200 EI articles

Day 645, 06:32 • Published in • by Plato

Dear citizens,

We have just celebrated the “200,000 citizens” milestone, but another one has been achieve😛 this one is the 200th eRepublik Insider article! Two hundred articles published in 645 days - that is one article every three days, for almost two years! And we will keep doing so, because the purpose of the eRepublik Insider is to keep citizens informed about the progress made, future plans, events that happen in eRepublik, and all sorts of other important subjects.

The first article published in eRepublik was this one announcing the very birth of the New World. A shy start, this first article of EI initially received only five comments 🙂. Well, since then other citizens have become interested in reading that first article ever published by admin, hence we have seen many more comments added, such as “Greetings from the future," or even requests to stop "disturbing" the article. Almost religious feelings for this article, but we can understand why.

We move forward several Insiders and reach this one, announcing the first elections held in eRepublik. Also citizens are told that in eRepublik they can choose their leaders by voting. Within weeks of the Beta launch date, the eRepublik world population reached 1000 citizens and this Insider covers the story.

This Insider announced the creation of the first eRepublik National Bank and also the introduction of the gifts industry. We take a jump over time, and a few months later this Insider announced the introduction of "Organizations" and their rules (actually, back then Organization accounts were identical to citizens). Next, eRepublik received its first war module, which was announced here. After another jump we reach the beginning of the summer of 2008, when everyone was working hard for the upcoming version of eRepublik, code-named "V1."This Insider is one of the series, announcing the raw materials which were to appear in the V1.

Exactly 12 months ago, the first public screen shot of the V1 version was released - this article received 505 votes and 226 comments. That's more like it! It was clear that everybody was waiting for V1. The next Insiders explained one by one the main concepts and features of V1, which finally was released on October 14 2008. Back then, there were 35.000 citizens in the New World. On 20th November 2008 we celebrated one year since the birth of eRepublik

Finally we approach more recent times. In the first days of January 2009, the eRepublik team expressed their plans for the first half of 2009. We can see that most of the list is now complete.

Seven months ago the trivia system, which was introduced along with V1, was removed as its removal was highly requested by community. Still, "5/5 supershot" brings back memories to many of our citizens, we are sure 🙂

You wonder when the "headless chicken" arrived in eRepublik? 😃 This 6 month old Insider tells you the story.

Four months ago our programmers priority became the citizenship module, at the request of community, and here a brainstorming session is proposed. We approached the end of our journey with the announcement of Spanish Version implementation, three months ago. Starting in June until today, another 25 Insiders have been published, covering various themes like citizen ads, the ticketing system, the new eRepublik map, citizenship, the Third World War and various “record-breakers battles.”

These are just a small fraction of the total articles published by admin. But we can see that by zooming through them we actually sail through the entire eRepublik history, from the beginning until now. This is the Insider's purpose - to keep citizens informed about what's going on in eRepublik. We hope that we are achieving our goal.


Regards,
The eRepublik Team