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zupps smith? hahaha how old is that

100% these pretty much never come up and I've never understood why.

I'm not going to make you any promises but my future here depends on a conversation I'm waiting to have with Mmartin when he's available. Not to be all doom and gloom, but I just don't want to get anyone's hopes up. If all goes well, then I'll dedicate my time purely to illegal development if you give me something to work from. Writing the script is (sometimes) the easy part, it's fleshing out the idea that requires the communities input.

For the people going at @Cake's throat you have no idea whatsoever the amount of work and effort she put into LSRP development in the short time she was back. Claims about open source scripts being used are absolutely ludicrous too. We've sat in calls together for hours with screens shared, writing completely new scripts from fresh files. Cake's one of the most talented developers I've ever met and had the pleasure of working with. For the "durrr we didnt ask for the train we want a forensics script", yes, I agree, the forensics script would be MUCH better than the train, but the train took one evening to implement. The forensics script will take considerably longer, especially now that the main person working on it has resigned (not that I blame him). People genuinely want the world and it's impossible to deliver. When I changed the taxi license exam someone literally messaged me and asked why I was wasting time when I could be working on a drug update. Mate, it took 15 mins to do the taxi update and it improved it considerably. People just don't understand. I'm not going to leak internal dev chat stuff or whatever, but just to put it in perspective for those who don't understand, we have a roadmap, yes, but most of the features on there are assigned to a specific developer. I and others have offered to help with different things, but were told no. I wrote a simple update to be able to /transfer from anywhere (using a banking app on your phone to wire someone money) and my pull request got closed because "we'll include that with the phone update". I never understood this myself but that's the way it goes. Not flaming anyone here or throwing shade, just opening eyes. Regarding illegal updates and stuff, here's some text from back in October when Spectre (and some others in IFC) stonewalled my company enhancements update. I made a group chat to discuss it because I was adamant that the legal/company RPers were getting something since the script hadn't been touched since release. We offered COUNLTESS times to work on ANY update they wanted for the illegal side, to simply not get a proper answer and be told there's a FT Dev board with Spectre himself said is dead. What use is that to anyone? If you guys knew the work she's put in for 14.0 you'd stfu and say thank you. Most of the features are for illegal RPers.

I was the first person to bring this up in admin chat as soon as I saw it as I found it ludicrous. However, as you can see, we acted quickly and in the wise words of N.W.A. “we started out wit too much cargo so I’m glad we got rid of ScubaStef Arnold” memes aside, read Jack’s post again and let’s get off of this topic, make another one if you wanna discuss purely SD stuff.

Kushin is an absolute goat. No doubt about it. Nice to see Damaz get a mention too. My mentions would be Pacmale who introduced me to what character development actually was over 13 years ago, and Xarex. Really wish I could catch up with those two and hope they’re doing well. also; @badhbh @ImperiumXVII @badhbh @Smally @badhbh @jungsaeo @badhbh @Mmartin @badhbh @milly @badhbh @drumj @badhbh @n0de101 (relatively new but earned status imo) @badhbh @Cake @badhbh krisk before noncegate was an alright guy @badhbh Collins @badhbh @Wildcat @badhbh @RyanW @badhbh @Azuko @badhbh @Eren @badhbh probs forgetting a bunch but you’re all goats in one way or another to me oh, and @badhbh

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that night was a movie huh

LOOOOOL

You know I love you flip but this just isn’t true. When Spectre and IFM stonewalled the company enhancements update I was working on (still laughable), @Cake and I both said that we would dev purely stuff for illegal RPers to sweeten the deal. We never got a concrete answer on what they wanted.

I think it’s best to acknowledge this - whilst asapdev is no doubt a talented developer, his motives and refusal to help out until being given developer access and stuff you can only access after signing an NDA, amongst other things I won’t disclose publicly, means this isn’t going to happen. I tried to work with him previously so that he could contribute as he says he wishes to do, but we couldn’t find mutual terms.

You definitely have this viewpoint due to your own behaviour as @Caomhnoir pointed out. You would’ve had a lot more fun if you didn’t self immolate every time something minutely bad happened, burning every bridge in the process.

wasn’t hidden, just wasn’t approved for some reason. I had an “approve” option so I’ve clicked that to let you have your say.

Was asked to put my 2 cents in, so here goes. If you know me, you’ll know that my dedication to LSRP since relaunch (and for the last 14 years really) has been pretty strong. This changed in August this year. I was consistently doing the most in game reports, the most refund requests, the most insert menial task here, etcetera, all while leading a sub team and doing general admin shit on the side. My demotivation and burnout slowly started to set in because of a few things, I’m not going to name any names but if you know, you know. I don’t want this to be a bashing post, just a post from the heart. Bear in mind I’ve not touched LSRP really since August at this point. I’m going to say a majority of the admin team done absolutely fuck all to support others who actually cared about the community, whether this be in game reports or whatever. There was lead admins in game who would make a mockery of player reports in /a instead of actually dealing with them whilst I’m trying to deal with 2 reports and a refund at the same time, just to try and restore some faith in the team that were not lazy bastards and reports do get handled. My report statistics confirm this. I slowly got sick of this. Actually no, I quickly got sick of it. The knock on effect there is that why should I be bursting my balls while these guys sit in the same or higher positions than me whilst not giving a singular fuck, or abusing their positions to win RP situations and break rules and hack (I’m looking at you Xanakin, happy to name him as this is historic at this point) I then decided ok I’ll try help out in other ways. I joined the dev team and began writing and modifying scripts, ONLY based off of player suggestions. In my mind, doing what the players WANT was the right thing to do (within reason). The first “big feature” I worked on was company system enhancements, primarily company chat. I had most of the scripting done to then be let down like a Japanese pilot in the 40’s. I was simply told “nah FTC said no” this booked my piss and I argued and argued for it until they were basically told it’s happening whether you like it or not. This of course put a sour taste in my mouth too. The final straw for me which started my extensive absence was a result of a staff report, made against me by a lead admin at the time who didn’t like me because I publicly shamed him for his laziness every chance I could get. I got on one night after a few drinks and dealt with an admin sit (because would you look at that, the reporter didn’t bother to accept the report). Resolved the report pretty simply, all was good. The player who was reported was logging off and messing around so I chugged his ass into the dirt, revived him, refunded his weapon and that was that. No harm done, just a bit of fun! I find out the next day that I was going to be removed from the staff team for this ONE incident, despite me being the most active contributor (statistically) to the community at the time. This really set me off and I don’t think I’ve logged in to this day. I’ve really been trying to regain my spark for it but whenever I open up the SAMP client I take a totally legally acquired Xanax because I just can’t face it right now. The players for the most part are cool as fuck and you know who you are, but some of you are absolutely insufferable and I think you need a reality check. as those who have resigned have said, nothing is ever good enough. We could script the cure for cancer and someone would complain “but what about cerebral palsy?!” just my two cents, or dollars. Rambled on a bit here but here’s where I’m at right now. This isn’t a resignation, but just an explanation for my absence. I do love this place, but shit has to change and I’m not just talking about staff/management. I really do want this place to succeed man. Get a grip, everyone.

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Just fyi for transparency I have also asked the question about why posts are being censored/hidden - I’ve been assured by leadership that, and I quote, “it will be addressed from every point and paragraph they’ve made, it’ll be to the staff team and the wider community” Wouldn’t have been my decision personally, but that’s where we’re at. By all means please continue having discussions but if yous just insult and bitch at each other then the posts are going to get removed, be civil pls

gotta love a spanion faction

hah

As above, this should be a bug report.