Erepublik

[jmanya]

Strategy game with social and economic module
please visit them
http://www.erepublik.com/es/referrer/jmanya

[Vellos]

I played eRepublik for a year or two.

Was fun for a while, especially for the economist in me. But then it just became more and more work, and more and more dominated by folks spending RL money. And I had accumulated vast wealth and power by managing the assets of several socialist organizations. So I absconded with all of it and deleted my account. Bye-bye years of in-game savings for dozens of people!

Am I an !@#$%^&? Yes.

Did they know I was, in RL, a right-wing neoliberal sort of fellow who got his kicks from ripping on socialism and central planning? Yes.

Did they know I had a history of excessive pranking via the game's economic system? Yes.

Did they put together these crucial factors? Hell no.

[Chenier]

I played eRepublik for a year or two.

Was fun for a while, especially for the economist in me. But then it just became more and more work, and more and more dominated by folks spending RL money. And I had accumulated vast wealth and power by managing the assets of several socialist organizations. So I absconded with all of it and deleted my account. Bye-bye years of in-game savings for dozens of people!

Am I an !@#$%^&? Yes.

Did they know I was, in RL, a right-wing neoliberal sort of fellow who got his kicks from ripping on socialism and central planning? Yes.

Did they know I had a history of excessive pranking via the game's economic system? Yes.

Did they put together these crucial factors? Hell no.

So you proved that centralization can be a great creator of wealth, the problem only being with the redistribution of it back to the people?

Funny how the opposite is just as true, when you think of it.

[Vellos]

No, it wasn't a wealth creator. It was extremely inefficient across the macro-scale, but created lots of wealth for a narrow clique: me, and the socialist party within which I operated. I systematically impoverished my own nation so that I could test out interesting economic policies and theories in a play-market. Simultaneously, I secretly ran a vast multinational corporation... which did occasionally use public funds to kill competition, eheh, but only occasionally, and very quietly.

[Kai]

you know when you do that you should taunt them and get reactions its better for making tall stories for later

[Vellos]

I actually didn't taunt much. I posted one article in my IG newspaper explaining that it had all been a lie for me to fiddle around with economics systems as a self-teaching thing. I was very polite about it.

[Lefanis]

I just started an account yesterday. Soon I shall introduce my fellow ecitizens to the joys of Anarcho-communism!