Sunday, December 2nd, 2007
Issue: 51   Editor: Nyxxiekins


Points, Bullets and Hitlist Sylviaatje
Currently, 5 out of the 9 bullet factories (California, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Colorado) there are, have prices of $750 per bullet. This is a considerable difference from the prices ranging in $85-$150 as of not even two months ago.

With bullet prices being so high, the cost of shooting another player has risen as well. This affects the amount of kills, the price of points and even the current hitlist bounties!

For argument sake, let's say I want to hitlist a Legendary Godfather with a Reinforced Duesenberg, and the shooter will be a Don with a Thompson. According to Bootleggers' main help site, Www.blhelp.com, for a sure kill, it tells us to fire 36,364 bullets, which will cost 730 points. 36,364 bullets times $750 per bullet is $27,273,000. The average point price is $56,000 per point. 730 points times $56,000 per point is $40,880,000.

"Prices are raising too fast," says KeeperofSouls, State Don of Illinois. But continues,"however, I would kill a Legendary Godfather for 13 million."

When the Buzz asked him how much it costs for him to produce bullets, he replied, "$100,000 to start producing, and $65 per bullet." According to these facts, State Dons have the advantage of getting cheap bullets, plus their rank.

"If you want to hitlist someone, you don't need to be concerned about bullet prices or even point prices. State Dons can still get 144k bullets for less than 10 million dollars, which means they can kill seven Legendary Godfathers easily for about 10 million. This means a Legendary Godfather should die if he's hitlisted for 5 million or so. I don't believe most people shoot high ranks for the profit because usually you won't get much. You can get points in return for bullets though, which some people might like in certain situations. Furthermore, the bullet calculator is quite worthless and most people who intend on making many kills will have a hitsquad anyway, as it saves a lot of bullets," says TheProcrastinator.

According to moderator VooDooDoll, "I think due to inflation over time this will happen anyway. The reset is barely over a year old and I think the prices fairly reflect the money in the game. Think about last reset this time and compare the two. I think this reset is moving along nicely.

"Prices will keep raising as money is increasing in the game and people are very greedy," stated Help Desk Operator, Browneh.

We can conclude that inflation reached the next level in the game, but with your help, we can change this. It takes the players to change the inflation in the game by lowering prices, simple as that. Are you willing to sacrifice some extra bit of cash all for the sake of the game?