[CP] The Status Quo?
Day 3,716, 05:07
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by Het Catshuis
Dear citizens and other readers,
We're roughly halfway into my Presidential term and I have to admit not much has happened. I underestimated the damage the eNetherlands has received over the past couple months. Time has essentially stopped in the eNetherlands and it has become clear that it'll take monstrous effort to get anything moving at all.
I and my small government prepared (starting even before the elections) a campaign to bring back old players by contacting those who had a forum account. As you might have noticed we publicized a lot of articles at the start of the term to create an ideal situation for players their return. This all in an attempt to bring back some enthusiasm and activity in our country, which hopefully would have had a snowball effect. Sadly, however, we didn't receive the cooperation of the forum staff which this plan was based on, despite promises to do so. I don't exactly know why, but I haven't heard for two weeks about it. Does really no one care any more?
Some still do, of course. Which is why I'm not raqequitting just yet, although my motivation has collapsed seeing this lethargy in our eCountry. I have used the past two weeks to define the problems in our country more clearly. As has been become clear, much of country and its institutions/programs have collapsed and is ready for the graveyar
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- The Monetary Market is no longer used to earn money for our country. This has been going on for several months and essentially means we're missing out on a LOT (relative to our monthly budget) of money. This hasn't been brought up before and certainly is not a topic of discussion on the forum (which hasn't seen messages for over weeks).
- Our Communes are defunct. Despite the eNetherlands having been around 8000 gold to Heikanu and Dave Brinkman to run state factories they haven't been used for months for state purposes. No one knows exactly what their current state is now. Seems like they're now used as freebies for our commune holders (I don't blame them, as they obviously haven't been in contacts with government for ages). My team and I will start new conversations with them to see what is still possible and what is not.
- No more supplies. While eNetherlands has been hoarding more and more money, we haven't been aiding our soldiers. We once created the national MU Dutch Armed Forces to increase our defence efficiency. With the lack of aid and (frankly) the less than desirable current command situation what is even the use of the Dutch Armed Forces? Now even more than ever we need to aid those few that remain loyal to our eCountry!
- The Forum is dead. Over the past couple of months we've only seen a handful of posts. Mostly about irrelevant topics like who is going to lead a zombie Forum Congress. I have given several thoughts on this topic but most of us seem fine with it or have given up all hope. After the next Congress Elections I want to run experiments on bringing it in-game (of course while still keeping faith to the legal rules for now).
All these topics (and there are more) are more or less connected with each other and I hope to poll some feelings by sending out the DAF Survey I proposed at the start of the forum shortly. But more importantly, if you do concern yourself about the eNetherlands, you should come out of your shell and involve yourself with the discussions. Even if not being able to spend hours a day on eRepublik, your opinion and ideas can still mean a lot. Perhaps more so than the supposed active ones that are running in circles marked '2010'.
Kind regards,
Your Country President NoTie112
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Yay Tonie! ❤
If only countries were allowed to really merge we could make a half decent country with the few actives in the low lands for example. Although if you look around it is almost the same everywhere, only the really small countries are the ones that will really die out unless taken over by a few foreigners with an army of bots from the bigger countries .
Oh yes a true unification of eBE and eNL would certainly be interesting and kick some activity in both our countries 😃. Don't expect any support of eRep Staff for such ideas, though, lol.
yeah well that is what I mean really. An adaptation from the game not some made-up construction that can be thorn apart with game mechanics as they are now.
TP rules the game, any construction you put up would fail anyway.
i agree..
They should seriously consider this, they could probably build on a story of history when borders and countries were different. that way small countries can be saved and the game becomes more interesting but hey..
they don't even have staff capable/willing to (re)implement the cities properly.
i'd like to remind pdople that change can be very easily accomplished IF you invest a little bit of time rewriting several laws currently in place.
regarding the forum message. you contacted 1 person on the administration staff. and that person hasn't had time yet to set it up. and it is a time consuming task what you are asking.
It takes 10+ days to use the mass email function/script? Or that much time to at least explain the delay? Heikanu is afaik the only active admin to have permission to take such actions unless others have been given those as well (which raises the question why they don't act).
a. you don't know what his schedule is irl. and last time this was done the entire system froze up since so many mails had to be sent.
b. you asked 1 person to do it. not the entire administrative team.
c. i said i'd look into it, and i will but i also have a rl that takes up time.
and since i don't want a repeat of point a. it will probably take some more time to set up without getting problems again.
so to summarize be patient 😛
The communes have been closed for almost 2! years.so don't act like that has happened in the few months you have been inactive.
If we were under treat and were fighting a real war supplies can/should be handed out. but we are having a training war, so handing out supplies would only work counter productive. As far as i remember the last time we had a real war supplies were handed out.
last time i talked with the person regulating the MM he was still busy with it.
Said it before and will say it again. if you want to change things regarding the forum/laws/debates. you will have take it to congress. but unless a real working alternative is provided i don't think moving away from the forum is realistic.
To be fair the last time I truly played this game IS around two years ago (during my last presidency).
I think you miss an important point. Supplies are not essential during war times only, but during the entirety of one's life. We are at extreme risk in our war potential because our citizens lack ranking (and therefore legend DMG bonus) as opposed to other countries. That can be stimulated by supplies. Not to mention more creative forms of supply are possible: I.e. selling commune work weapons for the high market price and supplying our citizens with CC which they can decide themselves what to use it on. Houses, food, weapons or perhaps even packs (most supplied weapons were sold anyway).
Last time I spoke with the MM regulator he said it hasn't been active for over a half a year. So it seems you spoke with him a long time ago 😛
It's funny you speak about 'real wars' because the way I see it is that if we're ever under serious threat again (be it Italy, Germany or Croatia like in the past) we'll be a walkover and see the days of occupation return. I can guarantee you that with how things are currently going in the eNL, sadly 🙁.