I've always thought about maybe expanding this wonderfully made game ;) abroad....

Maybe for instance the United Kingdom, maybe Russia who knows the possibilities are almost endless. I do understand that this is a predominately a Italian-American Mafia game, and I'm not too sure but I don't think they made successful operations in the UK or Russia. Some may even call this basic idea, tacky...well that's their opinion, and their entitled to it.

 To make it a little more believable, maybe heighten the air ticket prices to these countries. And limit the amount of cities to about two per country, for example; UK - London and Liverpool. Who knows I just thought I should present a rough idea...

On a side note, a thousand pardons if this has been touched on previously...

Thank you.

Shifty

Hah, that's actually a neat idea. Having a St. Petersberg, Moscow, and maybe Nizhny Novgorod be confined to that country only (I.E. players can never leave that country, except perhaps for a vast cost or up to a certain rank with certain obligations filled). Perhaps certain areas of Sicily and Italy as well. It'd make wars less world-war like - most of them seem to end up in a flurry of chain alliances which end up killing half of the site - with that implemented, it'd pretty much limit it to the inner country.

The only problem with this idea is the stand point of role play. We are supposed to be 1930's gangsters. At this point and time, the "mafia" was at its birth in American and was no where near a international syndicate like you could call it now.

The gangster of the 30's had very little interaction with Russians or British. From what I've learned from history, that it was a mainly American-Italian relationship, and even that is debate able. Very few gangster had legitiment business ties to Italy.

(Cite - American Mafia by Rick Porrello)

Yes I agree that is a pretty big problem..... a real shame to be honest.

Another problem is that I feel it might make it a little bit too Mafia Wars-ish. Which in my view could be a particularly bad thing.

Mafia Wars is nothing like this game, so no worries of that. My concern would be finding the balance between having such a high cost of flying between the countries that it would become a matter of a split site, where nobody flies between the countries and it becomes basically two or three seperate MR games (one in each country) and having too low a cost where people are flying internationally on a whim.

I would like to see it implemented and I think it will add whole new dimensions to the game, but I'm just not sure if it's a good choice realistically. Maybe it should be considered when the userbase grows to a point where the American cities we have cannot sustain our numbers anymore.

To solve that maybe we could implement a passport system where you pay a certain amount of credits for the passport. Then the price for flights abroad could be 200-300 dollars more than US flights, hence solving the split site issue

You could then have expiry dates on the passports, you would then have to pay a few more credits to have it re-issued...

Thoughts??

We could also have a longer period of time before your next flight, basing that on the geographical location of the said country...

maybe international flights could be used for example MUC's... only GF or Don's could invite Made Men and above to do International MUC's... anything further i feel would just blow the game out of proportion...

... in reguard to my suggestion of The GF/Don International MUC's... You could implement "GF Airfields" with this idea also...

Not wanting to shit on anyone's ideas, but I don't believe that 'Godfather Airfields' would be a good idea.... I mean we are playing a role-playing realistic game, I'm pretty sure real Mafia Bosses used the same airports as everyone else. I'n my view this would be a bad addition.

As for MUC's I think that it should stay the same, anyone and everyone can be invited but as said you must be a Made Man or above to initiate one...

so what would be the point of adding international countries? not shitting on any ideas. but i could RPG mode and post a trip to russia or liverpool in the streets... and save the heigtend tickets prices.. and my pocket some change... the whole concept of GF airfields is not my concept... you'll have to check that thread out yourself... my idea was making international MUC's, Which could be only initiated by GF's, adding GF airfields was a suggestion to tie the suggestion of GF airfields into it... Basically, not shitting on any ideas... your saying just add a new country that we could goto, to do what?... what would make it more United kingdom than me posting an RPG street thread of me in the United knigdom. the fact that when i goto travel it has "UK" or "Russia"??....

I don't really like the credits idea for buying passports, because then it makes me think of games like Mafia Wars, and Mobsters on myspace, where the people with money and choose to buy in-game things, get better benefits. Yea, its true you can buy credits from others, but I still don't really like the idea for buying a passport, because since it will allow you to fly to other countries, im guessing the credit cost would be a lot.

The price I think would be a issue for the admins to stamp out. And I do agree with you Vader, I would hate for MR to turn into a game for the people who have deeper pockets than some....

And as for why I would like to see this idea come about, is simple really  I think that the game does need expanding. Its a masterpiece of a game as it is, but I personally feel that it could be improved a tad if this idea was put into action. 

It could also persuade more people to register with us, which has potentially two upsides...

- More mobsters, bigger game, more fun

- More IA's, there are plenty already but plenty in my view is never enough...

The thing is.. The THEME of the game is the birth of the NORTH AMERICAN mafia in the era of The Prohibition and The Great Depression. I say North American mafia in hopes that attention will one day be paid to the Canadian cities that supplied booze and drugs to those in the United States during these times.

Non-continental cities were not involved much during this time.

What can be done with real money or credits should be possible without. That is something that keeps the game closer to being balanced than others.. Closer to being a level playing ground for those not financially able to donate to buy credits.

Actually, having the two sides to MR would be interesting..never thought I'd say that.

Having a wee Sicilian paradise would be interesting to say the least.