Strategy game with social and economic module
please visit them
http://www.erepublik.com/es/referrer/jmanya
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 !@#$%^&? Yes.
Did they know I was, in RL, a right-wing neoliberal sort of fellow who got his kicks from ripping on socialism and central planning? Yes.
Did they know I had a history of excessive pranking via the game's economic system? Yes.
Did they put together these crucial factors? Hell no.
Quote from: Vellos on October 22, 2011, 10:24:54 PM
I played eRepublik for a year or two.
Was fun for a while, especially for the economist in me. But then it just became more and more work, and more and more dominated by folks spending RL money. And I had accumulated vast wealth and power by managing the assets of several socialist organizations. So I absconded with all of it and deleted my account. Bye-bye years of in-game savings for dozens of people!
Am I an !@#$%^&? 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.
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.
you know when you do that you should taunt them and get reactions its better for making tall stories for later
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.
I just started an account yesterday. Soon I shall introduce my fellow ecitizens to the joys of Anarcho-communism!