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You are reading an article written by a citizen of eRepublik, an immersive multiplayer strategy game based on real life countries. Create your own character and help your country achieve its glory while establishing yourself as a war hero, renowned publisher or finance guru.

And on Sunday I Rest

Day 4,450, 10:04 • Published in USA USA

• by Jacob Ferguson

What a week. It has been a roller-coaster of an experience, trying to lock things in. I am still trying to determine at what point it will make monetary sense to buy better qualities of houses over Q1 or Q2, since they cost more than I can earn in overtime pay after rank 1. Rank 2 can be paid for with the overtime from both of them running, but with rank 3, if I had them all running, I would actually lose 13k a week. But is it worth it for the extra energy pool? Hard for me to justify it.

I received a comment with the advice that I should just have fun with it and that it's just a game. I am having fun, trying to optimize and min-max for the long term gain, while trying to learn timing of things and interacting with my fellow citizens. That's most of the fun of games for me, is learning how to best play them.

My money is finally at a point where I'm starting to be able to hold on to some for a rainy day. A lot of this has to do with generous folks like you, sending gifts and donations, which makes getting into the game very rewarding.

I'm not going to go too much farther as far as content in this article except to ask for your subscription for media mogul, and to mention that the comments are complete for the 25 comment mission. Now comes the 25 comments on 3 articles mission, but I want that one to come naturally as I progress with this paper. Thank everyone for all their help! I'll return to regularly scheduled articles tomorrow.

~JF

P.S. I am taking all letters to explain to me why your political party is a good option for me. I have received requests from a couple of folks to join theirs, and the arguments have been valid, but I have doubts about several of them, and I'm not sure where my best fit will be, if it's even with one of the top 5 in power. I have gone independent in the meantime and will decide in the next couple days, probably on or around day 4453.

Comments

Drummertheman Day 4,450, 11:08

When joining a party, I would say don't just listen to their sales pitch by itself. Get to know their members, especially leadership (usually people in leadership continue to be in leadership in some capacity for a while, so you'll be getting a lot of them in that party.) Find people you like that are friendly. Maybe check out their newspapers (if they write) or newsfeed shouts to see what kind of person they really are in-game. With the larger parties, the downside is it's going to be hard to effect change within the party, and may be hard to ever get into party leadership in some of them. But they come with the benefit of large voter bases, meaning many available congress seats if that's something you want to pursue.