State of the Game - embarrassing
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Someone mentioned on IRC last night that I was a once great journalist but now no one in the Australian community could be considered great. I take the point, and lately I could not care less about this game, because it is no longer a "game" by my understanding of the rules but a plain old addiction-based money sink, exploiting the crude "e-peen phenomenon" that some people can fall prey to.
Back when I first played erep, politics and economy mattered. They made sense, we engaged in constructive debates about policy because the decisions taken by government affected the performance of a country's economy and in turn its financial fire power to fund soldiers and defend its borders.
You could buy a company or trade the money market and with some acumen you could outplay your competitors and make wealth for oneself. The economy module has been destroyed by admin with overproduction and then bot buying, no one knows what the hell is going on. Markets operate best when transparent, whereas Admin is secret.
The problem is that there is no need to be secret unless all Admin care about is hiding their stuff-ups. But customers are pretty forgiving about stuff-ups when the management are open and honest about it.
When I joined rep, players enjoyed discussing aspects of the game for hours a day, and these differences of opinion gave rise to great ideological differences and thus REASONS to have political parties. Now there is no reason to have more than one political party in a country - in fact if you try to deviate from the single party philosophy you are decried as a being anti-PTO or whatever that crap is.
Back when I joined erep there was a limit on tanking so each country had to recruit tanks, and hell being a tank was a respectable honour as high hitting players were sought after. Now tanks are irrelevant. Anyone with a credit card can become a tank which is not so illustrious. In fact it is plain boring.
Now none of this matters. Erep has been changed from COD4 (the best competitive FPS yet) to MW2 Blackops. Erep has been changed from a nuanced PC game to a kids console game to play for 10 mins a day. It's not what I am looking for.
I still think multis are the biggest problem with erep and I have even been accused of it myself. I think the best way to deal with multis is simply charge every player a membership fee of $1 per month (real money). If it weeded out the multis then I would surely pay it. Such a program would get rid of players creating 100 accounts for their own benefit of article voting and influencing the political module. This in turn would give the political module much more influence. Also now with Divisions in battle these would be protected from multis so that genuine noobs can have an influence in the battles.
People say Australia can only grow if we get more real life players. I would never tell my friends about this game because it is now quite frankly an embarrassment. I told my friends about the game when I joined because then it was a game I was proud to play.
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You made some good points totally agree with you. The economy and political modules are ruined and they are what made the game. They had what worked and was best and changed it then lost tons of players so don't see how their still blind to these facts. The game was growing now its losing what player base it has left.
If only we could go back in time my old friend. :'(
maybe we should see if we could buy shares in this game so we can take it over
infin miss u
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0Odu9tuK00
Voted and well said.
sad to say it but i agree
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I couldn't have said it better!
Great article.
Amen
Voted!
I agree.
Where's the pictures goddamnit !!!!
Good call.
Though it looks like vPop will be coming out eventually.
As for requiring people to pay real money, you'll lose a lot of players with that one (and getting new players would become almost impossible), a better way to deal with multies would be to not let anyone connect using anonymous proxies unless they have either paid or previously connected from a country that blocks €Rep.
yea that's true....
which means countries like china can multi all they like, seems fair
Not really, only those who had an account before €Rep got blocked or who pay to play would be able to connect through an anonymous proxy.
so you prevent chinese players from having a babyboom
The alternative is to allow everyone to have a multi-boom.
My understanding may be incorrect, but using an anonymous proxy does not mean that no proxy address is sent through, just a random one. This means that it is very hard to detect if someone is using an anonymous proxy. I may be wrong, but that is how I understand proxy's
There are lists of the things out there.
Is there another game we could try. There is some great people in the community and would like to give another game with all attributes that this game had and no longer has a go.
Wait for vPop to come out.
there are a few but they really struggled to get off the ground, they still exist but have very tiny player numbers, seperevildooperloverlord is probably giving the best advise, either that or arrange a few hundred friends to move to an existing one with you, all depends if there is one thats an actual improvement of this one.
I agree
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voted mate I totally agree with u.This game has changed.
Good article, I hope Admin will read this...
i kinda do, but admins reaction to articles telling that their game sux dogs nuts get deleted rather quickly.
Or just completely ignore them, then create a mission where we get to kill plato that requires spending lots of gold.
People say Australia can only grow if we get more real life players. I would never tell my friends about this game because it is now quite frankly an embarrassment
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this mostly, but agree with everything else you said 100%. People keep buying gold tho, which as i said to a certain other player, is rewarding admins for their shitty pretend lamewad joke of a game. Nothing will change while people continue to pump money into a shit game, giving admin the idea that everything in the game is just great
fully agree with u
Well said
Sadly, all true.
yep
I told my friends about the game when I joined because then it was a game I was proud to play. x100
And here I was thinking this article was going to be on the State of Origin game last night
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Agreed with everything but the money (I'm a cheapskate)
Well put.
The best competitive FPS was CS 1.6.
Everything else is true!
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i only play this game while i wait for vpop i dont spend money on here any more( i only ever bought 1 of those stash packs about 8 months ago) and i dont plan on ever doing it again.
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The state of the game is embarrassing in all countries.