Is there a hidden country in eRepublik?
Stolch
Ok, so I decided to do an article about damage distribution between the different countries as it seems we're coming upon a new alliance redistribution phase which has become traditional once a year.
Since CS damage is a poor source of information about damage potential of the different countries in the game, I added up the damage according to the MUs of each country for the past week and also took the information for CS damage so that I can compare the two.
To my surprise however there were 75 countries ranked in the CS damage ranks, with a nameless country in 75th spot which came in with 630 million damage for last week.
Mystery, nameless country at rank 75
So I initially tried opening the leaderboard for other weeks as well, but there was no 75th country. Even stranger at some point it actually disappeared from last weeks ledger as well...
To make sure it's not another "visual" bug I opened "inspect element" on the browser and lo and behold it was there. AS everyone can see in the SS above.
The first time I opened it, the country was actually called "Guderian Heinz", though that could only be seen if you open the inspect element and not on the actual page. When I reopened it to make the SS however the name had disappeared (the name in the element follows the "alt" after the image source for the country.
At this point I started wondering what this mystery country could be, and decided it might be the Plato account, which at some point in time had the EU flag and who knows what type of CS went with that at the time. However when I checked the account it was with Swiss CS and in no way had it done 630 million of damage in the last week.
Now we've all heard the rumours about the admins "tilting" walls using scripts and bots and so on, to manipulate battles, however there was never anything that can give any credence to those rumours. Since I'm not very versed in programming I can not speculate more then what is presented if this is indeed evidence of possible such manipulation. Obviously 630 million in a week when 3.1 trillion damage was dealt cannot really change anything of importance unless it was in very close rounds. In an a epic round where both sides have put in 5 billion each, a 51% wall represents an advantage of only 100 million. However it's presence alone begs the question, has it been different in the past.
More importantly, I personally am tired of the "visual bug" excuses, not to say lies, and am interested to know what is this mystery "country" or entity that fights along side the real players in the game even if it is not the admins themselves interfering in battles.
The reason I'm putting it in an article is to bring attention to it, to the whole community as I've long lost any faith in the administration of the game to be helpful honest or truthful. If it turns to be something benign then nothing of importance has happened and this article can go by the side along with 90% of the garbage that goes for media articles nowadays, mostly hunting for comments.
As for the damage comparison article, that one I'll leave for tomorrow. I am waiting with interest for the response of the admins on this one.
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Manipulation!!!
jail for evreone !!!
Хвана ги накрая?Аз отдавна твърдя,че битките се манипулират.Даже мисля,че има акаунти ,на които се плаща,да обработват играчите,че няма такова нещо.Прекалено са активни някои,когато започне разговор на тази тема.
MiauLOL
100% има манипулация от страна на админите и това го знаем много хора от много отдавна 🙂 Помня преди години колко много пищяхме от админите, които пипаха стените, веднага след това въведоха бомбите, които правят по 1.5 и 5 милиона дмг. Сега такъв дмг е нищожен, ама преди 2 години си беше хубавичак. Ваведоха ги тези бомби, за да може да се оправдават, защо стената се мърда така изведнъж 🙂
uuuuuuu paranormal... the truth is outhere..... tram tram tram tram
Another galaxy found for new erep server!
say that minor damage to divison 1. its mean a lot.
so, Platoland does exist after all....
mmm...
Regardless of whether one is tired of the "visual bug" excuses - though I am, too -, I actually believe it is one.
If you open the American damage leaderboard in D3, you see the user Guderian Heinz ranked near #75:
http://abload.de/img/snippet478q4u1d.png
I assume that he had been on rank #75 when you wrote this article. It has happened to me quite often that the leaderboards are screwed by the cache - cf. http://abload.de/img/snippet479e6uoo.png (Greek players, German avatars).
Nothing new under the sun, but yeah, a bit annoying. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The community of eRep pays for the game, thus they can (or could) expect a well-working game.
Thank you Aiman Abdallah and your Galileo Mystery Team!
http://i.imgur.com/gCyOsMF.png
While this sounds plausible, there are a few irregularities which still remain.
1. Guderian Heinz is in position 74 for last week in D3 and that is player rankings and not countries.
2. He has done 55 million damage and not 630 million damage.
So while the name coincides nothing else does...
http://awesomescreenshot.com/0153x8s1c1
As I've said I'm not a specialist when it comes to programming, however if it's a cache problem shouldn't the placement and damage be the same?
nobody knows about Antarctica
illuminati.
I personally have only 74 countries: http://prntscr.com/5ao08z
Not for this week, for last week.
Perhaps eRep is alluding to the "Second Renaissance" ala Animatrix.
Best article I have read in many weeks; v/s
HAIL NUMBER 75
HAIL NUMBER 75
HAIL NUMBER 75
HAIL NUMBER 75
Per e Plato interview: "~ 50% of the PAID STAFF play", since ePlato is always truthful, we should allunite and attck the 75th counrty....eBukarest.l
Antarctica it is... I would totally move there.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz_Guderian
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I dont know what people are talking about, i dont see any bug an last week country dmg ranking.. 75th place is alright here 😃
http://prntscr.com/5aza0m
It is the REPUBLIC OF KOSOVA
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Wow, good catch. I don't want to believe they are that petty, though.
yeah admins cheats and left proof
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