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It will definitely effect it. But I would rather work and improve GTMP as It is our blocking point atm. And If Julice gets his hands on the mod, It's most likely the end of GTAW on GTMP.

''Cousin''

I personally feel as though there should be more Vespucci houses, however biggest problem right know is that the demand for Vespucci houses is just too high and numerous players are exploiting that. The problem with continue whether or not the houses are not added or if they are added in piecemeal way. What really needs to happen is something that prevents or disincentivize players from being able to hoard the houses and there are numerous strategies that could be used to enable this: 1) I have discussed on another thread potentially having the remainder of houses in Vespucci could be applied for on the forums. 2) There is also the idea to weaken the incentive to buy houses as investments by reducing the sell back to market function to somewhere between 60% - 90% as players are no longer making risk-free investements and may hesistate rather than snapping up properties like vultures. In the past I've not really been keen on this idea, but seeing as how the server population is both growing and how players beginning to hoard assets this could be a way to combat this, although last time it was discussed I remember it not being that popular. 3) There could be a tax levied against the profits players make from selling houses which means that hoarding houses or buying them as investment opportunities becomes simply pointless. This might not be popular with people who are really into the virtual currency; however, it's harming the server's roleplay as people want to be able to RP in a new popular area without paying for a house with a jacked up price. Until the supply massively outweights the demand, this could be a viable strategy. 4) In a similar vein, capping the resale price of the house, as @Ingram mentioned here may also be a way to lessen the impact that people reselling property has. While this could be a good solution, part of me is concerned with how this may need to scale up with the server's inflation over time if it is tied to the house's baseprice. 5) The final option that I believe could be implemented is simply defeating the demand through massively increasing supply. Simply, add enough houses or apartments within the area to mean that if someone wants to sell their home, they would need to offer a fair price or else the buyer will simply go to an unowned house and buy it. There are a few low class houses still available but I think many people are avoiding these through IC fear of Vespucci 13, which is good to see. However, there's quite a lot of houses within the area that haven't been added away from the gang area and that are mid-high end. Furthermore, if buildings such as these were added with many apartments inside you'd be able to kill the demand and allow players to live in the Vespucci area where the hotspot is without there being fears of the new houses being snapped up: Ultimately, I think that there needs to be more houses being added to the Vespucci area; however, there needs to be a way to ensure that these aren't all bought up within minutes and being sold the next day for profit and have outlined several ways that this could be achieved. I personally feel as though option five is possibly the best, as it wouldn't have a long term impact on the server and as it's likely the playerbase will grow over the summer and the existing playerbase will get richer due to a lot of players having more freetime over the summer, it would be best to see what developments occur to the market over the summer before a long-term solution is worked on as the nature of the property market may change signficantly in the coming months. TL;DR for the time being, I feel it would be best to oversaturate the Vespucci, and possibly surrounding areas, with lots of houses to allow players to buy houses within the new hot spot and prevent players from being able to buy up the houses to flip as the supply will outstrip the demand.

Looks really good.

Apparently you’ve only been a player and never built something. When you’ve put passion in something as much as Nervous and his team has, it is more of protecting the investment, and his people. Money is only an object. You can get it back, but you cannot get time back.

No from me. We already added a lot of houses in Vespucci and half of them were for sale the next day. If you want one, try to buy from another player. But I don't see any reason to add more. 1. If we add more, people will once again gather around the houses to buy it quickly and sell the next day(0 rp). If you have RP reason to own a house there, contact others. 2. There's already a lot of houses in Vespucci, plus players are selling them all the time. 3. Houses were added in Vespucci because some of the other houses not owned by the players were removed(for example vinewood), so we removed some houses and added as many in Vespucci since people asked for it. Some of low end houses are not sold(probably because they don't get as much profit when re-selling), no need to add more.

Identity: First name: Freweini (Erythrean origin, means Seed of a Berry) Last name: Torrente Nicknames: Fre, Mermaid Date of birth: 31st May 1991 (26 years old) Place of birth: Marin General Hospital, 250 Bon Air Rd, Greenbrae, CA, USA Nationality: US Citizen, by birth right Current address: 605 Cascabel Avenue, Paleto Bay, San Andreas, USA Previous address: 1036 Bridgeway, Sausalito, CA, USA Grandparents father’s side: Merhawi Torrente (grandfather; first generation migrant born in Massawa, Eritrea; sailor and fisherman) Birikti Afewerki, spouse Torrente (grandmother; born in Massawa, Eritrea; drowned in Mediterranean Sea when ship sunk, leaving Merhawi with his six years old son; housewife) Grandparents mother’s side: James Willams (Grandfather; Afro-American, born in San Francisco; sailor and fisherman) Josephine McCarthy, spouse Williams (grandmother, Afro-American, born in Oakland, housewife) Parents: Dahlak Torrente (Father; second generation migrant; born in San Francisco, USA; delivery driver) Janyce Williams, spouse Torrente (Mother; Afro-American, born in San Francisco, USA; housewife) Siblings: Only child Husband: None Children: Fnan Torrente (daughter; born on December 25th, 2016, in Marin General Hospital, CA, USA, unknown father; died on April 12th, 2018, in Marin General Hospital, CA, USA) Email: [email protected] Relationships: ((Relations will apear in order of meeting and only reflect Fre's opinions on people, not the player's.)) Johnny: Andreas "Andy": George "Geo": John: Simon "Sir": Austin Daniels: Horatio "Plane-dude": Elektra "El": Ismael "Overboss" Dobroshi: "Champagne Lady": Ardit "Overboss-cousin": Background information: Part I: Across the sea... Story starts with one Merhawi Torrente, descendant of an Italian occupant whose blood had been diluted with local inbreeding. Merhawi was a simple man as there are many across the world. This one man in particular had a small shack on the coast of the red sea and an even smaller boat which he used to sail and fish. Around age sixteen, Merhawi was introduced to a younger Birikti Afewerki and their marriage was arranged by their parents as was the custom. Within a few months, Birikti was pregnant and gave birth to healthy son named Dahlak in 1974. Nineteen seventy-four also marks drastic political changes in Eritrea with the fall of Emperor Haïlé Sélassié Ist and his replacement by a military junta known as the Derg. As is often the case during revolutions a vicious and ruthless purge was then enacted. With his Italian last name, Merhawi quickly found himself targeted. Next year, he eventually decided to take his boat, wife and child and sailed toward Europe. Caught in a storm, Merhawi’s tub sank within seconds. Unable to save both child and wife, the young man was forced to watch his wife drown and die. Later recovered by Fast Attack craft HS-Pezopoulos, from the Hellenic Navy, father and son were brought back to Salamis Naval Base, in Greece. From there they were granted political asylum in Greece and, later on, in the USA where the Torrente settled in early 1980s. A lone father with a rather turbulent child, Merhawi had a hard time trying to adjust to American life for, like most people of third-world countries, he had been given a dream version of the US that clearly wasn't any close to the truth of it. Merhawi worked hard in all kind of tedious jobs to earn what money he needed to raise his son. He eventually found alternative childcare and returned to the hard and ungrateful work of a sailor. This eventually led to tense relations between father and son for one had sea as a wife and the other had lost her mother to it. Merhawi eventually associated with fellow sailor James Williams to buy their own boat, open their business and, in the end, marry their son and daughter. From that union was born on May 31st, 1991 a healthy little girl named: Freweini Torrente... Part II: The sailors, the father... and their mermaid Freweini had a pretty peaceful childhood even though she found herself caught inbetween her sea-farring grandfathers and sea-hating father. As is often the case, these tensions escalated to a climax that coincided with Fre's teenage. Dahlak eventually understood that his daughter was much more like his father than as him and there was no forbidding her from answering the call of the sea. For her sixteen's birthday, he offered her a complete scuba gear that she's still using nowadays and protects as her most precious treasure. School-wise, Freweini had marks below the average not because she was stupid but because she spent most of her time daydreaming and looking through the windows. She quickly dropped of school, took part-time works on the land and part-time with her grandpas' fishing on the coast. As both men grew older though, they were forced to stay more and more away from the sea. Fre had to find herself a more serious job and she applied to become a full-time commercial diver and underwater welder. It took her a lot of effort but once Fre has something in her mind, she can become an extremely hard-working and commited woman. <missing content, reason: WIP>

The Lost Souls Motorcycle Club is a one-percenter motorcycle club that was formed in Paleto Bay, Blaine County in the 1970's. It was at one time one of the most ruthless and feared motorcycle clubs in San Andreas. Although The Lost Souls were founded in the 1970s the club did not expand at all until 1986, the Grim Skulls Motorcycle Club was absorbed into The Lost Souls. The Lost Souls headquarters was moved to Sandy shores after the patch over. After a few years, the club would take off their bottom rockers and spread throughout the San Andreas state. Criminal activities March 1995, The Lost Souls MC was involved in a rather brutal brawl with a The Vice City Bikers chapter at a motorcycle show in Vice City, Florida. Over twenty bikers from both sides were involved, and four members of The Lost Souls and a member of the Vice City Bikers were stabbed to death. The fight had been planned earlier. At least a dozen of cars and police vans full of officers were called in to break up the fight. 16 bikers were arrested, but most fled. Five members of The Lost Souls Motorcycle Club was arrested on the charges of rape and extortion on March 28, 2008. The club had been running protection rackets on small local businesses such as strip clubs, tattoo parlours and local barbershops in the Blaine County area. The rape charges were brought after two women, who danced at the strip clubs, complained to the Los Santos Sheriff Department. One of the women said that she had been chained on the floor for several days, forced to engage in oral sex with multiple men and beaten severely. THIS IS JUST A DEVELOPMENT THREAD, HENCE IT'S NOT IN "FACTIONS".

FREE MY VATO

Batch of in-game, GTA World screenshots!

IDENTITY FIRST NAME: Salomé MIDDLE NAME: N/A LAST NAME: Cailing DATE OF BIRTH: 11/01/1985 PLACE OF BIRTH: Vancouver, Canada NATIONALITY: Canadian & American EYE COLOR: Blue HAIR COLOR: Black RACE: Mixed (Asian & Afro-American) HEIGHT: 6'1" (1.86m) WEIGHT: 175 lbs (79 kg) PSYCHOLOGICAL PROFILE HIGH INTELLIGENCE: The elder Cailing sister's ingelligence is simply remarkable. She could have been a new Einstein, a great politician, a leader, changed the world. The thing is... many people believe that intelligent people are superior - it's wrong, though, in many different ways. Intelligence is basically a tool, like a chainsaw. Handled right, it will cut down a tree and allow you to build a house. Handled wrong, it will cut your arms and leave you like a complete dumb shit. In Sallie's case, it's pretty much useless. She *could* do a lot of stuff, but she doesn't and she won't. In fact, it's more of a problem than anything else: she ovethinks a lot of simple things, it gives her some serious emotional challenges, and while a real genius would use their intelligence to quickly figure out every solution to a problem, Sallie uses hers to figure out everything that could go horribly wrong. In addition, she's got her own series of issues along with that, and it makes the situation quite complicated. MILD ATTENTION DEFICIT: You see that general idea that most people have, of ADD/ADHD? A kid who's hyperactive and annoying because his parents raised him wrong? Well forget about it. Here, it's a lot of very different issues. She will forget stuff like dates, locations, phone numbers, even faces or names. She will get distracted during conversations, unless it's REALLY a fascinating one, getting confused about what's going on. She will misunderstand what people are saying. And when she doesn't have a big, fascinating, overarching objective, she will get bored and start doing a lot of stupid shit... Taking risks, driving fast, smoking a lot of weed, hunting women to fuck as many of them as possible, you name it. Also, being "bored" makes her depressed, which leads us to... SEVERE DEPRESSION: Sallie's brain hates her. It sends her terrible, atrocious, dark messages, all day long, for no logical reason. Sometimes she will feel without any motivation, any energy, her instincts going haywire and telling her conflicting things, doubt will wreck her gut all the time for no logical reason. It can trigger itself, for no apparent reason, and lasts for weeks or months. Sometimes, it will be triggered by boredom. Some things can help, but none will ever heal her completely. She, in fact, failed to kill herself a few times, mostly out of luck... Many say the best way to kill her is to simply wait until she takes care of it by herself. MILD AUTISTIC TRAITS: Now, it's not *autism* per se. Sallie is highly functional, socially speaking, and autism is a complex matter. She does however have some traits that are typical from the spectrum. The main one is the obsessions. She will, sometimes, find something that will completely obsess her. It can be a large theme, like Space. She does love space. She's even kind of the Space Core of Los Santos. She has several books about astrophysics, posters of Hubble pictures, she read pages upon pages about pulsars, ... But it can also be smaller, insignificant things. Flowers, for example. She got obsessed over flower tattoos for a year or so, and she now has two entire floral sleeves as well as a hibiscus on the belly. It can be Buffalos S. She owned FIVE of those at a point. Why? The engine noise. That's it. Nothing else. Just the engine noise. But it's not just the obsessions, she has some behavioral movements that are somewhat repetitive: shrugging and rolling her eyes, mostly. She has some problems with routine, sometimes refusing to try a new path home, even though the path she's used to is longer. Some unusual sensory interests, mostly around sounds and music. She can get fascinated with a 3-second piece of a song, for example. In a nutshell, Sallie's brain is a good fucking mess. APPEARANCE Salomé's a... sizeable woman, let's say. She towers above an overwhelming majority of women and quite a lot of men too. It seems she got somewhat lucky when it came to the gene jackpot, on that side of things. The muscle, however, isn't hereditary but acquired: she started Thai Boxing training at merely 13 or 14, This gives her quite a build and broad shoulders, but it's not the kind of muscles a bodybuilder would have. She has long, slender, gnarled boxer muscles. The kind made to break someone in half or hit like a freight train, not to lift weights or look strong while not being really that strong at all. The other noticeable thing are the scars. She has... quite a few. First the bullets: three marks on the belly, two on the left arm, one on the right leg, one on the upper-right forehead, and one on the upper-right torso just below the collarbone. Then, the slashes: two on the left leg, pretty long, one on the back (just above the hips), and three on her right arm. Now, the stabs of course ! Two marks on the middle-left of the back and one on the upper-right shoulder. The impact marks then, which look pretty odd, on her forearms. And finally some small scars that look like they were done with nails: around her left eyesocket and on her scapula. Speaking of her left eye socket: there's no eye left, there! She's wearing a ceramic prosthetic, or more like four different ones. One is her natural blue, the other is a dark green, and the two last are... bullshit she was interested in. One's a custom "cyberpunk-style" eye, entirely black with a fake cyber-eye painted in a teal color on it, giving her a very "Illusive man" appearance, and the second one contains a small LED Panel powered by a button battery, giving her a "Terminator" look. Now of course, her face is something most people would look at. Apart from her strange left eye and the scars, she's overall somewhat attractive. Not exceptionally though. She has some interesting features, probably coming from her mixed asian/black heritage, but she will never win any Miss Universe contest either. She's not an A+, but she could easily be a C+ or a B depending on how much you like unusual beauties. Her eye (the natural one) is definitely an interesting feature: it's a very light blue, coming from her mother's Liqian ascent. Below is a wide nose showing her father's afro-american origins, but it's angled down, a feature from her mother. Her lips, finally, are quite generous and often animated with a small amused smile. Now we could talk about her hair, but it changes all the fucking time. Color, style, ... she just changes it every few weeks, on a whim, another of those ADD traits, so let's leave it out for now. The final touches are that eternal black makeup that never seems to leave her face, it's quite prominent and it's clearly designed to enhance those bright eyes. Well... that bright eye since there's only just the one left. Additionally, she has a pair of long, silver earrings that also never seem to leave her. (TBC) (Yeah the separator isn't great but fuck, I needed roses and couldn't find better ones)

@Atiku's post makes some excellent points. If we remain at a small number of houses on the server, real estate players have the ability to totally dominate the popular property due to lack of supply. Flooding LS with property will mean there is something available to everyone, and it is much harder for real estate to lock houses behind a high price. Property team's decision to not add anymore houses as less than half of them have been bought may seem logical ("why add more houses if they will just go unbought?"), but I think there's a reason why we are seeing this current trend: many of the current houses have little demand. Take a look at the map: Where are the bulk of the houses placed? In Alta and South LS, which I think is the core of the reason why many houses sit unsold. Think about it: many characters are middle class, so it wouldn't make much sense for them to have a house in a low income area (where the majority of houses are). Street characters make up a minority on the server, so many of these houses in South LS will remain unpurchased. Alta is suffering from lack of demand because there is very simply nothing interesting to do there, there is very little in the way of business locations compared to other areas, and not many places to hangout around. So what does this mean? Just because the numbers/statistics overwhelmingly say many properties are not being purchased, the context of the properties need to be looked at. It is incredibly obvious these properties in Alta and South LS will continue to go unpurchased for a long time, I don't think GTA W should delay in adding new properties because the current areas are undesirable. If this situation continues, many roleplay areas will remain unused (i.e. some incredible Asian gangs could be built in Little Seoul), which is a waste of potential. IMO - expansion shouldn't be avoided because the current areas are unpopular, it should be done to add more roleplay areas + opportunity, and greatly increase supply to stop real estate from totally controlling the minority of housing currently available.

Slangin' on the corner

Showing one of the rentable estates that we've got in Vespucci

Why not just add every house at this point and let the players themselves decide where to live! If Rancho is all you can afford then you'll have to suffer out the gangs and live in Rancho until you can make money and move. Or rent!

Rustem returns to LS

Here we go with another houses thread... What really annoys me about houses is people just want to buy them and sell them to make money where-as I want to buy one in my own hood... To RP with in my own hood instead of buying one across the city which serves me 0% purpose... Quite frustrating at times when somebody who RP's a gangster from the hood doesn't have a house in their own area but has one at Vespucci beach? Why...

Love this!

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Nice story. But... Ardit gave her some tips and she dislikes him, damn. This is great Love reading through it, keep it up!

Looks dope.

Trappin out tha Wigwam

In case you missed part one of the Native Kings Part 2 gangland video

Proper hood RP, looks solid. Keep it up.

I'd rather stop focusing on individual areas and just start adding houses to all parts of the map, that way everyone can get what they want.

finest clique of roleplayers around ?

DONE DID IT. A lot happened today. I lost my left eye in an accident. When taken to the hospital, I thought everything was fine. That was until I found out that I wasn’t seeing anything with my left eye anymore. It’s gone, it’s destroyed. What also happened today is that I finally got my hands om Ashley. Now she won’t do anything to me, for good. I hope I scarred her up enough. I feel sorry for Chelsea, but it had to happen. The feeling wouldn’t stop. It did now. I’m in jail now, I should get out soon enough.

I'd rather all the vinewood and Rockford hills houses be added.

open source and any GT-MP Server can help.

History Los Santos, Mid-2010s, Four friends came together with a common understanding and love of brotherhood, their neighbourhood and riding. What started as a small neighbourhood watch against crime seeping in from Davis and Strawberry became a full fledged motorcycle club known as the Devils Crusaders that held property in D&H Auto, the Mirror Park Tavern and the Starlite Motel with plans to expand further into the city. However as time went on, the club slowly drifted apart as they no longer had a true purpose. The crime in the area had dropped off, the club members all had careers and businesses and eventually it was no more. Current 2018, after the IRS, government agency bureaucracy and divorce drove the three founding members back to Los Santos, they found each other once again, this time in the dustbowl of Sandy Shores and chose to begin a new chapter in their lives with a few new faces in their ranks and a new bar, the Yellow Jack Inn. The club is still in it's infancy but the future is promising. OOC The Dustkickers MC strives to create very realistic MC roleplay, as a few members are close friends with people in the lifestyle, and we believe in full immersion and realism in what we do, but not to the extent that we aren't all having fun. You will be a Hangaround and Prospect for awhile, but do good work for us and you'll be a full patch before you know it! Look for the patches in game to chat us up :)

Most of you know that we very rarely request for donations to support the server, even If we do not cover the RUN cost. I always said that paying from my own pockets was not only my duty as a server owner but that a low amount of donations will never prevent GTA World to live. While I have enough on my side thanks to my IRL work to cover the RUN cost of the server, I came back from my vacation with some disturbing news that could become a complete game changer for GTA World or a massive problem If it was not handled. I informed my entire development team, management and level 3+ administrators of the whole situation as soon as I knew about it, and I have to keep it confidential for now. This event led to two decisions I had to take: The purchase of FiveRP, which was already on a critical state due to the destruction of most assets by the former admins that still had rights on the server, was canceled and all funds that were supposed to be used (5000€) to buy it are redirected to that situation. I initiated a bonus of +100% world points for all purchases until June 1st, in order to boost the sale of world points before June, as I will need your donations to receive more funds to help the server with this issue. I always try to be as transparent as I can and I hate having to remain confidential on that, but 20+ people will be able to vouch for the emergency need of donations in order to help not only GTAW, but the entire GTA Roleplay community. The end result will definitely be more than worth it and lead to great improvements for our community & the RP scene in general for GTA 5. I have been able to collect out of my personal funds almost enough to fix the issue, so do not feel forced to donate. GTAW will survive without your donations and I will still solve the problem without a huge donation increase for this month. But for once, any donation will drastically help me on a personal level as I am involving myself financially very far in this, so I any help will be extremely helpful for me! Edit 3: The reason is now officially listed by the second party: https://gt-mp.net/forum/thread/4127-change-is-in-the-air/ However I will drop some explanation here: Why is it mandatory for me to become owner of GTMP in order to save all GTMP servers? The other day when I came back from vacations, I learned that Julice was looking to buy GTMP and offered 30.000EUR. A bid that I would never be able to afford and It completely killed me inside to know that the person that has been attacking us and all GTMP spanish servers for one year could get his hands on GTMP and thus destroy it. I had a long talk with DurtyFree, owner of GTMP who explained me that it would also kill him to sell it to Julice as GTMP was more than a year of hard work for him, and the entire development team would also leave. He knew that GTMP would die If he accepted this offer. I don't know many people that would decline 30,000EUR and accept a 8000EUR offer, however DurtyFree was one of them after a long discussion with his team. I was invited in his internal groups to introduce myself and my plans for GTMP, and the development team decided to support our offer. As I explained them, If there was any other available bidder that would have the same plans and values for GTMP I would definitely let him take the ownership, but there is none. What are these short term plans and values? -No monetization : GTMP will remain as it is now. -No major structure change: The current team has the experience of the project, Hardy will be the main project manager. -C0nnex will become lead developer and main maintainer of the mod. He is a very talented developer who also spends a huge amount of time helping every server owners, and has been the main maintainer of GTMP on 0.7. -The development team will open its recruitment and developers will be trained -I will also focus on fixing the priority issues of GTMP in order to help C0nnex, which are crashes, FPS and optimizations. As for GTAW this also means a complete change of indirect exposure for us obviously. I am working hard in order to restructure the entire development team and not be alone anymore on GTAW development, so that we can keep having more and more updates while I can also improve GTMP. I want to thanks everyone for their support in these donations and hope that you will continue to help us know that you know the importance of this: If julice had his hands on GTMP, we would be blacklisted and GTAW would be closed, same for every other competitors he could have. I want to thanks once again DurtyFree for being one of these rare persons truly caring about their projects. Edit 1: We are accepting cryptocurrency donations, but it needs to be done manually so you can PM me on Discord to get the wallet ID. Edit 2: As multiple of you asked, I am adding a manual donation goal on the thread so you all know how far we are. By canceling the 5000€ to FiveRP, I need 3000€ more to reach 8000€ for this project. I don't expect at all to reach 3000€, but this is the end goal and I already thank you all for any help: 1225/3000€

Family Talk

A lot of the houses are in areas that some people don't want to live at, because of gang ratio for example in Rancho. There are a lot of apartments for sale in Hawick that no one seems to be using as well.. Same as with Sandy Shores. I think we could easily spread some of those houses more around the map. Not focus on Vespucci only, but add some houses around the whole map.