[EN] A small statement about Ads

Day 3,062, 02:04 • Published in Germany Germany • by Master_rg

Hello fellow citizens,

many players noticed it already: We are showing Ads on eRepublik-Deutschland.de since today.

As I already received several messages via mail, I would like to answer the most important questions in this post. In case you hate to read all this stuff, you may close this window 😃


Why are you showing ads on your website

I think the answer should be clear: We need to finance the server somehow. Right now we deal with ~38,000 unique hits a month and our database reached more than 25 Gigs within some months.
Additionally we are doing a lot of stuff on the backen😛 We maintain our crawlers in order to get the data out of eRepublik, all the statistics need to be calculated (partly) on our server and we also offer a completely free API which is already in use by more than 50 active users.

Furthermore we are already planning to extend our current services on IRC as we also plan to release an easy to use IRC bot, which has access to our whole database - and still: Everything completely for free.

I hope you see that you won't be able to run all those features on a single sharehosted machine or virtual server.


Where are you going to show the ads

Personally I f***ing hate ads - but I support them if the website is not overloaded with them: eRepublik-Deutschland.de goes exactly the same way.

Right now we are only showing ads within the tools. Why? Because they cost a lot of work (especially in the past while developing them), whereas basic articles can be written in not even an hour.


How many ads will be shown within the tools and where are they placed

There will be a maximum of 3 ads per page - but right now there is a maximum of 2 especially on long pages (like playerstatistis). We are already monitoring all ads in order to find the best place for them as we don't want to annoy our users with them.

Furthermore we are trying to place them, more or less, at the exactly same position in every tool (where it is possible), in order to create a consistent user experience.


I don't care about your ads, I am using an AdBlocker! You better go f*** yourself

Please always keep in mind, that this service is completely free for everyone. Please be aware that we favor people who support us (by disabling their AdBlocker) in the long run.

We already got the technology to detect which users are blocking our ads and we may block them partially from our site or don't deliver up to date data for them in future. Even though I know this may sounds a bit harsh, we want to put all our energy in the community which supports eRepublik and also eRepublik-Deutschland.de.


What about the donations you received in the past

All donations are invested into the community. I am not buying any packs or other stuff with them.

Right now we focus on financing our volunteer translators. In the past we paid active citizens which helped us to develop and improve our tools by giving us new and fresh ideas or by helping us to find bugs.

Furthermore: Ingame currency does not finance a server in reallife.


Can we disable the ads somehow

I already received some very interesting ideas, e.g. to make the website ad free by donating cc or by paying a small fee in the size of a cheeseburger. I am going to evaluate the feedback which is going to arrive here soon (I hope) in order to find the best way to deal with this situation.



I hope I answered most of the questions here, in case you got some more: Please leave a comment, I am trying to answer all of them during the day.

As I also received several questions what is going to be implemented next, here is a small list:
- CO (Profit) Calculator
- Military Unit Comparison
- Organization Lists/Groups (same like playergroups, but not public)
- Individualized Signature Banners
- more detailed articles

Once again: Thanks for all of your support and thanks for using the tools provided by eRepublik-Deutschland.de