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The Rancho Housing Projects is an area located in the South-Eastern part of Los Santos, made up of mostly African-American and Hispanic residents. The term Grapetown was coined for the projects due to a majority of the residents during the 1950s and 1960s working at the Shackleford Grape Juice factory. With renovations in the 1980s leaving the project’s buildings purple, the nickname Grapetown remained for the projects. Originally the projects were controlled by Varrio Rancho Grape but soon after the gang split into two, the South Side Varrio Grape 13 gang and the Grapetown Crip gang which both ended up splitting the Rancho Housing Projects area. Even with a split in the area between two gangs, the two gangs claiming the Grape function worked closely side by side in their everyday hustle. Even with some internal conflict breaking out from time to time, the long term bond between the two gangs held them together as problems were resolved internally and attention was focused back on making money and keeping the Grapetown Projects as a stronghold for the two gangs. Both gangs within the Rancho Housing Projects have been credited by the Los Santos Police Department to be involved in numerous forms of criminal activity. Varying from home invasions, drug distribution, and the extortion of both legal and illegal businesses within the area. The Southside Varrio Grape 13, which operates as the Flat Lokos and Tiny Wynos cliques is known for the extortion of competitive drug dealers and collecting protection money from local businesses by using the threat of burglary against them. While the cliques earn a steady cash flow through the use of extortion, they continue to move drugs throughout the area. The Grapetown Crip cliques within the area, the Dust Town Grape Crips, and the Rancho Baby Locs; while making some income off of extortion like their Mexican-American counterparts, are more known for the distribution of narcotics and home invasions. In more recent times, the gang has been said to have a more increased interest in the illegal distribution of pharmaceuticals. This faction intends to portray the south-central gang scene whilst also attempting to emulate a realistic and plausible culture within the community. This faction wishes to cooperate with and work to enhance the experience of existing groups in order to provide a good roleplay experience for players on the server. Individuals taking part in direct roleplay with these faction characters are expected to accept the consequences of their actions, especially those that result in a legitimate CK. Portrayal remains our utmost priority and individuals will be expected to maintain a high standard of roleplay whether they're a permanent member of this faction or just a passer-by- play your character intelligently and most of all realistically and you won't have any complaints. For any inquiries or a request to join the Discord server, PM @arkan on the forums directly.

Short description: Remove the automatic /me upon /take (weapon ID) from law enforcement. Detailed description: Remove the automatic action output into the chat and change it to get an OOC notification that you retrieved a specific weapon. The person then still has to roleplay taking his weapon from the trunk, gun rack or wherever it is stored. One could argue that it's also asspulling, considering you just write a small command and the rest is done for you already. While I can understand that sometimes people have to take action in the heat of the moment, people should also take the time to roleplay this properly and not just use the command and run to the fight. Commands to add: None. Items to add: None. How would your suggestion improve the server? It would bring more roleplay in people retrieving firearms from a vehicle, removes an automatic /me that does the roleplay for you. Less asspulling situations. Additional information: Upon doing /take and /place from a vehicle, this is the automatic output it gives.

The title says it all. Just make it possible to unlock the phone with the keyboard AKA numpad and not just by clicking on the mouse. I find this easier and much less annoying from clicking the code down. Support if you think this should be in-game.

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Characters with flaws such as anxiety or lack of social skills, technically a character that’s created to lose. I never realised how much fun it actually is to develop their growth as a person whilst caught in the struggle of being taken advantage of.

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totally not a copy of smokey Howdy, I speak as the leader of one of two major clinics on the Server (Infinity Medical). We currently have a team of 23 members and we open on a mix of daily or every other day at around 6-10 pm time. With our new interior launching soon, which will provide RP and facilities more akin to a hospital, we want to take this time to reach out to the community to answer questions. The medical scene has been rapidly expanding since around Feb this year. We operate within the laws, but away from the LSFD. I hope also that Hope Clinic will be able to answer questions relating to their practice as they make up the other half of the sector's roleplay. -Mecovy,

Short description: Making Riding Great Again Detailed description: Once upon a time, when the /sp and cruiser control system was first implemented, it was allowed to be used on motorcycles for a short time like a month(?) and it was pretty pleasant for me as someone who is rping a biker. The speedlimiter was a great help at riding in a formation with other bikers and it saved us from fingering our W keys constantly to keep riding steady on a low speed like 30 mph. Even though the cruise control had some bugs, it allowed us to both ride and talk with passengers while riding on easy roads like highways. Commands to add: N/A Items to add: N/A How would your suggestion improve the server? : It would totally be helpful for people whose characters are riding motorcycles, making it possible for us to both ride and roleplay at the same time, also saving us the need of hitting our W button rapidly to keep going on a low speed. Additional information: I've seen another suggestion topic belonging to @nik707 but I don't think they are the same since mine also includes the speedlimiter.

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First. Equality =/= Fairness. You can bring fairness in regards to roleplay standards between all areas of the server but when it comes to advantages and disadvantages and removing them to gain equality, that is just not really feasible. Someone is always going to be at an advantage or disadvantage, that's just life, however, MINIMIZING how big or small that advantage of disadvantage is, should be what we look for, rather than trying to create complete equality. Police are always going to be at an advantage over criminal elements in certain areas, that's just realistic. It's the same thing with any competitive game for people who will attempt to use the "It's just a game bro" argument. In some games, a map might be defender/attacker sided or one character is always just going to be broken because they're hard to balance. If anyone really wants to talk about equality or fairness, just like in real life, 2nd amendment loving civilians should be allowed to own rifles in character but that is straying from the point. Anyway moving to the topic of hand, should the /me be removed? Yes. There's a reason we roleplay on a roleplay server. Does it create fairness between LEOs and criminals? No, it's just a roleplay standard increase for LEOs because it forces people to react to situations differently. Should the functionality of the command be removed? No. LEO factions do not use the same inventory space to hold guns like other people do, removing the functionality is not ideal until an armory/loadout system is created to supplement stocking out vehicles with equipment uniquely. This should also include adding the functionality to actually remove guns from the trunk. So no for those who are pioneering for it, /take for criminals doesn't make sense because your gun is an actual physical item in your inventory where as Police equipment is not. Will this decrease the amount of ass pulling? Debatable topic. All I think this will do is make people respond to situations with their rifles pre-prepped. While this may stop people from jumping out with rifles (which they really shouldn't be doing for people with pistols anyway) ,the moment they are shot. It won't decrease the complaint of Officers jumping out of vehicles with them. In the same vein, this won't decrease the amount of criminals that I've seen in the past two years of being an LEO rper on the server, where they hop out three-four deep with just a /me hops out, /me hits a lick on X, /me steps out and shoots or more commonly, with no /me at all. It varies so much with who you interact with. Scrolling is subjective to most people and for some, they feel you must /me stepping out of vehicles with large weapons where as some people feel like a /me in the car, regardless of whether the other party sees it or not is also enough. The rules are vague in that regard. Thus I'd argue that criminal elements of the server have this element as an advantage. They can quickly obliterate a single police unit with a high powered weapon before they have time to really react and the only "fairness" is if they choose to do roleplay to tip off that this action may occur or that large weapons are actually in play. --- Overall. The suggestion which should of probably been brought up to the faction leaders since it really only affects two factions and not necessarily the server as a whole (and people who are STAFF Officers or Executive Staff are the ones who will have to inform and enforce changes like these), is a good one. I support it's implementation under the pretense that it only removes /me and not the actual functionality of the command. I don't really think this will create some form of equality or fairness really. I don't think this will bridge the gap between LEOs and criminals and sudden;y make it an even playing field for everyone. All I think this will do is, increase the roleplay standards of LEOs in regards to their approach to shootouts and enforce a level of fear into them rather than hehe ecks dee, rifle go brrr.

Armenian RP. But in all seriousness, Good personal character development RP and the factions that encourage it are seriously overlooked. I've been hearing about @The Dirty Duke's character for months now and finally met him the other night. I've been hearing about his character IN CHARACTER because hes developed a name for himself outside his own faction through good personal development. I've seen a lot of characters who will have outstanding development internally but when interacting with outsiders or other factions they act like a crime doing robot with little to no personality or free will. That's how you get lumped together as those dudes or that guy. Humans are social by nature, you should try to be social with some of the people who your faction does business with, even if your not the leader.

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That's the point?? Not everything is about advantages. We shouldn't be given the luxury of automated /me's when criminals do not have the same. If you can't take 4 seconds to write a basic /me removing your gun from your gunrack then you should question your priorities— it's a roleplay server. I'm all for this change.

Why not just limit the amount of ads (/bad and /cad included) that can be pushed by adding, for example, a 20 minute timer between them so every time you try to push an ad but the timer hasn't expired, it'd give you an error as well as the time left until you can push another one? The current system isn't that bad, but it's flawed. It's super hard to get a /bad or /cad pushed during peak times when there are multiple businesses open and all of them legitimately wanting to advertise them. I literally have to stop roleplaying so I can focus 30 or so seconds to spam /bad or /cad and I'm sure I'm not the only one who does that.

Update 1.8.4b Additions Injured or dead message will now appear above someone's head when injured or dead /phone message about F2 / F4 will now appear only once Changes Adjusted insurance prices following vehicle classes fix: Regular insurance price : 2% of the vehicle price per month If your vehicle price is > $100,000 : additionnal 3% is added OR if your vehicle is a sport class vehicle : additionnal 8% of the vehicle price per month Example : A Neon cost $490,000, your insurance will be 10% thus $49,000 per month /ame and the typing indicator will now change size depending on how far you are from someone, this prevents your chat being full of big /ame messages when you're far away from someone. Fixes Injured and dead animations should now be properly synced. /acceptdeath is now properly requiring at least 2 minutes before it can be used

Feature Showcase: Animation Wheel Introduction We have over 500 animations in GTA World that you can use to enchant your roleplay. Many times players have asked for some kind of favorite animations option so they can quickly navigate to their favorite animations. Thanks to @Doakes this is now possible, he made a great CEF based animation wheel which allows you to have a quick access menu for 10 animations, which you can edit by pressing the pencil icon at an animation. Video

Short description: Manual implementation of the insurance percentage multiplier Detailed description: With todays (1st of May) game update, there have been changes to the insurance system and percentage modifiers added to every vehicle in the sports class of 8%. This is wrong, this is bad and this punishes players who own low-tier cars purely because Rockstar has tiered both high and low end cars within the same sports class. Why is it that a Penumbra or a Blista or a Futo should slapped with the same 8% additional cost just because they're in the same game coded class as the Pariah, Paragon or Neon? Additional costs should not be thrown upon players that do not own high end items. It's bad. The solution should be to take that same $100,000 value 3% increase and only if a vehicle meets that requirement, should the additional 8% Sports class increase be applied. Commands to add: N/A Items to add: N/A How would your suggestion improve the server? Doesn't punish players who do own low-tier cars Additional information: Here is a list of all the 'Sports' class vehicles in the game. There's a lot of variation of value in here, yet ALL of them are slapped with an increase.

I remember this back from launch of GTA:W! I'm happy to see you guys are still chugging strong, given you guys provided interesting RP I didn't think I'd find years back. Good hustle!

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I'm not part of the Los Santos Police Department, I'm part of the Los Santos Sheriff's Department. I've been involved in multiple shootings, and I know that not everyone has access to an arsenal of guns — however this does not justify your argument. Police factions are the most advantageous on the server, there must be fairness — we win 90% of situations, and we should give them the 10% for the sake of health and enjoyment.

Currently this entails greater clinic capacity, a very small emergency unit with three beds, therapy area's, testing facilities, psych clinic and full janitors staff which make a hospital a hospital. Hopefully eventually there will be a plan to officially be a hospital, which would focus on the aftercare of FD patients. But I feel this is a bit of a far step for now.

When we got back to the car another light bulb went off in my head: It would be another kicker to place one of our recruitment bumper stickers on their rear bumper. The Sheriff’s Department had a recruitment campaign for Deputy Sheriffs. Each station was given a bunch of light green bumper stickers with the words “Be A Deputy Sheriff”, the sheriff’s star, and the main phone number. The objective was to place them on our radio cars and also could be given away as public relations to businesses etc. in the area. Being public relations conscious as I was – yeah, right – I went back to their car and placed one right smack in the centre of the rear bumper. That should get a rise out of someone back at their station.