~War Never Changes~
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by Benn Dover
Glitches in erepublik have gone berzerk. Alliances are falling apart. Justice? There is no justice in this supposed New World. I guess that's one thing that really doesn't differ between real life and this stimulation.
This is not an attempt to justify the new battle upon Portugal. This is not an attempt to make Atlantis look like the 'right' alliance. This is how I feel about erepublik currently.
The eWorld is not coming to an end, but it sure is changing. I haven't seen a "justified" war ever in eRepublik. War is often unjustifiable, considering that there are ALWAYS citizens against any given war. Alliances don't ameliorate this, but rather, are catalysts to the negativism that come out of war.
War on Argentina - unfair, unjustifiable
War on France - unfair, unjustifiable
War on Russia - unfair, unjustiable
War on Asia - unfair, unjustifiable
War on Portugal - unfair, unjustifiable
War no longer represents an act that is the final resort to a solution. It represents a simple alternative to actions that could be talked out over a longer period of time. It represents the true colors of what this game is - a game. It represents displays of boredom, power, and alliance obsession.
How can one speak for an aggressive act by Peace and, at the same time, speak against an aggressive act by Atlantis? The opposite is true, and many of us are guilty of the hypocrisy demonstrated, even myself. I cannot support the Portuguese war just like I cannot support the Argentinian war, or the Russian war, or even, in retrospect, the French war. But support has far been a factor in war declaration, and even involvement. Alliances have always been poisonour, not only to citizens, but to powerful figures in this world. Actions all over the world represent this; actions aforementioned. Alliances have, for the most part, been the primary catalyst to war. This is one aspect of the game that probably won't change for a long time.
In real life, war is looked down upon unless very strong reason and purpose is given. The American Revolution, for one, was very smart given the reasons shown in years prior. However, wars in erepublik are not the same as wars in real life. War is great, really. It stimulates the economy. It gets citizens active and playing the game more often. It has people buying wellness packs and gold packs, something that the admins have intelligently incorporated along with the war module. It gets citizens to show their patriotism, nationalism, and dedication to the "Good fight". But, in no way whatsoever is war the right choice in erepublik. I can say that in all honesty the US-Canadian war may have been the only just war in erepublik history, seeing as a good portion of it was used to test the war mod (Hospital bugs ftw!). But even this war had its problems, as many of you recall. If you look at real life and say "Hey, America's war on Portugal is in no way fair!", then you'd be 100% right. But if you look at this game and say "Hey look America is helping their alliance out, stimulating their economy, and making their citizens active!", then you'd also be 100% right.
Portugal, I still love you guys and I'm sure that a lot of citizens in America do too. I truly hope that our relations in the far and near future, even during the war, can be maintained even if a little.
Here's to "fighting the good fight".
Hoo-Rah!
~Benn Dover
Ex-President, Secretary of State~
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ok... what if you lose and all 6 countries attack back?!?!?!
you think that USA will stay???
no. this will crush your economy, and only make you look like more of a joke than you already do.
but whatever.
i don't mind if america makes more of an ass of themselves~
What a stupid war.
It's only the old super rich, super powerful like you that think war is the only fun part about this game.
But what do I care, I live in a Peace nation now.
What was the reason for this war?
OK NOW WE GET IT! you love epic fails!
I thought you would stop writing articles after your 1000th subscriber 😉 Anyway, I partially agree to some of this xD
Who said that I think that war is the only fun part about this game? Considering my newspaper my companies, I'd think otherwise 😑
Great way to overshadow my article Benn.
Oh, and nice article.
Why are we at war then? If you say it's not fair then why are we even doing it? Just because you and Justin thought it would be fun? I really hope Justin writes a better article explaining this, because this seems dumb to me.
And here comes the whining
Umm
"This is not an attempt to justify the new battle upon Portugal."
I'm for war! Fight! Fight! Fight!
Thanks for the war.
BTW, it's so lame when PEACEniks come here to post against the war. I don't know if their posts are the most lame, or if the fact that they're successful in swaying public opinion is more lame.
Benn, come be President of Canada, the Canadian Empire Party will back you 😛
voted.
This is a game and the only TRUE reason for a war is that bring smore fun ingame and keep players active.
well, sounds like fun 🙂
The reason was, because eSpain asked eUSA to invade the azores. To create another front, and make it easier for them to conquer Madeira.
We are still holding the line though.
2 days we were talking about cheating and gold.
Today we are talking about the game.
Seems like a brilliant move to me.
When are you running for President again?
"This is a game and the only TRUE reason for a war is that bring smore fun ingame and keep players active."
Too bad various glitches and server issues keep things from running smoothly, so some people aren't able to even get online to fight in the first place, or, when they manage it, find that trying to answer the trivia questions winds up completely freezing their browser.
Somehow, I doubt that's making the game more fun, or keeping players active. If anything, it may be driving even more people to quit out of disgust or frustration.