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When you commit a crime, like ATM vandalism, bank robbery, store robbery, there's the potential for them to be notified. Do you have evidence of this claim?

It's a joke when it's made like that. There is no ESP with helicopters.

Helicopters don't have "x-ray". Also, it is not in the slightest unrealistic to have a helicopter in the sky. In LA where the city is based from, they have multiple helicopters up all day, and all over the city. There are strict IC regulations for PD's ASD to keep things fair and balanced.

I was hoping we could look into the ability to disable certain VIP perks, like food, drink, and phone degradation. While the food/drink and phone is nice to have to never need to charge your phone and rarely eat or drink, it just kind of feels a bit off to have such a low metabolism, or an infinite capacity phone. I would like the ability to turn this off.

Date and time (provide timezone): 15/JUN/2024 | 18:32 Character name: Any character Issue/bug you are reporting: When you are texting on your phone, if you hit a key that is bound to VOIP, it'll trigger Radio, or local VOIP Expected behavior: Texting shouldn't trigger VOIP Evidence, notes worth mentioning, steps to replicate: Open up your phone. Type away, but making sure to hit an alphabet key bound to VOIP. Observe that it'll show "RADIO" or "TALKING" in the bottom middle of the screen. Can record this happening and send it to Osv or Paulius Vehicle license plate number*: N/A

@badereddin What is the name of the new account you made?

@Chhetri_Sau You have been informed why you are unable to log in. This is not a bug

You ban evade, you're breaking our rule. There's no chance that's going to get altered. Don't ban evade. Read the rules. Follow them to the best of your ability. You get punished for breaking a rule, and decide to create a new account to circumvent the ban, you think you're above the rules. What stops you from pulling the same shit again. You're just going to break the same rules and not learn a lesson. Each ban is handled on a case by case basis. As Ranger said in the other thread, there's not going to be a change in this.

There are many vehicles that need a trunk. It's just a Rage issue from what I have heard.

No "a" +1

Personally, I love the rain. The weather is well done outside of being just always sunny. I remember when I first joined the server, over the course of a month and many, many hours of play, I saw rain like once or twice. I know this was adjusted to work correctly. I would ask for more rain, but that's being selfish While I am aware, and sympathize with players who experience physical ailments from the flashing lights, perhaps finding a way to de-intensify the lighting flashes, as well as reducing the sound, which iirc the latter can't be done, would be beneficial.

I am not in anyway blaming anyone here. I am merely stating a matter of fact. I'm not stating "crim bad because LEO low", but instead stating that a lot of the RP that you are hoping to receive can't be delivered compared to server prime hours. It's just not feasible. You have been in the faction, are in the SD faction, which doesn't fully have this issue. To boil it down in the simplest way: We have people calling 911 because someone called him mom fat We have people bored calling 911 for a bomb threat here because lulz We have people who call 911 because their CityBee got stolen We have people who are organizing a protest at CityHall and GOV is worried and wants unit presence We have NPC's calling because an ATM is being smashed We have NPC's calling because their house was broken We have 3 people calling for impound, pissed off because they saw a cruiser drive past, since that unit was going to clock off We have 100 obligations that are needed to be taken into account, and not enough to do it with. If we can get ahead of something, we will try to and when numbers are low, we need to figure out anything we can do. Is this a YOU issue? No, not at all, however it is also not an US issue. It's just an issue that, while it sucks, just is something we all have to compromise. I work a 9-5, and I'm usually on the server between 6pm - midnight Eastern. A couple of people that have replied here are Pacific timezone, which is around the tail-end of my time online. So again, this isn't me faulting anyone for the time they play. This isn't me faulting people saying you only do this because there are low LEO. This is me merely stating that what you are asking for from LEO isn't always feasible DUE to low LEO. This is why the RP can't always be delivered.

Because this has been said a couple of times in this thread, and before this thread gets derailed to how "PD bad", I am going to quote, and link the source of this for Charge Stacking. Mentioning that WILL derail this. https://discord.com/channels/229240178441584645/229240178441584645/1212113989337874532 While there may have been instances where LEO's didn't give crim factions the RP they wanted, that's not always due to the fact that LEO's couldn't; either they didn't know what was being given, nor wanted things to escalate from a crim organization that's a known terrorist group. Why not squash the bug before the infestation overwhelms the already low number of LEO's online when UG was out doing their RP. UG stood against corruption, and in turn developed a name for themselves and their faction members had a number of severe charges. LEO's IRL and in-game would be fools to not resolve that ASAP before things escalate outside of what they can control. There have been a number of times that LEO's had to let UG go about and do what they wanted to do because LEO's were wiped out. That's all on this, this can continue back onto SAGOV corruption, and not PD. A new topic for LEO's can be made.

What he is saying that while set, it's not exactly in. The server cannot run like the US can. There is simply NO way for that to happen.

This was in scriptly doable long before the one on Innocence

+1 I'm on board with this, but also for me, car washes are great for 3 minutes when your car gets dirty af again within 2 km. It just nulls the point of a car wash when it gets that dirty that quickly. In conjunction with this, I'd love it if there was a way to alter the GTA code that sets the dirty layers and defer the distance or time driving to be much more than that. This way people going to car shows can arrive with their cars clean, people can enjoy their cars being clean much longer, people will actually want to use the Car Wash in the city, or use the services at one of the three mechanic shops. While I agree, setting a fixed price at the mechanics shops is needed, I think there's also a re-working of how quickly cars get dirty that needs to be changed as well.

+1 to this as well.

@okt4yWas your issue resolved?

Either way, there is no way to delete characters. Sorry about that.

While having evidence is fantastic, I think that it is highly unrealistic to expect players in this game to be able to be able to save footage from their interactions. If you are going to be making a forum report, then it is your responsibility to inform those involved to save their POV's in a timely manner. We should not expect people to have 10+ GB of storage space for footage, or an ever ending stream through OBS/Streamlabs from their day. Not everyone has a great PC, not every one has copious amounts of storage on their hard drive, nor does everyone run graphic cards that are powerful enough to not interfere with their gaming experience. I think forcing this is not something that should be done at all. The other thing we need to take in account is location. Not everywhere in the world has fibre internet, or gigabyte or high speeds. So uploading longer videos may not be feasible for them. In an ideal world, yes absolutely I agree with you. However, we don't live in that ideal world. Something that could be looked into is an implementation server side where a POV can be made and saved for mod+ to fetch, but that will be a massive server strain. Thinking akin to Valve's Demo Viewer for Counter-Strike 2. Reference of average user hardware per Steam March 2024 Regarding punishing players for not providing their POV, I don't foresee there being a world where this will be done. This, for the reasons I outlined above, is unfair to that player. Is it annoying that we can't get all sides of the story, yes, but that's what appeals are for.

Hi there, despite your use of AI to generate this query, we do not delete characters at all. You're welcome to buy another slot for 500 credits in the F6 menu.

A non-emergency line would honestly be ideal for all factions, MD/SD/PD. This is something we've been advocating for, for a long time. It makes a ton of sense, and even if you preface [NON-EMERGENCY] in your 911, depending on the Officer, you can still be subjected to IC consequences for this. I can't speak on the speed traps portion. I know it used to be a big thing when I was much more active, and if it is still on-going, it must be when I'm heads down on something, or when I'm not online, so I'll have to take your experiences on that one as valid reasoning.

This is not in any way an accurate statement at all. Impound is not something that LSPD in any way shape or form ignores because we dislike the activity, and the RP quality/variety is always dogshit. It, like MD's roadworkers fire calls, are low priority regarding call hierarchy. It has been for the year and a half I've been in PD, and it has been before my time on this server. It's not "No one wants to come to impound" but more so "gangs are shooting at each other" or "someone at burgershot looked at me funny, so I smashed him with a bat" which starts a massive headache, or responding to house robberies, store robberies, atm robberies, you get the picture. The thing that people constantly fail to see is that it's not that PD doesn't want to come to impound, it's we get side-tracked with more important calls that come in. It's a double-edged sword. You are at impound, want a car out, we don't arrive on time. So, we prioritize impound calls, but then you're making a 911 call because some person shot at you and killed your friend, and we don't respond in time to investigate. Lose-lose for PD in either case. We see the calls coming in. We request a free unit to respond. They make their way there, but if they are enroute and pull off, there's a reason for it, and it's not because it's "not an activity they enjoy", nor is it because "the RP quality/variety is always dogshit." The conversation surrounding whether the devs make it automated or not is on them to decide the amount of work and effort it is needed to execute on. The relocation of the impound lot in the city was done because of the mapping updates that the Mod Team has been working hard on for many months to provide a fresh re-skin of the city and make it more enjoyable for everyone in the future.

Agreed entirely. I would love to not have to need a mod+ to do vehicle RP and such, or like a way for detectives to get the ID of the deceased to run a /ldo on them to try and piece together a scene. The thing is, unless it happens near CCTV 9/10 homicide scenes fall static due to lack of script supported evidence.

Give detectives chance to access recent events of doors/cars/tools/was in the field of camera We already have this capability, however some things like vehicles, are scriptly limited, and require moderator+ intervention Make LEOs loose their weapons when they die No thank you, this just points to having more random shooting of cops on sight just for their weapons. Let basic units have only sidearms (like IRL) and a shotgun in the trunk (with timer to get it out) I can tell you haven't played an LEO character yet. There are already IC protocols and procedures in place for this, that this is not necessary. No more timers. Make swat teams heavily armed but they would have a higher respond time (armored cars) to get to the scene They already are the only heavily armed division. However, they do not always play at all hours, which makes this kind of a moot point. Paying for lost guns No thank you. If we are paying for our own guns, armor, etc, then we should be getting an MD kickback where every arrest we get a fixed amount. Every citation issues, we get a fixed amount. Every gun we collect, every count of drug we collect, we get a fixed amount. And all of this comes from the person we are arresting, like how the $500 comes from the Player when they are taken to the hospital. That's not going to happen, and people will get pissed off even more. LEO used to drop weapons before, and there was a reason this was removed and now weapons from official factions are locked. Add a rule about realistic driving for LEOs - realistic pits, not crashing into suspects cars Again, showcasing not having the appropriate experience playing LEO, there are already protocols and procedures. 200 km/h, or 125 mp/h is "not-realistic" for speeds, however, it is. You claim that cops drive like crazy and crash cars into suspects, provide evidence of that, or make an OOC IA report with LSPD or LSSD, as that is not something that happens. There's also desync in this server which can cause for accidental crashes, however this is all IC and not OOC regulated outside of certain NRP or VDM rules. PD and SD are NOT exempt from any NRP or VDM rules despite what one might think. And pitting at only 120 km/h or 62 mp/h, that's barely US highway speeds. Real life pursuits are a bit quicker than that. It's about ending the chase as safely as possible, and someone going 200+ km/h (125+ mp/h) is putting a hazard to civilian lives RPly and physically. Disable "repairing cars" by despwaning the old one and spawning a new one Do you know how bad the desync is on this server? There's no NPC cars, so you have people flying at 220+ km/h down the main city streets, or cross sections and smack right into you. Great your shift is over and lasted 5 minutes because you are now scriptly inable to deploy another cruiser. Or, you're at a traffic stop, the suspect in front of you shoots your tires out because they don't like you giving them a 2nd degree speeding ticket, and now you can't "repair" your cruiser, and are done for the day. Great RP to be involved with. Promote using only one car during the shift and not spawning despawning cars during chases/when they come to mission row (it doesnt work that way IRL) See above, this was just duplicated but to include only pursuits. Add actual dispacher possition This used to be a thing on the server, but was removed. All in all, a lot of this is "we want realistic RP", but you need to ask yourself, where is the middle ground of a game vs realistic RP, and when it is RP for all, and not just wanting RP for yourself? These suggestions have been brought up countless times before, and none of these are implemented. You want to see the overpowered LEO's? Come play on the server between 01:00 - 07:00 during the weekdays. I welcome you to see these overpowered factions dealing with multiple gangs during these tough hours. The key thing to all of this is balance. Things are in a decent spot here. I encourage you to join PD or SD and see how things work from their side. See all the rules and protocols and procedures that we have to align ourselves with, and you'll see it's not so black and white.