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Location: The Pentagon
Minister of Defense: shefutzu
Press Corps Writer: George Armstrong Custer

Today’s DoD Press Release is primarily directed to an audience of five.




You know who you are. You just started playing eRepublik today, or a couple days ago.

A lot of experienced players are basically standing by, ready to help you get a good start and set you on a good path.
Here at the Department of Defense, we care that you get militarily squared away for basic game play, and help you play the military module seriously if you want to. In order to maximize your potential battlefield strength, the Department of Education Defense will try to help you get started.

We just don't want you to, after clicking on about all there is to click on, be left wondering "so I joined an MU in the game, where's all the people and the chatting?"
Well, all that is in what they call "the meta game," which has been developed by players independent of whatever they do at eRepublik Labs.. Once you're hooked up you'll see why eRepublik doesn't want all this on their servers, and why we'd just as soon not count on them for any of this critical infrastructure.

Here’s Telegram and Discord.
Once you have them, your new friends in your MU and Party will get you links and invites as needed.

We put a lot of effort into developing these little tutorials for you– you five new players– so pay attention.

Personally, I “do my daily clicks” and spend my time writing. Others get elected to Congress and pursue political careers, or run lots of Companies and make a killing selling goods. Then there’s us, The War Department, the part of the game where you can make a full, active and enriching career of advancing yourself in strength and knowledge.
But no matter how you wind up playing this game, you’ll need to know some basic stuff, whether you’re a 2-clicker or a Battle Hero.



So, just for you FIVE New Players today:



Don’t Join a City Yet. The game will tell you it’s essential and do it right away, but don’t do it.
Your new friends at your MU and Party chats will help you understand how to pick a good State or Region to put in some Companies (you want one that hasn’t been overrun in a long time), and that’s where you’ll declare Residency. Being a Resident somewhere has its advantages, but later on, not right away..

Get a Job at the Job Market page.
Take the top offer, that’s the most anyone is offering. If you get fired, return to that page and get a new job.
Work every day. It’s your first click every day.
Soon you’ll be buying Companies and that’ll be your other first click. Every day, without fail.
At the beginning it’s tempting to spend cash and gold. Hold onto those wages and New Player rewards till you get some guidance. Buying Companies ain’t cheap, so you’ll want to save a lot of your Job wages and learn about how many of which Companies will make you Food Self Sufficient.

Train every day, that’s your second daily click. At the beginning, don’t spend gold on advanced Training, just check the top box for Free Training.
Soon enough, you’ll have cash flow and be on a course of self improvement, and you’ll pay big bucks to Train hard. But not now.

Fight. Your third daily click.. Work, Train, Fight– get that into your head.
You don’t actually have to join a Military Unit to find a Battle, they’re all over your front page. Above your Shout Feed is a battle that the President sets. That’s always a good place to fight. And below your Media Feed is a featured Campaign of the Day, another easy good choice to get in that third daily click.
And, for now, don’t buy weapons. Fight bare handed. You’ll fight with weapons soon enough, but for now the damage you’re contributing is so small that spending money on weapons won’t do much but keep you broke.

Step 4: Wait. Work, Train, Fight, and your little green Energy/Health/Strength bar is gone.
Work used up some energy, Train used some more, and Fight wiped you out. Yep, that’s eRepublik, the basic game is over in a few minutes.
Hover over the little + sign next to the (now diminished or gone) green bar, up top-left there, below your little avatar, and it’ll tell you your rate of recovery and when you’ll be fully refreshed and ready to click again. In five or six hours, you can fight again at your MU or the Campaign of the Day– getting in that second or third fight a day is what builds a strong (and profitable) soldier.



While you’re waiting, do these things:



Get some Free Food. Your Shout Feed has tabs along the top, the far left one is labeled with the tiny US flag. This is where Official Government Officials post simple and complex Battle Orders as well as offers of free food. Look for the Official Department of Interior heading, and look for Arrden, and post in their threads. A little while later you’ll see a Notification that someone sent you Food.
Soon you’ll have Companies that’ll net you most if not all of your own Food so you don’t have to buy any. Food is a necessary evil to the smart tightwad beginner, and your Department of Interior will provide a decent portion of free food every day just for the asking. So go ask.

Read some media. eRep is a global game, and players from all over the world publish newspapers for you to enjoy. War analysis, Party newspapers...
The game might make you buy a newspaper, go ahead and plan on using it later.
There’s a big Media box on your landing page, showing headlines linking to recent and top articles written in the US. Your US Media Department runs a few Official newspapers, you’ll want to start with Recommended Reading.
Vote and Subscribe everything. Hold off on spending cash on Endorsing articles, you’ll do that later on when you have cash flow.

Join a Military Unit (MU). Here you will find a list with MU rankings.

Join a Political Party at this page. Again, you can quit a Party and join another any time. Through socialization you’ll get the necessary links and Invites to the various chat rooms on Discord and Telegram. You’ll want to be in a Party for socialization, guidance and assistance.

Download/install Discord and Telegram. eRepublik players have developed an infrastructure independent of the game itself. It’s where you’ll find the chat rooms and Live Battle Orders straight from the top brass. There’s links to a chat and a forum on your eRep landing page– that’s not where we play the game, we’re on Discord and Telegram.

The most basic game play consists of Work, Train, Fight, and Wait.
You can do your basic clicks, never join groups or invest in learning, and your game is over in a few minutes. Do that, and you’ll be disappointed in the game and wander off.. And that’s what we don’t want you to do.

We want you to make a mental note of when you’ll be all healed up, and come back and Fight again. Up to three times a day, four for addicts.
The more you do this, the faster you’ll advance.

For the first couple days, till you get acquainted, if you come back in five or six hours for another fight, hit that Campaign of the Day on your landing page. Click, click, now Wait again.
Because of this– Click, click, done– it’s important to fight on the right side in the right places. Your teeny little damage numbers are calculated into the success of battles and wars, you matter from day one.

Now go read some more media. Ask in your MU or Party chat about picking a State to put in Companies. Exchange kitten pictures and potty jokes. Find the Congress section on Discord.

There’s reasons why you’ll see old-as-dirt players still pluggin’ away at this hot mess of a game, not the least of which is the opportunity to meet and work with people from all over the world. I play the media game, I interview top military and political leaders– it’s a blast! It is a War game, so most players actively pursue improving their battlefield strength– there’s medals and rewards involved.
Every one of these powerful &/or old players, every Country President and Congressman and Super Soldier, started out on their first day scrambling to figure out what the hell’s going on. You have the advantage of having people looking out for you.

Your Department of Defense wants you to survive your critical first few days.
The next hurdle is, I think, at Level 6 when eRep stops handing you gold every time you turn around… a lot of new players quit then if they haven’t figured out how to make this game fun beyond a half dozen clicks a day.
That’s why I’m shoving you– all five of you, if you’re still with me– into an MU and a Party, and carrying on about getting on Discord and Telegram.
We all want you here, and there’s a place for you. Your Department of Defense wants you here and getting stronger every day because, you know, we’re The US War Department in a War game.



War Map & Analysis

Along the top row of big tabs, the far right one is Community. Bottom of the drop-down menu is World Map.This is one thing they haven’t developed off-game, and the game map is.. special. But world war strategists manage to use this pig, and so shall we all.
I’m glad I only have to do screenshots and put arrows and text on ‘em, I can’t imagine running World Wars on this thing. Play with the Map, you’ll see. You want to see where the US is spread out all over the world, anyways, and sort of get your bearings.



When you open the map and locate the traditional homeland you may be shocked. According to the Community>> My Country>> Society page we own around 44 regions worldwide, and that’s real cool, but the homeland looks like a county fair quilt contest reject. What the heck is going on, here?!
Treaties and Rental Agreements, that’s what’s going on here. Training Wars are a really big thing and we host a bunch of them here. Regions swap hands like hot potatoes, the Diplomats keep the peace and Military leadership directs traffic.

You can’t just slam that Wars tab and go battle shopping, liberating American regions for mom and apple pie. We have leadership to tell us where to fight, and the good soldier doesn’t just go off on his own.



I got a ton of great material through a great chat with top top brass Herr Vootsman. Most of it is good for players at least a few days in, and I’ll get that out in future rambling tutorials. Lord help us.
Have I mentioned we’re looking for writers? I’m clearly not cut out for tutorials. You throw me a tutorial, or a War Analysis segment, and I’ll run it.

But.. first couple days.. Ya gotta grab them New Players before they get bored and wander off..

I don’t know any way to get this in front of those exact five new players’ eyes other than Voting the hell out of it so it stays in the Top Media Feed a while. There has to be something in the Top Five every day that shouts “Hey noobs! We got some help for ya here!”

Shout this!

Attention Five New Players Today
Don’t get bored and wander off!
Everyone else please Vote this thing.
https://www.erepublik.com/en/article/2763153


Minister of Defense shefutzu
Press Corps Writer Custer

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