Changes in Erepublik beta
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Server Upgrade
Yesterday we migrated to the new servers and a new hosting provider. In doing so we faced few problems since the master-master MySQL replication that was tested before crashed when it had to do its job.
So at the moment we are using only one of the database servers but in a few days we will be up to full speed. Still the website loads much better and apart for some pages where macro economical statistics are shown (country page, economical stats page etc.), the loading time seems to be much better.
Homepage changes
As you may have already noticed, there were some changes on the homepage:
- Simpler design on the homepage statistics (and less queries)
- Country population now showing just the number of live Citizens in each country
- Alt tag on the Newspaper links
We will continue to enter deep into each page an😛
- modify the design, if needed, to make it more user-friendly and efficient
- improve the SQL queries to help the loading speed
- Clean the code and extra check them for bugs
The next pages that we are already working on are:
1. Country page (will replace also the statistics pages)
2. City/region page
3. Human resources page
4. Marketplace
Minimum wage
Some of the Citizens came with the idea of a Minimum wage in each country. We are thinking seriously if we should give the chance to the President and Congressmen to decide, if they want to apply a minimum wages in their countries. So that Companies would not be allowed to give salaries lower than the daily minimum wage.
We are expecting your feedback on this.
PS: We fixed a lot of bugs as well meanwhile 🙂
Comments
About all these minimum wages and these different proposals, just add some "Custom Proposal" with name, ideas etc then put it up for vote. Do you understand what I mean? For instance, you can make a new proposal "Minimum wage" then like Description: "If this law comes into effect, every company must pay their citizens 2 IRR" and put it up as vote for congress?
That would be a good start I guess. But if it's not going to be that way, no minimum wage .. let there be freedom! What you guys need to focus on is to get people on the dead countries and about-to-die-countries unless you want the only countries to survive in this game to be Pakistan and Sweden.,
Minimum wage sounds good. There is a problem with the character encoding (again), was it changed back?
I have just created a NGO (non-profit organization) that builds hospitals. The wage is just 0.02 ESP, the minimum allowed, and all the benefits will go to the citizens. If you set unmodifiable minimum wages, all this effort will serve for nothing. Thank you for fixing the bugs and please, take care of the accents!
no minimum wages!
Feedback on minimum wages? That's an easy one, most managers will say no, and most workers will say yes, and there are more workers than managers. I say yes to minimum wages anyway, just put a non-profit label in industries, so they can't earn money in any way, and you’re done.
a yes here for the option to implement minimum wages in the president interface. anything added to the president interface can only be for the good. currently being president doesn't really give you many options to develop politics and react to country problems.
@Koroush - we've understood your idea. It's very interesting and we will think of it.
@PHuSiOn9 - we know, that's because of the the database change, part of it was resolved, if you spot new places where those problems appear send us a message. Tomorrow we will check more deeply.
@Lint - don't forget not to use NGO to vote, to be hired, to enter a party or to become a soldier.
admin, the NGO is not a profile, but a company owned by me. Am I doing it he wrong way?
How about an expansion of the working section to allow volunteering? It would mean Lint and other NGO's can have social enterprises without paying "staff", and still let them gain in the skills while benefiting citizens. It'll give unemployed people something to do and lets them become more attractive to companies looking to employ if they got a head start, something that applies in the real world.
Nice one, Mikebloke!
@Lint No, it's even better.
If minimum wage is to be implemented it needs to be a presidential proposal voted on by congress. When the president makes the proposal, he/she needs the option to select no minimum wage by setting it to zero. As much as I disagree with minimum wage, each country should have the freedom to choose. As long as I am president it will be set to zero.
...and the default should be zero. 🙂
I agree that the government should be given more power. It's basically useless as it is/....
agree with Korbin. I like the idea of giving presidents the option of introducing a minimum wage as long as it can be set to 0. And Frantisk - governments are certainly not useless! you just need to think outside the box a little bit...
A minimum wage will be a great tool for the future/actual presidents to use. This will bring the political class to an upper level.
i think beside that we need to expand the jobs or tasks of a mayor , not only president.
I do support minimum wage only on the grounds that it helps differentiate between left and right political ideaologies, and is a real life option that can be implemented effectively. Though It would be a shame if there were no way for NGOs were to dissapear. Another con is the possibility for abuse this has, if someone raises the Minimum wage to 10-20 currency on purpose to drive inflation up just so they can ruin a country.
God job admin. Please fix mail before anything else. Constant mailbox warnings when mailbox is not really full is getting annoying.
great job. Not so much for minimum wages but I guess if it needs to be applied, it should be voted by congress. A must fix is the HR, can we remove the inactive CV after 3 "ignore" to job proposals? Also, would it be possible to show the skills on the HR page? Would help a lot and save some clicks...
There should be minimum wages, if you want to build hospitals then the state should provide for the salaries not the workers...
Regarding the minimum wage, I couldn't agree more on this. It should be a matter of each nation to stablish its minimum wages, according to their own economies.
Furthermore, we could also apply those wages according to the level of each employee (in a near future off course). 🙂
the minimum wage.. it's ok, but maybe we should hava different minimum wage for each province.
I don't agree with the setting of minimum wages by default, I believe in free market economy, therefore, given the option to implement it, it should be the congress of each country to approve it or not, this will help political parties futher differentiate their programs. Additionally, I think we need a system whereby the Congress can vote the President out and replace him. In Spain the President hasn't shown up for almost a month, and the situation is pathetic.
Cheers
Minimun wages by law is a great idea, I agree that there as to be an option to set them at 0.00 and I´m also worried about the NGOs if the measure is applied to every single sector. by the way, I think that thereshould be implemented the posibility of presenting texts (suh as laws) in the congress that should get recorded in a "Country law system" page in order to develop the country government range of activity, and the congess functions.
But, for exemple, in Spain if we tipe "España" te letter between the two "a" appers "?".
I like the impeach the president thing, could be brought by a congressman (max once in a legislature) and would need a 2/3 majority
Congrats with the new server, it really is much faster. But one major bug has come within the last days: all special characters turns into jibberish signs, because of some charset issue (just looking at the Page Info tells me a mixture of UTF-8 and ISO-xxx-xxx is being used). This should be fixed really quick (failures like these mos often are quick to fix too, but it's been around for some time now), as it annoys the hell out of the scandinavian players and most probably others too. Testing: æ, ø, Ã¥. ÆÃËœ Ã….
Yes, minimum wage is good! I, as president of Japan, would use a minimum wage feature, and i am sure congress would approve of it.
as a manager of 2 companys I say yes. I own 2 companys but the other companys in bulgaria are selling items at such a low price Im afraid to think what their salary's would be. with minimum wages the prices for items would go up while keeping poverty the same.
@Cicero - working on this
@heivoll - we need to fix the characters in the hard way because of security issues.
@GordonKartuli - agree, we will think of an impeachment system
@everybody else - we will implement the minimum wage system and every President can choose a value (by default will be 0). We hope that next week will be implemented.
I am for the idea of minimum wage and a contract because i`m tired of hiring people every day and after a while to leave to another company after i invested in them an amount of time and money . And how about letting the owners of the companies to work . That way our skill will grow as well and if our companies will be doomed we can be hired on another companies for a decent salary .
I've always said that implementing a minimum wage should be a priority. It will prevent companies that hire real life friends and pay them with minimum from crashing the markets. And as gabrielle said, a working contract would also be great.
That's great!
How about fixing some of the problems now? 2 out of 6 industries is busted because QC2 & QC3 tickets are bugged and regions don´t get any taxes so they can't buy hospitals.
Also, there is no QC4 and up?
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I agree can you refine you product before making more things that will lead to more bugs, i understand that you want to develop the game further. But for the love of god, fix the current problems instead of implenting new things. Also the mayors should be able to have a regional tax from the workers, from 1 to 10% also increase the levels of quality.
regions can buy hospitals. you just need to work out a system to get central funding for it. PM me if you want to know how...
Kaleb - we have fixed it but still, the players shouldn't be forced to walk around the problems, the developers should make it work as intended instead.
Ie regions should get their taxes.
1 bug dead...another bug born 🙂
please tell me why :
1) i couldnt eat my food in my bag...thanks god i have alot of wellness here..or maybe i must buy some gift??? phew~
2) i've done all of my "must to do" (working and training) and still the red "must to do" link appear (i've clear my cookies and cache..it didnt work)
....keep on ur good work Admin...phew~....
Wow. FIX the BUGS PLEASE! It's destroying the game! Look at the game! People are LEAVING and will continue to do so! The IDEA is good, but it's being created in a WRONG WAY
and how about i get an message of a accepted job and after a while the person does not appeare on the employees list . And another one : messages of full imbox when there are only 7 messages there 🙁
I agree with Etweor. Work on writing and creating good, stable code, fix current major bugs and learn how to avoid bug-generating pitfalls . Look at this. =O http://imageupload.se/files/080118/8180WrongCode.png
Once you get all current code stable and bug free it's time to implement new modules and such. It sure is desirable to have an firm code instead of buggy when adding new functions.
each country should have the possibility to promote her own sett of rules especially in the economy field
I don't know if anyone else has said the same, but why does my health keep going down, no matter what I do (and there's very little TO do)?! I have food, I train in the army, but whenever I work, a big chunk of my wellness goes, and never comes back! Isn't food supposed to STOP that from happening? Please fix this, or I shall lose interest.
there is more important bug i thing. Food is not decreasing, but wellness is. please fix this bug as soon as possible. I work 4 day. my foot stock is same as 4 day ago, but wellness point lover 4 point. FIX this please.
Thanks for reporting us. We are working to fix those problems as seems like the food cronjob doesn't work.
Thanks
Fix the encoding already!!!!! Lot's of people don't care about a game where they can't read their own language!
No point in these DO THIS, DO THAT commands, the admins are working their asses off to offer us an amazing, free game experience. The least we can do is to show them some gratitude. But besides that i agree, the encoding is a _huge_ problem in Norway, where we use scandinavian letters in more or less every sentence.
we in romania have letters that most of the countries don`t have but we just don`t use them . I think you anh your people will understand eachother without those . I`m sure we can be understanding with eachother and with the admins .