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The MAN is back.

Old forums will be enabled on read-only to just look back at the memories someday. They want to though get the main dev core of the server done first and some of the main features in the game before they work on the old forums. Welcome back though.

Can't wait for another faggot in mall. :s

Nuff said.

I guess as you're not an admin anymore... Time to change careers?

Bradford's on foot patrol today. And on top of that... He's legit a DST.

Knowing the staff team stays the same, I'm positive the actual illegal scene won't be as biased as it was through my experience in GTA W. It was horrible how certain admins attempted to solve situations they had EXACTLY 0 idea about. Certain aspects of this type of approach completely iced my respect at most of the staff team minus a few who were still professional and able to do their jobs correctly. I faced a few situations where certain administrators were extremely fond to help me out and provide me with knowledge about how the server's systems exactly operate, but also some who were extremely arrogant when I or my friends explained our side of the story. I can only bring an example of how s**t the robbery RP was there. You could have a perfectly planned robbery on an individual standing in an alleyway, but if they call an admin, it's voided because of one single typo or mistake you made. In LSRP, these tiny mistakes were occasionally let off and with certain admins in GTA W, it also happened. I stumbled across a lone biker somewhere in Burton, in a hidden alleyway (parked up there, it didn't show like they were AFK either as they were typing), who I then asked to resume RP once they came back. Their response was to call an biased cop admin, who instantly voided the scene without hearing my side. Next similar scene I found myself in an apartment, which I entered because I wanted to rob an resident whose car I found outside. I walked in, found two people and certainly enough, I was called an admin on. It happened to be that the person I was robbing was an admin, but as soon as they heard my side, they let the other admin go and went on to go ahead with the RP. Though I lost the situation, it was a fair display of how the admin team goes wall to wall in their staff roster. In GTA W, I've had only a few incidents, but they were mostly the ones I was at fault at. I can't recall any particular, but I used to do a lot of the robbing role-play during when I did plenty of gang RP and I had run ins with administrators. Being robbed or being the robber, the stakes are the same. One mistake from either side and the situation evolves. Any time this occurred, admins had to be involved because of potential rulebreaking and I can not recall one time I was face to face with an admin with ZERO illegal RP knowledge. I know it's just an example, but it's kind of hard to tolerate people who obstruct role-play just because someone could get hurt OOCly from being robbed. Going to the main point, the Illegal community will be better in LSRP for numerous reasons, one being that the actual faction team is much bigger. in GTA W, I can count the people in the FM team, that're actually doing shit, on two hands, but in LSRP there're at least 20+ people that're doing their bit to make the role-play aroung OCGs, gangs and LEO factions better. There is a wide diversity of experience within the team, which GTA W definitely lacked. I have to mention, though, that the Illegal community DOES actually carry the most, or at least majority of the importance in terms of factions. I seclude civilians, because they do not tend to play such as massive role in factions RP, compared to LEO factions and other factions. The illegal community has in my opinion been the one to feed people role-play. It's a very bold statement, but it has been like that for a long time. LEO factions have done a lot to counter it, by having a well constructed Traffic Department doing all the traffic checks, their ES occasionally hosting events for Civilians and others to come and enjoy. But what I want to reach is the fact that Illegal factions create plenty more of these events. Yes, they're occasionally ruined by trolls, but looking at the effort people put into it, the general weigh is on the illegal faction's side. Yes, the main thing is that there are way more illegal factions, but at the same time most of them do not reach the membership of PD or SD. The thing that matters more is the pure fact that if these factions ally, come together or whatever, they will create a larger group and in events, the more people there are, the more people value it or rate it better, even if there are clinical errors within it. This especially applies to Civ RPers, but there're plenty of fresh gang RPers or even oldheads who would rather see a lot of people at their organized event than actual "Perfect" quality within the people there. I'm more than sure that micromanaging has definitely decreased in LSRP over the past few years, so players do have the freedom to make most of the decisions in general. They only need help from administrators to be able to execute certain things that do need supervision etc etc. It's just a common thing that people do not think they have enough power in their hands, but in the end they realized (or don't...) that they were the ones demanding too much. You have to have a reasonable barrier between what people can do and what people can not do, avoiding making it too complex in order to MINIMALIZE micromanaging. I know it's a lot to take in at once, but I hope I added some value into the conversation in here in general.

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Hello newbie do you need me to teach you how to RP.

Damn that's the dog.

Damn your PD interview was funny back in the days. Still remember it. What's good bro?

Life loses meaning after a long time already and I'd much rather be a billionare to go YOLO. Would you rather eat cactus (with thorns) or eat a poisonous mushroom?

Who is your best friend?

No... How do you make Freedom Fighter play the games right?

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Guy's GOATED. Some good shouts would be Mute, Topiyo, Fifty Deep, Deuce, Corneru, Tomek polishsurname, Levine and co and that's pm it.

I don't think the days thing is necessary for smaller crimes, just like theft, GTA, evading unless repeated multiple times, but should be applied for cases where individuals kill someone, commit a large fraud or something like that or have a case built up against them. This could also apply for armed robberies etcetera. Should be all mentioned in the penal code. I think longer prison sentences will force people to consider the option of not doing the crime before they do it. Sure, they might need to do it for a gang or something, but they have to take the risk. We don't want to create a environment where people commit crimes to be let off with a ten hour AFKed sentence, but a rather complex system that'd limit these RPers. I feel like something in lines of a "Half online half offline" should be implemented. Let's say someone receives a 24 hour prison sentence for murder. They should then be in game for the 12 hour period and then 12 hours can be done offline. It would be a little bit easier to cope to for illegal role-players who don't exactly want to spend too much time in prison but they should also learn from it. Repeated offenders should though receive longer punishments. Let's just say like 0.5 time added (So if the original sentence was GTA and Evading, both repeated, initial sentence would be 12 hours, then the repeated offender would receive 18 hours). Also, Forced CKs should apply for cases like Ese Reaper mentioned. P2W mentality against PD and other players (pulling a gun in a lose/lose situation, doing something unrealistic etc). Forced CKs would also apply to self deaths just like in the samp server back in the days. I think PD should have some more leniency in building up casefiles and being able to take out characters from faction leaderships in time. This would require a dedicated membership for the detective bureaus in PD/SD, but I think they might be able to get some people on that. Also, releasing a OOC casefile here and there would be nice. Especially if the gang shuts down or is forced shut. This would only apply if a relatively big part of the faction is actually force-CKed.

This did occur multiple times within the community previously and lead to good and bad times. I only re-call one major event that occurred IRL and went to be carried on IG with 800 players all around it. It was the George Floyd situation, which originally triggered small, 30-40 player protests going out to literal 100+ players going out protesting on the matter. It was taken ICly and it was amazing RP for PD. There literally was an graduation that day and many new officers were taken to the streets when there were literal IG riots going on. We had to defend the Chief of Police and ES members whilst Gibbz was giving a speech to the media team. I am quite sure it was during the covid pandemic and George Floyd situation but please correct me if I'm wrong. The server management prohibited the speaking of the BLM/George Floyd thing after it because many mallrats took it as a chance to go fuck around and deathmatch. That's just a bad example. Same goes with COVID. RPing it was restricted but talking about it never was. There have to be scrict lines set for things. You really need to understand you can't be talking about the game you're playing (I'd say make it forbidden to talk about GTA in general) but sure, playing games, watching series, reading books is fine. I've done this RP in prison and whilst doing passive RP and it's fun sometimes if the person is willing to watch the shows with you. Netflix, as one thing, as a party watch option for people who're subscribed and we used it with a few people back in the days. Although, sometimes making references to movies and stuff like that might seem noobish. Sure you see people talking about it but any time anyone came around a organized crime faction (mainly the Italian ones) and came in like "OH I know what you're doing I watched "The Sopranos"" it just turned into massive cringefest. I feel like it's fine by now. Restrict bigger events like mentioned above by roskeii and make sure people do not use this for unnecessary purposes. A cinema type of project can be launched for licensed movies as well with one person streaming in Discord and others watching, but I am not sure what else we could implement or do to make it better.

Story of my life. He got only five last GW tho.

The classic Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, obviously. Some others like Hamlet etc. Also liked Finding Alaska a lot. Great book by itself but I'm working out how to get Hulu to see the series attached to it's story. Anyway that's it for books I've read in English.

Damn hello there dog.

It is a fun game haha. quite sure I played it before the launcher before they fucked it up a bit. It turned a bit weird, was easier before, needs SOME skill nowadays.

What's good dog? You good?