[Slua] Lets Be Honest and Face The Truth
LarssonKaisa
The past number of years we have seen nothing but dominance by Asteria. The most noted period of their success, their membership was made up of China, Iran , Lithuania, Peru, Portugal, Serbia and Romania. During their tenure as the most dominant alliance, the eWorld was introduced new a new style of play which still remains heavily present today, farming. Under farming, countries sought to have as many proxy battles as possible in order to capitalise on Battle Hero gold. This gold would be traded in for Energy Bars and other items made available during promotional sales. Alternatively, this gold was converted into currency to be used to buy packs off a "VISA player".
Over the course of their dominance, strong nations such as Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) and Bulgaria formulated ties and the alliance Pacifica became increasingly submissive and less intrusive to Asteria's influence. The countries which now are members of the CODE alliance all were victims of Asteria and her allies. Many of our nations were forced into Training Wars in order to facilitate the farming gameplay which Asterian nations had inflicted upon the world. Our countries were on our knees and Asteria stood over us wielding a sword, ready to execute our communities should we step out of line.
We endured this defeat for over four years.
Since the emergence of CODE on April 1st and it's subsequent victories on the battlefield, many Asterians have voiced their disillusionment with the game, abuses of the rules and their absolute frustration with tactics that are operated by nations within CODE. The primary being the use of "bot armies", in particular those which reside in both the United States of America and Albania. Those who are anti-CODE attribute the outcome of their lost battles to the power of these bots and are of the impression that CODE has only won due to cheating. Whilst I can not deny the presence of bot armies, servers or account sharing in the CODE alliance, most notably over the past year, many of our opponents are all but too happy to deny the cheating which they have inflicted on our nations over the period of Asterian dominance.
In stating this lets break down some core Asterian nations mentioned above:
Serbia: Possesses a bot army, most notably used in air rounds
Romania: Possesses a bot army, most notably used in air rounds
China: Possesses a bot army, all equipped with packs
Slovenia: Possesses a bot army, all equipped with packs
Peru: Multiple accounts operated by one individual, falls short of bot army standard
In highlighting these armies, it is a known fact among many that they exist albeit some Asterians refuse to accept Serbia and Romania operate such schemes due to their bots' lack of packs (they are egg accounts). It is not possible for any rational eRepublik player to deny the existance of Slovenia and China's bots nor can one deny their knowledge of Peru's multiple account situation. In accepting the make-up of the armies, one is admitting to cheating on the Asterian side. Despite being aware of this cheating, individuals such as Mattrim Cauthorn and GOLDENNN were more than happy to stay quiet over their years of dominance and had no issue with cheating being used as a means to conquer the eWorld.
So in facing reality, one can state without doubt that Asterian nations created the first bot army and used it to their advantage. Only in the past year or so, has CODE nations begun to incorporate this Asterian tactic into their gameplay.
One must also note that Asteria was victories against CODE bots on numerous occasions. However their utter rage at this magnitude at the existence of CODE bots has only stemmed in the past few weeks when they have become the losers on the battlefield.
Before I fully veer off the subject of bots, multi's and account sharing - I wish to highlight the blatant hypocrisy of my good friend GOLDENNN and his Siamese twin GOLDENNN II (Some may remember him as Seki 1, Seki 2, Seki 3 or Seki 4). As the eWorld saw before he deleted his article, he stated that after speaking to Mattrim Cauthorn regarding the functionality of bots on a server, they in Rep. of Macedonia (FYROM) decided to establish their own system. In doing so, all of the used accounts were banned.
erepublik.com/en/citizen/profile/8323676
erepublik.com/en/citizen/profile/6679651
erepublik.com/en/citizen/profile/8739396
erepublik.com/en/citizen/profile/8460738
erepublik.com/en/citizen/profile/8737140
erepublik.com/en/citizen/profile/9510897
erepublik.com/en/citizen/profile/8736872
erepublik.com/en/citizen/profile/8064468
Go look at these accounts and you will see that they are multiple accounts that have existed for an extended period of time. Yet again another example of cheating by a pro-Asterian nation.
So what has gone wrong for Asteria and why have they fallen. Is it a matter of CODE operating a larger army of bots? Possibly?! but it must also be noted that Slovenia who has left Asteria and China who should be exiting shortly have in the past few weeks withdrawn the use of their bot armies for Asterian purposes. No longer were their heavily equipped bot armies providing nations such as Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria or Rep. of Macedonia (FYROM) support on the battlefield. The loss of this firepower seriously weakened Asteria, especially when they came up against large and packed forces such as Croatia, Greece and Turkey.
An additional loss to Asteria was the removal of Combat Orders. Combat Orders were instrumental in the feeding of Serbian bots. The use of scripts allowed Serbian bots to acquire currency which could be used to sustain their use. The sheer quantity of these bots was demonstrated in the epic battle of Colombia where the server collapsed and Combat Orders were removed due the high volume of third party scripts that were capitalising on this tactic.
A final nail in the coffin for Asteria has been the strengthening of CODE nations. Yes there has been the breaking of rules (Reiterating that I know there are CODE bots so please don't moan in the comments) although there has been notable areas of improvement in our organisation such as the creation of the Airforce Network as well as Telegram coordination channels that are available for all CODE+ANDES fighters and not just governments or tanks. Additionally the three CODE superpowers Croatia, Turkey and Greece all have ranked up their number of Legends at a faster pace than our Asterian counterparts over the past year.
In wrapping up this article I want to really hit home the key points of this article.
- Asterian nations created bot armies years ago
- Asterian nations have used these bot armies for years
- CODE nations have mimicked the use of bot armies
- CODE has become stronger on the battlefield and this has led to anti-CODE disgruntlement regarding in-game cheating.
- There is cheating on both sides.
- There has been cheating for years.
- The only difference between this week and 3 months ago is the reversal of who is the triumphant side.
Let's be honest and face the truth.
Comments
Nice article 🙂
Stopped reading after the banned accounts. As I also mentioned in the artcile those were accounts of real Macedonian players who were banned cuz of being put on same IP. Don't disorder my words
Alo bre, šta nisi ti odustao???😂😂😂😂😂
Благодарение на вашите коментари и желби ќе останам да не ви биде досадно кога бркате медали 😉
Bolje da si napisao na engl da te razumijem..
oh dear fylol, just admit it, after the eAustr. laughable article anything you say and do is nothing but lies and failures :'D :'D no wonder Hydra was was born dead...
wow at the end you didnt give up xd
not even man enough to stand behind your words 😁
🐐
I only play with one account. I'm a relic.
nisi jedina...ima ih još puno...
dont worry im relic too
One more relic here 😃
And proud of it 😉
vv
Nice analysis...
I will also not deny bot existance in CODE (altough I personally don't know anyone who operates them nor have seen any evidence of them. I have heard stories like everyone, but no first hand proof), but it is important to make one thing clear. Asteria still has a lot (I mean A LOT) more bots than CODE does. The reason they are loosing is partly due to CO being removed and their bots loosing their main income, but it's mostly up to CODEs huge rankup during the last year, and incredible levels of cooperation combined with great strategic minds behind every move we made and still make...
Asteria lost because their tactics is non existant. Their overwhelming firepower advantage over the previous years has made them too cocky and made them stop thinking and planning.
Just a few examples: About 18 months ago we started doing regular daily epics and they were mocking us for months before they realised what huge advantage it gave us. We started dropping MPPs and opening wars with allies months before they realised the tactical advantage of it, etc etc etc....
Yep, during the past year, year and a half code side has adapted several times faster than asterian. We were mocked for making 5 mins epics for months before they realised the advantage it gives us and that the reason for that is that cb script (which most of their accs uses) needs around 4 minutes to pick up an epic fight and fight there. Also, we tried everything we could to get the biggest possible number of players profit from both epics and bh hunt so we have large number of loaded players and not several super strong. Also, organisation at telegram, I still remember last spring when bulgarians and ronmkd taught that all of our acca are on scripta and where shocked that there is 100 players, active players on our main chat. And so on, and so on...
i face the truth...cheaters everywhere.😛
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Admin must surely know about this.
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so why do they allow it?
Botnet masters are big spenders. If their bots are killed, eR income will plummet.
https://youtu.be/-0kcet4aPpQ
Packed bots bring in massive income in RL cash. And nothing else matters... for Pluto.
slovenia is not a member of asteria...
also never heard of bot army
Bruce family might disagree, but who knows 🙂
3 bruce acc really a strong boat army
You know that's not all of them, names are one thing, i had seen them 1. hand when eHun was against eSlo, how well organized the Bruce bot army was, when CO was still in play.
It was. And they operated a bot army during this period. None of those crying foul of CODE bot armies took issue with it.
I liked the article very much.
@Slua, do you deny the existence of a Turkish bot army?
I worked closely with Turks over the past few months and I'm fairly sure there's no bot army in there.
MaM insists they're not using a bot army but I've been scrutinizing their playstyle for the last few months and I'm certain that they have one.
Their bots are using CB and start to fight at the very moment the wall drops below 53% (which had lost them many potential FS bonus points).
We've been organizing coordinated strikes together, they use very similar organization as we do..
Air strikes. But I'm talking about ground rounds.
"Their bots are using CB and start to fight at the very moment the wall drops below 53%"
Something like this appears to be happening. Have no proofs though..
Got to admit I didn't pay attention to it until we had a war with them few days ago. But it is suspicious, once wall goes over certain percentage their accounts immediately start showing up on the battlefield, one by one, any time of the day or night.
While it is really possible that there is (or are) real person(s) who take care of walls and battles I think we can all agree that it is unlikely.
The accounts use CB that starts to fight when wall is under 53%. But does this make them "bot" if the accounts have real owners by the way?
thats bs
people are saying same for croatia
exact same thing
and we do not have any bot armies, we all (greece turkey croatia) grew way too much for you to handle us
maybe serbia could, but their the strongest accounts are on sale / inactive or ismply without packs, hence the reason they are running around and gettin dicked by cro or turkey using 15% of our strenght.
I’ve no reason to believe they operate a bot army but rather a seriously organized military. I’ve seen their actual organization at work through the Airforce Network.
You should also pay attention at their ground gameplay. Suspiciously good.
I gotta disagree. I have seen tens of Turk accounts proc simultaneously when wall is needed to move in their way. It is impossible to get that kind of coordination in a not-so-important-battle against one or two tanks.
Especially in air.
Personally I believe either side isn't playing fair.
That is a nice change from the organization bullshit.
Took you time.
You didn't really understand the article...
Organization is included as one of the reasons for CODE prevailing.
However you didn’t comment regarding the silence of your side about your allies armies for four years
Right with the power of love. Give me a break.
You started it to face the truth. Finish it.
You didn't really understand the article..
Because you didn't change a side xD
he didnt change a side cuz he cant lulz
Not the point of the article I know, but until Serbia, Romania and Bulgaria are wiped then there’s no dominance.
I’d agree with that really. Asterian empires have crumbled to a large degree but they remain on the map and with several colonies.
The farming differential will solve that soon enough..
o/
VOTE.
You overstated multiple accounts in possession of people who play for CODE countries. Their significance is little to none in comparison to Asteria's bots.
In CODE bots are exception rather than a rule in comparison to Asteria.
Croatian, Turkish and Greek TOP accounts are all operated by real people while Asteria has numerous WEAK accounts which are on scripts but lost their importance after our REAL accounts got stronger.