictator'' and thus liberating our nation from the e-romanian invaders, as, witht the new dictatorship module, whoever became the dictator could vote for any laws that they wanted, thus robbing the e-romanian invaders of ''nemesis'' of their political powers completely.
it was after that time that mungos formed the SDP, and that ricans legendary resistance party ''advance'' became a renewed resistance party of great renown, which later evolved more and more (into the TLP), all the while the remnants of a broken party eventually became the revived ''swiss freedom party'', aka the mighty SFP.
i could go on and on, but we have made many good friends during those old, old times...
as for the old forums, i agree, theye were great!
thats why i've added most of our old e-swiss forums on one of my historical articles here:
https://www.erepublik.com/en/article/swiss-news-bringing-old-swiss-orgs-links-back-to-life--2702505
also, information about the evil e-romanian MU ''nemesis'' here:
https://www.erepublik.com/en/military/military-unit/4859/overview
and our old wars VS e-slovenia here:
https://www.erepublik.com/en/article/switzerland-in-flames--2362067
and more informative articles about dangerous members of the e-community:
https://www.erepublik.com/en/article/swiss-news-impressyo-the-enemy-of-e-switzerland-read--2689691
anyway, you get the idea.
wow Chris.... that's a LOT of info ❗
i totally agree
lastly, i agree about us becoming more active in chat rooms and in forums, which i why i urge most people to join our official e-swiss discord chat!
at:
https://discord.gg/vJM758s
and we have 2 e-swiss chat groups in telegram too:
https://t.me/eswisschat
and
Switzerland official group
also, i have listed the old e-swiss forums in this article:
most of our old e-swiss forums are mentioned in one of my historical articles here:
https://www.erepublik.com/en/article/swiss-news-bringing-old-swiss-orgs-links-back-to-life--2702505
let me know if you need more things, people!
extra
telegram link :
https://t.me/joinchat/en7KVegjasBiNmFk
short version: i agree with you, my friend.
we need to keep our community active and happy.
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Hi Joseph, nice to meet you ... our paths in eRep have never crossed, I am eSwiss "only" since January 2018, but I was lucky enough to have this experience in a very active way, receiving satisfaction and gaining experience.
Ours is a small community with few really active players, many are tired and bored, the game from this point of view does not help being more and more boring, but we are all loyal and we all love our little country; we are made like this, we participate little in public life, we make the usual two or three decide on gaming policies or strategies, but we like to be there, even if only for a few minutes a day.
You know this better than me and it is right that you never lose the desire to stimulate others to make the game and the community more interesting ... so your warm appeal is welcome!