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[Wooty]

It isn't working for me either.

[Karlito]

Just worked for me now though, so I'm happy.

[Callagan111]

Just worked for me now though, so I'm happy.

Yeah, but try to access the forums or rankings pages. They don't work for me.

[E. Albright]

Rankings and forums are still very down.

I've started the actual discussion that should lead up to TRP's merging with SUP. The model to date is we all quit and join SUP, but this isn't set in stone and can be reversed by persuasive argumentation that it'd make more sense for them to join us. I, being flexible and not overly invested in the current plan, don't need convinced of that, but Guy et al would.

Either way, get in there and have your say. Don't make me have spammed the entire TRP membership list one by one for nothing; let's have a proper discussion! 

(Seriously, eRepublik needs to make more user friendly tools for party management. Hell, give us a "PM whole party" option for 0.1g or something; I'd use that in a heartbeat...)

[Cheeetar]

It seems that eRepublik is down again, I can't log in.

[E. Albright]

Okay, we're Pattana Unity Party now, complete with kawaii acronym and placeholder party graphic (two Thai bangkaew puppies sharing a bone; awwww...).

[wallish]

I'm not getting the new image.  Also, I've got over 5 strength (like 5.1 something) yet I haven't gotten that achievement.  Do I have to do something?

[Karlito]

The career path flowchart seems to imply that you have to participate in at least one fight.

[zac4213]

(shameless bump)
Anyone interested in joining charmin, we have normal wages. Just post what skill level you're at and i'll post some offers.

[E. Albright]

All the server problems grow fatiguing. Between that and the stagnating eThai political/economic situation (TNT chased out of the country, TRP dissolved into a libertarian alliance with SUP), I begin to think seriously about pulling the plug. I'm not there yet, but it tempts. If I do hit that point, I'll give warning, divest myself of my resources, and hand the keys of Fortress Enterprises over to one of yinz.

[Servant Corps]

Hey, why not retire? I mean, if eThailand is now a libertarian utopia (I'm persuming that at least the economy is functioning), why change? No need for heroes anymore in a utopia...

Wait...eThailand is a libertarian utopia? What happened to the socialists?

[qwertyuiopas]

I would be interested in joining if there still is a DF group there...

[E. Albright]

It's hardly a libertarian utopia. Libertarian, definitely. Utopia, nowhere near. The Baht is hovering around 200 to a Gold, Gold at 250 Baht per; this looks to be moving up if it's moving at all. Q2 Food costs 13 THB (average salary is around 10 or 12). A Q1 House would cost at least 1k THB if any were for sale. Gifts, when available, go something like 16 THB for a Q2.

Basically, the economy is struggling, to put it mildly. The arms exporters and their ilk started salary wars to ensure they got the choice portions of the small labor pool, with the net effect of driving Food and other Manufacturing-based prices up through the roof. There's obscene amounts of Baht floating around keeping the value severely depressed. Money-market manipulators play with its value to their benefit, and everyone else's detriment. We have too many companies for our labor pool, and even if we do see some people close theirs, we then see foreigners open new ones to exploit our cheap labor. And no one wants to think about anything beyond extremely vague market-faith-based solutions. Raising taxes to pull currency out of circulation is blasphemy, even if it weren't futile due to the ease of tax evasion in the current system. The UI won't let a nation defend its economy (or political structure, natch) against gross foreign intervention. V1 has always been a hideous mess, and it's only gotten worse since people figured out how to exploit things. This is even ignoring drastic exploits like the Gold duplication bug recently uncovered.

I doubt that more collectivist solutions could possibly help because they'd require buy-in, and no one seems to want that. The president in December laid out a clear blueprint for market-oriented labor syndicates to combat the out-of-control wage inflation; to my knowledge it was wholly ignored as too much work and/or requiring too much trust (it was a more right-wing version of the operating plan I'd been running Urist Mountain Homes on). There's way too much short-sighted individualism; everyone wants someone else to wave a wand and fix the problems in such a way that they themself have to do nada out of their normal routine. Tragedy of the commons, and all that.

[E. Albright]

Qwerty: yes, there's a mess of us jamming our fingers into the leaky dike that is the eThailand economy. PM me your email if you want an invite.

[Servant Corps]

That's horrible. I am sure that there has to be somer heroic figure who tried to establish a company in another country and then export that food for cheap to eThailand, thereby keeping people alive. Right? Oh dear.

edit: God I wish you could just outlaw guns right then and there, and thereby force everyone out. Or at the least raise taxes on guns so high that it becomes not profitable to continue. Flush them out.