[C4] State of Emergency: A Gentleman's Guide to Being Wiped
Haselrig
➳ So, our country lives under the threat of being wiped. What would being wiped mean for the average eAmerican.
First the bad news:
✓ Being wiped means you can’t take an American job and you can’t hire anyone if you own a company. As long as there are no free eUS regions, you will be forced to take a job in another country (but you will not need to change citizenship). Once you’ve secured a job in a foreign country, you’re free to move back to the eUS.
✓ Being wiped also means that the eUSA would no longer have a Congress. One consequence of not having a congress is that it would prevent currency/gold from the country account from being donated to the national orgs. This could be damaging to a country that doesn’t have sufficient money in their orgs to last the duration of the wipe. Not a likely scenario in the eUS.
✓ Our CoT allies, such as they are able, would not be capable of participating in any RW’s against our occupiers on eUS soil, leaving us to fight alone.
Now the good news:
✓ Being wiped would likely galvanize a nation which has spent months stagnating in a battle against an intractable internal threat with no meaningful external wars behind which to rally. A common enemy, or seven of them, can be a unifying force fostering greater cooperation and quelling some in-fighting, although to what degree would remain to be seen.
✓ Frankly, this one could go either way, but I’m going to go ahead and add it to the ‘good’ column. Being wiped may offer reasons, both game-related, as well as social reasons, for new players to stick around longer than a few days. We will be fighting in battles that truly matter and every point of damage, Div 1 - 4, will matter too. New players can have a hard time finding where they fit into this 2041 day old, New World. As opposed to being dropped in the stagnant eUS of these past few months, a new player joining during a wipe would get an immediate sense that what they do actually matters, making their transition a much smoother one.
✓ It’s purely speculation, but perhaps being wiped will prompt new personalities to step forward and take leadership roles they may not have under different circumstances.
✓ If the country is wiped during the country president elections on the 5th, then nothing is actually affected. Everyone with US citizenship, regardless of location, will be able to vote for a CP candidate as per usual.
✓ The eUSA is a big country. If we are wiped, it will likely be an event of limited duration. Any extended occupation of such a large swath of territory would be both costly to hold and difficult to manage for the occupying nation(s).
What you can do:
✓ Fight.
⓵ Fight as hard as you can afford to and not a penny more.
⓶ Do not spend gold on Energy Bars or First Aid Kits. These are a pure waste of gold, particularly for new players.
⓷ Do the damage you can afford to do. It will be appreciated.
✓ The eUSA is full of people willing to help out new players with food or weapons, join a good MU and a non PTO political party, grow your friend network, use all three feeds to ask for help. You’ll be surprised at the response you will get.
✓ Be active. Activity, whether it is in your MU or political party, is always appreciated. Ask an officer or a party official what you can do to help out.
This article was inspired by Ghost of Tom Joad’s article: http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/2279137/1/20
Thank you for reading, o7
Haselrig
Commanding Officer, The Cannon Cockers
Comments
First for the eUSA.
Good job!!
Thanks 🙂
Extremely well written. Good job, sorry I couldn't help out with this, been busy.
No worries, I didn't know most of this stuff before i started looking into it, so it was a good experience 🙂
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O7
I for one welcome our new overlords 😃
go f*** yourself serv
Kid pls, relax, and repeat after me: it's only a game 🙂
go suck a big servian c*** you f*****
Trolled max 🙂
Cry moar kid, no one's stopping you 🙂
what? we all know how much ptoers like to eat d***😉
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bad news: your wep and food production is fucked.
Have no fear we will eventually repel the forces of evil, meet you in Belgrade beeach
meet me in Texas 🙂
ever notice how all the servians want texas? ever heard that special saying about texas.
eSerbs need their little friends to feel safe or they wet their beds at night, need a blanky 😃
Allies just have to move to any of the offending nation's territories to participate in an RW for the eUS.
eCanadian's will be doing this, just as our brothers in AIM did for us.before your wise government stopped it.
TWO might be able to bully eCanada for months but they will have one hell of time bullying eUS for any length of time. Of this I am certain.
Hopefully that's all I got wrong. I've never been through a wipe, and information on being wiped is very hard to find for some reason 🙂
Its cause no one wants to talk about being wiped
Coming from eCanada, being wiped isn't easy, but eCanada is relatively small. eUSA is one of the biggest countries in eRepublik and there is NO way you will stay wiped for long.
Thank you for the public service.
This is the best guide, so far.
Hey, thanks Tom.
eHistory repeating itself. this article is VERY well put together Haselrig o7
Thanks Neron, o7
If nothing else, this will be a major setback for your economy, and it's all your fault. You chose wrong, as you always do, and now you are suffering the consequences.
http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/kk150/df662/ptj21.jpg
Our allies will prosper, our enemies will be destroyed.
What economy? The economy in eRep has been broken since Work As Manager was introduced long ago. Losing resources will cost prices to increase slightly, but we'll still have overproduction.
Also. serious, non-troll question, if we "Chose wrong," as we always do, what do you presume is choosing right? I'd like a serious answer if you have the time. Some of us would like to see the power balance of this game change, but as far as I can see eSerbia and the eUS would never be able to be allies, since many of your countrymen seem to hate us for real life issues (which most of us had nothing to do with). Do you disagree?
You loose resources and you loose bonus productions, you are unable to work for your own players.
I wasn't here from the start, but as people tell me, you were against us from the start.
I do dissagree. Real life has a major effect here, but it is not the only thing which decides will you be our enemy or ally.
Bulgarians were our enemies in history too, but we had a NAP with them without any problems. Hungary was fighting against us in all wars, they helped you with the aggression in 1999. but we're still allies.
A week ago you attacked our territories in france, which is what you did wrong this time. Now we pushed you back and we will split all your territories with our allies.
Fair enough.
Honestly, I think this game isn't really a place to bring up real life issues, but that doesn't stop people (on both sides of nearly every conflict), from doing it all that time. I can't personally tell you exactly why bad blood persists between our countries in this game, as I wasn't here in the beginning either, but I'd guess that's because eSerbia and the eUS both need something to write propaganda about, something to get people interested in, and something to rally new citizens with, and I think we kind of serve that purpose for each other, for better or worse.
As far as the wipe thing goes, most longtime eAmericans really don't care very much. This game is cyclical and it's but a minor setback.
"Um velho papel amassado está no canto da rua, meio borrado está o número 2"
meu terceiro número 2
Dante Ross coleciona mais um pedaço 2
"✓ The eUSA is full of people willing to help out new players with food or weapons, join a good MU and a non PTO political party, grow your friend network, use all three feeds to ask for help. You’ll be surprised at the response you will get"
AGREE, SO:
JOIN AFA HERE
JOIN NEUTRALITY HERE
There's a part in the middle there you might have missed.
CRAZY IDEA: Take a job in an enemy country, and laugh when your employer realizes that his/her money is going towards the people that his/her country hates!!
Keep in mind that you are providing work for the enemy's factories too...
Good point.
Voted for my friends in C4 ♥
Good article.
Voted.
Great article.
*✓ Our CoT allies, such as they are able, would not be capable of participating in any RW’s against our occupiers on eUS soil, leaving us to fight alone.*
Written by a Military Unit Commander.
Amazing...
Good article and voted.
by my count, there is more good than bad in this wipe o.O
On a mechanics level, your MU Commanders will not be able to set daily orders either, to keep up your bar&bazooka stash. As soon as the country is wiped and loses its allies, this functionality becomes extremely limited to a poorly-executed automated priorities list. It might seem like a small thing, but it's a raging pain in the butt for the military.
Good luck USA.
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Patética y miserable xD
But handsome, right?
gj v/s