New gang system
 

Okay, well myself and Demisis have designed a new system for the gangs. Here's currently what it supports

Viewing gang leaders
Viewing Gang Ranks
Viewing Gang Members
It uses the Item buying menu to buy it too. All works, the only time a player needs to be online is when adding the player to the gang. Once that player is added, you can do any other function if that player isn't online. :)

Let's hope that it's released soon!

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SIa *Big Boss* (Blazian Bandits) (Thu Mar 22 15:56:29 2007):
Mass message:
selling gang 200k


An example of what will happen if the sell gang command works. So we have to risk if Sia or Kae selling the gangs or changing the names if that gets released. The selling will just make everyone who owns the gang rich quick. The changing name is going to get abused and change it to other gangs or businesses name so they can gain access to it.

You can't allow leaders to sell their gang. It's not fair to all the members in the gang trying to work their way up the gang ladder to become a recruiter or leader, to see some irresponsible newbie that has absolutely no clue what to do, or how to lead the gang take control.

Changing the gang name is also a bad idea. Make the connection; a newb buys the gang, then changes it to "dark killerz." Uhm..? If you're going to make restrictions on gang name changing, then why not just abolish it as a whole?

No tag formatting.
No gang name changing.
No gang selling.

Tag formatting:

Blazian Bandits becomes BlAzIaN BaNdItS... now come on.


Gang name changing:

Oh, look, Blazian Bandits is now The Final Fantasy Guild.


Gang selling:

Well I sure hope gangs don't become a throw away item that you can obtain after a month's worth of work.

You honestly think that a leader of a gang will hand it down? Almost every gang that has had a new leader recently got it through items or USD.
However, we'll take your suggestion into consideration.

You've got the tag formatting wrong. As in
[PHP
[Nick], of the (guild)
[/PHP]
or
We don't actually mean editing the gangs tag, that'll be the gang name.


Basically, what you're asking for is that gangs will still be staff controlled, still having a gang admin to edit all of the levels.
However, as stated above we'll consider removing them.

Gangs shouldn't be part of the economy. They shouldn't be tradable for money and items. Simple as that..

I'll bet you 5 dollars USD that if the gang selling command gets uploaded BB will be sold within the week. You might as well just send me the money now.

Take into consideration what happened to bizes. The ability to sell them at will made them easy to obtain and made the players feel like they did all that you could possibly do on Era. And when the **** have you ever heard of a gang sell themselves?

AMEN!!! I did a lot of begging to get into that business and then 2 days(maybe it was 1) it was sold, I wrote a complaint and he said, "sorry, the guy was gonna gimme friggen katana and 10K!!! =D=D=D" :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

now, to get back ontopic...people who sell gangs areweird =D

A gang full of hookers?

-_- i would buy BB but i dont think anyone has over 100k ATM

there were four people trying to earn money from that lol, there were 3 hookers and a pimp lol they stood by the street corners trying to make nerds' days:fro:

also chandler...try to make a script that makes the ":sellGang [Cash Amount]" thing sell it for only under a certain amount..in the future its going to be like what? 500k?

or just delete it.

:deletegang :O wouldent count on it..if thats what you mean...

Another one? It seems like more time is spent remaking things than it is making new things.

One could easily agree that the gang system needs serious remodeling.

This system looks like more power is put into the leader, other then having staff have to edit strings in levels.

Also, I didn't mean deletegang. I meant delete the stupid sellgang option.

this is the last one i guess since the gang system chandler made has all the "things" in it...no other option to add in it.

This whole idea is good with the exception of selling and renaming gangs.

Delete selling and renaming gangs or instead of seeing Blazian Bandits and Black Holst we'll see da bloodz and Army Gangster Squad.

Maybe make it so the four current gangs can't do so. [or Is it three...?]
However, I could introduce a new gang [if authorised] and that one can have these features I suppose?
Basically, what we did was create a system that allows control over everything. Something, that everyone wants. However, when we try to introduce this to a system that already exists, people tend to stick with what was first [the old system].

If you made it so Blazian Bandits, Los Carteles, and Black Holst cant sell or change their names (like you said just showing we only have three) and create a new bland gang that can be auctioned off I'm sure money would be out of the economy and it would create competition. Have a monthly check by the gang admin to make sure they are actually doing a good job running the gang if not it will be deleted and re auctioned off. So that pushes the idea that DO GOOD OR YOUR BLAND GANG WILL BE DELETED AND AUCTIONED!

just, no. snake

Or just add it that instead of instantly changing, have it send a 'request' to the staff, and log it or some such, and have it processed.

Sounds like the first big screw-up is coming.

So, what would you do?
To me, this gang system just took no longer than an hour or so. If anything, I can delete it and it wouldn't bother me. I'd rather hear what people would like, instead of what the staff have decided.

Theres only 2 things bad with it.

selling the gang and changing the name.

although churches idea is good. Make a gang similar to the old street gangs, and auction it off. Whoever buys it can change the name, sell it to whoever, whoever buys it next can change it etc.

No, nothing coincides with each other if we do that. Why have three permanent gangs and one little retard gang with these features that fell from the sky? Your concept is mixing apple, apple, apple, banana.

right.

Meh, it should be completely gui based to make it more manageable.

However, according to Era history, selling and renaming such important features that should only be accessed by the most prominent people on Era is not good. I like your whole concept and the system, just not those two features. Those two features will be the end of gangs as we know them.

That's not so bad. Have you seen gangs lately? They getting pretty ****ty. BB has 3 leaders and they're all not doing a very good job.
LC is trying to be a Navy or something and has the rank 'Admiral'.
And Kae got BH back from WarHead and then gave 'Leader' (not Boss) rank to some guy for GK items.

It'd be nice to be able to keep the gangs because they're part of Era's history, but gangs have died before. Rubeus Syndicate, Era Mafia, Profaci Family, Todaro Family, Taifu, Tachi, Soviet Correlation, Terisu Family, Morano Family.
It'd be better to let the current gang die than to let them become any crappier.
I just don't see why we should keep them around if they're not doing a good job?

Besides. It's not like they'll definately die.
There are also other features of the gang system that haven't been revealed/approved yet.

I made a similar system for this on Oakdale, except it isn't a gang system its a business system and rather then letters for the rights I use numbers. I also have it so certain ranks have a unchangeable array of rights

Those gangs are apart of Era history and if you let people change them that's just retarded.

Todaro Family was like a one-week thing, it was Red Dublin.

I suggest reading the post Demisis has made.

You make your own ranks, and the owner[s] can assign rights for that rank. :)

I have a system like this that was made for Ol' West, except you cannot sell/change name.

Dem's got a solid point, dude.
Gangs come and go and we've held on to these gangs as long as we could.

Bring back the old gangs
I wanna be in Era Mafia