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Dear Éire,

In my last article I’ve tried to explain the importance of Training Wars, today I’m going to talk about the importance of the completely opposite thing - alliances, allies and the way the game is set to discourage friendly behaviour between them. I’ve been around in times when there were no True Patriot medals, or Legend ranks that are applicable only to the country you had your CS in when you reached them.


The way the game is set right now it’s way more profitable to fight in your own country no matter what. In every single calculation it ends up the same, fighting for your own country has much more benefits than fighting for an ally. This is one of the reasons alliances kinda lost its full meaning. Sure, it encourages direct involvement of an ally, but it’s not really the same kind of satisfaction and it’s not always doable. For example, a country with only a few ranked Legends can’t do much to help except starting the suicide mission.

TP medals & Legend ranks are also the main reason for so many TW’s which are good under the current game mechanics, but I believe the game would be much better if you’d be equally developing yourself by helping an ally. It would encourage alliance members to communicate and coordinate more. Having less TW’s would mean a much bigger amount of important battles, interesting clashes and meaningful wars.

It might be a bit late now to change the whole thing, remove the Legend ranks or TP medals, but adding some sort of a medal (let’s call it Ally Medal) would make things balanced. Ally Medal would make you the same amount of money if you’re fighting for an ally who’s a member of your alliance. Alliances would become much more engaged and it would require a bigger scale planning and strategic thinking. Maybe another type of rank could be added too, let’s call it Ally rank in this case (must be many better names). It would function the same as Legend rank, but it would be applicable only while fighting for your alliance members. These two changes alone would change the entire concept of the game.

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If Admins would go further and maybe consider putting a price on a Training war (higher prices of Declare War laws for example) or if they’d make TW’s spend some money off the treasury (similar to dictatorship cost) things would get really interesting. We would have coordinated fights started between the alliances that’d do their best to plan things together. Individually countries would still be able to use their Legend ranks by fighting directly, so it would involve several different countries fighting on the same front. There are several details to be discussed if this kind of ideas would be implemented, but the bottom line is to remove the significance of individual efforts and encourage the community (entire country and alliance) efforts as well.

Erepublik has always been a simple game, it was the community that made it as attractive as it was and still can be, only if the old passion would be brought back into the community.



There are few more small changes I’d like to discuss and propose by writing this article. As I already mentioned, my last article has been talking about the importance of TW’s. Each time I’d check the possibilities for TW’s in our region I’d have to filter countries one by one to check the battles. Doing that while there are billions on TW’s and with a slow, lagging map makes things harder. I was thinking how this could be improved and came to the conclusion that it would be great if Admins would add another filter option that would focus on the core regions of the countries.

For example, choosing the Irish core regions would show all the wars being in progress in the Irish core regions. It would show a Training war between Argentina & Portugal since that happens in Mayo, it would show all of Irish TW’s and foreign ones happening on our soil. If I’m interested in expanding the amount of our TW’s I’d firstly look at our neighbours’s regions: UK & Canada. Choosing their core regions in the filter would enable me to see who’s fighting there and who could we organize TW with. Sure, it can all be done by looking through the map, but the way map works it’s a real pain in the a…

I even took the freedom to play in ‘inspect element’ and show the way that would look like.

Anyways, I’m generally fairly happy with this game, Admins are trying their best, they’re constantly making changes and are keeping this 13 years old game alive. It’s not easy to do that, it’s not easy to follow the needs and keep the customers. During that time they’ve made several long term mistakes, which is absolutely normal. Community kinda got bored with the simple things, fluctuation of people has shrunk due to constant changes and boycotts which eventually resulted in knowing almost everyone that plays this. Babybooms are a thing of the past and that’s another problem Admins should look into. Things got so familiar that various people are rotating on the position of President, which completely destroyed the political aspect of the game. After 13 years, it’s hard to find reasons to debate and discuss things, especially if most of the answers are based on the facts, not some political differences. If a Presidential position would be awarded in a more generous and important way political parties would maybe fight to get into the power again. Combine that with a baby boom and changes stated above and you get tons of people working on improving the community.

But that’s the topic for some other article, I don’t want you to fall asleep reading this. What’s your opinon about my proposals? Debate them, discuss them, give Admins the feedback they truly need. Propose your own ideas and explain the effects they’d have on the game. I’m looking forward to check the comments section.

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