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The Omerta crew has announced a detailed explanation about the lackeys, the new feature which has to bring back scripting. Will this new feature make the creators of Atremo and Swiffer loose some money? The crew sure seems to hope so, but what do you guys think of this new feature? Read the announcement below and open up the discussion!
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As an old junk pusher told me, "Watch whose money you pick up."
- William Seward Burroughs
There's been a lot of anticipation of the new feature lackeys. In fact seldom has there been a more eagerly awaited modification to how Omerta can be played.
We have engaged in a lot of discussion during the last three months or so since we began to realise that we need something very compelling to take on the scripts.
Lackey
a : footman 2, servant b : someone who does menial tasks or runs errands for another
Presenting the lackeys
Spats
Spats does crimes. He learns from you and repeats his learning on the streets of the city of your choice.
Noodles
Noodles is a car-thief. Gone in 60 seconds. Even a milk float. He once took a Packard with the couple making love in the back, still.
O'Rourke
O'Rourke knows all about the booze trade and will follow your rules to do the most profitable booze runs available.
Freekowtski
Freekowtski is a seasoned narcotics smuggler and dealer. Whether it's a lid of weed or a fist full of downs, he's your 'man' cellophane buttons down his back.
Keaton
You can ask Keaton to follow one of your other Lackeys. He's a whizz at getting people out of jail, from saw blades in cakes to trucks full of explosive.
Marconi
Marconi is a message boy. He stops at nothing to make sure you know what's going on and will call you while you are sleeping, if needs be.
Sluggs
Sluggs buys bullets, polishes them and packs them in neat little boxes. He like's 'em shiny and sharp.
These are outlines we are working to. I have heard some players suggest that if they don't Heist we will still script, but we plan to bring in some changes to all group crimes to make these more difficult (dare we say impossible?) to script.
At the same time we will raise the profitability of group crimes, making them more important than they are now. Not offering them via Lackeys is deliberate and aimed at further favouring manual players, whether they choose to hire Lackeys or not.
Hiring
Hiring will cost credits per action and these will be purchasable using DCs and by filling in online offers – so that players who cannot afford to buy DCs (or don't wish to do so) will not have to pay for the service.
How much will it cost?
Not sure yet but it will be a lot cheaper than scripts. Or free, by filling in surveys, etc. We may tweak heists so that you can win Lackey credits.
Will they earn me RP at the same rate as scripts?
Yes. Or better (O'Rourke and Freekowtski can be headed to different towns at the same time)
SMS features?
That's what Marconi does.
We know that some players will decry this as being giving in to scripts – but we are confident that a few months down the line that scripts will be much less of a problem. Our devs time will be free for implementing more features to help manual players be stronger and to thwart scripting and sharing.
Above all we will listen to players and we will improve Lackeys where necessary, staying ahead of scripts in price and functionality.
At least that's the idea.
Are we doing it for the money?
Sure we are – partly. It pisses us off to lose a great guy, friend and colleague of vast experience like Drunkengamer (Kaze) – because we cannot afford to match the offer he got from another company. (a pretty straight software house). It especially pisses us off to read that Atremo earned over €40k just via PayPal last year. We have to declare taxes. I bet he doesn't. Grr.
At least we are not parasites, though. :)
Is it finished yet?
Nope. Working flat out. Looking good but too early to say if we will make it for next week or not. Hope so. Soon as possible if not.
Final word?
Yes.
I wish we did not have to do it at all. I wish there were no scripts. There are. I wish we could 'catch all scripts'. But we cannot.
We catch some of the scripts all of the time, all of the scripts some of the time, but not all of the scripts all of the time, Mr Smith.
So we hope that we will win you current scripters back and that you will consider using Lackeys as being far more attractive (safe and cheap) than the current scripts. We'll make honest villains of you yet.
Hope you like the idea. Will respond as best as we can to questions tomorrow!
- William Seward Burroughs
There's been a lot of anticipation of the new feature lackeys. In fact seldom has there been a more eagerly awaited modification to how Omerta can be played.
We have engaged in a lot of discussion during the last three months or so since we began to realise that we need something very compelling to take on the scripts.
Lackey
a : footman 2, servant b : someone who does menial tasks or runs errands for another
Presenting the lackeys
Spats
Spats does crimes. He learns from you and repeats his learning on the streets of the city of your choice.
Noodles
Noodles is a car-thief. Gone in 60 seconds. Even a milk float. He once took a Packard with the couple making love in the back, still.
O'Rourke
O'Rourke knows all about the booze trade and will follow your rules to do the most profitable booze runs available.
Freekowtski
Freekowtski is a seasoned narcotics smuggler and dealer. Whether it's a lid of weed or a fist full of downs, he's your 'man' cellophane buttons down his back.
Keaton
You can ask Keaton to follow one of your other Lackeys. He's a whizz at getting people out of jail, from saw blades in cakes to trucks full of explosive.
Marconi
Marconi is a message boy. He stops at nothing to make sure you know what's going on and will call you while you are sleeping, if needs be.
Sluggs
Sluggs buys bullets, polishes them and packs them in neat little boxes. He like's 'em shiny and sharp.
These are outlines we are working to. I have heard some players suggest that if they don't Heist we will still script, but we plan to bring in some changes to all group crimes to make these more difficult (dare we say impossible?) to script.
At the same time we will raise the profitability of group crimes, making them more important than they are now. Not offering them via Lackeys is deliberate and aimed at further favouring manual players, whether they choose to hire Lackeys or not.
Hiring
Hiring will cost credits per action and these will be purchasable using DCs and by filling in online offers – so that players who cannot afford to buy DCs (or don't wish to do so) will not have to pay for the service.
How much will it cost?
Not sure yet but it will be a lot cheaper than scripts. Or free, by filling in surveys, etc. We may tweak heists so that you can win Lackey credits.
Will they earn me RP at the same rate as scripts?
Yes. Or better (O'Rourke and Freekowtski can be headed to different towns at the same time)
SMS features?
That's what Marconi does.
We know that some players will decry this as being giving in to scripts – but we are confident that a few months down the line that scripts will be much less of a problem. Our devs time will be free for implementing more features to help manual players be stronger and to thwart scripting and sharing.
Above all we will listen to players and we will improve Lackeys where necessary, staying ahead of scripts in price and functionality.
At least that's the idea.
Are we doing it for the money?
Sure we are – partly. It pisses us off to lose a great guy, friend and colleague of vast experience like Drunkengamer (Kaze) – because we cannot afford to match the offer he got from another company. (a pretty straight software house). It especially pisses us off to read that Atremo earned over €40k just via PayPal last year. We have to declare taxes. I bet he doesn't. Grr.
At least we are not parasites, though. :)
Is it finished yet?
Nope. Working flat out. Looking good but too early to say if we will make it for next week or not. Hope so. Soon as possible if not.
Final word?
Yes.
I wish we did not have to do it at all. I wish there were no scripts. There are. I wish we could 'catch all scripts'. But we cannot.
We catch some of the scripts all of the time, all of the scripts some of the time, but not all of the scripts all of the time, Mr Smith.
So we hope that we will win you current scripters back and that you will consider using Lackeys as being far more attractive (safe and cheap) than the current scripts. We'll make honest villains of you yet.
Hope you like the idea. Will respond as best as we can to questions tomorrow!