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I’m only posting this on here because the company Aftershock will probably end up deleting this from the www.getsatisfaction.com/aftershock forum. I’ve played their Mafia Live game for about 3 months now, and everything about that game seems to be going down the tubes. That’s where I’ve decided to do something about it.

I don’t have much time to go into too many details, and if AS wants to borrow some of these ideas, go ahead, it’s saves me the time of creating an iphone version of what I’ve worked on. Although I could simple use the webkit and fake the app like AS has done.

As the saying goes, if you don’t like the way someone does something, do it yourself. Well that was my goal. I wanted to make a “mafia” game that was what I believe far superior to what’s out there now.

So what I’ve done was reproduced pretty much what Mafia Live (Undead Live) does. From property, to jobs, to “zen points”.

The only problem is, as it stands Mafia Live at the root, is BORING. You do the same thing over and over, no element or surprise, nothing special, just the same old mafia game. Nothing in this game means anything.

For instance, health. whats the point? nobody puts a single point into it and if they did, it was a mistake. There shouldn’t even be an option to increase it, hell the option should be to take health points away.

This is the only “rpg” where you take something from someone after doing damage alone, normally you take something from someone after you defeat them.

Stats have meaning, want to fly a chopper, you better have the stats to be able to fly it. None of this 500 DEF 1 ATT crap.

Property is boring, you save to buy the next big thing, then you do it all over again. My system gives meaning. You buy a building, then you can staff it. You create a “guard” who you can give members/weapons/armor/vehicles to. Now players need to beat this guy to get the reserves of the building.

Gas stations, players can operate them and set prices for gas. Players have vehicles, why not “use” them.

Jobs/npc’s/players have drops, items that you can use and trade.

Basically, players get to create there own city and use the resources within it.

Secondary games, say you rob someone, there is a chance you can get thrown in jail, guess what, now there’s another area someone can try and control.

Security, it will be a cold day in hell before someone pulls a stunt like what happened a couple weeks ago. The last thing I’ll want to do is a rollback.

I have a ways to go before anyone gets to play this, and it’s really only being done as a challenge to see if I can actually do it.

If anyone ever played legend of the red(green) dragon, you probably have fond memories of that game. That game has staying power, i can’t say that about this ML.

In 15 years, will anyone ever look back and say, wow mafia live was such a great game, wish I could bring back the memories.

I have things that need to get done, and one day my “mafia” game will be released, but until then it’s pretty fun making my own web based RPG type game. Have a good day and if anyone from AS is reading this, good luck, you’re 15 minutes are almost up.

Join the Chillin family today. If you have an iPhone, don’t forget to grab this great little app from the store.

If you want to join, the family code is 195064788.

For less than 3 bucks, this is a nice little way to waste way too much time on your iPhone. If you want an invite, and are not in a family yet, leave a comment and I’ll send you an invite. You’ll get a code that you can redeem to get $10,000 to start with. And it looks like you get some loyalty points as well.

My only gripe so far is that fact that, unless you get some family members to join, you can’t really enjoy the entire game. In later levels you are all but required to have more members to do harder things.

Anyway, so far it’s not that bad, then again I’m only level 14 at the moment. So go grab Mafia:Live for the iPhone and join the family.

Ok, I tend to ignore these type of emails, but this it kinda funny. It’s one of those FW:FW:FW:FW:FW emails that has everyone and their brother listed. I had to scoll a few pages down to even get to the pictures.

Anyway, here they are. Click on them to see the full image.

NOW, DON’T YA FEEL BETTER ABOUT YOURSELF???

No company name, no nothing. What’s the point in sending something to me, only to have me resend it to the buyer? What a waste of shipping costs. These people are only interested in gathering your personal details.

CONTACT: Managers Mileva or Eugene
EMAIL: milevamarich@yahoo.com, eugenevolt@yahoo.com

We are a supplier to Sellers, meaning that we scour the internet for close-outs that can be bought low and sold high. Our contacts include manufacturers with close out items and distributor overstock. The Sellers purchase products using our service then sell them for a sizeable profit.

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Sir/ Madam

My name is David Wharton and I want to offer you a promising opportunity,
which will give you a worthy income and a possibility of promotion.
Norsten Logistics Ltd is announcing about the recruitment of couriers in
USA. For this opening we are searching for punctual, diligent and reliable
employees.

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Just got this in the inbox, looks like a phishing attempt. Google was nice enough to filter out the phishing site though.

This one came from PayPal.com

We recently reviewed your account, and we need more information about your business to allow us to provide uninterrupted service. Until we can collect this information, your access to sensitive account features will be limited. We would like to restore your access as soon as possible. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Why is my account access limited?
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Hello Sir/Madam,

I am Sergey Frolov, manager of UKRAINE  SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT COMPANY(USDC), we are specialized in enterprise application development, system integration, corporate networks and other software solutions for business, finance and for various types of problems.

My company is based in Ukraine. We’ve earned ourselves a reputation of a reliable and trustworthy partner working successfully with a number of West European companies and providing them with reliable software development services in financial and media sectors.
Unfortunately we are currently facing some difficulties with receiving payments for our services. It usually takes us 14-30 days to receive a payment and clearing from your country and such delays are harmful to our business. We do not have so much time to accept every wire transfer.
That’s why we are currently looking for partners in your country to help us accept and process these payments faster.
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FROM THE INTERNATIONAL PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT
Category A Prize Winner
CONGRATULATIONS

Sir/Madam,
We are pleased to inform you of the result of the NLF ONLINE International Lottery programs that entered your email addresses amongst other addresses for the international lottery programs conducted by NLF ONLINE.
Your e-mail address attached to ticket number
07911425896-2000 with serial number 3872-506 drew lucky numbers 7-4-88-28-01-40, which consequently won in the 1st category, you have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of US$ 800,000.00 (Eight hundred thousand United States Dollars) from a total sum of USD $4,000,000.00 shared amongst the first 5 lucky winners entered in their category.

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Original email was from kimleejjjj@gmail.com

Email: kiimlee@yahoo.com
China Merchant Bank,Beijing
China.

Dear Sir,
I know that this e-mail will come to you as a surprise since we don”t know each other before now. But for purpose of introduction, I am Mr. Kim Lee the Manager of a branch of China Merchant Bank Beijing.
There is an account opened in this bank in 1989 and since 1998 nobody has operated on this account. Again after going through some files in the records, I discovered that if I do not remit this money out urgently it would be forfeited for nothing.The owner of this account was Mr. Denis. B. Wang, a foreigner and a miner at Yuajing Gold Co Ltd China.
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