# Any eRepublik players out there? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [March 24, 2009, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-erepublik-players-out-there/490545 "2009-03-24T02:32:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![clairobscur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/839c29/32.png) [@clairobscur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clairobscur)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2009, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-erepublik-players-out-there/490545/21 "2009-03-26T04:14:08Z")
> [@Stink Fish Pot](#): > > I joined MONTHS ago, but I just got an email saying I’m dying. That’s ok. I just can’t get into these pseudo D&D games. It has absolutely nothing to do with a “D&D game”. ---
**Author:** ![clairobscur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/839c29/32.png) [@clairobscur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clairobscur)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2009, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-erepublik-players-out-there/490545/22 "2009-03-27T13:26:31Z")
> [@Dosipede](#): > > This looks like fun. **Chessic sense** , would you be willing to donate some of your invitation earnings to me if I sign up? Or are there rules against that kind of extortion? Did you join, \*\* Dosipede \*\*? ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2009, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-erepublik-players-out-there/490545/23 "2009-03-27T13:33:58Z")
Hehe, sounds like Eve but without spaceships. ---
**Author:** ![Chessic\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7c8e57/32.png) [@Chessic\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chessic_Sense)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2009, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-erepublik-players-out-there/490545/24 "2009-03-27T16:24:02Z")
Yeah. Dosipede is “Amphibious Rodent”. And it’s not live Eve, I don’t think. It’s more like the Sims or something. Is there a career path in Eve? ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2009, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-erepublik-players-out-there/490545/25 "2009-03-27T16:34:16Z")
> [@Chessic\_Sense](#): > > Yeah. Dosipede is “Amphibious Rodent”. And it’s not live Eve, I don’t think. It’s more like the Sims or something. Is there a career path in Eve? Yes Eve has career paths and a player driven market. ---
**Author:** ![Oredigger77](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oredigger77/32/3181_2.png) [@Oredigger77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oredigger77)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2009, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-erepublik-players-out-there/490545/26 "2009-03-27T16:40:59Z")
Sounds like an interesting way to kill some time, I’ll sign up. Tell me how to give you the credit. ---
**Author:** ![Chessic\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7c8e57/32.png) [@Chessic\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chessic_Sense)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2009, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-erepublik-players-out-there/490545/27 "2009-03-27T16:42:16Z")
PM me your email address and I’ll send an invite. ---
**Author:** ![Oredigger77](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oredigger77/32/3181_2.png) [@Oredigger77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oredigger77)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2009, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-erepublik-players-out-there/490545/28 "2009-03-27T17:22:57Z")
I’m up and running in California under the same name. ---
**Author:** ![Raza](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raza/32/213_2.png) [@Raza](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raza)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2009, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-erepublik-players-out-there/490545/29 "2009-03-27T19:55:58Z")
I am playing under the same name. I’m considering moving; from my hurried analysis of the data on eRepTools, it seems Canada has the best combo of salary \* food prices. The food is fairly cheap where I am (Pakistan), but of course wages are pretty low. ---
**Author:** ![clairobscur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/839c29/32.png) [@clairobscur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clairobscur)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2009, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-erepublik-players-out-there/490545/30 "2009-03-27T20:17:03Z")
> [@Raza](#): > > I am playing under the same name. I’m considering moving; from my hurried analysis of the data on eRepTools, it seems Canada has the best combo of salary \* food prices. The food is fairly cheap where I am (Pakistan), but of course wages are pretty low. Or do like me, work in a country where salaries are high and buy your food from Chessic Sense (or someone else) at cheap American prices. Isn’t Pakistan currently invaded, by the way? ---
**Author:** ![Chessic\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7c8e57/32.png) [@Chessic\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chessic_Sense)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2009, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-erepublik-players-out-there/490545/31 "2009-03-27T20:18:18Z")
> [@clairobscur](#): > > buy your food from Chessic Sense I’m a fan of that approach. Eventually, I’ll want those cheap French gifts from you. Raza, why isn’t your name showing up? ---
**Author:** ![clairobscur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/839c29/32.png) [@clairobscur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clairobscur)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2009, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-erepublik-players-out-there/490545/32 "2009-03-27T20:40:58Z")
> [@Chessic\_Sense](#): > > I’m a fan of that approach. Eventually, I’ll want those cheap French gifts from you. > > Raza, why isn’t your name showing up? I found a Raza, but he’s living in Indonesia. Since he displays a low level of interest in his country, maybe he forgot what country he is a citizen of? ;); I’m not sure gifts are that cheap. They were slightly cheaper yesterday, but to say the truth I didn’t pay attention yet to the prices of anything besides food and currencies (I made a buck selling Mexican pesos today. That’s a beginning). I just accidentally needed to check gift prices yesterday, as you may know. By the way, food is sold at absolutely ludicrously high prices in Moldavia. Something like USD 10 for Q2 food, and they don’t even have other qualities. If you could make a deal with one of the (rare, I admit) Moldavian citizens, you could make a huge profit. ---
**Author:** ![Raza](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raza/32/213_2.png) [@Raza](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raza)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2009, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-erepublik-players-out-there/490545/33 "2009-03-27T21:02:18Z")
> [@](#): > > I found a Raza, but he’s living in Indonesia. Frankly, I don’t understand how this national identity thing in eRepublik works. When I signed up, it asked me to choose a country. Never having been there, I chose Pakistan. But apparently Pakistan is “occupied” by Indonesia, so it shows my country as Indonesia, even though I’m living in Sindh, which is a province in (what is actually) Pakistan. So while I know where I am, I’m confused as to what nationality I’m supposed to be. Currently Malaysia has about the cheapest food, at 0.018 gold per Q1. Pakistan is 0.025 (though, again, I’m not sure if I can actually buy on the Pakistan market, even though I’m in Sindh). Indonesia is 0.041. USA seems pretty good, at 0.027, with probably decent wages (although a 20% income tax). Salaries in the USA for a level 4 worker in manufacturing are about 0.31 gold, but in Indonesia 0.46 gold (these are after taxes). So, the USA has cheaper food, but significantly lower wages, unless I’m off in my data analysis (very much a possibility). ---
**Author:** ![clairobscur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/839c29/32.png) [@clairobscur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clairobscur)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2009, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-erepublik-players-out-there/490545/34 "2009-03-27T21:54:36Z")
> [@Raza](#): > > Currently Malaysia has about the cheapest food, at 0.018 gold per Q1. Malaysia has a huge problem on its hand. Their economy is devastated. That’s probably state-subventioned food sold to prevent people from emigrating in droves, and I wouldn’t bet on it staying at low prices on the long term. I suspect their might be wild variations in prices in this country while they’re trying to reorganize everything (I chatted with a newly-elected Malaysian congressman yesterday). Or maybe, since they’re in the process of reducing massively import taxes (grain went from 99% to 1% yesterday), some exporters have already set up shop there. Still, I wouldn’t choose it to work or live. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2009, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-erepublik-players-out-there/490545/35 "2009-03-27T22:20:21Z")
> [@Raza](#): > > Frankly, I don’t understand how this national identity thing in eRepublik works. When I signed up, it asked me to choose a country. Never having been there, I chose Pakistan. But apparently Pakistan is “occupied” by Indonesia, so it shows my country as Indonesia, even though I’m living in Sindh, which is a province in (what is actually) Pakistan. So while I know where I am, I’m confused as to what nationality I’m supposed to be.) You’re Indonesian, because Sindh is now owned by Indonesia, having been conquered by Indonesia from Pakistan. ---
**Author:** ![clairobscur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/839c29/32.png) [@clairobscur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clairobscur)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2009, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-erepublik-players-out-there/490545/36 "2009-03-27T23:11:34Z")
> [@Captain\_Amazing](#): > > You’re Indonesian, because Sindh is now owned by Indonesia, having been conquered by Indonesia from Pakistan. You’re playing too? ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2009, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-erepublik-players-out-there/490545/37 "2009-03-28T06:17:23Z")
I’m attempting to. I’m in the US, have a low paying job at an oil company and am barely scraping by. ---
**Author:** ![clairobscur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/839c29/32.png) [@clairobscur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clairobscur)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2009, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-erepublik-players-out-there/490545/38 "2009-03-28T15:43:44Z")
> [@Raza](#): > > Salaries in the USA for a level 4 worker in manufacturing are about 0.31 gold, but in Indonesia 0.46 gold (these are after taxes). So, the USA has cheaper food, but significantly lower wages, unless I’m off in my data analysis (very much a possibility). I’ve changed my mind about moving to a country where salaries are high and buying food from countries where it’s cheap). Because in a few days, I’ve noticed that entry-level salaries and low quality products prices are too volatile. When I joined France some days ago, entry-level (level 0-1) salaries were high. I got a job paying 5 FRF. Then, within a couple days, those salaries had massively dropped (50% for a level 0 job, that was now paying about 2.5 FRF). Then, a day later, level 1 job were paying more again, but level 0 salaries stayed low. I suspect that for more skilled jobs, there aren’t such wild variations. Similarly, Q1 food prices in the USA rose by 50% or so over the last night, for some unknown reason, while prices in France dropped a little, making Q1 food cheaper in France. Meanwhile prices for Q2 food are seemingly more stable. So, I think you’re right when, while picking your potential new country, you’re planning ahead by considering salaries of medium-level skilled workers or medium-term opportunities, rather than focusing , as I was doing, on “how much is paid an entry-level job? How much cost a piece of bread, there?” ---
**Author:** ![clairobscur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/839c29/32.png) [@clairobscur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clairobscur)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2009, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-erepublik-players-out-there/490545/39 "2009-03-28T15:50:36Z")
> [@Captain\_Amazing](#): > > I’m attempting to. I’m in the US, have a low paying job at an oil company and am barely scraping by. Yes, we’re all there. Maybe someday we’ll talk about mergers and high politics instead of discussing the affordability of food for lowly workers. Nevertheless I spent (way too much) time reading all sort of things over there, and the game appears very rich. Looking into the issues of various countries or the perspectives of their citizens is very interesting. I hope I won’t be disappointed. There’s no shortage of things I wish I’d be able to do. Will you disclose your eRep name? ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2009, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-erepublik-players-out-there/490545/40 "2009-03-29T20:25:07Z")
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