Oh and just got to add... its a bit of money for me. I don't have a lot, but I'd be willing to take some out of my very small about of "fun money" for this.

Lackeys are not removed. Just modified some.

And exactly how would this benefit cheats? If they've got a script that makes a lackey run More than its allowed time, I'd think that would stand out like a sore thumb and be irrefutable proof of cheating.

Same for accounts advancing too fast on just lackeys, if lackeys don't rank as fast as manual.

It seems to me that this would encourage people and discourage duping. Also encourage people to be on live more. Without totally taking away the lackeys (I've come to appreciate them. Even though I have more time than most to be on, I can't rank while cooking dinner, among other things.)

For a game that really is far more about IRC chat than the actual mechanics live people are really what we need to revive Omerta.