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I'm pretty sure that I'm in the minority but I think we could have tried a few more things on GTAV server before opening SAMP server. Only concern, focus being divided into two servers, which can be overwhelming. But it was nice to see some positive reactions going on again and excited to see where this will go.

Really looking forward to the new team, you've got this!

Nah, it didn't work out. At hindsight, I dunno why I tried to make it happen fully knowing nothing with only OOC intentions and no IC character motivation will actually work out but it is what it is. Gave it a shot, didn't work out. It still has scope provided a couple of factions settle around the area but yeah.

Alrighty, LFG!!

Greetings LS-RP'rs, Here's a summary of our February adventure but more importantly information on what lies ahead. So, let's get started with what everybody's been eagerly waiting for - the dev update! DEV UPDATE We're currently in the final phase of testing for LS-RP v1.9 and on the brink of LS-RP v2.0. Although there is no launch date yet, we anticipate it happening very soon! Version 1.9 is an ambitious undertaking where we're implementing several highly requested features, including the ability to purchase properties. Property owners will have the option to set them out for rent and adjust rent based on the tenant's affiliation, such as faction or company. Additionally, we are working on several quality of life updates, such as the ability to have multiple hairstyles (/hairtie) and /modshop for non-government faction vehicles. For more information, please refer to our dev roadmap >> here <<! EVENTS UPDATE It's been another busy month for the Events Team, as we've been operating at full throttle since the beginning of February and haven't slowed down. Despite February being the shortest month, we managed to host more events than ever before! We've continued our successful formula of collaborating with factions to ensure events are not only enjoyable out-of-character but also serve as a tool for in-character character progression. We understand that while this approach may not have been particularly effective for all character types, we are constantly striving to diversify events to be inclusive and enjoyable for everyone. We're also aware of the community's demand for illegal events. If anyone is interested in setting these up and needs our assistance with anything, please feel free to reach out to us. We'll be more than happy to help you make it work. Here's a list of events that we organised in the month of February, Midnight BBQ party (in collaboration with Hell Runners MC) Redwood Lights Motocross Rally (in collaboration with SAGOV) Vespucci Beach Jet Ski race (in collaboration with SAGOV) Presidents Day (in collaboration with SAGOV) Los Santos Business Expo (in collaboration with SAGOV) Drift King (in collaboration with SAGOV) COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT TEAM The Community Engagement Team has undergone a few changes this month. Currently, the team is led by @Deceive, with @CChef serving as the Assistant Head. We understand that marketing has been under scrutiny for a while, and rightfully so. In this update, we won't delve too much into future plans, as we believe that it's time for action rather than just talk. Instead, here are a few things we've worked on this month: We are aware of the numerous suggestions that the community has put forward, including e-mail campaigns/newsletters, rebranding etc. Some suggestions may not come to fruition, and others will require time to implement, while some changes may be noticeable immediately. To utilize our time and resources efficiently, we will prioritize strategies that can be implemented independently and swiftly. For instance, focusing on social media accounts and advertising on social media was given higher priority over weekly newsletters as the latter required a dedicated personnel from the dev team to set up the infrastructure. However, we will continue to work on implementing the infrastructure and getting the show on the road while ensuring that ongoing projects do not come to a halt. How can we join Community Engagement Team? MAPPING TEAM UPDATE First and foremost, the mapping team leadership has recently changed, laying the foundation for new mapping opportunities, projects and processes. The new leadership will prioritize projects based on server interest, revitalize the mapping request process, and commit to growing our team. The team as a whole, especially Caledonite, would like to express the deepest and sincerest gratitude to Sparkles and kaibr for their tireless efforts and overall everything they contributed to both the team and the server as whole. We hope to see them both back someday. Our new mapping team leadership will consist of @Caledonite as the mapping team leader, and @MAK0 as the assistant mapping team leader. One of our main priorities is going to be getting apartment complexes furnished, including /bareswitch-able units. Eventually every apartment complex will retire the default apartment complex interior. More information is to come in the future. We will also be focusing on government interiors, getting them shaped up from the last time they had any type of furnishing started. Some of these were left as unfinished projects, but we will be revisiting these and getting them mapped as well. We are also looking for any new mappers to join the team! This is a great opportunity to show your creativity off. If any community or staff member wants to showcase any mapping examples they have through furnishing or any other type of mapping method, or if you have any questions about the mapping team, please feel free to contact Caledonite and MAK0 about it. We will answer any type of question or inquiry to the best of our ability. STAFF UPDATE Congratulations to our newly promoted staff members! Senior Admin bobster Izumi Game Admin Helius Trainee Admin ScubaStef Finally, we'd like to conclude this month's update thanking everybody once again for sticking with us through thick and thin. We understand that the journey hasn't been an easy one but we will make sure that it will be a fulfilling one.

It's the resurrection of perfection, let's go.

Just something that's been on my mind AWHILE and felt like sharing today. Discord's kind of killing RP. The most fun I had with RP was when nobody knew what my character was. There was no planning or looking for reason to login. I just logged in and let the story write itself, met a lot of cool people and had a lot of fun. But then I started joining discord servers and oh boy, there are A LOT of them. Every company/business/faction has one and somewhere it feels like we lost the plot with our reliance on discord for everything. It's now come to a point where people won't login unless somebody posts a "reason" for them to login and those "reasons" won't come unless people login. Chicken and egg problem? I'm not blaming Discord for low playerbase. But, just felt that it somehow kills the charm of storytelling. Idk what I'm trying to achieve by posting this but just felt like posting this lol

For the people!

Chop chop!

Let's gooo! That's some good stuffs from the teams! We're hitting 100 with this one boiis!

City-Manager's office is hiring!

Working on an IMPORTANT announcement!

A sneak peak on what exactly we do at City Manager's office!

This is great! Let's goo!

Let's goooo~

LFGGG

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Alrighty, I did a bit of an experiment. I mapped my active business outdoors and started doing outdoor openings. I know that having an official hangout spot can have a different result (better or worse) but for anybody who's working on it, here's my experience; More new players joined to play than when they had to /enter Number of times I had shootouts inside my business before this was 0. However, I faced shootouts every other day after this. Number of times people tried steal cars, despite the opening being outdoors went up Gradually, a good chunk of people who would visit my business (the players with higher levels) started showing up less or showed up when no new players are around (Not blaming anybody, just stating my observation) Overall, while it improved the "quantity", it degraded the "quality".

I completely agree with this sentiment but I'm failing to understand how this will improve player to player interaction within the server. End of the day, this is just trucker job with a new name. When trucker job hasn't increased payer to player interaction, I don't think this can. Also, /startshift with this will simply create in players doing /startshift and AFKing, this is definitely not the way to go around it. /mission system suites it better. What you have described under this is already there and is pretty active but with a different name. LSGOV Public Works division. I really don't see people doing this. The problem isn't that nobody wants to interact with a car salesman but people in general simply don't want to RP a car salesman. Thing is. It's already VERY difficult to find staff for active businesses. If you look at the active ones, it's mostly the owners themselves sitting at the counter, especially if this not backed up by the faction. Doing this a scriptwise job is not only going to kill whatever remaining staff that businesses are actually getting but also lessen the money circulation that happens between the players. Nah, we need more members in FD badly but this isn't going to help out. I have played in FD for multiple years and trust me, people who are actually into medical RP are a HUGE minority everywhere. "INTENSE RP" sounds great on paper but when medical RP ACTUALLY gets intense, most players can't handle it. Just ask FD, how often a player sits through without tabbing out. There's already a hospital division that's supposed to do what you're suggesting but there's simply nobody interested at the moment in it. The case is similar to the car salesma, people would love to have one but don't want to be one themselves. I really agree that journalism is a field that needs script support but it's better to get people to join SAN and help make it active than create a script job out of it. 10 people broadcasting their "NEWS" is going to get super annoying and eventually it'll fade out after the initial hype. The sector in itself is similar to medical RP or FD. The ones who are truley into it are in the minority and won't be able to put the work behind it to make this a success.

All three of the options, irrespective of what you do, is neither going to be a long term solution nor going to fix anything immediately though. When it comes to economy, currently the problem is that there are several ways to bring money into the server but it's hard to circulate them around and it's almost impossible to remove the money out of the server. Current ways to remove money out of the server: Buying cars Renting houses Refuelling, /buying food or cigarettes (very minimal) /cad, /ad Gun/Drug schemes when people buy from darknet (very minimal) Rented cars (very minimal) Business licenses (very minimal) Current ways to circulate money among the players RP jobs/business jobs Weapon/drug schemes (through people RPing middleman and purchasers) Current ways to bring money in the server Social security paychecks Scripted jobs Legal factions Active businesses Passive businesses through renumerations/reimbursements The things that are bringing in the money into the server far exceed the things that are removing the money out of the server and there's very little scope for money to be circulating within the players. I echo the same sentiments as @HIVE.MIND and @Cursed_King. We need more reasons to "earn" the money. Currently a lot of people are using IC money for OOC motivation which frankly goes against what an RP game is about. I'm not saying that this discussion is useless and it's great that we are revisiting and starting a conversation on it but it won't get you the intended result. It's not going to help with the server population and definitely won't help with the long run. Avenues/things to spend money on will have to be prioritised before taking any decision on this.

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Contact @Gazura he's been working on it ICly.

Graffiti is being implemented iirc and will be updated in the next update. A social media can definitely help. I think there was some incident where the developers who made it leaked/stalked OOC females using the data they collected due to which ls-rp management isn't accepting any 3rd party devs anymore to do similar things. Would be something worth considering once the QoL fixes are in (such as a more usable phone). I logged in early today to the said timezone and I see the issue, there's nothing to do. Let me know if you guys wanna help out with creating the said hub for that timezone. Also @Gazurais also working on something similar if you want to help out. Yes and no. There isn't an over abundance of bar. The bars that are open regularly are Pitstop, Hangman's pub, Tavern, recently Corner. That's it. Where are you going to earn the money to rotate them if they are not going to come from the business? Without businesses, we will be reverting back to grinding to earn money to afford a gun where now you can simply RP a waiter or something and earn the money while having fun. The entry fee has been revolutionary in that aspect, it has stopped the server from being grindy and become RP focused. Also, I've never seen someone "simply sitting" to earn money. They have been RPing earing the money and have been justly rewarded. Having said that, what I will agree with is that the entry fees need to be re-looked into it. People are being paid way too much and it's the sole reason for fucking up the economy already.