Many people have been asking me about ERX lately, and so I felt its time to clarify a few things once more.
It has been many months since the idea of an eRepublik stock market was born and work was started. The project is roughly 85% completed, which means that it functions but still needs polish and is missing a few features and possibly some eRepublik-side enforcements. Technically I could use my selfmade API script to make it all work, which would mean not having to wait until early January until the official API is released, but the main issue I am facing is lack of publicity. A stock exchange is meaningless without a large userbase to support it. From my experience with the lottery, it is really hard to get the word out on anything if the game developers aren't 100% behind you and don't support (read: promote) your work. The eRepublik forums aren't used very much and I do not know many newspaper tycoons; instead I rely on citizens like you to spread the word.
I have been in contact with the eRepublik team and they told that they will only start promoting 3rd party applications once their official API is completed. Due to the reasons stated earlier, this unfortuantely means that ERX will have to wait until around early-mid January 2009 for release, but the good news is that this will give me more time to polish and test it, resulting in a better overall user experience. I want to thank everyone for their support thus far -especially Forconin- and I apologize for not posting an update about this earlier on.
In other news, I am proud to present the eRepublik Tools (erepublik.ws/tools) - a growing collection of useful little *erm*...tools! As of right now, it features a Country Currencies List that can help you to compare and rank global currencies and an International Salaries List so you can easily see where the best paying jobs are! Both of these are automatically updated 4 times a day, enjoy!
Lastly, our RSS feed has now been fixed and works as intended ;)
It has been many months since the idea of an eRepublik stock market was born and work was started. The project is roughly 85% completed, which means that it functions but still needs polish and is missing a few features and possibly some eRepublik-side enforcements. Technically I could use my selfmade API script to make it all work, which would mean not having to wait until early January until the official API is released, but the main issue I am facing is lack of publicity. A stock exchange is meaningless without a large userbase to support it. From my experience with the lottery, it is really hard to get the word out on anything if the game developers aren't 100% behind you and don't support (read: promote) your work. The eRepublik forums aren't used very much and I do not know many newspaper tycoons; instead I rely on citizens like you to spread the word.
I have been in contact with the eRepublik team and they told that they will only start promoting 3rd party applications once their official API is completed. Due to the reasons stated earlier, this unfortuantely means that ERX will have to wait until around early-mid January 2009 for release, but the good news is that this will give me more time to polish and test it, resulting in a better overall user experience. I want to thank everyone for their support thus far -especially Forconin- and I apologize for not posting an update about this earlier on.
In other news, I am proud to present the eRepublik Tools (erepublik.ws/tools) - a growing collection of useful little *erm*...tools! As of right now, it features a Country Currencies List that can help you to compare and rank global currencies and an International Salaries List so you can easily see where the best paying jobs are! Both of these are automatically updated 4 times a day, enjoy!
Lastly, our RSS feed has now been fixed and works as intended ;)
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