Sunday, November 2nd, 2008
Issue: 98   Editor: Mikamon


A new site -- will it take us by storm? ProvertXV
Talk of a new help-site spread the forums in the early evening on the Thursday of this week. A topic was created by EyeReturn the owner of this new help-site named mybl (mybl.us) regarding max bets. EyeReturn had made an image that can be put on users profiles that will update every time a casino has changed hands or had its max updated. A few hours later, he also released an image that you're able to put in your 300x300 slot and it tells people what casino you own, where it is and what the current max bets is. Nifty, huh?

EyeReturn was kind enough to let me have an account and experience what mybl is like behind the screen. Once logging on, you get a whole new control panel. First will be the max bets page, you can see what previous owners they've had and the maxes. Second, you will come to the bullet calculator. This bullet calculator is similar to the BLhelps calculator, but more accurate.

The most astonishing feature on mybl is the Player Lookup feature. This feature allows you to search a player's name and see it's most recent activity. It shows you their wealth, rank, total crews the player has been in and the crew he or she is currently in. Included in all this, is the recent activity of the player, such as when the player turns a different wealth or gets promoted to a new rank or even joins a crew.

Mybl has a fully working forum with deleting, sticky and important features. In fact, it's very similar to the Bootleggers forum but in a different colour, green! You are also able to send private messages to other users within the help-site.

EyeReturn agreed to have an interview with me and I asked him what does mybl.us actually do? He then replied shortly after stating that, “Mybl is a new version of an old project I created in early May this year. It was originally designed to have unique brilliant ideas that will help Bootleggers players to get more out of their game and be able to enjoy the game better overall. So to answer your question, the site is still under development and ideas are being thrown here, there, and everywhere by myself and close friends as to what the future will bring for mybl."

I also asked how long the project has taken him, with no hesitation he replied, “Well, as I said before, the site is under development so it's not really a question of how long did it take but more how long will it take. I am striving myself toward making the site have something for everyone and to help all.”

I'm sure most of you are wondering if this site is going to be a bit like BootCrews, an invite-only website but then EyeReturn answered, “I have been thinking about that question a lot myself to be perfectly honest. Invite only could be an option due to the fact that it adds an "edge" to the game, but we have all been hearing the rants about BootCrews lately and people arguing against that and if mybl has any features in the future that will make that kind of a fuss then it will most probably be available to all.”

I asked what EyeReturn would like to see from mybl in the future, he then stated “I would love to see us getting authorization so that we can legally do more features that will help the community ten-fold. I hope that we get this but if we don't then we will just have to keep developing with what we have. It's all up to Sabin and BSF2000 at the end of the day.”

So how is mybl retrieving all this information if it simply, has no bot? Well, the max bets data has been confirmed to have been scraped by BLhelp. It hasn't been confirmed of where all the other information has been gathered from. Mybl.us also confirmed that it isn't authorized to be used. It did so with this statement from EyeReturns, the owner, “I have contacted Sabin about authorization for a bot to be able to retrieve the max bets from the bootleggers site itself with no succession, I have not yet received a reply from him and I asked him 6 months ago.”

Two bots already have been found used without authorization and banned.

Thank you for reading my article. Have a Happy Halloween and don't get scared too much. Stay safe in Bootleggers and Real-life!