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Welcome to the monthly Faction Newsletter. This is your monthly update on the latest developments within the faction scene. This newsletter is designed to provide transparency by sharing high-level insights from internal discussions, spotlighting a featured faction each month, and highlighting any groups reaching candidate or official status. Faction of the Month This month's Faction Spotlight is Black Organized Crime, a group we’ve been watching since last month. From the start, they have delivered a distinct and refreshing take on illegal character development while maintaining consistently high standards of roleplay and OOC conduct. As always, we encourage anyone interested in getting involved with Black Organized Crime to reach out to their leadership team: @boris1, @sk8txrfu, @Gnarp, and @Iamkaciii. Tracing their roots back to 2024, the faction is steeped in rich lore that is a genuine pleasure to explore. Every storyline is crafted with remarkable attention to detail along with long-term development for character portrayals. The Black Organized Crime thread stands out as one of the few that captures both the day-to-day roleplay and a cohesive, evolving storyline. Their ability to balance grounded, passive roleplay with engaging schemes and rackets makes their faction feel more dynamic. If your faction would like to be considered for the next spotlight, continue pushing your creativity and standing out in meaningful ways. Key areas that can set your faction apart include strong character portrayal, showcasing unique media or roleplay, and maintaining a clean administrative record by following server rules. We look forward to carrying on this tradition and recognizing another deserving faction in the coming month. Every faction has an opportunity to be recognized so keep building, innovating, and contributing to the community. Faction Mediation Team Introduced We’re pleased to share that a Faction Mediation Teams have been introduced to support healthy faction relations and oversee war term agreements across the community. The team is composed of experienced faction members who work together to promote fair play, resolve disputes, and maintain a balanced environment during conflicts. This initiative reflects our continued commitment to transparency and collaboration within the illegal roleplay scene. Rage Updates During our recent Illegal Faction Team monthly meeting, we took the opportunity to address the absence of defined procedures and policies in preparation for the upcoming relaunch of the RAGE Multiplayer server. One of the advantages of having such a dedicated and experienced team is the diversity of perspectives we receive from across the community. This feedback continues to guide our approach as we prepare for the future of both platforms. We recognize that discussions around RAGE Multiplayer may not appeal to everyone, and we want to reaffirm that SA-MP will remain the primary focus of the Illegal Faction Team for the foreseeable future. At the same time, we’re ensuring that when the RAGE server is ready, we are fully equipped and organized to support it. If you’re interested in contributing ideas or joining the conversation about the development of illegal roleplay on either platform, please reach out to the Illegal Faction Council to get involved. Internal Updates We’d like to congratulate the Marat Gusarov Brigade for officially reaching official faction status. Your dedication and creativity have truly stood out within the community. We’d also like to congratulate the Verona Shoreline Crips and Warlocks Outlaw Motorcycle Club for being selected as official faction candidates. We look forward to seeing your continued development and impact on the server. The Illegal Faction Council and Management have launched a new competition to recognize and reward talented interior designers within the community. Participants will have the chance to design and furnish assigned residential properties, with prizes of up to 2000 UCP credits for the winner and 500–1000 credits for runners-up. Entry Deadline: September 30th Competition Period: October 1st – October 31st Focus: Residential properties (future rounds may feature business properties) All the information can be found here. We’re excited to announce that @Voronov has officially stepped into the role of Head of Scenario Scheme. If you’re interested in creating engaging scenarios, earning rewards, and contributing to immersive roleplay across the server, you can now forward your applications directly to him on the forums. For the application format and additional details, please visit: Scenario Schemes As a reminder, all the schemes are currently open as follows: Faction Drug Scheme — OPEN Faction Prison Scheme — CLOSED Strawmen Scheme — OPEN Solo Scheme Drugs — OPEN Weapons — (Refer to Strawman Scheme) Melee — OPEN Scenario Scheme — OPEN Business Scheme — OPEN If you would like more details, you can find additional information SA-MP Illegal Available Schemes. Ongoing Discussions and Upcoming Focus Areas We’d like to take a moment to share a brief overview of several internal discussions currently underway within the Illegal Faction Team. These highlights reflect key topics from our recent monthly meetings and areas we’re actively reviewing and improving. If there’s something you’d like to see added to future discussions, please reach out to @Scumpy, who will ensure your suggestions are included if they haven’t already been raised. For those who wish to connect directly with the team, our Illegal Faction Team Discord is open to the community. A ticket system is in place to allow you to reach out with any questions, feedback, or concerns. You can join here. Meeting Notes Encouraging scheme holders and Faction Team members to take a more proactive role in supporting and engaging with factions across the community. Reviewing official faction standards, activity, and performance to ensure expectations are being met and the status remains meaningful. Exploring how to better prepare for the RAGE launch, including ways the Faction Team can help ensure a smooth and successful rollout. Evaluating potential new official faction candidates and discussing initiatives to help newer factions establish themselves more effectively and confidently. ((S/O Scumpy, once again for producing this month's newsletter.))

Hi everyone, With October over, and Halloween finally wrapped up, we have no doubt that within a blink of an eye it will soon be the "C" word (Christmas) and we're already preparing for our festive activities. The most notable event of the month was the Halloween event which was put together at the Dirty Lake and attended by our players. Without further ado, here's our October Community Update: Development Team With the upcoming re-launch of the RageMP server, we want to reiterate our commitment to SA-MP, we have a dedicated team of developers that span both universes and that isn't going to change. Since the last major game update to 14.0, the development team has been hard at work pushing out incremental updates with a bunch of new features, fixes and quality of life improvements. These are always announced on Discord in #game-changelog, but sometimes people miss these, so here's a round up of some of the key changes: - Adds the possibility to burn corpses - Adds messages when you take damage (it can be disabled with: /togdamage) - Adds /sendlocation, send your location to your phone contacts - Adds Romano Pizza mapping in Market - Adds Carson Haul and Wrench company mapping in Fort Carson - Adds "Platinum Cars" mapping in Santa Maria - Adds black coffee, clipboard, popcorn, white coffee custom objects to /hold - Adds 2 red solo cup variants and 8 vape variants to /hold - Adds fireworks - Adds furnishing to business employee powers, grant employees /furniture access - Adds /togglesafezone, business and some select property owners can choose if their business/property is a safezone - Adds /pmd (Prevent My Death) - if you're under 15 health, you can use it to go to 15 hp to prevent death from SAMP physics - Adds quick search to /samaps command without dialog e.g. /samaps 2478 Ganton Bl - Fixes an issue with non-packaged vehicle weapons disappearing - Fixes vehicle weapons turning in to Fists - Fixes an issue with talking animations - Fixes taxi fares calculating incorrectly I know a lot of people are eagerly awaiting more information on the upcoming re-launch of the RageMP server; as much as we’d love to share details with you, we don’t want to give a date and then let people down if we can’t meet it for whatever reason - although internally we're right on track, working away in the background. We’re actively working on RageMP and it’s coming soonTM, we just want to ensure we have an experience worthy of the wait that people are expecting. As soon as we’re in a position we’re happy with, the community will be the first to know. It’s something we’re actively working on and we'll have a separate blog post when we're ready to share. Illegal Faction Team The Illegal Faction Council would like to begin by congratulating the servers newest official faction candidates, Black Organised Crime! The Illegal Faction Team as a whole has thoroughly enjoyed watching this faction grow since it first opened in July. We're excited to work together with B.O.C and see what the future holds! The Illegal Faction Team also recently ran a furnishing competition which has now been concluded for the month of October, and is now in it's final voting stage. Members of the Illegal Faction Team were tasked with reviewing factors like originality, attention to detail and practicality. Keep your eyes peeled for the Illegal Faction Team's monthly newsletter next week for further updates! Over the course of this month we've been discussing how we want schemes to unfold come RAGE's relaunch. These are some extremely important fundamentals that we need to have in place to ensure we, as the Illegal Faction Team give the most amount of roleplay opportunities to illegal factions and players. We've been involved in discussions on drugs and how they're going to work and play out, weapons and pricings for the weapons. We have applications open for the Illegal Faction Team and are looking to fill numerous available spots. If you're interested in helping out with discussions with either Rage or SAMP, we have plenty of open discussions and definitely want your input. If being apart of this team interests you, please do not hesitate to read through the following post and send the Illegal Faction Council your letters of interest. With the holidays coming we understand that factions and players have less and less time to commit to the game, but if you have any ideas or questions that could potentially help your faction or the server in general that us as the Illegal Faction Team could handle, please do not hesitate to reach out to @Aloosh, @Rye or @unlawfulact with your queries. Staff Update Here are some of October's Key Metrics: There were a total of 2126 reports handled There were a total of 2170 help requests handled There were a total of 273 character applications handled Congratulations to our newly promoted staff members ... Senior Admin Consistency Game Admin mourn Trainee Admin husoparac11 Welcome back to our returning staff members ... Game Admin Conor - Izumi

Hi everyone, With September over and autumn slowly creeping up on us it's hard to believe that the year is nearing an end. This month we released the first (of many) Illegal Faction Newsletter which includes a wealth of information, and of course Faction of the Month. If you haven't seen it already, check it out.! Here's our October Community Update: Illegal Faction Team Another great month in terms of progress for the Illegal Faction Team. We've introduced another official faction, The Marat Gusarov Brigade. They've been providing high quality Eurasian organised crime roleplay to the server for quite a while now. If you haven't already go and visit their thread and congratulate them on becoming official! Verona Shoreline Crips, a faction which is ran and operated by seasoned gang roleplayers have taken the next step and are now official faction candidates. Look out for this faction as they're taking the gang scene by storm! Over the last month we've been incredibly busy, we've brainstormed ideas on how to improve our faction properties and the quality of them. We recently announced a furnishing competition. This competition aims to assist in the furnishing of faction team properties (which any eligible faction can apply for) whilst also rewarding furnishers of the community by competing against one another for UCP Credit prizes! The winner will be announced next month once all entrants have completed their work, and the voting process is complete. We've also been receiving and noticing an increase of reports regarding behaviour on MyFace which we'll be adding some clarity to our Rules of Engagement to cover. Keep an eye out for the upcoming Illegal Faction Team Update blog post, for more information on what we've been up to and what's coming! We'd like to add that in our recent monthly Illegal Faction Team meeting, we also discussed the lack of existing procedures/policies in place for the relaunch of our RAGE Multiplayer server. (We said the R word! 😱) One of the great things about having a such a dedicated and widely experienced Illegal Faction Team is that we're able to receive feedback from all walks of the community. We're aware discussing our RAGE Multiplayer server is not everyone's cup of tea, and if this is you, we'd like to reassure you that SA-MP will remain the focus of the Illegal Faction Team just as it has since we returned. We are however ensuring that when the RAGE Multiplayer server is ready to go, so are we. If you'd like to get involved in discussions surrounding the illegal roleplay scene on either, or both servers please reach out to the Illegal Faction Council with your interest. Once again, we have plenty of schemes available to apply for, and we're excited to continue our work with our Development Team to come up with updates for SA-MP. If you think you have something to bring to the table, that would benefit the illegal scene don't be afraid to reach out to @Aloosh@Rye or @unlawfulact. Staff Update Here are some of September's Key Metrics: There were a total of 2377 reports handled There were a total of 2297 help requests handled There were a total of 338 character applications handled We saw a large number of applications come through for Tester and after long deliberations between the leadership team, we want to share a massive congratulations to our new testers! Our Head of Testers @celestine will be reaching out to you. Tester Brownyy - ShelbyOne - ouday - Reaperslime - Edrian - demiGee zionc0789 - McDadda - GhostOfProtocol - Original Clack - Kristyboi - fruit Congratulations to our newly promoted staff members ... Trainee Admin mourn Senior Tester wyp Welcome back to our returning staff members ... Tester Justitae