Why We Have So Many Zombies
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by Noveras
Warning : For those who is not interested in a serious and well thought article just vote and leave because this might be boring for you.
I've travel a lot in the new world and every where I go I will see the same question being ask and the question is "why we have so many zombies???" This article will probably be my last article for a long time and what I want to write in this article also have to do why I'm being a 4 clickers starting tomorrow.
Answering The Big Question
So why do we have so many zombies?It doesn't make any sense why people log in everyday just to work,train,study,rest and going to battle which will takes only about 30 minutes top.
They are not active in politics and they also not active in economy.This I can't answer because I don't know why this people still playing this game but the one question I can actually answer is why people are becoming zombies.
Why People Are Becoming Zombies
eRepublik is suppose to be a community game.Community mean we interact with each other and what I can see in eRepublik is that we are lacking on that.Right now you must be saying this in your mind "What the hack is he talking about?We chat and we PM each others regularly" and yes that is true but interacting based on who you are in eRepublik and not based on who you really are in RL is not what I call interaction.
To bond a strong relationship we must trust the other person who we are interacting with and hiding your RL identity in a relationship will prevent trust for both party.Everyday most of us will come back from work/school/collage or what ever you do and feel tired.We want to talk to someone and have a nice casual conversation about life and etc just to take of the burden of everyday life with a friend but this is not happening in eRepublik thus making people bored and become a zombie.
The players in eRepublik have taken what I want to call "The No RL Stuff" mind set to the extreme.Everyday when I log in into eRepublik for the first time of the day I will not have the feeling of excitement of seeing my friends in here.What I feel is "Ok,another day talking to this faceless people who just talk about bull sh*t".
For example in eMalaysia,as a former PP and 3 times congressman I've seen how our country work.Basically what I can say is it doesn't really work.We post something in the forum and discuss and fight about it for weeks and in the end come out with nothing.So why is this happening?Well because we have no trust.
Each of us cannot find an agreeable solution for almost anything because we don't trust each other.For example,how can I trust my own country president when I don't even know is in RL the CP really a he or a she or how can I have a matured argument with someone when I'm not sure if the person I'm dealing with is a 65 years old man or a 14 years old boy who thinks he knows everything?
In the end when you been through this thing for sometime now you will decided to become a zombie because you just had enough putting so much effort and time for people who you don't even trust and don't even bother to help you because they don't trust you either.
The First Step For Trust
For me personally I really hate talking to someone who I don't even know the person gender or RL name.I'm not asking a private question like are you still a virgin or not I'm just want to know what you do for living or if you still studying what course are you taking just some basic stuff to star a friendship based on trust.Whether the friendship going to get more personnel in the future is entirely up to you.
Today I've decided that I don't need to hide my self behind my nick.I've decided that today I just want to be who I really are and that is it because I hate having the feeling that I can't trust anyone and they don't trust me in this game .
That is me and my youngest cousin 😁
Name : Amirul Amin.An arabic name that have the meaning of "The honest leader"
Age : 20 Years Old
Hobbies : PC games,reading & collecting all sort of books & just like anything that have to do with history
Status : In a relationship
What I'm Doing Now : I'm doing my diploma in marine engineering for electrical and electronic
MSN : noveras1904@hotmail.com
YM : noves1904@yahoo.com
Skype : noveras1904
Basically that's pretty much about me.You can know more if you decided to be my real friend.So I'm sorry for the long wall of text but I just need to take this out of my mind.
Yours Truly,
Amirul Amin aka Noveras
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Name : Alan Tan
Age : 30 Years Old
Hobbies : online game, console game, reading, photo shooting
Status : married
What I'm Doing Now : working in a worldwide company as production supervisor
richi arditya
23 yrs
Indonesia java
in relationship
still study XD
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Hamallee
23 Y/o
Johore Malaysia
in Relationship
Still study
thiam huat
23 years old
student
seanlam
99 yrs
Antartic
widowed
still digging white dessert
obviously seanlam is a zombie. 99yrs zombie
The new topic in the forum about facebook profiles should help with this some.
join us
http://erepublik.forumotion.net/social-and-community-f2/facebook-anyone-t1136.htm">http://erepublik.forumotion.net/social-a[..]6.htm
voted, but I cant say I agree with you Noveras..this is a game, and the moment you take it seriously enough to bring RL issues completely is the moment it stops being one.
I'm not saying its wrong to reveal you true self and identity as you have done..just that it shouldnt be made the only way to solve game problems like zombies..
Actually, if you see most of the zombies (especially RL Malaysian zombies) they use their RL name and even picture..makes no difference
As for me, I cannot reveal my RL identity...it would ruin my day job as an international superspy nija assassin ;p
High school of the Dead!
Name : muhammad ikhwan
Age : 23 now 24 on december 😛
Hobbies : photography, games, magazines
What I'm Doing Now : final semester for my degree in interactive multimedia
noveras - this is completely admirable! 🙂 I started a thread like this in the forum months ago..but unfortunately it went dead. Please save the info and repost it in the forums? it's a shame if we only know each other for two days. 🙂
Here am I:
Name : Kam @ Carr de Vaux
Age : 26-27 Years Old
Hobbies : What's hobbies? Lol. Interest includes politics, performing arts, literature and online stuff.
Status : In a relationship
What I'm Doing Now : completing a postgraduate degree and traveling the world (for real).
@Mr. Alpeh
You got me all wrong here.What I'm trying to say is we should not bring RL issues in this game it self.I'm talking about an individual interacting with another individual just as friend and not at all about the game.
I'm saying the reason why there are no attraction in this game because well beside it is pretty boring players relationship only restricted on the game it self.You can hardly find people here and carry the friendship to FB,msn,YM or anything else.
For example I meet someone here and we have fun talking to each others about RL stuff.Everyday we will log in and say to each other "Hey,let us open a company or hey let us run as congress together".I doubt that anyone will truly trust someone to open up a company together if they didn't know the other person RL life.
In conclusion,there is nothing wrong in hiding your identity but for me personally I hate doing that because I just could not find any real friend that I can talk something else other than this game.
<< my game name is my real name due to i use facebook connect
age: 24
hobbies: gaming, anime, modding PC & car
working as software developer
i am new to here
Nov, while I see where you're coming from, and think it's admirable, I have to disagree. I don't believe that me not knowing your RL persona will stop me from connecting with someone on here in a genuine way.
In my opinion, the reason this people are zombies is because this game is too mentally taxing and graphically static. I reckon that's what the mods are trying with the V2 war module; they're making it more appealing for the majority.
There is a lot of reading and thinking involved to get into this game. Daily articles, forum, voting. Most people probably sign up thinking it will be less text-based and realise this is not the case. I think that a lot of surviving zombies are actually happy to just 2-click and watch those level progress bars fill up day after day.
Everything in the game - except the stuff that matters (community)- is accessible enough for the average casual gamer but getting involved 'for real' is a whole other level of commitment. The political and economical side of the game is not easily fathomed, esp. for people who have little knowledge and interest in that stuff in RL anyway.
and others, like me, just don't like having to think too hard when I'm unwinding after work 😑
apologies for wall of text
Robb
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nice 😃
Nikola Orozovic
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age: 23 on the 5th Dec.
hobbies: cycling, swimming, study, eR ... 😃
status: in a few relationships 😛
Very interesting.