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JC Soprano: Now the City is Mine!
JC Soprano speaks in detail about his mafia family operations, including his “executive games” in which minimum wager per bet is 100K simoleans and in which he has taken over 2 million simoleans in bets from a player (around $100 US in today’s market). He claims that his advertised cyber-brothels were just for show, and [...]
Full StoryAlphaville braces for mafia wars.
With the Sims Shadow Government currently non-operational in Alphaville, there is growing concern that sim “mafias” – essentially griefers that roleplay as Mafiosi — from other cities will come in to fill the power vacuum. Mafia presence in Alphaville is currently fairly limited (examples include JC Soprano’s family, the Sclafani family and a handful of [...]
Full StoryAdults Preying on Children for Cybersex in TSO? Stratics Board Discussion Heats Up
by The Phantom With a strongly worded and impassioned initial post, eyeseenoone has opened a topic on the stratics board entitled SENSITIVE AND SHAMEFUL which raises the uncomfortable yet pressing issue of adults engaging in cybersex with children in TSO. In the opening post, eyeseenoone offers a long thoughtful and tightly argued post on the [...]
Full StoryInterview with former SSG General, -Storm
In this Interview, -Storm discusses his departure from Calvin’s Creek because of mafia harassment of his #1 skill house, his arrival in Alphaville, and his eventual joining of the Sims Shadow Government (SSG) in April. He talks about his role in fighting the Alphaville mafias and the role of diplomacy in persuading some mafias to [...]
Full StorySnowWhite and –Storm Resign SSG: Is it the end?
In the past few days SSG Overlord SnowWhite and key a general, –Storm, have resigned the SSG. Both officers site burnout with the game and with their responsibilities in SSG. The decision by –Storm also seems to have been driven by operational differences with SSG leader Sayeh in SWG. These resignations continue a series of [...]
Full StoryProfanity Filter or Thought Filter?
By The Alpha Riot Grrrlz O.K., so like say you wanna talk nasty but what you wanna know, is, like, well, is this like something that Maxis will think is profanity? We certainly wanted to know, so we figured you did too. So we undertook a very serious investigation into the matter, and what we [...]
Full StoryInterview with Gorean Mistress Maria LaVeaux and her slave, Toy
In this interview we talk with practitioners of Gor, Mistress Maria LaVeaux and her slave Toy. They discuss their pre-Alpha careers as cyber-escorts in other TSO cities, their arrival in Alpha, and their introduction when Lady Julianna called Mistress LaVeaux to mediate a dispute between two Doms in the Alphaville BDSM community. They discuss the [...]
Full StoryAlphaville’s Most Coveted Property
Here’s a nice story to begin the New Year. Our new reporter MattyS interviews RoboStub, the owner of The Floating City – what appears to be the only single property island in Alphaville. That’s right, it is bordered by water on all four sides! What would you pay for such a property? RoboStub has been [...]
Full StoryNew Year’s Wishes from Urizenus: may we slay the Kerafyrm in our world.
This past year, on November 17, an event happened in EverQuest that was so momentous it is my candidate for MMORPG story of the year. Those of you who have played EQ perhaps know of the monster Kerafyrm, also known as The Sleeper. Designed by Sony to be unkillable, the number of hit points required [...]
Full StoryHistory of the SSG, part 2: Interview with Mia Wallace on the formation of SSG
In our last interview with Mia Wallace we covered the prehistory of the Sims Shadow Government (SSG). In this interview we cover events including the infiltration and destruction of Merrill’s [Evangeline’s] Hotel Erotica and the early alliance with JC Soprano to form The Commission, the dissolution of that alliance and the formation of the Sims [...]
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