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I don't think we need to take lessons from somebody who was apart of The Vesci Crime Family, the self-acclaimed messiahs of LCN roleplay who made emotes such as: • /me attends a sit down between the wops and bikers. • /me is the boss of the Vesci Crime Family. • /me stuffs a dollar bill in Female_Name's asshole. I wouldn't even bother entertaining it. The only reason the focus is being shifted onto Bellomo is because of the two faction reports that were made against them, one of which they received a strike for. If they had not gone on a massive DM spree they were going to be closed the very same night following a third strike. I am the furthest thing from a fan of Bellomo, which Curly and Sarno can attest to themselves, but The Vesci Crime Family was some of the worst drivel I've witnessed plague the faction forum in over a decade. Led by a Bellantonio reject who recently got his panties in a twist over a CK that took place over 6 years ago, it really is no surprise that they failed. Bore off.

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@manslaughter At one point in time, you were also apart of the 140-150 population. What’s wrong with people wanting to come together and pitch ideas to try and help the server grow? While I do agree that some areas of the server could use some improvement, it doesn’t contribute anything beneficial to helping the server grow by throwing jabs at the players who at least try, nor does generalizing everyone based off the bad interactions you’ve had. I recall your faction contributing a lot to the server at one point, but your OOC behavior heavily clouds that opinion when most of the time you’re being toxic and shooting down people’s attempts to come together for something positive.

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Let's move on from the messiahs of mob roleplay now, before they start throwing homophobic and racist slurs (yes, that's what they do, especially Wayne). Current officials are being reviewed currently to ensure standards are being met; IFT seem to be pulling their weight which comes as no surprise, as do the developers.

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Since we're talking about our portrayals here, You've got your Boss and Underboss publicly associating with their narcotics dealing acting like this isn't 2024 and there's a camera pointed at you at all times. I don't think murdering clowns in broad daylight in the middle of an intersection is a very realistic portrayal of a modern LCN Underboss. More reports on your members that weren't even made by Bellomo members by the way than half of LSRPs factions combined Mr.Quality RP. The fact that you find yourselves in a Bellomo business every other day just to do your best to bait a violent reaction because your leadership has the mental maturity of a newborn baby is also funny, can't get over IC events and turned it into an OOC feud. Apparently keeping a low profile and minding your own business amounts to a low quality portrayal but I can't blame you since you're used to killing five people per day for looking at you funny. By the way tell your friends to keep creating level 1 accounts to drive straight from the airport to The Brickhouse just to troll, we enjoy it. What have Vesci contributed to the server other than filling the forums with screenshots of voided scenes and report threads? If you had an ounce of common sense and decency we wouldn't even have made a single report but yeah, keep that childish notion that everyone is out to get you because you're too good. If everyone says you smell like shit then you probably smell like shit and it isn't an issue with their sense of smell. I apologize for derailing the thread but there's so much bs a man can read without replying to it. It's a good thread with multiple opinions and valid ideas, I just hope management can utilize them properly before it's too late.

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Paid & Laid INC. is a modernized twist on Black Organized Crime Roleplay. This concept aims to be ever-evolving and never stop in the comfort zones that other factions on the server have embraced, i.e. spamming the same screenshots of drug sales & posting up on a corner everyday. This group is an off-shoot of the Blanco—Longoria DTO and a part of an in-character Organized Crime Syndicate that has formed around Blanco—Longoria's operations, it's also one of the direct ways to get involved with the faction. Seeking us out ICly is the preferred method of joining, but due to timezones and other activity restrictions we encourage newcomers to give a heads-up through a forum PM to @Marco Polo.

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Game is old We are old and the world is left to the young souls. We grew up on GTA SA and SAMP and kids grow up on GTA V. We are not the same. It's been a good run tho', LSRP brought a lot of fun and good memories and friendships. It's time to let go and move on!

There isn't any management to speak of. There hasn't been for years. Being in a management position implies having a vision that goes beyond what's in front of you at this very moment, it means being able to plan for the future, to set objectives and chart a somewhat cohesive strategy to achieve them. As this discussion, and countless others before, prove LS-RP, just like many other GTA RP communities, hasn't had something of the sort for about a decade at this point. Illegal factions wrestle in the metaphorical mud of the forums and tear each other to shreds in private Discord chats, complaining about how bad they have it, but at least there's long-standing concepts such as 38th Street or Valenti who honor the legacy of their predecessors and can carry an years-long narrative. Outside the fort there's no such luxuries, only a vast wasteland of concepts that sit uncared for, despite having been proven to be some of the most entertaining segments of LS-RP through the years, or groups that actively work to forget, rather than remember, without providing anything to replace that heritage. "Civilian" roleplay is an alien concept, gatekept by two or three Weyland-Yutani replicas with interests ranging from entertainment to trucking to private security, all done in the same shallow, boring, unimaginative and trite manner while having absolutely zero impact when it comes to creating roleplay. They just jump from one club opening to the next, from this delivery to the next, from mechanically checking a customer's /licenses to the next, and are all so similar and easily interchangeable that don't provide anything to the server, let alone a developing long-term story that can keep its members engaged and teach new players something about roleplaying captivating characters. The best the civilian scene can get is events like whatever the monstrosity called Wonderland was supposed to be, things that were already embarrassing when they were launched years ago. Government roleplay is all but dead. A faction that should serve, as historically has, as a port of call for newbies to learn the ropes about the server and roleplay in general has been all but forgotten, with legal faction management neglecting the implementation of ideas that can be easily portrayed in-game with minimal efforts such as a Public Works Department in favor of grand-standing, pointless contraptions like the Senate that require knowledgeable and capable players, which are in short supply these days. And even in the remote cases where such contraptions end up working they have been, time and again, either put under the control of a staff member who couldn't care less about roleplaying the Governor or immediately squashed for daring to try and roleplay instead of following the script set by the staff. Law enforcement roleplay is little more than a collection of tired concepts that have been around for literal decades and don't distinguish themselves in the slightest when compared to other communities. It's the same names, the same organizations, the same graphics, and in some cases, even the same people staffing them. Any attempt at diversifying or introducing concepts that, while not an exact 1:1 diorama of the real agencies, would bring more roleplay or more interactions (and thus potentially more players) are almost instantly shot down in the name of "realism" or some other buzzword, and characters are likewise encouraged to be one of the two or three different flavors of LAPD officer/ LASD deputy available to select from, with little room for deviation. Meanwhile the in-character history of the faction is relentlessly erased in favor of make-believe stories that not only never happened, but also seek to remove the efforts of those players who contributed to establish them and bring them where they are today (William Baxter was never LSPD Chief, but Michael Houston was). All of this is controlled by very nebulous groups of players with corporate names like Property Management Team, Economy Team, Faction Team, who, in addition to not being really accountable to anyone but the powers that be and operating under some unknown procedures, don't really set a course for the server to follow or come up with strategies to bring about a better experience as much as they respond to crises. And it's mostly because nobody gives a damn about anything but their own little slice of the server. Nobody seems to understand, or maybe care, that a formulaic law enforcement faction is inevitably going to ruin the experience for gangs and LCN groups alike and vice versa, or that the lack of a vibrant "civilian" scene makes the world feel more lifeless and akin to a Cops'n'Robbers server, or that even low-level government roleplay can provide a lot of scenarios for all the other factions to interact with. If you've seen The Wire, there's a line that should be implemented as the admin's oath of office: "We're building something here, we're building it from scratch. And all the pieces matter." What caused the fall of LS-RP, for three times in a row, wasn't the lack of scripts, or the outdated graphics, or the absence of this or that rule. It was, very simply, a lack of vision, a refusal to admit mistakes and improve, an indifference for things that don't directly affected the interests of those with decisional power, a stubborn denial of one's own faults followed by apologetic excuse and accusations of conspiracy against the server. It was complacency. And so LS-RP, the server once regarded not as one great place to roleplay at but the great place to roleplay at, fell, not because of its competitors, but because of its own rulers. We all sleep in the bed we make.