Mercury I didn't really mean that lol :)

By /thread I meant that the topic was effectively over with your post.

ahhhh LOL got ya :)

and Good!

I suggest we have the top players decide whats best, you guys wouldn't like to expand west? Gosh its cold up here in the north and crampt.

Yes it actually does, I believe for this to take effect the GF's would be the one who we wold have to contact first. You know since they put in all the hard work to get where they are. If we changed the system without their input it would be wrong.  Then the rest of us can decide, so YES Nello there is Top Ranker in this world??

Like Nello said, top rankers in the world sure.  Game suggestions arent in character, therefor their opinion isnt worth more.

At the moment the districts just seem to enable lots of crews being in one place that effectively become, as someone stated recently in the streets, "one large family". Having half of the game in one large family means that we get mammoth wars occassionally rather than frequent disputes between single entities.

I would prefer a reversion to families with the option to have Captains beneath them running a crew up to a maximum size of 100 or 150, with only one Godfather per city which is an honorary title awarded by those Dons who reside within the city; likely to be the most powerful one to whom they pay taxes. 

Back to the districts, I think it could probably work better if it was limited to a maximum number of HQ spaces per city. I guess the flight times were meant to separate to some degree those in NY/PHI from those in DT/CHI but that hasn't really happened so I think that needs to be revised in line with what is actually happening. Measures either need to be implemented to make the disparity between the coasts more pronounced to effectively split the game in half or abolish the long delays which are merely an inconvenience not a preventative measure. 

A reversion to the old cities wouldn't really change that much. Whilst users have the option to just authorise multiple HQs of any size in one place, there will always be long lulls of inactivity and far too much solidifying of positions rather than actually doing anything. A revision to the current system, has more potential to make things more interesting than reverting to type.

Personally, I would like to see the structure of ranks altered as that has a large scope for development and there were some good suggestions about this previously. Then perhaps to address the problem of "one large family" diversify DFPs into individual industries, which can only be controlled by different families. I'm floating this entirely off the top of my head so feel free to poke holes in it, but for example, there could be a family with the FBN in their pocket meaning that family got discounted drug prices or could carry more units. But, if the family with the FBN is wiped out, they refuse to work for the killers and wait until a new family rises and then offer their services to them. It doesn't just have to be the FBN, it could be anything, better firearms, better protection, anything really to give an edge, but only one service would be available to any one family. I suppose users could ally but that would be an improvement to having 10 leaders all acting as one. To me anyway.

The possibility of inter-city district wars is what makes the districts awesome Scorpion. As well as the possibility of protection rackets there was discussion about being implemented.