2008 - Accomplishments this year
Plato
The first days of this year were great moments of joy that citizens wanted to mark by offering gifts to one another. Out of the benevolent desire of 10.000 citizens, the gift industry was born. The concept of a “contract” emerged in those days and some visionary citizens from Ireland even thought about making a constitution.
February was the month of visual improvements – many visual tweaks were implemented in eRepublik - the most interesting ones being the country page (with the now famous tabs: Society, Economy, Politics and Military appearing) and the Human Resources page which was also redesigned.
One month later, the term “republic” was defined by the first major improvements for presidents (budget administration, taxes administration and “change citizen fee” page were redesigned, also trade agreements and mutual protection pacts were introduced). It was clear for everyone that the countries of the New World were presidential republics. Also, by the introduction of “Tops” (later known as “Best of” and now known as “Rankings”), it became possible to better compare citizens, companies, newspapers, parties or even countries. A new form of tax was also introduced – the now defunct house tax.
When Caesar replaced Plato in April, citizens knew that the war module would affect the New World's environment. But not everyone thought about conquering the world. Romania and Moldavia decided to make a union through referendum, Cristesco and elena.coman were the first marriage in eRepublik, the first wig party in Spain, the first community meeting took place in Bucharest, the current Contact page appeared and the official Wiki was launched.
Important economic tools like the Inflation system and five decimals in the Monetary Market (known in the past as the “Exchange Market”) were added at the half of this year. Also, citizens were getting more experienced on the battlefield, -Alucard Bloodlust becoming the first general in the New World.
While the majority of citizens were doing a great job sending their enemies to the hospitals, both the new version of the eRepublik Blog and the creation of the History page in the Wiki passed by almost unnoticed five month ago. The addition of Slovenia was cheered and parades were held in celebration of the new country.
On 14th of October, V1 was launched bringing many improvements to the New World and after a few weeks of fine-tuning a real new world baby boom. Citizens could now shout, donate items and get a better sense of their experience level. Finding a job became a lot easier with the help of the “Human Resources” office that replaced the traditional “Post a CV” feature. Useful information also became more accessible once the Wiki was integrated in eRepublik.
Researchers finally put together a map showing where Raw Materials could be found and how productive land-work companies would be in those regions. These raw materials affected the New World on a large scale. Goods of a quality never seen before were now being offered on the new markets. Higher quality houses and hospitals were being produced to offer better support for the citizens. Organizations emerged and fights for resources became as fierce as those of soldiers on the battlefield. As Defense Systems were integrated to help secure important regions, the war module was changed as well.
But with the new version, the improvements did not stop. eRepublik had its one year anniversary and in the same month the members of Congress realized that they were going to be very busy: they were now representatives of their region and had a say in the issuing of national currencies as well as new laws with even the power to impeach the president.
Recently, we have added Croatia and our team members got back from LeWeb with tons of ideas. According to some citizens, the second World War is reshaping the New World map.
As a special present from the eRepublik Team, from now on citizens will have 20 slots available in their inventories by default instead of 10 slots (also the citizens/organizations that have an active extra storage package, the limit of this package will be extended with one month ). Find out more about this present here.
Best regards,
The eRepublik Team.
Comments
Next article will be about the plans for the first half of 2009
nice article.
More accomplishments- Heaps of bugs.
keempatxxx
sweet
Longer than average 😉
@Elvroy: if you are talking about the length of the article, well... there were a lots of achievements in the New World this year.
yeah
nice article!
Congrats
when is the next article about what youll are planning for 2009 being released/?
Yeah! Shame debugging the system wasn't one of their accomplishments...
@srachit: by the end of this week
@Big_G: debugging was an accomplishment, as this process was done constantly during this year.
viva eRepublik
So, what will we have for christmas? Last year you gift us +10 wellness 🙂
@Bong: what about 10 more inventory slots 🙂
🙂
"@Elvroy: if you are talking about the length of the article, well... there were a lots of achievements in the New World this year."
I could see that you didn't mention anything about those lovely bugs. Just like everything would've gone well. I get that if you're marketing the product somewhere, but everyone in the game knows that they exist/existed. Why do you have to keep us as such low value? We're not completely stupid. I'd have much more respect towards you if you guys could be straight and honest. Why do you have to hide the truth? It's an achievement to fix those bugs as well 😉
tanx but please pay more attention to emails sent to you... i haven't get any responses...
hmmm i want my gold for hardworker medals that bugs screwed me out of
Damn... Been here a year next month... I'm 1 sad f*ck XD
The article is 100% possitive and too sweet to be the whole "truth" but it's ok. Really look forward to further improvements.
Keep it up! 😁
Merry Christmas eRepublikans!
The 20 slots are a good decision and a minor improvement to my e-life. Many thanks!
Good job 🙂
The war module still could use some work. You should make is so allies of attacking countries can aid the attacking country from home just like defensive allies can when an MPP is activated. Maybe give the congress the ability to propose "sending troops". It would open up all solderers in country A to go fight for country B as they invade country C.
Of course all the PEACE people will disagree with this.
NICE
Keep doing great job.
my inventories still not increased by now.
did all citizen get the extended inventory slot?
did i get it too?
10 more inventory slots will be good for the economy.
Great job guys, keep it up!
good work guys ! happy holiday time for you and families
Gratz! It was a good year 😃
nice article admin
nice one🙂
Go on!
Viva republika!
you may receive tons of critics everyday, partly based on concrete problems, but I know you are doing your best and will always try to fix it.
Thanks for your hard work once more, thanks for the 20 slot gift, and a merry christmas with your families 🙂
Merry Christmas eRepublik and eRepublikans 😉
It's no surprise that the "features" in modules related to the France War benefit France and its allies. What nationality are the Admins again?
go ireland ye
According to the Wiki:
Attacker is considered the one that has launched military assault against a certain region, NOT the one that has declared war.
Defender is the current owner of the region being under attack.
So why aren't our MPPs activated when the French attack? Do the Admins care about nations other than France in eRep? Sort it out, start being fair to ALL countries, and roll it back like Dish said a week ago!
"Next article will be about the plans for the first half of 2009"
GREAT! 😉
@Cristi: are guys aware of my last message regarding a corruption crime (and also a violation of Rule 4) in eBrazil?
Players: "Bugs... bugs BUUGS FIX THE BUGS!"
Admins: "oh please guys, just look at things we've done right :
Thank you for the update.
voted doang dah ga ngerti
very nice review... waiting for more improvement on 2009
happy bugs for everyone!
great work!
still few bugs, like the streght medal, my 5 golds are still missing
-Finsoldier
@ Desertfalcon & @ Paddyohale :
MPPs will SUPPORT all future OFFENSIVE actions in any region.
!!! ONLY IF they have been first ACTIVATED in DEFENCE of a region where a resistance war is impossible to start !!!
paddyohale more like baaaaaaaaaaaaaww i cant win a war