Bunch of gamers #1: gaming isn't as easy as u tink!

Disclaimer: No such MMORPG exist. The content of this post is purely fictional and the references to illegal activities are metaphors, i apologise for any misunderstanding caused.


This MMORPG's tough. Way tougher than I thought. Especially this expansion.

Everyday, we fight hard to level up. Its boring. Its routine. But its necessary. We just want to hit the max level and move off to the next expansion. Last expansion was so much easier. I could do party quests with my old gaming comrades to help me level up better.

Leveling up sounds easy. But trust me it isn't. Here we role-play as drug dealers. Every time we complete an assignment we level up. Our assignment comes regularly and there's no way we can reject it. Sometimes we get a hard-earned assignment boost which we can use to complete an assignment or part of it. But sometimes we get caught by the cops and is sent to the other server to do corrective work order.

Cash is very important. Since levelling up is almost ensured, cash is THE FACTOR that differentiates you from that other dealer. Rich dealers are powerful. They have better, more abundant resources that make the assignment easier. A lot easier. They like to pool their resources and get even richer. Sometimes when they got caught they can bribe the cops so that they don't need to do CWO at another server. Poor smugglers are left to fend for themselves. They get left out of resource pooling, get pushed around by other richer dealers and sometimes forced to owe them favours. When something goes wrong poor dealers usually get blamed, even if its not their fault; and once in a while they get framed. I empathize with them, assuming I'm not treated like one by those richer than me.

Some rich dealers are nice. They try to bail the poor dealers out. But some poor dealers get into so often their respective guardian angels aren't simply there to protect them, or feel that the cash needed to do so is simply too much. Fortunately i seldom need to be bailed out, or I'll like to think of it that way. I'll try too help the some of poor dealers as much as possible, in hope of them helping me in times of need. But I'm not rich. I just have barely sufficient. Ever more so since I lost quite a bit of cash due to my injury and mess I made.

It's easier to level up if you can find the right "drug" to "deal". Party-goers love "ecstasy" and those who "deal" it are the richest. "Opium dealers" are rowdy and not as rich as they want to be, so they try to use their voices to trick others in think that they have more cash then they actually do. The "khat dealers" are so poor I actually think they needed charity. "Ice" gang's rich too. But they're real irritating. Especially to the "heroins" who are not that rich but loves to compete with each other for purity of drug. I once was with them but I'm trying out "morphine" now. I can't get my "heroin" "pure" enough to compete and my resources are too different to be pooled with them, since they're more interested in purity than earn cash. I think "morphine's" much easier to handle but I'm trying hard to pool the resources with them. But I fear I'm late since they're pool is rather established.

Fortunately I'm about 3/4 of my way to max level. Most of the cops are pretty used to the bribes and are organising less patrols. But there a huge patch coming soon and we are uncertain what is going to happen in the last quarter. We are expecting big changes in the assignments are given and the way we level.

There's rumours that the 2 servers will be increased to 4. Some of the players from my server 2 might be moved to the newer servers. I hope the "morphines" don't get spilt up. Its really sucks to half your potential pooling-mates to another server. I already lost a few good potential pooling-mates.

I hope the patch is for the better and allows for better pool. To max level. To the next expansion. To pooling.