Reading earns you a steady trickle of energy; writing is where an article can earn you gold again and again. When you publish something genuinely useful, every reader who finishes it and every like it collects puts gold in your pocket over time - 0.0001 gold each, paid from the game fund and never taxed. It asks more of you than reading does, but it rewards more too, and there is real satisfaction in teaching something to thousands of other players. This lesson covers the rules of writing a good article and the one step that surprises newcomers: the review before it goes live.
The rules of a good article
An article is not a tweet - it is a proper piece of writing, and a few simple rules keep the whole room worth reading. None of them are hard, and they are all there to protect the quality you yourself enjoy when you read.
- It must be at least 500 words - a real article, not a one-liner.
- It must be clearly about CoinRepublik: strategy, your country, the economy, a how-to guide, and so on.
- You may publish one article per day.
- Write it in English for the Global tab, or in your own language for the Local tab.
The 500-word floor is the heart of it. It is enough to say something real and useful rather than dashing off a quick note, and it is what keeps the Articles room full of pieces actually worth a reader's minute. There is also a generous upper limit, around 5000 words, so you can write at length without ever being able to dump an endless wall of text. Between those two bounds you have all the room you need for a thorough, genuine article.
One article a day
You can publish a single article each day. That gentle limit keeps the room full of considered pieces rather than a flood of rushed ones, and it means every author gets a fair share of readers' attention. So make your one daily article a good one - it is the only shot you get until tomorrow.
Reviewed before it goes live
Here is the part that catches new writers off guard, so let me prepare you for it now. The moment you publish, your article does not appear to the world straight away. It first sits as pending while an admin reviews it. Until it is approved, only you can see it; once approved, it becomes visible to everyone. An article that is judged off-topic or low-effort is simply not approved, and never appears to other players at all.
This review exists for a clear reason. Because articles are the one part of the Community that pays energy, they would otherwise be a magnet for spam and nonsense written purely to farm rewards. A review before anything goes public is what keeps that out, so that every article a reader opens is genuinely about the game and genuinely worth their minute. The check is done by an admin today, with room for AI help in future, but the principle stays the same: real articles in, junk kept out.
Pending is normal, not an error
After you publish, your article will sit as pending until it is reviewed - this is expected and means everything is working. Approved articles become visible to all; off-topic or low-effort ones are quietly not approved and stay hidden. So do not be alarmed by a short wait before your piece appears.
Global or local
When you write, you choose your audience through the tab you publish to. The Global tab is for articles written in English, so that any player anywhere can read them - it is the default and the widest possible audience. The Local tab is for articles in your own language, shown to players from your country. If you have something to say to the whole world, write it in English on Global; if you want to speak naturally to your countryfolk, the Local tab in your own tongue is the place.
You write the words, admins choose the picture
One rule is worth stating plainly because it differs from what you might expect: you cannot set the picture on your own article. Only admins can attach an image. This is a deliberate safety measure - it makes sure no inappropriate or off-topic picture can ever slip onto a published article. Your job is the writing; if an article deserves a fitting image, an admin may add one during the review. Pour your effort into the words, and let the pictures be taken care of for you.
What writing earns you
Once your article is approved and out in the world, it starts working for you. Every reader who completes the 30-second read hands you 0.0001 gold, every like the article collects gives you another 0.0001 gold, and because that gold comes straight from the game fund it is never taxed - it arrives in your balance in full. A single strong, helpful article can therefore keep paying you long after the day you wrote it, as new readers keep finding it. The article itself shows how much gold it has earned you so far, so you can watch a good piece add up. We will look closely at likes and comments in the very next lesson - for now, simply know that the effort of writing well is rewarded by every person you reach.
Gold from the fund is never taxed
The 10% gold income tax falls only on gold you buy on the exchange. The gold your articles earn from reads and likes is a bonus paid by the game fund, so it is never taxed - every 0.0001 gold lands in your balance whole.
So writing is the deeper way to earn in the Community: at least 500 words, clearly about the game, one a day, in English for the world or your own language for home, reviewed before it appears, and illustrated by admins rather than by you. Write to teach and to help, and the gold follows naturally. Next we turn to the two things readers do with a good article - liking it and commenting on it - and how those keep the best writing rising to the top.