Join the new world

Hello Belgium! I was appointed the new Minister of Education after Elynea resigned and I'm afraid I've been a little slack with articles so I'll be catching up and I have an article here based upon an article posted in the UK about 50 days ago about a citizens first days in eRepublik. Enjoy!



“All those boxes! Where do I start?”

When you are presented with the homepage for the first time, it can be a daunting sight, but fear not.

On the left, under your name and, for now, a blank avatar, there is a little ring bound “Missions” pad. These are one-off boosts to your citizen’s statistics and will lead you through some of the intricacies of the New World.

The first five are tutorial missions, but to begin with you will see three icons, clicking on any of them will inform you of what you need to do in order to complete them. Once you have done so, just click on them and accept the reward.

Here are some of the missions you should be looking to complete on your first day in eRepublik.

The Food Factory. +1 EXP + 1500 CC + 3 blocks of land
Build up your stock. +2 EXP + 10 Q1 food + 3 blocks of land
Training Days. +2 EXP + 5 strength
A future hero. +2 EXP + 10 Q2 Weapons
The ambush 2 EXP + 1 energy bar
The Final Effort. +2 EXP + 10 military rank

Working and Training will be explained more down below.



Working and Training

These are the staple actions of any citizen, be they level one or Romper himself.

To work, you of course need a job, these can be found in the Job Market under the Markets tab at the top of your screen.


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Now you may be thinking... “What’s with the stars?”


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Well the companies with more stars produce higher quality goods. For now that’s all you have to worry about now that working in any quality company will result in you losing 10 wellness. My advice would be to just pick the highest paid job to start earning some BEF.

Now to do your work for the day, you have to go to the "My land" page at the top of the screen, and click on the Building on the top left to work. It's very easy to work in eRepublik now.

After work it’s off to the “Training Grounds”. To complete simple training click on the training grounds. If you are interested in spending gold on extra training you'll have to buy additional buildings that increase your strength with gold each day.

This will cost you another 10 health, but make you a stronger.

You can now accept your daily “Reward”, a small boost you can receive daily for completing these two actions.



Have a hearty lunch of Q1 food to replenish your health and ready yourself for:



The Next Step

Having worked, trained, and accepted the tutorial rewards, you will now be level 3 and able to fight. Not bad for a day’s work (and training).

You do this by clicking the “Fight” button next to a battle under “Military Campaigns” on the homepage, and clicking the big, red “Fight” button on the page that loads after that.

But wait! Before you run off looking to pick a fight with anyone you can, you may want to do some good, or at least not be tricked into fighting someone who’s not there.

How fighting works will be brought up in a later article but the Ministry of Defence (MoD) publishes articles in its newspaper with “orders” for the general public, letting YOU know where the damage you can do would be most effective. So make sure to subscribe and fight when needed. Viva La Belgium!

So to stay healthy (and employed) you will need 5 Q1 food for every time you fight, which can be three or more times for every enemy you choose to fight, and you will probably only have a few left from working in your free grain/food companies. Never the less, if you want to buy more food, you should visit the marketplace.



The Marketplace

To get there just use the link under the “Market” menu.


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Select the product you want to buy e.g. Food, then the quality product you want to buy. The more ornate the picture, the higher quality so more effective it is, but the more it will cost, so stick to the plainest pictures for now.



Clicking this will provide you with all the offers for that type, and the top result will be the cheapest. Just type in the number you want in the quantity box and then “Buy” them. eRepublik will be quick enough to tell you if you’ve not got the money or are trying to buy too many.

Buy enough to get yourself as close to 100 health as you can afford, up to 100 health, per hour.

To have your dinner just click the “Eat” button under your health monitor on the left under the “Missions” notepad. This will automatically consume as much food as it can until your health gets as close to 100 health without wasting part of your food.



“Is that it?”

You may have fulfilled everything you can do until tomorrow, but by no means is Belgium closed!

The official Belgian forums are not only where most of the major decisions are made for the various political parties, the Congressmen and the Military, but where the peoples of Belgium socialize by playing forum games, holding discussions or making fun however they choose via posts or in real-time on the official IRC (Internet Relay Chat) room, which we shall cover in another article, and learn by interacting with citizens more knowledgeable than themselves.

So come, unwind with Brussels waffles and your fellow friendly Belgians before bed.

Mikhail Alexander
Minister of Education