Sunday, June 28th, 2009
Issue: 132   Editor: Nyxxie


MOON's Money Massacre! IShallPersevere
With the total game money being the centre of attention in many recent forum discussions, the sudden drop of $30,000,000,000 from the game went relatively unnoticed. The cause for this removal of money was MOON82, as once again he let bullets fly, killing 17 accounts which he had identified as being possible holders or bankers. The Buzz caught up with MOON82 to see what he had to say about the killings, and get the key facts.

First we got the facts of the killings out of the way, as MOON82 told us, “Around 150,000 bullets were used and around 100 points for travelling in-between the kills I made.” This seems a relatively low amount of bullets when you look at the amount of cash that was removed from the game; however this also suggests that MOON picked his targets well, as he managed to make such a difference with relatively little effort. MOON also informed us that “the bullets all came from my personal bullet factory.” Clearly then MOON continues to use the benefits of being a Nation Don, possibly more than any before him. This attack was also clearly only courtesy of MOON as when asked who funded the attack, he told us, “Me and only me.”

There was much speculation as to the thought behind the kills. Had MOON randomly picked out Notoriously Rich players? Was there a system he had used to pick his targets? According to MOON, this was not just an attack on some random rich players, but on those who he believed to be dupes or bankers, as he told us, “I didn’t just kill them for being Notoriously Rich. I'm convinced some of the people I killed are dupes that only come online to bank. And I wanted to have a share in reducing the amount of those accounts.” Clearly then MOON decided to take a known problem within Bootleggers into his own hands, and by removing such a large amount of money from the game, it can be said it was a great success. As for how he picked his targets, MOON told us, “I've been looking for crewless Notoriously Rich accounts for the last 2/3 weeks. Some friends helped me and gave me names but I did most of the research myself.” This therefore shows us that the attack had been planned for a while, and that MOON obviously is passionate about this issue by putting so much time into the shootings.

Although very successful, these attacks are only the tip of the iceberg, with total game money still over $360,000,000,000. Therefore many would question if it was a worthwhile effort, when asked this, MOON told us, “I know this isn’t the solution to reduce the banking accounts and there are still a lot more out there but this was something I could do. So I did.” This shows that MOON appreciates the size of the banking community in Bootleggers, and appreciates that he as just one man cannot eliminate all the accounts; however he clearly wants to try to help the situation, and has done so with these shooting.

MOON is clearly one of the few Nation Dons who really uses the added power you get with the rank to try to make a difference on the game, whether that is through shooting or just expressing his opinions. We at the Buzz therefore wondered how he feels about some of the less active State Dons, to which he responded, “Why would you do all the hard work to reach this rank and just sit and do organized crimes with your friends? I don’t think that is why these new ranks were added.” Well despite early dislike to MOON, he now obviously wants to try to help the game, this shown by these recent kills. However, whoever the owners of the shot accounts were, they surely will not be happy by the loss of such large amounts of cash. Therefore we must wait and see if these shootings were a wise choice by MOON. For now though, happy gaming!

-IShallPersevere