Omerta Mafia

Omerta 2011 winter holiday round!

2011-12-10T13:03:00.001+02:00

You get what you ask

Many of you asked during and after the 2011 III round that we would launch a short and fast round on winter holidays. Shockingly, we have listened to you :) We announce a new round, just for winter holidays!

What will be different?

15 Action Points every 10 minutes
No worldwide hitlist (bots) available
No chaos at the end of round
Round length is a little bit more than a month

These changes should make the round more intense and, we hope, more fun. After the round post here if you think that all the next rounds should have these changes and what further changes we should implement to make Omerta even better.

Round timetable

Character registration starts 2011.12.10 18:00 (UTC/GMT +2 hours)
Round starts 2011.12.15 18:00 (UTC/GMT +2 hours)
Round ends (no chaos start) 2012.01.23 8:00 (UTC/GMT +2 hours)

Have a great time playing. merry Christmas and a Happy new year!
We love you all :)

Omerta 2011 III round

2011-09-04T13:35:00.000+02:00

We hope you had good summer holiday :)

Character registration starts 2011.09.09 18:00 (UTC/GMT +2 hours)
Round starts 2011.09.12 18:00 (UTC/GMT +2 hours)
Round ends (chaos start) 2011.12.01 18:00 (UTC/GMT +2 hours)
Chaos ends when there are 20 players left alive.

This round will be long enough to check which family is the strongest one and who is the ultimate Omerta player. Last round we picked up some great ideas from iShoot and other players. This time the best player and best family will be picked up acording to all round performance.

The exact method and prizes will be posted later. If you have some great ideas on how to pick the best player, please post them in comments.

Omerta 2011 II round winners

2011-08-03T16:08:00.000+02:00

Best family award (2000 credits)
Cosa Nostra

This family had 27 members, so each member will get 74 credits
Cosa Nostra members:
Corky
Marcus Ortega
Zerocool
JaTochNietDan
Niq
- Nobody -
rails
XYZ
Druzoko
Walter Rosenblood
pirim
JFL-
CoDa
Constantine
Vytautas Landsbergis
William Blake
lol
phen0menon
Ron Paul III
Johnny Walker
english rule
nanin
name
TH3 JOK3R
Llzard Klng
Pyromaniac

Best family boss award (100 credits)
Corky

Highest player by rank award (100 credits)
Uncle Pops

Thanks to Dalius everyone got their credits and thanks to Malas everyone knows that now :)
We will post the new round timetable next week, so keep an eye on the blog.

Omerta 2011 II round

2011-04-19T10:02:00.000+02:00

At last we can confirm the new omerta round timetable!

Character registration starts 2011.04.29 18:00 (UTC/GMT +2 hours)
Round starts 2011.05.02 18:00 (UTC/GMT +2 hours)
Round ends (chaos start) 2011.06.30 18:00 (UTC/GMT +2 hours)
Chaos ends when there are 20 players left alive.

Prizes!

Best family by NW.
Whole family will get 2000 credits. So if the family has 10 members, each of them will get 200 credits, if the family will have 40 members, each will get 50 credits.
Best family boss.
Best family by NW boss will get 100 credits.
Highest player by rank
This player will get 100 credits.

Best family boss and Highest player by rank prizes can not be won by the same person. If the same person has these two positions, Highest player by rank prize will be given to #2 highest player by rank.

New language added - Norwegian

2011-03-15T19:55:00.000+02:00

Norsk språk - Norwegian today was added into the omerta game. I am very happy that our players continue to translate this great online game into more and more languages.
Thanks to Christoffer Wold for this great translation!

Server problems

2011-02-26T14:38:00.001+02:00

Finally we found the reason why our servers are so slow and often down. One of our RAID hard drives burned down and the system failed. Dalius is already on its way to buy the replacement. We hope to fix the situation today. Thank you for your patience.
We will add 50 Omerta credits to everyone as soon as our servers are fixed :)
Good luck in the round!

Omerta 2011 I round

2011-02-09T12:02:00.002+02:00

At last we can confirm the new omerta round timetable!

Character registration starts 2011.02.18 18:00 (UTC/GMT +2 hours)
Round starts 2011.02.21 18:00 (UTC/GMT +2 hours)
Round ends (chaos start) 2011.04.15 18:00 (UTC/GMT +2 hours)
Chaos ends when there are 20 players left alive.

New features:

Anonymous killer.
No more killer name in obits screen. Dead man can't talk, right? So how can everyone know who killed someone?
Create a family costs 150.000$
There will be no rank limit to create a family, everyone having 150k will be able to create one. Of course having in mind newbies can not receive money and they surely can not earn such money, minimum rank of family boss will be ~gangster.
1 KS for every bot or player kill
This remains true only for bots/players lower not more than 2 ranks.
Hide Killing Skill bar from public.
Only family members could see players KS.

Omerta 2011 Ideas

2011-01-08T23:14:00.010+02:00

Hey everyone, i am now taking exams in university, so you have some time to give your ideas for Omerta new round. This time you can put your ideas into this post comments. I will check the comments and choose the best ones and put them into this post. Ideas which are posted here can be voted for. The ones with most votes will have best chances to be implemented. I will add the first one - Anonymous killer.

For those who are interested in when the new round starts i can tell that February is the month to think about. And now i am back to study boring stuff, wish me luck in my exams :)

Idea list:

Anonymous killer.
No more killer name in obits screen. Dead man can't talk, right? So how can everyone know who killed someone?
Votes - 11.
Create a family costs 150.000$
There will be no rank limit to create a family, everyone having 150k will be able to create one. Of course having in mind newbies can not receive money and they surely can not earn such money, minimum rank of family boss will be ~gangster.
Votes - 10.
Bribe cost depends on KS
Votes - 6.
1 KS for every bot or player kill
This remains true only for bots/players lower not more than 2 ranks.
Votes - 9.
Remove the thumb from "Killed Go back" Screen :)
Votes - 1.
Offer cars by ticking them and submiting.
Votes - 3.
Hide Killing Skill bar from public.
Only family members could see players KS.
Votes - 4.
7 days of immunity.
New character gets 7 days of immunity unless war action is used.
Votes - 1.
3! You're out!
3 suspensions for the same character means you're dead.
Votes - 2.

Omerta 2010 II round

2010-08-01T13:17:00.002+03:00

We hope you had great summer holidays, because they are over! Omerta is coming back to your lives. I already posted the round changes, so here i will post only the timetable.

The Timetable

Registration starts 2010.09.01 18:00 OMT (Omerta time)
Round starts 2010.09.03 18:00 OMT
Round ends 2010.12.10 18:00 OMT
Chaos ends when there will be 15 players left

This round i hope that there will be less random killing and there will be more families living in the city. If updates work, next time we will think (once again) of how to improve the KS raising system.

See you in the game ;)

Autumn round changes

2010-07-23T09:58:00.002+03:00

This time we will not make any changes to the killing system. Current changes are meant to disable one big family ruling the round. Read on, comment and propose better ideas.

Extort count will be limited by the rank of the player.
This means that newbies can not have extorts, gangster can have 10, wiseguy - 20, made man - 30, capo - 40, boss - 50 and godfather will be able to have 60 extorts.
This will limit the family land size and limit income from extorts and speakeasies.
Bribe cost will depend on the bodycount of the player.
This is simple, the bigger your bodycount is the more your bribes will cost. For now we will make that 1 bodycount gives +1% of bribe cost. So for example, Dreamer had bodycount of 120, so he would have had to pay +120% of the bribe costs.
Player will see a warning message if the IP to log in is used by another account.
After this update players will know if they are violating the rules or not and have 1 excuse less when caught.

That's all for now. If you think something more should be changed or added, please feel free and comment here.

Killing system idea

2010-04-12T14:16:00.003+02:00

Omerta is a mafia game, not farmville or simcity, that's why we need a really good and balanced killing system. This post is dedicated to through some ideas for you and with your help to come up with the solution, which should be implemented in the next round to make Omerta a better place.

Current situation
With bots (worldwide hitlist) added, people can raise their KS without any danger or wars, so becoming a hitman is not a question of if, but the question of when. I liked it more when very few people were able to become hitmans.
Another big issue is, that 20-30 people family can control whole game by not letting the people rise. This is also an issue for killing system, maybe there should be a posibility to have guerilla wars, when small organized group can make big damage to strong family.

Possible solution
With players discussing everything in public forum we came up with the idea of following killing system:

New players get 7 days of imunity, however if they use war section before the period is over, they lose their imunity.
Players get 1 KS for EVERY player killed (maximum 30). That means that even if the Godfather kills newbie, he still gets +1 KS.
Worldwide hitlist remains active, but probably the cost of shot will be increased and of course for 1 kill you will get +1 KS.

This would be a mix of old and new KS systems. and the game should be pretty balanced. If you have different opinion, please comment here and help us find the best solution.

P.S.
PLEASE don't post "bring back old system", if you have a proposal, post it and say why it is better.

Omerta history 2010

2010-02-09T20:49:00.004+02:00

The roots
Everything began in early 2001. I was in 9th grade, played various online massively multiplayer games with friends, when one day realized that there is no game which would be perfect to me. I had only choice - to create one myself. After searching the web a few weeks i found out, that it is not so difficult to create an online web-browser based game, one must learn PHP and mySQL to create those.

The team
One of my friends also had the same feeling about online games. We started learning and creating the game. So the first Omerta game team was born - Laurynas Mališauskas (Malas) and Indrius Kairys (Indrionas).

The idea
Our main idea was to make an online massively multiplayer mafia game, where every single job had to be made by a real person. In that way people should make relationship like in the real life. What is more, it is always more interesting to make business with other people than with some NPCs.
Another thing which makes Omerta exclusive from all other games is that there is no censorship (except child pornography and advertisments) in the game. People can say whatever they want to each other, that way natural relationship are made, some people talk respectfully and are respected, other tend to offend everyone and consequently fight with everyone.

First versions
The very first version in 2001.02.14 had almost nothing. Just a registration/login, legal businesses and whacking. The frst few versions were played only by our classmates and the total registered players never exceeded 30. Almost everyone told us that our game will never evolve to something real. One of the most laughing ones was Mindaugas Zilionis a.k.a Katras, who is now one of our administration team members.

The official version
The first official version (v1.0) was released in 2007.04.04. Current black-red-white design was introduced, however due to major works moving from old to new design some of the game features were not working. Players called that round one of the worst in Omerta history. Despite that there were more than 150 active players and more than 400 registered players.
In this version of Omerta major work was done in the system of the game, it became faster, lighter and easier to maintain. What is more, we have started to develop a stand-alone admin application with code name "Bebras" ("Beaver" translated from Lithuanian). It's main target is to prevent cheating in Omerta.

2007-2009
This period brought a few important updates. The first one was the introduction of Help Desks, Moderators and Anti-cheaters. This update clearly stated, that the administrators will not be able to help their player accounts. Second big change was the introduction of Moonshine still and speakeasy bars.
Players waited for this new family business almost from the very begining of the Omerta. The moonshine stills profit depended on the quantity of lands the family had, so the city map became a little more important.
2007-2009 period was also pretty tough because of the problems we had with the servers. Some hackers tried to DDoS the servers, some other tried to search security holes in the game. However things which do not destroy us - makes us stronger.
2009 summer i got a call from our server administrator Dalius, he told me that some company is interested in integrating omerta into a bigger online project...

pazintys.lt
Pazintys.lt offered us a deal we could not reject. They gave us server for the game, they bought a big marketing campaign which included ads in facebook.com, balsas.lt, pazintys.lt, supervideo.lt and many more. The best part of the deal was, that they did not want to get our profit made from new users. This new deal raised our motivation to continue improving the great online game called Omerta.
After a few months of hard work and testing, Omerta and pazintys.lt became integrated projects and on 2009 March the round v1.8 started. Lots of new players added even more fun to the game. In this round the working Omerta Supporter accounts were introduced. They could buy 6 premium features - start by the nickname, less security codes, +1 additional bodyguard, 180 max AP limit, hotline message, vacation status and remove vacation status.
After the round end in 2009 late autumn we had the first profit from the game. It was not much, but still a great start. However pazintys.lt was bought by another bigger company and new challenges we just around the corner.

2010, epasas.lt
To be continued...

New: The Informer

2010-02-05T17:02:00.002+02:00

Today i added a new premium feature called "The Informer" which will hopefully ease a little bit the use of new graphical Omerta city map.

The informer will help people to find other player businesses or extortions. This is extremely useful when you need to take over or arson targets businesses quickly.

After buying the feature in Omerta shop a new input field will appear above the city map next to the city map navigation. Just enter the targets name and click OK. If there are targets businesses in the visible area of the city map, its background will become red.

The cost of this great feature is only 20 credits for 30 days, so most players could enjoy it.

Hope you like the new feature and good luck in the game ;)

Omerta 2010 Spring round

2009-12-18T15:22:00.006+02:00

The winter round ended, winners got their prizes and those who died early want the information on the new round. I will not waste more of your time, here is the info:

The Timetable

Registration starts 2010.01.25 18:00 OMT (Omerta time)
Round starts 2010.02.01 18:00 OMT
Round ends 2010.06.09 18:00 OMT
Chaos ends when there will be 15 players left

The changes

Bribe officials prices will be fixed for each rank.
Higher ranked people had to pay too much for the bribing, now there will be more space to breathe for them. Note that the suspicion rising is left the same, so hitmen shots will get a lot of suspicion as it was before.
World wide hitlist max KS 30.
Now you will be able to raise your Killing Skill to 30 using the world wide hitlist. However, after 15 KS you will have to shoot Made Mans.
Killing other players will not give any Killing Skill.
Now people will have chance to rise and have their own peaceful families. Wars between families should now start because of lands and higher future profits.
Prizefight ring and chop shop can be set up at lower ranks.
Prizefight ring will be available since gangster rank.
Chop shop will be available since wiseguy rank.
Prices of these illegal businesses will remain the same.
Counterfeit press after being set up will have 1 lvl quality plates and 1 printer.
The city map will be graphical.
After this update you will finally be able to see what territory your family has and of course what are other rival families territories.
When family is created it automatically receives its unique color. This color will be in city maps on the businesses, small indicator in scores, online lists and user profile.

I hope you will enjoy Omerta even more after these updates. Now you have more than a month holidays from Omerta, buy Christmas presents, write exams and enjoy the sleep :)

Omerta team wishes you Merry Christmas and a Happy new year!
See you in the Spring round!

Omerta 2009 Winter Chaos winners

2009-12-14T14:17:00.003+02:00

Chaos round ended pretty fast, this time the winners will get 50 Omerta credits. Here is the list of the lucky ones:

oiprosalii
Al Cabr0n
ahahaa
bk in chaos
Tankas
Opk
-KarKiusas-
Demonas
Cptn David Barbosa
Marques
Sloviks
Millwall
ozkutis
kaipciayra
CK9

Credits will be assigned in few days after this post. Enjoy :)
Next Omerta round time schedule and changes will be announced later on this week.

Omerta 2009 Winter winners

2009-12-08T23:56:00.002+02:00

We had big wars and plenty of active players this round. Finally, the game creators had some profit from Omerta, which should lead to faster developing of the mafia game. So here are the official round winners list:

Best Players By Networth

rokis [Kaptiorke] - won brand new Sony CyberShot phone
lengvai imetes [BaLTai]
-dede [Kaptiorke]
Tinukas 1 [BaLTai]
NuTs [Kaptiorke]
shuleris [oops]
oiprosalii [BaLTai]
Ruu [Kaptiorke]
Zuijkis 3 [Bavaria]
rails [Sacra Corona Unita]

Best Players By Rank

shuleris [oops] - won brand new Sony phone
-dede [Kaptiorke]
NuTs [Kaptiorke]
Ruu [Kaptiorke]
lengvai imetes [BaLTai]
Riesutas [Kaptiorke]
rails [Sacra Corona Unita]
oiprosalii [BaLTai]
Tinukas 1 [BaLTai]
Smauglys- [Kaptiorke]

Strongest Family boss

Ruu [Kaptiorke] - won brand new Sony phone

That's i for now. There are still 262 players left, so we will have to wait a little bit for Chaos round to end.

Omerta round summer 2009

2009-05-13T12:30:00.002+03:00

Timetable

Registration opens: 2009.05.01 12:00 OT
Round starts: 2009.05.02 12:00 OT
Chaos starts: 2009.08.20 18:00 OT
Chaos ends when 15 players are left alive

When chaos starts:

when you get killed you can not create new character
you get 120 AP every 10 minutes
everyones KS is raised to 15

Omerta round v1.8

2009-03-04T18:11:00.006+02:00

Timetable (canceled)

Character registration start: 2009.03.13 18:00 (Friday 13th :D)
Round start - 2009.03.15 18:00
Chaos round start - 2009.05.13 18:00
Chaos ends when there are 15 players left

This round will have serveral changes:

The income from moonshine and speakeasy will be lowered a lot
The income from prizefights and chop shop will be lowered too
Bribing cost will depend on the rank of the character
When using war section, suspicion will grow faster for higher KS characters

Optional (if i will have enough time to make it)
Only the family boss can become Godfather (losing the position of family boss also demotes character rank from Godfather to boss)

Round v1.7 winners

2009-02-24T13:09:00.003+02:00

Player of the round

Sea Biscuit

Chaos round survivors

Dijenek Serbia
drabble
Blau Punkt II
kapt
Petras bl 10acc
JaTochNietDan
-Captain Barbosa-
The game
maljorkas
Watchman
PablitasIII
Charlemange
Cercar
Big-Bear
Moral

Omerta round v1.7

2008-11-11T21:51:00.002+02:00

Timetable

Character registration start: 2008.11.20 18:00

Round start - 2008.11.23 18:00

Chaos round start - 2009.02.21 18:00

Chaos ends when there are 15 players left

This time you will get normal 10 Ap per 10 minutes, however attempt to kill someone will cost 40 AP and 40.000$.

Omerta v2.0 briefly

2008-11-07T09:24:00.004+02:00

I know a lot of Omerta players can't wait for the Omerta v2.0 and we keep posting about how soon it will be presented. However the reality is, that v2.0 is only less than half finished. Most of you keep asking me what will be changed in the v2.0, so i thought it will be a good idea to make a few posts about the mysterious Omerta v2.0

Things we already have:

New layout.
Yes, yes, i know, you are tired of the designs beeing changed and you always don't like the new ones, but this one should please you. It has the oldschool mafia charm and it will be made with web2.0 in mind.
Omerta School
New players keep asking in forums and by private messages about how to play the game or how not to die in the first week. Omerta school will give a chance for admins and/or experienced players to write articles-tutorials divided into several types about Omerta. For example an article which discusses fast ranking vs big money issue.

Things we must make:

Omerta Community
Omerta site will be no longer divided into 2 separate parts (home page and game pages). Everything will be made like iOmerta - you come to any of omertamafia.com site, log in and continue browsing it. Logged in users will be able to comment on articles in Omerta school, public forums will be no longer only an in-game feature - logged in users will be able to participate in it even if they don't have a player account, etc.
Omerta Admin System v2.0
This will be a very important update. Lots of new tools, old tools extended. Our main task is to catch the cheaters by in-game activities, not only by IP addresses. This way people who use school/job computers or mobile devices will not be shot so often just because his/her friend/grandmother/cat logged in a few times from the same IP address.
Omerta Game v2.0
Of course the most important and biggest part of the job. A lot of scheduled updates discussed in this blog and public forums will be implemented. The main target is to make possible for new players to start playing not only from the begining of the round, moreover we will make changes to make team play more exciting. And the last, but surely not least - killed screen will be made even more dramatic and possible with some sound effects :)

Now you know main details about what the current situation is. I hope this will make things easier. The main question now is, do you want another round of old omerta or not? Of course i can make some basic changes like 20 Aps every 10 minutes, or no KS for killing newbies, etc.

Omerta round v1.6F

2008-08-20T09:33:00.004+03:00

Timetable

Character registration start: 2008.09.08 11:30

Round start - 2008.09.13 12:00

Chaos round start - 2008.10.21 18:00

Chaos ends when there are 15 players left

This round is marked with the letter "F" which means it will be a fast round. You will get 20 AP every 10 minutes.

Omerta Round v1.5

2008-05-03T13:09:00.005+03:00

Timetable

Character registration start: 2008.05.07 18:00

Round start - 2008.05.15 18:00

Chaos round start - 2008.08.15 18:00

Chaos ends when there are 15 players left

Round v1.4 winners

2008-04-20T12:00:00.003+02:00

Top players by Networth

Vytautas Didysis
Arc
GGGgG
Xander
Arturas Zuokas
Fossil
Ronan
Happy
Lupin
La Rambler
Bobby Pin
Albert Neri
-Roy DeMeo
---mindertux---
bleha

Top player by Rank

Vytautas Didysis
Xander
Arc
GGGgG
Arturas Zuokas
Fossil
Bobby Pin
---mindertux---
cikuraku
Ronan
-HarryPoter-
La Rambler
Cosa Nostra
Malisauskas
nenena

15 chaos round survivors

Vytautas Didysis
Randomist
Connor
Ronan
-jose
-Tony-
Lupin
Fossil
cikuraku
Kaliau
dirtmonger
vaijdas-
Sinterklaas
Saniok 14
mop face

Ideas for round v1.4 or v2.0

2008-03-19T12:51:00.003+02:00

After lots of discussions with Omerta team and players we decided to add the following ideas to our work schedule. For now it is only a question of when those ideas will be implemented, most probably it will be in the next round.

Idea #1: Stopping killing spree
After reaching bodycount 20, every extra dead body will add more suspicion after the shot, no matter failed or success. So shooting everybody just for fun will cost you, the more bodies, the more suspicion after every shot.

Idea #2: Less luck, more math in killing
We think of adding a mechanism that would lower the randomness of killing success. This should prevent 150+ failed shots series.

Idea #3: Hey, who killed Joe?
Mike hated Joe so much, that one day he decided to shoot him. Bang! You have killed Joe. And in killed list nobody sees that Joe was killed by Mike, just the fact that he was killed and when he was killed. However if there were people online, they might have witnessed the murder (and got news "Joe was killed by Mike").

Idea #4: No more monopoly
Only the boss of a family can reach the godfather rank. This will end the times when all 5 godfathers were in the same family, which then takes over all the omerta into their hands.

These ideas are the main ones which will be implemented in the next few rounds. Please feel free to comment on them or add your own ideas on how to make our mafia game better.

Big changes came to Omerta

2008-03-17T14:05:00.003+02:00

From tomorrow I(Malas) am leaving official job in TietoEnator corporation and will be working full time on Omerta project. Many times players told me that Omerta does not get enough time and is not developing as fast as it should, so now is the time, when we together could make Omerta a better game than it ever was.

However to succeed in this mission i will have to get your help and understanding. Omerta now became one of my money sources, so donations via Paypal or bank will be necessary in order to keep me full time in Omerta.

I will post ideas for the new round in near future, please check the blog a few times a day if you want to be the first to know ;)

Server problems

2008-01-23T19:59:00.000+02:00

Today we are experiencing server problems. For now we do not know what caused these problems. Possible reasons are:

hacker attacks on our servers
hacker attack on database
our database server is simply too old to manage this amount of activity
our server administrator is drunk again and did something very bad to the servers

No matter what is the reason, next round we will move to new servers. This will cost quite a lot, so as soon as possible we will start a money raising campaign. I hope that some of you are not that selfish and will help to buy a better place for Omerta.

Omerta Round v1.4

2008-01-06T15:50:00.001+02:00

Timetable

Character registration start: 2008.01.18 18:00

Round start - 2008.01.21 18:00

Chaos round start - 2008.04.16 18:00

Chaos ends when there are 15 players left

Omerta tips: Moonshine & Speakeasy

2007-10-14T20:29:00.000+02:00

The Moonshine business
The profit from it comes when you produce and sell the alcohol. You have 2 options: only to your family, or to everyone who want to buy it. But beware, if you sell it to everyone, high profits can attract other players into the market. The more upgrades you have, the more alcohol you produce. This business is really simple to manage.

The Speakeasy business
If you have an alcohol supplier and are in a family, you can create speakeasy business. The amount you sell every hour depends on the upgrades made and the land your family has. However there is a maximum you can sell every hour and it depends only from the family land. Even if your speakeasy could sell 1000 alcohol in an hour, but your family has less land, you won't sell the max. So land is the key to highest profits.

Omerta tips: Casino

2007-10-10T12:48:00.000+02:00

How to make profits from the casino illegal business?
The main thing is to make the players play in your casino. It's just simple maths. The more times a player plays the closer to statistical your win/loss ratio will come. In order to be profitable, losing possibility in your casino should be more than 50%.

Bigger losing possibility = bigger profits for casino?
No way! If the chances of winning in the casino are too little none of the gangster will come to play, then your casino profits will drop down drastically. As experienced players say, the optimal chance of losing is somewhere between 51% to 56%.

What the max bet should be?
The optimal max bet of a casino is a difficult question to answer. There are some gamblers, who use various betting strategies. The most common thing in all the them is raising bets every time they lose. So your max bet should limit their ability to do that too many times. On the other hand, if you max bet is little people will not lose as much money as they could if the maximum allowed bet is bigger.

Additional benefits of having a casino
I think the most important benefit of having a casino is keeping the illegal money safe from robberies. When your illegal money is in the casino none of the thugs can rob you. BUT, beware of the mafia wars. In time of war someone can easily burn your casino with all the money inside.

New: Moonshine Still

2007-09-10T12:13:00.000+02:00

Moonshine still - a new illegal family business
Several rounds ago we raised an idea to have a family businesses. After long discussions we decided to make one. And here it is - the Moonshine Still.

This new business will have 2 main parts:

Moonshine Still

Can be built only by the boss of a family.
Upgrades must be built in a free legal business.
If you want to upgrade MS, you will have to have a free legal business. In case of arson you will lose only a part of your business.
Depending on the ammount of upgrades, produces alcohol.
You will be able to choose whether to sell it only to family members or to everyone who wants it.

Speakeasy

Can be built by family members except the boss of the family.
Sells alcohol every turn.
Sale amount depends on the territory the family has. Extorted or bought, does not matter.
You can have as many speakeasies as you can afford, but the sales will be divided for every speakeasy in the family equaly.

Additional Information

As far as it is a new illegal business, it is still beeing balanced, so all the prices, profits and other information will be announced when the game starts. Some of the details will remain secret, only the most inteligent players will find out how to use that businesses in the most effective way.

Omerta Round v1.3

2007-09-10T07:47:00.000+02:00

Timetable

Character registration start: 2007.10.01 18:00

Round start - 2007.10.03 18:00

Chaos round start - 2007.12.20 18:00

Chaos ends when there are 15 players left

Additional Information

We hope to make Omerta Supporter accounts available, however PayPal restrictions and various legal issues make it extremely difficult. We are now discussing taxing issues with legal authorities, try to sign contratcs with companies which would allow you to pay for the servies in a convienient way.

This longer break between the rounds was needed for us, becouse we had several exams to pass and make a lot of testing in order to remove minor bugs from the Omerta game. We will announce the changes and new features a little bit later.

Chaos Round v1.2 ended

2007-08-28T11:51:00.000+03:00

The winners
The last 15 players alive this time were:

Kw3k
Tsing Tao
Loki
xMafiossox
1 1
ANUBIS
Briedis
rangas
BuoZe2000
-Baldur-
m4a1
Whenu
Meyer Lansky
Ayalla
TheFace

Families

Contract Killers
G-UNIT
Cosa Nostra
the OldTown
CHAOS LEGION

Last kill
Last kill was made by rangas on 2007 Aug 28 07:01:13

The new round new will be announced after few days.

Omerta Round v1.2 Updated

2007-08-09T00:21:00.000+03:00

Players started a major discussion in Omerta public forum and we could not close our eyes, we needed game updates which should encourage new players to join our small gaming society. After long debates Omerta administration decided to make following updates:

Players will be able to join families from gangster rank (was wiseguy before)
After killing a gangster you will get 1 Killing Skill point (was 2 skill points before), of course, only if you are not higher than 2 ranks from the victim
Quotes are allowed for everyone (only Omerta Supporters were able to use them before)

Thanks everyone who participated in the discussion, we hope that omerta is getting better every day and you will get the most out of it.

Server problems

2007-08-01T08:20:00.001+03:00

Game is down for more than 24 hours
Omerta is down becouse of problems with our servers. Dalius is doing the best he can, but he is only a human and can not work more than 12 hours a day. These recent problems showed as once more that we need new servers and not some time in the future, but now.
Lack of funds
Lack of funds stops us from getting better servers, now it is time to unite and help omerta. As soon as our servers will start working normaly i will start raising funds for new omerta servers. Every single donation or Omerta Supporter will get us closer to a better, quicker and more reliable server.
The game should start working today (2007.08.01), but we still do not know exact hour.
Please be patient and understanding.

New: Administrator Levels

2007-07-12T15:18:00.001+03:00

Omerta is expanding and we thought that it is a good idea to separate responsabilities between Omerta admins. What is more, we also wanted to remove corruption possibilities in administration. So today we introduce to you administrator levels:

Help desk, translator - can access only message center and forums. Does not have any administrating rights. These accounts will be given to people who have to have a constant account in Omerta. Contact them if you have any questions about the game.
Moderator - can access only message center and forums. Has right to delete threads and/or posts which are violating Omerta rules. These admins should be contacted only if you have something to report about bad behavior in forums or if you receive messages with advertisements.
Anti cheater - can access message center, forums and the administrating system 'Bebras'. Has right to delete threads, posts and can suspend, kill or fine in any other way characters who are violating the rules of Omerta. Report possible cheaters to them.
Game creator - has all the rights and access to all game and administrating sections. Game creators should be contacted ONLY if you have a bug to report.

All levels of administrators except Game creators will not have any money, action points and will not be able to access any in game sections. We hope that this update will raise the level of confidence in admins and will make it easier for players to get help or information they want from the game administration.

Omerta Round v1.2

2007-07-09T17:57:00.001+03:00

Timetable

Character registration start: 2007.07.13 18:00
Round start - 2007.07.16 18:00
Chaos round start - 2007.08.25 18:00
Chaos ends when there are 15 players left

Targets

add new illegal family business
add extra features and statistics for Omerta Supporters (paid accounts).
start marketing and promotion campaigns

Changes from v1.2

Omerta Supporter accounts added
all sections of the game are now working
game help is now up to date
a lot of security bugs fixed
other minor changes

Chaos Round v1.1 ended

2007-07-03T13:08:00.001+03:00

The winners
And the winners are the last 15 players alive.

Vladmir Vetso
wWwOwWw
CTM
Dalai Lama
Goblin2
0900-8844
BlackEagle
Chenvonpuntgen
rav3n
Dezavu69
Astorre Zeno
Juiceman
Kickeris
letourneau
Kalnietisltu

Families

Siauliu Ekipazas
77-88-96-19-4-88-77
Babilon
thanks vladmir vesto

Last kill

Last kill was made by Vladimir Vetso on 2007 Jul 2 18:46:21.

I hope chaos round was fun, check the blog or http://www.omertamafia.com/ for updates on the next round.

Round v1.1 problems

2007-06-28T08:59:00.000+03:00

The round goes to the end. We have looked into it and tried to seek out the problems we encauntered. There is a list of them.

Major problems

The first major proble is that hackers are trying to harm our servers in a lot of various ways. As our budgest is low, we can not fight with them properly and our servers sometimes go offline. What is more, those hackers are nothing more that Omerta players or ex-players, this fact schocked me the most.
The second major problem would be lack of game help for our newcomers. As i can see from our traffic and game logs, there are plenty new people coming to omerta, but due to poor game guides they leave after beeing killed the first few times. This leads to the third major problem.
Killing for fun. I noticed that some of the highest ranked players kill low ranked people only to have higher bodycount. Of course, if you have killed more than 100 people in one round you will have something to boast about for your friends, however these kills have major impact in Omerta expansion.
Bug abusing and cheating is the last, but not the least problem. Some players find bug and instead of reporting it, they abuse it to gain an unfair advantage in the game. This problem is i think the most serious one. If we want to improve our game and make it even more interesting to play, we have to know about the bugs. Duping is another problem which can not be solved only by the game administration. People have to understand, that cheating is not the way to play. We try to catch and kill the cheating persons, however our budget does not allow us to spend as much time on omerta as we would want to.

Minor problems

Missing game sections. The game is in developing stage so until now we have several sections in the game which do not work - upgrade legal business, voting poll and casino illegal business.
Killing screen. I receive tons of messages telling me that current killed screen is not as nice as it cuold be.
Anti cheaters mistakes. This is sad, but we are all humans and we make mistakes. Sometimes unguilty people are killed by anti cheaters, however this is only becouse of poor quality of the tools they have to detect cheaters, we are working on this issue in oerder to minimize the mistake count and maximize catched cheaters count.
Mistakes in game sections. Some of the game sections are in the place where they should not be. For example Family invitations should logicaly be in the family section and now they are next to the messages. Family bosses can't see or remove the invitations they have sent... etc.

I think this list should be bigger, but i think that these problems are the most important. All of these problems will be solved, but again, our budget is so tiny that we can not afford to spent a lot of time on our beloved mafia game.

Soon we will have donation section and supporter accounts, then you will be able to support our game and help improve it.

Meet you in the round v1.1b and good luck in the chaos.

Omerta tips: Ranking

2007-06-12T10:18:00.000+03:00

How to rank fast?
As experienced players may have noticed, the fastest way to rank is to make thefts. This feature gives you less money than any other actions, however your rank will grow faster. The most important thing in fast ranking is not to miss the 4 hour, or in other words, 120 action points limit, spend as much action points as possible on theft.
The tricky thing is that different ammount of AP spent in theft gives you slightly different rank growth. Spending 5AP four times will not give the same ammount of prmotion points as spending 10AP twice. It' is you who will try to find the ultimate technique of spending APs on theft to get the highest results.

Money or rank?
A lot of players often ask themselves "What should i do now, to get a high rank, or start earning money?". I think that everyone's answer is right no matter what s/he chooses. The higher rank, the safer you are, but what's from that safety if you have no money. On the other hand if you are rich and with low rank, there is a high probability, that someone will try to kill you only for the money you have.
I prefer ranking until Wiseguy, then join a family and only then start earning money.

Killing skill or rank?
This is the hardest one. Killing skill is very important in Omerta, it gives you wieght in the game. If you have good killing skill you are a valuable player and a lot of people will be afraid of you. Gaining killing skill requires a lot of money and even more action points, that is why you should decide you want to rank or become a hitman first.
If you have high rank you are able to earn more money for shooting, but it is harder to find a target you could shoot at. You should always thinks if you want to be a defensive player or offensive. If you just want to be neutral and do not shoot at anyone ranking to the sky is the way for you, however if you want to ba a family hitman, try to raise your KS instead of ranking first.

I hope this information is usefull. In the future i will post more tips and tricks in omerta.

Omerta history

2007-06-07T10:31:00.000+03:00

The roots
Everything began in early 2001. I was in 9th grade, played various online massively multiplayer games with friends, when one day realized that there is no game which would be perfect to me. I had only choice - to create one myself. After searching the web a few weeks i found out, that it is not so difficult to create an online web-browser based game, one must learn PHP and mySQL to create those.

The team
One of my friends also had the same feeling about online games. We started learning and creating the game. So the first Omerta game team was born - Laurynas Mališauskas (Malas) and Indrius Kairys (Indrionas).

The idea
Our main idea was to make an online massively multiplayer mafia game, where every single job had to be made by a real person. In that way people should make relationship like in the real life. What is more, it is always more interesting to make business with other people than with some NPCs.
Another thing which makes Omerta exclusive from all other games is that there is no censorship (except child pornography and advertisments) in the game. People can say whatever they want to each other, that way natural relationship are made, some people talk respectfully and are respected, other tend to offend everyone and consequently fight with everyone.

First versions
The very first version had almost nothing. Just a registration/login, legal businesses and whacking. The frst few versions were played only by our classmates and the total registered players never exceeded 30. Almost everyone told us that our game will never evolve to something real. One of the most laughing ones was Mindaugas Zilionis a.k.a Katras, who is now one of our administration team members.

The official version
The first official version (v1.0) was released in 2007.04.04. Current black-red-white design was introduced, however due to major works moving from old to new design some of the game features were not working. Players called that round one of the worst in Omerta history. Despite that there were more than 150 active players and more than 400 registered players.
In this version of Omerta major work was done in the system of the game, it became faster, lighter and easier to maintain. What is more, we have started to develop a stand-alone admin application with code name "Bebras" ("Beaver" translated from Lithuanian). It's main target is to prevent cheating in Omerta.

The future
For today our main goal is to make Omerta bug-free, easy to play and profitable. We plan to add premium accounts in the nearest two versions (v1.1, v1.2) in order to raise some money monthly, add More advertisments to the site.
The greatesting thing for casual players will be brand new illegal family business. As fas as it was discussed with oldschool players, everyone liked the idea very much.

Omerta Round v1.1

2007-06-06T13:16:00.000+03:00

Timetable

Character registration start - 2007.06.04 23:00
Round start - 2007.06.08 18:00
Chaos round start - 2007.08.25 18:00
Chaos ends when there are 15 players left

Targets

fix the few remaining bugs
add more tools for anticheaters
add premium account system and features
add donation system

Changes from v1.0

The main change frmo previous cersion is, that now we will have working public, family and boss in-game forums. You will now be able to edit your posts. The boss forum will be visible only to the bosses of families, there they will be able to discuss their relationship and possible deals between families.
Counterfeit money and Casino illegal businesses added.
updated game help will be added