My Dear Plato (ENG/SRB)

Day 2,090, 08:41 • Published in Poland Montenegro • by Vladika.

Dear Plato,

Of all the online games of this kind, the only good thing eRepublik has is most beautiful interface, unfortunately, nothing else. With every new change, you’re destroying the game. The easiest thing to do is implement some new, but unfinished idea, sit down and wait to earn RL money from sales of virtual gold. The only good thing I could meantion lately is a lot of new missions and competitions, and that’s what gets older players out of boredom and apathy.

I’m not saying this without any reason, so here is an example...

The average salary in eworld is about 18cc. An upgrade of factory of training center is 20 gold. Upgrade of raw companies is 1,500–8,500cc or 10–35 gold, depending on quality of company. Normal storage costs 1,750cc and large storage is 35 gold. Value of gold on monetary market is 218cc. In order to buy one gold on the market, citizen has to work for more than 12 days. So it means that for the upgrade of a company of a training center it takes the whole 8 months without spending any money. I’m asking you: is that realistic? Even if a new player had so much patience to play, and if he upgraded a company, he would still need raw companies, and, as I’ve already meationed before, the cheapest one is 1,500cc, and it takes another three months of work to earn that money. He would have no money to buy raw materials, because he would have already spent all of his money on buying gold. The same goes for training centres and storage. So I’m asking again: is this realistic? Can you play at all this way? Of course NOT, except in case you’re buying gold, which actually is your goal, more and more every day. Okay, I realise that it wasn’t cheap to build all this, and that it’s not cheap to maintain it and that you have to live on something, but still, hold on. Think of the players who don’t have a lot of money to buy gold, or just won’t do it. Allow us to equally play, to have fair chance to make our way by knowledge, skills or wit. Those who want to be best will continue to buy gold, so you won’t lose your income, and we who think this to be only game, will again feel satisfaction playing it.

Here are some of my suggestions:

1. Rebuild the economy module at once. Increase companies productivity so that new players can cover their daily needs for food.

2. Give military units possibility to move companies and storage to their organizations and to hire more members in their companies, which would provide military unit with enough weapons or earn money for Combat orders by selling extra weapons. Also, allow making contract of sale of damage between unit and a country, which would also help units earn money for combat order. Impement ranking of units, from Q1 to Q4. Rank would be increased with gold, and members of MU with higher rank have stronger hit, depending in MU rank.

3. Bring in more strategy to war module. Let’s say damage made is still counted by the number of hits, but that each hit isn’t worth the same. For example: if you hit head of leg, it takes 10% energy. Stomach would be 50%, chest 75%, and headshot would take 100% energy. Design such warfare enviorment where with good organization, command and tactics, an smaller army would be able to defeat larger army. If all this is just to much to do, at least introduce more divisions, because strenght differences are now huge, specially in D4.

We want to play, relax and have fun. We already have enough of RL problems. “Guardian” wrote: “eRepublik offers a real second life”. Plato, don’t deny us of it.

Best regards,
Pedjulino

Verzija na srpskom

Dragi moj Plato,

Od svih online igrica ovog tipa, eRepublik ima jedino najljepši interfejs, nažalost,
ništa više osim toga. Svakom novom promjenom uništavate ovu igru.
Najlakše je uvesti neku novu ali nedoradjenu ideju i čekati da RL novac
pristiže od kupljenih golda. Jedino što bih mogao da pohvalim u zadnje vrijeme
jesu učestale nove misije i takmičenja pa to izvlači starije igrače iz dosade i apatije.

Da ne bi bilo da pričam na pamet evo i primjera zašto Vas kudim...

Prosječna plata u eSvijetu je oko 18cc. Upgrade fabrike ili trening centra je 20 golda.
Upgrade raw firmi je od 1.500 do 8.500cc ili od 10 do 35 golda u zavisnosti od kvaliteta.
Manje skladište košta 1.750cc a veće 35 golda. Gold se na tržištu novca prodaje za 218cc.
Evo kako to izgleda u praksi. Igrač da bi kupio jedan gold na marketu mora da radi više od
12 dana.Znači da za upgrade jedne firme ili trening centra treba da radi cijelih 8 mjeseci
bez ikakvih troškova. Ja Vas pitam da li je to realno? I kad bi neki novi igrač imao toliko
strpljenja da igra i kad bi upgrade-ovao neku firmu opet su mu potrebne RAW firme a
kao što već pomenuh, najjeftinija je 1.500cc što je novih, skoro puna 3 mjeseca rada.
Da kupuje raw, nema odakle jer je svu valutu potrošio na kupovinu golda. Isto je ovako i za
trening centre i skladišta. I sad Vas ja ponovo pitam, da li je ovo realno? Da li ovako
uopšte i može da se igra? Naravno, odgovor je NE, osim u slučaju da kupujete golde, što
zapravo i jeste Vaš cilj, sve veći iz dana u dan.OK, ja shvatam i znam da nije ni malo
bilo jeftivno sve ovo napraviti kao i to da nije jeftino sve ovo održavati i da i Vi morate
od nečeg da živite ali ipak, stanite malo. Mislite malo i na one igrače koji nemaju novca
da kupuju golde ili koji jednostavno neće da kupuju golde.Omogućite nam da ravnopravno
igramo, da svi imamo šansu da znanjem, umijećem i snalažljivošću napredujemo. Oni koji žele
da budu najbolji i ispred svih, oni će i dalje kupovati golde, Vama neće opasti prihodi a
mi kojima je ovo, ipak, samo igrica, imaćemo ponovo želju i zadovoljstvo da je idalje
igramo.

Evo i nekih mojih predloga:

Br.1 - Pod hitno rekonstruisati ekonomski modul.Povećati produktivnost u firmama
tako da novi igrači mogu pokriti dnevne potrebe hrane.

Br.2 - Vojnim jedinicama dati mogućnost da firme i skladišta imaju na svojim orgovima.
Da u svojim firmama mogu zaposliti veći broj članova, čime bi se pripadnici VJ mogli
opremiti dovoljnim brojem oružja ili zaraditi novac prodajom oružja za Combat order.
Napraviti mogućnost potpisivanja ugovora izmedju Država i VJ o prodaji štete, čime bi VJ
takodje mogle zaradjivati za Combat order. Uvesti rangiranje VJ od Q1 do Q4. Rang bi se
povećavao goldima a pripadnici VJ sa većim rangom bi imali i jači udarac, u zavisnosti
od ranka VJ.

Br.3 - Uvesti više strategije u ratni modul.Recimo da se nanijeta šteta i dalje računa po
broju udaraca ali da svaki udarac (pogodak) ne vrijedi isto. Npr: Pogodak u ruku ili nogu
da skida po 10% energije. U stomak 50%, pluća 75% a glavu 100% energije. Osmisliti takvo
ratno okruženje u kojem bi uz dobru organizaciju, komandu i taktiku, brojno slabija vojska
imala mogućnost da pobijedi brojno jaču vojsku. Ako je sve ovo, ipak, teško i neizvodljivo
onda bar uvedite nove divizije, jer su sada razlike u snazi enormno velike, naročito u D4.

Želimo da igramo, da se opustimo, zabavimo. Dosta nam je RL životnih problema.
"Guardian" je napisao:"eRepublik nudi pravi drugi život."
Plato, nemoj da nam ga uskraćuješ.

S poštovanjem,
Pedjulino

P.S. Od srca veliko hvala Bogohulji na engleskom titlu 🙂