eRepublik's Unfinished Features

Day 3,505, 13:39 Published in Norway Norway by Major Lee Hung

With eRepublik now under new ownership, perhaps we'll see a much needed change in strategy. In the earlier days, when new things were added to eRepublik, we got the complete & finished thing. Today, we get only half finished & useless updates to give the illusion that eRepublik is still improving. In reality, it's a much worse game now and feels like so much is missing - because it is. For some things I'm sure the wait time will be indefinite as the developers focus their attention on other projects.

Our only hope is that the dwindling activity numbers force the completion of what could be some great changes.
Houses Update
Time elapse😛 1,071 days

When houses were initially introduced to us, they were dubbed as a "much needed" change and the "fixed economy" we spent years asking for. I put this one on first as it's the closest to a complete feature we've had in a long time.
Q6 & Q7 Houses
We still await the Q6 & Q7 houses. We were promised that these would arrive "soon", and would not only boost our maximum energy but speed up energy recovery. Demand for Q7 companies will be high, and with each company costing over 1,000 gold the developers have an incentive to add them.




Aircraft Update
Time elapse😛 346 days

After a "new server" - promising parity for new players - was largely shot down by the community we got this little gem instead. What we have a year on however is nothing short than a complete flop for something that really could have reinvigorated the game.
The list of "coming soon" features
-A training facility to increase perception
-New qualities of aircraft
-The ability of the attacking side to choose whether or not a battle will take place in the air
-'Epic' aircraft battles

There's been no official word on when (or if) we can expect any of this.




Cities Update
Time elapse😛 38 days

A new addition to eRepublik, we can only guess when this so far completely pointless change will add something to our eRepublik experience. This was a potentially exciting change that added tons of potential, though so far it hasn't delivered anything.
"Coming soon"

-Local elections

That's right - a whole new update with tons of potential that will give us... just one more election. Maybe if we're lucky it will add a new trophy for us to collect as well.

Interestingly we were given some of of ETA on when to expect this update's completion. An ominous ETA of "in the following weeks" followed by complete silence. As it's now been over a month, this module has earned a place on this list.


Dictatorship Update
Time elapse😛 853 days

Another module with huge potential. This one will be kept short and sweet. When originally announced, we were told by the eRepublik team:
"We plan to continue adding dictatorship related features over the following weeks."

Well, all of this time has passed and all we've seen added are additional costs, on what has been a poor implementation of a great idea.




Guerrilla Fights Update
Time elapse😛 1,558

"This is just the beginning."



I guess we're just lucky nobody does them anymore....


Thanks!

I know this only touches on the improvements we've been expecting. Maybe one day we'll get a finished update, until then we can only dream.... until the eRepublik team stop releasing half-cooked, unfinished rubbish to us, the game is only going to get worse.

Considering it took several years for us to get a simple map update (which promised so many undelivered updates that they'd need their own article) I'm not optimistic that we can expect much.