Sunday, November 16th, 2008
Issue: 100   Editor: NyxxieV30


Total Crews: 12/10 Mikamon
Shortly after the takeover of Strictly Business (SB), we witnessed the wipe of the crew that had taken their place, The Freelancers (TF). Using his five minute search features, the Nation Don dani13 quickly killed all Boss or higher members that were in TF and caused the spot to drop. When the statistics updated again, however, people found not ten crews, but twelve.

The new crews were, The Garbagemen, For LulZ tEh and Resistance. The last crew was soon renamed into In the memory of RudeBox and For LulZ tEh was given to The Incipient Decay. dani13 told the Buzz that “the name "In the memory of RudeBox" was chosen because RudeBox has quit BL so this is to revive his name again as the founder and the boss of Resistance.” It also turned out dani13 wasn't done shooting just yet. Using his five minute searches, he killed the single member that was in The Garbagemen and dropped the crew. As a result, only eleven crews were now on the statistics. Which still left us with one crew too much.

The Buzz contacted the shooter, dani13, who kindly answered some more questions. “I used less than 50 K bullets a few points to travel,” he said. Adding, “I got orders from RudeBox again, and we needed a spot for Resistance because its been a while since we got one.” About the eleven crews, he commented, “It was not intentional, but the bug is still there , they need to fix it .” The Nation Don ended his interview by telling us, “I also want to mention that I shot three Sdons yesterday at RudeBox's orders. This is a little of what Resistance is capable to do, as I told you before you can always expect more from Resistance.”

To find out more about the glitch that had allowed more then ten crews to be created, the Buzz continued their search and contacted Sabin. After a quick reply, he provided the Buzz with more information regarding the matter. “We are already working on a fix for the bug which allows the extra crew,” he said. Many players complained about the fact that it is now impossible to do an 'oldschool' wipe as dropping a crew would just result in ten crews out of ten. To show the stance of the Elite Guard, Sabin told us, “We understand that it's an inconvenience for those who want to old-school wipe a crew and make their own. However we don't believe in stripping an otherwise-legitimate player of the crew slot because of no fault of their own.”

As a conclusion, Sabin said, “For now, the Staff will not take action against the extra crew, but rather focus its efforts on finding and fixing the bug.” This would mean that we will simply have to wait for someone to drop a crew so the amount of crews on the statistics returns to the normal ten. For now, all we can do is wait.