A Broken Game
Day 874, 05:55
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by Nero Preto
USA, 06:00 (Apr12) | Day 874 of the New World
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eRep is fun, although not the kind of fun appealing to a large audience it still attracts thousands of loyal player on a daily basis. Some check in for a few minutes, other are on for a few hours still others cant seem to get enough, devoting several hours a day to eRepublik and eRep related topics. The sheer devotion so many show is a tribute to the kind of attractiveness eRep has. Combining Military/Economic strategy with a dose of social networking there's no denying eRepublik has developed a committed and loyal following.
Knowing how clever the eRep package is and the results its brought to fruition i'm surprised to see how flawed and undependable the game has become. Bugs are bearable, although its annoying to click the latest news button and not understand a thing cause the news i'm seeing is in Russia or Spanish or Indonesian. Its also annoying to write up an article only to see it disappear when you try to publish it. These and other bugs isn't what's bothering me, its not what's ruining eRepublik, bugs are bearable. I can live with these minor inconveniences. What I cant live with, what sucks the fun out of eRep is the blatant cheating and disregard for eRep rules. Rather its mutis or DDOS attack cheaters literally erase the sacrifice so many make to advance their cause. Battles keep going way past what rules states it should, countries get PTOed through multis, when things seem to be getting tough for Phoenix battles get hit with DDOS, making sniping a battle or winning it almost impossible.
What eRep needs is a heavy dose of enforcement and consequence for those who break the rules. Reversing one multi driven PTO is not enough, banning one multi creator out of hundreds hardly brings home the point. So V2 is set to come out soon, I tremble at the feast cheaters are bound to have with it. Like any new product V2 will inevitably have loopholes, ways to bypass new rules and regulations. As V1 has shown its likely that administration will have their work cut out for them, problem is that half the time admin fails to decisively act against anything unlawful. eRep comes with rules, designed to make the game competitive and in effect fun, but failing to enforce those very rules takes the element of fun out of eRep. In fact eRep can become frustrating and being that the point of any game including eRepublik is to have fun, a game that becomes in any way frustrating or disappointing as eRep seems to be makes it nothing more then A Broken Game.
Broken game is broken.
-Ingo Castilho-
Editor's Corner - Lack of Vision
One of the biggest gifts a leader can give his or her people is a common vision. A vision should unite the team so they can rally behind it, take ownership of it and make it their cause. Without a united vision, the individuals will create their own goals and the leader loses control of the group. Meanwhile, the leader cannot achieve his vision without the team taking some ownership of it. It is much easier to manage a team when everyone is aligned with a common set of goals vs. multiple individual goals.
Anxiety is created when people don't know the goals or expectations. A common vision for everyone to rally behind solves that problem. The lack of it creates more anxiety and stress on the team. A stressed out team loses productivity and quality as they scramble to please the boss with an unknown vision. This can also create infighting as people struggle to make their vision the common goal of the team. Rather than working together, a team ends up as a group of people working independently rather than working as a whole.
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| A BROKEN GAME |
| EDITORIAL GIRL |
| SELECTED ARTICLE |
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Best regards,
Ingo Castilho ~ official writer & reporter
Nero Preto ~ press director & publishing editor
| PLEASE VOTE & SUBSCRIBE |
eRep is fun, although not the kind of fun appealing to a large audience it still attracts thousands of loyal player on a daily basis. Some check in for a few minutes, other are on for a few hours still others cant seem to get enough, devoting several hours a day to eRepublik and eRep related topics. The sheer devotion so many show is a tribute to the kind of attractiveness eRep has. Combining Military/Economic strategy with a dose of social networking there's no denying eRepublik has developed a committed and loyal following.
Knowing how clever the eRep package is and the results its brought to fruition i'm surprised to see how flawed and undependable the game has become. Bugs are bearable, although its annoying to click the latest news button and not understand a thing cause the news i'm seeing is in Russia or Spanish or Indonesian. Its also annoying to write up an article only to see it disappear when you try to publish it. These and other bugs isn't what's bothering me, its not what's ruining eRepublik, bugs are bearable. I can live with these minor inconveniences. What I cant live with, what sucks the fun out of eRep is the blatant cheating and disregard for eRep rules. Rather its mutis or DDOS attack cheaters literally erase the sacrifice so many make to advance their cause. Battles keep going way past what rules states it should, countries get PTOed through multis, when things seem to be getting tough for Phoenix battles get hit with DDOS, making sniping a battle or winning it almost impossible.
What eRep needs is a heavy dose of enforcement and consequence for those who break the rules. Reversing one multi driven PTO is not enough, banning one multi creator out of hundreds hardly brings home the point. So V2 is set to come out soon, I tremble at the feast cheaters are bound to have with it. Like any new product V2 will inevitably have loopholes, ways to bypass new rules and regulations. As V1 has shown its likely that administration will have their work cut out for them, problem is that half the time admin fails to decisively act against anything unlawful. eRep comes with rules, designed to make the game competitive and in effect fun, but failing to enforce those very rules takes the element of fun out of eRep. In fact eRep can become frustrating and being that the point of any game including eRepublik is to have fun, a game that becomes in any way frustrating or disappointing as eRep seems to be makes it nothing more then A Broken Game.
Broken game is broken.
-Ingo Castilho-
Editor's Corner - Lack of Vision
One of the biggest gifts a leader can give his or her people is a common vision. A vision should unite the team so they can rally behind it, take ownership of it and make it their cause. Without a united vision, the individuals will create their own goals and the leader loses control of the group. Meanwhile, the leader cannot achieve his vision without the team taking some ownership of it. It is much easier to manage a team when everyone is aligned with a common set of goals vs. multiple individual goals.
Anxiety is created when people don't know the goals or expectations. A common vision for everyone to rally behind solves that problem. The lack of it creates more anxiety and stress on the team. A stressed out team loses productivity and quality as they scramble to please the boss with an unknown vision. This can also create infighting as people struggle to make their vision the common goal of the team. Rather than working together, a team ends up as a group of people working independently rather than working as a whole.
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Please vote these up:
MI - Battle Cry
The Army Times
Please read, vote & subscribe for orders:
DoD Orders
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| A BROKEN GAME |
| EDITORIAL GIRL |
| SELECTED ARTICLE |
Help USA to Get Babies / Move to Karnataka!
Best regards,
Ingo Castilho ~ official writer & reporter
Nero Preto ~ press director & publishing editor
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Where were you when the bugs were affecting Phoenix/PEACE countries? Where were all these complains when we were losing battles because they didn't end on time, where were the complains when we didn't get back initiative because of bugs? Where were all the complains when while i was able to figth once in 10 minutes, during the same interval the EMC was tanking down a wall with 1 milion points?
Hell, the USA has 3 e😜residents who openly admited they cheated big time, revealing even their tricks. Romanian e😜residents have no problem with admiting that Romania had (and probably still has) a program that would create thousands of undetectable clones, just that they refused to us them (the question is has their staff also done the same decision).
Complains start with cleaning out your own garden.
The game is suffering with all these bugs that are exploited by both sides.
@ Clawy
Phoenix seems to benefit more than they loose, which is probably why they celebrate bugs as part of the game. Cheaters should be punished wherever they come from. Bugs should be fixed.
Making up a list of random partially correct facts and open lies doesn't change those principles.
Tell me which of the examples i mentioned above is a lie.
When EDEN/ex-EDEN will be demanding a banning of one of their own members for cheating (another example: the spanish president who attacked France while getting the initiative because of battles ending in wrong order, even through the retreat button was pushed hours earlier), instead of glorying these people, i will do the same. Until then, it is only words.
"Cheaters should be punished wherever they come from. Bugs should be fixed. "
I do agree on this one.
Although i agree with your article it is unfair to just highlight PHX and ignore the hunderds of EDEN and Brolliance players that cheat on a daily basis as well. These kinds of things have nothing to do with the Alliances but with the people who cause them. People from everywhere.
@clawy
If not made up, post the links please. (Though ill cut you slack on the Spanish attacks since long ago battles are a little harder to deal with than old article from a Romanian president admitting to cheating.)
The bugs are a big problem, but the bigger issue is the number of multis in the game. In the last PP election in eAustralia we were tracking 2-3 multies being created per minute at one point. That's right, per minute. Many were banned, many not.
Dont bring V2
Fix this first please 🙁
I have so many babies and its hard to keep them playing where your bugzes grow bigger and bigger
"Phoenix seems to benefit more than they loose"
Heh?
You must read history first kiddo
Yup, bugs are bad. I mean we lost both Aquitaine and RA due to bugs. Did we get those regions back? Nope. Will we get them back? Nope.
It's just the way how things work.
Both sides cheat, and they say, that the other cheated.
Vote and sub.
Sir, you put the Army Times in, which is great, but if you're going to do that could you please put the Army Group East times? We are currently the only Army newspaper producing any work - AGW is still sorting out their situation with the Army Times.
Other than that, great article. I totally agree with you, and wrote an article similar but shorter and more blunt. Let's face it - there are too many kids on here, who were never taught to do the right thing by their parents. That's what it boils down to. People who want to cheat and lie, are going to do that - and the rest of us honest folks are going to suffer.
AGE Times is here. http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/an-interview-with-the-chairman-1298942/1/20" target="_blank">http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/an-i[..]/1/20
That is a shame !
Phoenix should RW, that WA region if they have any sense of game playing...