SugarDavis

+1 for making the LC server be 3 hours ahead of the LS server, or changing the LS server to be 3 hours behind. Assuming it is on the east coast, you'd need to account for time difference - especially since there may be a possibility to chat with players in LS while being in LC over facebrowser, mail, etc.

Never had an issues with them personally. I've noticed the quality seems to gravitate towards LEO rejects (almost like the real security industry!) but I feel like unless someone is intentionally wanting to roleplay as a security guard, you're going to get that crowd of people, and no I'm not saying all the people in Bobcat, G6, etc are like that. For the people who complain about them acting like cops - you must not be from America. Security companies that make themselves up to be like police are very common and often its a selling point for their business. Generally as long as their uniforms say security then they're free to wear whatever they want.

**Henry Tsai falls for the scam**

Lex Waqqa and his gang taking over the scrapyard and charging people to get in. Definitely put a damper on scrapping stolen cars for components. Happened late 2013 or early 2014.

This server seems so dead set on the California aesthetic but unwilling to deal with the shitty parts of California like high taxes, restrictive laws/government regulation, and heavy gun control. If it were up to me (the all knowing and all powerful), I'd just adopt as much of California as we feasibly can and then anything we DON'T like can be deviated from using IC means like the legislature changing laws, court rulings, etc.

There seems to be a divide amongst the admin team regarding NPC calls. I was recently involved in a situation where 5 people jumped 1 guy at the Sandy Shores gas station on a Saturday at ~8:00pm. I made a report asking if an admin could do a NPC 911 call. I got told that admins don't do that and that it's on other players to call 911.

Aperture Research.

>Tries crossing the road at night time >Wearing all black >gets creamed >"Why didn't anyone see me?!" 200 IQ move. This is an IC issue. Guy who hit you ran the red light traveling at mach 10. Your character was wearing dark clothing at night. Things like this happen IRL on a daily basis. Blaming it on the nameplate system seems misdirected.

A server I played on in the past actually had a language system. When you made your character you chose their native language. If you wanted to learn a new language you had to "unlock" that language by either buying a language book from the library, or have an admin unlock it for you. Once unlocked, unless set to level 100 by the admin, you had to go around and use the language to "level it up", so to speak. So for example, lets say my character has english and spanish unlocked. I can toggle back and fourth between what language Im using with a simple command. If someone with a level 1 understanding of Spanish sees me talk all they see in the chatbox is basically gargled text like "Syrsfh Daailkb Afujs Fue?". But let's say they had worked there way up to something like level 50 spanish, they might be able to understand half of what I was saying. So it would become something like "I hatj wijn it rajnk becahure it floodh the strects". Then at level 100 they would see "I hate when it rains because it floods the streets". I suggested adding this in the past and a bunch of people complained that it was "ToO RpG LiKe FoR ThIS SeRvER" which translated to me as "I'm mad I won't be able to metagame". As someone who RPs a character who speaks spanish, it'd be nice to actually be able to not have conversations MG'd/PG'd by people.

There seems to be a formula by which these threads occur... 1) Some kind of in game event occurs triggering a large police response. 2) Sometime during that event, things go south for the police and it's clear they might not be walking away victorious. 3) Admins intervene and RP is paused/voided (most events stop here). 3a) RP is unpaused and aloud to continue. 4) Police proceed "lose" in some capacity whether that be a large number of LEOs being injured or killed, mass destruction of one of their buildings, high profile suspects escaping the scene, etc. 5) Someone who carries water for one of the involved police factions makes a thread regarding the egregious injustice (in reality, a minor inconvenience) that occurred against the LEO RPers and why it's a dangerous precedent to set for the community. Community may or may not be in agreement about the initial posters claims. 6) People bitch back and forth for 10-15 pages then the thread either fizzles out or gets locked. 7) Nothing changes. 8) Cycle repeats itself in ~6 weeks.

*Laughs in 100+ days of continuous riots in Portland last summer* LEO RPers routinely cause inconvenience for illegal RPers. The LEO RPers will be just fine if they're inconvenienced for a week while their station is renovated. This post reeks of being salty that admins didn't step in and secure a win for LEO factions like they're used to.

Admins calling in on behalf of NPCs needs to be used more. This server has a weird phenomenon where nobody (figuratively speaking) calls 911. I've played on servers with lower pop that had higher 911 call volume than this server. Recently I was involved in a situation where a group of people were beating down a guy at the gas station in Sandy Shores. Realistically there'd be somebody out there who'd call 911. Made a report to see if we could get an NPC to report it to the police. Immediately closed with the excuse that a player can call 911 if they're witnessing it. Well problem is that basically everyone involved was an aggressor, poor dude stood no chance.

Complimenting a neatly made chart and saying it would be cool if that information was shared more is not the same as demanding that it be done.

I didn't know such metrics were tracked. Very cool. You guys should share these more often.

@Bospy (Im on my phone and it freaks out when I try to quote you) Longevity and membership aside, what is it providing to the server that the LSPD and SAPR aren't already providing? Sure, the SAPR is the most junior of the 3 but lets say SD just got deleted off the server right now - would there be any noticeable impact?