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Thanks y'all for tagging me, besides the stuff I posted on my modpack so far I got some new stuff I could add server side as well. Here's a peek at it: Tops Tucked in T-shirts Tucked in tank tops Oversized sweatshirts MLB jerseys Flannel shirts Charlie Brown polos Bottoms Sagging shorts Baggy jeans for female (suspenders are optional) Accessories Prescription glasses Bandana around the neck Bracelets 59Fifty caps Hairstyles Ponytail Box braids LS county jail uniforms I got more WIP stuff besides the ones posted here. I'm also working on converting a lot of my male clothing mods to MP female.

Really awesome work by the whole team this month as you can see based on those statistics Canadian shared. Congratulations to everyone who was promoted and welcome to our new members.

Before I even start the suggestion itself, I would like to point out that yes, this suggestion is being written due to recent events, but also to point out that I am by no means involved with any of the parties involved in the case, I am merely seeing a big exploit here that I believe should be taken care of before it takes roots. Another note, this rule is using a very specific case because it is being written as response to such case, but this is merely a suggestion, not a attack or accusations against anyone involved. With that being said, in current case ‚‚Jacqueline Knight v. Gracelyn West'', due to injuries sustained from being shot, the injured party is rightfully asking for monetary sum as compensation for being shot, as well as lost money due to being absent from work, which again, is completely ‚‚fair'' and normal, HOWEVER, one of the things the injured party there is also claiming is hospital bills which are being completely NPC'd, which you can find posted below. This in itself already causes some issues. First, the costs put here were, per injured party's lawyer taken from some document stating that this is average cost of such surgery in US, in real life, however, Nervous himself said that GTA:W economy is unique, and as such each 1$ in real life would correspond to 10$ in GTA:W universe, which should, if we're following that rule put the costs of aforementioned surgery to shy above 1 million in GTA:w money. After that, we also have the issue that it is not specified if Jacqueline has already charited that money, which opens the possibility of whoever is making such claim to not actually /charity their money after sustaining the injury, instead waiting for conclusion of the case to see if it suits them to charity it or not. Another big issue here is that it was completely NPC'd, there was no RP involved during the surgery, absolutely nothing, zero, nada. I could see this making sense if the person actually goes through the process of surgery, but at this point it's just NPCing something and googling how much it costs without taking any additional risks to their character that could come as consequence of the said surgery. However, the biggest concern I have here, and the reason I am writing this in the first place is the fact that if this is allowed, this case will serve as precedent in all further interactions where people will use this as excuse to harm people they dislike to the maximum. The way it was, at least by now is that after sustaining injuries people only suffered RP wise (be that PK, RPing injury for some time, usually only a few days maximum) while the perpetrator also suffers mostly RP wise (being caught by police, retaliation, etc...), but this way, the injured person, or anyone who has suffered any type of damages (damage to their property, vehicle,...) could sue the perpetrator of the crime for draconian amount of money, he himself throwing down a random sum he found on the internet down the /charity knowing damn well that money will only go out of the other persons pocket. With all that being said, what I suggest here is either adding certain regulation that would CLEARLY define the costs of injuries/damages to property, or make coming up with such sums and /charity-ing it over NPC'd process with only purpose of harming the other person fall under powergaming rule.

Hi! So the title is pretty self-explanatory, but basically what I am asking to be implemented is more colour categories for vehicle customization. I recently got approved for a lease of a Windsor with the drop-top which for me defaulted in a red roof. In GTA: Online and GTA: Singleplayer there is an option to change roof colour which can be seen here: Right now, I am limited to either work with the red for my colour choice or to have my roof down every time I drive the car. And here is a video I faffed around with for fun: Thank you for coming to my ted talks.

I'd have loved to RP it.. if they had arrested me and not deathmatched me. Hard to bring RP out of it when my character was murdered over it, ending any avenue of RP. I see people are complaining that this could have brought great RP: Umm.. it happened almost three weeks ago and nothing came of it? You're pulling this bullshit out of your ass. Also how does disallowing random deathmatching take away from LEO RP exactly? Literally nothing came of this. There was no RP or development gained for either side, and I really don't think that LEO RPers being held accountable for rulebreaking is 'hindering RP' - if you believe that.. consider going somewhere else? People always like to pull the excuse 'it happens IRL' -- okay, cool, so I can play a serial killer? A pedophile? A terrorist? If I go into a club and murder people (like the nightclub attack in 2016) and claim it was IC reasoning do you think that would fly? Hell no! I'd go the way of RexSmithy, people seriously want a double standard here and it's fucking ridiculous. On a roleplay server PK's and Character Kills should ALWAYS be a last resort since they can pretty much be considered to be the 'end' of a story and using them prematurely hinders roleplay it does not foster it. Know what would have fostered RP? My character being taken down non-lethally and getting a record; allowing for a relationship to be built with the arresting officers.. instead that did not happen.. because they executed my character for a flimsy reason and nothing was allowed to come of it further. The other person in the car (Reina) is not going to RP their best friend getting murdered infront of their eyes for a PK, it would literally make no sense. The entire situation was ridiculous from start to finish; and at the end of the day no matter how "realistic" you want to get (which on this server is usually just a means to murder people for some reason) this is NOT REAL LIFE. In real life, my character would NOT be coming back: there would likely be pedestrians on the street RECORDING THE INCIDENT and in this era of anti-police protests and civil unrest people might actually care - but here's the kicker; this is a ROLEPLAY SERVER hindered by it's playerbase. I don't know if you noticed but the streets are empty 99% of the time which isn't really indicative of a city supposed to replicate Los Angeles, phones don't have that kind of functionality on here! Frankly you can take your whining and shove it. Nothing came of this, so stop pretending that something COULD HAVE - what, when? In the future? A month from now? A year from now? Plenty of time was given for this magical stellar RP that all you people who have had nothing to do with the situation keep complaining about - yet.. where is it? Nothing happened. It was a completely pointless case of deathmatching - if you want to RP something like that do it yourself? Don't pretend that my case of being deathmatched for no reason was somehow the apex of roleplay when all it was was a stupid situation in which someone broke the rules and tried to hide behind their whitelist to get out of it. Thanks. edit: I'm also not going to RP magically survivng getting shot in the neck, it's stupid. If you're going to shoot someone with the intention to kill then be prepared to deal with the consequences when that person actually fucking dies from their injuries? I keep it IC and I try my best to keep it realistic, if my character is shot I'm not going to cheat the damage system into somehow magically surviving a situation. Why would you shoot someone more than once with the intention to kill and then complain when they RP dying?

Daniel Abramsky, MD. (born 18 November 1976) is a Jewish-American psychiatrist and current manager of the Eclipse Pharmacy and Clinic. Daniel was born in Brooklyn, New York to lawyer parents. He is the oldest of three brothers. The Abramsky family had fled from Russia during the anti-jewish pogroms of 1881-84. Along with millions of other Russian born Jews, they settled in New York and quickly worked to prominence in business selling old world goods, as the Ashkenazi culture flourished in particular in the Brooklyn area. Following the success of their ancestors business prowess, the Abramsky family eventually ran into trouble with the law, with Daniel's uncle and grandfather on his father's side both being convicted of tax fraud and accused of other white collar crimes. While Daniel and his parents themselves have no major infractions on their record, and are still practicing lawyers, they have been publicly criticized for taking on clients with dubious reputations and not distancing themselves from their convicted relatives. Being from an upper class family, Daniel attended private schools his entire adolescence and was admitted to Columbia University in 1993, graduating with a B.Sc in psychology in 1997. Daniel attended medical school at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, from which he gained his MD in 2001. Daniel pursued his passion of psychiatry with a residency from Columbia Department of Psychiatry at the New York State Psychiatric Institute until 2006 when he received his U.S. Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) and board certification from the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN). Following this, Daniel took a fellowship at Columbia University to achieve a certification in forensic psychiatry. Allegedly motivated by his family's run-ins with the law, Daniel's interest in dealing with the state of mind and mental health of inmates in U.S correctional facilities grew massively during this time. Abramsky found work in the Five Points Correctional Facility, where he worked for 6 years from 2007-2013, treating and studying the inmates. The next five years until the end of 2018, Daniel worked on the other side of the country in Washington state at the Monroe Correctional Complex, with their max security inmates. During this period, Daniel's youngest brother was incarcerated in San Andreas on charges relating to financial crime. Following his brother's incarceration, Daniel has once again moved state to Los Santos where he found work managing the previously dormant Eclipse Pharmacy and Clinic. Daniel married his high school sweetheart, Hannah Epstein in the spring of 2009. The pair had two children during their marriage, before separating in 2013 and settling the divorce in 2014. Following the divorce, Daniel moved across the country to Washington state, where he lived for five years, before moving to Los Santos, San Andreas in 2019, the same city where his youngest brother is currently incarcerated for white collar crime. Daniel has also stated "a wish for more independent work" and a chance to work with the unusually high percentage of criminals in the state as reasons for moving.

I wanted to go above the usual 'screenshots + text' for my latest muse. More to come. Enjoy. Yael Ackerman A kid growing up a lot sooner than she has any right to.

First off, I can understand why there's OOC restrictions in place for PF licenses. People may use it to go robbing random people in the middle of the day, or they might be some rich guy with a fast car who, after selling their bar, decides they want to become a criminal. This type of RP is poor portrayal of a character, and should be reported to the admin team. But restricting a player from participating in ANY illegal RP if they have a PF/CCW is far from fair. I'd go as far and say this quote from the Licensing Desk on the PD forums, "" is admin approved metagaming. If somebody properly portrays a character and can show that they have developed their way into the illegal side of RP, then them having a PF/CCW should be considered an IC issue, and handled IC. Becoming an illegal sided character with a PF/CCW should be treated the same way as an LEO who wants corruption perms. They need to provide good reasoning and explanation as to why their character should be given a PF license when they intend to do criminal RP in the future. As these players aren't in an LEO faction, I'm suggesting that this application should go towards the admin team, not the LSPD, though it makes no difference. This being said, there should still be heavy restrictions and rules on this application towards Criminal RP as a PF holder. These restrictions should dissuade people from applying for the illegal PF/CCW holder just to sell/rob with their firearms, and promote those who wish to seem legitimate. The PF holder should be their main character. They can't have a PF/CCW license on another character (LEOs included). If they're caught IC, the character should be blacklisted forever and the account should blacklisted for 3-6 months. All existing rules should still stay in place regarding characters who only use the PF/CCW to be robbed/sell to existing factions. The player should showcase major development as to why their characters are committing crimes whilst owning a PF. These applications need to be kept private as to avoid metagaming. In my honest opinion, I see this as promoting RP for those who wish to be more lowkey with their criminal activity, where they spend days and weeks planning out robberies, murders and other seedy activity. Having an avenue, (which is realistic, as there are criminals with firearms licenses, they just haven't been caught), for players with the intent to provide long lasting criminal RP is the reason why I'm creating this discussion, I'd love to hear other people's opinions and suggestions on how to improve on it.

Overview The South Central Network is a semi-organized drug trafficking organization based in the city of Los Santos. It is mainly made up of older-generation African Americans who evolved from local street gangs and adapted their techniques and strategies upon experiencing the generational changes in the drug-trade, straying from their individual gang backgrounds to create something more organized. Everything is strictly systematized, with a hierarchy and structure imposed. The South Central Network takes advantage of the absence of structure and hierarchy amongst african american gangs, and they benefit from this lack of structure or leadership to use smaller gangs in the South Los Santos area as muscle and distribution. OOC Information The faction aims to depict an organization that focuses in narcotics trafficking in South LS. If you are interested in becoming a part of the faction, you are expected to join through purely IC means, metagaming will not be tolerated. Although our faction takes heavy inspiration from real-life events and organizations, the faction's development is going to be completely in-character and the faction will be fictional based on whatever happens in-character, with the progression showcased both IC and on the thread. Our main goal is to have a natural developmental stage, so however the faction develops all depends on what happens in-character. If there are questions about the faction, you can direct it towards @Sqreix or @Shekh. The faction has a discord server for all faction members. However, we will only send an invite once we deem that you will be active enough to be with us. Upon joining the faction, you agree to a character-kill if the faction leadership deems it necessary.

Hello everyone! June has been a very strong month for the server overall. Although there has been a very slight decrease in players due to re-openings across the world, we are still very proud of the activity we've seen. This month we peaked at 624 players online at one time. The server averaged 304.75 players throughout the month at all times. As for applications, we received 2,070 with a 29.46% acceptance rate. That means that we had 610 new players join the community. With this slight decrease in new waves of players, we will have the opportunity to re-focus on quality of current players instead of having to manage a huge wave of new players, and we hope to have a calm summer to keep increasing the quality of the community for everyone. Those who are new to the community, welcome! We hope that you enjoy your time here. We've had quite a large workload on our administrative team this month with a total of 19624 reports being submitted in the month alone, with an average of 701 reports being submitted a day. We are promoting a large number of admins so that we can help combat the large amount of reports we're receiving and so that there will be faster response times for reports. As well, we've had a few changes within Staff Management. I will be leaving Head of Support and passing it off to @FearnR with @Groz as Assistant Head of Support. With me stepping out of Head of Support, I'll be filling in as Assistant Head of Admins. I have full confidence in FearnR and Groz and wish them the best of luck in their new roles! Another notable event that we had this month was the use of clips recorded on GTA:W for a Kanye West video! Check it out here: Our team is looking forward to July and hope that you all are as well. We wish everyone luck if they're returning to work, school, etc. To conclude, I'd like to congratulate those who are promoted and welcome the new Support members to the team! FullyCanadian Admin Promotions Game Administrator Level 3 to Game Administrator Level 4 @FullyCanadian (Assistant Head of Admins) Game Administrator Level 2 to Game Administrator Level 3 @FearnR (Head of Support) @Bombie (Head of Property Requests) @lambchops (Head of Roleplay Quality Management) Game Administrator Level 1 to Game Administrator Level 2 @Cheeezy Trial Administrator to Game Administrator Level 1 @Chey @Sharvit @Shanks Senior Support to Trial Administrator @Enko @Dios @Odin @Truffle Support to Senior Support @nateX @HaveADream @Bash @Wirbelwind @Perky New Support Team Members @Phz @Invictus @Chiky If you were placed on reserved, you will be contacted with feedback. Otherwise, if you applied for the staff team and your name is not on this list, you have unfortunately been denied. You may contact @FearnR for feedback and the denial reason. Any denied applicants this month may not reapply until the staff applications open again in August for the staff update in September 2020.

I gotta tell my parents about this

Congratulations everyone, especially @Shanks, @Invictus and @HaveADream. Make everyone proud.

My take on it is: Have only lore brands in-game as visuals, but feel free to roleplay what you please. It is way more convenient this way in my opinion. And, honestly, most of the mods look kind of subpar...

I think this would make a good addition. However it would need to be done for only Taxi Companies, not just anyone to install a meter - it has to be an approved taxi company (Integrity Transport, Habeebs etc etc.)

Last time I done a search, there's no US state that offers free medical care, this is unrealistic if this will be imposed. People need to face consequences for IC actions.

RIP Flaco

But you're using examples that seem rather specific to LCN factions, especially with the waste management and stereotypical Italian names you mentioned earlier. But okay. I never downright disagreed with this point, but I also don't think you've even bothered to read the responses I put up earlier on the thread where I said the server lacks an environment to mimic the actual extortion that exists in LA. At least we can agree with one thing. It is sad because the tools to solve your problem are available to you, yet you don't use them. Not just yourself specifically, but many roleplayers in all points of the spectrum. It's not your responsibility to police but it is your responsibility to report rule breaking and poor portrayal, allowing it to exist without formally bringing it to the attention of administration is really no better than exhibiting the behavior yourself. The admin team has said on several occasions it is reactive, not proactive. Unless you show them something to their face (or eyes I guess in our virtual case) they won't be able to handle it appropriately. I, like yourself, have very limited time to roleplay. 8 hours in a week would be an active one for me. I agree with wanting to tell an engaging story with my roleplay. That's the point. Those that aren't here to play a believable character, break immersion and commit unrealistic acts ICly are not here to roleplay in my eyes and shouldn't be here. Wow, what assumptions you've made. I wasn't insinuating that I was "ultimate" or a "shining example" I'm saying that I believe in the actions of the GOOD factions which I don't feel deserve to be slandered by your overly inclusive statement that somehow it's the majority that are bad. I am happy in the small group of roleplayers I have within my faction and I stand by them and their roleplay. Myself, however? I'm probably my own biggest critic. Not the right type of noise, because it's informal and I doubt the administration will do anything unless it's in a PM as a report to management or in the report section itself. Again, because it will bring it to the administration's attention in the proper format and hopefully inspire the change you want to see. At this point, you're being about as proactive as a group of old men who gather at the local gas station to complain about how shitty politics are yet they avoid the poll stations on election day like the plague. I could not agree more.

Yeah, that's cool and all, but if a civilian would have done that, with the same RP as the cop had, the civilian would have been Ajailed or even banned.

As a faction leader, I'm personally concerned that this was completely reversed and management had to get involved. A lot of roleplay could of been created from this and corruption can continue. While yes, it can continue, it cannot run like this. Corruption happens, mistakes happen, mistakes can get people killed. But thats the point of roleplay, no-one is perfect, no-one in SD, PD, FD is perfect and is above the law, but it seems that roleplay must be voided and possibly hours of time spent looking into things is completely gone out the window. Our work funnily enough works on police corruption, and that went out the window with this new ruling, and a upcoming project has now been scrapped, due to this. I think the amount of roleplay created from this could of been huge, and would of been very interesting to look into. But in the end, its a fine balance between server rules, internal faction guidelines, and IC actions. No cop should have a shield from rule breaking, and in this incident, they seem to have a valid reasoning behind it, but in the end, its managements decision and I'll respect that. I'm disappointed but rules are rules, being a LEO doesn't make you the holy shield. But thank you for the shoutout, it means a lot. @Leemabean

Yikes, your cup of ACAB is overflowing there bud. You probably were about to be arrested for this or put on a investigative hold. You shot a dude you were unsure was armed ICly, realistically a lot of states have this thing called "Duty to Retreat" which means CCW holders and even those defending their property must retreat up until it is either life or death and you have nowhere left to run, unsure of if the server has it in the penal code as well as SHAFT. Many a CCW holders in the USA get shafted because they say the wrong thing.

I feel that especially recently the community in some regards has been split on a stupid boundary of legal vs illegal role play. These titles are ridiculous and only create division where there needs to be none. The terms legal and illegal are something you’d find in an RPG and are honestly not suitable for this server. This server is supposed to represent real life and realistic characters. In the real world people aren’t strictly separated by terms like legal and illegal. the world has many more grey areas and people simply can not fall into these two categories. Someone can commit a minor crime such as doing some drugs recreationally, speeding when they think no one is watching, getting into scraps the list goes on and on. These acts don’t make people career criminals. The onus I feel is on a lot of the “legal” role players to realise and understand that there’s a difference between committing a crime and being a career criminal, I think the server would greatly benefit from more “legal” role players who realise this and incorporate it into their characters. I’d love to see normally upstanding civilians getting cosy with career criminals and partaking in things like gambling, buying illegal substances, using illegal items (think buying fake ids etc.) If we get rid of this two way system I ho early feel we’d have a more united community, one that isn’t seemingly pitched against each other. One that doesn’t blame all criminals RPers when they have a bad encounter. Would love you hear what you guys think.

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Branded clothing is fine. 85% of the server roleplays IRL brands, comparing them to vehicles makes no sense. You might aswell say a combat should be rped as a combat at that stage.

This comment is going to age well.

Support.

This is your problem. What do you expect to happen at this point when you go that route? You think the associated members would just let you off the hook if you shoot at them and/or kill one of them? If you are a legal business owner, you think going head to head with a mob is a good idea? Come on now. I do agree that the situation favors the criminal group and I don’t think a CK should be approved so easily because honestly if the mobs are killing everyone, who’s going to pay them? There should be some more expansive rules on when damage is done to a property, how long they must wait before reopening. The damages must be RP’ly fixed, etc. I think this would help balance out the issue towards the right direction. I’ve seen this abused where they just open the next day like nothing happened. That’s not right either.

Extortion does not happen in any way remotely similar to what is portrayed in-game. Rather than criminal roleplayers taking it upon themselves to realistically come up with more creative ways to be criminals, they're devolving to unrealistic stereotypes and abusing the nature of the game world in a way that has their characters ignoring what would be highly consequential in the real world. All modern American businesses are incredibly difficult to extort, especially in a major city like Los Angeles fielding one of the largest metropolitan police departments in the entire world. Extortion in today's day and age creates immense amount of evidence and threats against body and property are taken very seriously in the eyes of the law. A camera feed showing someone coming into your business and simply demanding that you pay money for protection is enough to involve the FBI because the US's legal system is cleverly designed to intentionally make this a federal crime rather than a local one. It is 100% a lack of creativity and failing in illegal RP when roleplayers fail to come up with more interesting or unique ways to develop their characters besides incredibly unrealistic portrayal of their characters being mindless murder machines with no fear of legal repercussion. I claim that extortion is too much of a risk for criminals in real life and my point is exactly that the criminal roleplayers on GTA:W are abusing the fact that OOC limitations on the police's ability to effectively deal with the bandwidth of creating 30-page reports for every investigation of extortion to field a meaningful arrest to extort more. The reason people who are extorting aren't being arrested is because our server is not currently equipped to deal with criminal roleplayers doing this extortion in a realistic way, and criminal RPers are having a field day and doing this incredibly lazy and boring roleplay to farm money. I challenge you this: How would you feel if the server just made it so all crimes have their sentences increased substantially to reflect higher consequences? Does that seem like fun to you? Would that change the way you roleplayed if now your character will end up in prison for a week just for threatening someone? What about if it meant your character ended up in prison for two IRL months for kidnapping? What about six IRL months for shooting someone? Suddenly those IC consequences seem like a lot more of a reason to RP realistically. This is a really convenient argument people lean on, but the fact of the matter is that we're a bunch of OOC human beings playing this game and together building a representation of our real world using our OOC community and trying to make things OOCly fun for everyone. Roleplay should be fun, and it should be interesting. Hiding behind "this is an IC problem, deal with it IC" is an asinine mantra when there currently exists no IC solution, and the current OOC construct of the server places 95% of the consequences on the victims of the RP and only a measly 5% on the perpetrators of it. Right now "deal with it IC" literally only benefits criminal roleplayers and is a complete net detriment to legal RPers. The reason we even have an Illegal Faction Management team and an RP Quality Management team is to prevent awful roleplay like this OOCly from affecting our IC space. The amounts of money are inconsequential if the roleplay is fundamentally flawed. But the fact of the matter is we have an example of legal roleplayers who roleplayed eagerly along with the extortion. They agreed to pay the mobsters extorting them 3k a week. Then the next day the mobsters told them they're upping it to 10k a week. Then, another group of mobsters came by and demanded another 20k a week. Even though these guys paid all these guys off, they still found a reason to be upset ICly and literally CKed one of them (after already having kidnapped him and broken his leg ICly before). What these factions are doing right now is bullying people and making the game less fun for the human beings OOCly controlling these characters, dominating their RP and turning it into a misery for them such that it's easier for them to literally CK their own characters and play someone new than deal with it further. That is making this server a more toxic place to play. The economy of this server is a mess. But as long as the economy of the server gets people to roleplay, it's working. The economy encourages people to get out there and RP service roles. That is a win for me. We have so many legal roleplayers on this server because of the economy being how it is. It's far from perfect, lots of stuff about it is really stupid. And there are dozens of threads where people are arguing about these issues. In this thread, we're arguing about the highly unrealistic extortion roleplay which has no place in a modern representation of 2020 Los Angeles. We're debating the unreasonable degree to which criminal roleplayers are able to force IC consequences on legal roleplayers, and how few consequences they themselves risk in return. We're discussing how toxic this is to people and how this makes the game markedly less fun for people who are contributing to GTA:W's world being more realistic, vibrant, and interesting to RP in.

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