Sunday, March 29th, 2009
Issue: 119   Editor: Mikamon


Telling It Like It Is BrickTamland
So, welcome again to my article. What with Mothers Day last Sunday, I simply did not have the time in which to produce and submit this. However, this is the 9th publication in the series, one more to go before we hit the mighty milestone of ten.

Anyway, back to today, we have in store for you, a big point on the reset finally explained, bundles of new crews come to town and some other beauties which you must be sure not be miss. Events which happened this week are, The Legends were insided, a New Nation Don came to power and there were new State Dons of Michigan, New York, New Jersey and Louisiana. If that wasn't enough, ridiculous amounts of crews appeared this week including, Green Street Elite, The Authority, Lynx, and finally, as I type this up, Eternal Labyrinth are being shot at.

Disregarding all that for a moment, let's get started. This issue I'm about to discuss has finally made it here after a long time and it's the most controversial issue around; the reset. There has probably been a reset topic on one of the forums, normally the Game Forum, since about Decomber '06, bearing in mind the last reset was 19th October '06. Various people either lose a lot of cash, or the experience of racing people to get to the top ranks vanishes and suddenly, it's time for a reset. Now then, let's get thei straight once and for all. When the last reset came to pass, who knows what state the game was in? I believe the inflation was extremely large, something to the tune of trillions of dollars per player. One player gave other billions, just because they felt like it. Now then, let's take a look at today's state of the game. Everything in running smoothly. Granted, in the last couple of weeks, in-game cash has risen quite sharply but it's still very much under control. There is no NEED for a reset. Just because you are bored of the current round or have lost everything, that's not necessarily what all the reset want. Even if it was, it would still be up to BSF and the Admin team as to when and if this would come to pass. Some create topics like this:

Quote:
Reset! - MrX (Q) Other
Is there a reset soon?


Let me ask you, don't you think that you would be informed if a reset was even remotely close to being implemented? They're not just going to spring it on you. Considering it was announced in the Game foum about the last one, I see no reason why it wouldn't be announced a while beforehand. So, in conclusion, at the moment, there is NO NEED for a reset. If there was, and the Admins decided to have one, you would hear about it, it would not be a secret.

Moving on, more and more crews. I for one was in favour of 5 new crewspots. However, now that they are here, we have seen a bundle of new crews, haven't we. A lot of them have been a player managing to pick up a spot and naming it a crew and starting from there. Not really building it up before coming on Stats. That has proved unwise and low and behold, they get wiped easily. A quick word of warning, many well-built crews get hit sometimes and so if you aren't strong enough, you're going to provide a nice easy target for people. Of course, I like the increased action but it does get a little disheartening seeing a crew being formed one minute and being wiped, never to see the light of day again, the next.

Finally this week, I want some suggestions. As I have been mentioning for a number of issues, next week will be the milestone 10th edition of this article. So, I want to celebrate this with some competition(s). Providing I don't get killed, I'll have a nice little stash of my own money ready for people to win here, next week. I want as many suggestions for quizzes, puzzles etc. that I can add on here for someone to win some prizes. I'm quite lazy and that's why I want you to help. If you have any decent ideas, please post them below so I can make up my mind. Look forward to that in next week's Buzz.

That being said, I think that's about it for this 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