[V2]Looking forward to V2, I Think
Day 819, 10:21
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by Dishmcds
The release of V2 is highly anticipated by nearly 300,000 people. Here are just a few things I hope for, as we receive more information through Insider Articles.
1. I hope that we are advised of exactly how the changes will affect Erepublik well beforehand.
There have been many changes announced, including both the Military and Economy modules in terms of how they function and how they are supposed to function. They are making our modules more complex, including the highly critical PvP reintroduction we've all asked for, for over a year.
With this, however, are some changes that will, if not implemented correctly, greatly damage anyone's economy, and therefore its military. This applies more to countries with more than 10 people, for the most part. Countries with populations of 10,000+ citizens are already highly advanced and functional (at least for the most part), and have a large amount of players with defined skill sets to keep their production up. If the communication of how the new module works is not released beforehand to the Public, this will greatly reduce our ability to provide a functional economy and military.
In short, if the Admin team decide to go "Ta Da! Here you go!" and make everyone define their skill sets individually, it will create a massive shortage in one area, and a massive overspecialisation in another. This could cripple the economies of some nations which are already defined with or without Raw Materials.
If we do not know how they work, this is what all of our countries will look like
2. I hope the Admins have a nice set of changes or upgrades to Raw Materials that will compliment their changes to Finished Goods.
Almost every war in over a year of V1 has been fought over Raw Materials. Shortages of original regions in one country, combined with massive population booms, usually means they invade a neighbour for Raw Materials.
In the basis of this argument, the introduction of Raw Materials was a nice implementation, however, as Erepublik is supposed to simulate our real environments, it's lacking a few things. Countries such as the US with the Iron range in Minnesota (the US is currently the worlds six largest producer of Iron, if my reference material is not out of date), Australia (Second largest producer of Iron), Scotland and the Oil from the Sea, and so on are all inconsistencies from the original implementation.
If Erepublik hopes to continue to draw new blood and grow both as a company, game, and business, then it must continue to develop the Raw Material aspect. The suggestion I would give, since it's literally the most basic suggestion in the game itself, is that with more raw materials, the more war you have. The more war you have, the more gold you sell. The more gold you sell, the more money you make.
It only makes sense to me, from a business standpoint.
Please do not make this symbolic of V2
3. I hope the Admin team clearly communicates, well in advance, of when they expect to release V2.
This is also pretty basic. If you wake up one morning, with no warning, and your boss calls and says "Why aren't you working your new schedule?", the obvious answer is "It's hard to work a new schedule when no one told me I was supposed to".
In RL terms, if we expect to coordinate the implementation of all these changes, we'll need at least a month to do so, with the proper implementation. Countries which spent a fortune to conquer and keep regions, or defend their own, will have just wasted a bunch of time and money if you do not give them enough notice to prepare themselves. That means they probably spent a lot of money buying Gold, and for nothing. If you don't do those things, then you can expect a lot of older players to ask a very simple question:
This is what we hope Admin does before V2, not after
Why do we continue to play a game if you're going to constantly change how we succeed?
Sincerely,
Dishmcds
Prime Minister of the UK
1. I hope that we are advised of exactly how the changes will affect Erepublik well beforehand.
There have been many changes announced, including both the Military and Economy modules in terms of how they function and how they are supposed to function. They are making our modules more complex, including the highly critical PvP reintroduction we've all asked for, for over a year.
With this, however, are some changes that will, if not implemented correctly, greatly damage anyone's economy, and therefore its military. This applies more to countries with more than 10 people, for the most part. Countries with populations of 10,000+ citizens are already highly advanced and functional (at least for the most part), and have a large amount of players with defined skill sets to keep their production up. If the communication of how the new module works is not released beforehand to the Public, this will greatly reduce our ability to provide a functional economy and military.
In short, if the Admin team decide to go "Ta Da! Here you go!" and make everyone define their skill sets individually, it will create a massive shortage in one area, and a massive overspecialisation in another. This could cripple the economies of some nations which are already defined with or without Raw Materials.
If we do not know how they work, this is what all of our countries will look like
2. I hope the Admins have a nice set of changes or upgrades to Raw Materials that will compliment their changes to Finished Goods.
Almost every war in over a year of V1 has been fought over Raw Materials. Shortages of original regions in one country, combined with massive population booms, usually means they invade a neighbour for Raw Materials.
In the basis of this argument, the introduction of Raw Materials was a nice implementation, however, as Erepublik is supposed to simulate our real environments, it's lacking a few things. Countries such as the US with the Iron range in Minnesota (the US is currently the worlds six largest producer of Iron, if my reference material is not out of date), Australia (Second largest producer of Iron), Scotland and the Oil from the Sea, and so on are all inconsistencies from the original implementation.
If Erepublik hopes to continue to draw new blood and grow both as a company, game, and business, then it must continue to develop the Raw Material aspect. The suggestion I would give, since it's literally the most basic suggestion in the game itself, is that with more raw materials, the more war you have. The more war you have, the more gold you sell. The more gold you sell, the more money you make.
It only makes sense to me, from a business standpoint.
Please do not make this symbolic of V2
3. I hope the Admin team clearly communicates, well in advance, of when they expect to release V2.
This is also pretty basic. If you wake up one morning, with no warning, and your boss calls and says "Why aren't you working your new schedule?", the obvious answer is "It's hard to work a new schedule when no one told me I was supposed to".
In RL terms, if we expect to coordinate the implementation of all these changes, we'll need at least a month to do so, with the proper implementation. Countries which spent a fortune to conquer and keep regions, or defend their own, will have just wasted a bunch of time and money if you do not give them enough notice to prepare themselves. That means they probably spent a lot of money buying Gold, and for nothing. If you don't do those things, then you can expect a lot of older players to ask a very simple question:
This is what we hope Admin does before V2, not after
Why do we continue to play a game if you're going to constantly change how we succeed?
Sincerely,
Dishmcds
Prime Minister of the UK
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w0rd
Second.
Trufax (I think)
Well said
And what is about Karnataka?
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/ism-t-karnataka-ii-10--1204895/1/20" target="_blank">http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/ism-[..]/1/20
We want a response from admin!
Signed
>the most basic suggestion in the game itself, is that with more raw materials, the more war you have.
Oh god that is wrong.
That would be a correct way. But I am pessimistic about any plan what they prepare.
It must be boring being an admin. 🙂 They need some fun. For example: buggering us about (with headless chicken, small insects or a surprise change).
sounds right to me Krems, perhaps the better way to look at would be that less Raw Materials limit the amount of war you can have.
Mr Woldy, despite the feelings I have for you I must disagree. By removing the need for countries to fight constantly to gain and keep hold of valuable resource regions then you would actually be removing one of the main reasons wars are fought. If everyone has enough of everything to go around then there would be no need to fight. When there are limited resources then there is much more potential for conflict.
Brilliant!
Voted because I hope the V2 intro isn't as traumatizing as V1 intro. Granted, some of us made a lot of money then, but it definitely screwed everything for awhile.
Quite
the more raws the less they will worth.. its basics i learned from school last year 😃
If admin comments on this I shall eat my pants.
😁^
Looks to me that instead of having medium (useless) and high (super-important), the quality of the raw material could vary out of (say) 100.
Hellokitty, with it's 91-grade iron would be more valuable than South Australia with its 82-grade iron, but therefore potentially more obtainable.
By removing the hard edges of a system where a region is useful (high) or not, the decision making process becomes more nebulous by extension. Where there exists nebulousity there exists room for debate, opinion, and differing priorities.
Opens up the game much more as two countries will rate the same region differently and thus may not spot what the first country is scheming.
Voted. I agree with everything in this statement.
ill prob quit when v2 comes out.
admin can't expect me to "11-click" as they put it.
Nice Dish
@St Krems: Maybe he meant with more different types of raw materials, the more war you have.
"Why do we continue to play a game if you're going to constantly change how we succeed?"
^ This +infinity