Aberdeen

Well this is certainly refreshing. I applaud you all for taking it upon yourselves to get the SD back on track. It's always been my favourite of our LEAs and the one most welcoming of experimentation in how it operates and interacts with the rest of the server. Good luck to you all. What exactly caused the shake-up besides the drop in activity?

Consales? I'm not trusting a Mexican with my bookkeeping...

Things are looking up.

Joe Rinse's ears are burning...

This faction deserves more love. Keep up the good work.

SHQIPERIAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA About time you made this. Looking forward to it.

You guys really need to chill with the ChatGPT. Nobody's going to respect you if you keep clowning on the English language.

gabagangsters

Capable hands.

clack what the fuck is this

I want to see houses that take up entire low-rise condos turned into complexes and the apartments sold at market price. Temple and East Beach are particularly bad offenders.

Motherfucker be running all over the state but still look like he mainline insulin for breakfast.

I was going to dismiss this thread after my initial post. It's easy to get cynical with this game after so long but having roleplayed with you twice, I'll give you a bit of constructive feedback that'll make your time here much more enjoyable: be humble. Learn to take an L. In fact, learn to take several Ls. Do not be tempted to take every issue in-game to local OOC or (god forbid) an admin sit. Your faction is new. Your characters are new. Nobody knows you. Los Santos wasn't built yesterday and there are established criminal groups and powerful characters still extant that have been pulling strings for years. You're clearly a good roleplayer and I can see that your heart is in the right place in the way you lead your faction and the way you've opened up this topic to community... but you've gotta chill out. Letting emergent roleplay affect your character in the long-term is one of the hallmarks of a great roleplayer. Tommy Collins needs to let in-game actions whittle him into a jigsaw piece fit for the puzzle that is the Los Santos criminal underworld. You're going to have an exceptionally difficult time doing it any other way, as players who couldn't separate their OOC ego from their character (a certain white rapper from New York City comes to mind) found out. You're right, the whole playerbase has never behaved as such but the average player has. Each of the main character domains (illegal; LEO; government/civilian) have been touched and reformed by players whose background in more refined forms of emergent roleplay has influenced the server as a whole. With the right crowd you can still feel the effects over a decade later. People fell in line not out of obligation to some OOC figurehead like Martin_Busato but because the practices they preached made the game more fun and more fair. But that code of conduct, much like it did on older text-heavy roleplay games like Habbo and TSRP, only works as long as everybody involved tows the line. We regulated this largely ICly through the use of CKs, only stepping OOC when the issue became particularly disruptive.

The LS-RP in your head has not existed since at least a few years prior to the closure. That's the best part of a decade at this point. The average new player cannot be trusted to be operating under the same unspoken code of conduct as in the past and why should they be expected to? The majority older community members, whose backgrounds in more mature, character-focused roleplay formats, have moved on or been spurned by poor staff decisions. The staff have never been the arbiters of good roleplay, only what is right and wrong in terms of player actions. Of course these newer players are going to be lead astray given their origins in more action-oriented games and the script's reliance on RPG mechanics and grinding. It's been memed to death over the years but the admins do actually have access to the mythical "logs" that will tell them exactly who has killed who. If you've been DMed and have sufficient evidence, the rules can be enforced. If a member of staff has told you otherwise, they're holding on to their green name for e-clout and little else. Report them as well while you're at it. Or just join Valenti.

Logged back on for the first time in over 6 months and had to download 600+ models. I drove around for a little bit and besides the new skins I could only find a few custom police precincts. Is there anywhere that lists what all this content actually is? Are there any plans to add the custom buildings modders like asapdev made to replace the Seville back alley?

Vato loco Preston, el moreno honorario.

How many times have we had this thread? This topic should not -- and should never -- have been addressed to LS-RP at large but instead as an open letter to the staff with strict consequences outlined and adhered en masse should the desires therein not be met. A manifesto that prefaces itself with "don't flame the staff" when they are the sole arbiters of change and thus are those who need their feet held to the fire for anything to happen renders void all thereafter. That said... ...what is happening is natural. All things tend towards disorder. We're on the tail end of the bell curve of SA:MP's popularity (outside of the third world at least) and we've had a good time, staff foibles excluded. Shaking things up now won't bring the roleplay veterans of yesterday back nor will refocusing the marketing budget teach the millions of Brazilians still propping this rickety mod up how to speak English. Just enjoy the ride while it lasts. There's a whole world waiting for you out there whenever you want to step off.

Get it, Bim.

this has aged poorly

In Copenhagen, sucking cheap coke out of Bulgarian prostitutes' ass-cracks like God intended.

Definitely not.

Surprised the PR statement wasn't AI generated the way things are going.

Stop making me feel bad for cops.