The Mobster News

Let me just start off by saying first of all I don’t have the patience nor the scabbing skills required to rank as a free player. When I play as a free player I usually just use my actives to recruit nothing but theives and card dealers. Then, after a few days, hopefully I have about 150k ops and I use my reserves to collect and hopefully bank around 2 billion.

The problems with that strategy are that obviously you are leaving your ops defensless and and lets face it, if someone decides to take you out for whatever reason, your round is pretty much shot. Also I can tell you from personal experience that say you do manage to bank around 2 billion, you will only be able to purchase about 1.5 million aks if your lucky and that only gives you a networth of about 9 billion, which is not even close to being good enough to rank. Plus, after you have done this, you can pretty much kiss your ops goodbye, something else I could also tell you from personal experience.

So what does that leave us? Scabbing. Scabbing can be difficult especially for new players. First you have to make sure your networth is high enough so that you are in range, second you have to be really quick as their is a ton of competition and third, their just doesnt seem to be as many players failing to use protection. I would say overall the awarness of protection has greatly risen since I started playing.

So… On that note congrats to all those that somehow manage to rank as a free player. It’s especially difficult, if not impossible when you have a round in which is full of op killers, as we saw out of CS most recently. I personally have tried many times and never was sucessful in ranking as a free player. I salute you!