I would like to take this opportunity to personally apologise for the downtime and problems this weekend with street crimes server. We work very closely with our hosts at all times to try and keep providing a better service, however our hosts are still in the early stages of developing their network systems so from time to time encounter problems.  Every time a problem occurs it is fixed and counter measures are taken to make sure it does not happen again. Thus hopefully eradicating all future problems. If you would like to always be in the know when our server goes down about whats going on you can follow fubranoc on twitter.

If our server is down and it is not a planned event ie if we have said nothing about the downtime, the likelyhood is something has gone wrong at our hosts end not ours. Although we do always try to keep this to an absolute minimum, sometimes the un-expected can happen and our hosts will suffer a problem of which it is out of our hands to fix.

Things we will be taking extra precaution on in the future.

1. Within the next few weeks we will migrate the game to a new server platform, which should not only be more reliable but also quicker too.
2. We are going to start taking much, much more frequent backups of the game. (This may result in a daily downtime of a few minutes while the backup is taken to begin with).
3. Both us and our hosts will be more prudent when recovering from downtime to make sure nothing is going wrong before making the game live again to the players.

Hopefully all the problems and issues arising from this weekends interuptions have been ironed out now and you will accept our apologies so we can all look forward to a better future.

Thanks, Synthasize

Tonight at 18:00 game time some changes to the turf will be coming into effect. The biggest of which will be the changes to the maintenance system and how rent from your buildings is collected. We have changed the system so that all of your rent from your buildings must be collected whenever you are online from your turf manually.

Any rent left uncollected at your turf will become lootable by other players in an attack. You will no longer be required to maintain your buildings on a 24 hour basis, instead this evening we will introduce a new system which will throw random events at you the building owners, which will cause varying amounts of damage to your turf buildings. These random events will also have differing severities which will indicate the speed at which they will worsen, depending on the speed the event worsens the damage on your building will increase by 5% a time. The more damage your building has the less rent it will make and the more it will cost to repair. Being active and repairing your buildings when the events occur is the best technique.

The rent becomes available every hour on the hour as it was before there is no change here. We have also vamped up the page and added in some optimisation and upgrades in relative places. More will follow tonight at 18:00 game time.

Stay tuned.

This afternoon we implemented our new shooting range! It allows you to train with more than one weapon at the shooting range and gain experience with that weapon. By gaining experience with your weapon you will gain accuracy, skill and efficiency when firing it. This will help you in the latter features of the game, due out soon.

Warning: If you navigate away from the shooting range whilst it is in progress, you will still lose your cash, bullets and energy but you will not gain any experience with your gun. We have taken measures to make this less tempting and easy to do, but you have been warned.

Old shooting range experience will become irrelevant, unfortunately there is nothing we can do about this simply due to the fact that experience can now be earnt for different weapons seperately.

Leveling your gun up requires energy, and some weapons require more energy than others. Especially the heavy weaponry such as miniguns, rpgs and sniper rifles.

Equipment cannot be trained at the shooting range.

It came to our attention over the weekend that honor points were commonly getting confused with honor. So in the light of this situation we decided to make a change, we changed what was formally known as Honor to Prestige. This should help to clear up the obvious confusion of using two different things with the same or similar names, whilst also giving us the opportunity to drop prestige into the game and make more of that.

Honor points remain the currency of which you can spend in the honor points store and also remain a perk in all of the places they were previously.

We also made some changes around the game to give Prestige a little more weight and you can expect to see further additions to this as we go forward. Prestige now hopefully will give users a good indication of who are the most experienced players in the game. Prestige for other users can be found simply by browsing there profile page. Where rank stops, prestige will continue to grow.

Prestige can be earnt currently through achieving any of the various achievements, pulling off successful organised crimes and ranking up in the game.

Street Crime Staff