The Economist ~ Support the Resist or Die campaign

Day 1,057, 12:36 • Published in United Kingdom United Kingdom • by Spite313


Dear friends,

Today I’d like to ask for your support for a friend of mine, Serbian ex-President EternalFlameofFreedom. He has written an article which I strongly agree with, and which you should all read. You can see it here. If you vote this article, vote his too, it will help 🙂

The basic premise of the article is that erep has made a bunch of bad mistakes, and in a desperate attempt to look like they’re doing something, has made yet another version of the game, which combines the worst parts of V1 and Rising. EFOF has a number of demands in his article. Here I will briefly explain each one (original points in bold)

1. Limit the Wellness Pack and Instant Kill to 40 - 40 per day!
At the moment we have unlimited wellness packs and unlimited instant kill. This means that people with enough RL money can literally win battles alone. This makes the game very boring for the 95%+ who don’t want to spend £500 on a crappy browser game. Since the rich people tend to come from the same countries, it makes it tough on other countries who don’t have so many millionaires with nothing better to spend money on. We ask that the admins limit the amount which can be spent on tanking to 40 packs per day.

2) Roll back the rule for MPP system.
The current MPP system means that all MPPs are active straight away. This means that there is no defensive aspect to MPPs anymore. In the past, opening MPPs was a thing which countries tried to avoid, as it meant that their non-original regions were vulnerable to a 10v1 attack. This introduced an element of strategy to attacks. Now, it is a case of “spend as much gold on MPPs as you can, then attack everyone”. This is crap.

3) Roll back the hospital and defence system from V1 (just add durability to it)
Another simple idea. Admins are removing the hospital industry altogether, adding free wellness to fighters, up to 10 fights per mini-battle. This again makes the game simpler and less fun. We should simply roll back the hospital system to what it was before, and add durability so the hospitals last longer than 1 minute.

4) Return the retreat option
Admins have recently deleted the retreat button, meaning Country Presidents can’t retreat from attacks. In the past, retreating then re-attacking was a key part of warfare. Retreating a region to an ally to allow them to attack an enemy (swapping) was also a main tactic. Now the game has no tactics, once a battle has started the only option is to throw gold and men at it and hope we win. This is stupid. Why would you REDUCE the level of intelligence needed to play?

5) Resolve tickets and problems before you try to change the game again
Another big problem with the game is that the admins are not fixing the existing problems before they are making changes. Hospitals from V1 still haven’t been migrated months later, and now they are being deleted. Have admins forgotten this promise? There are thousands of unread tickets begging for thefts, hacks and bugs to be fixed, and the admins keep changing the game and spending their time on things nobody wants like “rewards”. Please fix the existing problems first!

6) Return the freedom of speech!
Opposing the admins in anything but an “official thread or ticket” is banned and your article deleted. But no admins read the tickets, or the official threads. So the players are forced to raise awareness through papers. By publishing an article, we hope to encourage more players to take up the protest and pressure the admins into making the game playable.

Our demands are simple, and easy to meet. We don’t want you to make fancy new modules, spend time graphically designing new helpers or backgrounds or facebook bars. All we want is a simple fix. Admins don’t NEED to put facebook bars and so on in. Leave it to us to get the baby booms. We had three times the population we do now through our own efforts before the new rules screwed everything up.

Please remember to vote the original article!

Iain