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  1. The Halloween Party at Mirrorpark Tavern went off very well, all the visitor enjoy their time at Mirropark Tavern with the drink and food including the Halloween Costume event until the nightmare happens on the radio people lock picking car outside the club. He went outside The Tavern and change his outfit before he gets on onto his bike, making a radio callout for two suspected persons who stole a mamba from the parking lot. Someone told him on the radio to leave the mamba and wait for other people that want to try to steal another car. Someone on the radio making callout there's a guy trying to lockpick a car, the person trying to stab Jules, he gets into his car and takes out a gun from the glovebox and start shooting at Jules after as Jules trying to stop the person from lockpicking a car, Jules got fatal injured and sent to hospital after that, Revelt get off from his bike found a .50 on his bag and takes it out and start shooting the person who shoots at Jules. The Person is [CENSORED] both of them went into prison as cops been sitting there watching around and shot at Revelt at the end of the day.
  2. This rule really need to get some adjustment. This is our current rules for "player theft prison breakout and kidnapping" Player Theft, Prison Breakout, and Kidnapping Robberies are to be conducted in a realistic manner and require the robber to have a reasonable in character motive. High risk, but little reward robberies are deemed unrealistic and should not be performed. Robberies should be performed in secluded areas where there is a low chance to be seen by witnesses. Desert and forest areas could be considered secluded but potential witnesses should be taken into account. This is a suggestion for "player theft prison breakout and kidnapping" Player Theft, Prison Breakout, and Kidnapping Committing crime / Robberies are to be conducted in a realistic manner and require the robber to have a reasonable in character motive during the day. High risk, but little reward robberies are deemed unrealistic and should not be performed. Robberies should be performed in secluded areas where there is a low chance to be seen by witnesses during the day, Any crimes during the night are allowed, robberies are allowed to be performed in every areas for every situation in the night time. Desert and forest areas could be considered secluded but potential witnesses should be taken into account during the day. Examples (but not limited to), when you're not allowed committing crime / robberies : -Committing crimes / Robberies in public area such as store, highway or any business building during the day are prohibited without a reason. I believe having night-life time crime action or activity will bring up more immersion into the server rather than stricted by the rules that only need "in character motive" People can feel safe during the day but in night time that's the only time criminal doing their action. I know that server want to bring up more social rp interaction and stuff, as hardcore roleplayer since sa-mp, this rules really means nothing and increase a lot of OOC in the server than IC, its really hard to make RP scenario and daily RP as crime with this rule. We were robbing people outside the city, in the middle of the night at country road that possibly have low population RPly, the guy spamming /b save pov c-logging so bad and makes it hard to RP due to people bring up OOC rules into IC scenario it doesn't make any sense and purely aids.
  3. GD, Aztecas, and LFM was planning to rob a bank. 15 minutes before the robbery, there was a callout going on the radio that Crimson was about to hit the bank and canceled because we were about to take it and telling Crimson not to touch the bank. We heard about Crimson, Triads, and Irish had a meeting about something that we don't know exactly what it is but we saw Triads Rapid GT was passing the bank and looks suspicious to us. We chasing them down until up to chiliad lab We know that there is an ambush inside chiliad lab, while waiting for another member to regroup and preparing their heavies outside the lab, there was a white sultan classic pass by entering chiliad lab, by the color its crimson's color and one of their member's vehicle. While shooting one of irish member there was a callout on the radio that Crimson are helping them. We were not surprised when crimson are helping them as the time pass by we keep hearing about crimson relation with Irish and Triads 'Don't finish the crimson and bring them to the middle of chiliad lab, take their mask off and search for their IDs', Carlos shouted on the radio after the shootout finished. 'Why you guys helping them and get involved in this situation ?', Revelt asking them while they're injured on the ground before Carlos execute them. 'We were just following order of our high command. 'You guys are dead, your gang is done', Helsinki shouted while holding SMG on his hand. 'You guys make a mistake', Carlos shouted and pull the trigger of his shotgun to both of their bodies. We end up leaving their bodies at chiliad as a message and chop all of their vehicles.
  4. Revelt

    Russian Mob

    Russian Mafia v2, best of luck
  5. Revelt

    Aztecas

    what a great post from alicia, keep it up!
  6. I've been roleplaying almost 10 years as well now since SA-MP and ofc text based, It really depends how you roleplaying your character, how your character behaving, what is the goal and how you gonna manage the story for the character as well, i've been roleplaying 3 character, my first character is American-Indonesian so i dont leave the indonesia culture on the first character since im indonesian as well IRL, 2nd character is pure chinese character so everytime i RPing in voice i always talk using chinese accent, in textwise i always doing the accent thing on /do so people would understand how my character behave, my 3rd character is physco sounds like crazy person that live in prison, the character behavior is crazy and always laugh randomly and gore af. its all really depends on you and how you gonna develop the character's goal and behavior. "How do you guys adapt/become more comfortable when developing a new character?" For me, how do i adapt or become more comfortable when developing a new character is by making the character story itself and enjoy the flow and thats it.
  7. Becoming a Youngin' in GD makes Revelt become wilder on making money. Making drugs, selling drugs, selling guns, and other illegal businesses that can feed him with more money. Revelt and Dre were inside Ocean Lab, collecting some plants and cooking drugs. After making some drugs he wanted to stash his drugs to sell it later, unfortunately, cops pulled his vehicle. They ask him to step out of the vehicle while he sits as a passenger in the vehicle and done nothing wrong. He had a Micro SMG & .50 Caliber at that time and don't want to lose it, so he tried to defend himself from the cops that ask him to step out from the vehicle. He unslings his micro from behind his wrist and pointing it to elise, taking both of them as a hostage and yell at them to cuff each other. While held them under gunpoint, he heard more siren coming up to his direction. He can't hold both of them longer than he expected, one of the officers pulled up to him and demanding him to drop the gun and surrender, instead of drop the gun and surrender he starts an open fire on the officer who gave demands on him. He got injured with 2 GSW on his right arms and one GSW on his chest, his life saved by the medic who responded to the situation. He ends up in jail 4 Years for attempting murder of a police officer, carrying a heavy weapon, and other charges. The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.
  8. It had been a whole month after Dojin-K War Revelt disappear from the city, Revelt stopped working for everyone after the Dojin-K War. His thoughts are shattered when his phone showing 2 text messages from his old close friend, Dom Presky and Storm. Waking up hearing another war broke out makes Revelt confused, "What the fuck is going on" questioned by Revelt to himself while driving to Z-Store when he was about to meet Storm and Oti. 'Revelt , you were asking to join GD 3 months ago after the war ended, so this is your chance to prove yourself homie' stated by Oti while he drinking his alcohol in front of Z-Store. 'Dress up homie, war broke out between GD vs Triads & Irish we also allied with LFM on this War' says Storm to Revelt while sitting inside Novak and toss him a GD Pants. 'Shots fired' shout Oti on the radio, everyone starts blasting their gun, bullet by bullet came out from the clip and it kills a lot of people from both sides. In this shootout, GD got assisted by NIC, Laurie brother, and LFM. 'Good job everyone, they're all dead. Loot and finish them' shout Oti on the radio after 3 hours shootout at Ocean-Lab. 'I used almost a ton of ammo in this shootout, let me loot some of the ammo from them' says Revelt after the shootout ended. Long story short, GD stands for Gangster Disciples, almost people inside of it are Ex-Zetas and they're experienced in a shootout, war, callout, strategy and they're really know how to shoot fight and survive in a shootout. 'Yo, the fuck is going on? are we in a shootout or what' questioned Revelt on the radio. 'Bring trunk and loot other people if you see them around here, we just smoke other people that associate with them or their soldier' shout Oti on the radio 'What do you mean by "Them" ?' questioned Revelt on the radio 'Irish and Triads you dumb fuck, come bring your ass over here and get the trunk, Oti's Novak at the Mirrorpark' Revelt hearing oti on the radio for his statement, he drives his Massacro to the mirrorpark and changes the vehicle to Novak as he parks his Massacro. 'I'm near and about to pull up, prepare all the injured people' says Revelt on the radio, while he pulled up he saw a lot of dead bodies around the location, blood covering the road, and a lot of clip and bullets on the ground. 'Aite boys, whoever pre-prospect here yall already prove yourself enough, so I'm gonna do some promotion for yall' says Oti while standstill. 'Revelt, Dre, Draco, Tyrell, and other Monkeys are in and become our Youngin' Oti pointing his finger one by one to Revelt, Dre and other people that chosen. 'Yall need to get a callout training, Thad is the best on callout so whenever you guys are ready we're gonna do the training' says Ricky while pointing his finger to all new youngin'. 'In times like this our opposition will be strong and it wont be easy. We will be outnumbered most times but in no situation should we ever color down in attempt to hide. If you ever drop colors, dont bother putting those pants back on.' -Ricky Brasco
  9. Kinda agree after hearing lot of conversation about FM thing, it more like controlling RP rather than handling the quality of faction RP. As per-role, FM made for control the quality and handle the quality of the RP not controlling the RP situation. Remove faction management is not a good decision, better way is to not let faction management get involved in current IC RP situation between factions. What i can see if faction management get involved in current RP situation and tryna to handle or controlling it, there's no different between OOC Discussion and IC Discussion then. either way why not to try make a faction rules for official faction or non-official faction if they have an IC conflict to keep the RP standard between factions.
  10. if you make crash report and make ingame report, admin will help you. i've done this couple of times.
  11. 冲突 (The Conflict) Kai and his other family members were at Chiliad Lab, rumours had been spread out about Irish was gonna hit FSO. They were picking some plant and Thomas was outside chiliad lab on-foot, and as soon as Irish came, demands were given by them towards Thomas. Leading to a shootout in less than one minute, Kai got hit by bullets on both of his arms, as medics found him he was immediately brought up to the hospital. One month after rehabilitation inside the hospital, Kai could finally go back to his house. The first thing he did was to take out his SMG from his safe, reloading it and making sure the load was full. Kai never underestimated his enemies, If the enemy is very strong, all you can do is attack them part by part from all sources. Corner them from all sources to checkmate them finally. Focus on your strengths and concentrate on the weaknesses of your opponents, If one plan fails, alternative plans must be ready to address the challenges to move the things forward. The second shootout happened at Stabcity Bridge, it was supposed to be a setup ambush plan for them but unfortunately the shootout ended up outside the location of the ambush. Kai droves his elegy as he heard the backup call before the ambush location. He drove it quickly to the location and get out from the vehicle, unslings his Micro-SMG from his back, opening fire on every person that known as Irish. Shootout by shootout, Kai was learning more life lesson and decided to remember them as a Tattoo on his body. Dragons tattoo may represent chinese symbolic also symbolic of legendary animal. Dual Wield Guns tattoo may represent danger, evil, honor and security. Beast tattoo may represent power, greed, ruthlessness, ferocity and devilish nature also symbol of apocalypse.
  12. New Journey - 新旅程 (Xīn lǚchéng) Kai Zhuo was born on 1 December 1995 in Shanghai, China. He used to work as a butcher back at the days in Shanghai, but behind the counter, he has been working for 14k Triads that operate in Shanghai since a couple of years ago. He works for Gyang Xui, second hand of 14k Triads in Shanghai, and even though he loves his job as a butcher, he's been asked to gathers some informations around, becoming informant of 14k Triads. He also used to extortion other butchers and business owners at the market with the promise of protection from 14k Triads, proving and showing plenty of respect and loyalty for them. He considers his job as an illegal stuff import, extortionist and informant for Triads done. He decided to move to Los Santos to start his new life and find a new group with Chinese culture in it. The Four Seas - 四海 (Sìhǎi) Kai discovers a local Chinese restaurant in the city, trying to check it out and for some reason it still under construction, he went into the parking lot to check around and try to stay until there's a customer come to check out the restaurant, during the time when he was waiting for the customer, there are 4 people walk slowly towards him. Kai introduces himself and asking for the reason for the restaurant why its closed. Kai notice 4 of the guy using the same outfit with different color and different type of the tops, In the meanwhile Fitz asking for his name, Kai would answer his question gently using Chinese Accent, they offered Kai to sleep and stay for a night inside noodles and talk about story. New Trial - 新审判 (Xīn shěnpàn) Kai enjoyed every moment and situation with the group, Fitz teach him a lot of things, he learned a lot of stuff in the city and every member looks friendly. Kai starts his interview with Costa Black and Simon, he answered every question truthfully including his past as well, after few days Kai got a text from Simon that he got accepted as Trial in Four Seas Order, his test start by evading the cops and communication between group and him in the radio. his black clothes with Chinese decoration have their own meanings. Wanted - 通缉 (Tōngjī) Being a criminal means you need to take a high risk to get caught or chase by cops, Kai has been thinking about it since a long time ago to become active criminal. He always takes every single risk and chance to get and make more money from every illegal activity, but after thinking about it twice, he realizes that it's all not just because of money. he has a family after every single situation that involve him. it will also give him a chance to become official member. Kai is getting chase by 2 cruisers and it keeps increasing more and more every single pursuit, 2 helicopters and 20 cruisers behind him it just because he's hard to get caught. until the first day, he got arrested for 8 years inside the prison for store robbery, possessing illegal firearms, taking police officer as a hostage, stealing government vehicle, attempted murder, and more. Kai was driving his elegy when he got chased by 2 cruisers behind him, he went to the power plant by the east highway near Wanted Refresh 24/7, unlucky Kai hit a wall and got stalled. His car is stalled, he quickly jumps out from the car and unholster his .50 Caliber from his back with a silencer attached on his gun, pointed his gun towards one of their officers and yelling towards all of them "Do not shoot or this officer gonna die as soon you pull the trigger", He asks for a cruiser's key so he can drive it due to his elegy stalled after the crash to the wall. He succeeds out from hostage situation after the car crash, driving the cruiser to the setup location of hakuchou drag that has been planned but sadly the location compromised, the helicopter was already there and one of the cruisers blocking the road. The stolen cruiser that he drives got flip when he tried to get away from the chase and it makes the engine stalled. He ends up surrender by showing both of his hands up on the air and get down on his knees. Kai always escape and get away from the cops and that's the reason they put more cruisers while pursuit against him After every effort and proving himself, he got promoted to become an official member of Four Seas Order. "Wanted" tattoo in letters running on his right forehead above his right eye has a lot of meaning.
  13. Revelt

    Four Seas Order

    冲突 (The Conflict) Kai and his other family members were at Chiliad Lab, rumours had been spread out about Irish was gonna hit FSO. They were picking some plant and Thomas was outside chiliad lab on-foot, and as soon as Irish came, demands were given by them towards Thomas. Leading to a shootout in less than one minute, Kai got hit by bullets on both of his arms, as medics found him he was immediately brought up to the hospital. One month after rehabilitation inside the hospital, Kai could finally go back to his house. The first thing he did was to take out his SMG from his safe, reloading it and making sure the load was full. Kai never underestimated his enemies, If the enemy is very strong, all you can do is attack them part by part from all sources. Corner them from all sources to checkmate them finally. Focus on your strengths and concentrate on the weaknesses of your opponents, If one plan fails, alternative plans must be ready to address the challenges to move the things forward. The second shootout happened at Stabcity Bridge, it was supposed to be a setup ambush plan for them but unfortunately the shootout ended up outside the location of the ambush. Kai droves his elegy as he heard the backup call before the ambush location. He drove it quickly to the location and get out from the vehicle, unslings his Micro-SMG from his back, opening fire on every person that known as Irish. Shootout by shootout, Kai was learning more life lesson and decided to remember them as a Tattoo on his body. Dragons tattoo may represent FSO symbolic also symbolic of legendary animal. Dual Wield Guns tattoo may represent danger, evil, honor and security. Beast tattoo may represent power, greed, ruthlessness, ferocity and devilish nature also symbol of apocalypse.
  14. Revelt

    Fitness Features

    It just a benefit for doing fitness thing, so there's something to reach and there's benefit behind of the script, it will increase the interest of people to do fitness at gym center.
  15. Gym Business The goal of gym business is to let people do fitness roleplay and increase their body status. The way to stock this business is with fitness equipment. each equipment will have 1000/1000 Health Bar to make the equipment out of date and the business owner re-new the equipment. The Gym furniture will be able ordered from trucker and they will be come a fitness object inside the property of Gym business either static objecr or dynamic object for the business owner will be able to edit the furniture location. Fitness The goal of fitness is to increase your max health and make your body parts stronger. The way to increase the fitness rating (max health) is to use GYM equipment by using the '/ fitness' command and wait until your energy runs out or you get bored. The fitness rating can go down if a character eats or drinks too much. Max health can be increased by up to 150 and can be lowered by up to 50. Here are the GYM tools that can be used to increase your fitness rating and its effects. Body Parts (/bodystats) : Torso Both arms Groin Both legs Fitness Equipment : Name: Treadmill Energy consumption: 0-2 units/sec Torso (25%) Both arms (25%) Groin (50%) Both legs (75%) Name: GYM Bike Energy consumption: 0-1 units/sec Torso (50%) Both arms (100%) Name: Punchbag Energy consumption: 0-1 units/sec Groin (50%) Both legs (100%) Name: Benchpress Energy consumption: 0-2 units/sec Torso (50%) Both arms (75%) NB : Energy Consumption (Hunger and Thristy Points) I believe this features will increase the RP Opportunity for crime,police and civilian to increase their health, or streetfighter roleplay, boxing roleplay or fist fight event roleplay also all player that interested to increase their health point and having normal fitness roleplay rather than just standing at the bank or at house doing nothing.
  16. Revelt

    Four Seas Order

    Gang Sign (帮派标志) Jae was on vacation once he come back there are a lot of new faces so he decided to have a small meeting to get to know everyone's names. during his vacation Charlie Lau as 2nd in command take control of FSO activities, there are a lot of issues that happened between FSO, PD and Rooks. After the small meeting, we continue with callout training lead by Dlugi and we have another meeting again with Crimson. The meeting between FSO and Crimson have done successfully everyone knows each other and trade phone number after that Kai approached Chi and talk quietly using mandarin language, "How about Albani, they're using white as well? because I think crimson is using white." , Chi nods her head twice and reply to Kai "I'll ask about that ok" after everyone get to know each other's number, Chi opens her mouth and talk "How are you guys with Albani? they're part of ash's crew and they're using white as well". One of their higherup replies to Chi's questions "We're gonna find out maybe we're gonna use the same mask or sign the gang using a mask instead of color". FSO and Aztecas have a good relation, same as Triads. While picking some plants we heard a backup call on the frequency, We drive our vehicle to the Ocean lab. unpredictable it was ash's crew member and some random, We pulled up to ocean lab and start shooting them as we saw our friend getting robbed. We killed them all so we chill a little bit and smoke some joint before we leave Ocean lab. A week after the shootout at ocean lab, we heard cartel spread out their intel and member inside the city. We were scouting Rook's turf area and their informant as well. After camping at their turf, there were 3 people using BF-400 pulled up trying to sell some drugs, we jump from the roof and pointing our gun to their face, Kai starts searching every person for their phone and trying to confirm they're rooks. Tyler can confirm that they're rooks and start cutting their hair and have a small conversation with them. one of them throws the words of "Traitor" towards Tyler. Tyler reply to his words with "Who you calling traitor? you just join rooks 1 month and I was high command there, you know nothing about the gang. rooks are dead, Dmitry left me and rex, and you guys are next, you guys just bunch of random that driving BF-400, Stop talking about something that you don't know", The situation becomes so heat and Kai trying to calm Tyler's emotion. We continue our activities by doing some store robberies, getting some packed money and laundry the money to get more influence and trust from the Cartel and grind some money. After that we split up and drive away from the store, We pull up and park our vehicle at noodle. 15 - 30 Minutes later after we pull up and park out vehicle at noodle, When we were chilling on the rooftop, 2 people that approached us previously call the cops on us because we were holding a gun, LSPD pulled up and 3 of us got arrested, Gerrard, Kai, and Travis.
  17. Revelt

    Four Seas Order

    只有上帝知道为什么 Cartel spread all their connection around the city, The Council starts taking control of the city. Police have no place, life has no rules and Only God Knows Why.
  18. Revelt

    Four Seas Order

    New Journey - 新旅程 (Xīn lǚchéng) Kai Zhuo was born on 1 December 1995 in Shanghai, China. He used to work as a butcher back at the days in Shanghai, but behind the counter, he has been working for 14k Triads that operate in Shanghai since a couple of years ago. He works for Gyang Xui, second hand of 14k Triads in Shanghai, and even though he loves his job as a butcher, he's been asked to gathers some informations around, becoming informant of 14k Triads. He also used to extortion other butchers and business owners at the market with the promise of protection from 14k Triads, proving and showing plenty of respect and loyalty for them. He considers his job as an illegal stuff import, extortionist and informant for Triads done. He decided to move to Los Santos to start his new life and find a new group with Chinese culture in it. The Four Seas - 四海 (Sìhǎi) Kai discovers a local Chinese restaurant in the city, trying to check it out and for some reason it still under construction, he went into the parking lot to check around and try to stay until there's a customer come to check out the restaurant, during the time when he was waiting for the customer, there are 4 people walk slowly towards him. Kai introduces himself and asking for the reason for the restaurant why its closed. Kai notice 4 of the guy using the same outfit with different color and different type of the tops, In the meanwhile Fitz asking for his name, Kai would answer his question gently using Chinese Accent, they offered Kai to sleep and stay for a night inside noodles and talk about story. New Trial - 新审判 (Xīn shěnpàn) Kai enjoyed every moment and situation with the group, Fitz teach him a lot of things, he learned a lot of stuff in the city and every member looks friendly. Kai starts his interview with Costa Black and Simon, he answered every question truthfully including his past as well, after few days Kai got a text from Simon that he got accepted as Trial in Four Seas Order, his test start by evading the cops and communication between group and him in the radio. his black clothes with Chinese decoration have their own meanings. Wanted - 通缉 (Tōngjī) Being a criminal means you need to take a high risk to get caught or chase by cops, Kai has been thinking about it since a long time ago to become active criminal. He always takes every single risk and chance to get and make more money from every illegal activity, but after thinking about it twice, he realizes that it's all not just because of money. he has a family after every single situation that involve him. it will also give him a chance to become official member. Kai is getting chase by 2 cruisers and it keeps increasing more and more every single pursuit, 2 helicopters and 20 cruisers behind him it just because he's hard to get caught. until the first day, he got arrested for 8 years inside the prison for store robbery, possessing illegal firearms, taking police officer as a hostage, stealing government vehicle, attempted murder, and more. Kai was driving his elegy when he got chased by 2 cruisers behind him, he went to the power plant by the east highway near Wanted Refresh 24/7, unlucky Kai hit a wall and got stalled. His car is stalled, he quickly jumps out from the car and unholster his .50 Caliber from his back with a silencer attached on his gun, pointed his gun towards one of their officers and yelling towards all of them "Do not shoot or this officer gonna die as soon you pull the trigger", He asks for a cruiser's key so he can drive it due to his elegy stalled after the crash to the wall. He succeeds out from hostage situation after the car crash, driving the cruiser to the setup location of hakuchou drag that has been planned but sadly the location compromised, the helicopter was already there and one of the cruisers blocking the road. The stolen cruiser that he drives got flip when he tried to get away from the chase and it makes the engine stalled. He ends up surrender by showing both of his hands up on the air and get down on his knees. Kai always escape and get away from the cops and that's the reason they put more cruisers while pursuit against him After every effort and proving himself, he got promoted to become an official member of Four Seas Order. "Wanted" tattoo in letters running on his right forehead above his right eye has a lot of meaning.
  19. Date and time (provide timezone): 28/07/2020 12:00 GMT+7 Character name: Kai Zhuo Issue/bug you are reporting: When you got injured while driving or sit inside the vehicle as passenger/driver, your gun or any weapons that in your weapon slot doesnt move to inventory Expected behavior: When you injured no matter what statue on foot or in vehicle , your gun/weapons should move to inventory Evidence, notes worth mentioning, steps to replicate: - I have no evidence but this has been happen 2 times for me and happen once for my friend.
  20. i went all in, the person who have lower card than me A+2 also went the same money as me
  21. Date and time (provide timezone): 19/07/2020 16:50 GMT+7 Character name: Revelt DeOrtiz Issue/bug you are reporting: 3 Way Split Poker, Same Ace Card different Number Card, 3 People with same pair card and high bet, the person have higher card not didn't get the money but the lowest one get the money. Expected behavior: The money split to 3 players that join the high bet with same pair card and high number. Evidence, notes worth mentioning, steps to replicate: Vehicle license plate number*: -
  22. This is consider as force CK, you need to ask for their consent first before performing CK on them. Clause CK only means for your faction. but +1
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