Our journey so far in 2009

Day 619, 06:23 • Published in • by Plato

Dear citizens,

In an Insider article at the beginning of 2009, we shared with you some of our summer deadlines, which included our plans and challenges regarding game improvements. Now it's time to see what we have accomplished.

-New citizen laws. Done. The previous set of laws has been replaced with a better one earlier this year. Of course, just like in real life, laws need constant improvements and modifications to keep up with the realities of the New World.

-eRepublik shop. Done. Different types of T-shirts, passports, are available. Other eRepublik branded souvenirs will come soon.

-Translation in other languages. Done. First steps are always the hardest, and we have done that with the Spanish version of eRepublik. More translations will follow.

-Adviser system. Done. Plato is ready to guide all citizens through the New World. He also loves to advise newly born citizens. But he's most proud because he became an actor in the eRepublik video tutorials.

-API system. This application offers many opportunities to citizens willing to develop various eRepublik-related applications. These applications have their dedicated server ready to supply them with the desired information, and their purpose is to make the life of each citizen easier by providing different game related stats. The eRepublik API system will be improved throughout the entire year, with many features coming soon.

-Add new countries. Done. In the past months fifteen countries have joined us: Chile, Serbia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, North Korea, Bolivia, Colombia, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay.

-Moderator module. Done. Our team grew considerably by recruiting moderators from within the community, which has helped us a lot in our moderation efforts. For citizen, the moderators module means much faster answers to your problems concerning inappropriate content you encounter in eRepublik articles, comments, etc. The moderators program is a success, and we would like to thank all the participants.

-Citizen ads. Done. Citizens have a powerful tool available to advertise their ideas, articles, products, parties, and so much more. The excellent targeting options assure the well balanced costs-benefits ratio.

-Citizenship. This feature wasn't on our to-do list six months ago, but our team focused on it and brought citizenship to the New World due to the large amount of requests from within the community. Our goal is to improve citizen experience, so we carefully listened to your request, and will continue to do so.

Poll system, visual improvements and customization – these were either postponed or partially done, like some visual improvements. We'll keep working on it, and we will let you know about our progress.

The list also contained three more things, that are also highly requested by the community: a new map, a new war module, and general manager's tools. All of them are “in production.” The reason for the delay is their complexity and also work done for other unplanned features, like citizenship.

In the near feature the new eRepublik map will be the first to arrive, in about two weeks. Details and a sneak preview can be found in one of our previous Insiders.

Company's tools will also be implemented in September, offering managers a much more professional way of managing their business.

The new war module is also in production, but the complete redesign of it asks for a tremendous amount of work, and we can't provide a certain time frame for its implementation. Anyway, we'll need several months more to finish this new war module.

As you can see, pretty soon (within just weeks), only the war module will be left on our to-do list from that insider related to major features that need to be added in eRepublik. We have come a long way from the V1 launch, but we are sure that there are many other features that would improve your eRepublik experience. Listening to the citizens' requests is incredibly important to us, and because of this, the top three requirements from the community (citizenship, company tools and the world map) that were extracted from the survey a couple of months ago, have now been implemented or are down the pipe with the 'soon to come' status.

Of course we are planning to make many further improvements and we will be sharing these with you for feedback progressively.

Thanks for your support and feel free to express your thoughts regarding our journey so far in a comment to this article.

The eRepublik Team