Dirty War

Day 291, 14:39 • Published in Romania Hungary • by Ludrew

To all citizens of eRepublik:

I’m sure that you know, what took place during the previous days. Romania declared war to Hungary, and now the war is [a url=http://www.erepublik.com/article-604172.html]closed[/a] the decision was justified with the soon arrival (khmm) of V1. This war is [a url=http://www.erepublik.com/article-577492.html]considered[/a] to be the first world war in eRepulik by the admins (now we can say that the first and the last during the beta period), and was influenced by many things thats shouldn’t have happened. My article tries to summarize theese events.


RIDICULOUS FAULTS

Well, i have no problem with the war mode in general. This game is a political-economical simulator, so inventing the war module is not bad at all, i would say it’s a good idea. But this part of the game is only fair until it works properly. And i’ve seen more mistakes/bugs/cheats (choose the most suitable for you) than ever.

Well, lot of things happened acidentally: our soldiers’ weapons disappeared, without any reason. At the millitary section on the users profiles, there were result like they have lost -12 battles… There are also reports about vanishing soldiers, server crushings. Lots of people complained about trying to press the secure/conquer button, but the game didn’t accept their act. Gamers from both sides lost their fate in the fair play, and started to shout bug or cheat after every battle.

We also loved the idea of randomly-opening battles, too. System automatically created new frontlines, like Subcarpathia and Máramaros, altought no one wanted to conquer them. Of course, the „points” were collected by the romanians for securing them.

One of the most interesting part of this war was the Battle Of Debrecen. During 15 minutes at least 20 combines of results appeared, let see a taste of numbers we seen, just randomly: 7-6, 7-7, 7-4, 6-6, 8-7, 8-8-, 7-5, 9-8, 6-4, 11-8, 10-7... do i have to continue it? [a url=http://www.erepublik.com/article-585591.html]Others[/a] also realized it.The battle ended with a „server maintenance” screen. According to its text, they made some „cool changes”. Well, actually it was cool: The romanians got the score for winning the battle, but the region was listed between the hungarian ones…

Let’s face it: admins introduced the war modul, but they were not able to controll it or even get rid of the bugs.

THE ADMIN’S INTERVENTION

Well, i would stop this article here and say: well, mistakes happened, we, Hungarians (and probably Romanians too) are the victims of bad algorithms. But i can’t do it. I can’t because there was an „administrative hand lended to eRomania in this conflict”. Why? The reason is simple: admins can be [a url=http://www.erepublik.com/jobs.html]only[/a] romanians, as well as the majority of the testers and programmers. Of course they didn’t want to let their fellows down. At first, after the war started they changed the rules (the war started on 28th, on 29th the announcement was made). With introducing the last-hour-you-can-join to-the-battle-only-once law, the most numerous nation willl win. Let me quote a sentence reacting to the new rules: „Admins should shut down this game before they lose all of their prestige.”

But changing the rules after Romania declared war to us is not the only thing they did. They managed to bann permanently foundations, and officials of Hungary, SO-s, which didn’t commit anything. Of course so many bannings were fair, but banning officials and bureaus doesn’t belong to that category. They didn’t even gave any explanations or reasons. If i were malevolent, then i would say they did it just to grab (or more exactly vanish) the money of the hungarian foundations and civil organizations…

IT’S OVER – BUT IS IT THE BEST TIME TO IT?

The war now is closed until V1. They did it just after the fall of Budapest, Debrecen, Pécs and other Hungarian cities. Some people welcomed it, other got anger. I wouldn’t call it to an elegant solution. Instead of telling an exact date before theese battles the admins closed it, when they wanted. What an accident, what a surprise: somehow it favors to Romania again, they can keep their conquered regions for minimum a few months.

GENERAL SUMMARY

In advance i can say than i haven’t seen too much wars. I’m not an expert in warfare. It’s not my job the decide it was a local or a world war, too. But i can say the it was one of bloodiest and dirtiest ( i mean unfair) war in the history of Erepublik. Blood and deaths entails with the wars necessarily. Bugs, chaos and random results not.

Thanks for reading my article.