A Continuity Error
Doggstar
So today a very poignant question popped into my mind. Am I crazy or are the people who put this game's promotions together acting as if they are absolutely lacking in any ability to think ahead? I believe it is the latter.
Exhibit A : We started this week with the cupid missions... which were kind of cute. That being said given the regeneration bonuses lasted much less than one week so they were at best, theatrics. Any other bonuses (ebars, bombs, etc.) were more or less a waste to be consumed to achieve the near useless energy regeneration bonus. Ultimately the most useful part of this mission is the snazzy badge that looks like someone raided Liberace or Elton John's jewellery box. In other words, it was a major waste of resources. Really simple question - why not let the cupid regeneration bonuses last this week?
Exhibit B : Powerspin. This week saw the return of Powerspin and if you figured eRepublik couldn't think 15 minutes into the future, this verified it. One of the prizes was a +100 energy building and one of the JACKPOTS was a +500 energy building. Now unless I'm missing something, extra energy buildings are virtually USELESS if my energy is growing at 10 units per 6 minutes. To be blunt, the +500 energy JACKPOT BONUS it a complete farce. In the absence of accelerated energy regeneration this functioned as a con job to separate gold from players. There is not possible other explanation. Really simple question - why not let the cupid regeneration bonuses last this week?
Exhibit C : Weekly challenge. It's clear that the individual who put the weekly challenge together did it with the expectation of rapid energy regeneration. This week the 60 energy bar bonus kicks in at 7,000 prestige points. That sounds a lot like 70,000 energy will be needed to be spent to get there. At 10 energy per 6 minutes that would take how long? Hell, even if I spent hundreds of ebars to get there it's going to be virtually impossible. I am currently solidly top 5 in each category in my country this week and I likely haven't got a prayer of hitting it and there are 3 days left. With almost half the week left I have to either buy or regenerate 22000 energy units after spending 48000 in order to hit the top prize. Now I understand that all people can't have all the prizes, but this week's breakout is absurd. True insolence was displayed by the fact the standard energy accelerator we see EVERY WEEK was absent. Really simple question - why not let the cupid regeneration bonuses last this week?
So in summary there are 2 possible conclusions we can draw from this weeks "promotions" on eRepublik. You tell me which one is correct.
1) There are several people who work on promotions that never spoke to one another or thought ahead because clearly the Weekly Challenge and Powerspin were designed with the idea that massive, longer lasting energy regeneration would be available. Ultimately the effect of this "oversight" was to flush gold out of the game - it certainly did that for me.
2) Cupid's promotion and the Powerspin were cleverly designed to extract maximum gold and resources from the customer base and leave them frustrated. On the bright side, the non gold buyers can laugh at the gold buyers. On the dim side, anyone (such as me) who supports the game learned a valuable lesson. Burn your money, at least you can warm yourself and cook.
I hope it was conclusion 1.
Your promotions are designed to foster frequent play and support from your clients (ie. players). You missed the mark by an uncharacteristically wide margin this week. Unfortunately for you, the ones you left most frustrated are the ones who support the rest of the crowd. This game is a business like any other business and I'm sure the 80 / 20 rule exists here. 20% spend 80% of the money.
I'm not mad but I am disappointed.
Comments
Well put and very accurate. v + s
Well said.
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Right on the money. Really keen observations.
Plus bonus points for mentioning Liberace
o7
After reading this article and checking the registration date of the author, I'm puzzled what game has he been playing for the past 4 and a half years, if he's coming to such realizations now.
Everything in this game is being "designed/modelled" by playing admins, who are not only incompetent and unable to make any sort of analysis on what effect a given change or "promotion" can/will have on the game and on the player community, but they purposefully try to satiate the wants and needs of their "buddies" and "top customers".
The only good thing of it all is, that6 due to their incompetence form time to time things backfire or there are unintended consequences that actually through no fault of theirs add to the game.
Perhaps you missed this part :
"You missed the mark by an uncharacteristically wide margin this week."
I'm used to minor ripples but this past 4-5 days is a level of absurdity I haven't seen here.
meh the comment was not malicious 😉, the game has been getting progressively worst all the time, visual bugs are the rage nowadays.
Groovy
o7
V&S
I bet it's a combination of 1 and 2 unfortunately.
Swipe, swipe, swipe.
I play this game my way,no amount of freebies given out on weekly challenge/power spins/cupids will make me change that.............................ive limited weapons per week and resources.....so the admins can think up all they like,not changing my way of playing.
I do a certain amount of damage each week and no more 🙂
Eventually they'll have to do something with energy regeneration, nowadays we can "store" way too much energy (with little or no effort anyone can have 700/700) that 10/6 refill is just absurd. It worked well when people had 500-600 energy without another 500-600 in reserve.
Plato needs Gold!
keep him away from our hockey teams
If only Plato and his minions would read and learn something from this, but don't hold your breath. They have dumb down the game to the point it's not that interesting to most new players and a lot of us old players are only hear because of old for friendships built over time. V+S
Indeed.
It's like giving us a 500 gallon gas tank for our moped.
Well said.
Indeed.
I'm currently getting 60 health a tick, which is breaking down every argument in this article.
just sayin.
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I'm getting 10. I was getting 40 this morning. I'm not the nicest man in the world, but I can count.
that's not changing the fact that i'm still getting 60 per tick.
bu pixel even @ 60 you will only have that until 5 days after the missions end... which is end of today... so you will suffer this same fate in a matter of hours for 2 days as well
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I still love eRepublik despite it's many faults. I think I'm here more for the community rather than the actual game mechanics.
I think it's more like the 2-98 rule. Only 2% of players pay any significant amount of gold. (Of course, those 2% of players are probably 30% of the database population, but that's another matter altogether!)
Nice article doggstar !
o7
true dat
Great article. I agree with the person above, 10 every 6 minutes is absurd honestly. I have 950 for energy storage right now. What the hell is 10 going to do? Not to mention that half of the time when I hit the "consume food" button, it consumes an EB too, so basically I'm wasting my EB's when there is no reason too.
Sigh.
true story bro.
Rational logic 😕= eRepublik logic
I was running on 50energy/6minutes until yesterday. Now I'm at 20energy/6minutes.
I'm hoping to get to the 50 energy bars without using any of my stash and then I'll stop.
I have just under 1000 prestige to reach 4000 prestige with only 2 day left.
... I doubt I'll make it far next week with only 20energy/6minutes next week.
Where are you seeing 50 ebars at 4000 points? I was as 4800 when I wrote this and I didn't get any 50 ebars. You'll get 60 at 7000. Good luck with that adventure.
Div3&4 have different prizes for the weekly challenge.
I agree 100 %