A Plea for a Different Strategy
Vyrin the First
Ok this game = bad. No = awful.
I went to post this article after writing it and because I didn't select a category: nothing. Erased. Lost. Wasted effort.
Also under military campaigns, our resistance in Australia was listed as the battle of the day. Went to it and it tells you it's over. Awful. 5 years to get to this point.
The problem is that I am having a hard time recommending this game to others. My gamer friends would laugh at me considering how bad it is and the lack of exciting gameplay or depth of strategy.
But this is EXACTLY what we need. Noobs. The mechanics are basic. Have more players = do more stuff. eRepublik is hardwired this way. It's a business.
eChile would be stupid to let us go unless forced by a larger country. Yet, we can encourage others to make bad decisions and ignore the gameplay. If this diplomacy works, great! But diplomacy usually only happens to join a larger player pool for offense or defense.
I think the model UN that goes on behind the scenes gives hopeless nations a chance to feel like they're doing something. It would be alright if the game rewarded that. But all it really does is turn what's supposed to be a game into a rather strange way for people to hang out online. A model UN game could be fun but this is not it.
I am happy to consider who I can recruit. People do wander here by chance - like ME. (And most are thinking they don't want any more ME's on here!)
If we have any hope, we need a new strategy to focus all our efforts on getting more players. I stand ready to help if I could just figure out how to find the noobs.
More importantly, THIS NEEDS TO BE PRIORITY 1 OF THE GOVERNMENT. Screw Chile. Things can't get worse than they are right now, and the only hope for things to really get better in the long run is to do this.
There is a historical precedent in that when new territories were settled, the local governors or magistrates always set about as their #1 priority encouraging new settlement.
Government needs to put this diplomacy bs as a lower priority. What would happen if our experienced players came down out of the ivory tower and started interacting with and coaching new players? Even if every current player just did this once it would make a HUGE difference.
I'm begging you to pay attention to the basic facts of the mechanics of this game. It is the only strategy that has the possibility of working.
PS - I post on the site because it's the greatest chance that other noobs will see it. No one posts on the fora. IRC requires the right timing, and then getting on at the right time when there is a substantial discussion and not just idle chatter.
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your right on one thing, this game is a business lol. the best way too get noobs here would most likely be to post adds on related games/forums. i don't know of any but yeah i'm sure there are a few out there. but then we'll face the "keeping them interested" issue. which can be hard as f***.
I came here from another game - the first time it was; so I work & lose health & train - God's sake this is boring. The second time I dropped in & see an Indonesian flag over NSW, wtf? read indonesian posts of the like "ha ha aussi you suck u our bitches losers"
That was more of a motivation to me than building up an economic empire (which would have been interesting in its own right, but its not really an option anymore).
Its a game but it taps into RL issues
Just fight in our resistances and tell eChile to stuff it through messages, IRC and fighting!
Another fine example or a new - no scratch that - wannabe return player that doesn't understand the game mechanics of eRepublik.
Getting new players isn't something that would help overnight, it takes time for them to strength up and level up into D2 and D3, longer than diplomacy in fact.
We only need to win a couple of RWs to give Chile no rational reason to stay, provided they are the right ones so if diplomacy doesn't work we do still have a chance.
TJ - then explain them to me - you are exactly why there are so few noobs who stick around
The other comments are actually helpful -yours is just a waste of time
It's obvious you have no clue b/c you keep suspecting i'm a return player.
And if you think it is hard to understand the mechanics of eRepublik you are even more of a noob than I am.