Nervous Posted October 20, 2022 Share Posted October 20, 2022 (edited) Many of you have been wondering what's coming with GTAW 3.0, we're going to be bringing a lot of changes and the first one I want to introduce you is a revamp of our current servers and infrastructure. Summary There will be only one UCP in gta.world and your characters from Liberty City or Los Santos will be merged under one account. You'll be able to use these characters in the city of your choice, and take a plane at the airport by paying for a ticket to go in another city. How is it going to benefit GTAW? It is no secret that Liberty City has split the playerbase and thus reduced the activity on Los Santos drastically. We've created artificial walls by having different UCPs, forums, accounts and it is very painful to switch from one city to another right now. Our goal is to bring unique roleplay on the table for all players, but mainly to boost again the activity by taking down all these walls and allowing players to just roleplay wherever they want, whenever they want. This system will come with dynamic values allowing us to modify things such as paychecks, rewards, activity points, jobs / specific scripts in one city or another to re-balance the population and activity as we see fit. The entire payment system will also be merged, which means that if your character is a platinum donator, it'll be shared through Los Santos and Liberty City ! The same goes for your World Points or active donation status, they'll be fully merged. Activity Rewards We're also going to be rewarding activities on one server when a re-balance of players is needed in order to promote activities on said server and business life, here is an example of what will be added : In the next weeks, you'll be able to receive Panda Points in Los Santos by playing at peak hours and buy /bad tokens through it that will be only usable on Los Santos, so business owners will be able to get one /bad token per day of activity. (3-4 hours of activity at peak time for 1 /bad token). There are more cool benefits like this that you'll get in the activity shop and we still have to receive more ideas from you! New roleplay concepts The ability to move from one city to another is also going to bring new roleplay concepts for factions, businesses and characters. Concepts that were usually unthinkable in one city like US Marshall or FBI can now be thought of, even if their implementation isn't planned yet! Airports related roleplay will also play a huge role now as obviously airport security could be a thing if a faction is interested in handling it. Technical details - One UCP : Your accounts will be automatically merged. If your usernames are different or if you created two fully different accounts (id, names) then we will create a page that allows you to merge an account if you have the username, password and email access. - All characters mixed : Your LS and LC characters will co-exist together, if some have the same name and belong to you, you'll be asked to choose which character you want to keep. If someone else took your name or is using your name, we'll keep the oldest character unless that character was inactive since before July 2022, in that case the most recent one will be taken IF active in the past month. You'll be given the option of course to take a new name for free if you are forced to change a character name. - The bank accounts will remain separate for the first few months to avoid disturbing Liberty City's economy - You'll be able to transfer a limited amount of cash with you from one city to the other that will be usable to buy a taxi, items, etc. - You'll not be able to transfer illegal items since you'll have to go through the airport security, however Faction Management might open up smuggling requests - The two forums will remain at the merge - The two discords will remain at the merge, but the main Discord will become our main community channel while the Liberty City discord will be less used and only used for Liberty City related announcements - The two staff team will remain separated, however we're introducing a new concept of joint administrators for teams that needs to work together, such as Faction Management, or for joint cities reports. - Only one MDC, one Facebrowser will be live and Facebrowser will allow you again to see all characters - Criminal points and criminal history will be merged - Administrative punishment records will be merged but showing under two different tabs on UCP. If you're banned on Los Santos, you'll not be able to join Los Santos again, only Liberty City. - There will be a few hours cooldown for flying back, and each tickets will be approximately $10k-20k (final price is still to be decided). - Cars are linked to a city, you cannot bring a car for now into Liberty City from Los Santos - We're working on a GTAW launcher that will allow you to choose from Liberty City or Los Santos without searching for the server in Rage launcher (still pending on Rage's final approval) - We're working on optimizing the game launching to make it faster and with less crashes - Server rules will be adapted and synchronized - We're going to be added cool synchronized stuff between servers such as phone calls but not directly for the launch, it'll come a bit after There are many more details to share and I don't have them all in my head, but you'll have hundreds of questions! Marketing As soon as the merge is complete, we'll be heavily investing in marketing for GTAW as it is something we've never done before. Our strict text roleplay aspect makes it hard to market as we are losing most of the investment just at the application phase since most players are denied. However I do believe that using the strength of promoting a unique feature among GTA servers, we can do a successful marketing operation. We'll be releasing new server trailers, contacting content creators matching with our values, promoting the server through advertisements and news websites! More to come... We have a lot of major features being actively developed, and that will be introduced in the next weeks, however this thread needs to focus on the merge & your feedbacks / concerns for now before we deep dive into something else. However we are focusing on implementing long time requested features & suggestions and I can't wait to share more info with you about this soon! When is it coming? On the gamemode side, we're slowly deploying the new infrastructure to support these changes, and it's almost finished! San Andreas is already running on our new GTAW 3.0 infrastructure but it's invisible for players. We're giving ourselves approximately 30 days to fix all potential issues with rules, staff organization, UCP changes. Edited October 20, 2022 by Nervous 46 7 12 Link to comment
Ohngesicht Posted October 20, 2022 Share Posted October 20, 2022 (edited) WOW! Fucking insane, revolutionary stuff happening soon. Can't wait.... Edited October 20, 2022 by Ohngesicht 2 Link to comment
LeNova Posted October 20, 2022 Share Posted October 20, 2022 Can't wait to see smuggling rp 3 Link to comment
HEKVT Posted October 20, 2022 Share Posted October 20, 2022 Well, at least it's been noticed even by upper management that LC nearly killed off not just LS, but GTA:W, changes sound promising, but we'll see. 3 Link to comment
Uniquee Posted October 20, 2022 Share Posted October 20, 2022 1 minute ago, PrinceMalick said: W Link to comment
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