HaminLord

Hell yeah!

+1

So yeah, I was there. @Andor Let me explain what happend from our view. After chasing Tom for a few good minutes he was beginning to get a lot of distance from us. However, a helicopter was still above him. Shortly later, the helicopter pilot informed us on the radio that the car stopped inside some parking lot of a house, and that another car was there. When Tom's Elegy drove out we were sure it was him. After pulling the vehicle over and realising the it was not in fact Tom, we came to the logical assumption that Tom dipped his own car and got in the other car. Our helicopter was still above the other car, presumably where Tom dipped his own vehicle. So we sped our way there after securing you in a cruiser. Due to other events that happend as we were driving to you we had to stop and divert to a different situation. I believe at that point we lost all visual on the other vehicle. But due to an irl firealarm I had to log off. So don't quote me on that.

beautifully made, nice job!

I think any Senior Admin+ is enough. Not sure about that though.

Where's the link to the ringtone download? - Ilai Daniels

This doesn't need a suggestion post for it... Just post in the business section and you're set. No need for a "vote" on it it you want it to be implemented.

Really well made good job pal.

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Oof, welcome back.

If I'm not mistaken this was brought up a few weeks ago as well. With no doubt, for me this is a +1. Actually, I've never fished in ECRP when I first started off playing. The first and last time I was fishing was when I had 100k xp on my character and robbed a guy on the pier. This is the exact problem why Fishing needs to change in my opinion. And as of now, I believe the current system should change. Here is the current state with fishing for players who are unaware: The fishing job, located at the Del Perro Pier is perhaps the riskiest and annoying job in my opinion. Most of the time, it is even riskier and dangerous than the Farming Job. It does not pay that amazing and players can easily lose all of their progress. The reason is short and simple, while fishing players have no way to retaliate, fishing is usually done by new players and is a known location. Any man can drive up to the pier in his car, walk up to the fishing area and draw a gun out. Next 5 minutes and he'll have another Pistol and 6 fish on him. I myself have seen countless videos/in game situations in which fishermen get robbed and lose fish worth of 50 minutes. This is by no means hard to fix. In my opinion, it is actually really easy, and a not too complex system can be built. My suggestion is a direct expansion to Jay's short suggestion, but with a few features and ideas of its own. I believe that the pier location should stay. However, a welcome addition would be a "fishing shop" nearby or directly at that location. At this "fishing shop" players will be able to purchase fish bait, hooks and containers for the fish. From different bait to different hooks. However, if a player wishes to fish at the pier he can do so for free. However, put himself at a much higher risk of being robbed. Once in possession of a hook, bait or containers. Players will have the option to fish at any deep water location, this can include locations such as the following (Just a few examples. More can be added if the need arises): Alamo Sea Paleto Cove Procopio Sea Tataviam Mountains (The small lake near the dam) Vespucci Beach Mirror Park (The lake) Port Of Los Santos Chumash Beach Zancudo Beach Vinewood Lake Each one of the locations would have its own few fish, and they're rarity. A good example of this would be the following: Paleto Cove = Rare but expensive fish, your chance of catching them would be extremely low, using specific bait would increase your chances. Alamo Sea = Cheap fish, easily catchable. Procopio Sea = All kinds of fish, some being expensive which can only be caught with the use of high-quality hooks. As well as some low-quality fish, that will be easily caught and can be sold for low prices. To make sure players can't afk farm at one location and stockpile on hundreds of fish, players would have to buy expensive hooks and bait in order to have high chances of acquiring expensive and valuable fish, some of the fish types. Would also require special containers that can have higher item volumes to balance the stockpiling of fishing up. This can be expanded even further, but feel free to upvote this if you think this is a good suggestion.

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All information written in the following post is to be taken OOC'ly only, using any of the information provided here in an IC'ly matter would be considered mixing and meta-gaming. Shortly after the disbanding of Amnesia, Tom Daniels along with Lucas Daniels began to stockpile on weapons on drugs. While their third mate Hoxton Curry would go and join Shadow Cartel, the 2 brothers began to work on their own. Raiding houses, drug labs and ensuring a large stock of heavy weapons. It is then that the 2 brothers met Jason Nightwood, the brother of Shadow Cartel board director Jax Nightwood. Jason Nightwood, unlike his brother aimed for a more legal way of life. After failing his first interview Jason joined Los Santos Customs and progressed his way until he became a Roadside Trainee, shortly after joining Los Santos Customs. Jason met Tom and Lucas once as he was servicing them. From their first interaction with one another, the 3 became close friends. He later learned through the history of the city after hearing stories from the 2, on how once the 2 were a part of a group called Syndicate and on the re-organizing it had into Amnesia which later collapsed. Through them, he would understand how easy it is to earn money through illegal ways in the city. It is then when he met Hoxton Curry as well and learn on how Hoxton was wanted for more than a month at the time of their introduction. After a 3 days' time, Jason would be fired from LSC due to accessory to robbery, looking for the right time to turn his legal life into a more illegal one, Jason used the chance to contact Tom and ask for assistance in escaping imprisonment at Bolingbroke. As the cruiser stopped at the Pillbox medical center Tom and Jason both escaped the Police and drove north, then Jason decided he had enough living under the tyranny of the current government in Los Santos and not having the ability to stand up for himself in the city. Jason, alongside Tom used his connections to acquire an arsenal of heavy weapons. Which would later server purpose in acquiring narcotics which were used to fund Jason's illegal way of life. While this was going on, Tom Daniels and Lucas Daniels were expecting one of their family relatives. Houston Daniels, to arrive at the Los Santos International Airport. Meeting with their brother, Tom and Lucas helped him establish a few connections in the city alongside an arsenal of weapons and narcotics he would sell for extra funds and assets. Now, with the right tools and motivations for a criminal life. Jason, Lucas, Tom, and Houston met each other. Looking towards the future of their lives, the 4 agreed to form a small group of their own. They'd call the group "Authority". The mantle was simple: They don't get orders. But instead, enforce their policies and demands on rival gangs and groups. Using their arsenal of weapons and money they made from supplying the less known criminals of Los Santos with heavy weapons and drugs they began to raid houses and mess with gangs four times larger than their size. A couple of days later, Tom would contact one of the old members of Syndicate before the re-organization: Arian Grayston. And would soon inform him about their plans, joining without a doubt. Arian was the 5th member to be a part of Authority. The following week would be a major success for Authority. Together, the 5 members managed to acquire themselves more heavy weapons. From a sniper-rifle they later sold to 12 more AKs which would be acquired by Jason after the raiding of a house in Sandy Shores. Authority began to sell their stock of weapons and by doing so would build up funds for a massive order of factory-new weapons that would be bought directly off one of Shadow Cartel's imports due to a contract signed by Tom Daniels and a high ranking member of Shadow Cartel, the contents of the order would be around 800k worth of weapons, who would be stored up in a remote safehouse who's location was known only to the members of Authority. Shortly later, Flip Daniels. Another member of the Daniels family would arrive in town and would meet up with Tom and Lucas, shortly later. He would be the 6th member of Authority. Now, Authority looks to increase its numbers and achieve an even larger scale of weapons trade and narcotics sales all across the city. As of now, Authority is spending most of their time acquiring an even larger stock of weapons by raiding houses and drug labs in coordinated attacks, they roll around in a group and always inform the others on the radio if any potential rewards can be earned. Most of the time the members of Authority go around and chill, some would call their behavior "childish" and "immature" whether if that's true or not. Whenever Authority receives information of possible heavy weapons or large amounts of narcotics that can be acquired they focus and become as much serious as they can. Aside from that, Authority is also reaching out to possible new recruits into the organization, however. Authority focuses on quality over quantity. By no means is Authority's goal to achieve the largest number of members. The process of recruitment into Authority is not a short and easy one by any means, Authority makes sure that any recruits that join are heavily equipped and know how to handle themselves. This comes into play in a couple of forms, one of them being how Authority frequently tests out its new members by getting them into troublesome situations and seeing how they handle in them. Finally, Authority is going around and making sure that their presence in the city isn't one to go un-noticed. Whenever a person messes with one of the members of Authority. The rest gather up and make sure that the person will not do so again, sometimes this is done by force. And sometimes, it is done with friendly communication. However, Authority always looks for a way to make gains and profit from any situation. The main goal of Authority currently is to be one of the largest weapons suppliers in the city. With its large supply of heavy weapons Authority aims to make a large profit from the buying and selling of weapons. Currently, Authority has already begun to do so. However, it aims to reach much greater heights then it currently is at. The second goal of Authority currently is to make itself known. While some of the members are already known throughout the city and different criminal organizations, Authority seeks to make everyone know that they should not be taken lightly. While some people might consider them weak due to their small number of members and lack of response times at some hours of the day. Authority can pack a punch, and it aims to let everyone know that messing with Authority will ensure the people doing so will feel suffer, agony and pain due to their actions. Authority is by no means against everyone, they attack only those who attack them. While they try to keep everything peaceful Authority provokes other criminal organizations if they think that any sort of profit or gains would be acquired from the situation. However, Authority is actively looking for a close ally. One with the same ideology and goals as Authority. - We always follow the server rules and try to give the best RP experience to ourselves and everyone who is included in said RP situation. - Long-Term Inactivity is something we do not tolerate in Authority. Members who will be inactive for some time must inform the other members of this. - We always try to make gains from any situation we are in, if no profit is gained in said situation. It is best if we do not spend time that can be spent on other actions that can come in shape of any sort of reward. - We keep our friends close, but our enemies closer. If someone interferes with our operations and actions, we don't let this go un-noticed. We make sure that the individual knows not to repeat the same mistake again. Authority is by no means lead by one man, everyone can share their opinions and what actions they believe should be done in specific situations. Therefore, Authority does not have a single "leader". However, Authority's older and more experienced members are the ones usually calling out the shots in most of the situations. When a member of Authority breaks one of the rules or goes against what Authority believes in, causing major problems to Authority in the process. His future in Authority would be discussed between the oldest of oldest members in Authority. While in the city, the members of Authority usually hang out at select locations throughout the city of Los Santos and its outskirts. Authority usually focuses on waiting for the right moment to strike. And whenever that moment comes they group up and focus their skills and equipment in a situation where they see major rewards in. If one of the members of Authority is being robbed, threatened or shot. The rest group up and speed of to assist the member who requires the help. In case they are too late or arrive when the aggressors have already run away. Authority seeks out the people that caused the aggression and makes sure they will never do so again.

I don't even know how large a +1 this is for me, the current metagaming rule definition (in ECRP at least) is as follows: 6.3.1 Metagaming (MG) is the act of relaying IC information through OOC methods or using OOC information in roleplay scenarios. OOC methods include third-party software, for example, Discord. What many players don't understand, is that even mentioning IC events in an OOC platform such as discord is considered metagaming by this definition. And for me, this is one of the dumbest rules that I've ever seen in an RP server. And to be honest, I break it almost every day on multiple occasions. Whether if it's by speaking with your friends (In an OOC platform) about IC events which happened 3 hours ago, or whether if it's about telling them some guy robbed me and then he flipped his vehicle while he drove away (just examples). I personally believe that this needs to change, as @Denise C said. The actual definition of metagaming in the rules needs to change to the actual definition of metagaming which is commonly used in other roleplay servers. Which is usually the following: A player may share IC information in OOC manners. However, if the information is later used by other players who learned it through the OOC manner in an IC way, the players who did so are metagaming. The server already has this rule. However most people know about it, unlike 6.3.1 which most players don't even know exists. I believe that the metagaming rules should be changed as the following: 6.3.1 Metagaming (MG) is the act of relaying IC information through OOC methods for benefit including other players who learned said information in the OOC methods. Methods like using third-party softwares such as Discord, Teamspeak or etc. Breaching this rule will result in punishments. However, if IC information is learned in an OOC manner and not used IC this will not be considered a breach of the metagaming rule. 6.3.2 Relaying IC information through OOC methods, which benefit the player, is a major MG offense and will result in a ban. For example, a player is at gunpoint, the player uses an OOC method to call for help, as a result, the attacker is unable to detect this action and has no chance to counter it (it is unfair for the attacker). 6.3.3 Player’s camera view determines the field of vision of their character (“camera metagaming” is not enforced). (6.3.4 is not really important to this specific topic however I added it anyway.)

Before I continue with this reply I want to make it clear that I don't hate nor dislike any members of La Fuente Blanca, I barely know any of them IC'ly and spoke a bit to a few of them OOC'ly. However, I do think that giving this faction official status as one of the first 4 is a wrong decision. While the story and lore is interesting and well developed, I'm afraid that it only affects the roleplay of a few people and leaves the general community hidden (Mostly other criminals) from this unique roleplay. I very much agree that this faction follows it's lore and backstory by staying hidden in the shadows and not show itself in public locations. However I think that this sort of roleplay is annoying and needs to change. The big flaw that this factions has in my opinion is that the roleplay affects a very small amount of people, and by doing so blocks off alot of roleplay scenarios. With how hidden this faction is it's hard to initate any roleplay scenarios with them, which is why I'd like to suggest something for the leaders of LFB. Try to be more public, not in a way that u go around the bank and tell everyone you're in La Fuente Blanca but rather go and peform more roleplay scenarios at Criminal Locations such as chop shops or drug labs, there u can go around and roleplay as some secret group that barely people know about and show everyone the roleplay that you are able to provide. Personally I think that giving this faction a turf in the first wave of official factions is a wrong decision, and personally, I would've given them the official status in the second wave. I have no problems what so ever with this faction receiving official status. But I belive that other factions (who I will not mention) deserved the official status earlier than them. I think that this faction deserves official none the less as sone as possible. But until now most of their roleplay seemed more like an OOC thing, with only the members of LFB seeing and taking part in it. I'd like to see that change and see more roleplay scenarios from this faction including other people from different factions. I am going to say this again, this is not coming from hate or etc. Just sharing my opinion on this topic. Good luck on your future roleplay and hopefully me and many other people can see you around more and erase our negative thoughs about this. - Hamin

This is a massive +1 for me. The chops shop used to be a place where you would come with stolen vehicles to make more profit easily. I personally remember how I used to come there every time I found an unlocked vehicle on the side of the road, and how everytime I saw a guy behind me asking on the radio if someone owns this car. Right now, I can't even remember what was the last time I chopped a car or even came to the chop shop on purpose. Because of how low the chop shop prices are for most vehicles it's better to work in non-gov jobs in order to make more profit. Personally I think that the chop shop should be rewarding and should give people around 5-7% of the vehicle's value. Chopping cars should be a high-risk high-reward feature. Not one that makes u waste time for minimal profit. At the current state of the server, most people would rather drive around with stolen vehicles then to chop them. I think this needs to be changed asap.

Now, as much as I hate waiting for a cruiser to pull up to the impound lot and give me back my car. I still think that automating the Impound Lot will not be a good idea. IRL, the process of releasing your car out of police impound takes time and effort. You have to prove that u own the car, will not repeat the action that resulted into the car being impounded, have valid licenses and etc. I know that this just cannot be the case in ECRP. But I still believe that the little we have of that should stay, not only does this add more RP in the way of talking with cops, I also think that it wouldn't make sense both IRL and in a Roleplay Server to come up to the police impound and simply release your vehicle in a matter of minutes. Of course that this process can't be longer than an hour (or any amount of time, this is just an example) as it will waste alot of time that can be spent on roleplay and etc. For me this is a -1. I do hate waiting for an officer to come and release my vehicle so I can drive around in it. However I think that you can go and do certain actions to lower the time u wait for a cop to arrive. For example, I usually go to PD first and ask them if any cops is free to help me in the impound lot. It is a pain in the ass to wait for a cop. But by no means should it be a process which takes a few minutes, both IRL and IC this makes sense, as from the first place u should try and avoid your vehicle being impounded.

To me everything you are saying is just an attempt to put blame on Los Zetas and its members due to toxicity. If u have a problem with them don't put negative comments on their post. If you have a problem with their roleplay and their backstory PM @JayGamble or one of the other higher ups. tell them how they can improve and adapt. I'm sure they will listen. Writing negative stuff like this on the detailed and well made forum post they made is for me, just a blatant attempt to annoy and make them angry due to OOC reasons. As someone who isn't even in Los Zetas I ask you to stop blaming them. Keep this civilised and mature. No need for toxicity and writing replies with the intent to annoy them. Because how I see it. That is what your doing.

If u have negative shit to say its best if u keep it to yourself. Backstory looks nice, outfits and color schemes are also pretty cool. looking foward to see u around!

Any player can make as many reports as he wants. If they are trying to put blame on you and just trying to get u banned (which I belive is also very true due to how many reports they are making with weird and old evidence) staff will archive and reject the report. In case staff will find that you really broke rules they will look further into the report.

Whos that guy in the wolf mask? Looks dope tbh. To be serious tho, today was my first interaction with these guys at LSD lab. They seemed super cool and nice and made me laugh a bit after inviting the cops to eat BBQ with them. Really liked the thread. Good luck and see you around. - Yuval Gotlin