Concept of an alliance
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by Ice Killa
I often ask myself, what exactly is the idea of an alliance, who forms it and under what circumstances does it come alive? In the older versions of this game alliances had a big role, not just a big role, they had a role in pretty much deciding who will rule the world of eRepublik. People would join an alliance just to be on the winning side, let's not forget the amount of propaganda thrown in just so the countries that were on the opposite sides could get together. The definition of an alliance extends beyond that, it was a place where all of the crucial plans were crafted together, sometimes you really wonder, how can just a few people rule the entire world of this game, that means thousands and thousands of real individuals in the name of whom just a few chosen make the decisions. Yes, it's almost an indication of real life, it's the era of this game that I particularly miss. With other words, even we, or should I say you don't know who and what is the alliance HQ doing. I don't like to saying this, but in the times of when Phoenix and old EDEN were rampaging, there were plenty of leeches around the chat to be found. Possibly they liked to talk to members of the HQ, possibly they liked to be included in some sort of high society chat, it's exactly what the whole alliance was. Maybe in the first month the alliance had some point or goal what it was doing, but later on pretty much every organization gets the same old problem that hears by the name - lack of leadership and disorganization.
The concept of an alliance in the old days might have been strong and important. The structure was important since individual members had to pay fees to be part of it, and that's what kept it important. The leaders had control of thousands and thousands of money, but the fun part was Phoenix at the time when it existed acted like a country and another interesting fact was, it actually borrowed money from the member countries, which is somewhat like Slovenia borrowing money from itself, the money that it receives from the donation funds. Yes, a no go as you could assume. But that was no problem for the superpowers of the alliance, they always had tens of thousands of gold to spend and at the time, it was crucial to spend it, it's how the countries worked. I always find it a bit foolish when the alliance gets taken over by a country that is more or less unimportant to the whole alliance. The problem arises when those individual start making unwise decisions that at the end lead only to bigger problems than at start. Anyhow, the alliance was never really an alliance if it wasn't lead by the most influental nations in it, if that wasn't the case, well, it wasn't an alliance.
I think the history part is done, I refreshed your memory a bit, now to debate around the whole sense of an alliance. I always found the alliance itself a bit needless. To say the least, you don't have to show your friendship to another nation by joining a group of other nations with whom you don't even share any ties. It's what the definition of an alliance is. People often said how much they love to be part of this and that and the third, in truth, they didn't give a damn, they only wanted the affection of a superpower who more or less led the alliance from its starting point. I believe it would be far more wise if in an alliance itself, countries itself would have a role and not some representatives who no one elected, at least not the ones that should - the normal people. It makes bad decisions a matter of every day life.
But at times, I ask myself, why do we even need an alliance in these times, the times where all you need is a full list of MPPs. It makes things as easy as they never were and the alliances' leadership, I still believe it's there for no clear reason. To keep the position they have long yearned for, there's no other explanation for it. I could define how things work in the alliance and how they shouldn't, but I find it pointless as is the split between ONE and EDEN. Let's face it, the concept of an alliance tells us the alliances are death. The leaderships have no role at all while the plans, well, the plans are formed as they are without the supervision of the ones that are supposedly above all. What sense is there left now?
I like the idea of trollocracy, if you ask yourselves, you could find parallels with what our countries are part in. You have those individuals who like to speak nonsense, all they say is the things that most of us already know and then if there are any unsuccesses present, well, I warn you, it gets dirty... very dirty. It does relate to concept of an alliance, it's the whole top of it.
Then you have the fighters, who in fact do the most thinking - believe it or not. The ones that order them just say hit here and there, it's only up to them to coordinate where they will fight, at least that's how things unfolded in eRepublik v1. Oh yes, the world of diplomacy and the ones being part in it is full of crap. One day you get promised something, the other day it turns out you were the one who should have thought better.
Okay, altogether, the whole idea of an alliance is pointless, at least in this very given time. They have no authority, no will and actually no power to commit what they want to. It is all ruled by country president and it's up to them if they want to share some power with the HQ. That thing called HQ is these days like a big meeting hall and as such, I doubt it can even be called an alliance talk.
You can have your own arguments as much as you want to, but from this point on, alliances are dead, the era of direct talks is upon us - as dramatic as it sounds. Listen, I'm not saying how s**t alliances are, because you already know that, I'm saying how pointless they are in this article and that the concept can and will get lost in every given circumstance. People like to comfort with what they have, even if they shouldn't and for such, that's why alliances turn into a disaster zones.
Best regards,
Ice Killa aka Howly
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trollocracy ftw
well said, hardly voted o/
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trollocracy RULZ!
It's more about the grouping of countries in one alliance so the country can be safe if not to conquer new resources. So alliance is matter of prosperity for the countries and not to make some HQ strong.
the truth that no one wants to face...
In other words, alliances are a sphere of influence of superpowers.
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alliances are a sphere of influence of superpowers.
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Alliances begin as a sphere of influence of superpowers and eventually digress to a sphere of influence of small elites, usually gravitating around an elite of a superpower or a few elites of different strong countries working together to keep their position both internally and externally.
Nothing has changed in this respect from before, the only difference is, that with non-stop battles, the pace of the game is much higher, so the process takes 3-4 months, rather then 12-15 months as in the past.
Ten the alliance is faced wit a decision to revamp itself and survive another cycle or to die off. This is why you've seen a basic division between two alliances with small changes over time for the last 3 years, it is the configuration of the elites running the alliances that changed.
In the case of ONE and EDEN of the last year, it was a "trade" between the elites of Phoenix and EDEN from the previous year that did the revamping, now both are essentially dead as they're personal bastions of few individuals, the predictable result is collapse of the alliances as they no long are a cumulative of it's members but strive to make their members a cumulative of themselves.
lets make an troll alliance shall we : 3
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Thats the spirit boyz ... x- D
You allready have the troll alliance. It's named ONE and each letter represent a different troll country president although the name of the alliance are not a reflection of initials of troll warchif countries. I'll name the ringleaders all the same. They're Poland, Hungary and Serbia. They have their troll taskmasters in Macedonia, Spain and, so it seems, UK. The rest are cannon fodder countries.
Hungary killed PEACE
Hungary killed PHX
Hungary killing ONE?
İNCİ killed PEACE
İNCİ killed PHX
İNCİ killing ONE
İNCİ will kill TEDEN
in the end
İNCİ did it
Howly ob petih zutri si ta članek izdal?! A si spat pozabu al kaj 😃
That, Jazar, is unclear. As said, the secret meeting that was popped open to public had the H, PL, SRB, GB and FYROM gangbang attempt against us. Who of the troll ringleaders was muting Polish and our CP and Howly.
What bothers me was the underhanded conversations after our representatives left the channel. First off, i don't give a damn what gender Ornda is, the point is that the COMBINED IQ of the entire staff on the ONE HQ channel reached roughly half the rating of any of our representatives - fact best seen in the stone-age english being written by them. Secondly, at this point even a handshake of those jerks would be an act of war IMHO as they went on about driving us out of ONE not being enough and that Slovenia should be deleted - a demand from eUK MoD.
Fear not, dear ONE HQ trolls, we will get out willingly if need be and we don't even need to fight against you in wars. All we need is to NOT fight FOR you to see you getting permanently erased. You need every single point of influence to just exist right now so any banishment will result in a self-KO.
Alliance is tearing apart, because alliance sacrificed strongest member because of …
A nice article again. Voted.As always happened from beta from v1 and v2 plato kills every thing in this game. And last the turn came to the alliances because he lets only one or two person can hold a bunch of countries with only gold power so there's no need for alliances maybe as you said some mpps may be good but if you have a few users buying big amount of gold it's enough to rule the territories that you want. 😛 no users no alliances no skills nothing more than GOLD. Just give money for this BUGGY game and buy GOLD. 😃
Because of NONE of the three major countries, who were supposed to support it, worked together until they were on the verge of defeat. And even then they only pulled their scape-goats into the alliance. What were Serbs doing when Poland was being erased? I think their conquest was centered somewhere near or in France. And FYROMers were trying to take over italy and africa, if my memory isn't failing me. Then there were Slovenians blocking Croats on their push towards austria and Slowaks trying to hold the hamsters when they broke through. What were Huns doing, you wonder? My guess would be that they were flailing around themselves, both militarilly at Croats and verbaly against the growing unrest within the already crumbling alliance.
" Slovenia should be deleted - a demand from eUK MoD."
As a former UK citizen I apologise, but our government isn't necessarily talking sense at the moment as everything is collapsing due to three months without congress and other internal problems. That must have been a bad joke / rouge minister, nobody actually wants Slovenia deleted.
This game sux : / no users no alliances no skills nothing more than GOLD
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Put some bloody pics in your articles dude, walls of text are a big turn off
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ALLIANCE vs MPPs
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ma kako je to srbija zrtvovala nesto?? ne sprdaj ne zaebavaj, poraz je poraz priznaj ga muski, borilio ste se niste nista zrtvovali i ja sam se borio za srbiju kakva zrtva sta je to na drugom nekom polju ucinjeno tom takozvanom zrtvom?? zrtva je bila za vrijeme slobodana kada je zamalo oslobodjen citav mexico to je bila zzrtva ovo je sada bio cisti poraz.
If I had a gold every time they said EDEN will collapse...
Everytime I read your posts I get those depressive thougths about my country. Nice work. I hope that there will be friendly rivarly between alliances and not trollish rivarly (trollocracy in this case), and no one will point fingers. (Hungary killed PHX, ONE, etc. and Slovenia, Turkey destroys Bulgaria, and others! Evil Turkey/Hungarrrry/othertrolledortrollingcountry!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111111oneoneoneoneeeee) Please look with the eyes of other people. What would you do if you are an eMinister?
0rindas puppet again? -.-
sounds good 😁 voted, subbed and shouted
Just because u know nothing about something u claim it's useless and has no point 🙂 Problem with that point of view is that u will never have opportunity to learn about it if u already think u know it 🙂
That's another point of view. All major countries in ONE have always, ALWAYS acted like they owned all nations within that alliance. When someone puts his own point of view out, you BASH HIM!
IS THAT NOT WHAT HAPPENED IN THAT DISCLOSED MEETING, GID1?!? ADMIT, YOUR CP joined the other PRICKS at crucifying our reps and after they left, they made tasteless remarks and insults they thought we wouldn't learn about!
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