Using current RL political crisis for babyboom

I was thinking... (yes, it happens)

Maybe we could use the current political crisis in Belgium to make a new babyboom. We could say something like : "Tired of Belgian politics? Join eRepublik and participate to the political life in Belgium in the virtual world!"

I don't know where we could post that. I guess we could spam the newspapers comments but I think they'll ban us quickly. And I don't think we 'll reach many people that way.

Interesting idea - many new citizens made that remark. But I'm not sure where we could post this...

We could do with an all out spam attack on game/newspaper forums to increase eBelgian citizens

Wow yeah, why not. Let's look for some political discussion forums where you can make some publicity about it ;-)

Just hope that none of those political characters will start eRepublik. Otherwise we are doomed...

great idea

Eniotna wrote:
I don't know where we could post that

maybe we can post on "Candi-ULB" or "ulg", some university...

Olv007 wrote:

Just hope that none of those political characters will start eRepublik. Otherwise we are doomed...

I created an account and started a topic on a dutch politics forum: http://forum.politics.be/showthread.php?p=4715541#post4715541

I'm curious about the reactions

Great ideas and if any of them do join send them to citizen.info. So we can help them to like the game and want to stay.

The initial responses are not very encouraging I hope that will change...

hehe, it seems I'm not the first one to post such articles. But I don't care

Olv007 wrote:I created an account and started a topic on a dutch politics forum: http://forum.politics.be/showthread.php?p=4715541#post4715541

I'm curious about the reactions

Oh... that one. Not a good idea

Too many Flemish separatists on that forum. So you won't motivate people to come if you promote Belgium. And more people promoting eRepublik there, it didn't work. I remember CreveRoelandt creating a topic there asking people to help him against the "evil" Walloons that were destroying his "Groot-Nederlandse" dream

Sorry, I should have mentionned that earlier.

Eniotna wrote:

Olv007 wrote:I created an account and started a topic on a dutch politics forum: http://forum.politics.be/showthread.php?p=4715541#post4715541

I'm curious about the reactions

Oh... that one. Not a good idea

Too many Flemish separatists on that forum. So you won't motivate people to come if you promote Belgium. And more people promoting eRepublik there, it didn't work. I remember CreveRoelandt creating a topic there asking people to help him against the "evil" Walloons that were destroying his "Groot-Nederlandse" dream

Sorry, I should have mentionned that earlier.

Omg lol , you probabley should of mentioned that earlier lmao

I will post it on CandULB :p

politics.be is crowded with self-indulged peudo-politicians. I never ever, visit that forum again. The world they are in es even further away from reality than eRep.

Reaussou wrote:politics.be is crowded with self-indulged peudo-politicians. I never ever, visit that forum again. The world they are in es even further away from reality than eRep.

I just wrote "politics" in Google and found this one first. But you are right. I will very soon close my account there...

I would invite my cousin to join eRepublik , but he would soon have many friends appearing over the game , he is also a candidate for council in the RL U.K. elections on 6th may.

He would probabley be a great choice , if it wasn't for the fact we should be trying to increase the RL Belgian population of eBelgium , and that he would also become power mad and create a new PTO threat :/ lol

Why not create a eBelgium group on facebook?

Facebook groups are proven to not work. Most people don't like to mix eLife and RL.

But we still need RL Belgian badly to avoid any PTO.

Xgentis Lempereur wrote:But we still need RL Belgian badly to avoid any PTO.

We need more citizens regardless of RL country to boost our economy.

Best way is to get it out in the mainstream media. i.e. Radio, major gaming websites/magizines and internet/gaming TV shows.

Also, some of our most active people are not RL Belgian. I'm British and have never lived (or perticually wanted to live) in eUK.

My friends aren't interested in this kind of game and I've tried to convice them.
If we could at least reach 2000 citizen.
Well I try to do that on www.jeuxvdeo.com which is a french site but not really successful

Getting to 2000 will be insanely difficult. We'd need one or two more babybooms of the scale of the last one at least to get that.

What kind of popular gaming media is there in Belgium? Just send a general email to all of them and see if you get any replies.

I don't know any popular gaming media in Belgium sorry.

Nice idea.

Xgentis Lempereur wrote:My friends aren't interested in this kind of game and I've tried to convice them.
If we could at least reach 2000 citizen.
Well I try to do that on www.jeuxvdeo.com which is a french site but not really successful

Heu, you apparently are not really aware of what happened ^^ This site published a whole 'dossier' on eRepublik that you can find here : http://www.jeuxvideo.com/jeux/web/00031028-erepublik.htm . They publish regularly updates about eRepublik and each time we have a babyboom of 2-3k in France and 500 in Belgium (more or less).

When this article was published, more than 20k people joined and France was the most powerfull country in the eWorld. I joined through that eBabyboom, so I know everything about it ^^

I am aware of it but the forum is kinda dead.

Xgentis Lempereur wrote:I am aware of it but the forum is kinda dead.

Yep, I know they are all on the eFrench forum now.

I don't really know what to do to increase our number.

Xgentis Lempereur wrote:I don't really know what to do to increase our number.

I've said it before and i'll say it again , we need full blown advertisement over everything.
Youtube Video's , Facebook groups , Gaming Forum's , even if it only brings 10 people in the end , it is still better than nothing.

I can't make video and I don't know about belgian gaming forum.

Mike Wooldridge wrote:

Xgentis Lempereur wrote:I don't really know what to do to increase our number.

I've said it before and i'll say it again , we need full blown advertisement over everything.
Youtube Video's , Facebook groups , Gaming Forum's , even if it only brings 10 people in the end , it is still better than nothing.

Make a list of all gaming forums, French and Dutch, and spam them. I'm banned of 95% of them as I already did that ^^, got 10 people to join and stay.

I find it a bad idea. It is already sad enough the real Belgium is crowded with nationalistic nut jobs.
Lets keep eBelgium nice and keep them out!

aVegan wrote:I find it a bad idea. It is already sad enough the real Belgium is crowded with nationalistic nut jobs.
Lets keep eBelgium nice and keep them out!

haha, lol
epic replie

Sure but I would like us to have like 50000 citizens
Well I can still dream about it.

There is one spam-friendly game. At least it makes it rather easy to spam: www.hattrick.org

in almost no time you can send you message to >50 people. Because of the league divisions and good links in game.

I would like to organise a spam session on that game but after my forum. Important though is that as many people as possible ask a team on that site.

If you have a team that you want to offer as spam account post it here (be aware you will get banned!). But basically we make a list of accounts we have, we chose a day on which we all log in on the same account to use it all at the same moment to spam around. By doing this accounts will get banned one by one and not all in the same time.

so little conclusion:

STEP 1: ask a team on www.hattrick.org
STEP 2: Post the account in this tread and send the password along with it (maybe just use erepublik as password..)

STEP 3: Discuss who is going to spam which league, which account you all will use together and discuss the date on which you want to start this action.

STEP 4: babyboom

maybe we should try to get a few RL famous belgians to join up on this.


*sends a invitation to "kingAlbertII@hotmail.com"

we do have Sam the Bruyn from Stubru on eRepublic (but I think he went inactive though)

and hattrick indeed has a lot of Belgian players (I've played that game several years ago) but wait with trying a babyboom there untill we're prepared to handle one. The stubru wave c ame unexpected and we handled poorly, if we're gonna start one straight forward, we need to be ready.

What about Myspace/Facebook advertising?

Velitia wrote:What about Myspace/Facebook advertising?

People who who have there erepublik linked to facebook can invite facebook friends.
I think that should be encouraged

Many people don't like mixing eRep and RL, but many others don't mind, so everyone who wants to should spread the word about eBelgium

make a facebook page of eBelgium, its will atract some peeps, if we all invite our friends we are bound to have some extra citizens ^^

If we get a babyboum can we manage it? Because if we get a babyboum and they all die some days later it would be a waste of time.

citizen.info has money for moving tickets and gifts, we have some motivated people to distribute them and to answer messages with questions, and we have some mentors who could help out too (and probably some other volunteers could step up in case of emergency), we now have several educational articles in three languages, a forum registration fee,... In short, most things that will help an interested player survive his first difficult period in eRep. In my experience, the problem is that eRep appeals to a smaller group of those who arrive here, and most don't seem to be interested enough to keep playing even if they don't experience Wellness problems or other "technical" difficulties - I guess that's just the specifics of the game.

Maybe things will change now we have a more active community, or when/if we will have actual wars, maybe V2 will also create more action around here, but most players arrive here in search of thrilling experiences, but fail in finding those here...

i think we need TW's as well before we organise a babyboom as it is an activity more for newcommers

kabouter_wesley wrote:i think we need TW's as well before we organise a babyboom as it is an activity more for newcommers

TW is just clicking 5 times on a button, with no real purpose. The most succesful babyboom happened while the country was directly involved in a real war, usually when the country was being invaded.

There is no problem for me to make an eRep Facebook page. I'll do it now

btw: the eUNL have a clip :p

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tA3EdVym4H8&feature=player_embedded

Theneka wrote:btw: the eUNL have a clip :p

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tA3EdVym4H8&feature=player_embedded

US vid of the Russian invasion is awesome imo


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=496BsfVgHzc

I found a vid that someone made showing PEACE give an ultimatum to eUSA a while back. It's pretty cool.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02J04wjbL8Q

Btw: how do I make facebook page? :p