WAby Boom!
Cottus Arci
In the lead-up to Operation Twofold Bay's premature execution (thank you again, shoot) of getting Western Australia back from the clutches of the Indonesian Imperialists and making eAustralia whole once again, we had approximately 2,800 Aussies.
In just a month or so, eAustralia has swelled to over 3,250 - nearly 12% of our population currently resides in the newly-liberated Western Australia and through monitoring the population of all states from the beginning of November...
While most states have experienced excellent increases, nothing quite matches up to WA -
206.25%!
Sure, a lot of players have moved from other states back to WA, now that it's owned by us and have a Q5 hospital - but an increase of 264 citizens in WA last month can't all be returning veterans!
It kills me to think of the WAby's who joined the game in the past 18 months only to find WA owned by Indonesia and gave up playing primarily based on that fact.
YOU must help the WAby Boom!
With the addition of National Challenges, how about we as Australians spend less time talking bullshit on the forums & IRC and spend more time helping new players!
Personally, I've invested about 1000 AUD into my Q1 Gift Company as a good launching pad for new players.
They start with a generous 3 AUD Manufacturing wage and get a really, really informative PM...
I think this is much more personal than the Standard PM which comes from Admin (or is it eRepublik?) and shows we're here to help. I've had a great response so far as new players really do find this game utterly frustrating as there is nothing to do!
And best of all - I'm not doing this purely to get the WAby boomers to vote for me in the coming months!!! (COUGH PAUL HAMON COUGH!) 😛
How to help the WAby Boom!
eAustralia Beginners Chat
Stop talking bullshit on IRC and actually put some time into eAustralia helping WAby boomers.
Oh IRC is L337 you cry? Shut your face, suck it up, mute those damn speakers and realise IRC is too big a leap for most on their first few days of eRepubliking because IRC is not internal, whereas Chat Rooms can be found under My Places.
With Movembery Love,
Comments
Quickly, lets all get back into the pile!
good stuft cottus.
Thanks for driving the wages up Cottus 🙁
😛 Have fun with Movember 🙂
No doubt that many Wa players joining the game somewhat dismayed to find themselves in Indo territory - maybe they stopped playing, maybe they moved. Those that moved have probably moved back adn few more to boot. The proportion nationally now lines up roughly with RL pop trend so I would expect any further dramatic growth.
Cottus is a loser 😛
haha nice work mate 🙂
you are awesome
brilliant work mate, fascinating read
Good Article.
I know when I was born into WA and saw a whole lotta Red and White where I was expecting the Union Jack, Fed Star and the Southern Cross I was a little "WTF Man?"
Brillant article Cottus!
it's great to see WA coming along, since I was born there and have only now returned.
Thanks for the explanation of 'Here is Something for the Pain' Cottus - I actually thought it was some sort of baby trap. In actual fact Saiyan Pride this actually drives down your future wage costs because it provides workers to the market when they are productive developed at no cost to you.
This is really what is needed in eAus... some companies operated by the government or private philathropists, for the purpose of taking on 0 skill workers, chattin with them about game mechanics, and giving them the chance to level up their skill. Once they've levelled up a bit, and know what's expected of them, they'll be a lot more useful to other companies.
At the moment, although many gm's give pointers to new staff, and cut them a bit of initial leeway regarding working at full wellness, I don't really think this should be up to them. They should be free to focus on making money and stimulating the economy, not training new players.