Sunday, January 25th, 2009
Issue: 110   Editor: NyxxieIn3D


Telling It Like It Is... UltimateDestiny
Hello again and welcome to my column. Unfortunately, my disgrace of a PC decided to die on me and hence you had to wait another week for this. I apologize once more. Well, don't be sad because I'm back.

Just as I thought there would be limited things to talk about, I realised how much I can talk and The Constitution, one of the newest Crews to form since just joining Save The Whales & The Deadly Pandas, took over The Black Out. iNaruto & WalkingInTriangles are the Bosses and apparently shot friends to get the crew spot.

This brings up the issue of how far are you willing to go to get more power in the Game before it involves your friends or getting them killed. I'm sure many are of the opinion, "Hey, guess what, this is a mafia game, shooting is a main part of it". However, so is loyalty. The mafia is all about networks of people working and acting against others. If you work alone, then you were pretty much screwed. I guess it all depends on how much you consider people to be friends. If I was in a position to wipe a crew, I'd first make sure that it wasn't an ally of my crew, and secondly, I’d make sure it wouldn't mean killing any friends. If I consider someone as a friend, best friend, or otherwise, I wouldn't shoot them unless absolutely necessary, i.e., they were attacking me. In that case, they would no longer be a friend. Tell me what you think.

Secondly on the agenda is feature suggestions. I suspect a lot are sent into the Help Desk each day. I’m sure there are many which get repeated and have since been implemented but I was wondering what is considered as a good suggestion. A couple of days ago, a feature suggestion was given on the Game Forum about the use of all in-game cars. The author of the topic saw no use is some of the less expensive ones to which I agreed with him in-topic. I then suggested adding a Car crusher business to the Establishment to crush less expensive cars for bullets. That way, it may end in more action.

The arguments started to arrive about it not being realistic and that car crushers weren’t around at the time. This got me thinking. As with many feature suggestions, it was passed off as unrealistic. Let me ask you, is shooting 5,000 bullets at someone realistic? I think not. This happens to be the way to kill someone at the moment. Unless bullet factories at the start of each round were state owned at $100,000 per bullet, and the formula of killing was put at 1 or 2 bullets to kill people, increasing by rank, something slightly more realistic, then the Bullet Factories dropped at players could set individual prices, I don’t think every aspect of the Game would be realistic. So, I ask you, to what extent can feature suggestions be given feedback as rubbish for being too unrealistic? I’d love to know. Maybe it’s time period, or something else. Me, personally? I am open to any suggestion as long as it’s well thought through.

Finally, last Sunday, members from The Family, shot those who were Notoriously Rich and believed to hold a lot of money on hand. I want to say to those complaining at dying because they were rich that shooters can do what they want. At the end of the day, they have accumulated a lot of bullets and have the right to do what they want with them. Players who kill other rich players just because they are so is not a new thing. This writer suggests anyone holding over $300,000,000 on hand/in the federal bank (N.Rich) should be careful because you’re always going to be a potential target for some.

That’s it for this week. I think I’ve said all I want to this week but rest assured, if my PC decides to like me again, they’ll be more next week.
Until then, I bid you adieu.

~ LW