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Defense systems and why we don't have them.

Day 683, 07:46 • Published in Malaysia

• by Thomas Thade

Greetings fellow eFroseans, I apologize in advance for this entirely dry article. If you you don't understand why we don't have defense systems read on.

Yes I understand that we could just point repeatedly to the wiki or to the forums, but it has come to my attention that people would just rather hear an explanation on this subject, and this seems an effiecient way of doing so. so vote it up.

Now mind you I know almost as little as most newbies to this game about defense systems so all of this is straight out of the wiki or from another's mouth (errrr... keyboard).

Defense systems aren't automated defending units as I first thought,but instead add a bonus to the defender's battle wall. a q1 will add 10%, a q2 20% and so on up to q5. The population of a region adds 100 defense points per person and therefore the bonus that defensive systems give are even more powerful the larger the population.

This increased wall increases the amount of damage and therefore time it takes for an attacking country to win a region.

Many may be asking why then do we not buy them.

To put it simply, if any country that we need the aid of defense systems against attacks us... defense systems aren't going to help. They cost an enormous amount of money that could be used for weapons or other resources needed for the resistance war that could be the only way of recovering our lost region vs such a large enemy.

as for the rest of our neighbors they aren't powerful enough to warrant a defense system. In classic military strategy it takes 3 times the amount of force to win an offensive war of attrition. There is no country that powerful, except for those so powerful as to make initial resistance futile anyway.

links to information (please leave any others you know in the comments thank you)
http://wiki.erepublik.com/index.php/War_Tutorial
http://wiki.erepublik.com/index.php/Defense_System

I hope this has been helpful, and I welcome any questions you may have. If I don't have the answer then I will try to find someone who does.

Thanks go to Badlands17 for much of the information in this article, found in his comment on his article http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/platform-for-my-second-term-966891/1/20

Farewell fellow Froseans
Thomas Thade

Comments

Darrenj93 Day 683, 08:00

now i know

Gentyle Day 683, 08:04

Good article for new people. Def Systems are just not worth anything to a small country it seems. Price should be based on country size since it offers many more benefits to large countries than smaller one. At that point who is selling to small countries for the low price. Another unfortunate aspect of this game.

Thomas Thade Day 683, 08:42

now you know and knowing is half the battle. 😛

@Gentyle
Thanks

Yeah it does seem that defense systems are almost useless for small nations but overwhelmingly useful for larger nations. And yet the prices are the same.

Something I forgot to mention is that population increases the defending wall and there increases the bonus that defense systems give
fixed

Kryteshyft Day 683, 11:22

I wrote a similar article here:

http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/defense-system1-955574/1/20" target="_blank">http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/defe[..]1/20

But everything's for Singapore.
It does have more numbers, etc., so you can use it for that. You guys would be able to deal more damage distributing weapons than us, because you have more people, and your wall would be higher because of your higher pop, but the point is the same.

You only have around 3x our pop so it's not a big difference.

Also, even for big countries, Defense Systems can't help you win the battle, they merely expand the range in which the wall can be in for you to go into overtime.

ie, in order to win, you have to deal more damage than the enemy, no matter how high a wall you start with..

Thomas Thade Day 683, 11:47

@Kryteshyft
I did not know that. Thank you very much.

Good article as well.

gen_tiger Day 683, 19:18

indeed, similar amount of money we should spend to expanding the economic and also strengthen our country military strength (training wars, higher q weapons) 😃

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