[tBRE] Voting accounts: a plague of eRepublik politics

Day 1,992, 15:52 • Published in Belgium Belgium • by Tony Clifford
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[tBRE] Voting accounts: a plague of eRepublik politics

Tomorrow (or today 😛) is an election day, so I want to talk you about an election-related event that I called "voting accounts".
Let's see what they are.
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Ordinary days

In ordinary days, erepublik is played by two types of players: "2-clicks" players and "involved players".

2-clicks players are those players who usually log in eRepublik and they just work, train and fight for their Daily Orders. Sometimes they read also some newspapers.

Involved players are those players who not only work, train and fight, but are also involved in other activities.
Involved players may be involved in running a Military Unit (as Commanders or Captains), they may write articles, or they may be involved in politics, becoming Congressmembers or Country Presidents, or working as Ministers in the government.
Involved players are also usually active in chat and in off-site forums.

The two types of players seem a lot different, but they have something in common: they play the game!
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Election days

Well, in election days not only 2-clicks players and involved players log in eRepublik. There is also a third type of accounts logging in: i'm talking of voting accounts.
Voting accounts are those accounts that log in only in election days, and their goal is only to vote for a particular party or candidate. Sometimes they're fake accounts (they're controlled by another eRepublik player), sometimes they're not.
What it is sure is that voting accounts don't play the game, BUT they vote. They don't play, but they decide the destiny of the true players.

Is it fair? Is it democratic?
What I think: no, it's not.
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Example: Belgian elections

Let's see a simple example (I have others 😉 ).

These are the results of the last Belgian Congress elections.


What's wrong with that?
Simple: let's look at the daily activity of the members of each of these parties during ordinary days and during the election day.

Table1.
Number of active eBelgian players for each party. Day 1983 is the election day.


Do you see something strange?
Let's go into detail

Table2.
Average number of active eBelgian players in ordinary days for each party, and difference with the election day.
Day 1983 is the election day.


As you see most parties have the same amount of active players in both ordinary days and in the election day.
There is only one exception: HOPE party!
HOPE increased its activity in the election day by 14 accounts, which corresponds to an increase of +70%.
Those 11 accounts are not active during ordinary days, they don't work, train or fight. They log in only in election days to vote.

It is not finished. Let's see what happens when considering Military Units.

Table3.
Average number of active eBelgian players in ordinary days for Military Unit, and difference with the election day.
Day 1983 is the election day.


Here we see the same situation as before.
The only Military Units that increased the number of accounts during the election day is the HeadHunterz.
12 accounts, which corresponds to a record increase of +144%.

For people who don't know Belgian politics, the HeadHunterz is a Military Unit in coalition with the HOPE party.
No surprise, isn't it?

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Results

As I showed you before HOPE party received 38 votes in Congress elections, but approximately 12 votes came from voting accounts.
Voting accounts don't work, don't train, fon't fight: they don't play. But they gave HOPE party 3-4 more seats in Congress.

In Country President elections these accounts may be even more harmful: they constitute the 10% of the total vote, and so a Country President may be elected thanks to these votes.
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Conclusion

My conclusion is simple: the people who control and use voting accounts SHOULD NOT be helped by anybody.
Are you a 2-clicks player? Are you an involved player?
DON'T JOIN AND DON'T VOTE FOR THAT TYPE OF PARTIES
THEY USE ACCOUNTS THAT DON'T PLAY THE GAME TO ACHIEVE POLITICAL POWER.

What's EVEN MORE terrible, is that once they gain power, thay don't even know what to do with that power. Why?
Because if they don't work, train or fight: THEY DON'T KNOW HOW IT IS TO PLAY THIS GAME.
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by Tony Clifford


Roundings were performed on these data. Arithmetic operations using these stats may results in slightly different numbers than those shown
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[tBRE] Voting accounts: a plague of eRepublik politics
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