Thank you

Day 801, 11:07 • Published in • by Plato

Dear citizens,

The 800th day of the New World has just ended. Wow, we have been a community for such a long time; we've been together for so many things! Of course, many of you are relatively new in this world, but the New World owes its existence to each and every one of you. The community is the very fundament of eRepublik. For this, we thank you!

We've been together for more than 800 days, and during all this time you have supported and helped us in our attempt to create a better world, for you. The oldest citizens can remember how much different eRepublik used to be 2 years ago, or one year ago. The New World is constantly changing, constantly moving, constantly improving. The innovative idea behind eRepublik unfortunately has one disadvantage; like almost any other innovation, the lack of previous “successful stories” means that the idea must be tested and fine-tuned. This means that it takes a while before it reaches the desired level of quality.

We have all had good days and sometimes bad days. All of you have enjoyed the emotion of victory in some days, and felt the bitter taste of defeat in others. Only here, behind the scenes, the team lives under constant pressure and stress. We feel ten times the pain you do when a problem occurs. We would love to snap a finger and “poof, solved," but that is not how it goes. All we can do is to work restless to identify the source of the problem, and solve it.

But pressure and stress is helpful, as it keeps us alert all the time. Just to give you an example, the Distributed Denial of Service which you might have heard about made you think “wow, eRepublik was under DDoS”. This is not true. We haven't been under just one attack, but countless ones! The guys from the tech team are fighting almost every day against various types of “bots” and “spiders” and all sorts of server attacks, and they have been doing this for a long, long time. Due to independent reasons,we were close to losing this battle twice, but most of the times we win, and you had no idea what just happened. Maybe you noticed a slow server for one minute, that's all.

We couldn't have made it this far without you. The countless friendships we have seen in eRepublik, the long list of memorable moments we have shared together, the epic battles which have changed the world, the tremendous amount of articles and comments you have posted; all of these give us strength and energy to work day after day, for eight hundred days. Without motivation and passion it would had been so much harder to develop this game. We are passionate, and seeing that for so many of you eRepublik is part of your lives.. well, this truly motivates us. Thank you for this.

Regards,
The eRepublik Team

P.S.: As a gift for all you,here is how the National Goals Monuments for the next presidential elections look like (second row).