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_______ To the untrained eye, the communicator hat might just look like a paper cone. That's what we want you to believe. The communicator hat is in fact a highly sophisticated piece of technology designed to keep Boofa out of our minds whilst simultaneously enabling us to get closer to Flarg. Core Materials: Paper outside To keep inconspicuous Foil ball stuffed in the inside of the peak of the cone To focus our energies to communicate with Flarg Foil lining on the inside To protect against Boofa trying to read our mind Tape So it doesn’t fall apart To stick all Flargs love together Markers To write “D.U.N.C.E” on the front for branding Dangerously Unstable Nuclear Cap Enhancements Optional Stat Enhancers: Secret compartment between foil lining and paper outside To store Enchantment powder* Glitter To sparkle so Flarg notices you more *Note: “Enchantment powder” = crack _______ The plan is simple: We take Scoobie’s car, Go to Weazel, grab paper, Go to PD, grab fingerprint tape, Go to Bayview, grab foil Go to SD, grab markers, Go to church, Have a nice cold crack drop, And wait for Flarg's apocalypse to blow over. Wizard Prophet Scoobie Bathsheba: The mastermind behind the plan The gang arrived at Weazel News Headquarters as with all the newspapers they put out into the city, they must have some paper going spare to kindly donate to the Bathshebas to make communicator hats. However, relations with the employees of Weazel News are not very good at this moment in time due to Travis Rashguard scamming Wizard Prophet Scoobie Bathsheba out of money that was meant to be for adverts for last week's church service. Instead of asking them we decided that Scoobie would distract Travis at the Weazel News gates whilst mason infiltrated the office. He made it inside and scoured the draws and cabinets for any blank, loose paper he could find. Mason, being the kind fellow that he is, at least left an “I O U” note on the desk on his way out. The grand plan was to go to the Mission Row Police Department and convince one of the officers there to donate some of their fingerprint tape to us as without the tape, the whole plan was doomed. It was a poor mistake on our part to expect the LSPD to do anything to help us, being the biggest Boofa worshippers in the entire city. We were denied our request and they all rushed off (not before one of them crashing into Scoobie & Mason’s communicator vehicles). The Bathshebas do not stop at the first hurdle, there is always a backup plan and today that came in the form of Los Santos Customs. Now, all Bathshebas are banned from LSC so we had to make this a quick in-and-out job. A few of us rushed into the workshop and were promptly told to leave but we had the numbers on our side, 4x Bathsheba vs 2x LSC mechanic. We split up around the shop and searched everywhere we could for any form of tape. Samoa came in clutch and grabbed some scotch tape, stuck it down his pants and we all made a bolt for it before the LSPD showed up that the LSC employees called. Here at the Bathsheba Family, we always try to go down the non-violent approach when possible and look for PG-13 options! Heist #3 was probably in the middle in terms of difficulty for the Bathshebas to pull off, we were greeted with open arms by a man Wizard Prophet Scoobie knew and were invited into the break room of Bayview Mechanics to get a roll of foil. THEN IT STRUCK - THE AGENT OF BOOFA Someone claiming to be higher ranking than the one who was welcoming us began to order us out of the room. Luckily there was enough of us to keep him distracted whilst Scoobie made the deal to ‘borrow’ some foil. We got a full roll of it under the promise we return the excess. To spite the agent of Boofa we also yoinked a spray can because f*ck him. We made our way from Bayview to Los Santos Sheriff's Department and wandered around the hallways looking for someone to inquire about ‘borrowing’ some markers. We found an officer seemingly locked in the Armory, he was extremely unhelpful and kept saying “help” like a baby so we took our business elsewhere. Kourtney with a K from the Department of Corrections was infinitely more useful than the child in LSSD, we approached the front desk of the prison as Mason had seen Kourtney with a sharpie in his last trip to the prison. Kourtney has proved time and time again she is standing with the Bathshebas even though she’s not a true believer enough to change her surname, she attends our churches, looks after our family members when in prison and helps us in our high-priority missions like this one. _______ _______ Once all of the pieces were successfully collected and the Heist was complete, the group headed back to the church of Flarg. Scoobie instructed Mason to lead the craft session and show the others how it is done and construct the first Communicator Hat. Mason’s recent trauma (keep an eye out here for “MasonVision” to find out what recently happened to Mason) made it difficult for him to cut out the correct shape from the paper but he persevered with the power of Flarg and constructed the communicator hat. After lining the hat with foil, taping it together and adding the “DUNCE” on the front he was all ready to present this hat to a new Bathsheba at the next church session.

+1 I'd like to see a slight rebrand of the gov website to not just be emergency services now that the judicial and business licensing is prominent on there and have DCC/Weazel/LSC/Bayview have sections on that website rolled into it so all IC recruitment is in one place maybe separated by "Emergency Services" and then "Public Services" It would also mean that those other companies that use the main ECRP forum for recruitment don't rely on things like spreadsheets and google docs for IC information due to not having dedicated IC forum space for internal stuff that's as easily accessible as the gov forum would be. It would also prompt more non-emergency services people to use the forum IC mailing system and just generally have a single point of reference for new people to know where to go to apply for any job. Also...add a link to it on the mobile phone!

_________ Mason Morrison was a wealthy scam artist running the Los Santos branch of The Epsilon Program, a “Religion” whose primary goal was enlightening those into the teachings of Kraff (Their Diety). Of course the real reason for this was to make money from the gullible and the whole thing was a scam set up by ‘Prophet’ Mason Morrison and ‘Prophet’ Jonathan Richards. In his leadership role, Mason scoured Los Santos for any idiots and vulnerable people with troubles that he could claim he could “wipe away” through the ‘religion’. Taking advantage of anyone he could he would charge them at minimum $5,000 for a ceremonial cleansing or baptism and sometimes up to $100,000 for extra reading material and ceremonies. Pretty much everything he did regarding this he kept a log of in his private notebook for easy reference if he was required to make something up on the fly. Mason made many contacts through running this scam of a cult/religion and more importantly, made plenty of money setting him up for life. The Epsilon program could only be sustained for so long though, with more and more people becoming aware of the higher-ups in the ‘religion’ effectively scamming the vulnerable and stupid people in the city people began to get sus. As some of the more loyal Epsilonist members began to lose faith Mason made the decision to ditch them all and make a run for it with the money he had scammed, re-spraying his light blue Epsilon vehicle black, trashing the uniform and wearing a mask around the city to go unnoticed. There were several close calls where he was almost noticed by people he had scammed across the city but his acting talents came in clutch, allowing him to get away unnoticed. Mason was ready to move onto his next big venture and started looking around the city for a new group to target. It was an average Sunday evening at Los Santos Customs, Mason was getting some well earned engine upgrades to his pride and joy Windsor Drop, the vehicle he had purchased with a chunk of the money he had scammed from people the previous months. A man with a child-like voice pulled up in a Space Docker vehicle which looked like it was made by Elon Musk as a child. This person was Ronnie Bathsheba, he told mason the basics of their religion “The Bathshebas” and how they are a family who communicate with their deity “Flarg”. Mason saw this as divine intervention for him to take these new targets and milk them for all they are worth. “If the rest of this family are anything like Ronnie, I’m going to make a killing” Promptly after this brief introduction, the rest of the Bathshebas rolled up and began being harassed by Los Santos Police Department and Los Santos Customs employees, always keeping the end goal in mind of gaining favour with these new cultists mason helped them and stood up for them, though there was a soft spot in Masons mind got him to stand up for these Bathshebas as he had often faced persecution for the previous religion he was leading by the police and government workers. After a Bathsheba or two was arrested and sent to Mission Row precinct, Mason talked more with some of their members and their leader Scoobie Bathsheba, who invited him to join their family/religion. A quick name change later, Mason Bathsheba was reborn. The Bathshebas instructed Mason to buy a “Communicator Hat” and “Communicator Vehicle” which he found to be ridiculous but for the low cost it seemed a worthy investment in the long run as he was still planning on scamming them for their worth. A few nights later the Bathshebas were going around the city parading their new mobile church, a RV decorated with many plants to go around preaching. “This is genius” Mason thought, worrying that the leader of the Bathshebas was maybe smarter than he was letting on. The night consisted of talking to random citizens across the city, inviting them inside and trying to get them to join the Bathsheba cause of worshipping Flarg and condemning non-believers. Mason was dedicated to the Bathshebas and did as much of their bidding as possible, whilst also trying to avoid their “Enlightenment Powder”...Literally Crack. Mason was trying his best to fit in but taking crack was the line for him. The Bathshebas routinely found themselves involved in crime from a petty level of being nuisances up to more serious felonies like assault of a government employee. Mason participated in these crimes as he has the money to burn in fines. His first arrest is a bit of a blur as it all happened so quickly but it came from the assault of a Sherriff Deputy alongside the Bathsheba leader, Wizard Prophet Scoobie Bathsheba. This kind of activity was a first for Mason as he had steered clear of obvious criminal activity and was used to more subtle ways of committing crime such as fraud and trickery. Mason was praised at the next church session and offered a promotion for his work serving the Bathsheba cause. Many crimes and church services later, Mason Bathsheba is now a Disciple of Flarg and recently got out of prison serving a sentence for Grand Theft Auto of a Government Employee. Mason Bathsheba is now a strong member of the church of Flarg and is continuing to try and recruit new people to the 'religion' wherever possible and conducting activities that would gain his favor with the Wizard Prophets, maybe he is getting too friendly with his new companions who treat him like family but the thought of money is in the back of his mind as he is running low on funds but whether he could actually go through with it when the time comes is a different question...especially with the current families goals of building a preschool for Ronnie & Winnie, could he actually stoop so low as to prevent that from happening. Mason is currently on the lookout to get hold of some "Enlightenment Dust" for the other Bathshebas, maybe he'll try some in the near future...just one won't hurt right? Tune in next time for "Mason tries Enlightenment Powder for the first time"

But isn't half the point of all dressing the same and looking like a bunch of drones to not stand out? As someone that's around a bunch of people in the exact same uniform all day in-game, I can very easily point out name and badge numbers of those I have known for a while, with the newer trainees not so much. Which I think is exactly the point. And I'm not all for the toggle command as honestly I just think so many people will go for the convenience route and toggle it on which will defeat the points I mentioned in the last post and above.

Gonna play devil's advocate... -1 I really like it and think that it will force more meaningful interactions and have you get more used to the voices and appearance of the people you're closer too. This bit I do agree with, especially if they need to /vr and even moreso if they do it in a vehicle. I think a compromise of just having ID's over heads that then expands into an alias when you press ALT could be a middle-ground. But overall I think the new way will just need people getting used to it more than anything and is better for immersion imo.

+1

+1 I really would love being able to RP working in one of the actual burger shot or cluckin bell buildings if they got an interior, if it was a freelance job i'd main it as a proper job

It's neat, some pretty boring looking areas have been revitalized with them. Plus the purchasable trees you can build with also are cool. This house had nothing around it and i think it's a huge improvement

@lSyPh0nl Hunting of animals is a feature in this server. In future I'd advise heading to #i_have_a_question channel in the ECRP discord for things like this as you'll likely get a faster answer

I'm not keen on private messaging as it will undoubtedly be used for illegal stuff which would go against what was said about conducting illegal activities, plus would be impossible to moderate and also wouldn't make sense for a social network to be used like that. I think it's better off being hidden. Huge +1 for the marketplace though!

Up to 24 hours usually we aim for. You will get an email when this happens

+1 Similar to this suggestion also

+1 I'd like a furniture store rework. Also have the rotation go the other way, or start half the items from another position because waiting for a furniture item to almost full 360 to actually see it (pictures specifically) is a pain in the butt. I imagine there might be a way to do it so it's placed on the ground and you can walk around it similar to whilst you're building and only you can interact with it

With the recent times the Bathsheba family have found themselves in Bolingbroke Penitentiary the last few months, it was only a matter of time until Psychiatric evaluations began to happen on the members of flarg's great church. At moments of weakness, even the wizard prophets themselves had their minds probed into by what we can only assume to be patrons of Boofa: Kourtney Parrish & Yuki Nakamura. Below you can find the leaked documents from the SADOC medical team and their attempts to penetrate deeply into the mind of our glorious leaders. Full Credit for writing these goes to @LeroySimpson&@Kimeybear. Wizard Prophet Shag Bathsheba Assistant Wizard Prophet Ronnie Bathsheba Wizard Prophet Scoobie Bathsheba

I understand the frustration, I've lost things to bugs several times in the past. However that specific one you mentioned, the admin markers you rush past do explain that it was a risk and to screenshot your inventory with /time so you could attempt to get it refunded in the future should you fall subject to that particular bug

As I said, there's a queue of reports usually that need to be dealt with in order, the time taken depends on the factors mentioned in my above post. If you make a report about police (by your own example) a staff member that is police will not deal with it as it's a conflict of interest. There's measures in place so staff don't handle conflict of interest reports which is why you'll see non-pd staff members handle reports against PD on the forum for example

I imagine your report was denied by Jason because you mis-reported it as a /report 4 (urgent) rule break to try get attention instead of a /report 2 bug. Staff play on the server too, and sometimes the queue of reports can get quite big and they're worked through in the order they're sent in so that probably explains any long waits you've had, especially at times that the server is busy. I don't believe this has anything to do with "staff members being intertwined with gangs" in any way. If you see any staff that are doing anything you think deserves repercussion you can report them to higher staff with sufficient evidence as staff are accountable for their actions and use of their power. Also, is there any basis to your claim about people focusing on reports relating to their gang?

Massive +1 /removefurnitre is the worst part of the building system as even when you're close to the center of the furniture it's still sometimes a gamble.

+1 to this absolutely

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+1 have it with an action timer so if you're in a rush and skip it there's the risk if you crash it's worse for you but if you have it on you might not get injured (as much?)

The main question to be asked here is...why? To get information such as phone number? As you said, if you're holding a cop at gun point you have more worries than getting the phone number of someone There are alternate, smarter ways of getting peoples personal information To look up someones charges? For your own you can just ask a cop legally For someone elses, is it worth holding a cop up to find it out? To add false charges to people? This sounds like it could be very abused and is it even realistic? To get information on cops units and their locations maybe? This is one where I could see it making sense, but the MDC isn't quite the solution to adding that, maybe if you're in the drivers seat of a police cruiser that has a GPS in, you can see other units on the map similar to how all emergency services factions can Overall I'd say no to this suggestion personally as most of the information you can get just by holding said cop at gunpoint like you'd suggest anyway without needing script access.

If you do find that it charges you when on a job, post screenshot proof as a bug report Also as for the bit about it ruining the flow of traffic...it's hardly causing traffic jams for the odd car that goes down that highway every few minutes. If anything it just makes some new RP opportunities for example I saw some gang members running one the other day and had some great banter.

Huge +1 I love the new furniture system and I have debated making my business property just a fully custom home instead as the existing furniture in 1g/2g/3g makes design really limiting. I'd love blank canvases and also would give different properties value based on how well it's decorated which would be a nice change than having location be the only factor in selling houses as well as give them a little competition to how nice looking apartments are

There is just straight up no option for short sleeved variations of gloves for the faction I believe, so they need to be added to the faction loadout