Where friends come from?
Mister Y
Good morning and happy caturday everyone! A year ago I decided to collect some data regarding in game friendships. I’m sure you all receive, from time to time, a friendship request that makes you wonder: “Whos this? How this player found me?”
We can figure out that the main locations where you find people in eRepublik are the chat shoutbox, the articles, the party, the military unit and the infamous mission asking to add 100 friends, but I found there are also other minor reasons pushing a player to ask friendship.
I started to count all the friendship requests I received on 23th August 2022, and in a year I have 165 new friends. It means a pretty active citizen get almost a friendship request every two days.
I asked to every new friend this simple question:
“Hello.
I want to write an article, one day when I'll have many data, about how friends in my friend list found me. So how did you found Mister Y?”
This graphic shows the results:
The results are pretty what I expected to see: I am mostly a writer and I read and comment articles around the world, so most of the people saw me there. I’m sure other people are seen more on battleground and someone else get more friendship requests from their party members.
But let’s describe the most specific answers and reasons.
SHOUTBOX:
20 saw my comment to their friend’s chats
2 received my like in their comment
NEWSPAPER:
6 saw my comment to their articles
1 saw my endorse to his article
13 saw my comment to other articles
13 read my articles
OTHER FRIENDS:
1 heard something about me from another friend
3 saw me in the friend list of their best friends
1 met me in the special MENTOR chatbox, an old in game program still running despite their developers are all long time gone
1 saw me selling gold in MONETARY MARKET
7 dead citizens decided to REVIVE and add me again
FAME:
1 litterally said “Mister Y is an historical player so I must add him”
1 adds every big player of eRepublik
1 saw my WIKI PAGE : https://wiki.erepublik.com/index.php/Mister_Y
PARTY:
1 was searching for an interesting party
1 asked friendship to all his party members
1 tried to recruit me in his party
MILITARY UNIT:
4 asked friendship to all US Army members
1 asked friendship to US Army commanders
1 saw me in damage leaderboard
1 saw my shout in US Army wall
8 saw me fight in their same BATTLEGROUND
RANDOM:
15 saw me in online citizens list while they were making the mission to add 100 friends
16 saw me in online citizens list
4 were a totally random request
1 add random players asking if they sell packs
2 run a PROGRAM that automatically sends friendship requests
37 didn’t answered my message
1 said he doesn’t remember where he found me even if I asked just 6 minutes after the request, I added him in the "no answer" slice too.
TOTAL: 165 friendship requests in a year.
Do you feel the same for yourself? Where your friends come from? Tell here your thoughs and have a good weekend.
Comments
Statmaster 🙂
I don't know...
wow, this article took one year to prepare 😀😀
Yes, I am lazy: send just the question was easy, but make the article is long. So time has passed and 3-4 months ago I decided to write it after a full year.
Unique idea and great job done here Mister Y. o7
Thanks!
girl looks pretty !
I've been part of the experiment \o/
Big Brother was watching you all the time !
Man's dedicated to the craft, beautiful!
You didnt ask me
The graphics takes the last last year requests only, and I asked them really few time after the request. We are friends from 2012, do you really still remember where you met me the first time?
Yeah Rangeley told me about you. So I guess I classify under "Other friends"
Woooow!
Aaaaaagh you know what's happening mister HAHA,good job on the article. Bless up
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I have no idea how we met - lol
No worry you are in the "Revived citizen" slice, not even needed to ask !
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You're crazy 😃
I know !
I wish I had that much time to do stats like this 🙂
VOTE 🙂
Insane work behind the article 👏
T H A N K S !
very good job
Nice job. Great article.
I just found you now 🙂
Btw I have a legit question: I'm a turkish citizen, currently in US. Why can't I buy anything from us market? I was careful to select "US" on the list.
Welcome!
I think you should be located in an USA region to buy USA stuff from market.
Was there an active war between Turkey & US? I know that would prevent you from WAM in a US region & prevent selling on US market & maybe prevents buying? Didn't use to prevent buying but Plato has been tweaking things.
Try again when no War and can always open a ticket and wait & wait for a response.
That must be it. Because the day after I was able to buy.
Mister give me that chick
V E C
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sub x sub
69 for you, so lucky !
voted and subbed, good luck
Thaaanks!
v51 s929
Thank you !
I get lots of foreign friend requests. Probably from my government activities and my willingness to help allies in battle.
That's great !
And yes, you are pretty famous in game ehehe.
Unfriending so I can be part of the next one. 😂
Ahahah, I don't think I'll make another one. I must think about something else.
I came, I saw, I conquered
I have been playing this since 2010 and I have always wondered where do these people come from. You know, in a real life aspect, like the country of origin and how old are they.
Maybe something like this could be your new assignment, but keep us posted quarterly, do not leave us hanging for another year 😉.
Ohhh. For real life stuff I must interview many people. You see just here 24% of people don't answer. But I can arrange the origin of the beginners in game, I believe almost all the real beginners choose their real country.
🏴 Baaaaa 🏴
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