Unnecessarily complex and overly-ambitious plan doomed to failure
VoodooMike71
No matter how you look at it, this game has fallen into a dangerous lull. It’s inexorably tedious. It bores rather than delights. Players are leaving in droves while the game marches towards its doom. It has become utterly pointless.
We can spend all day postulating on exactly how and why it has become so dull. After all, we’ve got nothing better to do. So what happened? Whose fault is it? Where did it go wrong? How did it come to this?
Then again, why should we spend our time pondering the causes, when - ultimately - we all know where the blame lays. Correct. It lays firmly and squarely at dust-ingrained, sandal-shod feet of Plato.
So, in an effort to do something about it, or at least amuse myself and maybe others in the process, I’ve come up with a plan. It’s probably not a very good plan, but it’s all I’ve got.
Interested? Read on! Not interested? Go back to clicking the big red button and checking your friend list for today’s casualties...
What’s the plan
I have started a fund, called the P*ss Off Plato Fund. The POP Fund for short.
When the fund reaches a certain level - at least
The competition will be simple - do something that p*sses off Plato so much that it directly and demonstrably brings about a tangible improvement to the game. Irritate the admins into action. Force Plato to change things for the better. And don't get banned in the process.
Perhaps you’ll come up with something that causes Plato to ditch the stupid Maverick Packs. Maybe you’ll trigger a new module. You could come up with something that leads to a reevaluation of the economy or politics modules. Or you’ll (finally) trigger the change to strength- rather than experience-based divisions. Who knows? It’ll be up to you do something which causes Plato to react, and then demonstrate how it has improved the game for the rest of us.
What could be simpler?
🙂
Annoying
The person who successfully accomplishes this will walk away with all the loot. I’ll be the sole judge, so it’s me you have to impress. And I’ll give you a clue - I don’t buy packs and I’m not a big fan of hammering the big red button.
But we’re getting ahead of ourselves. Before the competition starts, the fund has to be in place. So that’s what’s happening now.
Where’s the cash coming from?
Good question.
Over the last few weeks I’ve been trawling the media looking for signs of life. As part of that I stumbled across a few competitions and giveaways, so - for want of anything better to do - I entered. And, in a couple of cases, I won something. Not a great deal, but something nonetheless.
Given that I don’t spend much time fighting, I don’t really need the cash that I won. I could have stashed it away. I could have handed it out to younger players. I could have come up with a smaller competition of my own. But, instead, I’ve chosen to do this with it.
So, I will continue to enter other people’s competitions etc, and anything I happen to win will be put into the POP Fund. Think of it as crowdfunding.
So, apart from an initial 10,000 cc donation that I’ve shoved into the pot, this will be funded entirely from competition wins and giveaways.
Er ... donations now accepted. But don't expect anything in return, OK?
How’s the fund going so far...
***UPDATED!***
Turns out that I'm essentially a whore who can't refuse donations, so within a hour of publishing this article the 100k target has been smashed. Thanks to the irreverent and/or illiterate donors who ignored the whole "no donations" thing
🙂
OK, I get that you don’t want donations. Is there anything else I can do to help?
Thanks for offering - yes there is.
You can help publicise this article far and wide, so as many people as possible see it. If I’m going to do this, I want it to reach as many people as possible (without having to stump up 2 gold a pop to publish the article in different countries - that would defeat the object). After all, as unlikely as it may be, if anything comes of this everyone could benefit from it.
So shout this article on your feeds. Get the word out to your friends, comrades and countrymen (and women). Spread the love.
Oh, and keep your eye out for future articles. If the fund builds up enough things could get interesting
🙂
You know this has no chance of working, right?
Yep. I know. But there’s no harm in trying.
Enjoy the show.
Carlton is willing to enter any dance competitions. He’ll definitely win.
Comments
Annoy Plato for cash!
www.erepublik.com/en/article/unnecessarily-complex-and-overly-ambitious-plan-doomed-to-failure-2637567/1/20
I think there are a lot of simple changes that can be made to make the game a bit more entertaining blablabla...might one day write an article about it...I guess that type of apathy is a part of the overall problem so I fully endorse someone doing something proactive.
Sounds like a good idea to stir up a bit of fun and get some FPs thrown about and hopefully I'll get out something out in the spirit of the competition soon.
Best of luck and I'll send a donation.
This could be entertaining.
I'll send you some cash you don't want and specifically asked not to be donated.
UPDATED!
The whole 100k target, no donations thing didn't go very well, as - after two sizeable donations - we're now at 125 grand.
Ho hum.
Keep spreading the word. This thing may turn out bigger than expected (actress, bishop, etc)
Bla bla, get them moving!
Oh and have some money 🙂
Meh I can see the boredom in the game so count me in,
reeeeeeeeee
I can get behind this!
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Its ok blaming Plato but the game is what it is and loads of improvements could and should be made but they are just lazy.
Players need to take some responsibility too ,if no one write articles or comments in articles or people are boring it will lead to a boring old game
Voodoomike you are a player that does try and writes good articles so hats of to you but there is not enough players like this.
Also alliances seem to be getting boring all mpps are mixed up and there is no clear goals.
https://www.erepublik.com/en/article/-25-comments-mission-lottery-huge-giveaway-voodoomike-wins--2637582/1/20
Openly supporting this.
We need to get Plato off this lazy ass and start creating some quality content.
Not just the money milking packs that are the same week after week.
We need more signals like this.
People wake up!!1!1
Prince Harry has a point, the game is often boring these days as the community that once existed is much smaller and there isn't as much to keep it interesting it needs the people that remain to continue to create interesting media and events etc,
The politics and media side of this game solely depends on the community to make content / scandals for the rest to talk about,
One feature I'd like to see returned was regional congress voting it made it interesting and meant a smaller party could win seats if they played their cards right plus there was a lot of media articles with people trying to get votes
I try brother, but they don't wanna play along...
tbh i'm useless as I do nothing for the media module etc I used to try and make money from the economy module but that's no longer an option so who knows I just plod on
There really isn't even any fun in PTOing parties anymore. No one seems to lose their shit any more. Even handing Don Dapper the keys to UKRP created a minor ripple. Back in the day we would have dined out on that for weeks!
The interesting characters that knew how to formulate arguments and didn't mind getting their hands dirty for the lulz are long gone. The only reason I keep logging in is in the hope that Big Ant has returned.
(I know you are out there reading this BA)
The problem is in these misunderstandings committed by Plato:
1. Elimination of the the currency market and then eradication whole economic module respectively.
2. Cheating military module with "Maverick, BlitsSHIT, You_Name_It .." packs and divisions ratings according to the experience point, not by force/ranks.
3. Elementary political module that is not developed at all and for whom there are many multi accounts.
The only module that "is controlled" somehow by the players is social (media) module. But even if they do "a miracles of bravery" and every newspaper to look like a "Daily Mail", "Telegraph","Guardian" etc. as advises PrinceHarry the game will not become more interesting and attractive without fixing above three modules.
Good luck :/
Humph.....
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This quite good idea.One thing I don"t think Plato will consider it changing this game whatso ever.
But certainly it worth of try.
Hugs and kisses to you VM. ❤ 😘
Oops I"ve forgot Apples,Wayne and CC 😛 😃