Time to increase our population
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by Nave Saikiliah
Our economy can handle it now. It would be a great way to bring some gold and labor into the US.
We are going to start a Immigration/Growth Bureau. This group will create an email address -- something along the lines of eAmerica@gmail.com. They will aggressively advertise eAmerica and the game in all sorts of forums, leaving their email address to anyone who is interested.
Then they will write up a contract. It will say that anyone who signs will use an invite on one of these prospective Americans. They will send 3 of their 5 gold to the American government. Also, anyone who gets invited from this program will use their invites and send 3 of their 5 gold to the Treasury.
Also, we will send a welcome email with each invite. This will be sent from eAmerica@gmail.com and explain how to get started -- how to join a company, how to stay active in the media, how to train, the political parties and what they stand for, etc. It will help ensure new users will get the hang of things -- it will also encourage players to stay active.
Okay, so who wants to volunteer? We need a group leader -- one who knows a lot about online forums and organizations that would be interested in this.
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Where\'s the benefit for me?
All I see is that you commandeer my invites, and then take away the gold that I should get for them.
hmmm
This sounds like a certain country I know.
Nave, John was making a valid point. There is no real incentive to join this, other than feeling good for helping the economy at a personal expense. You need to give some personal incentives for people to join, or else this isn\'t going to work at all. That\'s just the way people are.
Furthermore, the contractual system won\'t help you here. I\'d like to remind you that it costs 5 gold to bother the admin to investigate contractual disagreements, so even if they side with you you would lose 2 Gold.
And on a personal note, if you continue to insult people who happen to differ in opinions, your popularity is not going to be very high for very long, even if you apologize after the fact most of the time.
Well, if people can know who to use their invites on left on their own devices, they will do it without government help. This is for those who a) don\'t know 5 people who would register and play the game and b) want to increase America\'s power.
If it were one contract, it would cost 5 gold for admins to look into a bunch of contractual disagreements.
I Feel as if you haven\'t clarified this enough. From what I have read this doesn\'t seem like a good idea. I mean It could work. But my expectations arent very high. Also make sure your so called \" Immigration/Growth Bureau\" is advertising the game the right way, Spamming this game will just hurt it. And bring bad influence. A better Idea is to invite people that you personally know. And in return of inviting them they have to invite someone they personally know. And make a chain. That way we have a greater chance of having active people. Advertising to random people wont
Well, I already suspect that people invite their friends if they think they would play. We won\'t be spamming the game, either. We would post some good things about the game and say it\'s beta only but if you would like to get an invite, email ____ and we will arrange it.
The best part is sending out an email to each new user explaining how to play. It\'s the equivalent of a welcome screen.
I like this system, actually. Nothing is forced, it is just a possibility. If I have used 2 of my invitations, but have three left over, why not put the other three to good use? In case any of you haven\'t realized, when the admins announce that new invites are available, those of you who haven\'t used your original ones cannot obtain new ones.
Nave\'s overall point of \"This is for those people who don\'t know 5 people who would register and play the game\" is a good point. And if you DO know 5 people, then this system is not the one for you, but it doesn\'t negatively affect you in any way (if anything, it would positively affect you because the country\'s treasury will augment).
Thank you, Benn! Yeah, I don\'t see how it would HURT anything -- the question is how much would it help? Okin has agreed to start it up. If anyone knows any communities online and/or would like to help, please message either me or Okin Rebiets
I attempted to get it popular on Digg (note: if you look at the eRepublik Blog, my Digg post is the first thing you\'ll see), but that wasn\'t as successful as I hoped.
I can see the opportunity to use the invites instead of letting them sit, but if I really wanted to use the couple of invites I have lying around, I\'ll go to forums of my own accord. There still is really nothing that gives advantage of independent inviting opposed to doing so in your immigration bureau.
@John: It will save you the hassle of going out and searching for people who want invites. Besides, it will help the nation. As the war module comes closer, people will be more interested in the whole, less on the individual.
Well, as usual, I think it\'s a pretty good idea. Makes money for the country, which is a good thing, and generates more, hopefully active, players for the country, also a good thing. I\'ll be glad to donate my 1 invite and any future invites to this plan.
@John: I don\'t understand why you have such a problem with it. It\'s completely voluntary for people that want to help the country at the expense of getting a little less gold from invites. Those people don\'t need an incentive to help, and since that\'s who this plan is targeting then an incentive is not necessary.
The only thing is I would suggest changing is the amount donated to the treasury. I would make it 2 instead of 3 so that people get the majority for their invites and it would make people feel like they aren\'t having to give that much. However, that\'s just my opinion. I don\'t necessarily know if that would work or not.
I have no objection to it. I just don\'t see a reason to take part. Other people may.