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Barons and EHC are both active then, I don't go to Idlewood / hang around street gang factions personally. I edited my comment though to include you guys, my apologies! All the same, there are quite a few official factions that are super inactive.

Hi there, I don’t typically post on these threads but after reading @Eren ‘s post, I feel comfortable sharing my own thoughts. 1. Illegal Roleplay / Official Factions: the only faction I have genuinely seen active from the current list of official factions are Barons MC and EHC. Someone feel free to correct me if I’m wrong / just shouting into my own echo-chamber here. We need to open the door for more factions that are active / deserve official. I can name quite a few. Sadly even those factions are beginning to fall off due to my next point. 2. Staff Communication / Wait Times: For context, my faction waited months to hear back from IFC on a faction complex. Our main faction leader reached out numerous times. It took us reaching out to @izumi to get the ball rolling. @Spectre and @badhbh ignored this request and left it on unopened for a month. Our primary faction leader had reached out over discord and forums. I spoke to several members of IFT who all expressed the same: They've also waited ages to hear back from IFC for their own requests. Their hands are tied on so many requests. Recently, I put in a LOI for the Illegal Faction Management Public Team on recommendation of a member of the IFT. I, like many others here, only want to help. I gave ideas and expressed my interest, only to never hear back and be left on read. Perhaps I lack an understanding of how long it takes them to process information but it seems that even an acknowledgement would be reasonable. 3. Punishments: Recently, there was an LCN faction that consistently DMed, terrorized other factions, and based on their OOC grudges consistently broke rules to ruin the roleplay of several factions on this server. They have been, subsequently and rightfully, banned. This process however, took around 2 months. They were reported relentlessly and despite these efforts it took until tracksuithitman started to look into them. After several faction reports and consistent player reports, bans were issued. This problem could’ve been resolved months prior had the staff been able to deliver harsher punishments, especially given the severity of the actions. All in all, I know I’m only one voice but I hope that at the very least that the staff who do help and are outspoken about the issues here know that we are listening and we do appreciate it. Unfortunately, without significant change at the top, this will undoubtedly continue to trend downward like LSRPV did. I encourage any of the people I've mentioned here to reply, I know they won't because they have no defense but I might as well keep them honest.

Great event and great update!

Completely agree with everything Scandalouz said both here and in the original post. I'm honestly fed up with the gang DMing. It's insane. But that said... He and many others mentioned the fact that you have to get online and get in game to really reap the benefits of all the staff team has done thus far. There is something to be said for those of us who continue to get on and roleplay despite the issues at hand... Namely the rampant DMing. That said, you can very easily fix the issue of being upset here, by simply getting in game.

It's going to turn into world's vibe of a DM haven. You're totally right, it's starting to slip and sadly, it's not going to stop unless something is done.

Something has to give here. I'll repost what I said in discord. The other night when I was doing an opening... It was totally ruined by a DMer who came in and called people every slur in the book. Some people took offense to this, rp fist fight ensues... Then they randomly scrolled a pistol, gunned down the entire establishment, someone managed to kill them, they disconnected. Shortly thereafter, admin comes and revives us but the scene was ruined completely and no consequences were doled out to the offender to my knowledge. Very unfortunate.

Completely agree with this and @SCANDALOUZ. I feel that the staff team should be far more transparent when it comes to business applications and their content, as well as how businesses are able to make a profit. I understand that "business profit" in general is an issue they're addressing, but I completely agree that all this red tape is getting ridiculous. Another point I'd like to make is in regards to the script jobs and the lack of general income to purchase things like cars, property, etc. Most of us here are in our mid-twenties to late thirties IRL. I know lots of the SAMP/OG LS-RP players certainly are and I'm getting there at the age of 23 already. I cannot speak for everyone but speaking for the faction and group of roleplayers I run with, the general consensus is that many of us have lives IRL that require engagement and lots of time to do. In order to do much of anything without having a business, having a scheme, or being in an official faction, you have to spend countless hours grinding script jobs. The aforementioned roleplayers in my faction and I come here for the roleplay, not necessarily to sit and drive a truck around for hours. It's entertaining for a while but when it starts to stand in between accomplishing the goals of a faction or character in RP, it becomes fruitless. Just some thoughts from 12+ year text-only roleplayer on a variety of platforms and mediums. As an adendum to this, I don't exactly know what the correct answer is, but giving more opportunities to make some money that doesn't require scripty grinding would be good.