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i am proposing that we make it easier to recognize british characters so that they can be avoided and we can maintain a realistic LA-inspired atmosphere for those who prefer it. this kind of identification means that these players will eventually gravitate towards eachother due to being ignored by the large number of GTAW players who are tired of seeing these characters on the streets. please be civil and do not flame others for their opinion as i just want to see the server improve thank you. now that it has been made clear that we will not outright ban british characters, the optimal solution is that they are forced underground due to being neglected by the rest of the server. perhaps we can revamp the Los Santos sewers into Little London so that these people can roleplay underground, in peace, without ruining my immersion it could look like this:

The Boat Meeting 船會

**Babydoll**

A new friend.

Innocence Boulevard, South Central Los Santos, twenty minutes past midnight on Sunday. Just as a police cruiser races down the street with sirens on, gates from one of the backyards open and gray SUV rolls out into the streets. It makes its way around South Central Los Santos, often stopping on the corners of gang-infested neighborhoods. There is several shadow surrounded males occupying the vehicle as it seems, however it is hard to see in the night through a black tint. Eventually, the SUV comes to a halt in front of a red light and window opens. There's a drop top right next to it, filled with laughter. In the SUV - several middle-aged men, raspy voices and a blunt is being passed around. A few verbal exchanges happen before one of the males in the SUV receive a call. Window goes up and the men speed away, without waiting for the green light. "In the maelstrom of globalization and cyberspace, organized crime continues to defy definition. A diverse array of activities is perpetuated by criminal organizations, criminal groups and associations, and gangs, and it is clear that one specific label is no longer adequate." These men are ex-gang members that had their fair share on the streets. None of them wanted to die on a corner slinging dime bags. Wide variety of expertise under their belts already but that's one thing that sets them back too much. Working nine to five? It's even hard to find a job when you have been a felon since a juvenile age. They had to resort to what they do best. Move illicit goods, outsource poverty stricken youth with giving them illegal jobs, involving them into theft, robberies, murders and trafficking drugs and firearms. South Central is not the only limit here. However, that is where they feel the safest and most welcome. There are other people that stay in contact with these men from all over the state and that reaps both parties great benefits. "It's very difficult for a black man to get out of South-Central Los Santos, and get out civilized ... The only men I know who have escaped, all began reading Robert Heinlein at age ten." The Coalition is a faction/group that revolves itself around the area of South Central Los Santos. However, twenty first century calls for different ways of operating rather than sticking to old ways. Most of the group is rather autonomous, doing what they do best, differing from person to person. Being multi-national organization with a wide reach, it is able to profit from many ways. Twenty first century also calls for innovative ways for crime, as well as being involved in stuff differently. Big portion of the group revolves around legal fronts as many other similar criminal entities. Laundering illicit gains is as important as making them so white collar crime is also a major part of activity section for this criminal organization. Filter by: South Central Los Santos Three left dead in a drive-by shooting on the other side of Strawberry 24/7 on Innocence Boul... Biggest narcotics bust in 2022 unfolded on Carson Avenue, Sheriff's Department says that th... Support the ex-convicts campaign - sponsored by Bad Day Goods pawnshop, allegedly ran by... See more... OOC This group/faction aims to portray a fictional, small and loose organized crime cell that allows multi-national characters, however, due to the core members being developed characters (most insider characters are developed for nearly a year in game). Priority upon joining this faction should always be individual character's growth as independence, originality of what you are role-playing will benefit the faction as well as the people that role-play around you. This isn't umbrella faction either. If you got any questions on how to join, feel free to reach out to me on Discord - Daylong#0583.

This thread aims to follow Jacob Barbieri, age forty.

Hello everyone, I recently discussed with @Everett about the idea of creating a special black friday package in the shop as many of you have been asking for it years after years, however I've personally always been against the black friday. I slept on the idea and a second great idea came up : What if we would use the black friday hype to give back money to a charity? It would be the perfect opportunity as a gaming community to all participate in one generous action for a charity that you care about during a full week! Everyone on the team loved the idea so I am now introducing it to you! 1) You will choose the charity! We've opened a forum discussion here where everyone will be able to speak about a charity that matters for them, explaining why and who they are. The only requirement is that the charity will need to be registered (at least a subsidiary) within the European Union (otherwise the payment is not considered legal as our company is based in France). If you like a post, thumb it up and we'll review all messages after a week to choose a charity from all your posts! Winning NPO : Cancer Research Association 2) The charity is chosen, what happens next? Once the charity is set, we'll be announcing it on Discord & Forum. Starting from the 19th of November, a special black friday charity page will be available where you'll see : - The black friday charity packages for purchase (contents aren't set yet) - A donation total amount will be displayed & updated after each purchase on that same page so everyone can follow how much we will be able to donate 3) How much are you donating per package? We're not going to be donating 1€ per package or 10€, we're going to give 50%!! of what you pay directly to the charity. We'll be covering any fees, commissions, taxes from your payment to ensure that if you pay 25€ then 12.50€ will be directly donated. The donation total amount will be increased by 50% everytime you pay and this is 100% guaranteed that this amount will remain the same, even if someone chargebacks 6 months later or pay with a stolen card, we've decided to take the risk and use the remaining % to cover it too. 4) What happens once black friday ends? We'll directly donate the charity amount few days after it ends and provide you with a full receipt from our donation! The goal is to be as transparent as possible, so as previously mentioned you'll all be able to follow the exact amount to be donated after each payments, and we will provide the official receipt as proof at the end. For these of you that are very doubtful about our intentions, you'll always be able to contact the charity with our receipt screenshot to confirm it! I would also like to personally stream a meeting with one of the representatives of the charity we will all donate to, but it'll depend of the size of the charity that we will choose! It would be even more cool if we can get them on stream during the event!

Hello everyone! Welcome to the November 2021's Staff Update! We hope everyone had a great Spooky Season, as now we are heading into the cold season with lots of holidays infront of us! For the month of October and leading into November, we have had a lot of great updates deployed for the server, including a massive update for our mappers and those that use furniture on a daily basis - over 140 new objects have been implemented into the server and are available for use. Recently, the new fishing update has also been deployed, allowing for those who love the immersive feeling of being on a boat or camping in the woods, the ability to go out and enjoy a nice relaxing time fishing - while also having the opportunity to gain more income with spending the time fishing as-well. The new update allows for players to go deep-water fishing and actually have fish that would realistically be in certain settings of water. Almost every single pond, lake and ocean is now able to be fished from, excluding the area of Los Santos. While it is not deployed officially yet, @Nervous, @Strobe, @Static & @Vassilios have confirmed a release of GTAW 2.6 which has amazing improvements within our Economy System, Weapons, Pets and some overall improvements throughout the Legal & Illegal Faction Community. We hope to hear the feedback from the community when it is officially released. You can check the update out here. In regards to Property Management, there has been some massive changes within the leadership structure. @Selena has been promoted to the Assistant Head of Property Management, and will be assisting @Frezemis in the daily operations and management of Property Management. @Adv has been promoted to the Head of Requests with @Nightmare Night being promoted to the Head of Leasing. We wish you all the best of luck and would like to congratulate you all on the promotions. Management believes you are strong candidates for the position and will continue to work hard throughout the upcoming months and within the time in Property Management. @cxn has also now been officially appointed the Assistant Head of Faction Management and will be overseeing the Legal Faction side of Faction Management. CXN has proven to be a strong and dedicated leader, and someone we can entrust to continue to do amazing work for the Legal Faction side of the community. We wish you the best on behalf of Management and with you well within the leadership position. We would also like to welcome @Pepper on his completion of training within Staff Management and being assigned Senior Administrative Support to lookover the Administrative Team along with others within the sub-team. Pepper has done amazing work within Property Management and continues to show the great dedication within Staff Management. The entire management team also give a big shoutout to the Staff Team on some amazing work done this month. With the feedback from the Community and internally from Staff, we believe we are continuing to strive for the better and Management can truly see the difference, especially in regards to reports and them being handled in a more timely manner. Staff continue to do a vast amount of jobs and are hit with a massive workload every month, and they power through it and continue to get the job done. We are extremely proud of all of you! We're also going to be having a very special event in November and we hope that as many players as possible will participate in our upcoming discussions about it! We'll all be participating to donate money to a specific charity, more information here : GTA:World Management Team Admin Promotions Game Administrator Level 3 to Game Administrator Level 4 @Selena (Assistant Head of Property Management) Game Administrator Level 2 to Game Administrator Level 3 @Adv (Head of Requests) @Nightmare Night (Head of Leasing) @cxn (Assistant Head of Faction Management - Legal Focus) Game Administrator Level 1 to Game Administrator Level 2 @Banks @Igloo @delanto @Lomadias @Wuhtah Trial Administrator to Game Administrator Level 1 @dawpi @JackieH @slothy @Daylong @dxrkside Senior Support to Trial Administrator @Gore @Almeida @Viscaria @Shagglehod @BaileyG @Orbit @Exodus Support to Senior Support @hipsxn @Lucky. @Eficion @Amellis @Connor New Support Members: @Boots @undefined @matejz @Toxic @TyJ To avoid an influx of repeated questions, applications were not opened this month and due to a new internal system, they will be opening now every second month rather than month by month. If you were reserved in the previous wave, you will be automatically brought up for consideration in the upcoming wave for this month. If you have questions unrelated to what was mentioned above please contact @KV or @Jonesy for assistance.

Honestly, every foreign person should be CKd if caught committing a crime as they'd be deported.

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I can assure you, about 80% of cold-blooded often mass murders (being generous here) go completely without investigation or followup because LEOs actually lack any script assistance to pursue them. We operate in a silence-only and no-snitching society where whole 'cities', i.e. Davis, is run by 14-21 yos without families or general, law-abiding citizens who might have accounts of these crimes that then lead to investigations with material and direct evidence to use in court. Evidence has a half-life and casings and blood are only useful for so long and require entire write-ups to see them fully examined and compared. Add that to a dire lack of surveillance throughout the server as a whole and you will find LEOs have an incredibly hard time proving just about anything to the point the role of a detective or even a patrol cop is chore-like in this area and for the benefit of not LEOs, but criminal-RPers. So when I hear something like this being OP, I almost have to laugh. It is simply another route for LEO players to run more tests and it's inhibited by multiple factors including time, relevance, chain of custody (which must be met to prosecute if the player chooses a NG or NC plea), etc. You cannot receive a notification about striations on X matching Y gun and go about arresting someone, job done. It's a lot more long winded than that, and it requires multiple divisions cooperating with players physically roleplaying this out and forum-submitting forensic requests which take time and more time means things become harder to prove, if indeed the person committing the crime has not yet NCed and the paperwork is all there to furnish reports. Chances are, this by itself will be rare This command just means someone submitting a gun can then be alerted to make a forensic request rather than make a constant stream of forensic requests that go nowhere per gun picked up off of the street. Show a little sympathy as well. We have very limited players in Forensics expected to run, say, 10-20 requests per day, sitting on a forum and roleplaying in a room largely by themselves, not interacting with the playerbase. This division and method of RP is, foremost, necessitated by naysayers who claim LEOs are OP if it was script based or streamlined too well for ease of use as it is. Having a script that cuts time-wasting activity shouldn't be frowned upon. It's kind of stale and a little demoralizing to constantly see the outcry against LEO factions/scripts that assist them and their RP, particularly for those in investigative, RP-forward roles who put in so much work FOR criminals FOR their RP and FOR the balancing of the server.

From the perspective of someone who RP's a homicide Detective and primarily investigates homicides, I can assure you, chances are it will only have a major effect in a very insignificant amount of cases. @Jonesy summed it up pretty well. Here is why: Alot of casings get logged with a time, a date and location. That is about it. But what do the casings themselves tell us? The guns casings ended up at that location somehow. We don't know if they were fired there, dropped there, planted there or whatever. We would still need to prove that those casings even match a weapon that killed someone, and we can only do that when we have a coroners report. Those are requested very rarely and usually only during active investigation, where someone already has taken interested in the shooting in the first place. If the shooting is a while back, we can not just go into the archives and pull the body out to get the evidence, so we can't start something from scratch. Basically, we need to link everything and prove everything. From gun, to casings, to body. Forensics will still actually need to roleplay matching all three together, and write reports on this. It will never be: OMG THIS GUN LINKS TO OTHER CASINGS, LET US SLAP A MURDER CHARGE ON TOP. It probably won't even be brought up in most of the cases or arrests, nor would people be charged. As for the part of: It would be fine if forensics RP'ed logging every single gun they get, fire those, log those with paperwork, etc. We are then talking about doing extremely menial tasks all the time. Tasks that 99 percent of the time give no results and no actual worth to anyone's roleplay. And if we are going down this road, we should probably also add requirements for people to clean their house, shower or take a bath every single day for atleast 10 minutes of their ingame time and so forth. I know our forensics usually spend up to an hour working on guns, when roleplaying their analysis and making the required paperwork for it. It's not a 5 minute job as has already been mentioned above.

Sonny meets with a friend after the altercation.

A new beginning...

M.I.P. STOMP

From my personal experience on this server, I can confidently say that out of all subdivisions admins have, IFM struggles the most. There are indeed double standards in IFM team and sometimes it is extremely obvious. I am not going to point fingers because I don't think there is someone specific to blame for this, I think there is a flaw in the structure of the team itself.

Short description: /passcall to give your phone (while in call) to someone nearby your character so he can talk over the phone using your smartphone. Detailed description: Sometime we need to let someone talk with our phone while, indeed, you are already in call. For example, John Doe accepts phone call, Mario Rossi (over the phone) wanna talk with Luigi Verdi, who is nearby John Doe. So John Doe /passcall <Luigi Verdi> and now Luigi is talking with Mario using John's phone. Commands to add: /passcall <playername/id>. Also, if Luigi Verdi is too far from the phone owner, the phone should go in Luigi's inventory? let's talk. How would your suggestion improve the server?: So far I have seen things like "John Doe says (cellphone): [Luigi Verdi's voice] lorem impsum...", and it requires Verdi telling in PM what he wanna say and John forwarding replies that John is saying over the phone, making the whole phone call slow and lame, to be honest. I do think this simple command would be helpful when it comes to share a phone call. edit: let's add /showcontact(s) and /showmessage(s)

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This is not how it works. LSSD has a channel to request forensic roleplay to be done by LSPD forensics before OOC results are used in arrest reports/cases. This is already the case for DNA, fingerprints and other cases that would require forensic RP.

Update 2.5.4 Additions Added a shooting recoil to all guns Added a jamming probability for weapons Added weapon durability & cleaning systems You'll now need to clean your weapons on a regular basis or it'll jam more often You'll now need to repair your guns regularly, especially if it falls violently on the ground (death etc), a damaged weapon will have a bad recoil Added a (M) next to < 18 years old character's nametag Storing a weapon in an evidence locker will now directly alert the LEO officer if it matches a previously stored casing of decent quality Changes Cocaine base effect is now 10 instead of 15 Marijuana base effect is now 5 instead of 10 Ecstasy base effect is now 10 instead of 15 PCP, meth and heroin will get a 2x faster addiction increase Drastically decreased custom vehicles siren lights effects / environmental lights to try to reduce / fix texture losses Fixes Fixed a bug with drug purity which led to all drug usages being considered as 100% purity Fixed a bug with drug cutting that would show the drug name as Drug (Drug base), so you could metagame that the drug was cut. Fixed issues with vehicle alarms not always properly syncing Fixed a bug where using /blanks and switching character would keep the /blanks on your weapons