Sunday, January 14th, 2007
Issue: 5   Editor: Nobody


How safe is your crew? ChrisX
Since the beginning of this round, everyone seems to have a simple plan in mind - "If I get myself into a crew, my account will be safe from killers and I will live a long and happy life." I myself had this frame of mind from the beginning. However, over the course of several events, I began to wonder: just how safe is a crew nowadays?

We've all heard about the various crew attacks over the past few weeks and these attacks are becoming ever more frequent. Many have died as a result of purely being in a crew which got on the wrong side of certain individuals. So now the question I find myself asking is "does being in a crew mean a ticket to a safehouse?"

From the news that the Bootleggers Buzz has released over the past few issues, it would appear not. I would even go so far as to say that being in a crew is even more dangerous than staying out of one.

This puts yet another question on our society: do I really want to join a crew, when the chances of me being killed may well increase?

I pondered on this for a while and personally, I think it's worth the risk. Being in a crew doesn't neccesarily mean certain death. Some crews might even make life safer. But even if your account is put at risk - I guess that's part of the fun of the game. It's the slow training up of your account and your guns before taking your revenge on your killer that makes the game what it is, according to some people. The community spirit and togetherness of being in a crew - it's worth a dead account to gain that. A crew is a completely different society; a bunch of new friends you haven't met or at the very least another notch on the bedpost.

I would say that being in a crew most certainly does not guarantee safety and if that's all you joined the crew for then you don't deserve to be safe, in my eyes. But although being in a crew can risk your account, the pros more than outway the cons and if you're lucky, you will make some lifelong friends. Although this is just an online game, if the game has the power to connect people in this way, then I take my hat off to BSF2000 and thank any crew leader who values his or her members. Money, virtual or not, can't buy a good crew - the leader must work for that.