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Dear eCzech citizens,


First of all I'd like to apoligize in advance, but this article is extremly long. I hope you will read it tohugh, this will define the next term. I would like to detail this resource wars event by the informations we got from the admins. Mainly because I became one of the next presidental candidate for the next term (btw I didn't know this event will last for the whole term), so the next president will have such a big responsibility.

I copy-paste the original version and add some own comments, but the main points for me are foundable at the end. Sorry for my poor English.





Resource Wars: reallocation of the resources. This is the 2nd time in the history of eRepublik, but this time admins introduced many changes which - in my honest opinion - is gonna be good for this flattened game. Moreover, new additional resources will appear as well. Let's see step by step.


New Resources and Changes in Productivity

The 5 new resources are: Wolfram, Titanium, Cobalt, Magnesium, Neodymium.
The addition of the new resources will impact the distribution of current resources as in the following table:



Each type of resource will have a different impact on the productivity bonuses based on their scarcity:



So it means the old productivity system is gone (20%/resource), this new one is much more complex.


After the event ends, the Company owners will have to establish their Companies in the Regions of their choice in order to benefit from the new bonuses.





Claiming Resources

The President or Dictator in charge can claim a resource for one of his Country’s original Regions using Resource Tokens. Once a Country wins a Resource Token, a resource from the resource pool will be assigned to the eligible Region of the Country.

Using the resource assignation screen, the President/Dictator can pick one or more resources for each of the Country’s original Regions. Once a Country wins a Resource Token, the allocation process gets triggered. At that moment the Regions will be processed from top to bottom and the wanted resources from left to right until an eligible resource is found for that Region. If no resource is found for the Region, the next Region will be considered. If no Region can receive a resource, the Token is lost.

Ah, Goddamit, it must be well organized, nobody can afford to loose any tokens

Once a resource is claimed, it will be displayed on the list, in the "Allocated" tab.





Resource Placement Rules

Rare and very rare resources of the same industry cannot be placed within a specific radius from each other. A Resource War map is available in order to plan the strategy and see how others’ decisions may impact it.


Distance in km


Up to 4 DIFFERENT resources can be placed in the same Region.
A Country can not assign more resources than the number of its historical (original) regions (unless it has less than 4 regions, in which case it can assign 4 resources).

Example:
Singapore can get Fish, Fruits, Cattle and Grain in its only Region.
Romania has 9 historic Regions and can place 4 resources in Muntenia, 4 in Oltenia and another 1 in Moldova.

This is one of the most important matters for us! It means, the old, v1 system is coming back, where 1 region could own more than 1 resource.


You can use the map tool in the popup to see how the placement of a specific resource in a Region will affect the neighboring regions by selecting a resource, the scarcity level and click on a region of your choice. Newly allocated resources will be displayed on the map once claimed.

Quite useful to make a plan visually!





The Resource Pool

The resources currently available and the ones that will be made available in the next 12 hours are shown in the “Resource Pool” tab


Whatever it means....





Resource Tokens

A token is awarded to a Country for each 30 000 Domination Points (the sum of the Domination Points over all the Divisions https://wiki.erepubl...ivision_battles ) that the Country gathers in direct Battles, Resistance Wars and Airstrikes (Civil Wars are not counted). A weekly Country Domination Points leaderboard is now online and a special “Domination Points till next token” leaderboard will be available throughout the event.

We are good in it right now, haha. So the fastest way to get as much points as possible, if we win a round in all div in 1,5 hour. It means 7200 domination points (1800 in each div)

Resources from the pool unclaimed by the end of the event will not be placed.

As the current state of the leaderboard shows, small countries with training wars and good diplomats can get their share of the pie.

It's gonna be a diplomatic month indeed. Without cooperation you will be lost imo.





Division Swapping

For those of you who want to go the extra mile to help out their Country, during the event individual objectives will be available on the Battlefield, that once completed will allow the player to switch Divisions for the remaining of the round.

When fighting in a “foreign” Division, the player will have his hit capped by the current max hit(used by the ghost booster multiplier) in the Division. If the player;s hit is lower than the division max hit, the player’s damage will be used in combat.

This will allow players to get domination points in other divisions too.

Three levels of objectives, each with different requirements will be available, and completing one will allow the player to unlock a division of his choice for the rest of the round. The objectives are only available on his native division.

If a swapping player has the top damage in a foreigner division he will get the Battle Hero medal.


That's why we must reactivate everyone.









All in all the changes seem good, but many questions remain unanswere😛


- After the end of the event, you can deploy your companies in a region. Is it possible to move your companies later? Any criteria?
- Where can you deploy them? Only in your citizenship country region or anywhere I want?
- If I can deploy them in my citizenship country, what about if that region is captured?
- You need to be in the region if you wanna work or does not matter?
- If a country has 4 regions, she can have 4 resources. If she take all of them to 1 region, the rest 3 remain totally empty and useless?
- Claiming the resources and the resource pool is not kinda clear to me yet
- What kind of companies will be introduced for the new resources?







Some notes:


- By the new rules, you can deploy all of your compnaies to 1 region only. Your productivity depends on the number of recources of that region. So if the resources are in different regions, it doesn't counts in your productivity

- The same sort of rare and very rare resources cannot be placed to the same region. So the max productivity of a country is decreased from 100% to 75% (10% + 15% + 20% + 30😵

- Strategy is top priority at the allocation of the resources!



Regarding to eCzech Republic (personal opinion):


- As I mentioned, we are a small country, we don't have much power to decide, but we can do all our best. First of all, I would make a poll what resources does the country need? So we could focus on them (we rather have food or weapon companies? So we need to get resources for the best productivity)

- We obviously need battle(s). Battles where we can get as much domination points as we can. The problem is we are weak to fight against a big or even a medium country. So we should fill up our Airstrike storage and launch it to a country like we are, in before others do. I suggest to start a diplomatic negiotation as soon as possible. We also can keep up our TW with Belarus. We can earn points by the RWs and we are not under attack by a hostile country. More wars mean more points for us. But for this we need to measure our strenght.

- Since we have dictatorship, the actual dictator must be ready at the moment if need to claim a resource!

- We need an active government! If I will be elected, I expect it! We need strategists. We need diplomats, who keep in touch with our neighbour countries and in our alliance. Need organizers who round up every MU and citizens and give orders to them. Need volunteer observes, who check the battles because of the next point:

- The division swapping opens new opportunities and challenges to us. We need active soldiers who if possible and need, can change division in order to help to get points in another division and so, get more points. I was thinking to collect every soldiers in every division and pick a leader, opening a mass PM and giving order via this way. Checking the rounds by the volunteers/leaders/everyone.

- And one of the most important issues. We will have max 4 resources (even though we only have 3 original regions). We obviously need to take all of them into 1 region to get the highest productivity. That's why I mentioned which resources we need, what products do we are good in? The disadvantage of it, if we pick (if we can pick) the proper ones and someone needs that too, we might loose everything. So that's why, the diplomacy is important for the next term!







I think I don't have to mention that the result of this event will define the next 1-2 years of gaming to every country, so even though we are a small community, I believe we can unite and we are able to own our destiny! So please look after your mate, write everyone you can, for being active for 1 month!

As current MoD, I order to hold on with your weps and EBs, golds, we need them for this event!

I try to make some strategy maps, considering all of our neighbours wishes to see what can we do. It probably takes more time.



Yours,


Rhual