[Junkrat] Change Doesn’t Deserve You!
Day 5,944, 09:58
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[Junkrat] Change Doesn’t Deserve You!
~ Junkrat | Day 5,944 of the new world
We always talk about new “changes” to make the game more interesting! More balanced wars… More balanced power dynamics… More changes…
But the holy question is…
✧ How the fuck can we do that?
✧ How can we lead a new change?
Before getting into the answer to this holy question^, let’s start with reviewing some basics…
Who Has The Power To Change Things?
We all agree that the most important, and influential entity in this game, which has the power to make the important decisions and change the course of things is the government. AKA Leaders, Country Presidents… (Ofc that is after Plato! Don’t be a fool now!)
There Are 2 Types of eGovernments!
In Day 5,941, at the moment of writing this article, there are 2 types of governments in the eWorld that i’m aware of.
1. The Passive Government
2. The Active Government
I’m going to explain what these 2 types are, what they do and why that is very important for us to understand it.
The Passive Government:
The Passive Government is a type of government in which trying to just “maintain” shit, with minimal ~ close to 0 ~ effort. This type of government does nothing other than running and maintaining TWs. The only goal of these types of leaders is to make sure their people have an infrastructure to farm, so they shut up and let them get their CP medal and 5 golds every month.
This type of government are usually old, established players that run from any kind of work and risks, at all costs. They are lazy, irresponsible and they lack accountability. But they love power and money. They want to maintain their power and influence, without having to actually play the game and without working for it.
Beware, they fool you easily and they always hide behind the words such as “neutrality” and “diplomacy”.
Every-time you see someone is using the N (Neutral) or D (Diplomacy) word, observe carefully to see if they want to fool you with those words or they actually mean it.
Another common characteristic of a Passive Government is lack of communications. Because why communicate when there is risk of people expecting something from them in return? Why bother at all? They got their fools voting for them already, without saying a single word.
Important Note ¹: I’m not suggesting a CP should kill themselves over a game. But the nature of this game is a Competitive, Hardcore Role Playing Game. You need to be responsible, and other people going to hold you accountable if you choose certain roles and positions.
It is also expected of players, to play the game actively, when they choose higher level positions. So if you choose a powerful role, without willing to put effort, and sneakily try to fool people to stay in that position without doing any work, you are no better than a cheater. You are an enemy of all.
The Active Government:
There are honorable nations in this game, which their governments simply cannot stay lazy and passive for a long time. The people of those countries are actively and consistently demanding their leaders to take action and play the game.
In such nations, it is simply impossible to stay in power for a long time, if you are a lazy mofo.
The leaders of those nations are not only actively playing the game, and leading their own countries, but they are usually the decision makers in their respective alliances, making plans and strategizing bigger plays, sometimes beyond a single country.
I don’t need to mention any specific country, as you all know who they are. And it doesn’t matter small or big, there are variety of different examples of such countries around the eWorld.
These are the kind of leaders we need for the changes we want!
The Problem That Stopping Us From Changing:
In an eWorld where majority don’t want to put much time and effort into building and leading new things, is it fair to say we deserve the current situation?
If a community/country is only concerned with farming and gathering and piling up gold like crows and ravens , who cares enough to build and lead a new alliance? A new community? A new mindset?
If all that a Country President has to do is to schedule Training Wars, and make sure everything is “safe”, how do we expect there be any changes?
In an eWorld where majority wants to be complacent and comfortable, Who the fuck is going to do the diplomacy?
Who is going to convince other countries that a new alliance should be formed?
Who is going to communicate with the people inside of the countries?
Who is going to write the alliance charter / organization structure?
Who is going to think about the values of the new alliance?
Who is going to work on recruiting new countries?
Who is going to poke poland to wake the fuck up?
Who is going to form and organize a new military?
Who is going to write those international articles?
Who is going to think about plans?
Who is going to strategize?
That is all work. Real work. And you will not get paid for that!
In-fact, brother and sister, you will get shit on night and say, by your own people, if you start to do something that is greater than interests of a single individual.
Are you willing to do the work?
Are you willing to start demanding better, more active and risk taking governments?
Are you expecting them to at-least have a simple plan when they run for elections?
Are you going to beat them up if they did not communicate their plans to you?
START WITH YOURSELF! 🫵
Stop expecting others to bring you more fun, more excitement and a better power dynamic for alliances. If you want it, you have to start with yourself.
✓ Be more active.
✓ Run for elections.
✓ Write more articles.
✓ Keep your governments accountable.
✓ Demand real wars, instead of just TWs!
✓ Bring up new, feasible ideas in your congress.
✓ Start fighting in real battles instead of only farming!
✓ Start taking sides in battles, and be more vocal about it.
✓ Don’t vote for Presidents who do not write articles & communicate plans.
This game is not a casual game. You cannot simply come here everyday, just farm and get off, but expect to magically see more excitement, fun and wars. Fun in this game does not grow on trees organically. You need to work for it. And it requires every government of every country to be more active and engaged in real stuff to be able to build amazing things together.
Also, if you are a younger player, which i know there are still some of you younger people around who like to become CP… Remember that no one will invite you to power, with a bunch of flowers. You need to TAKE IT!
Change does not come unless we change ourselves.
Disclaimer: if you felt offended by this article as a CP or government official, it’s not my fault you are a passive leader.
Enjoy the Junkrat’s theme song…
…This message may or may not have been composed by my rat…
…Hakuna Matata!
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o7. I hope to be in the active section!
From what i know, you are kind of person who either don’t accept the responsibility or if you do you try to do it right o7
And also there are several closed communities, who took country, announce "T120" rule, no programs for citizens, ignoring messages from new players in that country.
However anyone who's saying they are doing wrong things, will be insulted and claimed as a person with mental issues.
Excellent work...o7
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It's true what you say but in my opinion, the game mechanics can partly explain the passivity of some of our leaders. Administrators should therefore be asked to modify certain rules of the game to have more socially active leaders.
I am not convinced by arguments that the government of an eNation is a vehicle for change in the general sense. Personally, I see government works best in situations where there is something interesting going on as a whole. If the government is super active and willing and involved it doesn't mean anything if nothing is really happening in the game itself. If there is nothing at the core to be excited about, active governments a swimming against the tide.
That is to say, the eUSA does a pretty good job of actively engaging people more than most governments in the eWorld from my estimation. And I commend them for it, actually having a somewhat real congressional system, and an executive branch with functional cabinet offices. But that is to all say that if there is nothing really exciting to pull people into the game and be engaged, its fruitless.
The best times in this game where when things were "moving and shaking" and you had a government ready and waiting to help players engage in that world at all levels. Without anything interesting? Dead.
Well this game is far from being dead! People been saying that for almost 12 years… The fact that me and you here are arguing over the game can simply prove that fact, without even me needing to drop more evidence for it.
But the disgusting thing is lazy and passive leaders are hiding behind the N word (Neutrality). Nope, they are not neutral, they are just lazy and passive. They just don’t want to play and put effort, but at the same time want to keep the power positions.
Also i agree about the eUS.
You can simply see here that more active / engaged people are holding positions, and at-least try to engage younger players as well(I hope it remains this way). But it’s not like that in all countries.
Also i agree there are way less newer players in the game that it’s supposed to be. But a 3-4 years old player can still be considered a younger player here, and my own eyes telling me there is a shortage of young players, but they are not non-existent. There are young and active players however that hesitate / fear getting into power plays…
I am not too concerned about new fresh players or the game being dead or alive in either capacity. You can have a living game that is boring and everyone goes through the motions. What the game had back in the day was people more willing to play characters and enjoy schemes. It played more like a roleplaying game so you have a lot of people doing really fun things, but now it is rather professional. Likely this is a reflection on the player base as a whole, who, well, grew up.
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interesting read
Hey Junkrat, still a pleasure to read some paper from you.
Just a note ; I had an intersting debate about what is roleplaying and as you wrote "Hardcore Role Playing Game", I would like to present my point of view.
I'm an old roleplayer, so for me a a RPG has to be played around a table with real players. It involve you to play not only a role but a character with a story and a personnality. You can do this if you play during some hours.
Later with the rise of informatic games the term RPG has been used for games where you play a typed character like a warrior, a wizard and more later for games like erep. But the problem is that you cant play a role with a specific personnality everyday ! That's just impossible ! You can try as much as you want, some (many) days you will just be you. So for me we are very far of a role playing game. And to use the RPG term for informatic games is just a big mistake. That's a little bit like chessplayers who wanted to be considered as athletes. Total mistake !
Anyway and again thank you for your article 😉
Are you saying because we play this game everyday, it’s impossible to “act” everyday as a different character than in your real-life?
I really think that’s the beauty of it, and It doesn’t make it a non-RPG...
It just means you should pick a role and characteristics for your in-game avatar that is more aligned with your real life identity. And it makes it more exciting!
You can definitely play a role / character in eRepublik, have a story, history, characteristics, set of values, tone of voice, enemies and friends etc. and that definitely makes it a RPG.
Whoever you are, whether you are aware of it or you are not, you are a unique personality, and you have a role within every community you live in. That, by definition makes it an RPG.
Why competitive and hardcore? Because you simply can’t achieve your high level goals without effort and competition.
D&D fan by any chance? 😁
D&D first one than AD&D than Call of C'thulhu and many others 🙂
@junkrat : to truly roleplay you have to play your character like if you were an actor. It can be done by modifying your voice, your accent, having special poses, wearing clothes, ... A good game master is able to switch between a lot of various Non Player Characters during a game session. This cant be done on a game like erep or on a such minus level that it can't be compared.
Well not all role-playing games are alike… different genres, different styles…
Fluffy fluffy 🐑
Fluffy neutrals? xD
Still unaware if you really believe in what you write here or it's just a trolling in your usual style.
The explanation is simple and well-known: every country deserves a government they have.
If the people are not active you will hardly have an active government (although it's still possible, but not for long, because government are also humans and they may be bored when the surrounding environment leaves no other option)
The solution is also very very simple: if you want a more balanced game, fight for the losing side. Every player counts. Don't hide behind the government.
When you are fighting tooth and nail for the side that is already two times stronger, you are not making the game more interesting, you are going in the opposite direction.
Somebody should convince people to fight for the “other” side. People fight for what they believe in! And also people first fight for their own countries and country interests. You can’t simply expect a Romanian player to fight for Hungary for example, just because people need more balance! Because his own community will call him traitor from then on…
If an alliance has more active players, better organized militaries, and winning, it’s on the losing alliance (AND THE ALLIANCE LEADING COUNTRIES) to first KEEP the allies they already have, AND ALSO ADD NEW COUNTRIES TO IT with making it attractive and with diplomacy.
That is exactly what i’m suggesting here.
Change (Balance in this case), does not come to people just out of thin air! Change does not come just because we want more balance! The winning side can not fix the problems of the losing sides. The winner is already winning. It’s on the losing side to start thinking about fixing their situation!
Really ?
Some years ago eFR left Asteria just because of this. It was 0 challenge to stay in ASTERIA.
This is exactly the opposite.
And more. If players want their game and the whole community to survive that's not by keeping the stronger always win that they will succed. That's exactly what's happening on earth IRL ; some nations are exhausting the whole planet ressources, are destroying environment what will probably end in an armaggedon. We are all living on the same earth, countries are artificials even if cultures are uniques. Same thing here, we are all playing the same game and so on...
Well then you re a Globalist xD
eFrance decided to leave X alliance was their “government” decision. And they probably had a CP willing to take those risks, and because of some reasons leave that alliance at that moment of time. Which is exactly what i am suggesting in this article.
Governments of countries have the power to change the situation. Wether from losing or winning side it does not matter, as long as we have active governments willing to do it.
Politics is complicated. Leaders don’t make decisions only based on 1 event or 1 single reason. But to expect people of winning countries, to take action against their own country, and government is just absurd and not gonna happen.
Petauriscle, that would be very chivalric of France if it was true. In reality you left Hydra to join Code as soon as they started winning, and if Asteria would take you, you would have jumped the ship again.
@AunsxOM : really ? Just after we left Hydra we have been wiped during 6 months 😃
@AunsxOM, yet the France decided to join CODE that was losing, and they helped make it a winning side for a while
I don’t know if you realize how absurd what you are suggesting is or no?
You are suggesting people to fight against their own countries and interests, because their side is stronger and winning? Can’t happen, won’t happen, will not happen.
This is politics. There are many neutral countries without a side. Just a few days ago an alliance with strong members got disbanded (hydra)… i curiously wanna know what CODE side did to attract those neutral sides and hydra countries?
Or they just waiting for them to join Asteria…
I have a strategy! Use more diplomacy: search neutrality.
o7
Always love your articles. Very thought provoking, agree with a lot of what you say. I always consider e-politics a space where new players can make an impact and achieve things without having to have high strength too, so playing in an environment that makes politics relevant interesting and open is worth pursuing.
Good stuff
I hate change. Thank you.
She hates you too xD
You write interesting articles. I like some changes but not all changes. I wish communication with friends and enemies had never been changed to Telegram, Discord and other outside sources. I miss the role play in our shout boxes. Everything is so quiet and dead now, and very secretive.
Thanks o/
People always used chats, like IRC in the old days as well but yeah, they use less media now. Shot-box fights was a thing old days!
You're high and your dealer is spiking your drugs 🙂
The biggest problem of this game is the diminishing player base, which is understandable considering the game is very old. And the administrators did not do anything or they simply did not do enough to attract and incite new players to step in.
I will not even go into the depths how dishonest this game it has become in it's nature, but it plays a role in the fact that it will keep losing more and more players without the 'fresh blood' coming instead.
In light of all this, with less players playing the game, it's becoming more exhausting to fight the wars for the players who are left and it does take a toll on RL easily.
Before you had the whole communities helping the CP- now you have barely anyone there willing to dedicate the time needed.
All the points I listed above is why I think you don't understand what is happening with the dinosaur called eRepublik. I find it unfair to call them irresponsible. Some CPs are simply trying to hold together what's left of the glory of their e-nations as there's practically no-one else left to step in. And they also do it in a hope there will be some decent change that will bring more players, revive the old chat channels and make this game interesting again. These CPs you call out are just the painkillers, not a cause of the disease.
Have fun🙂
I’m sick and tired of cry babies shitting on plato left and right. Okay we understood that, plato sucks. Now what?
Oh, Romanians have not had diminished player base? Serbians have not had it? Croatia have not? Hungary? Bulgaria? Macedonia? USA? Only Poland had their player base diminished? Bull-fucking-shit.
All countries have diminished user bases. Some of them found a way to engage their younger players, some decided to remain being led by old godfathers.
I played from 2009 to 2013, where eRepublik was in its prime, been CP in that area 2 times where being CP was equivalent to losing your sanity for month after your term, and i know what it is like to have an over-active player base. Yes, you are right, that creates more competition and more active communities etc.
But i simply refuse to believe there is NO ONE ELSE LEFT to step in. Yes there are players who can step in, but in some countries (maybe not yours, or what you experienced) there are types of political monopolies who simply a less supported player can not get into power.
Is this game dead? Nope, not yet. It is alive. And you see that. You(or anyone else for that matter) think it’s dead? Then leave. Because we are sick of your cryings. People been saying this game is dead and plato is bad for over 13 years now, we got it, understood. Now can you please shut up and play? And the moment you got tired of playing, just leave… just don’t cling on CP medals while you are leaving.
Being in a power position in this game should have consequences. And i’m gonna give those guys the consequences and i’m not going to be “soft and fair”. hello!!
I get the frustration, we've all been there.
Sure, everyone should leave. You can stay and play. Alone 🙂
If you really want to change things around, you should stop, pause and rethink about your way to try and do this. This article is not really doing it🙂
Peace.
Well we are open to you suggestions as well if you got one! (;
The game is done. Better you accept this and focus on other stuff
Smile
T.
Well you keep barbecuing penguins and i keep barbecuing serious article xD anyone find joy in something…
At least your article shows some activity that’s not bad at all. But just take in mind. The structures are frozen here, there won’t be any big changes anymore. I tried and many before me tried also.
Everyone failed. There’s only us and the farming day in day out. Sometime someone shows up as enemy than it’s little bit interesting but than you realize it’s nothing at all.
It’s done. Structures, leaderships, infrastructures, game play, nothing will change. We play our event grab some stuff and that’s all.
I don’t even know why I keep logging in but to being honest I’m extremely inactive. I do nothing than daily train and work. Lol like in real life
Yeah i completely get that. Unfortunately lots of truth in that.
When i do these kinds of “provocative” articles, at-least some people come out of their shells and try to fight for what they believe in / their mindsets. They leave some comments…
Even if it accomplishes that much i’m gonna keep doing it. Because i like writing tbh.
I think there should be a wipe once every year or two when one group clearly dominates the other and that alliance gets a star like in the champions league. After the wipe every country will have its original soil and every citizen will have 0 STR. That way newcomers will have a chance to prepare for the wipe time and also air ranks and perception training will ensure countries make a group that fights on the ground, one group to produce for the war machine and other to fight in air. Could be nice but nobody who has already invested thousands of euros to buff up their char would agree to that. And what we have right now for decades is a stagnant one side dominating the other. When the war is already lost no one on the losing side will do anything to sacrifice their time and effort to try reverse the tide. It is futile. Thats the reason this game is a stagnant piece of crap. Those that played the game for years have already established a throne and nobody starting today has a chance.
o7
Keywor😛 Hardcore
Rough Hardcore!
The problem is not in the game but in the people, the people and countries that today in the game consider themselves "NEUTRAL" should be attacked and with that they were forced to move, and if they had active players maintained who would put together a strategy to not being cleaned.
But the policy is completely correct, the "beings of dominant power" do not want and do not let other people get to them, and unfortunately people are not captivated by the game.
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