Tony Gunter

Again with the sarcasm. It's a bit difficult to understand your point when you're mixing in sarcasm. But anyway, as I mentioned, having a strong police presence in south LS (which I think is the area you're referring to) is not solely the issue of LSPD. I know for a fact that in LSPD, we have area assignments in certain divisions so that every unit under a specific callsign is responsible for patrolling a certain area. Unfortunately for you, my character is assigned to south LS. Regardless, I understand your concern of high police presence in such areas and I agree that this may be of concern but I also do think the issue is larger than just LSPD itself. There's many active PD and SD members, so for this to be properly balanced, I believe it would need some sort of coordination between the two departments. Maybe you can give ideas of how this can be resolved if your critical thinking is as good as your sarcasm. I also disagree with your point with the new era of PD being similar to SAMP's mall rats. I've been roleplaying for many years and have been under many different leaderships of the police department and I can tell you from first-hand experience that the current faction members have good roleplay abilities and the mindset is focused on providing good roleplay as opposed to winning situations. Though, your opinion may differ, it is certainly not the feedback I have received with my encounters.

Before I make my point, I'm going to make it clear that these are my personal views and not PD's. We can't stop people from roleplaying what they want and if there's a strong interest for police roleplay by the community, then that's what it is. Yes, zapper can take actions to mitigate the effects of having a lot of police by controlling recruitment and presence in situations/areas (which PD has been doing and already has policy's in place to avoid that) but ultimately we cannot control who wants to roleplay what. So when there's a 100 players on and 30 of them are cops, PD isn't to be blamed for that. With that being said, this is not a sole issue of the LSPD. Sheriff's are also actively patrolling the same areas which may make it look like there's a lot of feds and we have a strong number of active roleplayers who RP in the Sheriff's or PD. So ultimately this needs to be brought up with faction management as a whole and not just sit here and point out Zapper and LSPD as if they're the only ones who are contributing to this issue. Also Cayl when you're serious about your concerns, don't use sarcasm and instead be mature and really get your point across with real reasoning. That's just my advice so don't get in your feelings about it.

After reading through the whole topic/comments and going through some of the discord conversations, I strongly believe that this should ring some alarm bells for management. There's not a single positive comment in this whole thread for the leaders of this community. Simply put, the community is overall unhappy and dissatisfied. I have 2 messages: My public message to the leadership team: Regardless of what's happened with development, lack of updates and all, I believe there is still hope to bring this community together and take this as a massive learning lesson. Right now, as I see it, players keep mentioning "transparency." All they want is honesty and being upfront. A simple search on LSRP's main discord channel of the word "Transpar" would show how many times and how many players have mentioned the lack of transparency from leadership. Even in this topic, the same thing is repeated. With that being said, you guys have definitely made attempts to be transparent but clearly, it's not enough because that term is consistently brought back and used amongst the community (even staff members). So that is something that should be looked at and prevent from happening again in the future. I also believe there's an element of professionalism that lacks in leadership/staff. Of course this is a game and people fuck around (which is completely fine), but high-level people need to maintain some sort of professionalism atleast in tense situations. The prime example is within this topic and those are the replies from Kane. First of all, I'd like to mention that I have a lot of respect for Kane. This guy has done A LOT for LSRP in SAMP and here. I know he's a hard-worker and he's been one of the most responsive people during this tough time. Much respect for him. However, not everyone is perfect and what Kane did in this topic should be considered a mistake in all honesty. All of the comments by Kane were just bizarre instead if he posted something positive AKA what Yekim posted, that's literally what everyone was looking for. Instead, he made the most useless comments. In a moment where LSRP is filled with negativity, I cannot understand why one of the highest ranked guys was poking instead of trying to calm players down and bring some sort of positivity. The staff need to understand that you guys are actually responsible for leading a huge community. Therefore, you guys need to be able to demonstrate real leadership by not only completing the work, but also by being liked, respected, and trusted in the community. That goes a long way. Another thing is criticism. People are frustrated and there's a decent reason behind that. Why are people topics being deleted? Why are they getting forum banned? I haven't personally witnessed it myself, but I've got that through reading this topic. Y'all need to be more understanding and overall nice. Imagine if one of the topics that was deleted was instead locked and the last message from one of the staff read: "Hey, we understand your frustration. However, the way you've gone about expressing X is not acceptable for X reasons. I am going to lock this topic, but you can feel free to contact me personally and we can discuss. Regards, X admin." That's obviously an example, but that indirectly shows something to the rest of the community. That shows you guys have patience by not just banning them right away (obviously within limitations), shows you actually care about the players. And that's essentially what leads to being liked and respected. Be nice, let people express their concerns within limitations. Management needs to make an effort to gel the community back together. I would highly recommend one of the leaders from LSRP to make a forward-looking statement where the community feels like they're being led by people who care about them. And once the server launches, to actually act upon that. Acknowledging your team's short-comings would be even better, it shows accountability. Just a transparent, honest message to the whole community would, in my opinion, bring back some respect and relief from the community. And that statement shouldn't probably be put out now, but maybe when the server releases or close to being released. You guys probably know a better time than I do. The bottom line is that the leadership needs to gain the trust and respect of the community again because it has been lost. Lastly, I'd like to thank everyone from the management team. Kane and Martin, you guys are obviously the backbone of this whole project and without you guys, this would never be possible. I am very appreciative everything you guys have done and you guys have my full support. A special thank you to Kane though. Even though I pointed something negative here, your activity and responsiveness have not gone unnoticed. Thank you for being available and responsive to players and that's on top of all the development work you've done/are doing. My message to the community: Brudda's, I know what has happened isn't the best and shit happens, but fuck we're all gonna tap in when LSRP releases so let's just try to show some sorta support to the people who lead this project. None of us have said thank you or be appreciative of what's been going on. The last update was on July 13 so it's not all that bad and in the back of our minds, we atleast know that work is being done. Let's just try taking it easy on these guys. Hopefully things will get better soon.