Sunday, February 22nd, 2009
Issue: 114   Editor: Mikamon


Telling It Like It Is... BrickTamland
Once again, I missed last week. I was curled up in bed ill as I watched our other writers submit their articles. Now then, what happened since the last time we met, briefly, is Strictly Business got wiped, The Clericuzio shot a Nation Don and 5 State Dons, The Constitution finally packed up and left with Naruto publicly quitting about ten times, Resistance came out of the undergrowth and shot at Notoriously Rich users. More State and Nation Dons appeared as they got the required XP for the invite and there were various attacks on The Legends, Ice as well as the return to the Stats of Cartel Enterprises and Save The Whales.

I'm going to start off with something I was going to mention two weeks ago but temporarily forgot at the time of writing. I've mentioned this before in freelance articles and I'm going to say it again so hopefully people can listen.
I am talking about replying to bootmails with regards to joining Organised Crimes. You may of course be thinking to yourself, "it doesn't matter, you're in a crew". Well, believe it or not, not every crew member of any given crew can OC together all of the time. This will of course leave us with the same trials and tribulations, especially if you're a low rank.

I'm not saying that it directly affects those lower down the rank chain, but it tends to do so, as a whole. To further my point, this article is not being written in regards to being against rankism. If high ranks want to OC with fellow high ranks, who have survived long enough to earn that right, then so be it. No, I'm more concerned with general bootmails. Let us take for example a user of Legendary Godfather rank, who has advertised for leading their OC as shown:

Quote:
LGF doing OC in Michi - MrX Organized Crime

Bootmail me.


Now, it all seems fine, until you get to calmly accepting their request to bootmail them since you can OC in Michigan. Whether you are a mediocre rank such as Hitman - Boss or even as high as Godfather+, and you bootmail them, having tested this a number of times during the past weeks, the chances are you don't get a reply.

This, my friends, is not a new thing. Maybe I'm missing something or not reading between the lines, because in said example, nowhere does it state a rank minimum or that they are in a hurry.

I have ended up stuck as to why a reply isn't generally given. You would think that if they had the time to choose any rank rather than those who provide the most XP, the user would have the common decency to reply to a bootmail which they requested from possible available BL players. Instead, they tend to flick through their bootmails looking for the most prosperous offers and leaving those others to assume that they haven't accepted you for their OC.

If you happen to be like MrX, the Legendary Godfather in any way when it comes to OCs, I simply request that in order to maximise the efficiency of the OC community, you do a number of things, just as common courtesy:

1. If you are trying to look for certain ranks, don't waste people's time and state that on your thread.
2. If there's a chance that you won't have time to reply to everyone, also state that on your thread, it doesn't take a minute, I promise.
3. Lastly, if you get bootmails that do fit all your first-stated OC requirements, but you don't want their custom for whatever reason, just simply reply and say, "No thank you."

I guess the point I'm trying to make here is that a little bit of effort can go a long way even if it is just common decency. I think that just about wraps up my rant. Hope you enjoy the read, and take it in.

Now that's off my chest, we can move on. I'm going to mention The Clericuzio. I'm sure they have a lot of enemies since they shoot Notoriously rich users. I believe it's so they can have a greater percentage of the in-game money. If I'm wrong, someone correct me. But what's wrong with that? Everyone is bitching, "But I kept myself to myself, now I've lost over $1billion". Get over it, work up to that amount again and find ways to shoot back, take revenge, don't bitch. It's their money & resources, at least they're using it instead of sitting on it.

I think my first point pretty much took up my whole article so I'm just going to finish off with Naruto. He has finally realised that he can only talk the talk, but not walk the walk. Having said that, he can't really talk the talk that well either. He realised he's been a moron and that the general population wasn't taking his bulls*it so decided to bugger off.

That brings me in fact onto a final point. What is up with people publicly quitting a thousand times? If you're going to do it, just quit. We don't need to here about it, thank you very much.

Um, I think that's about it for this week but rest assured there will be more same time next week. I'd like to point out yet again, for those who rate the article, please give a critique, what you liked, didn't like, agreed with, didn't agree with, etc.
Thanks!

Until then, I bid you adieu.
~ LW