Hello

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Really? Why have they introduced lackeys do you think? Because they could not beat the scripts or because they (finally) recognized that it was necessary to keep the game alive? For years they have tried to enforce rules they could not verify themselves properly. Really there are only so many times that a normal human being can rank up to brug again manually without going insane. In 2.3 already, 300 different people that I could verify myself were scripting, most because they did not have the stamina to go once again full retard mode and level up. Werther you like it or not, those people would have not played without scripts, and a game without players won't be any fun to no one.

Both, still pretty active in wow without any time commitments though, and playing other games like hearthstone, Dota and LoL.

Without scripts being available to the masses (since 2.3), this game would have been dead years ago. A lot of the gameplay is centred around getting revenge. How many times do you think that a sane person can rank himself to bruglione of the course of a multiple years? It's not like you are out in the world adventuring while ranking up, you have to hit 1 button every 90s and 1 every 5min. If anything, scripting has contributed to the success of this game, not to the failure like you claim.

It's fairly easy math:
- compute what 1 brug can make each day by keeping the lackeys run 24/7 at max speed with irl cash, including crimes
- multiply that by how long the version has been running and subtract a week for levelling
- subtract the cost of all training
- compute what a top fam their objects make per day, multiply by version duration, divide by the amount of accounts you expect to be funded

You should have a pretty good idea of what is possible and what not.

You forget to mention that a lot of that history is based on cheating/exploiting (and that is not limited to the fams mentioned, a big part of the history of the game is based on cheating/exploiting, most versions were won by who cheated the best/most).

lol

Can give you an almost endless list of absolutely strong accounts (relative to the average strength) who all died because of weird shit. It didn't really make a difference, bar a couple of exceptions. Hell at 1 point female accounts were stronger than male accounts in the ks system.

Spending 2 hours in traffic each day accounts for spending 1 entire month each year in traffic.
Taking twice a day a shit for 10 minutes per, means that each year your spend 5 full days shitting.
I could go on for quite a little bit, but set your imagination free of how many pointless stuff there is in life.

This quote says a lot if not all about the game philosophy. It's what has been plaguing Omerta for years now.

'We did everything right, it's the playerbase their fault!'
'All cheaters have been akilled, game is script free' (while I was staring at a DB with over 300 active scripters)
'We won't reset the game', to reset it it 3 weeks later an have all those who reranked with their balls. On multiple occasions.
'This captcha (the flash one) will make scripting impossible', while the ocr had exactly 35s of downtime.
etc etc ...
eternal self confidence ...

Points being:

A) If you know that mass blooding is part of the game, and despite game changes it doesn't play out the way you wanted, then perhaps the tools that you have created aren't as effective/good as you think they are ... maybe you should not blame the playerbase but look at the core design of the game, and come up with rules to discourage mass blooding. Plenty of suggestions have been made over the course of many years.

B) The reason why people don't rerank is not the mass blooding, it's because you reset the game every time. Why on earth would someone put effort into reranking if there have been 10 or more occasions where that turned out to be to no avail because the game would reset several weeks later?

I guarantee you, if you announce a timeframe where you guarantee that the game won't be reset, say from 1 september 2013 till march 1st 2014, no matter what, that plenty of people will rerank to take revenge. By resetting the game (and breaking your word in the past), the crew took away many desire and opportunities for revenge.

TLDR: the crew fucked up on many occassions in the past, and lost the faith of the playerbase. By creating some fancy tools that faith won't come back overnight.

You keep having the problem that players take ingame decisions based on the amount of irl cash they have invested on their account. And that they don't want to do the same after they die until next version, with such short resets.

A solution might be to offer a monthly subscription: for x amount of cash, you are guaranteed to use the lackeys all month long. This way people know that if they can easily rank up again, at the same pace without the need of investing a ton of dc's again. At the same time you can obviously keep the current system around for people who like to turn a dc into ingame money, or who want to use the lackeys only a few days when they are on a weekend trip.

A subscription model for the lackeys would bring more long term stability to the game imo.

Reported this on 4 different occasions throughout the years.

LOL,

the bug still exists where if you shoot a certain 'special' amount of bullets, that the bullets are added to instead of subtracted from your account,

amazing

Question as I'm not playing: KA is broken but this looks like a rather 'normal' war to me, going purely by the numbers. What's so broken about it?

Gotta love the quote 'they just bought them'. If there wasn't a demand there wouldn't be a supply to begin with. Who do you blame more: a mother in some 3rd world country selling 1 kid to a western family for adoption so she can feed her other kids, or the western family actually paying money to complete their chilc wish?

So you are against gay marriage, you don't fuck your mother and father but ...
you adhere a religion where the main guy was banging a 9y old virgin back in the day?

(P.S. I did my research)

Gonna paste this here: the first page of rankers. Let's see how much this will change when the first local chief is up ...

Saigo
Pickpocket
Izual
Pickpocket
Merciny
Pickpocket
Fuerte
Pickpocket
Bornhero
Pickpocket
Flash
Pickpocket
Carey
Pickpocket
Kennedy
Pickpocket
Marishko
Pickpocket
Adfer
Pickpocket
Bandildo
Pickpocket
Solstice
Pickpocket
Yawa
Pickpocket
Imp
Pickpocket
Floca
Pickpocket

So this version lasted 2 months. ... pretty sad.

And dying while being offline ...

The alternative is that 2-3-4 stong families don't kill the bloods of their bloods, like we have seen multiple times in the past. Resulting in an inner circle of 20 fams that can't kill eachother, often referred to as pact.

All I really wanna see is that the dwarf bangs the queen.