Today some of the tools have gotten a substantial performance increase. The currencies tool is now updated every 2 hours (instead of 6) and should display more accurate results.

The products tool now works MUCH faster, with data being retrieved in ~5 seconds (before it took 30-60) and item prices should also be more accurate. Also both the products and currencies tools now work even when the main eRepublik site is down by taking advantage of the new, official eAPI. If you're a programmer interested in creating your own eRepublik apps, check out api.erepublik.com. Lucian and his team have been working on the official eAPI since late 2008 and have done an amazing job in getting this up and running. While its still in private beta, everything already functions smoothly - well done guys!

To celebrate this amazing performance increase the one-time fee to use the products tool has been dropped to only 3 !

In the near future the salaries tool will be optimized, eLottery will likely be restarted, and work on ERX will begin again (currently in talks with the rest of the eRepublik staff as some in-game features might need to be implemented first).

Update: a bug affecting the salaries tool has just been fixed, the shown wages (in gold) should now be accurate again ;)