Sunday, August 24th, 2008
Issue: 88   Editor: NYX2000


OC page gets revamped! MikaPika
A Game Forum Sticky was made by BSF2000 to inform the players of the updates he had made to the Organized Crimes (OC) page. Apart from changes to the layout, players will also receive a message to notify them they've received an invite. A player that is invited will receive a BM saying: “[leader name here] has invited you to join his or her organized crime!” This is an alteration that had been suggested by numerous players a couple of times. Also, the entire team now needs to be in the state of the Organized Crime and everyone needs to online or idle in order for the OC to be completed.

BSF2000 also updated the layout. The first changes can be seen without having to start an OC. All you need is being able to do one and you'll see the changes. The page now shows two little Duesenbergs that can be clicked, click one and you'll start a one car OC and click both of them and you'll start a two car OC. Secondly, the layout when in an OC has been changed. Each member now has his or her own position within the car. As soon as the driver selects the car and presses ready, the car is shown in the background.

The general opinion about the updates seems to be carefully positive. However, some players don't like the fact that you need to stay online in order for an OC to be completed. As it can take quite a while for a team to be assembled, especially in two car OCs, players could be 'forced' to stay online for quite a while just so the OC they're in can be completed. The changes to the layout and receiving a message seem to be liked by the general public. Especially because multiple players had already suggested the messaging feature more then once. All in all, the alterations to the OC page can be regarded as pretty good. Staying online might be a little annoying sometimes but it could also force the leaders to get their team assembled within a relatively short amount of time because other members might leave if the leader takes too long.

With the new updates, the OC page has also been added to the list of updated pages. BSF2000 and Sabin seem to be striving towards updating most, if not all, pages. With the OC page done, there is one page less that needs change. What page will be updated next is unknown, just stay tuned.