~It's Necessary: Erepublik Trivia~
Benn Dover
It's been said numerous times - the trivia in this game is horrible. Nobody cares what the deepest river in America is. We play this game to get involved in a "New World", not the real world. Everybody always says that You can't relate anything in erepublik to the real world because the two are entirely different - and it's true, they are! We see this the most in politics and business-management, specifically through the economy. If you want to make your game more relevant to the New World, change the trivia system.
Many have suggested it before, but here's my opinion.
Keep the trivia system, change the questions. Again, not a single citizen in Erepublik is going to have fun by answering obscure, irrelevant questions relating to things outside the game. Instead, make the questions actually about the game! It's beyond me why you chose not to do this in the first place, considering that you'd get mucho assistance.
Two months ago, the following was state😛
"We are starting to work on small modules improvements. Better trivia questions and improvements to the war module are among our top priorities."
You want improvements? Ask for help! I swear to Dio that if you put the following (not verbatim of course) in your newspaper -
"The erepublik staff realizes that trivia was loathed since day one. It is a very hard system to change, but we finally have been bouncing ideas off of each other. We are going to implement Erepublik related trivia from now on, and we need your help! If you have any suggestions for trivia questions, please email us here with them so that your voice can be hear😛
(Insert email here)."
- then you will get enough feedback from citizens across the globe to suffice for thousands of trivia questions. Nobody cares about the US's involvement in Vietnam, this is a whole new world for us. Make everything in this game revolve around the world itself and you've got a significantly better game.
Here's to erepublik-related trivia,
*Cheers*
~Benn
Edit:
Just wanted to make a short list of the current problems with the overall trivia system.
1) Internationalism. If you can't read english, can't read the trivia, then you can't be productive.
2) RL factor. Stated thoroughly in this article.
3) Bugs. Just fix em... and those of you whining about bugs in the game - stop complaining. If you hate the game this bad, just come back when it's better.
4) Employee factor. The difference between producing one Q5 weapon and two Q5 weapons is huge, and is controlled by the trivia factor. How can I know what to pay my employees if I don't know how sufficient their trivia has been?
Comments
Ok. Lets have trivia, but it is not working in IE.
I totally agree with this, but is there enough about erepublik to make questions of? Or do you consider eRep history aswell?
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Yes to the history question. Tis one of the most undermined things in this game...
I would be lucky to get a question about Vietnam, most of the time I get questions like which of the following was the greatest naval battle of WW1.
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JUST REMOVE TRIVIA!
Good initiative! voted
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But still citizens will use trivia decoders and abuse new system. That's never gonna change. It's not inhibitable.
Let's remove it completely. 😉
@Cagatay: Not if they use this new flash system, which eliminates the possibility of a decoder.
Good idea, but I still dont want to answer questions. And in game trivia questions would be to hard for new players.
I do agree that I need to be able to see what my "labor" workers are producing, so that I dont punish the ones that produce alot because of some people who produce little.
removeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
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@Benn, I think flash system could be cracked, I don't know how but hard, also possible imho. 🙂
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only one thing, the new players in this game don't know the history of it. If you ask about the war between Hungary and the Czech Republic they surly can't answer this question, thus having a low productivity when they work. It would be interesting to have questions about eRepublik but it would be a bad idea for production. Keep the trivia questions (if they keep the trivia at all) at a basic knowledge. Some general stuff, not technicalities or something that you would only if you were an expert.
If admins hate the decoder so much they should change the trivia influence in working, training and fighting. I mean, to decreased so much just to be lost of time for a player to develop and/or use a decoder.
@Benn: I can bet 10 Gold on the fact that in no more than a week there will be at least 2-3 decoders for this itzy-bitzy trivia flash 🙂.
I really agree, erepublik related questions will be great ! I would agree with some LOGICAL questions too, anything but NOT history/geographic, so we all have an equal chance.
Not Bad
The Trivia, no matter how relevant to eRepublik, is still a flawed concept. It is grossly unfair to new players. Their productivity and damage are already heavily penalized by low skill and strength. By having them answer Trivia about a game they are not at all familiar with you'd be adding another penalty on top of that.
I still say that flash-based mini-games is the way to kill all these birds with one stone.
Remove the Trivia please!!!
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE
Voted !!!
Why don't we make the trivia questions related on the business we are working on? If you are working in a food factory let the questions come from that subject. I don't know if it is possible but I think can be done. Also when in a war the questions can be about military tactics. That way the training sessions might mean more than increasing your power 😃
Why not give the active citizens an edge? I see no problem at all with history. And it wouldn't be difficult history, like "Who won congress on January 10th of 2008", but rather "Which of these citizens was not an American president: a) Roby Petric, b) Uncle Sam, c) korbin king, or d) archibald.
See, that's not that hard of a question if you actually spent a week on the chat or the forums, but it's really hard if you've never traveled outside of your job! Trivia should be a reward for the active imo.
Hmm, good point Chahk. What about an option of different minigames, logic, skill, etc.
Yes, definitely different games for working, training and fighting. They can even add several of them to each category, so that players do not get bored with the same game over and over.
We don't want this trivia!!!
I understand why the game "needs" a variable like trivia (or whatever it could be changed to) but I'm not sure why they didn't just make their lives a lot easier and install a random number generator. Like "RL", it would be mostly out of our control, and the programmers could certainly factor in experience/training into the equation so that it would not be totally random... so again, I'm not sure why they decided to implement something so unpopular and time consuming (research, programming, languages, etc) when something so easy could replace it....???
I've asid that ages ago.
I have actually suggested this before.
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trivia shouldn't effect productivity. it should effect the rise in skill, like in the training trivia.
I HATE trivia.
but, it could be very good if the questions in the trivia are about the erepublik rules (e.g. "what level you've to reach to fight?").
but it would be impossible too: nobody knows the real rules of erep 🙂
lol @ oscar
Joeph, BBJ, I know you have (well, not you particularly, but people in general). I'm just suggesting it again. People change at the precipice, I think the admins do too.
"They can even add several of them to each category, so that players do not get bored with the same game over and over."
Exactly. Just how music is a universal language, I'm sure that pong is too xD
I actually like the trivia. I'd like it better if there were quality questions.
eg. Sri Lanka is not really east of India, it's more to the south.
Trivial in others languages too !!
DONT PUT QUESTIONS, PUT GAMES! IT IS BETTER AND MORE FUN!
Again a strong and smart point from you. Can't wait to have more free positions in our team 🙂 Have to agree with some opinions in this article and for sure trivia will need a close analysis... again soon, considering the feedback received from the community. But one of the main things that guides our work is not considering each feature a bad one and remove it the second day if the feedback is not positive, but rather work on improving it. Thanks again for your feedback, I'll make sure it will be a subject to discuss in future meetings.
Stop complaining about trivia!! Why nobody complained about it in the "decoder era"? I tell u why : Because you all love to cheat a little 😁))))))))))))))))))))))))
"Stop complaining about trivia!! Why nobody complained about it in the "decoder era"? I tell u why : Because you all love to cheat a little 😁))))))))))))))))))))))))"
Actually, I complained about it in the decoder era for reasons #1, 2, and 4 stated at the end of my article.
that wasn't necessarily addressed to you BEN!
Yah we suggested Erepublik related trivia back in V1 Test, and they STILL havn't admitted thats its a good idea. Maybe this whole #1 paper in the world thing will help that out 😉
Benn tell admin to remove this weird backward comment please xD
I mean put about that backward comment in your article, most citizen dont like it, admin read your article xD
I like the trivia.
you should be able to see the trivia production of employees.
I kinda like the trivia the way it is now. I know I'm only one of a few people though. But you are right, it would make more sense for the trivia to be about eRepublik. Now let's all stop being so serious and have a nice fungasm: http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/solving-america-s-problems-724908/1/20
Benn... people should just report bugs. Whine or no whine. Report the bugs so they can be fixed.
Of course they should, Boss. And they do, but too many people don't. If there's one thing you can't change about the game, it's the mentality of those who play it.
Several people were complaining about the trivia saying it should be removed completely and they should just get the bonus automaticaly or that it should be replaced with a game. I personally enjoy the trivia, but it seems its a hassle for everyone else who wish only to play the game without having to think about real world stuff. I'd rather leave it the way it is but its effecting companies production so I guess what has to be done has to be done. Although to me it would be harder to keep up-to-date with the erepublik related info.