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If the Game is in Crisis, Should We Do Something About It? [write 25 comments]

Day 5,831, 03:46 • Published in United Kingdom

• by EPThompson

It's been almost a month since I started playing this game. I still don't understand a lot, but you guys helped me with the main thing - to grasp the general mood. The general mood is this: the game is dying, the developers are just sucking money out of us, but regardless we will play. This mood is the mood of the captain of a sinking ship. It even evokes a kind of respect.

I really like an active political and economic life, although it was much more active in the previous years, judging by the words of the old guard (you). But newcomers usually come for the military module and fall off quite quickly (because it's boring). We have to be realistic: at some point there will be too few new players. The game will stagnate. The game will turn into Farmville.

But shouldn't the captain do everything to save his ship?

Shouldn't we be saving the vitality of the eUK community you've spent so many years building? Shouldn't we cling to every newcomer and not only explain to him the rules and give weapons, but also actively involve them in political and economic modules? The Congress is a beginner's path to the political module. Shouldn't we commit to keeping him active and healthy?

Maybe we should be a little more courageous? Make our political module interesting again - rather than "I vote for my party because it's my party"? Make some serious foreign policy plans, for example, regarding Northern Ireland? Literally anything is better than to tread water like we do it now.

We must not stagnate if we want the community to live.

[please write 25 comments for me to accomplish the mission]

Comments

Spygon Day 5,831, 03:49

How does a new player grasp the current situation better than most. Nice article.

EPThompson Day 5,831, 04:32

Thanks! I insist that this kind of vision should be taken into account by all the parties and party leaders. It's not that important to me they will agree with me, it's important to me that there will be a proper discussion. We should find common ground in preventing the community from its death

Mr Woldy Day 5,831, 03:50

well said

Mitko Raikkovnen Day 5,831, 04:24

Fresh vision

Alexander J. Burrell Day 5,831, 04:34

Fully supported

max7upp Day 5,831, 04:49

The game mechanics are really bad and old and if you will start creating rules and guideliness only, a handful of people will follow. The rest will just play the game and there is nothing within the game mrchanics to assist with the issues.

You can get the community involved into different activities and debates..but that is all.

Most of the active players are oldtimers ..because habbit. First of all, each player should enjoy the game in its own way..you might get more involved by doing so.

o7

max7upp Day 5,831, 04:51

Also the captain of this ship are the developers, not the community or Congress/Gov Team

EPThompson Day 5,831, 05:01

Afaik this captain you are talking about is pretty much dead...

EPThompson Day 5,831, 05:03

You're right. The guidelines and rules and stuff are not working for every newcomer. Involving - that's what I really like

o7

Georgelakeland Day 5,831, 05:13

I will try to be blunt without knocking your hopes down.
1 month in the game is like being a 60 day old child.
You need to have help from others. You need to be allowed to make medals and gold though the battles.
If you do not use real money in the game (like me) things take ages. If you do not have help or let to win gold with battles it will take years and years.
It took me 10 years to turn one q1 food factory into a q7 factory. It also took me 10 years to turn one q1 factory into a q7 factory.
You will see that lower products are not sold. so people making food and guns of lower value do not sell their goods.
Also this leads them to not having money to buy the 10 gold or to buy big weapons to do the battles.
Buying also air weapons for the first years seems difficult and impossible.
Usually those that make it after a few months in the game....stay in the game.
The game has a lot of older players. In the game there were 200.000 players and this reduced to 34000 players in 14 years. But there is SOME GOOD NEWS. THESE 2 months we have gained 2000 new players. The players are going upwards. Its now 36000. But it will be difficult for them to compete unless they are in a good, fair helping ecountry and if they are let to grow faster with lots of help.
I am 14 years in the game and there are areas in it that are still unfamiliar because the powerful players have crucial positions and never allow other players to get close to those places in the game.

EPThompson Day 5,831, 06:43

I think that a lot of these 2000 new players are not staying with us for long. Afaik a lot of people came into the game thanks to that crypto thing (and got out with their ZBD), a lot of the new players are still level 1, some of these new players are bots / smurfs / etc

EPThompson Day 5,831, 06:44

I agree with you everybody new need help to overcome these difficulties you've described. I am glad that I have support of the old time players and I want to share this support with every newcomer I can see

Septuagenarian Day 5,831, 05:55

" The game will turn into Farmville"

It already has for most of the players in congress

Spygon Day 5,831, 06:39

It has pretty much for every heavy hitter in the euk. They just want to see their number go up but dont actually want to do anything.

EPThompson Day 5,831, 06:50

ok then it's even more urgent than I thought it was

Darkmantle Day 5,831, 16:35

Politics is the only place where people are actually doing stuff and not just farming gold. You literally complained about Congress doing more than that in another article. Make your mind up.

Mitko Raikkovnen Day 5,831, 06:04

@Georgelakeland, being new it's the only way to progress in the political aspect here, because old players don't know you and don't have a history of your bad takes I guess. So I fully support EP to be involved as much as he can and I wish him a president who will take his vision seriously not dismiss him for just starting. Keep in mind that those kind of players are uncatchable in the stats so the only L they can take is loosing elections

riyo86 Day 5,831, 07:15

comment... o7

Select28 Day 5,831, 07:32

Many new players joined RN, most have not made it past lvl 1. Really unprecedented of late maybe a large
amount of subtle advertisement ?

V + c

FragUK Day 5,831, 07:38

game died years ago, ppl just playing to reach there goals now.

EPThompson Day 5,831, 10:16

What kind of goals? can you elaborate please

FragUK Day 5,831, 10:29

well for me its mamig out ground rank witch i did, not working on air rank.

Mad Pauly Day 5,832, 00:43

Mine is trying to catch up to Frag, which will never happen so I guess I'm here til I die (or the game does)

Huey George Day 5,831, 10:52

Erep is only a sinking ship if that's how you view it...if you stick with the elements of the game you find interesting, you'll find lots of reasons to invest your time here.

Discover, create and adapt strategies for the economic, political, social and military module to your playstyle and goals and you'll be hooked.

In terms of "serious foreign policy plans", it's somewhat a module like any others above however very closely linked to the military module and requires serious investment. From my perspective, the UK's foreign policy works for the majority of the players who have the account strength to make a difference on a global scale. (I'll probably catch some criticisms for saying so however you just need to look beyond the British Isles to find evidence of how various forms of foreign policy had helped or hindered communities similar sizes of the UK )

Mr Woldy Day 5,832, 08:19

All citz are created equal 😃

Precious Box Day 5,831, 11:58

The game needs a serious update.
The company should make major upgrades to the game, improving and renewing the motive of current players and attract new players as well.
But Nobody cares
We must act. Outside from erepublik.

My article on Medium about that
https://medium.com/@preciusbox/erepublik-indifference-is-not-an-upgrade-9b32794bc482

My yesterday article
https://www.erepublik.com/en/article/consumer-rights-and-protections-for-online-gamers--2773742/1/20

EPThompson Day 5,831, 12:30

Thank you for the articles! will read

Betafoxtrot Day 5,831, 12:16

Commento

Georgelakeland Day 5,831, 12:27

the 25th comment

Gali. Day 5,831, 13:12

I'm always for courageous policies and playing styles tbh. It is a game, after all, so why not have fun with it.

Very nice article, I think you are asking the right questions o7