In advance, this suggestion will require a bit of rewrites and new code I'd imagine. That being said, I belive it could bring a new dynamic to the game that would be attractive to new and current players and encourage a competative spirit arocss the board.

Introduce new areas in each city, each of these areas cannot be a "home"territory and instead can only be captured via extortion/protection rackets or some similar mechanic on a crew scale possibly a new organised "crew only" crime.

These new territories then become a place where you can build a powerful building for the crew such as a specific drug factory which produces a large amount of drugs at a set price similar to CA's and purchasable by everyone in your crew with the amount purchaseable dependant on rank. However these buildings and territories can be attacked and you cannot build forts on them, the only way to protect them is to have you crew members "patrol the neighborhood" or soemthing similar to increase your territory's protection level. A crew can own no more than 2 of these extra territorys at once but the city with the most gain a big advantage over those without (without this advantage being too powerful to prevent any overturns)

Now in order to make this work, the "Uppers" of the game will need to come apart and operate as the real life mafia did, family first basically. CL's may negotiate one to one but not in a coordinated "commission" style to prevent game ruining regimes being formed. CL's instead are dependant on their immediate family to work together to be successful and crucially safe. To implement this there is a flat ban on more than 2 cities working together and any evidence of this results in admin wacks for entire titled family ranks.

This would allow one family (city) led by a GF to take territory for each crew, however by limiting the extra territory number some crews will need to take from other cities, which should encourage competition and challenge between cities.

I like the idea but don't like the restrictions. Would give crews focus and purpose instead of sitting around clicking buttons waiting for the reaper.

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