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Amandla, Awethu.
Power to the people.
Go eSA Go

Yes!

fight like Rocky Balboa.

Viva eSA!

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Some people have a rl with responibilities before eRep, so its not that they drag eSA down, they try their best to compensate for both.
Its very unfair of you to say: If you have done less than 2,733 Prestige Points, you are dragging South Africa down.

I'm sure Miyagi didn't mean it in any other sense than purely statistical. Those of us below the national average ARE dragging eSA Epic Warfare rating down, regardless of the reason.

Correct. As stated in the article, everyone just getting to 240 points will make a significant difference. Remember, there are about 80 more people below Top 100.

If you just did your Daily Order every day you would be sitting on 700 points. Think about that.

It is now 2950 ... so if you are below 2950 ... you are not worthy. Come on ... you all can do 2950 ... easy 🙂

Not worthy se agterent. Ek het my gat lam gesukkel om te kom waar ek is en dan moet ek nog na 'n vrou luister wat kla sy wil terugkom en weer kom speel 'want nou mis sy alles'.

It is important to at least maintain the current position.
Now it's too late to explain the rules, not only for this battle but the whole game.
It is unfortunate that people did not invested more effort, at least up to 4000 points, because it is cost-effective (40 energy bars, +30 strength + share in gold +experience...)

I try to keep the score up 🙂
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Gregor trek hard aleen vir volk en vaderland.

Gregor pulls hard alone for nation and motherland.

Ek help darem ook so n bietjie

Niffobti trek hard vir Suid Afrika.

10h30 om te gaan. Kom ons hou hom by 37, of selfs hoër!

Maybe you should write this article earlier Miyagi? :/

True. Minister of Useful Information Too Late?

I aint dragging eSA down, more like some are living above themselfs...

This event is hurting new players big-time. The price of food is ridiculous.

I sincerely hope the extra gold we make is redistributed just like the gold mine money rather than put into useless programs. I have spent quite a large chunk on this and know many other players have as well. The food market will be feeling the impact of this event for weeks if not months and the biggest hurt is on the consumers. The businesses have made bank at the peoples' expense.

I have not made any "bank" at people's expense ... I just used all my food and weapons myself. Like most other's that was tanking. So it is about supply and demand ... as soon as the epic battles are complete the prices will drop again within a day or so. I also had to buy about 750 units of Q7 food per day. But bought it in Serbia . I was there for the whole week bec they just had more Epic battles. eSA food prices was just too expensive.

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My advice on day one was for D1 to D3 players not to participate in the event as very few would be able to keep up with the average score as resources became expensive. How did the government miss this? Government should have given guidance at the beginning of the tournament, and also rewards for D1 to D3 players who do not participate. Instead the players were misguided and the blame shifted to the now bankrupt players. Very bad governance if you ask me.

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Most of the government programs were immobilized last December by the CP. I've been trying to get the supply programs working, but with the economic model broken, there's just no way we can give free handouts without working at a big deficit. Even if we create a program working with donations, big hitters like Kuckuck who donate a lot will also suffer financially.

There is however a healthy chance that we can manage something with eSAAF. If we all work together and stay active the leadership will expand its ranks and we might get something innovative and more viable working.

Why would you advise ppl not to compete? Not all can be first. Even for me I never even tried to be first. Not against that odds. I tried to end in the top 5 ... and got kinda hooked up to give kuckuck a bit of a go for 2nd place. 🙂 .... the awards goes past the epic battle 7 days ... whatever you could manage will boost you for the next few days as well ... up to day 2133 if I am not mistaken. So, there is XP as well as growth awards for all. I did not spend any RL money on the game. I used 20 golds to sell for ZAR to buy some food as I was running out of my own. Like it was said ... anyone should still just have done their daily orders and they would also contribute. Some did not even do their daily orders?

Generally speaking D1 to D3 players have less resources to play with. Yes there are a few exceptions. If the government did its job to try to discourage these players to participate then we would now have had a better shield and more gold. The average of the top 50 players was 6948 which would have given us third place not 37th. How do you think these other countries get such a great average? They pay the weaker poorer players to not participate. In E-SA we went all guns blazing without any strategy or support, no wonder the shameful result. Its a waste that all the efforts you made as an individual just gets diluted by the masses.

ok ... now I get the reason to discourage to fight ... ok ... yep. I agree that would have been a great way ... also ... we could have maybe gotten the D1 to D3 players to sell food directly to D4 players. On most of day 7 I was without resources due to refusal to pay RL money to the game. So I had no more food to fight.

I had 20 gold saved up. I used only 10 of them, being in the eSAAF. And I ended up in the top 10, without having ever bought gold with RL money. This was the only tourney a low level can do well at because it is not dependent on strenght. Division had nothing to do with it.

Look, we're crying over spilt milk. Rather use this to learn.

The biggest mistake made was people using weapons who had no chance of making the top 5 for BH. I fell into that trap myself. Frankly, most could probably have gone to the end and afford food if they fought bare handed or with Q1. I have huge reserves, so I didn't realise scale of the issue until Day 5. Day 6 someone stated the obvious which triggered an a-ha moment.

Piet has a good point -- in future we could use less players to supply -- but I still think there is nothing wrong with encourage those who can put in the time to go in blazing. This tournament was all about optimising your online time.

I also cannot remember reading anything by anyone in the media about not fighting. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but an I told you so is only valid if you actually told me so.

I quote The official tournament guide,
"- The countries will be ranked based on the average Prestige Points per active fighter (active fighter = a citizen who won at least 1 Prestige Point during the tournament)
- Formula: Total Number of Prestige Points gathered by the active fighters of a country divided by the number of active fighters"

This means that all citizens that fought at least once during the week were marked as active.
How can some of you think that it would have been a good idea to tell most of the citizens not to fight at all for seven days, not even daily orders?
And who would have selected those that were to fight and by which criteria? Would we really want this kind of "guidance"? I think not.
I also believe that these kind of plans are not doable for most e-countries and even more so for eSA.

Citizens under Lv30 should never be fighting. only training. That's how a strong army is built.

Though I agree it would be ridiculous and not fair for younger citizens to be told not to participate in what was a very fun event.

Must have been really great fun for those bottom 50 etc to score maybe just over 100 points a day for very little reward and an empty bank balance.