[eRep Update] Incoming changes (uh oh)
Sir Humphrey Appleby
Thanks to Rican for providing the source 🙂
"Dear Citizens,
Over the next 2 months we plan to roll out a series of changes in order to put more emphasis on the strategy part of the game and address several of eRepublik’s issues as voiced by the Community.
We are presenting a sketch roadmap of the things we are currently working on so you can both have an overview of the things to come and have your say on it.
A new Industry together with its correspondent New Resources will be added to the eRepublik Economy. Countries will be able to fight for the New Resources as part of a fresh Resource Wars event, starting in the following weeks. This remake of the 2014 Resource Wars will bring different rules to the table and a greater focus on strategy and balancing.
The new Industry will significantly change the way the battles are fought and allow new users to matter from their first days, without impacting the fun of the loyal players base.
Once the Resources are allocated and the event is over, bonus productivities of the regions will change, the rare resources regions will have better bonuses than the common ones.
Players’ Companies will no longer travel with them. Companies will be established on firm ground and benefit from the bonuses of the Region/Country they are based in. Taxes will be calculated accordingly and Companies will be subject to trade embargos once again. Players will get to decide where to base their current Companies.
Region specific taxes will follow enabling a higher taxation of occupied territories as spoils of war. As a next step we will be looking at the introduction of Regional Governments with elected officials.
Increased revenue for Country accounts by extending taxation to all the revenue base (Combat Orders and Currency medals), enabling governments to better fund Military Campaigns among other things.
Travel will suffer changes too, and will no longer be based on arbitrary zones but on Real World distances.
Players that fight in closely contested rounds will get more Prestige Points."
Source: http://forum.erepublik.com/index.php?/topic/4701-resource-wars-prologue/
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Endorsed with only 5GBP for copying from the forums.
£5 for the effort is a reasonable return
Little countries like the UK could suffer as we are always being wiped people could just moved all their companies off shore into a strong nation with maybe lower taxes in the knowledge that if the UK gets wiped their business won't suffer, smaller nations could see a dip in tax income.
We should probably work out the best available method in advance; that way people are organised on the day and we don't end up all over the place
eUK could do with a dip in tax income as all it seems to do with taxes is hoard them for the next thief to come along
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Will be interesting to see how this one turns out.
And here's a better one: http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/new-update-resources-war-2593382/1/20#comment40606735
Well we have our response from one of the admins to the accusation this will make rich countries richer and poor poorer - http://prntscr.com/av168u
"Very likely that most players would move all of their companies to bigger countries to get better bonuses, meaning these countries will get the money out of it."
Hilarious admin's reaction 😛
They're not very good at formulating an argument that actually counters what complaint they're responding to...
probably the final nail in the coffin for us.
The final nail in the coffin was put in ages ago. We're currently waiting the phone call from the undertaker as to which day the funeral will happen.
an apt metaphor for the situation 😛
Any changes are years too late.