We have created an introduction video for SimRepublic that will be visible on the front page to new users. Check it out!
Please can you post it to your facebook if you like it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsQF1dBtFq4
We’ve added a lot of new furniture to the game, here are a few highlights that I am especially proud of:
Fussball Table
Fridge:
Fireplace:
Designer table:
This is a great fan video made about SimRepublic. I love the fact that players are putting in this effort into the game. Well done!
Similar fan-created content will also be posted on the blog! But it has to be good quality!
We have had great results for SimRepublic since the launch a month ago, and I really hope this is the start of some bigger things to come. I am sharing results here because I want this game to be completely honest to the players, the press and everyone, just because no-one else does this, and honesty sometimes works wonders.
I am happy that there have been a minimal amount of bugs found, and all of them have been corrected. This is down to some great programming by Neme. Fixing small bugs hasn’t taken up much of his time, so he is spending most of his time making small important changes to the game, as well as coding the new war feature for the game, which should be live in a few weeks.
We had an incident a week ago where someone managed to guess an admin account’s password and fool around in the game a bit, but luckily we caught the person and fixed the issues pretty quickly. They spent around 700 unpaid gold credits, which was the main damage to the game internally, but this has all been now corrected.
I think the only really unpopular thing we have done is remove immigration controls from countries, however this is a necessary bad for the game to grow. 100% new players (who have not played the game before), will most likely join their actual home country in the game, mostly due to patriotic feelings, and if a country is closed by an “inner circle” of players, they will just leave the game. This is based on statistics not opinions, so it is fact. Therefore we have opened up immigration, however after immigrating a player finds it much more difficult to do it a second time which prevents skipping from country to country.
The death of a lot of online browser games is having old players completely reject new players. This is someone which will not happen in SimRepublic, and having closed countries and players complaining about the removal of immigration controls is exactly this.
Now for the actual statistics (based on the last 30 days)
Registrations: 2558
Active players in the last 24 hours: 355
Most players seen playing at once: 93
Gold credits spent in the game: 7836
Revenue: 1819 EUR
Almost 100% of this revenue is spent on staff right now, but I feel great that we are able to actually pay them from SimRepublic. This means that they can spend 100% of their time on the game, making new features and balancing it out, which I really hope will bring in more and more players!
Next post will be in one month, I hope for some great numbers!
Helios
We are extremely happy about the growth of the game so far. Yesterday we say over 60 people online at once, and I hope we will reach 100 in the next few days. It’s terrific!
The feedback about the game has also been pretty good, and we are working hard to fix any bugs as soon as possible.
The brand new version of SimRepublic has just gone live!
It is a new game, new dynamics, new things to do, new goals. It has been in development for half a year and it is well worth the wait!
Starting playing now!
We have been developing a completely different version of the game since October, and it is finally ready for testing.
People still playing in the old version have been notified and many have come over to test the new version! I must say it is going very well and the feedback has been excellent, except for a few bugs of course!
I hope the testing period will last 1-2 weeks then we can launch the beta version!
Special Offer Just for Today
Today is Renegade Game’s last day of the financial year, so we are doing a special offer to celebrate for all SimRepublic players.
Just today all credits are half price.
So one credit is only 0.15 euroes.
Make sure you buy in the next 24 hours to take advantage of this huge opportunity!
A user driven moderation system was put in place today. Users can vote to silence other users, if they are being abusive. Depending on how many others users report you, you will be silenced for a certain amount of time.
5 reports – 30 minute silencing
10 report – 3 days silencing
There have been lots of reports of abusive players, this is why we implemented this. Please be respectful of other players.
From now on all users that die are automatically moved from their country to purgatory.
Purgatory is the same as what dying was before, except now you need to move from there after you have recovered your strength and money.
