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Thank ya so much for givin me a chance @JakeInnit_@CallumMontie!! Sorry I wasn't around as much as I could have been but when I could play I had a blast

毒品 It was early September, when Anastasiya was still a trial, she found herself waking up in an unfamiliar place. "Wait what? Where the fuck am I? Oh, this is Jake's place...I think?" She sighed, yawning loudly as she stretched. She then slid out of bed, knocking over some empty beer bottles on the way over to the other couch to collect her clothes. After putting them on and failing to get the wrinkles out of her shirt, she found a bit of cocaine on a table left over from the night before. She went over, arranged what was left into a crude line, leaning down and taking in what she could in one quick breath. Now she was awake, time to get to work, probably? Anastasiya hopped on the radio, and Jake promptly told her to meet him down at the pier. She floated out of the house and got into her car. Amazingly making it to the pier in one piece, she flopped out of the seat after seeing Jake. He needed help with cooking up some LSD to sell, she was on board with it from the moment he mentioned drugs. They ditched one of the cars at a parking lot and then headed to the shop to check inventory. While they were inside Jake decided to give Anastasiya the run down on the equipment and how to use it. How much of what goes where and when to check on them. Seemed simple enough, scales weren't that hard to use. Jake went over what they needed one more time, and the two of them took off to buy materials. After a long drive to Humane Labs, the two hopped out of the car and quickly purchased everything they needed for the day's work ahead. Loading up the car with their haul, they quietly made their way back to the shop, unloading everything inside. They spent a little while sorting everything out to make the work go smoothly. Once everything was sorted they split up and got to cooking. Jake took one side, and Anastasiya took the other. Bit of this, bit of that, weigh it out, mix it, add water, turn on the heat, repeat. Repeat. Repeat. Now that everything was set and cooking, they had a little time to go have some fun. They picked up Eve and headed to the first event. Some ice cream and then a wedding, it was a good day. The three of them eventually rolled into the city scrapyard to meet up with the other Triads. Anastasiya stayed outside with the others and the higherups went into the warehouse. It was fun just talking with each other and messing about, until some cops showed up. Everyone scattered, we let the group inside know that police arrived. "Fuck, a heli." "Why the fuck is there a helicopter here, we've done nothing!" Anastasiya thought to herself. "Shit, they're landing." She radioed in to warn the group inside that there was trouble and to not come outside. After what felt like an eternity, the police pulled out of the yard, and the helicopter took off. Feeling very confused she radioed in again to let everyone know the coast was clear. Well sort of clear, some officers were near the entrance of the scrapyard talking to some unfortunate bystanders who were attempting to chop a vehicle. Everyone managed to snake their way through and split. It was nearing the end of the day, and Jake was feeling a bit tired, Anastasiya drove him back to his house. Her and Eve decided to go to the shop to see how the LSD was coming along. They snuck into the shop unnoticed as usual and went into the back room. Everything was going as it should. The two of them split up and each took a side, finalizing the last steps on the production line. There was plenty now to sell and make a big profit. They sorted everything together, adding it all up and confirming the totals before loading it into some duffel bags. Time to sell. Luckily the dealer wasn't too far, and the two quickly made their way over. After negotiating with the dealer for a while they managed to get an amazing price for the LSD. He wasn't too happy, but they were. Even though Anastasiya knew the money wasn't going into her pocket, she felt good knowing she was helping something bigger.

Date and time (provide timezone): August 9th, 2020, 1AM EST Character name: Ashley_York Issue/bug you are reporting: During night hours when the flashlight is equipped in your inventory (on hip), it will always show as "on" to other players, and when you aim any weapon your flashlight will turn on. For example, flashlight is equipped in your inventory while placed on your hip, you aim a weapon and the flashlight then turns on. Expected behavior: Issue 1: Flashlight equipped on hip should remain "off" when aiming a weapon for player. Issue 2, sync: Flashlight equipped on hip should appear "off" to other players. Issue 3, sync: Flashlight equipped in hand should show as "off" to other players when flashlight has not been turned on by the player holding it. Evidence, notes worth mentioning, steps to replicate: This has been an issue for a long time as flashlight sync has always been an issue between characters, will always show as "on" when in hand to others, even if the player holding it didn't turn it on. However since this inventory update the flashlight shows as its "on" even when its on your hip and not in your hand. The bug before you could live with, but now it's just distracting and bothersome when trying to stay hidden for example. Aiming a weapon the flashlight turns on while it's on your hip: Flashlight equipped on hip is "on" and visible to others:

I've been apart of the LSPD for just over 3 years now. I've also always had a criminal character to play as well. I have to agree most of the points made, I've been discouraged as of late to play both sides. The new robbery rule makes sense to some degree, though I believe it needs some ironing out, as stated it can be very easily abused. Reducing the cap on gangs, already makes for more boring RP from a PD side, think IB as @LeftSharkie pointed out. As well there goes my chance for a long time until I'd be able to try and join with the gang that I have been hanging out with on my crim (for no reason IC, other than some OOC rule somewhere). I'm not sure how a gang can cover multiple time zones with 40 members let alone 60. Especially when PD and SD have no cap, PD sitting at 150+ members, and PD still can't cover NA/OCE timezone properly. I understand why there could be a cap on criminal factions in place, however I feel if all 'official factions' are actually receiving the same treatment OOCly for all aspects, then there should be no reason that there is a cap at all. Stuff like this makes it really frustrating to play, both sides of the table here.

Still seems like an IC thing to me! I'm not really sure your issue here, we have pretty extensive protocol around Firearms Licensing for good reasons.

Either way I don't care how it is, but something needs to change. Ideally we lock ticket payment after 72 ooc hours, and automatically apply the charge. Paying tickets to officers isn't really a thing in North America anyway, so wherever they have to go to pay it is fine.

The point of an RP server is to RP, but I mean more commands with no rp is fine, if you are into that kind of thing.

Either remove the ability to /payticket to officers or have it that officers have to accept the payment. Driving by someone sitting in a cruiser, and just using /payticket to avoid having to go to into PD or any interaction with an officer is practically power gaming. If they have tickets that exceed 72 OOC hours, they pay it off avoiding further charges. There is no script that automatically makes tickets un-payable, or adds failure to pay a fine. I don't mind RPing a card reader or taking cash if that's what they want to do, but at least some kind of interaction is needed. I'd like to see this either amended or removed please!

Erm, you see, the thing is we can change protocol to fix some of these things. I'm currently in the process of re-writing the entire handbook... It's not fair for the majority of officers that follow our RP standards, to get lumped in with a few rotten apples. If you play at certain times of the day, I can agree that we are lacking supervisors, we're working hard to get as best coverage as possible. I've been in the LSPD for nearly two years, I've seen at least several people banned for various reasons. If someone breaks a server rule, the admins are bound by their punishment guideline, meaning if someone does something, they would be punished like any other player equally.

Yes, and not every one of those 387 people are committing crimes on a regular basis... It does take time to get to a scene, be that a minute or ten, or calls go unanswered because we simply do not have enough units to cover everything that goes on in the city. The police are already wiped out on a somewhat regular basis because criminals join up against the police. Nerf the police for what? I already stated we make things as fair as possible. We could just go back and give every officer a carbine and say, "only follow server rules" and let me know how much better that will be. You can't compare Eclipse to IRL when a large majority of the civilians play it as structured GTA:Online. We have to do what we can until everyone is up to the same standard. This has to stop being a Police VS. Community thing, we're all here to RP. I have already stressed it enough if someone is not living up to our standard, we can fix that by getting them reported to us through IA.

Holy toledo, I don't think what I am explaining is getting across.

I'm not really sure what's going on now, I think there are several topics to this that have gotten jumbled up. In all honesty, it sounds like you have been the brunt of a few poorly handled and executed scenes, the PD makes things fair enough for everyone, I don't really support more rules against the PD when we already do everything we can to make a fair playing field. The PD preaches heavy RP, we're always one step above everyone else as we hold the standard for the rest of the community, if you feel someone is below our RP standard, report them to us.

https://forum.eclipse-rp.net/forum/7-server-suggestions/ Here is a link to server suggestions. What, reported where? Anything reported to the LSPD is investigated and handled accordingly. If people keep coming on here and making discussions about things without knowing the full context of how it works, most people in the community will jump on the bandwagon as they themselves are also likely unaware. So to fix this, we ask people to report things in the manner we can handle them, this way we can get everyone on the right page. Yes, NPC's should be considered a person, current rules do not say they are, please post a suggestion in the right area if you would like to see that changed. But other than that, if you want a police chase, go on a police chase. In the mean time, instead of waiting in the store for them to show up, have someone keep an eye out or better yet, pretend to be just leaving as they get there.

Again, post these kinds of concerns here... https://gov.eclipse-rp.net/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=3259 Bottom line, if you have not been in the faction, you don't know how we operate. You don't know our protocol. You don't know how seriously we take play-to-win attitudes. People are trying to help explain how you can change something, so please do so in the means we've already put in place. When it comes to the current rules and scripting, we work with them as best as we can to give players a fair playing field. Yes IRL it would not take 15 minutes to take $4000 from a cash register, because IRL a register isn't going to have more than $100. If police rolled up and blocked the front door, easily the same could be done at the back door. Yes I agree perhaps some rules should be amended, but as it is right now with the current scripting, we do everything we can to make it fair for everyone. Moving on. On the topic about police valuing their lives, they do. If someone is breaking that rule then report them. Because of scripting reasons, you still carry your personal pistol on you. So that means if I die on duty, I respawn at the hospital with no personal weapon anymore, I lose anything else that was in my inventory, be that my radio, a cheeseburger or clothes. About adding pistols and armour to the treasury, yeah you could, but the economy is already so out of balance it would be impossible to figure out. IRL officers don't die in the field on a regular basis, the budget normally spent on guns and armour would be at least 10x an IRL police force of an equivalent size. On this server a police force can be wiped out, there is no army, or national guard to respond as they would IRL in some of these cases. About police dropping weapons, that would create a huge incentive to start hunting officers for weapons. I don't agree with it mainly because eclipse does not have solid enough rules surrounding how heavy this server is supposed to be on roleplay. In all honesty, I don't see how adding that to the budget would change how officers value their own lives as they already do. The police are not meant to be a force that can be easily overthrown, or casually shot, or killed on a regular basis. We are not NPC police in GTA single player/online, we are here to RP. If you feel someone is below a standard, feel free to report them to us directly, this way we can be sure that the officer(s) in question do not repeat the same mistake over again.

https://gov.eclipse-rp.net/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=3259 The IA reports are IC and OOC. Make a forum account, nearly 10,000 have been made and counting, it only takes a moment. A name and badge number are not required but if you can provide one then do so. We do ask to provide a description of the officer. If you have recording software like most people do, you shouldn't have any issue uploading a copy of the video and submitting that with the report, as that is usually enough to identify the officer in question, with a description provided. You can always ask OOCly for the information such as name and badge number, just be sure to fill the form accordingly with (( OOC )) brackets where applicable. Many people have managed the IA report system with no issues, we have a great team of people who manage Internal Affairs. We cannot fix things unless notified properly. It is not uncommon that a newer officer may make a mistake or two in their early career, versus that of a seasoned officer who has been in the faction six months to over a year. If we don't see ourselves, or have incidents reported, then we cannot be sure that the officer in question will not make the same mistake again. These incidents should have been reported through our gov-forums long before it is a post on the eclipse forums, especially if a lot of people are unaware how seriously we take things and how in-depth our protocols are. If you feel something might be wrong such as protocol being broken, feel free to make that report, it'll be investigated fully and handled accordingly.