A letter to eRepublik Labs
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by code0011
As you have not ceased to remind us over the past few weeks, eRepublik has now been around for four years. During this period several versions have been used, removed and replaced. Several spin-off's have been created, two which have sort of taken off. Millions of accounts have been made and ~290,000 are actively in use.
The App Store has been around for 3 years, has over 500,000 Apps, and boasts a total of over 18,000,000,000 downloads.
This begs a question: Why is there not an eRepublik app? It seems logical that a game of this size deserves an app to go with it, which is why I propose the following request:
Facilitate the immediate creation of an eRepublik App.
Here is a list of ideas that I had about the app:
1) Make it easier to navigate between different pages. You have inevitably seen what Facebook did with their app, I'm sure you can do something similar.
2) You can get ads on an app. Pester the hell out of people who download the free version so they download the paid version.
3) Make an incentive for people to download the paid for app, such as a bonus to strength when you train, or a monthly gold reward, or a Super Special Awesome goody bundle, which could include any or all of the following: Q5 weapons, bazookas, gold, currency, strength, rank points, storage, land etc...
4) Create special missions and achievements for the app to encourage people to download it.
5) Create an ability to work and train while offline. I have lost countless amounts of gold because the area I decided to go camping in didn't have signal. If there was an app that would allow me to work while offline and then sync with the main eRepublik server once the app went online I, and anyone else who has ever had this problem would have a lot fewer FFFFFFFUUUUUUUU moments.
I welcome any and all suggestions in relation to my request.
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A letter to eRepublik Labs
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/1915347/1/20
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First denied.
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MAKE IT BETTER!
RA! RA!
If only
Good Suggestions I must say. In-fact I have faced similar problems as you did on camping.
Would use
Stop being so damn sensible
This would only work on the assumption that the majority of people use the iPhone
So we need an iPhone, now?
Good idea, you should also send this letter in a ticket to the mods. They're pretty good listeners
Any Apple device, such as an iTouch, iPad, iPhone etc...
Or Droids...
There is an eRep app.
Get a brower strong enough to run eRep... there's your app. : P
There is no need for eRep to waste money/time/effort developing separate phone-specific apps.
Indeed, that's something that I also need quite often as I own an iPhone (and is equal for Android owners too).
The reason why we don't work on it yet is that we are not yet happy with all the eRepublik modules.
For example the economics module we think that it lost part of it's "real life" feeling during this year. And is something that we have to fix in the following period of time.
I'm expecting that in the second part of next year we should start focusing also on a better accessibility on mobiles too.
Thanks
George, you almost destroyed the economical module. I am quite afraid about another series of changies. Already you ruined my expansion plans several times.
@ Darkslowstar +1
Make it android based, Iphone's are just not it... They simply fail.
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Make it iphone & Android based, iphone for the people who have to much money & Android for the smarter people
Good to see George replying to this article. Hopefully they actually do things to help the econ mod.
iPhone app FTW!!! Please create an iPhone app! This would be epic. I would pay for a paid version mostly, although I rarely do pay for apps on the AppStore.
Screw apple ..... Make an android app ....
Would be nicer if they'd actually make an API that could allow players to interact a bit more with the game so there could be several apps across all platforms. But screw the API, who ever uses that 😑
Ya I deffinitly don't have an Iphone.
or better yet, they could fix what's wrong with the game.
They will just fudge it up any way.
iApps sucks, do it on Android first 😉
I agree! And make it ipad capable. And make it free. And make it give us a +gold advantage.
This stuff takes $$$...
well, tablet and smartphones demand drives the new trend, they are app-based and their users normally don't have a problem to pay for a service. i see profit. with no special offers
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No, I mean developing and porting an application as complicated as eRep to a ios / android platform is expensive - and let's face it, erepublik isn't exactly breaking the bank.
Don't forget a Windows Phone 7 app!
All you would get would be headless chicken anyway....
Great idea
it might get some exposure for the game
Erep would never do that. Too sensible.
Whoo! That'd be pretty kewl, especially helpful for people who go to work and can hop on their phone when they have a second to fight or whatever.
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