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Scorpian

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« Reply #240 on: September 09, 2008, 02:37:46 pm »

After 2 days of research and writing...
http://www.erepublik.com/article-622351.html

Sorry for the faux-socialistic junk. I just felt that if I wanted to get people to read it, I have to play to the audience's expections.

Altough now that I realize it, it does appear to be a very, VERY large wall of text.

I like it.
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« Reply #241 on: September 09, 2008, 06:33:55 pm »

Alright tomorrow charman is going quality 2, pretty much everyone will have 2 skill by then, so we should be fine. Also, tomorrow, we have party elections so make sure to vote for me :D

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« Reply #242 on: September 09, 2008, 06:36:45 pm »

Alright tomorrow charman is going quality 2, pretty much everyone will have 2 skill by then, so we should be fine. Also, tomorrow, we have party elections so make sure to vote for me :D


I want the guys that are below skill level 2 to work extra early tomorrow. You should hit quality 2. If not, I'll fire and rehire you.
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« Reply #243 on: September 09, 2008, 10:44:50 pm »

Ill be lvl two in 5 hours, Can I join Chamin Ultra
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« Reply #244 on: September 09, 2008, 11:23:12 pm »

Second faux-socialistic article, this time about some internet drama in eTurkey.

http://www.erepublik.com/article-624552.html
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« Reply #245 on: September 10, 2008, 12:07:42 am »

The problem doesn't lie inherently with the conquering of nations but with the forum groups. The goons from SA since they are very organized from what I've been able to glean from the tomes of lore, can travel to almost any smaller nation and take it over in under a month.  Imagine if they came to Thailand right now. By the 20th they would be in control of almost everything and could declare war on Pakistan now. This obviously lead to Thailand being wiped out and would have no real consequences for the goons. Admittedly it is what we are trying to do but we aren't trying to destroy the country or break the game. 

Edit: Such a group could also flood any market with massive quanties of cheap food and other commodities and crush the markets by undercutting even government run food companies with their disregard for employee profits. The only rule against that is maybe rule 4 which doesn't actually describe what those illegal or unjust methods could include and it only describes getting profit not crushing a countries economy.  Gotta wonder how much experience the makers have with economics, politics, and realistic solutions to such problems.  I just hope that they allow actual solutions to such problems when its released and don't just go "Hey people if anyone screws up the economy tell us and we'll ban em."
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« Reply #246 on: September 10, 2008, 12:55:57 am »

If you are worried about goons, someone should keep an eye on this thread: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2944633&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=17

It contains all of the Goons' plans and who they are going to invade next.
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« Reply #247 on: September 10, 2008, 02:09:17 am »

The party election polls have opened, time to vote!

I reached 2.0 in food a couple of days ago so I'll hold off working today until the company is upgraded.
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« Reply #248 on: September 10, 2008, 08:41:59 am »

I'm seeing Zac is leading 11 votes to 4 in the elections, for now! We are winning  :D
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« Reply #249 on: September 10, 2008, 09:05:10 am »

we've won already. Like I said before, there are 8 original members of the party. all of them voted, and zac is in the lead. Baring an admin banning us all, our victory is assured.

speaking of our victory, what are our plans again?
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« Reply #250 on: September 10, 2008, 09:31:55 am »

I assumed it was world domination......

wait you mean I didn't vote for world domination? :P
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« Reply #251 on: September 10, 2008, 09:46:53 am »

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The problem doesn't lie inherently with the conquering of nations but with the forum groups.

You're right. I was busy trying to talk about the problems of conquering territories that I forgot that key point that the forum groups are the real problems.

There does not seem to be any defense against them. And V1 will be coming in way too late in order to stop them, and will in fact be abused by the Forum Groups to keep power in their own clique. I do not believe that you can wage an insurgency to free your own country in V1.

[[As for the adminship, I have no confidence in their power to do anything other than mess with the economy some more and ban people. I mean, according that topic A_Fey_Drawf linked me to, the admins possibly banned one of the goons for "gift-trading", the tactic of giving a gift, and then have the person you give the gift to decide to give a gift back to you, thereby both beniefting. Sounds like a legit tactic, but they were against it, which was strange.

Then again, I don't quite know of ANY good solution to stop nations from printing lots and lots of money in order to fund their cronies, which was one of the "crimes" the Goons committed while in control of Greece and Turkey. All the admins did was drop a few zeroes of the Turkish lira, restricted the amount of money that can be printed at any one time, and tell people strongly not to do it again. If I was an admin, I'd abolish the Turkish lira entirely and have the economy run on gold, the rationale being that since the Turkish lira is worth zlich, nobody in their right mind would use it for anything other than burning firewood. But even that's a bit of a kludge, and shows how complicated the economic system is.
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« Reply #252 on: September 10, 2008, 12:28:41 pm »

we've won already. Like I said before, there are 8 original members of the party. all of them voted, and zac is in the lead. Baring an admin banning us all, our victory is assured.

speaking of our victory, what are our plans again?

Tally is 15-15 currently. If someone here hasn't voted yet, please make sure you do soon. Polls close in 13 hours. There's been a number of new members the few days and I don't think all of them are us. Perhaps Luis has brought in reinforcements?
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« Reply #253 on: September 10, 2008, 12:31:54 pm »

Tally is 15-15 currently. If someone here hasn't voted yet, please make sure you do soon. Polls close in 13 hours. There's been a number of new members the few days and I don't think all of them are us. Perhaps Luis has brought in reinforcements?

I think the brazilian party members have set up several multi accounts.
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« Reply #254 on: September 10, 2008, 12:37:42 pm »

17-15 in Luis' favor, I'm betting on foul play :)

Especially since there are several accounts created on September 10th that have done nothing but signed up, immediately joined TRP and voted.
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