[zingersmack]

I can see both sides here in the sense of the lower and higher players.

If I had to choose between all out chaos and war and such or a game with no stats, I would choose the chaos. Part of the reason I enjoy playing this game is upgrading my character and reaching that next level in my stats or overall...and then of course attacking someone and seeing the difference as a result of said training.

However, while the old war system had its certain motivations to fight back such as deletion, I think going back to that would result in a few top gangs that very few people are in and a whole lot of people sitting out there by themselves and then wasting more money trying to make another gang. It does lead to certain players dominating (which is where the "crippling" came in).

I understand that it must suck if you think you are being shackled and held back just because you have put more time/money/training into the game than others, but if a few players rule over the game, it discourages others from joining and leveling (which is kind of where the unspoken agreement of no online attacks came about.) But I also don't know exactly how higher leveled players are held back, as can be seen by my own level.


Lastly, I like Saerin's idea of giving some kind of system more to the gang wars. Because there really isnt much at stake right now, I know of gangs that wont fight back because they dont care about the respect level, and they also dont bother attacking others for the same reason--they view it as wasting AP and thus lost money/experience/etc. I think adding something where you can level up the gang for something other than just war purposes such as the said blocks of turf. I can see that the new system was made to kind of meet in the middle and let some violence but not affect those who dont want to be in the middle of it, but it kind of feels like it needs something else and maybe the idea of playing for gang money is it (not the whole vault or anything like that) but I think the turf idea could be it.

Sorry all for the long post.