Who is keeping track of this ? #2 and #3 families are shooting at #4 family.. We deserve our own thread, at the very least.

Siberia is doing admin kills?

Because after reset is announced, it really matters..

http://barafranca.com/game.php#/BeO/webroot/index.php?module=Rankings&nick=Fuerte

Gambino isn't very successful without refugees.

Here's the real problem, as far as I can see it.. The admins are allowing these people to reach higher ranks so they can sell more dc's.

What motivates a man to cheat? What inadequacy could you possibly feel such a compelling need to compensate for?..

Don't know the name, but I see what you did there. +1

Is mcgee a troll? I thought his behavior was due to epilepsy.

Just a cautionary tale to the wise.. Be careful about donating money to this game. There is no guarantee that they will deliver any service or reliability to you at all.

Last night, I get home from work around 4 PM, my time and I see that my lackeys have been half-ass working as usual. However, this is the first day of a new server, which is probably the most important day to be a fast ranker, so I make up my mind that I am going to be a top ranking player on this server and do the ranking manually.

7 hours later.. 7 hours of watching virtual timers to reach 1s so that I can click and do a crime, do a car nick, work in a few jail busts.. As many as possible in as little time as possible.. I have been doing this for 7 hours and have climbed from page 18 to page 6 in the user rankings.

During this time, I have bought 2 donation codes to buy lackey credits, 1 dc to buy my 40 clicks per minute, and 4 more donation codes to sell on obay so that I can afford the Douglas DC-3 plane.

Just as things were looking promising for my account, about 3 minutes past midnight, the server goes down.. Offline! I can no longer load the barafranca website. I can no longer connect to Omerta's IRC server. I am no longer able to rank.

At this point, I know that my lackeys are not running because I have been manually ranking for the past 8 hours straight. I continued refreshing for about 45 minutes.. Still nothing. Hell, I have work tomorrow.. I can't stay awake all night, so I go to bed. 5 hrs and 45 minutes later, I wake up and check my phone to see if there is a message from the Omerta staff explaining what happened.. Nothing. I log into #help and talk with a moderator.. Nothing but a damn email address: "[email protected]". I add a ticket.. Again, "[email protected]".

Finally, I sent out an email explaining what happened just under 7 hours before.. I go to work, be productive, earn a few dollars.. OK, 10 hours later and I'm finally home.. I check my email.. nothing. 10 hours after a server stayed down for 90 minutes and not a single reply.. No forum messages.. Nothing.

After 35 hours of playing, I have fallen from top 90 players to below position 500.

We can sit here and debate on how to improve and resurrect this game for the rest of our lives, but I can see no reason that anyone here should allow their selves to hold any expectations other than the scumbags who own the license to this game will continue taking your money, no matter what. The ones who actually pocket the money do not give a shit about whether or not you are satisfied. The users who play this game are no more than a host for these parasites to steal from.

What's going on with Omerta's server?

Illuanna should get a reward for being a winning family without a single a-kill.. Has that ever happened before?

You don't get the joke.. It was really funny

If you put your hand over your eye, it blocks out the sun.. If you want to believe your hand is bigger than the gravitational center of our solar system, you're free to be as ignorant as you want to be.

I'm telling you that it was not 7 vs 2 because that's the indisputable fact. My family took losses to Ashen and went out of our way to kill them for a reason.

Caliente took heavy losses to Samagono and went out of their way to kill them for a reason.

We didn't drop everything to hire on other families, leaving 10 Paria/ Koolio cd's and two FL's alive based on superstition.

You are absolutely retarded, my friend.

Like MurderInc, I'm going to go back to this point.. Lucchese's idea did not work because they explicitly blooded families who had more than 4 bloods. They didn't believe in it their selves.

Lusa and Righelli each had at least 5 bloods that server and all but declared that the three (Lucchese, Righelli, and Lusa) would stick together. When you have 3 families who are basically an alliance, with uncommon bloods, then you end up with an alliance blooded to half the server.

No one can be blamed for that failure other than Lucchese. I was in that family and I thought the whole limiting bloods declaration was meant to be a joke.

If you want an idea to work, the group behind the idea actually has to make an effort to see it through.

You need to get your numbers straight.. 7 vs 2 is a complete lie.

If you ever figure out which families are fighting, then count how many brugs, cd's, and dons have been on either side.

If you can put a little thought into you question, I may try to have an civil conversation with you.

Yes, but that's not the reason for it.. We can all work together from time to time, but we can't all be blooded or cross blooded and still talk shit about the Pact. This is how the game was meant to be played, in my opinion.

To avoid flooding the same topic, I will bounce this idea off this topic to see if anyone might be interested.

Omerta still sees a few newcomers from time to time, looking to learn what this game is about. While most of us are old veterans and are mainly logging on to check lackey credits and do a quick heist, it must be pretty difficult for a new player to receive help.. (I mean, we all know what it's like to sit in the #help room to wait for assistance)

I think it's important for our community for the player base to take the initiative on this one:

We start a family for beginning players. To do this, we would need a few volunteers to sit as Don and Capos, so that a new player can actually join this family in order to receive experienced guidance.

Every family top needs to come to an agreement that the players in this Beginners family are off limits to shoot. In order for them to be a part of this family, they also must agree to and abide by our rules, which means no shooting other players (That is intended to ensure that they do not interfere with other families).

While members of this family, they will have the Don, Capos, and other veteran volunteers available to answer questions and teach them the mechanics of the game. [I believe maybe other families may wish to volunteer their tutorial servers for the chance to make new friends and to attract players to their family]

This will allow a new player the chance to enjoy a ranking experience for the first time, while learning how to play without being discouraged by random killing. Once the player has reached mobster or soldier, they will be free to leave and join whichever family they choose.. Or they can simply remain without a family, if they choose.


I quoted this just because I think you're absolutely right and my post above is about the only way I think we could help this game out, despite the development team.

I didn't see it at first.. I actually tried posting like 4 or 5 times before I received the Spam detection.

Sorry for the multiple posts.. I tried doing one as a categorized summary, but it did not show at first, so I wrote another as an essay.

However, I think they each make a slightly different point, so I hope they do not get deleted.