Michael_Dippolito

It isn’t nitpicking because for years this has been the kind of mentality that pitted players against staff members. Factions can’t be the only entity on the server preserving and enhancing realism on the server; you all as staff members have to do your part as well. The verdict of that report is basically catering to the percentage of players who serve no purpose whatsoever to the roleplay environment by orchestrating terrible robberies and fueling their itch to gun down people for little to no reason. From the outside looking in, it basically let everyone know that it is perfectly fine for someone to bait people off the mechanic hotline and rob them and if you do not comply then you’re the one at fault, no matter how stupid the roleplay was.

Why was the reporting party not frowned upon for utilizing the mechanic hotline to rob players? In what way was that realistic and a high standard of roleplay that LSRP has been striving to accomplish?

That player shouldn’t have been warned in the first place. Utilizing mechanic hotlines to rob mechanics is by far one of the dumbest, subpar example of role play and counters the goal of being a realistic environment. I had called a mechanic out to fix my car, once he arrived I pulled a gun on him.

I only used D'Aquila CF's casefile as an example of what kind of mentality came with giving that amount of power to a certain entity. That didn't mean that I was against having repercussions. In fact, those of us in Valenti CF were very open to having some interactions with detectives, so much to the point where we forwarded some information on our faction that were visible to the public via IC news articles so the detectives could have some lead on who is who. I'm not saying we need more rules, but in order for the playing field to be both enjoyable and fair on equal sides, this needs to be a thing:

D'Aquila CF was a faction from 2013-2015. My example stems from that time period where LEO factions were given the power to shut down factions, which was brought up again here.

Instead of granting legal factions the power to shut down factions as a whole, I would suggest leaning towards giving life sentences to certain characters involved in the most extreme crimes. Obviously, this would need to be backed with a sufficient amount of evidence, and I would even go as far as allowing an actual court trial to take place. Implementing this gives the opportunity for power shifts and tests the integrity of said faction to roleplay high profile arrests, and also gives them faction leaders a chance at controlling the faction from prison. In the past, giving LEOs the power to shut down factions promoted the toxic trait of shutting down factions just for shits and giggles. The factions that operated behind closed doors were often targetted more than factions that were performing hits in broad daylight and hosting drug and gun deals in public. The case files weren't even concrete enough to allow a faction to be taken down; an example being the D'Aquila Crime Family's profile. 80% of the case file was filled with nothing but surveillance photos of mobsters talking in public and barely any evidence confirming who held what rank other than twisted OOC narratives being intertwined IC. There weren't any wiretaps of anyone confirming who killed who, who ordered the hit on anyone. Not to mention the only substantial amount of evidence that they had was 2 years old and it was a recorded interview of two associates who were quitting the server and as a last "fuck you" to the faction they were in, they turned informant. You also had two cancers of the VICE Detective division; Ben Mason (who arrested someone from D'Aquila for calling him a "cocksucker" IC and charged them with sexual harassment) and Jamie LaVetta (who had a weird OOC obsession with shutting down factions who rarely made noise). There was also a wiretapped conversation between two soldiers who were in the middle of furnishing an interior that was bugged and one of them mentioned something along the lines of guns being bought, but it was obvious they weren't using the /b command to differentiate from the IC speech and yet the FM at the time still granted it as solid evidence of a gun deal, despite the dialogue being all lowercased and clearly just an OOC conversation between one another. There's a whole lot that could go wrong with granting LEOs that sort of power.

Being in 1826 Ryder Blocc Families and participating in that huge brawl with what I believe was a Mexican faction from El Corona in the sewers. I can’t remember the name of it. The Valenti CF vs Long Beach Mob war. Aside from the MG and lengthy admin jails that followed from LBM, this was a time period where wars were mostly kept in character and it wasn’t the same OOC rivalry/dislike for one another like today’s era.

Show us some of your work.

Would like for more garage auctions to take place.

Has anyone in management or the marketing team ever considered putting together a video showcasing the official factions on YouTube? It appears there has only been one recent faction video for Beogradskaya Grupa. Perhaps an even more recent compilation of factions in one video would be a step in the right direction to promote some presence on YouTube again. Just a thought.

Paul is up there looking down at everyone and judging their hairlines from the clouds.

Congratulations guys.

If Bellomo’s roleplay is so sub-par then why does their opinion or whatever pot shots they are taking matter to you so much that you make this topic; the sole purpose being to strategize as a community to attract more players, entirely about Bellomo? You didn’t have to roleplay with Bellomo. This favoritism you speak of wouldn’t have been a factor (so you say) in your faction’s immediate closure had you just avoided them all together. @manslaughter So aside from Bellomo: what do you believe is something that would attract a good mixture of well-rounded role players to the server?

@manslaughter At one point in time, you were also apart of the 140-150 population. What’s wrong with people wanting to come together and pitch ideas to try and help the server grow? While I do agree that some areas of the server could use some improvement, it doesn’t contribute anything beneficial to helping the server grow by throwing jabs at the players who at least try, nor does generalizing everyone based off the bad interactions you’ve had. I recall your faction contributing a lot to the server at one point, but your OOC behavior heavily clouds that opinion when most of the time you’re being toxic and shooting down people’s attempts to come together for something positive.

"The Old Days" - CIRCA 2018

I think everyone in here needs to call up their barber and get their hairlines fixed. Then come back and discuss.

That’s not the Rudy Guercini I remember. The Rudy I knew had a better hairline than that!

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