Chief Pupui
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Makes perfect sense to me. A "If Used" case.
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Indeed! You're a hero!
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2 hours ago, Rick C. C-103 said:
Yes, I have a Chromebook(in the near future a new computer). The computer I have is from school, so I can only have games that I download that run CHROMEOS
Well then you're asking a awful lot of development time for a rather unique problem.
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4 hours ago, Papastouch said:
@NobodyLTU I think this has become an issue after the trailers were implemented, as players delivering cargo has no effect on this number.
More so, there are no weapon parts trailers.
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3 hours ago, Rick C. C-103 said:
But being a dispatcher is for people without a game who still want to participate in the roleplay experience, Dispatchers in life arent in the field with the officers, they have computers with special systems in there so they can communicate with the officers VIA CAD/ MDT/MDC
Wait if I understand this correct you don't have/can't play the GTAV?
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Simply put employees with gun licenses just buy the guns and take the cash back from the treasury, do it all the time at SN.
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10 hours ago, TheFluciFial said:
Yes, that's what I'm saying lmao
Go ahead and code it yourself then.
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1 hour ago, TheFluciFial said:
@ItsPazz @Magnolia @Chief Pupui What if we created a Life Invader social website, to introduce social media to the server?
Want to develop it? Because dev have big priorities right now that isn't a social media platform.
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Just now, TheFluciFial said:
Though some of this statement is correct, I'd have to disagree to a degree. Weazel News is currently all text-based. They do not plan events, they do not do videos, they do not hire actors or singers to perform concerts to plan events.
Yet with a little change in weazel they can. Just change weazel, a whole new faction isn't needed.
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Weazel news can basically perform the exact same role already.
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100% Support this.
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You know what dude.
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2 hours ago, Perfectum said:
Not sure what I think about this idea. It's just really hard to see how it turns out. I defiantly support any idea that makes criminal RP more fun, creates RP and makes being a gang member interesting. I don't think the bonus should be fifteen grand at the start because of the current player base. I think it should start a lot lower and then start going up along with the playerbase.
Discussed before, but most official factions get 6 per hour per player per hour.
15k sounds like a lot, but in reality its very little. And it also faces the fact that criminals have LOTS of up front costs, including fines, etc.
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Date and time (provide timezone): GMT
Character name: Andy_McGallan
Issue/bug you are reporting: Constantly counted as jailed
Evidence, notes worth mentioning, steps to replicate:
So, despite being a free man I am continuously counted as jailed for no reason. I've had admins jail and unjail me but no matter what I can't shake the "Jailed" status.
So I'm wondering what's up.
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Hey Mike.
So to start this off you posted about a hour ago. I'm going to go on a whim and say you have a pretty far western or eastern timezone. That's already where you might have your issue, as this server I would argue peaks between 19:00 and 23:00 hours +0GMT.The server breaking is a ongoing issue relating to GT:MP, the client that we use due to it being fundamentally the best choice we have given our resources. We are waiting on the creation of a couple tools within another client before we switch over. At that point we'll see (hopefully) a large increase in stability.
RP naturally goes to hubs, and while the server could do some work on hub development we do have them. You should go to LSC, Bayview and other mechanic shops; heck even mors in pretty much a hub. The RP is out there, and to a certain extent you can't just run around the empty corners of the city and wait for the RP to come to you. I understand that the current game mechanics place a emphasis on the grind for new players and take them away from RP; but that's something we can deal with. Just go hang out and have fun; having a fast car isn't necessary, having mates and a fun time actually enjoying the server is.
So give it another shot Mike, a the crashes will fix. The RP, you gotta find that but I promise you its there.
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I'm just going to put this out there as my own opinion.
We caught him hacking once. Its hard to catch hackers.How do we know how long was he hacking before hand?
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Just now, OsamaBigLag said:
I really like the idea, but I have 2 suggestions.
1. 15k per 2 hours seems alot, maybe it should start at lower ammount at start and once we see how the gangs roll, we can increase ( this is in no way saying that it will be 15k anyway)
2. Give admins easy access to disable nodes, lets say that 1 or 2 faction leaders go inactive for little bit and factions activity slows down, each other remaining faction could easily take over the turfs, getting loads of money/ammo. With admins seeing that a faction is semi inactive, they could easily disable certain nodes, to prevent monopoly and huge gains for other factions
Both good ideas. I would argue that them getting 15k a hour is rather different for criminals compared to PD, MD or any other faction because they don't have running costs like the OGs do.
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1 hour ago, InvalidSun said:
Quite a few good ideas, maybe being able to bring back the old feature where leaders could set ranks to get a percentage of profit, maybe have the leaders balancing out 80% total to their members for pay and 20% towards contraband.
That's not a half bad idea yo.
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Chief Pupui’s desires from a Official Gang System
So I’m pretty vocal at times about criminal issues. With the official gangs system coming out I hoped to comment on the features that official gangs would have and what would make a genuinely better system then we have now.
Just making some gangs official would be nothing more than a re-skin. What the Official Gangs (Henceforth referred to as the OGs) must have is a set of unique features that make them appealing for players to join and become part of while also producing quality roleplay befitting of their position.
They must also have a set of reasons for conflicting with other gangs and OGs that are unique to themselves, and drive player conflict. As well as that, currently gangs literally go to war for the sake of it; and have to make OOC agreements to not just put hours of work onto one another just to annoy each other mildly. A revisit to this will also be needed.
As such, I offer the following proposals
Turf
Currently turfs are set out in a series of small capturable locations for all gangs. For ease of explanation to the number of players who have no interaction with these turfs on their characters I shall lay out a map here. (Produced by @biglag)
Ultimately, they allowed for factions to capture warehouses where they could run their criminal enterprise. However, they had many issues which I’ll list out.
- The territories did not reflect often the gang’s culture.
- The territories were almost entirely OOC, and by no means had facilities to promote RP.
- Conflict over them was often laborious due to the high time for capping.
- However, it wasn’t too long that you couldn’t get ghost capped without you online if you were European focused as a gang and the other was american, you could do it without resistant if you timed it right.
- And lastly, it caused all sorts of drama due to the stupidly high cost of it all.
I’m sure you could pose a few issues. I just don’t think they made for fun gameplay or roleplay elements and thus posit that they should be entirely replaced.
Instead, this is my map for turfs and a new set of mechanics.
Legend: Red = Triad, Green = Families, Purple = Ballas, Yellow = Vagos, Blue = MCs
So what are the new mechanics I have up my sleeve you might ask? Well, I’ll bullet point ‘em now and make a section on each one.
- RP hubs, or ‘Gang Hideouts’
- Resource Node Capture point system
So let's begin with the RP hubs.
Hideouts
The RP hubs are a proposal for interiors able to be set up for buildings that don’t usually have interiors inside of gang turfs. These would be locations that are set by high ranking gang members once every 24 hours.
They would boast a number of facilities for gangs to perform their operations. An ATM, a full warehouse functionality and a gambling spot among other things. Be they just another copy of tequilala’s interior or some other idea ultimately they would be a location where gangs can gather and RP out stuff while being able to offer their services to the people of los santos.
A lack of RP hubs for criminals has often been the reason we have seen the mechanic shops turn into hives of scum and villany. Instead, the gang’s should own their own hives of scum and villany.
To make the in-game mechanics clear here
Each OG has 1 hideout that they can place at any one time, and when they do the old one is deleted. They may do this by performing a command like /og sethideout.
This would be an invisible marker just like the little yellow circles on the floor for entering mechanic’s offices, but invisible. Upon approaching you could just press y to enter the door, and if your faction gives you the privilege press k to lock the door.
https://gyazo.com/ad8c59d0228367386ffc58bf28d81a33
There is a nice little example.
But in short, a official gang hideout that offers:
- ATM Services
- Gambling
- A warehouse laptop
- Enough space to RP and an interior worthy of RPing in. And a lockable door that does allow other players from other factions or no faction at all from entering.
- Can be moved once every 24 hours.
- The entrance is invisible, the 30 cars parked around the entrance probably aren’t and people can figure out the entrance by just looking around and seeing where the cars are.
- Not mentioned earlier, but you can only put these hideouts in the boundaries of your OG’s turf. Also, your OG’s turf isn’t up for capture anymore.
Resource Nodes
The resource point capture system is basically a evolution of the turf capture system. Instead of it being a network of 3 capture points linked together instead there is a variety of nodes across the map that can be captured and generate resources or money for your OG.
Here is a list of the 2 resources I thought were appropriate:
- Money Generation Points: Generated 15k every 2 hours per point for your OG’s bank when you control them. There will be 3 in total.
- Ammunition Generation Points: Each ammo generation point produces 210 rounds of SMG or AR ammo, or 48 shotgun shells every 2 hours. There will be one point per ammo type, and they will send this ammo straight to your hideout warehouse.
Now, I shall explain the reasoning why I have proposed these two types of nodes.
First of all, the money node is very simply set out as a way for gangs to make cash to fund members. Gangs currently have a hard time for the average member to actually make a buck, as usually its condensed at a couple high profile figures who do all the deals and have warehouse access.
15k per 2 hours might sound steep, but when you consider that you have maybe 20 active members to fund then it starts becoming more a little top up. However, when it gets to the point when you have 3 nodes then you’re talking about real cash. 45k per 2 hours for the faction is a few meals for the injured, a decent amount of drugs and maybe a stocked gun.
Capture times for these nodes however would be severely reduced and have only a 2 hour cooldown. In sync with when they generate their cash. Perhaps only 5k health if they go off the old capture point system.
This would mean that actually monopolizing these capture points would be near impossible with other competing gangs wanting them.
Ammo nodes are much the same. They aren’t actually that much ammo at all but are roughly equivalent to the money nodes. However they do provide a small amount to top up gangs with resources for fights. Every single fight the criminals get into is usually just a gigantic money sink for bullets. (I did the math, the main money sink in the server is weapon ammunition, food & fuel.)
As such, it's merely a small boost to their total income to keep them running but something they’re going to want to keep hold of.
This will provoke gang conflict, as these resource nodes are easy to take from one another. This will stop the grand alliances we saw before.
Some final notes…
Ultimately, I think this would be a overall better turf system for the official gangs when the big release comes out and hope it provokes some better features that are more interesting from a game perspective.
I’ve tried to balance them out to a reasonable degree, and I know that the very idea that criminals get any sort of features will annoy sections of the player base but it's also fair to note that criminals are close to 50% of the playerbase.
Anyways, please feel free to post your comments and ideas.
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SPLITTING STACKS OF ITEMS
Really simple suggestion.
Currently in your inventory you can't split the stacks of items you have. This makes selling drugs where you have a stack of 400 rather difficult.
As such, can we please just have the ability to split stacks of items?
Special note: Make sure people can't split guns and can't dupe them.
Opinions?
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Date and time (provide timezone): Since last inventory update
Character name: Andy McGallan
Issue/bug you are reporting: Frisk Bug + No-RP ability
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Right. This post comes in 2 parts. A issue and a suggestion.
Frisking is currently bugged and when searching someone you will not be able to see anything in their inventory. You can only see their weapons equipped, and not inside the new inventory systemAdditionally. the inventory gives no notifications about what is being moved in your inventory. This makes it possibly to withdraw a AK47 from your inventory into your hands without notifying those around you. It also means giving someone a lift can see you robbed blind.
All inventory iterations should have text appear above your head saying what you are doing with the inventory. Always give notification about "Storing" and "Withdrawing" all items.
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Date and time (provide timezone): GMT 25/10/2017
Character name: Andy McGallan
Issue/bug you are reporting: Warehouse Ordering/Management buggeed
Evidence, notes worth mentioning, steps to replicate:
https://gyazo.com/0d4d2baf0607d8b24c2aae3adb4ea42a
Very simply put, all attempts to order stock or withdraw from the warehouses are denied with instead a constantly displayed "Withdrawing" or "Ordering" Logo.
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Can confirm.
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The Armoured Karuma is bullet proof in every way and can take RPG hits, this would literally just be a change that made everyone buy a armored Karuma. I really do hope you realise that the Karuma has bulletproof windows, tires, insulated engine and everything. It would be the best vehicle to use and just prompt the cops getting railguns.
As far as the game should be concerned the police should be something you just casually avoid interacting with as a criminal. I've managed to get through a shit load of situations through polite conversation and pleading to cops emotionally. You shouldn't be trying to fight the cops because everyone knows its like hitting your head against a brick wall. Just avoid them unless its really worth doing it.
Your focus shouldn't be fighting the police it should be performing criminal actions like slowly getting LSC all addicted to heroin or something for profit. No just acting like a murder hobo in a supercar.