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This is also an update posted by Dos Santos for anyone interested in knowing the current development progress.

I've combed through every post on this thread, and I have not seen any actual constructive criticism except for a select few posts. All I've read so far are attacks on different staff members, specifically bringing up history from several years ago on SA-MP and going back and forth for the sake of just wanting to argue. Threads like this never really work because one side of the isle provides criticism and raises concerns with ideas on how to fix these issues, while the other is usually only interested in shit-posting & spreading nonsense. The positive feedback and legitimate concerns raised in the thread are appreciated. As stated in an earlier post by Jack; If there any areas of concern such as faction management, quality assurance, illegal schemes and so forth, you may direct yourself to the link above and speak to the person in charge of that respective area. I will be locking this thread as it has been completely derailed and more than half of the posts serve no actual purpose in terms of looking for ways to fix areas of concern. Have a good night.

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Suggestions are closed due to the development team needing to focus on the current list at the moment. I'm sure they'll re-open them in due time when they have had a chance to implement what's already been approved.

I'm not entirely against that but it needs to be a realistic number, not 10 people on duty at most because people want to commit broad daylight shootings with no repercussions. SD is more active than PD and has always been since launch - it's not a secret. It's even been said by people in your own leadership team, there's nothing wrong with that either. We just have more numbers, it is what it is. This isn't any attempt to discredit either faction, I even said that it's completely fine if people prefer PD over SD or SD over PD. It's their decision to roleplay what they want to roleplay.

The issue is, what does closing one faction down and sticking with just one do for the community? Making a decision like that doesn't really change much because the people from the previous faction can just flock over to the next one. You'll still have a bunch of cops. A change like that is just gonna piss off a lot of people because they have to move over and will likely have to deal with rank restructuring. As far as why there's more cops in Davis than gangs, that's because they all quit for reasons outside of LEO roleplayers' doing. They were unhappy with the way things were going with the server and left.

Also another question; IF the decision to close LSSD down was made, what stops former SD members from transferring to PD? You're still gonna have all these cops regardless if that's the case.

I think there are quite a lot of cops on this server, however not many have been recruited since the first month of the server. These are the same people that were here since day 1. They remained active and still do til this day, and it's not their fault that the gang roleplay and civilian scene took a massive decline. There is no way to fix the current ratio of cops to civilians at the moment outside of trying to retain what little criminal roleplayers and civilians we have left and rebuilding those scenes. Removing them isn't the logical way to go about it. What are you gonna do? Tell people who have done absolutely nothing wrong that people are pissed off because they now massively outnumber the civilians so they gotta go? Absolutely not. Did we take guns away from gangs who (and I highly doubt you can argue that this isn't true) blatantly abused them? No. We looked for ways to guide them into promoting more suitable roleplay and came up with ideas on how administration could start punishing repeat offenders. Why don't we close LSSD and have just PD? Well for one, there are a lot things internally between both factions that have gone down behind the scenes that people don't know about. Some people have moved to either PD or SD to get away from others while some just don't like the way the other faction is run, and that's okay. There is no way to merge the factions into one without a complete restructuring of the rank and file without pissing people off. How would you like it if you've put in 100+ hours of forum work and in-game work and grinded your way to a position that is no longer needed post faction merge? I know if it were me I'd just not play. These are things you have to take into account. You have to look at it from both sides, not just one. You're looking at it from an outsider's point of view. The most common way people look at PD vs SD is this; PD is the main faction, we roleplay in Los Santos (the city) SD are sheriff's, they belong in the county or patrolling a highway Right now, SD's numbers (even while we were still peaking 150-200 players) are always higher. Maybe some people just prefer SD over PD for the purpose of wanting to roleplay as a deputy sheriff / LASD counterpart while less want to roleplay as a PD officer / LAPD counterpart. My question to you now is this; Why close the LSSD? Why not close PD and have SD stay if they are and have always been more active since launch? I'm not asking the question as a means of wanting to know which is better. I'm just curious as to why you want PD to stay over SD.

As a member of the command team, I'm always supposed to have a defense or justification as to why a specific policy is in place or why we do things the way we do things. If you lead a faction I'd expect you to be able to do the same. No excuses were given because there was nothing to be excused for, no mistakes were made. An allegation was made, I proved the allegation to be untrue with screenshots showing otherwise. You should try to be more open yourself and understand that nobody is gonna submit to your passive aggressiveness nor is anyone obligated to support your opinion. If you don't like what I've said respectfully you don't have to read it nor respond to it.