Sunday, August 22nd, 2010
Issue: 42   Editor: SeanFailKnox


Public Opinion: Crew Updates? Refu
A lot of the active players of the Bootleggers Community wish to see a lot of updates. One of the biggest updates the players wish to see are in the crew feature as many say they are a disadvantage for the people who are in them. Some even say that the people who are in crews are nothing more than sitting ducks just waiting to be shot.

We are trying to gather a lot of information and ideas for BSF2000 so he can take suggestions from players about what could make the crew feature an advantage for the crews as well as make them more valuable. Nowadays, a lot of crews come and go and hardly stay on the statistics for a few days. Is this because there are too many crew slots available? Or is it due to the fact that the crews are really worth nothing anymore? We were able to get a few players responding in our topic about the Crew feature; iCried said, “They really need a pretty big change. There's no value at the moment. A well organized, decent ranked, active crew should need a well organized active opposition to bring them down.”

This opinion was agreed with by many of the players. After that, a lot of ideas were posted, explained and discussed. For example, Dtocks said, “The entire crew/establishment thing needs to be revised. They should link the establishments to crews and possibly even the properties. A system that gives you more rights based on how much of a state you own. You can only own a BF if your crew owns more than X percentage of the state. And add all the casino’s etc. to the states page too. So that you can actually see them on the establishment page. Add a safe house for crews too, it’s way too easy to kill a crew. We should reduce the number of crew to 9, one for every state. The land you own should generate money.
Also on the crew page there should be a list of people that stole from your crew, same for casino owners, etc.” Many players agree with this idea because it simply made the Crew and Establishment feature a more central part of the game.

There was one suggestion that was mentioned more times than we can even count; the ability to withdraw cash from the Crew Bank Account. Although it brought up controversial feelings by many players, some were afraid of the Crew boss stealing money out of the account, some were scared of own crew members insiding just to obtain the money that is in the crew bank, but also people claimed the crew boss should have the right simply because he/she owns the spot and should be able to get out the money and not have to go through a complicated way like buying guns and protection and then selling it. The topic lasted a pretty long time, after that very long time this resulted in more realistic suggestions towards the crew feature, such as State Dons & Nation Dons to be supplied by the crews that own a certain amount of pieces of land on the Establishment feature, if a crew has X amount of land, they’ll be able to provide a State Don, and the crew who owns the most land in general gets to provide the Nation Don.

Last but not least, Hilaerius said, “You cant rank higher then don if you are not in a crew.” Which gives more reality and value to the crews, because it's easier to rank to Don and above when you’re part of a crew, so when you’re Don, inside a crew and you leave your crew this will mean you will be demoted. Hopefully any of these suggestions get mentioned by the Elite Guard Administration, this will only help the game and the Crew and Establishment feature.

Thanks for your time!