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hello, ive returned to GTAW after some time and i've noticed that nigh on every single business is aimed towards high-end, wealthy characters. where exactly am i meant to go to interact with average joe's or characters with some criminal affiliation? do you think that IFM is doing enough to support illegal factions in their creation of legal businesses as fronts/hangouts? it feels as though there is nowhere to go to roleplay with 'normal' individuals. what is your experience? i feel as though average joe's and criminals are massively outnumbered on this server and the current climate may put off illegal roleplayers from playing on the server. i think there has to be more of a drive to implement businsses for 'normal' people. dive bars, diners, punk bars, sandwich shops, whatever. there should also be more done to stop ridiculous interiors. please see below. this interior looks like its from an elven fantasy RPG. i assume im not alone when i say it feels ridculous for my character to be here. have you EVER been somewhere like this in real life? have u ever seen a coffee shop make so much money that they can afford this kinda furnishing? i know the argument about suspending reality on a roleplayer server is an ongoing one but this is excessively unrealistic. to the point that, if ur character isnt rping being a millionare (or an elf), they shouldnt be here.

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I actually went to this bar/inn thing on my off duty cop character and was met by a character called Thalrus Oakwhisper who literally said 'we spare little tolerance for city guards here, outlander' (I was plain clothed off duty). When I asked him what he was talking about, he stabbed my character with a 'void dagger', brutally wounding me, before taking off running.

23 July 2022 — Illegal Faction Management There has been a lot of discussions behind the scenes as to the changes that were initially discussed within the Illegal FM Public Discord. We have finally moved forwards with the damage and caliber changes thanks to the invaluable time of @Strobe and his dedication to the project. However, as we enter summer, there are LOAs across the board within staff which means that we have a mass influx of work which resulted in a short closure of schemes. This is not something that we want to make a regular thing, however, we have to cut responsibilities where necessary to ensure we can solve high priority issues such as reports that are coming in that demand immediate review. The current change we are working on is perfecting the UCP requests process alongside @Biscuit and @Adv who again have dedicated themselves to helping us better the processes for illegal roleplayers. This does not have a completion date as of right now. Now that weapons have been adjusted, we will be moving forwards with re-reviewing the faction/unofficial group dynamics and the faction system. The drug rehaul is also being revisited now that weapons have finally been finished (pending some bug fixes). @slothy has also been promoted within the team to join @Igloo as senior members within the team. — Rules of Engagement [23/JUL/2022] Rules of Engagement initially had a revamp of how it was to be handled in February 2022 as one of the main pointers from the large debate that was hosted within what is now the Illegal FM Public Discord. Over time, we were able to gather a mass amount of feedback and revamp the Rules of Engagement again to fit the server's dynamics more comfortably. Please see the entire thread for the full update, this is in effect immediately. — Supplier Program Weapon Attachments are finally being released to suppliers, however, they will not be limited to gun suppliers. This decision was made unanimously between Illegal FM alongside Shanks and Nervous. We will not release all types of attachments yet as this will be a period to adjust the scene for these attachments coming in. Weapon Specialists will be contacted within the next 48 hours with how many attachments they will be granted and they will be able to make a monthly request. Weapon Suppliers will be contacted within the next 48 hours with information on how their requests should be sent in alongside their regular supply requests, if they made a request within the last 7 days, they may make another request without resetting the 30 day timer. We are opening Weapon Specialist for 10 spots to fill. These will be open until 06/AUG/2022. We are opening Electronics Supplier for 10 spots to fill. These will be open until 06/AUG/2022. We are opening Small Drug Supplier for 10 spots to fill. These will be open until 06/AUG/2022. However, only the following drugs may be requested: Valium; Vicodin; Cocaine; Heroin; MDMA, and; LSD. We are recruiting more individuals to the supplier ranks following diversity around the roleplay scene as well as to promote the recent adjustments for electronics suppliers unlocking phones, weapon specialists being able to access attachments. Melee and Tobacco remain open.

Huge credits to @Pyro for recording this video showcasing our W.I.P ENV. One more s/o to Cranky and Bandz for their assistance on making this thing come together.

Hello everyone, following a staff meeting we've been trying to tackle the issue of looting that is rampant of the server and that leads to more & more bans / punishments everyday. While it is realistic for guns to be lootable because in your everyday life if you die the gun is often working and can be picked up, since we're in a game this feature leads to unrealistic situations all the time where players rush for bodies & run around to loot corpses for guns. We've discussed it and ended up with the following solution to end this unrealistic behavior : Guns will now break on wounded / death IF : - You're in dimension 0 - You have been shot This means that you'll be able to pickup the gun but you won't be able to use it at all and it'll appear as a "Broken Glock" for example. Same if you give the gun to a friend, it'll not be usable. If you're revided by FD (treated for your wounds) or by an administrators (your friends treat your wounds and /request a revive after) your guns will be automatically usable again. A command for admins to re-enable guns will also be added. This means that this change will not impact OOC random deaths (car crashes, falling, fist fighting, interior deaths) or murders in interiors where it would be realistic to loot someone. This solution will completely get rid of the looting issue, stop the countless punishments given everyday despite it being forbidden in rules so we believe it'll help the server in having more realistic "after gun fights" situations and less bad mentalities, less random murders. We do want to share it with the community to see if you have identified issues we did not identified with this sytem, or have better suggestions, before this change goes live.

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If the guns are going to be "broken", there needs to be some way to fix them. A broken gun will be useless, the gun would not simple break. It makes no sense it goes into the nether realm over someone getting shot while holding it, regardless of looting being an issue. They're either broken or they disappear, broken implies they an be fixed. However, hypothetically, lets say there is a x% chance for someone with the WeaponSpecialist role to be able to "fix" it. This allows SOME of the guns that are losing during death to be able to repair the firearms in some capacity. This could only be possible, for example, after X amount of time. If a body hasn't been found in multiple hours.. it's a working theory. Edit: Thinking some more, this would still mean that people have to loot to get it so probably not the best alternative solution and give them an incentive to do so. So perhaps some other method.

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My time in GTA:W has unfortunately come to a close, which has been all but sweet. Honestly, it's been a difficult decision but I've decided that this would be the best for my future. As a result, I just wanted to say bye to those who have been close friends and take some time to remember the amazing times. I started out on GTA:W because a friend of mine, from SARP, has brought it up to our friend group and said that he was a part of a faction (I forget the name some Serbian faction though). I started out as Ruslan until I got CKed for leaking information about the faction ICly to a girl. That was funny. I made a new character in the faction until we broke off as the Ramzan Crew, or something along those lines. I eventually departed to pursue a character in SD, which turned out to be Rudy Benson. Although, as some of you know, I was removed from the faction for being toxic (as well as an accused Nazi!). However, I was quickly unbanned and wasn't let back into SD. So what did I do? I decided that politics was the way to go, to continue my character development. I started networking and got in touch with a character that introduced me to the Democratic Party, and quickly rose up in ranks there. I decided that I would run for the Senate once election cycle turned around, but was shut down when the Democrats secured 5/10 of the seats. I was 6th in line. HaveADream later resigned from the Senate and I took his spot. Spent a short time in the Democratic Party, with some of that as the Chairman of the Party, before I stepped down and denounced the party ICly. I switched over to the Republican side and finished off my time there, while also spending some time as the Chairman. I thought about slowly killing off my character with cancer, or something along those lines, but I don't have enough time or energy to contribute to roleplay anymore. My goal right now is to detox from the internet (minus some social media) until I'm ready to come back to it. I've realized how toxic and hateful it really has made me and I despise that, to be completely honest. However, I made a lot of good friends in my tenure within this community and wanted to take some time to shout them out. I do want to highlight that this list is DEFINITELY not all-inclusive. Nexus - I'm giving you the top spot because I'm a bitch and can't think of anyone else (no favoritism). I will thoroughly miss our trolling around and thug shaking on cam in Discord with the homies. Thanks for being a shoulder when I had my down times in the past and getting me back up to roleplaying. Not only are you an awesome person but you have some awesome characters and I truly respect how devoted you are to immersing yourself at times, especially while grocery shopping for a bag of green peas. I'll miss you homie. Suxen - Really similar with you. Thanks for always being a proponent for me in the Party. You're the only reason I didn't leave a month ago when I initially wanted to. I appreciate your flexibility and, similarly to Nexus, your trust in me. The few times we talked ICly was always progressive and some of the few times on this server I will cherish. Definitely spiced up a bit of politics. Kam/Bratan/Vinny_Meadows - My Russian brother, known you for far too long. Thanks for setting my first character straight and shooting him. That was such a fucking awful idea. You're THE big homie and I appreciate you taking our group under your wing for our time in the faction. Those truly were the golden days, in my opinion. Didn't care about anything other than pushing drugs and going to clubs to AFK. Although, next time, don't add me back to the Snapchat GC when I leave, ok? All good. Arkan - You smell bad. Seriously though, you're a pretty sick (cool) guy and I appreciate you involving me in the IFC community. RIP the Discord. Even though we beef on Discord, you know you have my respect at the end of the day. Email me sometime. Adv - Idk if you realize but I genuinely enjoyed our talks. Thanks for being there for random PM shit and for our Senate prayers. I will always wish you the best of luck in life bro. Aces - Big homie that started pulling me away from GTA:W. You gave me a much needed break from GTA and I will forever be grateful for that. Even though you didn't let me into SEB, I will still miss the few times we played in SD and even more of our time playing as Sheriff's deputies on Red Dead. Definitely keep in touch, we still need to have our group go out to Vegas sometime. Big money needs to be spent!

Could.. you give me the name of that business .. So I could talk to them about the mapping.. thanks. Also, I'll push out a PM update within the next couple of days (hopefully) to try and persuade more to open businesses.

this isnt trivial this is a genuine issue. the server feels like a parody of america lol, u walk into a business thats inna middle of bumfuck egypt and it has a five star dining restaurant interior

Been saying this for years... everything is either too Bouji or simply inspired by European architecture. Businesses rarely appeal to the average working-class person because everyone wants to be extra-fancy and unique when it just looks ridiculous, in my opinion. EDIT: I apologize if it sounds like bashing, but I cannot really state this in any other way, right now.

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Mate the server is finished. Everyone is a cry baby after losing. Ifm enables crazy people ooc and they write 15 reports out on someone in one day so no one can be bothered to even rp. U gotta do like 80 things to open up a faction. And I’m prolly gna get ma post deleted lmao