I'd love to give some feedback on this cool new feature but I was killed 10 mins after buying one :(

I like this idea, it will be interesting to see the feedback once there are a few around.

Also as a timid and quiet Mexican Indian, I do believe I will feel slightly ashamed if one of these chaps has more posts/threads than me.

A more active inactive, not a critisism, more a kick up the butt for me if I get lazy :P

Not if Chavez, WHEN you get lazy.

Cracking idea IMO. Looking forward to the amount of folk accidently mailing these people and getting annoyed at their lack of response.

The CL can read and send msgs from these NPMs

Thank you :D I love you squishy, have meh babies?

QUite an interesting addition will like to see these guys work

I look forward to see how this works.

I look forward to see how this works.?

 

Using bots to play now for active family members? Might as well get the automatic clickers working to.

I probably missed the Suggestion that brought this up and explained the pros of this addition, but I really don't see why this was implemented. It seems that the game is getting more and more automated. The roleplay forums are already lacking in participation, an entire NPC crew pops up sporadically to give players free shots without consequence, and now crew leaders can hire NPC's to make money for them AND get a free shot when they're done.

What's being done to increase actual player interaction?

Increase experience gains from interactive roleplaying for business district bar owners and their patrons using the already existing code to measure qualitative posts. You can do this on a tiered leveling system to get people interested in utilizing the interactive and roleplay features of the site from the get go.

Temporarily lower the thresholds on the stock market for inclusion so that people can see the benefits and reap the financial rewards of social interaction to increase participation in the forums.

Add a different statistic to player accounts similar to info, but on more of a popularity scale. People who are more active in the forums, be it the street or the city districts, would find it easier to network with NPC's perhaps offering special incentives and discounts for bribes, bodyguard hiring, training ranges.

I mean, these are just off the top of my head.

Crewleaders can give anyone who meets the crew rank minimum requirements the ability to hire associates, but make it so those members cannot hire anyone as their associate unless the hiring member has met a game minimum requirement for social interaction, be it in the streets or business district, but out of the HQ. This puts a financial motive on interaction with people outside of existing family members and since mobmail won't count, could cut down on spam. (When I signed up, I got quite a few recruitment mails, a few recruitment mails disguised as help mails, and only one truly help mail.)

Make MUC's more interactive. I get invites from people I don't even know. Make it so that invites can only be sent to people online in your city through a mobmail or a lobby type forum (not another business district or back alley) where people can discreetly advertise that they're looking for help with a MUC. People can list that they're looking for help on a job and interested people can reply and accept. But it adds a bit of interaction instead of CLICK CLICK CLICK cash.

When you say 'purchase', is that 'real life' currency or mafie dolla?

Either or. They are purchased by credits, which can be purchased via mafia dollars, or real life dollars.

Why not just go the whole way and for a nominal fee I can hire someone to do all the dirty work for me? Someone to do petties, felonies, drug runs and shoot someone at my behest? I'm truly not trying to sound sarcastic, but I really feel that's where we're headed.

Just out of curiosity, will NPM's be able to catch and forward witness statements?

Essentially, a crewleader with significant financial means will be able to purchase his way towards several new pairs of eyes, if they can, which I'd rather not see.

From the original post by Squishy:

(not to be an ass, but to answer your question and document the source)

When they're active the NPM's "Can catch witness statements (Crewleader has a special page to view them)".

AlexKeene for president :D

Not trying to ruin the creation of the NPM's but wouldn't this be like having dupe accounts. The only thing that is different is the guns are not being used.