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Big_Smokes

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Big_Smokes last won the day on April 20 2020

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About Big_Smokes

  • Birthday 07/10/1997

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    Nederland
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    Law School Student
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    Charles Hughes
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    Los Santos Police Department

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  1. my brother in christ this will be the greatest thread in character stories I expect many features thank you
  2. This was the real second season of true detective 🙏
  3. my name is commander simmons and this is my favorite thread on the citadel
  4. truly the most legendary of police officers, I will be watching your career with great interest
  5. To add on to the last bit: I recently came back to the server & the LSPD and during every training/exercise/anything to do with engaging with (more organized) criminals, they essentially warn you going ''if you do something stupid like engage a big group of dudes with guns and you die, you run a serious risk of getting CKed''. I don't know how often this is applied, but at the very least, the expectation/impression that it will happen exists and is used as a constant reminder not to be an idiot out of character. Whether this holds up in every individual experience people have with each other, I don't know. Probably doesn't, but as it is, things rarely do hold up 100% of the time. On topic though, I think this is a difficult one. CK applications exist for a reason and considering this court case's *potential outcome* was FM approved, I do expect that it went through the same process as a regular CK application or something similar where all sides were taken into account. I don't necessarily like CK's being forced as a concept at all (I believe it should be an agreement between the players involved, but, within reason, exceptions should be made) because nobody likes losing their whole story over something that as they perceived it wasn't even close to being worth ending their story over. I don't see how this situation is any different from any other CK application situation just because the courts are involved, however. I've seen a fair amount of replies going ''you should only get CKed if the victim got CKed'', but is that even true in most current/past situations where people get CKed? I would love to know because I am genuinely curious. Mind you, I've had very little to do with involuntary CKs during my time here and I wonder what the standard is in that regard.
  6. YTA, OP. ERP is a family activity and it is your own fault for neglecting to install GTA:W on their computers sooner.
  7. Glad to see my topic is still doing well. Didn't realize my faction changed to private security since I left though
  8. To combat this issue we have created the Force Investigation Section. A system is currently being trialed that does exactly this. And KarMagick? I don't remember you doing a lot of towing back when you were still in PD neither. Our guys do their best but nobody wants to do mindnumbingly tedious and boring tasks all day, especially when most times it's an administrator's job. (Read Syrike's comment) Nice to see you're still around, though. Remember to keep your shirt on pal.
  9. I've seen this pop up a few times. I've discussed this exact thing with FM and what you quoted here is a common misconception. There is no such rule on the server for any factions. Factions that do this restrain themselves, not the other way around. I've actually read this whole discussion and I'm sorry to say this but according to what I was recently informed of by management, you're all pointing fingers at each other without realizing you're all wrong. There is no ''you can't come back to x position after CK rule'' in place that blanket covers all factions on the server. There are a select few factions which choose to do this themselves, and that's completely onto them. Why does the LSPD choose not to make people jump through hoops after getting CKed most of the time? Not because it would be a waste of their time, no, but a waste of everyone else's time. Some of you may not know this, but a decent 40% if not more of the time spent ''playing'' the game for law enforcement roleplayers past their probationary ranks is spent writing documents. And we (both us and the LSSD) have made it our sole purpose to take out any non essential documentation. But that still leaves us with **a literal shitload** of work that simply must be done to achieve some semblance of realism within law enforcement roleplay. I think it's a waste of time for my 3+1's, detectives, sergeants, lieutenants, captains, commanders and deputy chiefs to go through the motions ICly and administratively with someone that for example has already reached the rank of Lieutenant in my faction and just happened to get himself CKed/arrested/removed for whatever IC reason if it's not necessary and the roleplay leading up to it was of good quality. These people who play this game as a hobby in their free time and do not get any financial compensation for behaving like they would in a real business environment spending countless hours teaching people who actually need that new experience should not be further penalized for having chosen this path, simply because of an arbitrary rule that defines who and when may start at what position, for no other purpose then ''the need for every character to start fresh from the bottom''. This might sound like mixing to you, but at the end of the day: You are not just roleplaying a character in the faction. Yes, you might be roleplaying a character who is a lieutenant. But that also means you are actually fulfilling the tasks of a lieutenant. Which means you are in command of a group of 20+ people, or multiple groups of people. This means you need to have experience. Real, over time gained experience. You need to be able to communicate with people. Not communicate in the sense of saying ''hello'' and ''goodbye'' every day, but you need to be able to ensure they do their jobs, that their jobs are done in a fashion that qualitatively is at the very least good enough for the LSPD and you need to manage the careers of these people. Deciding if they get promoted, deciding if they get demoted, offering new positions to these people... yeah, that's all part of the career package. Do not for a second underestimate the fact you need to be competent and experienced OOC to even get close to these positions. At minimum with restrictions in place, it will take you 7-9 months in the faction to get to Lieutenant. Only two people have ever reached the rank in the minimum amount of time it took to get there. Most people take at least 9-12 months to achieve a position this high or of similar workload in the LSPD. Losing people that you have spent 12 months training, guiding and evaluating for a particular job or part of the faction hurts. It doesn't just hurt the organizational readiness of the faction, but also ruins OOC motivation and makes it very difficult to maintain team cohesion. All of these things not happening were a big part of the LSPD being able to change so much already in 2020. When you create a character, you can have that character be whomever you want to be. I do not see any good reason why on a case by case basis in good judgement people can't decide that their character is a police captain who just so happened to go up the rank in unnamed district of the LSPD, because it suits the greater needs of both the faction and the community to have that OOC person retained in their position. Now don't get me wrong. IF people want to voluntarily step down, take a lower ranking character, whatever, that's fine by me. And they do have to go through the motions like everybody else. But in situations where it is unnecessary and causes an OOC brain drain of ANY faction, be that the LSPD or for example a much smaller faction in which that person getting removed is playing a pivotal role and absolutely cannot be taken away from their position or it will hurt/destroy said faction, it's unbecoming of any of us to ask that person to start completely from the bottom simply to satisfy our own needs. It's selfish and will hurt the quality of the server in the long run.
  10. This goes for both of you, but this is not the place to discuss/post player reports. Take it elsewhere; I believe I was very clear in the original post what the intent of this topic was. If you have constructive feedback, you're welcome to post it however.
  11. Doubt it. I did stream it but I never post stuff on reddit myself.
  12. Be big brain and form ireland - If you want to do a bigger challenge, I'm currently doing naples > two sicilies > italy > roman empire. I'm the Italy stage now and it's good fun.
  13. That's the thing though. Take it with a grain of salt, but things get lost in translation. I think we all prefer to get our information straight from the source - your insight is appreciated nonetheless, though I have left most of my LSRP experiences far behind me in favor of what we've been able to accomplish here.
  14. As cascade stated, this topic is not meant for single incidents or anything of the sort. Please read the original post, and if you encounter someone in my faction who behaves in the way you described, please report it so that my staff team or I can take action.
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