Oh my bad I thought you could use the same approach to catch a bg shooter, ya know watch the online list ....is that too complicated ?

Maybe this is why the thieves haven't been caught yet .. incompetence and lack of cooperation

You're operating under the assumption that a user can see everyone in their city. Then get it down to a short list.

Which would still involve forcing those online to prove their shot timers haven't been used. Which means they have to shoot at something. Even then, they could have perked the shot. 

So everytime an MIA is stolen are you going to volunteer your account as the guinea pig to see if their timers have been used?

Wow you really are fucking retarded let me break it down for you....Mia gets stolen, copy the ONLINE list, save it, another MIA gets stolen, copy the ONLINE list, rinse and repeat and compare .....filter out the names that don't show up when the MIA is stolen and holeeeeee fuckkkkk you've proven who the thief is ....but I'm just a fucktard right so what I just said makes no sense

And what if more than one person is stealing MIAs or multiple people are online at the same time as the MIAs being stolen? 

jesus you really want all the answers dont you? fucking copy paste compare contrast til you narrow the field down.....fuck

Nah bud I want you to realize this is a game. A game that chose to include real life money in a form as a feature. With a feature as purchasing MIAs.

You're expecting the average user or even new user to copy a list everytime their MIA is stolen and slowly widdle it down to who it could be. Which could take weeks or even months. Probably never. 

It's not about "handing" something over to someone. It's about giving someone a time frame to kill their MIA without having to deal with such antics as what you're suggesting. Even so, people are on stealth and can get away with stealing the MIA. 

It shouldn't take someone dedicating a significant amount of their game play to protect a feature that is supporting the site. 

how to buy a MIA without spending real life cash:

Buy With Cash

There are credits cheaper than $525,000 listed on the Marketplace. Click here to buy them.

if a hitter is training a gun and doesnt know how to copy and paste...they shouldnt be a fucking hitter......

if a family or district comes together or even a city or a coast comes together catching a thief becomes so much easier..because ya know the chances of the MIA always belonging to the same person is extremely extremely RARE

but once again i digress.....im a fucktard after all

so the 1548 that were spawned what time period are we talking? is that over the past 30 days meaning only 5 stolen in a month? just curious how big the "theft" issue is with MIA's

should give out prizes to the owners of the longest living mia's haha make it even more maddening to have a MIA stolen

Thank you Squishy for the breakdown NF if your only argument is real money and you value it that much would you be okay if MIA's are bought with in-game cash then? If you consider a single credit potential money would it be fine with you for admins to stop their "donations of money" over the lounge and VIP posting as to not overwhelm the economy in any way and let the players dictate fully the marketplace? Assunto has won 1000+ credits alone from lounge I'm sure there are many others with other impressive scores - should that all be taken away just because you value every credit its potential 1$ value and because you lost said $ few weeks ago? I don't think it should

I don't understand why this is such an issue. We've just heard that less than one half of one percent of MIAs get "stolen".

Furthermore, you can guarantee that your MIA isn't stolen if you can just pay attention for one freaking minute.

I've had plenty of MIAs stolen, but they tend to be when I:

- get busy writing and forget
- accidentally travel to another district (even here, it's almost always there 5 minutes later when I travel back)
- fly to another city
- fall asleep
- something in RL happens that demands my attention, and I decide that RL is more important

Can someone tell me a scenario where someone has an IA stolen when you were focused and put a solid minute of effort into shooting said MIA?

I think that launching an MIA has to have some element of player effort, albeit a 60 second one. Even if launching an MIA is basically a +1, I don't want to cut out the middleman of the player actually needing to click the wack button when they've essentially launched a free kill. 

I don't think we need to make this easier. And even if MIA witness statements became a thing, do we really want CLs spamming each other asking for WSs for these, when you could have just paid attention and clicked two buttons for a solid minute?

Furthermore, I wouldn't want game developers/administrators focusing their efforts on this to make things even easier on players, when there are things like Durden raids that have been discussed as potentially improving for quite a while. 

Whether it's for one minute or not, it's the fact of what that credit represents. 

Like you said, there's various reasons you have had yours stolen. If you're not going to bring the W/S function back then at the least protecting them for only the spawning user for 5-10 minutes shouldn't be an issue.

THIS IS A GAME. It's a game that already requires significant amounts of time to make a decent account. It shouldn't require even more time especially when I'm PAYING for a service.

If I spawn it, go piss and comeback and it's dead that's quite shitty.

5 out of 1548 were killed by someone other than the owner, this is making a mountain out of an ant hill

In my mind, the credit represents a strong chance at a kill... it's not a magical +1 like a hustle point. I agree with you that "THIS IS A GAME"- which is exactly my point! Play the game and don't expect the game to handle things if you don't have a 1.5 minute window of time/attention span.

If you spawn an MIA and you need to piss, then you should either:

1) Spawn your MIA, go piss, come back and shoot it. As long as you haven't chugged gallons of liquid, you've got a 99% chance of your MIA being there when you're back.

2) Wait literally one minute to piss?

3) Go piss, come back, launch MIA?

What is difficult about this? I don't understand why we need to make this even easier than it already is.

THIS IS A GAME. It's a game that already requires significant amounts of time to make a decent account. It shouldn't require even more time especially when I'm PAYING for a service.

What "even more time" are you referring to here? The one minute it takes to shoot an MIA? Or the 1 MIA per 200 MIAs launched that gets stolen and you need to launch another one?

Lots of times, when people justify that a game should be easier because you're paying for it, the answer is "git gud". But honestly, if you want to "git gud" shooting MIAs... you literally just need to focus for one minute every hour. I don't think that's an unfair expectation.

I stand corrected; it's one out of 300 and not 200.

This is why I'm not a math major.