Sunday, March 11th, 2007
Issue: 14   Editor: iAir


The Big Feature DonG
Lately we have seen a lot of topics and we have had a lot of rumours about the announced new feature by BSF2000. But still no one has seen anything which could be it. There have been some new features this round; the crew pie chart, personal stats, crew colours on casino/BF pages and profits to the crew. But none of those are big enough to be the announced feature according to the BL community.

In the beginning of this reset LukkyB thought It would be some kind of auto-inflation. In the beginning I supported that, the crimes awards being low, low car prices, low mission payout. I thought when the amount of money in the game would increase those would increase as well. But now some months further with the total money of $8 bill, that hasn't happened.

Many thought when people eventually ranked to Legendary Don, we would have some new things, maybe some new options or even instant search/kill. Now 10 Legendary Don's further, none has pronounced they have found anything new.

About a week ago I saw a topic again about the new feature and started thinking about it. BSF2000 said the new feature wouldn't be noticed until people started to rank. You can't say that hasn't happened so there has to be something.

What I remember from last reset was that ranking was really dependent on the OC's which is still true but it was in my opinion. In the game forum you see a lot of topics "when will I rank to ...", and many times there is said we can't say exactly because it is different for everybody depending on your other stats. So my thought was that crimes, gta and especially booze are now far more important than it was last reset. People with high stats rank faster than the ones with low stats. For example, some rank to R.Don after 180-190 OC's but some still aren't after 220 OCs with low crimes, GTA, etc.

So in my opinion "the big new feature" could be the change in the ranking system, or because we didn’t have personal stats last reset we didn’t pay attention to crimes or booze.

BSF2000 also said "It may have lied last time but it will not lie this time". Is he lying again? Or does the feature that is still coming which should make the crew pie chart more important something to do with it? Maybe we will never know until BSF2000 tells us what it is.