Sunday, April 12th, 2009
Issue: 121   Editor: Nyxxie


Makeover Our Missions! PerseveranceV2
Once again the Buzz has, this week, seen a further cry from the Bootleggers community to overhaul the widely considered out-of-date Missions that currently occupy a place on your menu. Many of the missions have been there since the dawn of Bootleggers, and many users are becoming tired of completing the same old tasks.

We spoke to Mikamon, Bootleggers HDO, to see how he felt about the missions. Some of the Bootleggers users have called for missions to be removed completely from the game, as they feel they are not worthwhile or provide little entertainment. When asked if he felt this would be a good idea Mikamon strongly disagreed, he said, “why would you want to remove a feature that is still being enjoyed by some?”

There is also the issue of rewards for the missions, currently the rewards vary from mission to mission, the missions are meant to vary in degree of difficulty and this is then reflected in the payout given at the end. However, as pointed out by Mikamon when the Buzz asked him, the missions may not currently be structured in the best way. “I hardly ever get past the first two or three, simply because you earn the most bullets by only doing those and stopping there,” hesaid. This is clearly another issue with the current missions.

Finally we come on to the idea of new missions; the Buzz has seen new missions being called upon for years, but with no response from the Admins. Many people have completed the current missions available multiple times, and are now becoming bored of doing the same tasks for the same rewards. They now choose not to complete the missions as they feel they are wasting their time. However, creating new missions would mean a huge amount of work from the Admins, which they may not be able to currently do as they need to use their time and effort on other more needy areas of the game. Mikamon acknowledges this and says, “if you consider the coding it would need to create new missions I think that altering the payout would be the easiest option for now.” This may be the best solution for now, however for most users, any edit or improvement to the current missions would be a good one, with the current ones sending people to sleep. The users of Bootleggers seem to unite when it comes to one thing, makeover our missions!

-PerseveranceV2