Monday, January 5th, 2009
Issue: 107   Editor: Mikamon


Establishment Update Mikamon
A few months after a cap of 16,9 million dollars was placed on the Establishments, Sabin introduced an update to the page. By doing so, he removed the maximum cap and added a new system for the value of Establishments.

The update means that the value of Establishments will now happen through a sliding scale, preventing that people start using it as a bank again. Also, Scums that are On Vacation are now history. People that are no longer On Vacation will no longer show as such, thus people will finally be able to shoot the vacationed Scums that are holding land. Also, the land of permanently banned players will be dropped once a day.

Due to the update, the old cap was removed and immediately restored land values according to the new scale. For some, this meant their land value dropped. One player reported seeing his land drop from six million to an amount near three million. Others, however, reported their land value had suddenly raised to an astonishing 96 million.

The response amongst the players varied. “There goes a few months down the pan,” commented Muzz. Others were positive regarding the update, seeing the maximum cap had really annoyed them. Frits said, “Although I lost a few bil back then, this way establishments keeps being an interesting, but not too big, part of BL”

Alongside the update came bugs in Escrow when one tried to Escrow Establishments to other players. One of the bugs caused the land value not to be shown. Another made it impossible to Escrow land. Yet, the bugs have been reported and are being worked on. Most of them have already been fixed.

With this update, Establishments are no longer banks that give you three percent interest and hide your wealth, but they do gain more value over time and will allow people to grow rich by using them. However, they will need more patience this time.