Each week we at the Buzz interview two random players of Bootleggers. How random? Well, we go to the Users Online, close our eyes and we have a few clicks. Awesome, we know. So, here are the two interviews of this week! Enjoy!
iDonDior
Hello iDonDior. Could you please introduce yourself to the Bootleggers Community? My name is Dior, 22 years old student and from the Netherlands. Been around since 2004/5 or so. I then quit a few years and came back this round.
A student, awesome! What do you study? Biology and medical laboratory research, after this year I am starting a master: Infection and immunity.
Scary stuff. Why did you decide to study that? Good question. I first studied social work but I decided that the work I was doing wasn't a thing for me to do. So, I began to search other studies and came by my current study. I've always liked Biology so, what the heck right? Along the way through my high school carrier (haha), I began to like Microbiology very much and did some minors in medical microbiology. Now I am almost done I wanted to specialise myself in microbiology and diseases they can cause, and Infection and immunity is a great way to specialise yourself in infectious diseases. "school addict" right?
Why do you like Biology so much? I can only remember two pages of my old school book. 'The Human Body'. Does that say anything about you or me? I just like Biology, everything of it! Except for plants, I hate plants. I just like to work with bacteria and viruses. Our eldest ancestors! So small that you can't see them, though some of them could kill you! How awesome can it be?
Awesome dangerous that is. So, are you going to invent a medicine for cancer? No, cancer is something completely different. Nice try though, would be awesome. If I wasn't going to study infection and immunity, I would have gone for cancer research or an auto-immune disease.
Interesting! Anyway, what about your hobbies? Tabletennis and playing guitar.
What kind of guitar?! Electric, Gibson.
Awesome. You're in band? Not anymore, I'm going to search for some candidates.
Good luck with that! Bootleggers time! Current state of the game? Well... I still like the game a lot, but I like the old days more. The game could use some updates. I'm still waiting for the ones promised months ago, which everyone knows about. Some crew wars would also be nice to watch or be in. Other than that some more (new or old) players would be nice too. Btw, big ups for Sky and his updates.
Crew wars? Tell me more! Nothing to tell yet, as there are none real at the moment of course. Except the everlasting The Family against BL..
What's your opinion of that specific 'war'? Well.. It's not actually a war but I think they have played it very clever, I wish i had started at the beginning of the round too. It's a good tactic. I wish the BL community did more against it to see some interesting things, but everyone is to scared of dying I think, and instead of taking revenge they quit. Could also be due to the lack of funds (including myself) too. I wish i had a few billions lol.
So the Bootleggers mentality is... crap? Not of all of them of course, but yes. It's not a social network site. If you get shot, shoot back and take revenge instead of whining on the forums about it. Regardless of the reason why you got shot.
What's the best way to change this mentality? I think the promised updates will improve a lot for crewmembers, according to the rumours. Also, give the BL community the idea that they actually CAN change something about the gameplay. How? Well.. I don't really know. That's something for the EG I think.
Interesting. How would you change the crew feature if you were BSF2000? Give crewmembers extra protection in some sort of way, make them harder to kill. Maybe extra health or something or additional protection. Easier to kill crewless people, more access to bullets, maybe a crew bullet factory, like state/nation dons have. yes, I know. Hard to do and need to be thought of, quicker search times in states they have a train station (coz they own transport in there).
Interesting. Random question incoming! 30 seconds to Mars or Kings of Leon?! Metallica.
Ewww. Weakest crew on the Statistics right now? ETS of course!
Hmm. Charmander, Bulbasaur or Squirtle? Charmander.
What's the biggest mistake you ever made? I once crossed a "big" lake when it only had 3cm of ice on it, could have been catastrophic.
Dangerous stuff! If you had to ability to do something different in your life, what would that be? I wouldn't be the lazy man i was a few years ago. I would have been done with University by now if I worked harder.
Drugs or alcohol? Alcohol.
Awesome! Finally, iDonDior. What's the story behind your nickname?! I started playing bootleggers as DonDior, when I quit this game I played various other games as DonDior, but changed it to MetalDior. So I started this round with MetalDior, when IGot shot a few times I thought wth, back to DonDior!
We are not satisfied yet! How did you come up with DonDior?! Grrr.. not easy to satify huh? Well... The highest rank when i started was L.Don. I knew this from my nephew who also played this game. L.DonDior didn't sound cool back then, so DonDior was born! Doesn't sound that awesome now right!
FluffyD
Alrighty FluffyD, could you introduce yourself to the Bootleggers Community? Yeah sure, My name is Yahya and I'm 26 years old from Jordan, The name Yahya might sounds weird for many, but it means "live" in Arabic, and it pronounced in a different way than you can actually read it in English!
Could you ''spell'' the pronunciation? You made me curious! There is some letters in Arabic are not exists in English, and in my name the "H" is a replaced letter for a none-exist English letter.. so it's kinda hard to spell it that way!
''Yieeehaaa'' it is then! Do you work/study in real life? I used to work and study same time, but I have a steady job at the meanwhile.
What kind of job/study if I may ask? I have a diploma in civil engineering and surveying, but I'm currently working as a responsible of warehouses in an industrial company!
What kind of work?! I am responsible for the movement of goods and materials in and out of the factories of the company, checking on the receiving invoices from suppliers and checking on sales orders, it's not an easy job and I have to stay focus on what I'm doing 200%, but still it's fun for me!
Ohhh. What about your hobbies?! Well, let's see.. I like meeting new friends from everywhere, watching football and playing cards games sometimes with friends, I have some interest in local politics as well.
Local politics, that's interesting! Tell us more! Nahh that's actually something I don't want to tell you about haha. I'm trying to stay out of troubles if you know what I mean!
Aww, pity! Bootleggers time then! Could you tell us a bit more about your BL-career? I was introduced to BL by some friends who used to play infront of me and I was like what the hell are they thinking by spending hours staring at that black screen? few months later I was spending 12 hours a day on bootleggers and they laughing at me! I created my first account in 2006, but I officially started playing in 2007, during these 6 years I reached once nation don (round 5) and twice state don, and most important I made plenty of friends around the world, and met some of them!
Meeting players from the internet could be dangerous, why did you do it?! That might be true sometimes.. but for me, I had the most amazing experience on that meeting people from my country or from another countries!
Tell us more! Well, the first guy I met was from my country, and the BL community known him as "Zuis" .. that was 5 years ago or so and there is a funny story about that, back to these days we had a fight in BL ( I can't remember why) it ended up I killed him, after that we become friends by somehow haha, few days later I drove to his city and we had lunch together.. and till today we still met each other every now and then! The most amazing was meeting Edo from Holland (known as Advocate) last year.. he decided to spent his vacation here in Jordan, I couldn't believe it till he sent me his flight schedule and the hotel info.. I was so nervous that day because it was the first time ever I'm going to speak in English, I met him in the hotel and I still remember my first impression when I saw him at the lobby : "oh god he's a tall guy!" later we went out for dinner and then to a coffeeshop, and after the first hour we couldn't stop talking about everything! we played some billiards and he beat me very hard xD (he's a tall guy what you expect?!) And here is a picture for us that night:
That picture is truly awesome! Alright, current state of the game; your opinion?! I like what James doing for Bootleggers, the game has changed than it used to be, and I think the change is positive.. however, I believe bootleggers currently needs more advertising for new players, it would be nice if we can have around 500-1000 players online again!
How would you advertise and what's role of social networks? Social networks have always played an important role in advertising for anything, what is important is the way advertising should be attractive to people, and is subject to recall, I have no idea how to do that!
I see. What kind of feature would you delete AND add if you were BSF2000? I would remove the stock market or update it to be more worthy, and I would add a feature that allows players to produce their own bullets as for Nation/State Dons.
Interesting. What's your opinion of the current Staff? I would say Sky is the best, he did a great job for bootleggers recently, Mika and Aldarion is a good team and friends, Riserva is kinda cocky, and BSF2000 is guy who try to stay in shadow!
Awesome, some random questions for you! Robbie Williams or Justin Timberlake? To be honest I have no idea who are they, but I'll go with Robbie Williams!
Mika or Aldarion? Aldarion! Someday he died for me while being my bodyguard!
Wish he died more often, right?! Accusavo or Youn? I'm sure he would love to have you in his RR more often as well! Accusavo!
Haha! What's the best thing you ever accomplished in real life? Helping my sister to become a doctor, I know it's not about me but I'm so proud of her!
Amazing! Favourite song? Hotel California by the eagles, I have some nice memories for that song.
Truly amazing song. What colour is your underwear you are wearing at this very moment? LMAO! It's white!
I love white, make sure you clean everything tho! Alrighty FluffyD, what's the story behind your username?! Haha! well I like the Fluffy show by Gabriel Iglesias, he's a funny guy and I believe we have some common aspects, mainly we both are big, healthy, husky fluffy, and DAMM!
Hahaha, awesome! Thanks a lot for your time sir. Is there anything you'd like to add? Thank you too for giving me this opportunity, I just want to say I'm thankful for bootleggers for the good moments I had here, and the chance of knowing new people and meeting friends, this is something will last for life! Have a good day sir.
Fair enough! Two awesome interviews this week! A huge thanks to iDonDior and FluffyD for the interviews! I hope you liked it, till next week!
