Goodbye and Thanks for All the Fish

Day 891, 22:23 Published in Bulgaria Bulgaria by NIKrumov

Dear friends,

By the time this letter reaches you, I will most likely be stone cold dead and blue from asphyxiation. My time has come. After a year and a half playing this god forsaken game it is time for me to bid you farewell. As I am not the kind of person who changes his mind easily for many of you this might be the last you hear from me.

The reasons behind this action are numerous but two of them stand above all else.

Firstly, I am tired of playing a game where cheating is not only tolerated but actively encouraged. Using system exploits and watching whole countries relying on multiple accounts and bot farms to climb to the top of the world pains me. It drives us into a race where no one is a winner and to a place where the fun is being sucked out of the game at an amazing pace. It doesn't matter whether you win or you lose as long as you do it in the spirit of fair competition. However, I do not feel this is the case in eRepublik. As this is a game and should be played for fun, I cannot stay around and continue playing.

Secondly, one of the reasons I joined this game was because I thought I could be competitive without investing real money into it. More and more I realize this is not the case. People buy large amounts of gold to tip the scales their way. It is against my personal beliefs to pay for stuff that is advertised as free. I have made donations and supported other online games in the past because I was truly impressed by the game creators' and administrators' efforts. Unfortunately, eRepublik was never able to achieve that status for me.

Granted, I've been aware of these two "features" of eRepublik for a long, long time and some of the friends I've made in the game that I have been very close to quitting a few times before. However, this time it's different as everyone has their boiling point and I guess watching one of the major alliances throw in north of 100,000 gold in approximately 10 days kind of did it for me.

That being said let me go to the part where I list all the cool people I've met in this game. Granted there are so many that I will probably forget someone but let me at least give it a shot.
The Bulgarians with whom I grew up in this game and who provided non-stop entertainment when we were just a small community of friends- bimba, imaginapolis, krembo, Ealendil, static_xm, Alex Funk, cnac, Jeunny, Stamb0, revenge, Grakulan, T_Ghost, Teo, and of course the honorary Bulgarian, chebbba to name just a few.
Also a great thanks to all members of the Balkan Platoon, the Bulgarian elite military unit, for being there to fight next to me. It was an honor to be your commander for the longest of times.
To all the crazy kids who joined later on and wreaked havoc in Bulgaria, such as nysex, AparopH, Daniel Dimow, I will miss your retarded and mostly funny arguments. You were among the first! Don't let some new babies take that big, scandalous aura away from you.

To all my PEACE & Phoenix friends- you are an amazing bunch! It was mostly because of that group I have kept playing for the past year.

As I depart so suddenly, if anyone ever wants to chat with me, you can get my skype from some of the Bulgarians, waffles, and a few others, so just ask aroun😛) I will also be in Hattrick for a long time, so you can find me there🙂

Let's see how many I can name by country🙂
Argentina: T, Reina, Dagian, Dante (good thing I was around to save your economy for a couple of months. You owe me your souls🙂
Brazil: Antonio, brunnno, Cavalcanti, ItsMeYoshi, Elson, Olorum, Darkvenom, nuutxer, Reshev- thanks for having me in your army and just for your attitude towards the game has always been impressive. stay just as cool as you are.
Chile: Iliaco- hugs or gtf😇
Estonia: maatriks -for being the cool estonian that saved that country for the longest time🙂
France: Mavie75, Mv13 & Kirill - I could have sworn there were a lot more frenchies who were awesome so apologies for forgetting you
Germany: Gobba, Donnie Bronco- for saving Germany's reputation and for being one of the best SGs we could have asked for
Hungary: Feherlo, Kampec, Mikrobi, Tricium, sorihun, Doggett, hekkat, Shaok- best strategists and tactians of this game- keep cool as you are and good luck in retaking what is, honestly, rightfully yours for all the fun you brought to the game
Indonesia: aban, Nico, wander, puppetmaster, blackmanta, flik_kenni- Nico, sorry I have to leave and leave Indo defenseless but I hope the rest of the Bulgarians will keep looking over you and save your sorry butt🙂 Incidentally, do you want a weapons company? 😃 aban, stay cool, carebear gangsta🙂 Indo, Australia, South Africa, and actually the whole eworld belongs to you! Thank you for being my second home in this game for almost a year.
Iran: NEC, atilaa, milad, saeed- I hope you finally your get your wars and kick some butt.
😃 Irelan😛 Dishmcds, Michael Collins- what can i say? the awesomest😃
Italy: Rhevard, bisiacco & mappina, vegaicm, Furio, Antimo, zocky- i hope one day italy could be as cool as it used to be and with these kind of people I don't see how they won't...
Japan- Oraizan, Kokawa, Akki- I miss the cool Japanese🙂
Latvia: KKK, Nameisis- I wonder where would Latvia be without you🙂
Mexico: Dhoo- where is that troll?
UNL: Kixtart, Jazar, AndreasIssakson, DanielB, MitchRapp, ThomasRed- best of luck guys, if you ever decide to unite the countries.
Pakistan: GlaDOS, Trichoplax, AgentChieftain, Altnabla- channers will haunt my dreams till the way i die🙂
Portugal: euphonix, LcfR, Arthk, Raikael- Who knew Portugal was a country of moustaches before playing this🙂
Russia: kotekzot, uncleded, romool, HankScorpio, borges, Phagocyte, Smirnoff, Mossad, Alicanto- thanks for providing fun be it with screwing up major operations or helping in historic victories🙂
Serbia: Kistru, Clueless, sesta, Lipec, Djox, desert hamster, Lunatic, Ludak, darko, Strahinjic, oddyZR, serviana, Tashunica, vonMartin-you guys are the best allies one could ask for. Best evah.
Slovenia: StiH, Karantanec, Janez, Rudolf Master 1 & 2- StiH, I promise one day you will get a pic in the mail of a man in thongs that will remind you of me cause it will be me🙂
Turkey: onrche, teknik, poker- ...and onrche sucks😃
UK: Hassan, kumnaa- thanks for recognizing and admitting how much atlantis sucke😛)

And to the few other people, I encountered around here (Crista, Eddie, Quicksilver, Mellie, Smara, Erwin, QJ Lincoln, Nina, etc.)- I will be seeing some of you around but as far as the rest of you go- it was a pleasure and I will miss you🙂

The following is an apology to my countrymates.

Извинявам се, че не си удържах на думата да се пусна за президент и да натроша румънски кокали, но съм сигурен, че и без мен ще се справите. Все пак страната ни има хора като бимба и Мейорес, които вършат страхотна работа и които винаги ще са добре приети във Феникс. Надявам се, че ще имате поводи за радост съвсем скоро срещу румънските агресори.

Като завещание оставям собствеността си на Еалендил и Мушморок. Моля, който има да ми връща пари или компании да ги изпрати на тях. (Димов, тебе гледам😁

И като за последно, моля ви запомнете: Това е просто игра. Забавлявайте се🙂

Thank you and I will see you in another life. It was an honor and a pleasure. Now I am off to change my password to a random sequence of characters and to commit esuicide.

Sincerely,
chukcha

/me kicks the chair