Going into bat for DocterDry2
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by Mr Crumpets
Good Morning eAustralia,
Every now and again we come across ill-informed articles. Those looking for the 'gotcha' element. I should know, I've written plenty in my eLife.
So a few days ago I was browsing through eRepublik and our community forums when I spotted this lazy piece of journalism... http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/-gpn-enough-is-enough-2134568/1/20
There and in the forums, DD2 was called out for not fighting in battles for eAustralia.
Well folks, I'm putting on the pads and picking up the willow to go into bat for DocterDry2.
Mr Crumpets dispatches Molly Jo Caine to the boundary
For those that have been around long enough to remember my original character CrowdedHouse (over three years ago), will also remember eRepublik was a VERY DIFFERENT game that what it is today.
The original ads promoting eRepublik showcased the different roles people could play in the game.
We DID NOT have to be war heroes to play an effective role. The makers of the game also promoted heavily the roles of media and politics.
For some players (like DD2, Infin, etc...) politics was more appealing to them and their strongest skill in this game. In fact, Binda is probably more a politician than war hero - she has a bigger body count in party rooms than on the battlefield (I'm still trying to get the knife out of my back).
For others (like Myself and former player Aeros) we were kings of the media. Aeros had the must read paper in the game, with his daily unbiased and detailed analysis of all wars in the game. Myself, I was the king of controversy, always whipping up a frenzy each election and sabotaging many campaigns through the use of the Ads module (now scrapped by admin).
Mr Crumpets salutes his loyal readers
So what does this all mean? It means some of us weren't attracted to the war part of the game when we signed up. We signed up for all the other features of the game. In fact, there any many loved the economics side of the game (until admin screwed that up).
If the game was all about 'bang, bang, shoot em up' war, well there are heaps of other games where we can do that.
eRepublik is so much more and many of us (specially DD2) prefer spending our time 'playing' that part of the game.
If you can't deal with it... here's 50 cents from me... go call someone who cares!
Mr Crumpets.
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Crumpets you referred to Molly Jo's article as "lazy" Well I think your article is dishonest, one of those sleazy journo tricks of "fix your eyes firmly on this and ignore the rest" type of articles. Right now eAus is being occupied & we need EVERY one of us to fight to expel them, that done we can go back to what we love doing the most. Binda is a politician - she also fights. You are putting her down with the "knife in the back" reference. How about a cricket bat applied to your clown hed
Politicians I cannot stand, leaders I have some time for.
If you can't tell the difference - then maybe you should deal with it.
50 cents - I would not give you one cent for your overblown garbage article.
Here is not the place - I will say a bit more in our Forums
... and fifty cents for you Louise Brooks.
I'm confused on what this article is about.... so what your saying is people are not allowed to post whatever they want and have fun?
This article forgets 1 fact, that fact is that this is a game. People can express themselves how ever they want. In this case you "used" to express yourself by hating on others. You don't see anyone bitching about it. Honestly, realize that no one cares when negative stuff is said, we just respond to it because we bored.
Alot of players in this game were in the same boat. I had LOADS of fun in Croatia and other countries just playing mainly the politics and all the roleplaying that comes with it. When v2 came up, alot of people didn't play the war module and just played politics. Obviously the game has changed now to focus mainly on war, but who are all of you to tell DD2 how to play the game? People can play the game any way they like.
Yeah I love getting bored pressing buttons. I have absolutely no idea why, but must pres buttons.
I totally agreed Crumpets. People should be free to do what they enjoy doing in the game. Disparaging someone for not fighting is unfair. If you don't enjoy that aspect of the game you don't have to do it. I wasn't really a soldier at all in my first year of erep. The politics module is what drew me in. Making a jab like that is lazy, it is a populist jingoistic slur. DD2 chose to serve his country through politics and it is just as valuable.
Must be hard to spend twenty seconds to push a fight button.
And stealing money too Sir Constant - or have we all forgotten that?
I will make this point: People can do whatever they want in this game, for game it is.
But there are other people playing as well, and the second that ones actions start deliberately involving other people, then rights & obligations start applying.
What is so hard to understand about that? It is not a question of "hating" it comes down to courtesy & manners. Oh yes, and honesty - wouldn't you agree Sir Constant
Hello, Boony!
"If you can't deal with it...go call someone who cares!"
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I laugh every time someone promotes military as the sole bread winner function of the game, yet its the same people who clamber for the rung on the ladder in the utmost hypocrisy one can imagine.
Both have purpose. Regardless of one's reasons, they can't expect not to be called out on this obvious double-standard.
When infin, DD2, CH, Holtzy, Larni and TJ agree on something - the state's rotten!
Totally agree Louise, problem is I didn't take it, but you forget that bit, then you add this for hypocracy..
"But there are other people playing as well, and the second that ones actions start deliberately involving other people, then rights & obligations start applying."
Mr Crumpets is back and ready to set us on the path to true enlightenment
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I like apples...
They are the same as oranges Larni, you can add them together & subtract them & get a meaningful result
now that's a man's man moustache right there! hahahahaha. onyah boonie!!
stuffed the 50 cents give us a beer! 🙂
" Myself, I was the king of controversy, always whipping up a frenzy each election and sabotaging many campaigns " Obviously things are too quiet in eAus for Mr Crumpets, so he uses his ability not for anything positive, but to stir up & inflame, just like in the old days
Crap article with no positive features, just what eAus needs : (
CH supporting an ANP member? THE END IS NIGH! 😛
@Louise If you take the time to look at very many profiles you will find many people who have played erep for 3+ years who still have low XP and Strength, not enough HW's and SS's to match the months spent playing, not many TP's if any, they rarely if ever make any constructive comments on articles and they just don't jibe with the community aspect of the game. They play it for their own pleasure. There really is only a handful or so who give it all they've got.
Thanks Mr Crumpets, but as everyone would already be aware, peoples attacks/criticisms of me just fly right over my head.
I am tougher than Nigerian hair.
"I am tougher than Nigerian hair"
Thats a big statement to live up to!
Unfortunately Admin has chose to focus on the money making aspect of this game: the war module. Everything else has been left for scrap, so much so that if we're politicking, it look like we're just role playing.
@Lany, I have noticed this and in itself there is nothing wrong with it. The sad fact is that those players with the low XP & strength, have so much to say about things. They want to get into "politics" . Not the Government where actual work may be involved - they want to get their grubby paws on the levers of power as it was. And aside for their big mouths - they have not the skill, ability or experience.
grubby paws, nice use of non-bias there.... what exactly is your problem?
I must admit.. I started playing this game thinking that it wasn't all about war and you didn't have to fight.... But it seems everyone is under pressure to fight. And if you don't, people use it against you...
nobody gives a stuff about you roboz, you can do what you like as long as you have fun. But if you want people to take you seriously, see to it that you have achieved a little bit more than what you have so far.
I mean we are being occupied, it would be nice if more of us at least made some effort