Our federation is burning. Traders are afraid of bullets flying by from all different directions of the wind. Hospital reports showed that several traders became deaf by all the explosions they heard. The hospital reports show a correlation with the impressive amount in spent credits since trading period 200. Extra jails were build because the previous jails were not big enough. However at the front door of the jail a tremendous amount of free jail passes were sold. Over the last few trading periods, 3 traders decided to leave our federation: gelaarsdekat, crazyjumper and Plastic dame. Gelaarsdekat was trying to win the trading period 201. I firmly believe he would not have won anyway, although Gelaarsdekat stated he would have won. It would have been an interesting battle, but it never took place. Plastic dame was also on track to win, but got shot. In at least 2 of the last 3 rounds a contender for the top spot was shot and the results might have been different without shooting, and both traders left the federation. A massive amount of traders declared that they will shoot all upcoming winners for next trading periods, until there is a solution for this disgraceful shootings the federation is facing right now. Top traders are worried if they don’t know if this is fake news or that they have to believe this. At the moment all bullet proof vests and big backpacks are sold out. The question is, is there a solution that will stop players leaving the federation. The solution has not yet been found in the last 15 years. There are 3 important elements. The federation earns a lot of money from these shootings and explosions by all the bail passes they are selling. In the long term this will cause a lot of traders to move to Japan for safety reasons. The second element is that shooting is part of the federation and can be a lot of fun. Someone who wants to have a criminal career should have the chance to make a decent amount of money from it and have some fun. The third element is that some traders don’t like shooting. They support the gigantic movement to shoot all upcoming kings of the hill until there is a solution. What can this solution be. Of course, a way to invest in protecting yourself. Right now it is too easy to just blow up someone’s home while he is asleep and shoot him. If someone wants to be extremely safe, he or she should invest some I-shells in it, but maybe also invest some money in the federation shops. Why not selling some bigger backpacks that make it possible to wear 50, 100, 200, 500 or even a thousand bullet proof vests. Your level of safety should be a choice to invest in, just as it is a choice to invest in building skyscrapers, MV’s or bullet proof vests. This would make the federation more dynamic and gives an extra twist to the crime world.