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  1. A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart. -Jonathan Swift
    8 points
  2. Hello, a current new member of the faction speaking. To be honest, it's lackluster, frustrating - and just outright boring. So I thought I'd give some transparency to the community about how I think the faction could be improved. Before I go into detail about everything, I know there will be people that will ask me: Ronnie, why did you not bring this up to so and so, or go private on the LSPD forums and try to bring awareness or change or some sort of constructive criticism that could be discussed among leaders to take the best appropriate action deemed necessary to fix your regard? It's not that easy! People tend to say this and this will change and "we'll work on it, thanks for the feedback blah blah blah" but it never does anything. I had a situation a year ago I brought up to FM and was practically ghosted, I can't speak on FM now, but 1 year ago it didn't help. I want to provide insight to the community as someone who's new to the faction and not bias in any regard. But Ronnie, what kind of insight do you posses that makes you entitled to such a strong opinion? Ronnie, you're only a Police Officer I, don't you think you're in too soon to make a judgment? I know this server is not LSRP, nor does it try to portray itself as such but I'm not some random who is upset and flustered over major issues, I've held administrative levels on LSRP and helped with FM overall some years ago. I'm not clueless to the process of legal RP, OOC administrative back ends of factions or whatever else. I know it's not easy to run something like faction management, but I feel like something needs to be addressed. Anyways, after an entire year of dealing with LSPD's recruitment (which finally got a new change of direction recently and looks a lot better!) I made it into the faction somehow. I've been in for two weeks, tomorrow - and I'm disappointed. Not only am I just de-motivated to go in game to get denied an FTP that's necessary for my promotion - this faction is just too overwhelming and crosses the boundary of what a video game is versus realism and standards of emulation/simulation of a real life department. I do think being in the faction would be maybe okay after a POI gets promoted, you get 56 days total to do everything I'm going to list here in a second, but let me tell you why even with 56 days, something like this would make someone who wants an overall good introduction to the faction, completely demotivated not even two weeks after joining. Within 56 days, you're going to go on a ride-along with Police Officer IIIs if you find them in your timezone, and during your scheme, you must complete a checklist of 100+ boxes of silly things, that could be covered in the RP'd police academy. Instead of getting your bearings for about 3 real-life weeks in the faction and getting promoted, you go on hourly long ride alongs which are RP'd like it's the marine corps + evaluation patrols to judge if you're deemed capable for the next scheme. During these patrols you pray to God himself the person who takes you is OOC decent enough to RP covering some of these hundred + tick-marks and knock them out for you. Also, on top of all of that - you must also go in-game at another time and take two additional hourly long courses, you must separately sign up for (which also could be covered in the police academy) and it's just excruciating and not fun. (Better pray both of those classes are in your timezone, or someone is generous enough to offer a private course.) I personally think these two needed classes for promotion could be covered with a simple manual for both and a "R&U." Another thing I noticed, during peak times the majority of POI's stand around AFK in the departments, because they can't find willing FTOs or they have to beg someone higher command to assign/force them to a FTP, which could potentially deem for a poor patrol because your guided partner was forced to take you. That is if you are denied for the typical reasons such as, "I'm busy, logging off, it's late etc." Seems pretty unrealistic that departments are flooded with cadets doing nothing at all, and instead could be on LINCOLN (patrol alone) - but even the requirements to get to the phase of being a POI and LINCOLN perms are still very overwhelming and require a lot of filler work in one week. Nobody, who potentially goes to school/work/has real-life, friends, family, etc would ever want to turn a video game into basically a part-time job. It's not fun, it's not because it wants to be realistic, honestly, nobody really seems to know why there's just so much to learn. In the said checklist, there are extensive things to go over such as the arresting process which is already fairly confusing as it is. But Ronnie, it's only 56 days and you can get it done faster. POII is great and the faction is dandy and fine after the POI scheme. I don't entirely disagree with that, but it kind of takes away from the fact that it doesn't really feel like you earn anything whenever an influential member of the faction, promotes his friends to higher, higher ranks and bluntly put, pisses off, a handful of members who feel it's not fair whom could have worked as hard, if not even harder for those ranks. But hey, what do I know. I'm only a POI who's been here for 2 weeks. Click here for source. But I thought I'd give the community some transparency since we tend to just throw that word around so loosely in our faction. My perspective is described as someone who's new, and just disappointed. Where is the fun? Ronnie, this all sounds like something you should have brought up to HC in PD. This is very important to me, but I also think it's important for me to show people interested in joining the faction in the future too. I'm not trying to steer anyone away, but I do think reform of the entire division/introduction, POI scheme is needed. It's not fun, it's not real life, it's only a video game. This scheme is the introduction of the faction that will stick with new members their entire term while RPing with the LSPD. You're immediate overwhelmed with "homework" for a lot of useless, filler material that is not needed on a video game. In conclusion, nobody wants to change their lifestyle around a video game even for a month just to do something that could be substituted/included elsewhere. A lot of the POI scheme, manual etc are filler. The situations that stem out on a day to day typically conclude about the same. It's really not that much of a learning curve to be fluent in this faction, it's just unnecessary work made up for whatever reason, for no reason. This is a recent update from the beginning of this year. It used to not always be this extensive and uncalled for to get from PI to PII. Where is the fun?
    7 points
  3. ((shoutout cozart for the co direct)) Username: Comment:
    6 points
  4. Errands @tryz0ne @Dub5ty @LilManiac
    5 points
  5. It's basically the geographical epicenter of evil due to it's location between different hoods. If you don't want to be threatened with crime, pump your gas elsewhere.
    5 points
  6. Username: YoungButOldManHustling Comment: yea yhea yea i see all you rasist pigs postin on the comment section here but im prepared to sock yo motha f*kin asses out when im out the bin ima slap those smileses off your faces every singel one of yall salam malaykum man yall best wish me peace or ima break ya teeth racist guy wins the elecction whay am i aint surprised beacause thats what the big corporatsions want us t o do. we all seent the fact the bush dudes who own the biggest company trucking for business suport them so what that even mean the man wit hteh most dollar got the ballot huh not even the best man (woman) in dis case? im sick of people not voting moniority. im done widit. mans cant even get a job cuz of the pigment of my skin and yall celebratin dis? yall all goin to hell every single one every single one of yall
    4 points
  7. and this is why academy's should be brought back
    3 points
  8. Probably cause a certain type of players were complaining. Don't take my word for it though, I'm not sure if it was Notbond that removed it but he was the one telling me about the change in rule. The way it used to work was that in jail, if there was a situation were someone broke the no fear RP rule or did something that put their character's life at risk, we could report in game and have any administrator approve the CK instantly. This was extremely efficient and took very little time to do, it also has great effect on jail RP and the players there. We as jail roleplayers felt that our RP was actually valued and respected, people who trolled us or ruined it with their nooby shit got punished, for example. There was a female that went up to the leader of the white car and called him a cunt in front of the whole pod. Now, this was before we forced a jail gender segregation. She got stabbed and force CK'd. Similar thing happened to hispanic inmates who outright disrespected the surenos and called them low lifes when they attempted to get the hispanic inmate to roll with them. It enforces a proper jail and proper RP in the jail. What Notbond (I think) did by changing this rule was allowing these nooby players to ruin the RP we have in there, cause let's be honest. Who wants to take one hour of of you limited free time to write up a CK app on some noob who just came and provoked you to kill him in jail and then wait for weeks to get it approved?
    3 points
  9. “Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.” - Bruce Lee
    3 points
  10. Update 1.10.2 Additions Added a new vehicle modding system thanks to @St3fan[NL] You can now use /vget <id> to directly spawn your vehicle based on its ID Fixes Fixed bugs with vehicle tints, turbo etc. not being installed on your vehicles Fixed multiple bugs related to phone numbers still being active on an expired contract You'll not be able to /ad using an expired contract anymore Fixed a small server lag when entering a property with no exterior furnitures Fixed small issues with some LEO modded vehicles and lags when being near them Fixed a bug where "Blackjack table" text would randomly appear everywhere
    2 points
  11. Proper shit for a change. Keep this up
    2 points
  12. Throuhgout my gameplay for the past almost half a year, to this day, time and again the professionalism and kindness of the staff on this server has been nothing but stellar. An ungodly amount of patience over stressful situations, and just by simply reading the red texts of players sanctioned for their mistakes, and I see a massive list of priors, makes me understand just how forgiving and understanding the whole team is. I had several situations where admin help was required, and every single one of them has been nothing but beautiful. There was at no point chummying up, but simple pleasant, fruitful interactions from which not only I, but all parties in the scenes were content and satisfied from. I don't know how you guys do it, I do not envy your responsibilities to handle the uhmph amount of reports, and only you guys know how silly some of them are. From forum message replies and support, to swift intervention if the case arises in game, not a single administrator I have interacted with, came with luggage from past reports, or showcased stress. It has always been a renewed investment to handle every situation case by case, leaving any sort of tiredness or stress over the day behind. Thank you very much for the astounding amount of work Dream is putting from forums, to in game, to discords. Bombie, Wirbelwind, Selena, Shanks, to name just a few I had the pleasure to receive support from. Not only administration, but also the Support Staff being there for every single /helpme, I've had, one of them having lasted some 20 minutes until I figured out, with their help, how notes work. Investment and heart put into every response I got to help me enjoy the gameplay. And incredible sacrifice on everyone's part to attend and care for the playerbase needs, MrsHamster having shown to me time and again a lot of activity, around 70% of all my /helpme's addressed by them alone. I write this with no intention to win brownie points from any member of the staff, additionally, with me taking a pause from the server. Clean record with good standing, so no ulterior motives for sharing my genuine impression and experiences about the Staff. I'm sorry for having forgotten some of the Staff that has helped me, but please know you are all appreciated. It's been an above and beyond experience, I felt safe as a player, I've noticed no bias, and I don't think I've had such a pleasant experience interacting with the administration of a game I have played on. Thank you very much.
    2 points
  13. Feature Showcase: Mechanic Menu General Information Many of you have been begging for a new modern updated Mechanic Menu. Well here we are, a brand new CEF based Mechanic Menu with all features in one screen. Note: Due to some RAGEMP functions not working as intended I had to make a lot of workarounds for it to function properly. If for some reason a mod is not being applied or the sliders show wrong default values, send me a PRIVATE message so I can sort it, no need for a bug report. Video
    2 points
  14. Toy Soldiers With a few weeks passing, most of the Devil's Bastards being busy, some with the move from their prior states, others with their own issues; Wheeler had been alone for a while. During this time, the man had gained a job at a Diner that he'd work at most mornings, and in the evening? He'd brew at La Casa's Distillery; Providing some of the finest brew to Los Santos. Yet during his loneliness, some members of the Blaine County community had taken this upon themselves to view this as weakness in the man, for a Soldier without an Army is a fighter without a cause; To put this simply? You'd have to understand the cause to truly see it, and these people? They weren't understanding, not yet. 'Oh no - Not me, I never lost control; You're face - To Face, With the Man who Sold the World..'
    2 points
  15. https://discord.gg/rnhPkB HoodStarz Discord https://discord.gg/uYhnfP Streetnet Discord
    2 points
  16. Wow, all I can say is I'm amazed I'm still updating this guide by the time GTA world has hit 1.10.0 I first started this app when 1.6 came out which completely renovated the dealership system and most of the prices, the old guide was out of date by far so I made this to replace it. With over 105,000 views when writing this (making it one of the most popular threads on the forums ever) I am very proud and appreciate everyone that has used it, and everyone that has helped me keep it up to date especially at times when I've been less active. I appreciate everytime someone tells me about a price change, or wrong data etc and at times people here have allowed me to get the guide updated quicker (by sending me the data I needed to go in GAME to get). Today I added a link to a Google Sheet made by Akiba which is another option for people looking to view the data. Today I also added a app version of this by Vash Baldeus. I also added the MTL Flatbed and tidied up some sections of the dealership guide. The purpose of this guide was to create a simple Ctrl + F page which could be loaded reasonably fasted to check prices, over time its got more crowded and needed work. I have began tidying it up and will slowly make progress on this. I personally average maybe two hours a week on the server these days but have no plans to stop updating the guide to the best of my ability. Which with the support of other players on here whom have helped me with this etc. Especially Vash Baldeus (who originally created this guide with me) I am confident this guide will stay roughly up to date with the server.
    2 points
  17. We are increasing the price. It will come with the new mechanic system. Secondary color will not be a separate purchase. Its both in 1 price.
    2 points
  18. Due amici di vecchia data si incontrano dopo tanto tempo.
    1 point
  19. PART TWO - GIMME THE LOOT
    1 point
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