I often ask myself, “Self, why is it that whenever I lead an Organized Crime there is hardly anyone willing to join? Am I really just that bad at leading?” Well little voice in my head, there is no real definitive explanation behind that, as there are plenty of reasons as to why that could happen. It could be anything from starting one at a bad time to just being too low ranked for the upper-echelon of Bootleggers. It could even be because I am currently not wearing the right colored socks with the unicorns on them.
Regardless as to what the real answer is, I find myself trying to avoid leading at all costs. I just don’t have the patience and resolve to want to sit there and wait for no response for about 10 minutes only to have my inbox flooded the next minute. And most of the time, it’s a whole swarm of Thugs asking if they can join if I buy their equipment for them. Not for nothing, but it’s asinine and obnoxious. I get tired of having to shoo away all of the people that ask to join, but there aren’t enough spots. Not to mention the fact that I hate having to watch my topic and making sure it doesn’t fall into the abyss known as page 2 before I complete it. And if I don’t go back to it after I complete my Organized Crime and lock the topic, I get vultures circling overhead waiting to join my no longer existent Organized Crime. What’s even more frustrating is looking at the Classifieds to find no one else is leading an Organized crime, so I decide to start one myself. I then look back at the Classifieds to find someone else has started one as well, in the same exact state as me and is ranked much higher than me. My topic was up there first and we’re in the same state. Was mine not good enough for you to join?
While I could write an entirely separate article on rankism on its own, I feel like a short analysis is in order here. To make a long story short; it sucks. To make a short story long, rankism has got to be one of the most ridiculous notions that Bootleggers has and only makes it more difficult to find an already diminished amount of Organized Crimes. The higher ranked folk dislike allowing those of lower rank status to join, and those of low rank feel entitled to join and cry, “Ranksim!”, if they don’t get their way. Now I’m not going to claim to have all of the answers to this situation, as it often varies and it is hard to tell who is truly in in the right. However, I will offer the advice that if you are not allowed into the Organized Crime that you wish to join, there may have been a reason for it. Making a topic claiming “Rankism” just makes you seem a tad childish and suggests that you need to get over yourself. Odds are, if you were in the position of being a Don leading an Organized Crime, you might not exactly want to include a Thug.
Suffice it to say, it’s just something I don’t have the time or patience to do, and it’s much simpler for me to just join someone else’s and call it a day. Unless there is a definite person who is willing to start an Organized Crime with me, there is no real incentive to try and start one knowing that it could take a while to get people together. “It’s fine”, I’ll tell myself, “I’ll be the driver for 20%.” And like magic, the crime is committed and I get that much closer to ranking up.
