[BS] AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH

Day 3,023, 11:20 Published in Serbia Brazil by Dio Vigon
THIS IS AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH ABOUT THIS GAME
sorry for poor english





I've been playing eRepublik for 6 years now. I wasn't here during the beta, but I played the V1 for a while, the Rising and I was here while they kept releasing new features to destroy the eRepublik experience step by step. Let's recall some terrible updates we had through all these years and what we have now (and they have the guts to call a strategy game)?





THEY KILLED THE ECONOMY WITH THE…

...monetary market 10 gold limit
...extinction of the work skill
...extinction of professions
...extinction of the old resources
...extinction of Organizations (which killed community companies)
...extinction of national currencies
…BOT
companie's promotions
(the economic module's death will celebrate prom in a few years)

Let's face it, there is no economy on eRepublik for a while. When we had it, you could create a Q1 food company, hire some workers, start profiting and, if you were good, be a entrepreneur. Now you have only one option to be rich ingame: spend your real money, coz buying a 10 gold Q1 food company means you'll spend 4000 currencies, produce 200 breads daily with full bonuses, selling it for for 20 currencies on the market, while you waste 12 currencies (if you work as manager) or waste 82 currencies if you employ someone to work for you. Conclusion: you'll recover the investment in one year and a half or you'll lose a lot of money daily.

What happened to everything else is also extremely bizarre. They set the 10 gold limit for money transactions, which made the gold launch from 40 cc to more than 2000 cc in 2011. A inflation they hold only using a BOT to buy currency from the monetary market and products from the local markets, which is a complete joke as well, considering all markets use the same currency to sell the same products, which makes impossible for a country to work its taxes and make your market interesting for others.

Seriously, only remembering how good the economic module was and comparing it to what we have now makes me sick. Let's skip this subject.







THEY KILLED THE POLITICAL MODULE WITH THE…

congress list
Dictatorship
(guess that's enough, right?)

Until august, 2012, congress elections were region based, which means a candidate had to run for congress as a region candidate and would receive only the votes from that region. It was a good think, cause the voters knew who they were getting elected! Since september 2012 eRepublik started to use the congress list. Each party decides their favorite members to be in the list and they get elected from top to bottom. If the party elects 10 members, the numbers 1 to 10 on the list are in. Which makes easy to bad party leaders to turn hateful players into "population representatives".

Also, the guarantee of election through congress list made parties all around the world to race for a higher amount of members (and also a higher amount of fakes).

It was bad already, but the political module wasn't profiting, right? Nobody used to spend money on it. Actually, eRepublik used to GIVE money for congress and presidential elected players. So they invented a new money eater: Dictatorship. A tool for people willing to spend tons of money to be the leader/owner of a country, ignore everyone's opinions and that, as consequence, only destroyed even more the game for the more social-oriented players that now have nothing to do to make the difference.

The message is clear: buy our packs, waste your money or you have no use here.







THEY KILLED THE MILITARY MODULE WITH THE

...Natural Enemy proposals
...Automatic activation of MPPs
...Unlimited energy recovery (ENERGY BAR$)
Combat Orders
Infantry Kit
...Epic Battles
..."waste all your money for nothing " events
(and many more useless updates)



Yes, Natural Enemy proposals might look like a good thing, right? But is actually the devil. Countries used to THINK before attack, used to PREPARE the community, used to have a relevant reason to fight, because it was expensive. However, after natural enemies's proposals were implemented, everyone attacks everyone every time!

There's always 30, 40, 50 battles opened, which no one gives a damn for at least 90%. Campaigns became meaningless, battles became usual, winning became irrelevant. There's no WORLD WAR anymore, only "campaigns of the day", which whoever's lose it, will open a resistance war as soon as possible and the fight goes back and forth so frequently that nobody cares and nobody remember's the reason they're fighting.






STRATEGY IS DEAD! It died with the natural enemies proposal, it died with the automatic activation of MPPs (yes, the use to be real PROTECTION pacts, useful when you had to PROTECT your land), it died with the unlimited energy recovery that makes single players become powerful than whole countries and armies, it died with the Combat Orders that make people only fight for money and ignore country goals and community objectives, it died with waste your money Packs and specially with the Infantry Kit that makes any one that joins the game today absolutely USELESS unless they buy tons of energy bars or (which is more common) buy an older and stronger account. The divisions were created to make players dispute battles against players with the same game age, but some players will stay forever in the same division, getting Battle Hunter Medals with few hits against younger players.






Sorry to tell you this guys (which everybody already knows): the game is dying from greediness. As Tolkien wisely said about the dwarfs of the Mines of Moria, "they delved too greedily and too deep" and in the end of that hole lies the extinction of the whole game. The worst part is: they pretend everything is fine and player's opinions seems to be worthless.

We are no longer citizens of a New World. We are only survivors hoping that our world, our "new" world recovers from its self-destruction in time.





Best regards,

Dio Vigon, proud member of PANELA!

in omnia paratus







ps: this article will probably be deleted. The truth is not welcome here.