I feel a wee bit invalidated...
Rob the Bruce
As most of us know, Plato has done a new thingamajig:
The idea behind this update sounded quite interesting before they revealed how the mechanics actually worked, starting revolutions sounded great for a country like the eUK where political bawfests and slander articles get everybody so excited.
For me the political and media modules are what keeps me playing the game. The military module is truly the most ridiculous and crap "feature" in any game I've ever seen. It's just clicking the hell out of one button to push a bar to the other side. I've seen better entertainment from even the most amateurish flash game devs. It's a simple pay to win where if you have a well stacked debit or credit card, you'll win, if you don't, you'll never catch up.
But that's OK.
I understand Plato's reasoning for keeping such a system, it's the only module he can make money off of. (I mean there is the economic module but that's just setting yourself up for military endeavors, really.) I've never needed to use the military module excessively. I do fight if it looks like I can win a BH easily or fancy doing the DO to gain a measly energy bar to get some sort of self-validation, feel I'm doing something useful. Overall though, it's a pile o' crap.
But it's ok cuz I've got me politics and bawwww
The politics and media modules in this game are great. All the terms in that image I have are completely irrelevant, of course. Congress is just a bunch of people arguing over things that don't matter and it's great to just get sucked into it all and then wonder wtf you're doing with your life. The media compliments this nicely, facilitating a place for everybody to have something to baw about.
A big part of all this politics shizznit is elections. Obviously. It's important to try to choose the right people for all the glorious button pushing roles. Party presidents have to put effort into seriously sexy congress lists to woo the population, and people running for the positions of power that are PP spots and CP terms have to take the time to put serious effort into manifestos. You had to try and sway people, and along the way in your political blundering you'd make some friends and 'ave gr8 banter. Actually trying to get people to see your point of view and getting involved chatting to people in your party is what keeps me sane playing this ridiculous game, and the only reason I didn't die within two weeks of starting.
Then this flippin' update popped up
The idea behind it was sound, but the actual mechanics are awful and effectively make my playing of the game completely useless.
Now it's all the goddamn military module that I don't care about. Any old bloke with some dosh can now saunter in and take away everybody's power. Clicking the fight button can now completely bypass the electioneering process.
The way this works, for those that aren't aware, is that any MU commander that decides "ya know what, I fancy unlimited power" can spend 200k to start a revolution. That's it, no challenge or anything. Any old sod can then join his MU to support it, or any MU in the country can decide to support the revolution allowing their members to fight for it. Should a revolution be successful, the new chappie can now bypass mongress and the CP, the whole voting process, and do whatever he fancies. Should he be as rich as the likes of Ser Fartsalot and Alfagrem, he could effectively maintain this power pretty easily.
The 40 or so potential congressmen are now completely irrelevant.
The poor ol' CP candidate that put so much effort into getting himself democratically elected is now completely irrelevant.
The PPs that pick the congress lists are now completely irrelevant.
This makes about 42 people who had stuff to do completely irrelevant, all because of one guy with a nice shiny MU.
So what's the point of politicking at all?
The political module is now literally the military module. Plato has made his least interesting game module the most important thing on the planet. My playing of this game is useless, any work I put into giving myself something to do can be invalidated by any militaryfag, who doesn't have to put that much effort in. So wtf should I keep playing for?
I have spent a total of about 30 euros on this game, which has got me very little progress in Plato's favourite module. I don't plan on spending any more on something I find so dull. However any time I spend doing what I enjoy, running for congress and the occasional bit of PP'ing, can be invalidated instantly by some dudes with lots of money.
The game has gone from the military and economy being pay to win, to the whole damn game becoming pay to win. I don't want to pay. I need money for things that actually matter.
Without paying I can't do anything fun, my congress is invalidated by people with money, running for CP is invalidated by people with money. I could run for PP and make a fancy congress list that will then be invalidated by people with bloody money. It's all a complete waste of time, so why bother?
Everything I do can now be effortlessly made pointless by those that do the military module exclusively. So really there's no reason for those like me to bother playing anymore.
Thankfully, our current govt is doing a temporary dictatorship under the glorious reign of Chaz, to give us time to come up with a plan to make sure knobheads don't seize power all the time. So, therefore Imma stick around to see how things play out, but I do wonder what the point in me doing anything in this game is now that this update is out.
TL
😉R
Politics is now pointless
This is not the sort of game changing update I wanted
Plato plz
Thank you for slogging it through my waffle, I'm surprised you got this far.
-Rob the Bruce
This article feels so long oml
Comments
This dictatorship model will kill the game off at an even faster rate than it was already happening at . People will just leave the game as they don't have the power to overthrow the dictatorship and there's no point partaking in the political module.
Exactly.
Don't pretend like I'd let you quit.
terrible article subscribed 10/10 - IGN
The admins have already accepted the game's dead, these civil wars are just them milking the big VISAs for every last penny before it goes kaput.
A reasonable summary.
xX_PlatoSWAGFAG_Xx does wot he wants.
I agree...
www.erepublik.com/en/article/2500778/1/20
Whoopee, someone has just realised that politics in eRep is pointless.
Pity the realisation that politics in eRep have always been pointless didn't occur sooner
fixed TL😉R
Politics WAS ALWAYS pointless
Not true - politics *used* to be a load of fun - but current political model has been lobotomised. The days when Congressional candidates actually had to canvas for votes (each being elected on a region by region basis) was far superior to the faceless 'PP selects his mates' system that is currently in place.
This Dictator crap *is* pointless and *will* pass - just like some of the other bollucks that has been and gone, Who could forget the hugely over complicated hex-based combat module that took hours to do anything - or even the totally powerless and pointless regional "Mayors"?
Agreed on the first part and hope for the second one to happen.
elections used to be good when you had to vote for a candidate not for the party list. This was strategy now you just push a button.
Politics is the single thing that made eRep a successfull game.
This update just makes sure new players get no chance at all to take part in the game anymore aside from two-clicking for 7 years to tag up to a decent strength level.
Too much CC sloshing around in eRep, Plato just wants to kill some of it, same as he did with Air Strikes.
Great Article this is everything I said yesterday but couldnt be assed to write I applaud you and I'm sure many other think and feel the same
Admin has made a silly move, also note how it take only 1 battle to control the country wtf I could understand if you had to conquer over 50% of the country regions but no just 1 battle , admin need their head tested
It's a strange day when you find yourself agreeing with more than half of one of Dapper's comments...
I'm sure we would agree on many things !
You got my hopes up, I thought Alice was back.
you spent 30 euros for this crap?
I spent nothing and I got this far.
I never claimed I spent it sensibly...
to be fair, it makes erep a true RL political simulator now
'Don't touch the tangerine' is actually pretty fun!