Let's beat those multies !
Rican
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There are four kinds of multiple accounts, or multies:
1) earning multies - these are used for generating gold and currency income and transferring it to the original account. Admins generally fight against them relatively easy and efficiently.
2) fighting multies - these are mostly two-clicking (training) multies. They are used for participating in battles, when user considers it to be important. This is probably relatively rare kind of multies, so it doesn't represent major problem in eRepublik.
3) political multies - probably the most frequently created ones. Therefore they represent major threat to fair play on this server. They will be discussed in more detail further in the article.
4) various other types of multies - used to insult or provoke someone, or simply for fun or different other purposes.
POLITICAL MULTIES
They are being created by various parties' members in order to:
1) increase the number of party members, so party would enter the top5 parties in the country
2) vote in presidential, congressional or party president elections
3) enter rival parties and take over control of them - party takeover (PTO)
4) be kept "in reserve", so they could be activated when needed, in order to achieve some of the aforementioned goals.
SO WHAT CAN WE DO IN ORDER TO GET RID OF THEM?
We? There is nothing we can do. But admins could. Deleting or permanent banning of the account is not an option. I 've been sending the tickets with profile links of players which all were 13th level (level required for voting or joining parties), with no profile picture, zero friends, not being member of any military unit. And all of them were members of political parties. Two of those profiles even had some random names, such as "tysygdgfhghdfh". That didn't work. Zero bans. We could discuss the reasons, but the fact is that not single one of them didn't got a ban.
SO WHAT COULD BE DONE THEN?
Admins could make some changes in the political module. What changes it would be, I leave it to them. They know the best which solutions are feasible and which changes they are willing to make.
I will only present some of my ideas, and I invite you to contribute in the comments. We will all discuss your and my ideas, so we could reach some final proposal which I will present to admins through a ticket, included with a link to this article. It would be great if you could present your ideas in English, so as many of us as possible could participate in the discussion. Also, in order this action to succeed, we have to convince the admins that huge number of players, throughout the whole world is supporting those ideas...
1) possibility of entering political parties or voting should not be granted to a player until he or she reaches the 25th experience level. That would make impossible for anyone to create multie and misuse it in political purpose in an hour or so. That way many of the players would be discouraged to create political multies, because it would demand days of active playing in order to reach required level. On the other hand, anyone creating authentic account wouldn't mind waiting couple of days in order to enter politics. Most of the players don't get to understand how e-politics work for days anyway.
2) after entering political party, player shouldn't get the right to vote in the elections for party president right away. Only after 15 days of continuous membership has passed, he or she should be granted that right. This would make party takeovers (PTOs) much harder to accomplish.
3) citizens which didn't train and work for at least 15 days during the past 30 days should not be allowed to vote, nor enter political parties.
4) hide numbers of votes during elections - guaranteed
less multies will be assigned
for elections.
HOW COULD YOU HELP?
1) as I've already explained, please take part in discussing my and your ideas through comments.
2) VOTE, VOTE, VOTE! Along with number (and quality) of your comments, the number of votes will give this article and my ticket significance necessary in order to admins accept our ideas.
3) SHOUT, SHOUT, SHOUT! It is of most importance that you contact your foreign friends, so this would spread all over e-world! I've paid 600 votes for this article, so it would reach as many people as possible, for the beginning. I will inform admins to disregard those 600 votes, but it will not matter anyway, because I will not settle until the number of votes reach 5-10 thousands! I know it could be done! This campaign will certainly last for much more then 48 hours.
4) please translate the article to your native language and send it to me through in-game message. I will then add it to the article.
Thank you for reading this and let's beat those multies!
Rican
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VOTE, VOTE, VOTE !
SHOUT, SHOUT, SHOUT !
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VOTE, VOTE, VOTE !
SHOUT, SHOUT, SHOUT !
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Some good points but too much coding for Plato's underpaid IT slave-workers 😃
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they have to do something besides eating donuts and drinking coffee
Option 1: Denying new players to participate in the most basic political aspect of this game is not the good way to encourage new players to keep playing. Level 25 that's 5000 XP, for a newbie, that logs in once a day and only trains, works in a few companies and does it's 25 kills, this can be 50 days before he reaches lvl 25.
Option 2: Yes, it would be harder for PTO'ers, but also for ATO'ers. The sword cuts both sides, and i doubt the PTO side will be affected more then the ATO side.
Option 3: That would indeed eliminate the obvious voting multies that can be tracked by just opening their egov history, but admins fail to link them to someone else. Would be an amazing step forward against PTO-multilords, but I'm afraid admins will never do this.
Option 4: same as option 2.
thank you.... great insights !
Great analysist..
I still need to learn for you all about this..
o7
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Don't give up kimiyimi.
When everything fails, just try something new, something they don't expect.
Share the power.
I suggested something like Option 3 on 7 June 2011. The response: "Thank you very much for taking time to send us your suggestions. We will take into consideration your opinion and we will see how we can implement this ideas to the current game strategy."
Great article
We must save our country..
Lets fight together and unity to fight for this issue..
Best regards
Black Whiter
nice article, v+
I don't think something will be done into this matter, or it will take so long to implement that I will not be here to enjoy it.
You can run for Congress when you reach level 27.
You can candidate for PP after being a member for 3 months in that party.
You can candidate for CP when Rican approves you. 😃
lololol
I did the same mistake thinking Rican is a bad guy years ago. But he did not care and gave me support whenever needed. I learned one of the greatest lessons of my life, I learned not to judge anyone without knowing first. And thanks to this lesson I have a great friend in this eLife, honestly, the best!
http://i.imgur.com/pHcJr0a.jpg
lol, I don't think Rican is a bad guy. 😁)
Multies... worst thing in eRep ever and admins never do anything... I already reported hundred peoples... Only few got banned and their creators are often alive...
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Admins are not fair at all, thay BAN me when I was CP before most important battle in my month like CP evan I never had a multie
Vote 153
The ways you said all are good
except 3) citizens which didn't train and work for at least 15 days during the past 30 days should not be allowed to vote, nor enter political parties.
I think if it was replaced with this, was better:
3) citizens which didn't log in at least 10 days during the past 30 days should not be allowed to vote, nor enter political parties.
Vote 168