E.O.T

Day 4,242, 03:53 • Published in Ireland Ireland • by Releasethe Krakken

Equality of technology.

Lets take an example I have a dongle with which I connect to the Internet at home. The package cost me exactly the same as one would pay in a city. Yet I very seldom reach 3G on this package. And then in our country we have the 93th most expensive internet packages at an average of 55USD compared to say Romania which has the 10th cheapest at 14 USD per package and probably offers faster better service. We are still trapped in state owned ineffective companies that do not really offer anything one could even call as service anymore.

Anyway I digress. So how would EOT work in erepublik. Lets face it there is a 2 levels of play currently free and blitzkrieg/power pack players.

If you are playing free you get 1610 energy per day with a buffer of 1610 and you get from 200 energy per hour regeneration to whatever regeneration level you can gather from prestige points. For a normal player without massive eb stack that would mean somewhere during the weekend your level pegging with the power pack buyer.

With 3610 x 2(buffer) you can almost daily gather either 1 bh or 1 sh. At 1610 x 2 I will say one simply cant.

Even from an economic vantage point the free option means you have to cut back to basic stuff. For example I would not be able to work in QI Food anymore as one requires for a 100k yield about 8000 energy in a day.

If you start at 8 and have the full buffer your regeneration will mean each 3 to 5 hours you could work another 1000 energy. Simply put there is not enough hours in a day to pursue the mass production model on which the economy works.

As to politics and media yes certainly we are all technically even.

Ah but you say packs. Yes certainly you can buy them with packs. But then pack sellers lost their grip with reality at about 400000 per pack. Currently each new month the price is increased. But you say pack prices relates to gold prices. Bull. Let me bring you into a little secret. Price increase justifications is never used to justify price decrease in normal business. A salesman will tell you we had to increase the price because the dollar is now stronger than your own currency when however it normalizes you will never return to the old price. Even if gold falls to 300cc per gold pack prices will keep on increasing.

I guess if you target say SH you could argue that paying 1 million for blitzkrieg is justified but from a factory perspective it is really not worth it considering how much you are able to make. For me buying packs is seldom worth it. It almost always eats up any profit or gain you made when we experience good economic times.


Yet the time spend by players is equal. I understand an online game needs to make money. But player retention is more important than pack sales. You cant sell something to a customer if he aint in your shop.

So how does Plato fix the EOT problem this game clearly have. Cut remodel reshape.

1. Currently we have very small windows to purchase BP and PP. Increase the windows. Give us a week instead of 3 lousy days
2. Offer smaller packages. for example offer a blitzkrieg/power mini pack at a 1/3 available permanently. For 10 days at 3USD for the power pack and 5 Euro for the Bp mini pack.
3. Extend the periods you get from the normal pack: what about 36 days. Yes let a player build up 1 month free. Every 5 months he buys your pack.
4. Let us have a pack market. Competition drives down prices.
5. Gift players on their eBirthdays all the packs.


Will you lose money. No you will probably make more money. The window increase will avoid the rush or lose it problem we currently have.

Smaller packages is more expensive compared to the bigger pack so it is like normal shopping most people buys the higher priced item that by comparison to the lower weight/volume item is less expensive. You increase your market for products by selling cheaper packs with less features. Take cellphones we all know pay as you go packages is far more expensive than normal contracts. Yet what is your biggest seller. I cut my own cellphone contract to bare bones as it was prodigiously expensive and mostly not used in full.

Extending periods. More people will buy if they get more bang for buck. And it shows you appreciate your customers. A BP /power pack player spends around 300 euro a year on your game. multiply by 1000 you get 300000 euro.

Pack markets not a new idea with restructured smaller packs this would be a lucrative stream for some players. In the end it will make pack sales more secure. It will mean lower prices as competition is increased and every pack is bought still from you.


Birthdays well that is obvious. Its a clearly defined date even if you by then lose 3 packs per player per year. Im certain your overall sales will increase. Giving customers options is a good way to make more money from them without them feeling ripped off. For example a pizza joint that offers extra cheese etc etc

In short make eRepublik great again.