Michael

Sadly LS-RP (and SA-MP in general) is no longer attractive as the only place you can find something like this on - GTA 5 has pretty much replaced it for a massive chunk of SA-MP players. SA-MP is no longer the only place to find a dynamic world to roleplay in like it was before GTA V servers were mainstream. I suspect the same will largely happen to GTA V servers once GTA VI servers start gaining popularity, though not to the same extent as GTA V is at least Los Angeles-based which will draw its own fanbase versus everything being Miami-based

yep!

This game update is a mix and match of minor features, some balanacing (like PD/SD/DCR only getting 2 taser bullets before having to "reload" instead of 150), some QOL furnishing features, and a new feature for the mechanic job - extinguishing car fires! Gone are the days where you need to report for an admin to unlock a door in your complex after a server restart as now all tenants have access to unlock the main door! Tractors have been added for the aspiring country folk among us (sus) and we've added the ability to help yourself up after 5 minutes with /getup. /localweather was added to change the inside weather (meaning we can have rain and such again now that open world interiors can be fixed). Faction businesses have a free parking radius around the entrance, just like houses, and we've reduced the mask requirement to level 3 and the boombox price to $2500. We've also - and get this - we've also fixed those pesky 12 second-long lag spikes with the great help of @Caledonite (not really, he caused a lag spike accidentally) Tester Applications Tester Team applications are now open - feel free to apply no matter where you roleplay in the server as we're always looking for new perspectives! And now the game update. Here's the changelog: Add vehicle fires for emergency responders or mechanics to extinguish Add texture search to furniture editing including .txd name search Add prison cell furniture to /door Add slightly increased limits for outside objects Add reduced ammo to tasers (from 150 ammo to 2 ammo) and reduce /taserid distance Add permission for characters that own apartments within complexes to unlock the main door if it is locked Add prevention for automatic frisk in vehicles Add the tractor to the dealerships Add free parking at faction businesses Add /localweather command Add /getup to help yourself up after being knocked out Add /girlsit to list Add /weaponlist command Add /cutdrug to /drughelp info Add weapons duplication prevention Add notes for off duty officers in the MDC Add button to lookup owner of vehicle in MDC Add registered vehicles lookup to players in MDC Add automatic armour to /duty and add /removearmour command Add California license plate format for faction vehicles Add baitcar operation command support Add admin property commands Add admin logging improvements Change /siren2, add /togsiren2 and allow the usage without being at the vehicle spawn Change OOC mask level requirement to 3 Change boombox price to $2,500 Fix random objects appearing on vehicles Fix for intermittent heavy lag spikes Fix money duplication glitch Fix sending faction messages to civilians Fix spike hit area Remove commands from /anims that don't exist Remove HQ beep sound to audio stream-related combat lag spikes

Happy spooky season to all my spooky fellows! This staff update isn't going to be big as we're currently testing a game update and I don't want to take away from the big update post that we're going to be doing for the game update! I do have some cool news for this update though to share with you Illegal Faction Team updates I am happy to say that @Flip has been added to the Illegal Faction Team Council! Flip has been with LS-RP for a long long time and it's honestly a big development for IFT and the Council that he has been added to the team. I'm excited to see what Flip can bring to Illegal Faction Team. Further, if you haven't seen it, it was universally understood by the factions of yesteryear that IFT are the best authority to go to for knowledge on factions. Somewhere along the line this changed and so we have updated our server rules to bring IFT back into the loop on all things faction! When requesting permission to attack a faction property (house, complex, business, and more) then you will now need the pre-approval of the Illegal Faction Team Council - reporting ingame will no longer be enough to fulfil such a request. And without further ado, congratulations to our newly promoted staff members ... Game Admin Flip Trainee Admin Maxolino - kaibr - unlawfulact - Proxy And welcome back to our recently returned staff members ... Game Admin Spanion Tester FuLL

Your honour, we have not raised a single claim or brought forth any witnesses, as Plaintiff so rightly points out, because his 300 mostly filler questions and repetitive - often rejected - motions dragged out this case long enough that we're now at a stage where Defense has not been afforded any opportunity. This is a ploy to suppress our evidence, your honour, and as well as it's executed by Plaintiff, it's not just. Defense has nothing further your honour. It is clear we cannot argue in good faith and we rely on your just and unbiased interpretation of the law.

Your honour, Plaintiff makes very moving points and I would fall for it myself if I didn't know better, but he's confusing the timeline and ultimately arguing points that we've already discredited in this very court room. Plaintiff's argument one alleges that Stefan Castillo was in custodial interrogation and therefore required his Miranda rights to be read. Mr. Castillo was not, at any time, part of any criminal investigation by the Los Santos County Sheriff's Department and thus his Miranda rights were not required to be read. It is true that Mr. Castillo was in an interrogation - although not custodial - related to his performance as a sheriff's deputy within the Department and thus - and rightly so - was given a Garrity warning. Plaintiff's argument that Captain Guanti "feeling" that he was not free to leave does not make it custodial. The fact that he is a "seasoned Captain" is irrelevant. His mere feeling is lay testimony - the personal experience of Captain Guanti is not reflective of Internal Affairs Bureau procedures. Captain Guanti, being a "seasoned Captain" himself however, does know what a performance interview is. Nobody is required by law to attend - of course they should if they want to keep their job - but at no point was Mr. Castillo ever in custody. Your honour, in my personal experience I feel like I'm not free to leave when my mother in law wants me for Christmas, and dare I say no reasonable person believes they would be able to leave either - does that make it custodial by any meaning of the word? Stefan Castillo - and you can check the transcripts, your honour - Stefan Castillo never once asked to leave the interrogation. In fact, Mr. Castillo was told in plain English that the interview was regarding his performance and this makes it clear that the interview was just that - a performance review, and not custodial detention. Miranda does establish that a reasonable person should feel that their freedom of action is deprived in a significant way. No reasonable person thinks that they are not legally free to walk right out the door when in a performance-based interview. Plaintiff argues in their argument two that Mr. Castillo was discriminated against for being a law enforcement officer and that his rights were somehow lessened during this so-called "custodial interview". Defense maintains that this was demonstrably not a custodial interview and was, in fact, a performance review. This is further backed up by the fact that Mr. Castillo was given his Garrity warning before the interview - and he had signed it, alongside Captain Guanti - and was well aware of his rights. Mr. Castillo is well aware of how a use of force investigation goes, given that he has himself placed his subordinates on administrative leave for the same thing he was placed on administrative leave for. Which, if it pleases the court, we can back up with administrative records from the Department. Mr. Castillo knows that this is not a custodial interrogation, being the seasoned deputy that he is - or was. The Plaintiff's argument three that defense has made this trial an obstacle from the start is also a gross obfuscation of the facts. Defense has readily provided all documents, volunteering documents even at the very beginning of this case, because it stands behind its sequence of decisions regarding Mr. Castillo. (( @Kotwica, @Fabi ))

Defense will provide a response shortly.

(( I will not have access to the forums until the 25th of September, assume no objections for the other 100 questions ))

Here we have a myriad of bug fixes, a few cool new features that I'm sure everyone will love, and a nice new version number to go with it 🙂 Here is the changelog Adds vocal range adjustments based on vehicle window & door state Adds ~700 new furniture textures Adds 15 furniture material slots instead of 5 Adds highlighting of used furniture material slots Adds extra hours (0800-1300) to happy hour timeframe Adds the location of parked vehicles in the /v get menu Adds various map fixes and improvements around Los Santos Adds new mapping to the Flint County Gas Station trailer park Adds new flare/Hispanic month wristbands Adds high-vis vest Adds money number formatting when using banking commands Adds various admin commands Adds subrank information to /factionon, added RTO status if on duty to /factionon Adds mdc notes to players and vehicles Adds detection to ALPR for vehicles with no insurance Adds more faction skins Adds vehicle lookup fines history Adds fines history to vehicle lookups Adds on-duty personnel to pass weapons to each other Fixes /unpackage so that you can no longer lose/duplicate your weapons accidentally Fixes radio message being sent twice Fixes reconnect message being wrong Fixes metro and RTO duty persisting on disconnect Fixes virtual world and interior not resetting when relogging Fixes assorted spelling/grammar errors Fixes issues with taxi /licenseexam. Fixes exploit within the furniture system Fixes bug with text disappearing in /colors menu Fixes /lastame Removes 5 minute timer for /relog for admins on duty Removes construction mapping in Vinewood Vocal range adjustments This means that your window & door state will now affect the volume level when you speak inside a car. Doing /low with all the windows closed for example will not allow anybody outside the car to hear you - it will function the same as /cw. Similarly shouting inside a car with all the windows & doors closed will be heard from a much lower distance, meaning that you can kidnap people and now actually have to think about whether or not you want to leave the window/door open when you leave them locked in your car. This also works the other way, so a person standing outside your car doing /low will not be heard unless you roll your windows down. I don't think we really have much else that needs explaining but as always you can use /helpme if you're stuck on something!

Your honour this is ridiculous, at no point did I ever deny that communications had taken place with Mr. Castillo and in fact I openly said that there were discussions, but were solely in respect of his previous tenure as a Department employee. I acknowledge that a reasonable person might mistake our communications with Mr. Castillo as a settlement offer - which I strenuously affirm that it was not - and this was a mistake on the part of the defence. I want to make it clear that Mr. Castillo himself then tried to communicate with the defence, regarding the document, trying to negotiate settlement terms himself and was wholly ignored as it was not a settlement offer, but was a draft that was shared with simply a recently discharged employee who had been the target of an IAB investigation. It is not our fault that Mr. Castillo tried himself to negotiate a settlement without involving his attorney, but this attempt was ignored anyway. Ask the court reporter your honour - I never once said that I have not communicated with Mr. Castillo. In fact, the reporter will tell you that I have in fact acknowledged that communications existed, and I explained what they were. Counsel for plaintiff is, respectfully your honour, trying to pull the wool over your eyes.

Very well, your honour.

As I have already told the court, your honor, and I can have the stenographer read this back to the court - any discussions with Mr. Castillo have been entirely related to the Internal Affairs Bureau's internal policies and how employees perceive them in the interest of internal reviews and changes that are happening totally independently of this case. I have not denied ever speaking with Mr. Castillo, however I am one hundred percent correct in saying that the document received by Mr. Castillo is not to be considered as an official communication, and thus is not actually a settlement negotiation with Mr. Castillo, and so whatever Mr. Wright says about it being a breach of regulation is not actually factual. Mr. Castillo was communicated with entirely as a former LSSD deputy that has been on the wrong side of the Internal Affairs Bureau, not as the plaintiff of this case. The counsel for plaintiff, if Mr. Castillo told him everything, will confirm that Mr. Castillo himself tried to negotiate with LSSD executive staff and was totally ignored precisely because this document was not submitted to Mr. Castillo for consideration as a participant in this case but was merely shown to him as a former Department employee that had recently been the subject of certain IAB actions. The fact that Mr. Castillo also happens to be the plaintiff in this case is entirely and wholly immaterial to the - and I emphasise this strongly - partially written document being circulated to just an employee that happened to be subjected to IAB so-claimed mistreatment in recent times. Mr. Castillo has not - and again I emphasise this strongly - has not been sent any official settlement offers, nor has he taken part in any kind of settlement negotiations, nor has any settlement negotiation actually been approved by any party including the defence. The document that Mr. Castillo received is entirely within the scope of the Department's right to communicate with its own employees and former employees and outside the scope of this case.

Your honor, I have not been non-responsive - I do not see the merit in bickering back and forth, polluting the record of this court. I will voluntarily provide the settlement document that I drafted and sent to the LSSD's executive staff - a document which is not yet intended for Mr. Castillo, nor has yet been submitted to Mr. Castillo or his attorney for consideration - if it pleases the counsel for plaintiff as he seriously believes that he truly must see all internal documents between myself and my client that relate to a possible settlement that we might offer. I want to make it clear again that this is an internal document sent to LSSD's executive staff through their IAB, and has not yet been approved for submission to Mr. Castillo, and in voluntarily providing this document to the court I hope that counsel for plaintiff will understand that the LSSD is acting in the interest of not only the public good but the good of Mr. Castillo himself. We are showing our hand here, counselor, I do hope that you don't take advantage of this gesture of goodwill for personal benefit and you think only of Mr. Castillo who has undoubtedly been through an ordeal. Any 'negotiations' regarding a 'settlement with Stefan Castillo' are entirely negotiations between myself and my client as I have not been authorised to make such offers on their behalf without the review and approval of my client. I want to reiterate that Mr. Castillo is not involved in any kind of settlement negotiation between myself and my client. If such private communications with my own client are a breach of ethics, I will gladly take the admonishment and apologise duly to Mr. Wright. This is, as of the 13th of September of the year 2024, the only electronic document that has been passed between myself and my client regarding this settlement negotiation. As I mentioned many times before, the department's executive staff are mulling over this document quite slowly and I am requesting the continuance specifically because of this slow progress from my client. * Sophie Thyne submits a printed copy of an electronic document addressed to Elise Crawford.

No longer staff

Yes to all