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Cool to see that these are still kind of around. I created the Morano Family and much of PPA when I was lead developer in the earlier days of Era.
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Ayy, I was following your other two posts and waiting around to see if it was actually you-- your account was 1996MUSTANG or something like that, if I remember right.
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Tachi was going to craft melee weapons and sell them, as well as elixirs. They were more of a triad-type gang. PPA was going to craft pistols and "enforce" the peace. They, at one point, bought 49% of Tachi leadership and the right to craft elixirs. The Blazian Bandits were going to craft assault rifles and were the urban-type gang. Black Holst were mercenaries and were going to craft explosives. Think paramilitary. I can't recall what Los Carteles were going to craft (we were avoiding drugs as a whole), but were cast as a hispanic-type gang.
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Yeah, I recall that a lot of the footwork was done in those days-- Shortly after Drak/Dell left BH, we had those plastic explosives in the B2 shop room, which created those hand grenades.
Los Carteles had one of the most beautifully open bases at the time(Second only to Rubeus-- I always loved their garage+main). But that aside, I got the vibe that LC was some kind of front for something. I recall that Kadar had a water-bong NPC that he used to run around with.
Their connection with PyroTech (Kadar+Bananas Chill) could have solidified the belief; though it wasn't out of the ordinary at the time-- Neo Technologies was ran by Kinetaro White, and the White family ran Black Holst (Kae,Chaos, Mistay, etc).
Unfortunately it seems that these gang backstories fizzled out after you left-- Each gang pretty much turned into just refaces of one-another, and eventually themes alltogether went to the wayside.
If you fastforward to iEra, the gang system is very impersonal; and it's turned into somewhat of a "king of the hill" style; presumably to accommodate a larger playerbase-- gangs don't even have their own bases anymore.
I think that is the greatest tragedy of iEra-- the lack of a decent basing system robs the newer generation of a great game.
Awesome fun facts, Phayze- I like to be taken back to those days when our trees looked like green fire.
Good to see you again!