Kev

I guess the veteran roleplayers giving management their advice wasn’t crazy work after all… I would like to speak with a rage insider at this moment in time to get their thoughts on things 😆

Spoke with him briefly over the years but always was a clean hearted guy, sending prayers to his family. RIP Cashew

An good Jobe ' ! 😀

the diamonds in the dirt, will keep an eye on this. have fun, looking forward to see what Connor will cook especially

In the same way you are unpaid volunteers, the people you speak of who have actively hacked, mass DMed, etc were also unpaid volunteers and arguably adding more positive contribution to the server while doing so - and maybe they were fed up of being treated like they were below every other sub team on this server. I speak for myself and IFT when I say that we have written up countless threads for script ideas, were moderating faction conflicts on a near daily basis at one point, handling faction reports (most of us being non-staff), handling schemes (some of the heads being non-staff), the list goes on. Nobody here is paid and we do this out of love for this community. I do think if Martin wants RAGE to do well then he should put some money up. GTAW has and look at their ROI. You can't expect to achieve this hypothetical dream outcome for free. I don't want to bash you because you are making an attempt to reason with the community, but I have to call out some of the bullshit in this response. You were on as long of a hiatus as Martin before coming out to address our concerns on this thread. I haven't seen anything of substance in this statement, no real accountability or game plan for rage. Maybe this is coming soon so we will wait. On the topic of cheating, I can tell you as someone who has dealt with faction conflicts before and after I started using them, the game feels much more balanced with them and it has been this way for over a decade. We can discuss the morality of it all day but it is not fun trying to locate someone, do a hit, evade law enforcement while they can see you from across the map and you can't see them - and people can only take the guaranteed loss so many times before they decide to even the playing field. If you as administrators installed nametags (I use that as an example because it is the easiest one to use in terms of spotting other nametaggers) and turned them on while on admin duty I guarantee you would catch at least 5 a day. I doubt anyone will admit it but the closet cheaters reading this will tell you that you can know instantly if someone is nametagging when you have them. I think I have been in more faction conflict than most on this server due to the nature of the factions I've ran over the years and let me tell you having a Mexican standoff between two hit cars from East Beach to Seville because both cars are nametagging has been quite the hilarious scenario. If you spent some time roleplaying this would all be common knowledge to you, but the fact that you can’t trust the judgement of your own administration and have unbanned blatant cheaters (the kind who don’t bother to hide their cheating, at least I kept it a secret…) as documented by @Clack shows that you are truly out of touch with how the server operates and it makes me question how you managed to rise to a management role. It's like the first rule of fight club we just don't talk about it. I don't blame anyone who uses them since there has never been an anti cheat measure to combat it, and most people who are banned for cheats nowadays can send in a staff report with a sob story and get off on a "benefit of the doubt" unban. So why would you not cheat?

Well thank you for finally making your delusions public. You think the community will just forget about the consistent fuck ups spanning over a decade and follow behind you? I hope you at least enjoy it.

I think the 14 pages we've spent discussing here could all be boiled down to this. Very well said. @n0de101 We are very much aware that you are volunteers and unpaid, and for all the shit I've been talking here I genuinely respect it. But that does not give you moral high ground when you are trying to chase after something that has already been monopolized. This is all we are trying to say here. Do you in your heart truly believe you can survive against an 800+ playerbase server with a script that is not ready and with the proven track record MMartin has of going MIA as he is right now?

Then don't call me a liar. The fact that it was 2 months ago is not really relevant when you haven't shown a rage snippet since then, so you clearly are still not "feature ready". This alone should give the community an idea of who's witholding information here.

If my information is wrong then please confirm you won't ban me so I can post screenshots here.

You are asking me a question where I cannot respond without being banned from the forums for leaking. Funny that this is how you respond too. Instead of challenging me why don't you tell the community what you are actually working on? How close are we to the release of rage and how good is it? Do tell.

From now on if you want to come and crusade for RAGE you should come and tell us what you spent your time doing on SAMP that makes you feel that it is dead in the water and that RAGE is the future. The only insiders that have come forward so far are Natasha Valentine who graced us with the monumental roleplay coming out of Valentine hotel over the years and a LEO roleplayer who's recent forum posts span back to July. I want to see credentials of what you actually roleplayed here or your opinion is simply invalid.

Could you elaborate? Because I remember being told there was no functioning plastic surgeon, drug script, etc 2 months ago. How superior is rage right now being an insider, could you enlighten us?

It’s quite ridiculous really that the exact same problems can repeat themselves 3 or 4 times and send more chunks of players away each time from 2021 to now. I fear that it’s badhbh attempting to formulate a response alongside the rest of management who don’t roleplay. Apart from her they have no idea what actually goes on in-game because they all roleplay robocop LEOs among themselves, so can you blame them for their lack of response here? I would love to see the insights from someone like bobster, node, Celestine, Izumi, dadoJ, etc about the roleplay that actually goes on here. I am not flaming, I mention the names because this is another concern people won’t say on this thread and I want to make it known. Really hoping we get a response soon because there is so much more that needs to be answered for, particularly extreme administrative corruption with a certain faction’s weapon warehouse.

Don’t expect any staff member who supports rage to give any input. I only hope that leadership will take accountability in their response and not deflect.

Looks like someone with a brain made it visible again. Thank you. Let's now keep this thread on topic and wait for management to address our concerns. edit: For some reason the part in my post about LSRP not having a functioning anti cheat was removed by an admin. Everyone is aware of this already so could someone please tell me why this was edited out?