- Nyx

Weekly Updates
More additions to the event log including: friend requests, profile comment notices, casino busting, crew transfers and crew kicks

Based on user suggestions:

Once you reach the top in any of the three skills you can trade 100 skill points for rank points and thus continue playing the mini games

The Top 50 skill reports now show what the skill level they are


That's it for this weeks planned updates, hope you enjoy them!


oops forgot one... player profiles also now show what skill level you are at

- rez

Event`us Log`us
Ok so I'm a little to in to Harry Potter LOL

The event log is now online. Instead of getting those pesky OC and dice wager results in your mail you will now get them in your event log. Like messages an icon will appear at the top of the page letting you know you have an event. We will be moving more and more of the notice type messages to the event log in the coming month. Right now OC, dice wagers and rank notifications have all been ported over to the event log.

- rez

Small Update
This week is a small update Starting now both driving skill and explosives training are taken into account during OC's. What this means is if you are only at driving skill 1 (Trainee) you will only be able to use class 1 cars. Same holds true for explosives, you won't be able to purchase explosives outside your training level.

As with weapons training as small amount of skill will be lost each night at server reset.

That's all the updates for this week!

- rez

A Big Thank You
Myself and Nyx would like to thank Joker, BabyC, Mania, Dragon and Akura for joining us in the first SOC voice chat session.
Many words were spoke, many emotions came out and for us, personally, we had a blast hearing your thoughts about everything.

For the rest of you, SHAME ON YOU for not coming to join ~

Truly though thanks to all that attended, it was a blast (and ya we rocked the OC's)!!!!

- rez

- Nyx

Get your mic yet?
Saturday the 13th of Feburary (ya tomorrow) we will be hosting a live chat session.
We've decided to go with TeamSpeak which will need to be installed on your system.
For more information and/or to download the client go to
http://www.teamspeak.com

Notice!
Again, tomorrow, State of Crime will be taken off-line for about 30-60 minutes while I upload and test some new features

- rez

Smallish Update for the Week!

The front page of the game has been changed. We removed the game stats and rank history. It's been replaced with a random 6 recent players and there avatars

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Vanity URLs, it's all the rage these days, so we figured SOC should have it's own You can now share your SOC profile to the public! Check out your summary page (at the bottom) for the URL.

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Speaking of the bottom of the summary page it now lists your referral URL. This is the URL you should spread around the world to get more players here into SOC. We are currently working on a new banner that will get displayed as well as an actual referral page that will show the people you referred to the game.

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Aces High has been removed from the game. Eh, what can I say, we tried, it failed, it's gone. Plus we'll be needing that extra space or two for some newer (and hopefully better) additions to the game

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Added a button to the shooting range to reset your timer for points. The button will only display if you have enough points and haven't gone over the 4 resets per day

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Get your microphone READY!
Next Saturday the 13th Nyx and myself will be hosting a voice chat session. We encourage every one to jump in and join us. We don't have any agenda so at this time it's pretty much just going to be a free for all. This week we'll get more details out about what program we'll use and about what time we will start the server.

- rez

I'm such a naughty coder.... and you love it!
!!! Another update !!!

The jail has been AJAX'd meaning no more refreshing!
The jail will automatically get it's data every 2 seconds, so now it's faster than hitting refresh!

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The warden option for the jail has been revamped as well. When you purchase a party time via points you become the warden for as long as the party time lasts (30 minutes). As warden you will be able to bust anyone in any state!

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The hospital has been revamped. The hospital now includes multipule healthcare options for you to chose from, including being safe from being found by a search. Another addition is the ability to check out of the hospital. Once you check into the hospital it will tell you when treatment starts, from that point every 10 minutes you will receive health points back along with getting billed. If you cannot pay your bill you will be removed from the hospital. Additionally if you get to 100% health you will automatically be discharged from the hospital.

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Weapons skills so you thought you would reach the top and it would be over huh? Well you were wrong!
Starting now each night a portion of everyones weapon skill is removed so you'll have to keep up your training

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Weapon Experts in an Organized Crime can only buy weapons they are trained for.

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Killing and searching has been re-enabled!

- rez

Finally, A New Update!
The shooting range has been re-written as more of a skill type game. You have 5 seconds to click on as many targets as you possibly can to increase your weapons skill. Skill levels are no longer percentage bases but instead rankings. All accounts have been reset to trainee and you will need to work your way up to Distinguished Expert. At each level of weapon rank you can buy a more powerful gun (yes every ones gun has been wiped as well).

The new shooting range requires not only money but bullets to train. Once your training is complete you will need 30 minutes to rest before you can train again. If you have points you can reset your training timer and train again immediately. You can reset your training timer 4 times a day after that you will need to wait 30 minutes between each training session.

Since every ones skill level has been reset we've disabled killing for a bit to allow everyone to get a chance to get into the shooting range and train When killing does come back the OC's will be changed to take into account not only what weapon everyone is using but what weapon rank they have as well. Using a weapon above your weapon level will significantly reduce the chances of the OC succeeding.

For those of you that had purchased a BFG 1000 via points the credits have been added back to your account

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