eRepublic

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eRepublic
ERepublik.png
Senior Developer Alexis Bonte, George Lemnaru
Erstveröffent-
lichung		 October 21, 2007
platform Web browser
genre MMOG , browser game
language 16, u. a. German

eRepublik is a browser- based MMOG that has been accessible via the Internet since October 21, 2007 . It was developed by Alexis Bonte and George Lemnaru and in the meantime had a development team of 40. The game is written in PHP in the Symfony framework. The game has now been translated into a total of 16 languages.

The game functions as a kind of social network where players can participate in the military, media, politics and economy of their country. The game is free of charge, but it is possible to buy additional game currency ( "gold" ) for real money . In contrast to many other browser games, there are no special items that can only be bought for real money, but numerous objects are so expensive that they can only be acquired with difficulty with "gold" earned in the game.

overview

There are currently 70 countries implemented in which the player can settle. Most of them are European, Asian and American states. There are also Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Nigeria and Egypt as the only African countries. Each state is subdivided into different regions (in Germany accordingly into 13 federal states ) without city states. Every state in eRepublic has a president who is elected monthly by direct elections by the citizens. There are also monthly congressional elections and elections for the office of party president. Since 2014 it has been possible for democratically elected presidents to be overthrown by dictators. Revolutions can restore democracy.

The military and warfare are now a central part of the game. By exercising daily, the player can improve his strength. If there is a war between two countries, the player can then fight for his country or its allies. He can increase his damage by using weapons. The player loses health in combat, which he can restore through hospitals, food, houses or against gold. If a region is occupied by a foreign state, there is also the option of starting a resistance war (against payment of gold). This prevents states that have disappeared from the map from being permanently wiped out in the game.

In addition to involvement in politics and the military, the player can work in a company or later own and manage one or more companies. There are companies for consumer goods such as food, travel tickets, houses or weapons in various quality levels. In order to manufacture these, however, you need raw materials such as wheat, iron, oil and stones, which in turn are manufactured and offered for sale in other companies. There are also companies that manufacture hospitals and defense systems. These two types of product are not bought up by citizens or other companies, but by the respective state - represented by the Congress. In addition, the congress regulates the income, export and value added tax on the various goods.

player

In November 2010 there were over 4 million player accounts, but by then they were no longer all active. Multiple accounts (forbidden by the guidelines of the game, but still practiced) have made it difficult to realistically measure the actual number of players. In 2009 the game reached 100,000 active player accounts. In mid-2010, the game administrators blocked more than a third of the 375,000 player accounts on suspicion of multiple use by individual players, and the rules have been monitored much more closely since then. The number of active players fluctuated in the following years up to 2013 between under 200,000 and over 250,000. In the meantime, the appeal of the game has decreased: in 2015, the number of active player accounts was almost consistently below 100,000.

Countries with numerous players (and the skill of their chosen players) dominate world politics and the game's alliances. Between 2010 and 2013, alternating bipolar power blocks prevailed in the game, after the introduction of an official alliance system this changed to a multipolar order. As of 2011, Serbia has been the most powerful nation in the game (over 25,000 in 2010, between 6,000 and 12,000 in 2015). Other important player nations for a long time are or were, among others, the USA, Poland, Hungary, Macedonia, Romania, Brazil, Chile and Argentina. Rivalries between various Eastern European and South American countries keep the player populations high there, while the three German-speaking countries represented in the game have particularly low numbers of players compared to the real population. Accordingly, in-game Germany was frequently occupied by neighboring countries despite a state merger with Denmark ( Germark ). Playful anti-German resentments were given as the reason.

Since February 2010 it has been possible to combine an eRepublik profile with a Facebook or Google profile. The eRepublik Wiki has now exceeded 10,000 articles.

Prices

  • December 12, 2007 - LeWeb3 2007 - Special jury prize for the best European start-up
  • October 9, 2008 - TechCrunch Awards - FOWA (Future of Web Apps)
  • April 2009 - 13th Annual Webby Awards - Official Honoree
  • July 9, 2009 - TechCrunch Europe Award - Category: Best Entertainment Application or Service (EMEA) (2nd place)
  • January 2010 - AlwaysOn - OnMedia Top 100 winners

Press reviews

"ERepublik creates multiplayer global strategy game"

- New York Times

"ERepublik offers a real second life"

- The Guardian

"ERepublik takes strategy games to the Web"

- TechCrunch

financing

In four rounds, eRepublik had raised 3.25 million euros in invested funds.

  • February 2007 - 200,000 euros
  • June 2008 - 550,000 euros
  • June 2009 - 2,000,000 euros
  • July 2012 - 500,000 euros

ERepublik conducts day-to-day business through in-game sales of gold or game items.

Clones

Numerous games adopted the principle of eRepublik in large parts or even completely. These include, for example, eJahan and virtual nations .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g eRepublik - Press dossier ( Memento of the original from February 15, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 2.7 MB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / static.erepublik.com
  2. ↑ press.erepublik.com ( Memento of the original from January 9, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / press.erepublik.com
  3. ↑ Home - top; symbolized by the flags
  4. ↑ Countries
  5. ↑ Current figures can be read under "active citizens" - "World"
  6. ↑ Current figures: Home - in the middle as "Top countries"
  7. ↑ www.erepublik.com/en/article/facebook-connect-1233805
  8. ↑ wiki.erepublik.com
  9. ↑ www.erepublik.com/en/article/languages-contracts-and-wiki
  10. ↑ http://eu.techcrunch.com/
  11. ↑ a b c Home - below
  12. ↑ crunchbase.com
  13. ↑ ejahan.org
  14. ↑ vnations.net