Our Common Enemy - Plato
Day 3,310, 12:18
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by Pfeiffer.
There's no header on this article, because I want it to clearly be a bit more serious.
I have played this game for a long time. I've seen players of every stripe come and go, and I've seen every iteration of eRep since the beginning. For years, there was no 'common enemy' among the players. People made their own, or drew their lines along RL boundaries. Many still do.
However, since the failure of v2/Rising, we have had a common enemy. The eRep Administration.
The game we play is a business for them, that's natural and I do not begrudge their leadership their hope to make money from their business. But there needs to be a balance. Continually stripping down the game so that the only way to derive any sort of mechanical 'victory' requires the spending of large amounts of money creates an imbalance.
For those who haven't been around as long, 'gold beasting' has been a thing since the early wars of eRep. But there was a limit. You could not fight an unlimited amount. No matter how much money you spent, there was an absolute daily cap on the damage you could do in a single day. Because of that, goldbeasts could be countered. They were still a pain in the butt, to be sure, but strong recruitment and retention efforts could ensure that their opposition could counter them.
Those days are no more.
If someone wants to spend one million dollars on eRep (lol) and win every battle, then can do so. No matter how many people are recruited, how many people click fight opposite them, they have the ability to do as much damage as they want.
The balance does not exist.
So, I suggest that we show the Administration what that imbalance feels like. This is not a call for people to stop spending money on the game, this is not a call for a boycotting of wars, this is a call to arms.
Romania is the top ranked country in the game. They are also home to eRep HQ (despite legally existing in Ireland). The Romanian community has the most access to Plato and his minions, and has mysteriously been ahead of the curve when game changing (read as: breaking) changes have been implemented.
So, let's show them the imbalance at work.
They're ranked number 1. Let's have numbers 2-10 attack them. Not with the aim to keep them perma-wiped. Not with any malicious intent towards the players. I have many Romanian friends, and I do not wish them ill. This is about the Admins, not the players.
Simply to demonstrate that balance is necessary.
With 31 regions, it would take us only a few days to launch and wipe. Then we hold them for 3-5 days before releasing the regions peacefully.
I'm not asking for any national leaders to comment below, as I am speaking only for myself. Repeat, I am speaking only for myself. If enough parties are interested, I will use all of my political leverage in the USA to see this war through, but for now I am acting as an individual. But if you are a President/MoFA/MoD and are interested...shoot me a message.
I remain,
Your obedient servant,
~Pfeiffer
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It would be a nice Christmas present, I think.
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sounds good. let me know if you need a mole
Awesome.
We would need an vacation. So attack us, maybe? 🙂
Here is my suggestion on how to limit gold buyers' influence
https://www.erepublik.com/en/article/divisions-by-wealth-2623659/1/20
That's a bad idea. All someone has to do is have gold funneled to their account and then buy energy bars. Sure, it would be slower, but it solves nothing.
How many core regions have USA?
Since when USA didn't go to war?
Real enemy is the one who don't play the game
but only enjoy their bonuses (and taxes).
I've long advocated for a more aggressive foreign policy, you should do some research before commenting.
Your body has no core regions, so you're not the subject 😃
btw,
Pffeifer - Prime Minister
Well they did just fail 3 consecutive Air Strikes, no?
I wrote a long, elaborate comment and it was eaten up by CSRF attack. Yep. Can't really di=k around to write it again.
We couldnt manage to get the game back on track in 2011. There is simply no freaking chance game will be fixed now.
USA has an unfair advantage over everyone else as well. 50 regions is simply lulz. Another thing, USA was always allied to goldbeasts and was a home of goldbeasts even in those ''good days'' so I don't really see any actual verifiable fact that USA felt goldbeast rage like anytime in erep history.
We actually invented it, as the first person to bridge a day change while burning gold to refresh their limits was Nave.
And yes, I advocated for a lower region number for USA years ago...but they want people to have that RL buy in, so they stay.
I'm not expecting this to do anything, but it's something to do. With all the comments and articles about what they are and aren't doing at eRep HQ, I thought this was timely.
Thing is, until they actually start talking to the community nothing will change.
Everything we do ingame is simply useless. Unless we stop buying, and stop fighting, and get banned in the process.
Maybe, but the point of this is that the vast majority of their friends would be the ones affected, and that seems to drive their staff (if not their corporate culture).
Even the simplest rules, like 1 person=1 account is ditched.
Pfeifer we are simply playing 2 different games.
If you are a goldbeast you can get away with anything. Multis, Racism, name it, nothing will happen, except maybe ban from shouting/commenting.
Simply it is useless, until they get their crap together, which is highly unlikely.
That doesn't mean that we shouldn't make the attempt.
Besides, it will be fun. Nobody has to worry about any silly Christmas wars, we all just dump into one big war and come back refreshed after New Years.
Do you really think that some CEO of eRepublik or someone who makes the calls would actually invest time and most importantly a lot of money if some Romanians would ask them nicely because Romania is attacked/wiped or anything.
Highly unlikely.
I don't know what is your RL occupation, ie. do you have a job, but things simply don't work that way in business.
And this is a business primarily.
They are making money off us, and now all the money they made, went who knows wher, and I honestly really doubt it they even have enough money to invest to fix the game.
Making money, sure.
Making enough, not from what I'm told.
The way to make more money is to grow the base. That requires an engaged playerbase helping with recruitment, and a game which doesn't discourage new players from sticking around. Reminding them of that with a kick in the pants to their friends may or may not help. But it's something to do, and it may work, in as much as all 5-6 people who work on eRepublik (and not on one of their meh mobile games) are in that office (save one, I believe).
yeah in Serbia there is even a group that uses state money to pay their rl accounts.
Yeah, it's a really good idea. I think mighty USA should start the party, then we will bandwagon 🙂
I'll note that down as a 'maybe'. ❤
I totally agree with Dio....
If American citizen is complaining about other country what should one Mkd citizen say with all the 3 regions we have ? 😃
I've always thought that 5 should be the minimum number of regions for a country, probably capping around 20, with the actual number figured based on geographic are the country takes up, paired with population density.
But that's asking a bit much from the wigs.
Macedonia actually naturally has 8 region, as it should here (I have seen many other games similar to this doing that, giving our country the correct number of regions, which are: Polog, Skopje, Northeastern, Eastern, Southeastern, Vardar, Pelagonija, and Southwestern.
But the regions placement in eRepublik is so...
Btw i am searching countries which can join eMKD in giving the same lesson to eUSA 😛
It's been done, but if you think it would be fun...go for it. I'm game.
You wish.
Keep your money, you will need it 😛 😃 😃 😃
Reading your article I don't know if to laugh and what you smoked before imagining this "article" or to just accept the fact that you try to put the square into the round hole.
Anyways I've seen that you have been spending a lot of time with your hungarian and cryatian friends.
Not particularly, if anything I speak to more Romanians than I do Hungarians or Croatians.
This is just an attempt to do something, because I know that telling people to stop buying packs won't go anywhere.
No you are not telling them not to buy packs - au contraire, but you are telling them something more than just Plato 🙂
He hides in Romania. We will come find him.
Well...Alexis Bonte used American money to buy Erepublik so one could argue that American money ruined the game.You never know how things can turn against you 😉
Spanish money.
If Texas belongs to Spain then it's Spanish money.
Serbian money?
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Voted! Well done! Nice article!
The most damage done to our own community that alienated and drew away tons of new players was done by you and your elitist friends on that"official" forum. You have always harassed and bullied everyone not sharing your views and you were enjoying it. Is it fun to you calling people stupid? You and your kind are the cancer of this game!
I'm glad you aren't hiding that you're a re-roll any longer.
Hiding what? I'm just telling the truth.
That this is just an old player in a new skin. Why hide, unless you have something to cover up?
Nice derailing the issue. Why does it matter if I've played the game before? How about responding to my comment?
If you aren't a re-roll, you're a parrot. Either you have first hand knowledge of events upon which you based your comment, falsely blaming me for a series of unpopular game mechanics changes, or you are parroting someone else.
In the case of the former, I would want to know with whom I am speaking. The latter, you have no standing.
new skin - new skin - new skin xD
Sadly both of you are right. Pfeiffer is correct that massive action would be required to make the eRep admins pull their heads out of their butts and change things to be balanced.
Phil is correct in the fact that the "official" eUS forms allows the elite and their cronies to basically control a country while pretending to care about retaining new eUS players.
So both are right, Both should be learned from but I've around quite some time too and know that there are 2 truths to this game:
1. Plato/eRep do not care. Their loyal members will always whip out their credit cards or mortgage their parents homes to win wars.
2. The eUS is basically controlled but a group of spoiled brats who discourage people from trying anything they dont approve of and cant just as easily hide/lock when it backfires.
Perhaps wipe eRomania and eUSA for the holidays... enough hate will stem from both to get even a drunken eRep admin to snap to attention.
Sounds like Fluffer is just mad at Romanian hegemony. Romania should defend there owner against the likes of Fluffer.
Also if we want eRep to grows its player base Pfeiffer should like, not be involved since he has alienated at least 3 out of the 5 parties in eUSA.
Pfeiffer is clearly very powerful.
not really. Hes only as powerful as the people on the eUS forums believe him to be. He may have gold and connections but clearly not enough connections to make any massive action happen.