Competition is Good For You
Death and Taxes
OK. So while we pass away the hours waiting in vain for the next world war, we can at least entertain each other by looking at the one thing the Pink Bullies can't take away from us, ourselves.
So if we can't compete on the battlefield, at the very least we can compete with each other. If we go to community -> military unit and click on 'see all' on our home page, you get to see yourself in glorious technocolor along with your military compatriots like this:
Leaving aside the Commander, 2nd Commander and Captain, the ranking system they use is purely down to your military standing. The output of damage you do per day, per week and per month will justify where your ranking is. In the basic level that eRepublik is pitched at, the only clue we have is activity by # of kills.
If we take an average kill is 30 health points, and you regenerate 2400 health as an optimum per day, then the max kills will be 80. Anything over 80 therefore is either down to a 'carry over' from the day before, or some very weak opponents. What it does tell us however, is how active your comrades are and how you stand amongst them. The priority should be to at worst out-kill them and at best, overtake them on the table.
But that's the basic look, if we go to egov4u click here and click on the link as follows:
Scroll down a LONG way and find eNetherlands, that's right, we rank #54
Clicking on Netherlands allows us a detailed look at what we're been doing over the last few days, and also more detail on what we've done in the last eRepublik day, like this:
Now this is good information, but remember we are concentrating on the idea of competition. So let's click on our military unit and have a closer look, you should be familiar with the various parameters now, but see below:
Now, from the screen above, have a look at valuations below. This is like the eRepublik page with started off with, but with all the bells and whistles on, like so:
This is the real trench warfare. Let me tell you about Thanatos, he is the most formidable soldier I have ever fought with, I don't think anyone can live with him. You might be surprised to see Kimberly there as the damage/influence is not as high as the others. But that's the beauty about this ranking system, it's not down to how much damage you do, it's how much you do compared to your potential.
Likewise van Spijk remains elusively better than the Rineke, Zeeuwmeisje and myself. Only Thanatos is magical, which leaves the rest of us as mythical and extra-terrestrial.
The last part of betterment is the competition with yourself to make it better. By clicking on your own name, you get to see all the relevant achievements appropriate to you.
In fact, it's a pity that eRep itself doesn't take a leaf out of egov4u's website and implement these measures.
So there you have it. No matter what division you are in, or what military unit, you can compete against each other to strive to be the best that you can be.
And the better you can be, then the better you can serve your country.
Comments
pertamax
agreed 😁...well done as usual D&T
Great article! o7
Strength and Honour
If I could ever find the time to do it, I'd try and run some sort of competition for our MU based on the kills idea. All I have to do is find the time now.
Nice one!
The only thing I don't understand much is this concept of "tank". It is distorted whenever a player uses a rocket, a bomb or other thing that doesn't count towards his/her rank but does count towards total damage on the battlefield.
The concept of tank is older than the current version of eRep where indeed a lot of things change how much influence you do.
Basically what egov4you does is log each day for all players how much rank points and strength they have. The change in rank points multiplied by 10 gives the "influence", and dividing by Q7 influence (which you can calculate from strength and rank) you get the tank rating.
So only things generating rank points count for the tank value. With normal weapons everything makes sense, and 240 is the maximum you can reach on average per day, unless you don't train, work, or use energy bars.
Bazookas either increase or decrease your max tank value (if you do over 10k Q7 influence a bazooka becomes less than one tank, if you do less than 10k Q7 influence, a bazooka becomes more than one tank).
Thanks mate, finally someone explains all in an article. Also thanks to Djirtsdew about the tanking; I've always wondered.
Great article! o7
Good Job o7
Click on monthly damage. We are normally ranked 48-51.
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This is a great link you're showing here, thanks for sharing!
V+s
Great article!
Sorry for late response, bt great article - would even consider reposting it every now and then for new players.
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