Sunday, May 13th, 2007
Issue: 23   Editor: MsNyxxie


GAME ERRORS darkenedorb

Bootleggers is made up of thousands of lines of code, spreading across a hundred pages. This code works together to provide the user with Bootleggers.us; an interactive online mafia game. But what happens when that code malfunctions and doesn’t provide the outcome that we expect? Other than the worlds energy resources are used at a lesser rate, as computer usage is reduced, the users of bootlegger's feel the sour end of broken code.With pages performing errors, and bootlegger’s users panicking, it was down to one man laden in a red anorak to put right what was wrong; Sabin.

Sabin posted a topic in the forum informing the players that the staff were attempting to fix the errors that had infected Bootleggers. Recently he emptied the topic and locked it amongst much spam. However for a long time, Sabin was greeted with praise and thanks. Sabin, in his red glory, posted a second topic entitled “Shooting Range Problem”, asking for reports of errors in the shooting range to enable him to collect valuable information. Sabin again locked this thread with the message “I believe I now know what needs to be fixed.” But there are two key questions one has to ask; what are the errors and where is BSF2000?

Sabin answered the first question by explaining “the errors have occurred since the SourceGuadian error a few days ago”. He continued to explain how “the topic will be removed once the new pages had been uploaded”. But where is BSF2000? This is after all his game and not Sabin's. There is the insinuation that he is working behind the scenes when he explains “We're working on them.” However one can but stress that BSF2000 has not yet uploaded the files as of Thursday 10th May, since early on this week. Are we once again seeing the start of the mysterious and magical vanishing act that haunted Bootleggers last reset? Will we once again see the daunting redundant login joke page on Bootleggers help sites? Bootleggers is, in the early stages of crying out for BSF2000 yet Sabin answers our calls. Is this the new age of Sabin and his shiny red coat? One thing is for certain as the dark dooming clouds start their descent upon us. Sabin has gained valuable player support.