The Happiness Dilemma by MorningAlice :)

Day 962, 12:36 • Published in USA USA • by MorningAlice
Hello Again Everyone! And thank you for taking the time to read my 3rd article for Alice’s Wonderland! 🙂

Before I start, i kinda entered a competition by Charmader95, it's looking for awesome newspapers around eUS, i know mine is new and all but i do hope you vote for me, you could vote for 3 newspapers so i think you could spare 1 vote for Alice right? 😃

here's a link
http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dGV2WUEtMmZjSHp4UXEwVjlxV3NUc0E6MQ

Here are the steps!

1. type your name
2. paste your citizen's profile
3. type Alice's Wonderland
4. paste: http://www.erepublik.com/en/newspaper/alice-s-wonderland-238802/1
5. then submit it!

Thank You Everyone!!

Now on to the Article 🙂

As you all know when eRepublik Rising replaced good ol eRepublik v1 the wellness factor was split into two, namely Health and Happiness.



I won’t go into lengthy detail explaining both since I’m quite sure most, if not all of you, already know it but here’s a quick summary:

Health is quite self-explanatory and pretty much centers on the combat aspect of the game while Happiness mainly affects the rate of Training and Production of goods.

I wrote this article because of the sudden appearance of what I call the “Happiness Dilemma”

Here’s a comment from Kell Draygo that sums things up:

“Yeah, maintaining happiness is going to be horrid, especially with the removal of gifts. Health is easy, especially when battles open up and we can recharge at hospitals. I lose 12 happiness just from training.”

The main problem is we lose happiness by working, training and studying at the library and the only way to replenish it is by resting at the residential area + houses + high happiness food, looks quite simple right? Here’s a practical solution that everyone keeps on raving about! Lessen the amount of time you work (less money), train (you suck at combat) and study (lower skills = lower salary) and use it all up on Resting! (awesome idea, right…) then viola! You get to keep your 100% happiness rating! :>

And you know the best part of this? The producers of high happiness foods saw the demand for it, and now some of them are either hoarding their products to steadily increase the price or just going right ahead and be jerks and setting the starting rate of happiness foods at prices well over the price range newbies could afford. I myself admit that half of my salary goes to buying at least a +5 to a +10 happiness food and still have my happiness below 80, but what could we do?

Easy! BUY AS MUCH GOLD AS YOU CAN AFFORD! Then use it all up when you rest! 😃 hurray! Problem solved, (it’s a very obvious ploy of the creators to get us to buy gold) and it DOES solve the problem but what we need are long-term solutions for the players who do NOT buy gold


I accidentally found a great answer to the “Happiness Dilemma” while going about the eUS forums, the idea came from Rob b.

He sai😛
“I guess the only way to stay happy is to go to the gym. I don't get it, but my q5 house will give me 8 happiness for the next 60 days and q5 food with really awesome packaging gives another 10. If I want to work and train for 24 hours, I lose 6 a day. The only way to make up for it is to use boosters and work out for 1 hour each day. Sucks.
Why can't I buy happiness? I mean even a q1 lap dance or some q3 pot would make my happiness +6. IMO, you should be able to buy happiness.”

Yea! WHY CAN’T WE JUST BUY HAPPINESS? (sure we do that with the foods and all but its not enough) :> I mean iRL you don’t just rest, eat and live on a mansion to be happy right? (okay maybe you do, but still!) There are dozens and dozens of ways to be happy. You go out with friends, hang out, play your fave game or even plain old reading a good boring book. My idea is for everyone to comment ideas on this article as to what “things” people could possibly buy to improve their happiness, Rob gave an excellent example with his lap dance idea. (pfft go get it from your friendly neighbor, Lisa, or your Geeky Librarian, Gina which FYI I don’t really see as hot, lisa’s all oily and gina’s a nerd *cough*imnotbitter*cough😉 lol *ehem* x)

Anyways you comment and ill tally all your ideas and hopefully try and send it to the game admins/creators so that they might have a few more ideas that might just help them improve the game, if they ever release new updates. I know this idea may seem implausible or downright crazy (with all the current bugs and other problems) and you guys would say: “but alice the creators are greedy, they wont listen to anyone but our wallets” well I say, hey you never know right? Maybe just maybe it might work, what’s to lose? Nothing nada zip 😛 so yes pls do comment and also vote (the more people that reads this and comments, the more ideas we get) so yes feel free to type anything you might wish to “buy” someday (hopefully?) no matter how crazy it may sound so I could send a huge compilation of things that could increase happiness :>

With all my love,
-Alice

see! you don’t just stay at home and be couch potatoes to be happy you also need to go out with friends <3