Small changes that would make eRepublic a lot more user-friendly
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by Swoosh.
Please don't V1 in the comments.
Please don't complain about economy module.
Please don't complain about the politics module.
Let's just write down a few small changes, and usability helpers, so this game would be easier to understand for new players, and easier to use for everybody.
I know "they" are not really listening, but still ... I want to write down this for myself 🙂
Ideas are welcome, comment, I will update this article, maybe re-publish as a different one later on.
Profile Page
1. I would like to see there the user's last wall posts.
War list
1. Mercenary Filter : it would be nice to have a filter to show only battles that you don't yet have the flag for.
2. Bonuses that the fight is for (if any) could be displayed next to each battle. (Ex.: winner will get or keep the "grain".) Would be interesting when you could see 3-4 or more bonuses for one battle. (Like recently in Brasil if I am not mistaken)
Messages
1. Tag alerts : Lots of people doesn't like Facebook, but let's face it. The Nick-tag in Facebook would be great to use around here. Ex.: In a wall-post or in any article's comment, if you would use @Swooshy, I would get a notification ... That would be awesome.
Be honest. How many times do you go back to articles to check if anyone mentioned you.
2. Fix that bug already
%%2%%, %%4%% %%9%% %%6%% %%10%% commented on your post.
Ge'zenguz , I don't like your nickname ! 😃
3. Sometimes chain shouts take up all your wall. Wouldn't it be nice to have a "share" for each shout, so when chain shout appears on your wall, then instead of having 8 different messages, you could see something like: "Swoosy and 8 others shared this: > ". There is something similar in Facebook ... It would help a lot.
Newspapers
1. Let us publish in any country. Not just your CS country. Even if there would be a small fee to buy publishing rights for a specific country (something like the way the licenses work currently)
Storage
1. Wouldn't it be nice to see Max damage in storage screen for bazookas? (Maybe even adding q6-tank-depending energy-bar-using numbers as well)
2. Add more than 9999 items on sale for the market ... right now if I put 15000, it will only add 9999, and then I have to re-add my "leftovers"
3. I would like to see the amount of CC i will get from everything I have posted on the market for sale.
Work
1. "Select all" button for all the companies
Overall, system-wide
1. More touch-screen compatibility
No it doesn't have to be rebuilt the whole system for Android. It works all right. But it's very hard to check the food-time-hours-minutes or the Mercenary countries kill-count for example. This is pretty much it from me at this point.
2. the search ... that could search for Military Units, Articles, Parties etc ... Right?
Facebook
Twitter
Discord
Comments
Nice ideas - and here are some more: http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/fed-up-of-war-war-war--2005843/1/20
They don't listen anyway...
Ge'zenguz , I don't like your nickname !
Yeah, signed here. :F
Ge'zenguz and India'n, I don't like your nicknames! *2
V+
Ge'zenguz , I like your nickname
good ideas, so small impact on the game, still nice to get more money for that. i see a chance they would come true...
They can change think nickname.
@donAsher +1😃DDDDDDDD
Ge'zenguz transfered 1000 HUF to your account.
Mercenary Filter: in erep advanced script you could find it, i always use. : )
"Mercenary Filter : it would be nice to have a filter to show only battles that you don't yet have the flag for."
"More touch-screen compatibility
No it doesn't have to be rebuilt the whole system for Android. It works all right. But it's very hard to check the food-time-hours-minutes or the Mercenary countries kill-count for example. This is pretty much it from me at this point."
Usually I only use the mercenary kill count table to check whether the game recorded my kills properly. I don't need it to know where I've been fought already. Somehow I can easily keep it in mind, even after 20 mercenary medals. 😃😃
@Ge0rgo: eRA slows my browser down so bad ... i stopped using it ...
@szbszig ... yeah but you add 25 kills at once ... I add 2-3, sometimes more ... i never know how i stand with the flags ...
That's true. I very rarely leave one below 25. (:
less headless chicken \o/
Good you made a summary, but most of yoyr items fall into the "nice to have" category, and have effect on neither player retention nor on 'new plater interest'.
The economy module has been decimnated, V! worked, but with the eliminaton of work skills and adding communes and taking out all transparency (e.g. who works where, who donates what to whom, etc, etc.), player gender also is gone, the openess of worldwide posted articles is gone (insatead of banning players who post obscenitiies) all worldwide articles are ePlato'd out of eRepublic.
Is it a wonder then that the changes have detracted from retention and popularity?