No, this is not an expensive remake of Trabot.net's article about Gravano versus Coccada. But as all of you have undoubtedly noticed, the last week Omerta is having some issues with it's counters (or timers).

First it were the Business objects (raid spots), that were constantly counting down to 15 hours remaining, and then they would go back to 16. Personally I thought that the benefits would be given anyways, about 16 hours after the bug started appearing - so that the counters on the family pages were just cosmetically broken, but that wasn't the case. It took the developers at Omerta Towers well over a day to fix this, we have not yet heard what was the cause of this to suddenly break down.

But this was only the start.

If you're a gambler, you have surely noticed that the 40 click-limit is quickly reached. No, you're not counting wrong, a lot of times you don't have 40 clicks.
It has to be noted though, when you get the 40 clicks reached message, you will also see a message saying another Donating Code will increase your clicklimit. This will - ofcourse - not happen.
Clearing cookies and cache - which Omerta has taught us will fix everything, save world peace - can do the job. But after a while, it comes back. It's not our browsers that keep doing it time and time again, there ought be a permanent solution for this, we sometimes have too much too important stuff in our browser's cache to delete. And after all, it's a flaw - and those should be removed, even if there is a quick do-it-yourself solution that works every time.

And the most noted is without a doubt the booze and narcotics price change. The cause behind this is that the developers changed the coding of this last week, and somehow the time at which the prices changed shifted to 6 minutes later.
This is not terrible, many people can adjust their schedule for traveling by the same time, but it's really unhandy. At the top and bottom of the hour was such a convenient time, and if coding caused it to be a bit later, this can be "coded away" too, we would assume.

But according to illidan - Light Moderator on .com - and probably one of the most friendly #help assistants you'll ever meet, this is not going to happen. "It will stay like this, cause this seems as solved in the system." he replied when we asked if they would 'solve' the timers. But when the problem was stated in a ticket, new Help desk member Ep said "Right now the prices of booze/narcs are bugged, and as you said, they change at :07 rather than :00 and :30. This is not supposed to be permanent and I can only hope that it gets sorted out as soon by the developers."

Over at Votes and Affiliates, some people did not receive bullets after voting, but instead a Omerta Super Lottery message in their inbox for every voting site they clicked. Not really a big deal, since those bullets are only freebies and not required to play the game, but many people feel they are in the right place to demand them - but admins have so far been unable to fix this issue. It has been fixed that people are not spammed by tons of messages anymore, which is halfway there.

More counters that not work were in the Achievements list, and the general Points and Position update, but it seems they too have shifted in time. From around 3.00 Omerta Time to, according to illidan, "at night 1-2 OT".

Some users also experienced a double pop up message when logging into Omerta, and then the links in their navigation bar turning black (just as the background). This is unfortunately a fault in Omerta Beyond. They give their users the advice to turn off Omerta's tooltips to get rid of the pop up messages, but they are still working on fixing the black text.


Update 25-1; The pricechange has been brought back to the old times, at the top and bottom of the hour, and - finally - a newspost has been released, stating that the system (it's unclear whether they are talking about a system of the prices themselves or one for the price-change-time) had been changed, and that this caused some problems. Problems that would have been normally fixed as soon as possible, but due to one or more developers being sick, this wasn't possible.

With this, all other timers seem more or less to be completely working again, but no explanation has been given yet why all of timer-Omerta was suddenly unstable when only a specific part of the code was changed. Or if all the timers one way or another relate to eachother (which would be a logical cause for all of them to act up if one would be dysfunctional.

Update 26-01: To no one's surprise, the timers are back to bad again, they update too late again. It is announced (updated) in the Latest News at Omerta.
Also, spot timers reset at 20.33 OT last night. And then started counting down 22 hours. It's not known if this is to make up for the delays over the past few days, or if it's just adjusted by an hour too much.

Spot Benefits System System 26-Jan @ 18:32:04
Spot Benefits System System 25-Jan @ 20:33:04
Spot Benefits System System 24-Jan @ 20:32:03

After the received benefits, the timers started counting down from 24 again.

There is a possibility that there are certain inaccuracies in this article. Feel free to point it out, and your finger at those who refuse to answer our questions. And thanks to those who did.

Update 26-1: The developers now announced that they know there has been an issue with Voting, but they blame the multiple messages received on add-ons (Beyond and sleepy). Logically, this is impossible, as these add-ons only open the windows for the users. Omerta then sends one message to the inbox. Even if you would usually use this "1 click voter" multiple times, you would not get additional messages. OB nor sleepy sends you messages - or *can* even do that, so the admins have no idea what is actually up with that.
The matter where users don't receive bullets and money also remains a mystery, Admins say it is a 'cronproblem' - whatever that may be.