Sunday, March 27th, 2011
Issue: 74   Editor: FuriousAldarion


In out, in out, and Shoot it all About Penfolds
One of the most predominant aspects of this round with bullets left flying all over Bootleggers is killing. There have been a few records broken with the amount of players killed at one time and record sprees. The Manual Reset" being the largest with the death toll well over 2,000 (confirmed)+ within 24hours. We are left to wonder how well the system actually works and how players can get the upper hand.

Times have changed from the 4 hour searches from many moons ago. You now have the chance to choose from a number of detectives with varying prices to hire and to Call. Calling a detective is the way to find your target or find a rough idea of where they are hiding. This is a fundamental aspect of the kill system. This is because players with a lot of money may choose to hire multiple detectives [Power searching] to find there target with relative ease and a lot faster. This helps when trying to defend a crew or friends you feel may be shot.

Bullets have always seemed few are far between in bootleggers with the lack of bullet factories being held at this moment in time. You can always pick up a bargain in Louisiana or Illinois. The best way to find out how many bullets you will need is trial and error. Before Christmas we did have a bonus weekend that provided bullets with crimes that seemed a fantastic feature. Would be nice to see it implemented into the game somehow.

Protection also being a major factor in killing and defending yourself. Something that has be noted is the fact you lose protection effectiveness every time you are involved in a shoot-out. It usually goes from 100% to 6% after you shoot once and then to 1% and just stays like that for all the times after. This seems wrong and can be quite costly to fix. It makes having a higher protection quite useless unless you have a lot of money to fix.

Watching some of the sprees that have occurred in recent months. I Managed to get a few answers from one of the best in the business Derangedangel. Responsible for numerous crew wipes and an endless amount of kills.

What names have you held this round?

Over 300 this round but my most known name are DerangedAngel, KarelProborsky and Carlos.

My last known name being Malik

How many kills have you achieved and how many on a single account?

114 on one account (KarelProborsky), 102 on another (Carlos).

How many Bullets and how much money have you spent shooting?

Easily over 3 million bullets, cash i wouldn't even like to think about but the 2 bil mark would be somewhat close if you add the cash i have paid for others to shoot!

What do you think could be improved with the shooting system?

Bringing back the old kill system without a doubt!

Times have changed in bootleggers and now it seems quite simple to organize a large shooting with a few friends. It appears to make the game more interesting and hopefully the way the game is picking up again and crews are now appearing on the statistics page it will hopefully be a good time for more history to be made and some records being smashed. Thanks for reading.