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Please, admins, heal this game.

We love it, we loved it, but just a question of time for us to follow our past-time buddies and leave this game for good. What is the major problem, we are not alone at all with these kind of feelings.

You may have some test characters, and some professional testers, but you still have thousands of testers whose opinion is left unheard. Please let us help you mend this game; accept our opinions, and begin to talk with the players, we know what is wrong with the game, and we want to save the game, do you?

The game needs the following features:

1. Battle log. Seriously, no experienced player believes in fair battles anymore. Losing a battle always makes the questions when put so much effort in it: was it righteous? we tried so hard, what went wrong? Seeing others tanking against us is an option, but losing without heavy tanking on the other side takes away our belief in the fairness of this game.
I know this game is a living for you, so here are the costs of manipulating: no one will pay for this game after seeing his money fades away by your hands. Not for fighting for what he gets for free, not for fighting for what he loses anyway.

2. Wellness pack limit or even an increasing price of energy bars is enough. Okay, we understand the paying players are more equal than others. That's okay for us, they must have something to paying our fees of the 'free' game as well. Let them decide minibattles, but not wars. They must outnumber a dozen common player, but not a dozen country. They wont pay less by these kind of improvements, but others may join their league and buy some gold for irl money.

3. Forum. This game used to be social (if it existed, i would have made a post there instead of this article). Free-speech is something you can't control, especially not on the internet. You may ban us from the forum, but our ideas will find their ways to the others. As you see everybody uses chat clients now, even when you implemented chat rooms, even when we had forum. That's why we don't trust you (see 1. for example) and you kept on deleting posts. You may delete comments for their language or attitude but usually not for their ideas.

4. Chance for the newbies to catch up with the old ones in about half year with money, in a year without spending any irl money. Without these features the game will die. It is dieing already, i've met about 10 newbies in the last half year. That is ridiculously few. As they see what their chances are to catch up, they leave this game, and go for an other that respects them. All of them left.

5. Useful erep statistics provided by you, or simply a working API. The game experience is highly depends on these statistics, see ourselves among our buddies, who had hit more, and who has more factories.

6. New alliance rules enabling any kind of strategy. Now the world has two alliances. ONE is weaker than the other. Only a question of time to the last victory. If it is the price of fixing this game, i think ONE will galdly surrender to show you, we want to win in a great game instead of struggling in a 'used-to-be-great' one. So you (we??) must chose a way to stop this bipolar alliance system, limit number of allies, penalty for allies who are too far away, or anything else. If you dont have ideas, just ask the players. Thousands of us are eager to solve these problems. (And yeah surely an interesting battlefield would be more fun).

7. Fixed economy without in need of marketbots. Economy sucks. Nothing to pretend, you made marketbots to keep it alive, instead of asked any of us what to do. Hundreds of us majored in economics, those years of study could be useful for you.

Without these, eRepublik wont stand against its own clonegames. We all know there are other games, that does not have an original idea, simply based on eRepublik's, but has admins who wants to make a good game. Please ask the players if stuck, we have experience, and love this game at least as much as you do.

We want to save it, you are paid to save it.
Let us work together.

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