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Things began to deteriorate for the 'Vinewood crime family' when Joseph 'Joe White' Peroni turned informant. Joe gave up everything including Jimmy 'The Big Cheese' Lactosi and his 'cheese' scheme which defrauded millions of turophiles out of cheese slices. As president of Cheeseters local 1104, Peroni embezzled close to two million slices by 'skimming off the top' and securing two out of every pack of six for himself. Lactosi made a plea deal and put all his churds on the table by testifying against the family. Both Peroni and Lactosi entered WITSEC in 2022 following joint-testimonies against the family. Peroni who now goes by the stage name 'Joe White' stars in his own pantomime show in Arizona, named 'Joe White and the Seven No Shows' while Lactosi works in sanitation cleaning 'de-brie' throughout Winnipeg.

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I'll sell this on a first come first served basis. $150,000 to whoever wants it tonight between the above. Just respond to this post. @Amellis @Phallanx

Buyout set to $80,000.

Looking good my guy. This one should get you through purgatory.

Bert's finally away with the doves.

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I'll sell this for $110,000.

I'll sell this for $180,000.

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In future I'll make a dummies guide to continuation specifically for him. This has nothing to do with leadership of a faction acting in bad faith or its members being "left in the lurch," it's to do with an obvious drop in quality when the leadership of a faction notice the deterioration of said quality and decide to end the project, only for it to be resurrected days, weeks and even months later while maintaining its standing. Not everyone is capable of being a leader and more importantly, not everyone is capable of successfully portraying a concept. Whilst the purpose behind these "carry on" factions might prolong a faction's lifespan, it damages its quality. I have no issues with people continuing their characters or factions for that matter if it is adequate, but being a "member" should not entitle you to continue someone else's project if they feel that it's beyond salvage. I might have to dumb it down a bit so that people like the above stop taking it at face value, or maybe I should add more cunts, mates and sheilas in so that it's more understandable to the blockheads. The truth of the matter is that faction leaders know their factions more than anyone. If they are closing the faction free willingly, it's because it's out served its purpose. I shouldn't be able to, as a member of a faction, be able to contact a few of my OOC buddies (who were never part of the faction) and continue a faction most of them, bar myself, were never part of. It becomes a brand new faction with brand new members and it should have to go through the same process as any other new faction. If leaders don't trust somebody to carry on their faction, the chances are it's for good reason. I don't see why an application should change that. All it takes is one look into the archive section to know that these "continuations" are harmful to the quality of roleplay. It's not about members wanting continuum, if they're capable and if they have the following of the faction or the backing of the people who made the faction successful in the first place. I speak for at least three people that wanted to close their factions but weren't able to. The "fun" and abandonment of members should never come before quality of roleplay and this is why we're seeing an obvious decline in it. Continuation is okay if it's passed down but the deterioration of said factions comes from these "enforced" resumptions. I believe that allowing this is part and parcel the reason why the condition of these recycled factions are so bad. But I get that people like shortcuts. A faction leader isn't just a "thread holder," they're the glue that held the faction together, gave it its direction and the person who ensured its quality. Which is why I'm saying that it's become more of a case of staying alive than it has being contributory to the server. Dumbed down for the above: Man notice faction decline. Man notice inactive. Man close faction. Man notice 2 weeks later faction back from dead with new leader and new members. Man think dog shit. Man think let sleeping dogs lay.

Before the thread is misrepresented and taken out of context, let me clear a couple of things up. The point of the thread is a discussion, it is not a suggestion. The discussion is centred around continuation and specifically the continuation of factions. By enforcement, if a faction leader wants to shut their faction down in its entirety, members of said faction may apply to "carry it on," by extension. Even if the faction's leadership disapproves of a reopening, applications allow it under the pretence of continuation. My thesis is that sometimes these resuming factions (opening a new thread after the old one's archived) don't have the quality or the portrayal that got them to the position their predecessors created. What I'm insinuating is that if a faction's leadership wants to close their faction entirely without having it extended, it should be well within their rights to do so. A member shouldn't be able to just send in an application to have it recommenced without prior approval. Any faction going through a "transition of power" should be re-evaluated as a faction completely. The reason I'm using hypotheticals is because I don't want to use literal examples in the interest of namedropping and embarrassing anyone but "continuation" shouldn't be an excuse to let a faction outlive its purpose is what I'm getting at. Don't get me wrong, there are some good cases of continuation but I feel that it's universally being used as a "survival" tool. Ensuring quality and standard in a transition should come above survival. And unless the leadership is removed or deemed unfit, leaders should be well within their rights to have their factions shut to avoid all of the aforementioned. I understand continuations from the likes of prison factions i.e the White Car and the Black Car because they're wide-ranging and uncategorical but I'm talking about your average faction.

Before I dive into why I believe the server's stance on this is antithetical to its purpose I will start by saying that I understand that its intentions are in the right place. Longevity, continuance and lastingness are traits that directly contribute to the ambience of the city and criminal relationships. Permanency is what makes the underworld reliable. A lot of these "continued factions" contribute directly to the cohesion of the black market. I am an advocate for longevity and stability and in no way, shape or form am I arguing against continuum by definition. It's my opinion that it's having an adverse effect on the overall standard of roleplay. It is contradictory to its purpose, not only on a faction's image but by extension, the image of the server in general. Continuation is something that should be endorsed and championed but the enforcement of "continuation" shouldn't be used as a survival mechanism or as a gatekeeping function. One thing I'm sure everyone will agree on is that when a faction closes and re-opens under new leadership, nine out of ten times there is a clear decline in quality. A quality that one, the previous leadership would never want representing its project and two, a quality and member base that would have most likely never made it through faction purgatory to begin with. I feel that the execution of continuation is wide of the mark. After all, is a faction really a continuation if all of its members, businesses and operations are brand new? A continuation of a faction should be exactly that, an extension of said faction. To my knowledge, to be considered an "extension" of a faction all you have to do is send in an application. There is no follow up on anything that can be labelled foundational. If a faction leader wants to close their faction, by right, they should be allowed to. I believe that this outlook on continuation is having an opposite effect. My question is, do you think the approach behind continuation is contradictory to its purpose? Is there an obvious decline in standard with these enforced continuations? To me, it's more of a survival mechanism to add to a faction's lifespan than it is a resumption. Regardless of condition, 9/10 times a faction is granted continuance under this pretence. To me, it's gatekeeping. Edit: TLDR: I don't mean when a faction's still open. I mean when it closes and re-opens under new (involuntary) leadership. Tighten the enforcement of quality around faction "continuations," and be more elaborate. Don't let people ruin factions by carrying on under new leadership, especially without the backing of a majority of its members. I am in favour of faction continuation if the previous standard is upheld and there is reasonable grounds but if it is not, let sleeping dogs lay.

Mercer's the man. On Eme.

Myself and a handful of others I know have had their verification posts deleted on multiple occasions. Are names being picked out of a hat, or? Cherry tree, maybe?

I was starting to get worried. Hell yeah.

I don't care how good a server's script is upon launch if they cater to good roleplay. A lot of the people who are rejecting these servers based on the perks of the script are probably the hideaway roleplayers who favour the RPG playstyle this server caters to anyway. For those of us who put value in the illegal roleplaying scene we've been dealt the short end of the stick for years. Other things and genres are given priority and the, I want to say enforcement but it's more than that, the quality has been sacrificed and neglected for so long that people don't want to play. There's way too much micromanagement, bureaucracy and censorship all around the board that I can't wait for an alternative. I haven't been playing properly in around two months because of it. Today I decided to stop roleplaying entirely. Any competitor who prioritizes this server's weak spots will probably do well. LSRP's supposedly launching next month, we'll see. It probably won't be until hindsight hits that people realize that they should have probably considered what people have been saying. You don't need 1000 in-door players to "compete" when 200-300 players who want the same thing are on the same page.

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Change of plan.