Maxim

Epic fedora-wearing boomer.

Congrats!

Looks good, it's a great opportunity for illegal roleplay.

Nice.

Got 200 hours on vanilla 7D2D with some friends of mine, we tried Darkness Falls (I think, might've been another mod) for a bit as well but quit for some reason. It's a good game and things really get fun once you understand the mechanics, I'm really looking forward to the next updates.

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Going strong.

We're looking for players who may be interested in joining the city council, aka our legislative aspect of the government. Writing legislation, voting on it, debates and politics are all part of it - we're also going to push for more in-game interaction and roleplay instead of the old forum bureaucracy. If you're interested feel free to submit the next application to my forum PMs. Forum name: Character name: How long have you been playing LSRP for?: Provide a short backstory of your councilman/councilwoman character (max. 300 words): Which district/area would you be interested in representing? (There's no set list of districts as of right now, name of the area will be enough): Do you understand the role of the LS City Council and therefore acknowledge that it's meant to realistically depict the LA City Council? Provide a short explanation of duties of the City Council as a legislative body of the city (max. 200 words): If you're interested in pursuing a path in one of the political parties we have (DEM, GOP) shoot me a message as well.

Any PZ players? Feel free to share your bases or w/e.

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Hopefully we'll have some interesting roleplayable jobs through contracts, scripted ones are nice and all but the goal is to have people roleplay and not to have them grind for stuff.

Let's go.

Very nice.

I'm pulling this from past experiences and from discussions I had with other players and with server management, who have the consensus that the focus should be on LSGOV for the time being - which I agree with. Even that "another community" had issues with their government, from inactive Senators to an LSGOV who as far as I know had a problem with activity as well. Not to mention their attempt of fielding both LSGOV and SAGOV was challenged by the server management over there due to its effectiveness. Interest is a tricky thing, we had interest on SAMP as well, but it didn't mean people were interested in roleplaying with the government - they were just supportive of the concept. I did propose an IC Senate initially but as I said the idea was cast aside for the time being. I don't mind bringing it up again and seeing if it's possible, but we definitely won't have a fully functioning SAGOV for now.

They don't have a say, I didn't mean city legislators are going to forward state-level legislation. The City Council endorses legislation which can then be adopted by the State Senate as their own piece of legislation, this is to promote legislation on a state-level as the Senate is not going to include any actual legislators for now. Maintaining both LSGOV and SAGOV is not viable as of now as we simply don't have the manpower for it. I'd love to field both LSGOV and SAGOV as well, don't get me wrong - but it's just not an option right now.

It'll probably be introduced prior to the server's launch, a lot of government-related documents need a huge overhaul either because they fit the SAMP universe or because they were changed and pretty much obliterated to benefit certain groups/individuals/interests, and the amount of people who work on reforming those documents is very limited at the moment. We did adopt some of the Acts which were written during the SAMP era, and some are going to be re-introduced with changes that fit the new setting. As for the Senate - the plan right now is to have the city council forward endorsement bills, which can then be forwarded to the Senate behind the scenes as actual legislation. The Council members express their view and the Senate adopts it, making it a state law. We haven't discussed legislative procedures in depth yet, so I can't really answer the other questions.

We're not going with a state-level legislature on launch, a municipal one is our current goal. As for a State Constitution - will probably be introduced at a later point, I'm currently working on city-level documents such as the City Charter. The State Senate is something we discussed and decided to NPC for now (by limiting it to a small group of individuals - faction leaders + management), it was a scene which always lacked roleplayers and it was often an issue to get things in motion, having a functioning city council is a good start imo. The way to introduce state-wide legislation will probably be through IC city bills which endorse specific issues, which then can be roleplayed as introduced and passed in the State Senate.

Yes. We hope to make licenses as a whole a friendlier interaction and reduce the amount of tedious work it used to take, which is why they'll be conducted in-game. I know the bureau had its good times, but a lot of people have somewhat of a bitter memory of it which we hope to change by making the bureau more approachable, serious and fun.

Still going strong.

Amazing.

I think having a news agency (or even a few of them) is highly important, as they add flavor to the server beyond the roleplay you do directly. I'm up to helping out if I can.

The Definitive Edition is in a whole different engine, so no.

I'm having a blast with my friends so far, I think I had more fun on MW2019's multiplayer tho.