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Today I take over. 1 React = 1 supporter for my mutiny against violent dictator Red. Too long has he ruled with an iron fist

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So as we all know the server is at it's lowest peek at this present time due to multiple reasons not only directing it to server-side issues, But as well IRL issues. This will be my Final post for giving out Suggestions for the Staff Team, If this post cannot get through someone's head on making a change than honestly i have no clue what will before i start you can take this as ''Connors Salty Again'' or I'm just a ''Toxic Retard'' this isn't a roast this is just the truth so don't take it to heart but take this post seriously. My first point will be Managers and Above. Your communication skill with the community isn't so good in fact its appalling every server up-date that comes out are thing's that the community had no say in, Its just what yous wanted to add because you thought it was right multiple people like @FarmerGeorge98 @Big Kev @Chadd @bouda118 @AceWinchester @MrMiller @JoshieYeezy @Jay, Myself and alot and im sure you know who you are. Now you say yous are talking about upcoming changes for Altis Life in the future, I dont see anyone even trying to communicate with the community only the people within the staff team. 1. Listen to people's post and at time you have which has actually really helped but at other times you just ignore it. 2. Trial suggestions for 1 - 2 weeks show that yous are willing to go to any extent to provide content for the server even if they are completely useless show us that yous are listening and prove us completely wrong. 3. Update the server alot more instead of every month yous have more than enough people in roles to fulfil the requests that get thrown at yous everyday. 4. Post Updates/Upcoming updates, Idea's on what yous could do to improve the current state of the server ''Communicate'' with us dont sit there whilst the server dies and realise at the last minute what yous need to do. 5. Have more community meetings discuss what you wanna see out of us and we can say what we expect out of yous. I've spoken to all of the current Staff Team Member's even if we aren't all on good terms i know your expectations for the server yet no one pitches idea's. Suggestions from previous community members/staff. Now these are multiple suggestions from multiple different community members as well as staff members and there are alot more to come, Now i have seen some responses and suggestions from alot of people including Managers + but has it actually gone any further than just a reply on the forums.... I'm unsure i cannot make that call but from my perspective I've seen nothing. We all are open to give suggestions and providing things for Staff that at times they can't and that goes the same way to us the community. Now you can choose to ignore this post or hide it if you think it is not needed or another way to rip at each others throats but all im saying is someone had to stand up and say something so like i said at the start this isn't to start a fight this is only to get your attention to sit down and be like maybe he is right maybe he is wrong idk, At this point im not the one to be criticising the staff but at this point over the past months/years i have given up on providing what i think the server needs. Please post down below if you think im right or wrong or just a suggestions, Thank-you. @Red @James32

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First of all, i feel its time to clear the air on AoW a little bit and try change the way people perceive us ( After that we will move onto ramming ), Everyone is entitled to an opinion but its easy to have an image drawn without the full backstory. We have 3 EU players in a 20 man gang. ( Can anyone actually name them, Or is it presumed all AoW is EU when you die?) who won’t be affected by the ping change they all play well below the change ( 500 to 400 was actually pretty high anyway in hindsight it's a minor change ). This restriction will have a bigger effect on Australians with internet that spikes and other foreign players on the server with a bad link. Example: Jeb, Jot, iamjack, Chris, Bob, luke, Home, We are painted as the big bad rebel gang that's out to dismantle the police force, however this isn’t the case. Most of us want to see the APD succeed, we need them to survive for us to survive. The current state of the server is fueled by Cop vs Rebel content and one cannot operate without the other. A few of our members may occasionally bash cops, but this goes both ways. There are multiple cops who enjoy the banter and memes ( Toxicity is punished ) . We currently have a decent relationship with a number of police players in and outside of the game and we’d like to keep it that way. We have helped the server progress which a lot of people don’t recognise ( See below ) - Rejected bribery and an attempted poaching from another server and stuck by while other top gangs left. - Provide feedback on both police and rebel faction - Provided content in the form of media to the community (Montages, etc) - Worked with senior staff on event and event ideas - “Adopt A Gang” Program, Were we work with smaller gangs to help grow them. - Worked with @James32 to create a rebel discord for ALL rebel players and gangs - Provided CQC and OG arm servers at our expense for anyone to use and practice. We are one of the only few top gangs left in the server. There’s currently AoW and Sequel who stand a fighting chance against the police in major crimes. If you push the rebels out, the cops will spend most of their time in Sydney and major crimes will become dead content. There are many reasons why the APD is currently struggling at major crimes, 2-3 EU players is not one of them. The leading factor we feel is armour on armour, You stack multiple officers into a hunter and the driver is often someone who does not know who to deal with rams, which results in multiple deaths for stupid reasons ( Ramming is an art, If not done correctly you die ) . For someone that is experienced with how ramming works, they’re going to have an advantage over someone who doesn’t regardless of the ping difference between the two drivers. Moving forward, Personally and alot of us within the gang agree the problem lies with armour on armour ramming, Coupled with people who don't understand how ramming works and the fact that Arma 3 has terrible physics when it comes to collisions. Having a high ping might have some minor advantage but not to the point its game breaking. A good example here is the APD has some very high ping players who always die to rams as they don't understand how it works. There are multiple factors that contribute to the broken state of ramming on the server. -FPS -Multiple people and vehicles in a single area. (Refer to the start of this video around 20 seconds in) Here) Credit @Asnee -Server performance -Hitbox ( Here , Sorry lads blew the design budget on EU Recruitment ) -Ping Spikes and bandwidth -Broken Arma Physics ( Refer too Here ) With everything stated above its easy to see why it should be looked into, There are so many factors that can change the outcome of if someone lives or dies. Examples of how ramming is broken and server performance issues underload (None of these were done by players with high ping): Example 1. ( Both Australian, Both 20 ping ) Example 2. ( Space ifrit from Australian on Australian ram ) Example 3. ( AoW dying to tower lag ) Example 4. ( Example of what EU deals with on AU servers ) Example 5 ( Another example of server lag and towers ) Rather than attempting to push out certain players within the community with a band-aid fix, Look at one of the leading causes that promoted the recent change and some ideas below to better it 1. Leave armour on armour a thing, Continue to let it cause issues and people complain. 2. Move it to the VDM ruleset, Remove ramming all together ( This will still probably upset people as its essential to rebel combat against HMG etc etc ) 3. ( Personally my favorite ) Add a seatbelt script as people have suggested. If seatbelt is active and you are rammed vehicle is disabled but you take no damage, Can't decamp ( leave vehicle ) until seatbelt is removed ( put on timer so it has risk v reward ) If seat belt is not active, You die as normal. ( This solution would also benefit sydney and trolls. ) ( Unsure the limitations on this though ) Credit to Martyn 4. Alternative fix not listed Closing Statement, At the end of the day this change doesn't affect how we will play on the server, If you wish to dislike us you are well within your rights, Just remember its a video game, We want to see all parties enjoy every aspect of the server its disheartening to see a few people with a target on their backs because people are upset. Believe it or not the EU lads are good dudes who have issues versing AU people too most of them play straya as a safe haven to chill and relax on ( They even enjoy playing police in the offpeak hours ), They use qilins as generally ifrits blow up and they die on impact. Both parties experience tower lag when the server is underload, Its unavoidable, Majority of us too hate ramming, Its bad combat and dirty. But its within the ruleset. I would rather throw us into the spotlight and let people see a little of what normally isnt if it opens a discussion on a fix Rather than have people pushed out of the community on both sides, Finally credit to @Wex For help and input provided in this post. Hopefully this can turn into a civil discussion and not expload into some toxic aids.

My time has come, thank you all for supporting me and motivating me to be the best I could be. I may not have got along with everybody but I will miss everyone and everything. Big thanks to my Cabinet / Command team and those in the staff team who helped me the most. Best of Luck to everyone on the server. To the current officers, you can only go as far as you think you can, if you have a goal it may take time but you can get there. Augnov

Name: Fraz Callsign: [K10W] Training Completed By: Cougs List all Pub Slot Inductions you have done: Wizz, Jack Dempsey, Tommi, Jimbob, Element 25, AceWinchester, Pot, Delta Kilo, Reception, Corruption, P.Michael, Sebasitien, Blake Dehass, User, Cerxs and Tota Bob, HentaiGamerGirl, sgt_sniperducky, Squdsq, kum kum. Why do you deserve a promotion? Im Dedicated and determined to do what i have to do when i need to do it. Im willing to progress and keep on growing up on the ladders and keep progressing which is my main goal. I personally would love this role as it will give me more ability to help more members new or old as this is what i want to do in the future. Getting this role will just increase my dedication and determination towards the APD as growing is visibly possible. I have been working hard, but have slacked off a bit and im back and ready to push for what i can get. I hope my efforts and enthusiasm is evident to the public and i hope to continue improving and learning from others to be a better person to help others when in need. Who would recommend you for a promotion? @hugot @Havoxa @AceWinchester @DreadScythe@Dando@Johny V.@SilentKiller@Keeno@Phatballz @Mr Hyde@Bill Props@Michael Phelps@Asnee@Home@JdawgZ @Corrupt@Truthy @Holski. @FarmerGeorge98@hugot

Thanks to some generous donations from @Bang1324 we have the opportunity to upgrade our hardware to the newest generation gear! All services will be moving from i7 6700k's to i7 7700k's, and from Windows Server 2012 R2 to Windows Server 2019. (I'm on the hunt for some i9 9900k servers as well, but the pickings are slim in Australia) We have received some competitive pricing from a new provider, I'm going to trial them until our yearly lease is up for the current servers; towards the end of this month. I'm moving CQC over at the moment, Wasteland and I&A 2 (Tanoa) will join shortly after. To properly test out the new hardware I would really like to have a large number of players on one of the servers for an event. I've requested the I&A team setup a fun event for one of the Tanoa T-Days, so it will be good to see a lot of people there. There might be some steam gift cards for the best players on the day. Once the testing is done I will need to decide on which provider to go with and when we do the final move. The server with Altis Life and Invade and Annex is our primary server, it is a massive pain to move everything cleanly so there will probably be an extended outage for all services reliant on that server.

I've recently been playing on Strayagaming Altis Life again. A lot of what I might say could be biased or misinformed due to my lack of game time in recent months or due to my affiliation with rebel gangs. These suggestions have taken inspirations from other servers so I'm not claiming credit for the entire suggestion. I do understand that these suggestions might be unrealistic to development due to a lack of a dedicated developer but this is just something to think about over time, maybe one or two suggestions might be implemented. There's a lack of rebel gangs on the server with AoW being the dominant gang and Sequel being close behind. There's a bunch of smaller gangs with a few people together but apart from that there's not much going on. There needs to be some sort of incentive for those little gangs to group up and form a bigger gang because right now the combat from my perspective is between cops, Sequel, or a few random rebels. Instead of having this forced gang war where you had to arrange a fight, why not have an application to apply for a gang base and give it out to every active gang with benefits tweaked and a proper terms and condition of maintaining the gang base. The gang menu should also be changed to compliment the gang base changes. These suggestion will benefit current and new gangs in the server as well as provide some more activities for police. Gang Menu Changes The current gang menu is outdated and is need of updating. A hierarchy system would be useful in managing certain aspects of the gang while in game. Would also be great if things like gang bases could be done without the need of whitelisting by a staff member and shift it towards being a permanent member of the gang. Gang Founder: Invite/Promote/Kick members Full access to Gang Base Gang Leader: Invite/Kick Members Full Access to Gang Base Gang Member: Temporarily invite a member to the gang, will expire upon aborting to lobby. Limited access to Gang Base Temporary Members: No access to gang base Design of the Gang Base: I'm not great with map editing or have knowledge on the limitations of the server's mission file but I'll leave the guidelines to the more qualified people. The gang bases should be designed by a member of the gang unless a member of the staff team is willing to design a gang base for them. Maybe even have a default gang base to work from if a design can't be made. Benefits of the Gang Base: The ability to spawn at the location once an hour (to prevent soft logging and spawning there for certain benefits listed below) Rebel, Cartel, or Contractor market, clothing, weapon, and vehicle shop. Gang Shed/Warehouse that holds a large amount of virtual and physical items. Gang Vault (essentially gang funds). Gang Shed: Very high amount of storage compared to houses. Allowing gangs to store gear and items to share among the whole gang. The shed has to unlocked by a Gang Leader/Founder either via an updated gang menu or windows key at the shed. Can be raided by the police if they have a valid warrant on at least 3 members or the gang founder. Gang Vault: Gang members can store money in the vault to share around with other members. Capture zones can periodically add money into the vault. Maybe some sort of taxation system where a small percentage of money gets added to the vault 50% of money from Westpac could get added to the vault. The vault can be raided by the police once a day or once every three hours for different gangs. Cooldown would be included with Westpac/Fed/AGL to prevent multiple major crimes happening at once. Every cop online would get money if successful (something like 250-500k per person). Terms and Conditions: Gang Activity: 15 Registered Gang Members Activity Quota (something like 50 hours combined from all gang members in a week) Actively contributing in the forums either in discussions, videos, or suggestions. Active in Teamspeak (Most gangs use their own discord/teamspeak, encouraging gangs to use their official gang channels could be a good thing) Gang Behaviour: No Toxicity in any of StrayaGaming's services. Following the rules, avoid getting watchlisted/banned. Avoid Excessive Shit Talking of other Gangs or towards the Police Force. (Excessive because one line shit talks could be interpreted as friendly banter) Three strike system. Gang leadership will be held accountable for the actions of their members. If a member is constantly breaking the rules or being toxic without being punished by leadership, their gang base is at risk. For the gang base to be maintained, the leaders would have to remove any excessive rule breakers/toxic players to be safe. Final Statement: The server is a combat server. There's multiple opportunities for rebel vs rebel combat but when there's a lack of rebel gangs, there's not much to do other than to pester the Police with Westpac or other major crimes. This is the only Altis Life server in the region that is more skill based than weapon/vehicle based which is why some people enjoy it more than the other server. My opinion is that the server direction should be leaning towards improving rebel vs rebel first, then slowly overtime overpower the cops so it's actually a challenge to take Westpac or Fed. Rebels don't need to win all the Westpacs and Fed if they have a decent combat experience to rely on elsewhere like rebel vs rebel. The reward from Westpac isn't worth much, and if the server reaches a point where the cop force is dominating, the reward should be significantly increased.

ALTIS LIFE END OF YEAR UPDATE This new update introduces three new illegal runs, Blood Diamonds, Uranium and Sulfur, all of which will make you more money than any drug run but each have a new risk to them. With the economy of the island growing new business have opened up! They can be robbed for lower money than the Westpac but will also give you some helpful new items. Cops have also got some new skins for SRT and POLAIR and the Sydney office building has been sold to a manufacturing company who have built a warehouse on the land. The construction site at Sydney is now welcoming people to look inside the completed building and the final building will be completed in the new year. We thank you for waiting for this update and wish everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. All house in safe zones - removed Office building in Syd replaced Syd construction site houses have been opened also put in that people effected with the house removal can get the gear lost put into a new house via a comp request

With men's mental health week upon us, I thought I would reach out and let everyone in the community know that it's not cool to bottle things up. We all have problems and sometimes the best way to deal with them is to talk to someone. Sadly men have the highest rates of suicide, and most of the time a simple chat could have prevented it. So to everyone in StrayaGaming community if you feel sad, alone or just not yourself, talk to someone about it, anyone. I'm always up for a chat ? Discord - AceWinchester #4637 Teamspeak - AceWinchester Lifeline Australia - 13 11 14 (24 Hours)

Hey Everyone, Today I am advising everyone of several changes/additions to the community, across various services which are being rolled out following this post. Changes to our main discord New Categories Upon joining the server users will now get the ARMA3 tag, this allows them to see into all of our ARMA3 categories. (They will be hidden if they don't have a role now.) Users can then remove this role and add themselves to each servers role (e.g '?role Altis Life' to see the AL channels). This is the give users some control over what categories they want to be a part of and which ones they don't. Primary Servers will be setup as an Opt Out system, with additional secondary games/areas of interest setup to be Opt-In. We will keep an updated list of the possible games/roles that have discussion channels in the discord. Currently it is relatively minimal and only includes existing games that we have on the discord, but we are always willing to expand it. If you have any suggestions, let us know. Community Contributors Management and Lead staff have decided on the first batch of community contributors and will be handing the ranks out in the next few days. If you need a refresher on the Community Contributors, see the community update posted by @M9' here: https://strayagaming.com/topic/20766-november-2018-community-updates/ Congratulations to our list of community contributors, decided on based on past/current contributions before this point If you are on this list please contact a member of the management team to receive your tags: Persona (I&A Guides) Kev (Community Podcasts) Chadd (Community Podcasts) Bouda (Made significant contributions to improving the server and worked with staff extensively to represent civillian interests) Nevetos (provided a significant amount of documents and maintains support documents) Ryan King (Made the Rubio staff tool for us) Other Discord Servers We have quite a few Discord servers that various factions and groups on Altis Life use, they are all public and we encourage Altis Life players that are interested to join them. Here is a complete list along with invites to each. Primary Discord: discord.straya.life AL Police Discord: discord.straya.life/apd Gang Discord: discord.straya.life/gangs Medic Discord: discord.straya.life/ems Judicial System Discord: discord.straya.life/judicial Altis Life Veteran Today marks the addition of our new Altis Life Veteran tag. This will work similar to the other servers within StrayaGaming with the requirements for the Altis Life Veteran being listed below. If you believe you meet these requirements please contact the AL Manager and provide your playerID, Teamspeak ID and link your forum account. Your eligibility will then be reviewed and you will receive notification of the decision. Requirements: Have never been Community Banned or Staff Banned for any period of time. Does not have a combined time banned longer than 1 month. Has more than 1000 hours played on the server. (As per BattleMetrics: https://www.battlemetrics.com/servers/arma3/550483/leaderboard?filter[period]=AT ) The Altis Life Manager or Senior Management + can void any/all of these requirements in exceptional cases at their discretion. Changes to Some Staff ranks and Responsibilities Discipline, Punishment & Appeals Policy Senior Moderators and Administrators can authorise bans for up to 3 Months, they must acquire approval from the Management team for any ban above 90 days (3 Months). Additionally, Senior Moderators and Administrators can place indefinite bans that are to be reviewed within 1 week of placement by the Management Team. Senior Moderator Senior Moderators are the senior point of contact for ban appeals, and other issues relating to their server. Senior Moderators are responsible for designing and managing server rule-sets and procedures with the guidance of the Server Manager. Senior Moderators are also expected to assist Trial Moderators and help them out in helpdesk. Lastly, Senior Moderators are responsible for dealing with appeals relating to bans placed by other non-management server staff members. Server Administrator Server Administrators are the senior team members for their server and work closely with the manager to discuss and agree on changes to the server. Additionally they work closely with Senior Moderators to ensure that other staff perform to the best of their abilities. Server Administrators are also responsible for the organization and hosting of server events and faction events.

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Hey Guys, Back on track for more regular updates we bring you altis life 11.6. The core feature of this update is our newly created custom bank system. Instead of the banks being part of the map the banks are now created when the server boots via code. This allows us to create a pool of banks and then select a set of 2 random banks (in addition to pharma, R&D and fed which spawn every restart) from the pool of banks we have built to spawn each restart. In addition we have several fixes and map changes.

Name: Connor McGregor Steam 64 ID (If Blacklisted): 76561198148166004 Date of Disciplinary Action: 2017 What Disciplinary Action was placed against you: BlackList Who were you Disciplined by: Augnov Reason for Disciplinary Action against you: Not Welcome in the APD. Why the appeal should be accepted: [50 Words] I reckon that ive had my fair share of time off cop, Even tho i might still not be welcomed back but as a former command team member i can guarantee i can bring what i brought to the cop for back in early 17 - late 18, Even if people still think of me as toxic immature due to past behaviour they can think what they want about me but people who have actually taken the time to talk with me will see my true self, And i do apologise if i have affected any member of the APD. Any other information: Like i have said multiple times i know i wont be accepted by some, All im asking is another shot, Thankyou.

All good things come to an end gaymers. First and foremost you will still see us around as a registered gang, Just as a smaller casual gang ( IRL has taken over for alot of the lads with work and uni ) . Its been a journey along the way against both rebels and the APD. To the boys Papaj Rogue1911 Son Chae-Yung Pad0s What started as a Sydney meme and soon become one of the biggest gangs straya had seen, We had ups and downs but grew into the powerhouse gang. To the lads who we picked up/came back /Joined in along the way Gucci Truma AustrianTrapLord Hope Jebus Preacher La volpe Ethanface DaCrazyAsian Buster Knut Yun Jesse Wasabi J-Dogs Marko Salt Toby josh Gov Tyrone Breezy Smiladon Cougah Chadd Truthy Jammir rvZz Caiden Donk Slade henny Swanky Wallzy Rhys Beckett Tonic Wex Zed Bevo Jack Leef Sebastian Bit of a Pleb You all played a part in creating the new era of AoW 2.0. We sat strong for a year. We archived pretty much everything that was possible as a gang, Including 9 straight fed wins. I couldn't have asked for a better bunch of mongs to carry the gang name after the revamp. To the APD, We had our differences, Its time to put that aside. Some of the best fights we had in arma came from you guys, There were clashes and issues over the year but it was expected. o7 :fedora: for all the feds and banks. I hope to see you grow and challenge under Corey. With that. AoW signs out as the big boys. We will be on and around but its time for someone else to rise up as the big gang and take the flame. This isnt the first time we have gone on hiatus, We will be back one day! ? Until than I look forward to my next project within the community! With that the last [AoW] Bouda montage that will be seen for awhile, Much love to RvZz for the edit :loveheart:

StrayaGaming Monthly News Bulletin THE HEADLINES ALTIS LIFE UPDATE v10.0: A major update to Altis Life was released in early March, heralding the long awaited return of the crafting system. Players can once again combine mined or collected items into weapons and gear. The v10.0 update also includes the addition of several vehicles to the 3 gang bases; quilin minigun, 4WD LMG, Armed Offroad and Unarmed Kajmans. Depleted uranium has been added as another rebel method of making money and for use in crafting. You can read more about the update here. OPERATION BITTER REDEMPTION: A hearty congratulations to WASTELAND for winning our recent Bitter Redemption server v server v server competition. You can watch our Media Team's highlights video here. Additional congratulations go to Yeet and Hazzy155 for the most strategic play and largest killstreak respectively. ANNOUNCEMENTS COMMUNITY TEAM EVENTS DISCORD: Due to the popularity of our recent large-scale events, a dedicated events discord has been created to allow teams to plan strategies, ask questions to staff and keep up to date with event announcements. If you're interested in participating in an event or would like to keep up to date, feel free to join our Events Discord. MONTHLY DONATION PERKS GIVEAWAY: Starting this month, we will be giving away a months donation perks on one StrayaGaming server to a lucky community member. To enter the draw for next month, simply like this post and check next month's bulletin to see if you've won! INVADE & ANNEX - MALDEN AND TANOA DAYS Every Monday, Tuesday and Thursday evening come and join us on our second Invade & Annex server to play I&A on the island of Malden or Tanoa. The I&A staff often jump into Zeus on these nights to add some extra challenges and toys to play with. You can grab the server IP here. SPACE ENGINEERS SERVER: Did you know that we have a Space Engineers server? Build colossal ships, explore space and fight opposing players in epic clashes. More information can be found here. MEDIA OF THE MONTH Shortened version of the recent Operation Dawns Break Mission by @Humaine STAFF NEWS Congratulations to the following staff who have been appointed to the staff team in the last 2 months: @Weaver @RadScorpion @Dando @Guardian @Holski. to the Community Team. @Evo766 @iamjack @Maverick3211 @DreadScythe @AceWinchester @Bill Props @Dando to the Support Team. @BigRed as a Trial Invade & Annex Moderator. @Virtual_Seahorse to an Altis Life Senior Moderator @bouda118 to an Altis Life Admin DONATORS Many thanks to all those who donated in this last month. Thank you for supporting the StrayaGaming Community @Juan Man @insanepanda0221 @Wyld @iopio @Hope @Expostech @webbie @Joshua_ @Jaidyn @RaPiD Mason @Decent @Jacob Mchairyyy @Salmon01 @leeseven @Armando Wolff @bouda118 @Snohman @Cpt.Cougs @Jackson Morgan @pkisbest @ViPER78 @helidave @Humaine @CraZed00 @bodyboarder2528 @Rackers @Bill Props @Grim. @Corrupt @Bang1324 @Red @Chadd

StrayaGaming - Altis Life Rules All rule breaks are up to the server staff's discretion. What a moderator/administrator says is final. Recently changed rules are in yellow. 1 - General Rules 1.1 Use common sense when playing and reading the rules. 1.2 Any form of hacking, exploiting or cheating is prohibited. 1.3 Any form of racism or derogatory comments will not be tolerated. 1.4 Any use of macros are not allowed when on the server. 1.5 City limits are defined as anywhere inside of the Purple Ring around Sydney. 2 - Fail Role-Play (Fail RP) 2.1 You must at all times, stay within the narrative of your roleplay character. 2.2 Aborting the server while in restraints, roleplay, combat or while incapacitated/downed will be considered ‘Combat Logging’ (you must wait the timer out and respawn before, leaving the server). 2.2.1 You may however, quit the server if you were the cause of your own death and not in an active declaration (crashing your helicopter, falling off a building) 2.3 Any form of evading role-play such as killing yourself, being team killed to evade or breaking character will be seen as Fail RP 2.4 Storing or impounding a vehicle during an active declaration will be seen as Fail RP. 2.4.1 This also includes storing money, items and other amenities during an active declaration. 2.5 Any strategy, method or actions that are obtained by out of game means will be seen as meta-gaming. 2.6 Any actions that are done with the intention of interrupting or interfering with role-play or the actions of other people is trolling and fail role-play. 2.6.1 Don’t be a dick. (Don't do anything which could be seen as purposely annoying or interfering with the Roleplay of others. Things like baiting police, destroying vehicles and targeting certain people). 2.7 Civilians may not enter city limits with / or use any of the following ; concealing clothing (balaclavas, face masks), assault weapons (anything that cannot be purchased from the red civ gun store), explosives, armoured apparel and vehicles (clothing/vehicles with an armour rating) 2.7.1 Civilians that enter city limits with any of the above mentioned items may be met with undeclared lethal force from the Police within city limits. 2.7.2 Weapons / Gear picked up from dead bodies that are considered assault weapons (including police weapons) may only be used within that declaration, once declaration is over you must get rid of the gear or leave city limits. 2.7.3 Anyone in Qilins, Prowlers, Armed Land Vehicles, Armed Hellcats, Armed Orcas and Pawnees may not enter city limits. 2.8 Any hostile action direct towards medics will be seen as Fail RP. 2.8.1 Stealing a medic vehicle will be seen as Fail RP. 3 - New Life Rule (NLR) Classifications: Dead / Died / Killed / Death means you have been incapacitated and then respawned. Incapacitated / Downed means you have been shot, crashed, etc and have the option to be revived by an adrenaline shot, request a medic or wait out the respawn timer. 3.1 All information / knowledge / memories gained prior to respawning is lost unless revived by a medic or via an adrenaline shot. 3.1.1 The exception to this is owned houses and server marked map locations. 3.2 You cannot return to the situation which caused your death. 3.2.1 Even if the situation has ended, you are not allowed to go back to retrieve weapons, gear or vehicles. 3.3 If revived by a medic, you cannot attempt to kill anyone involved in the situation leading to your incapacitation until the situation is complete 3.4 You can still be restrained by civilians or detained by police after being revived so long as the opposing party member has not themselves, been revived or respawned. 4 - Value Life Rule (VLR) 4.1 Putting yourself in situations where the risk of death far outweighs the odds of surviving is considered to not be valuing your life. 4.1.1 Failing to comply with the demands of a hostile threat where your life is at risk will be considered to not be valuing your life. 5 - Declarations 5.1 All declarations must be done via email or direct communication, this includes voice. 5.1.1 Enough time (30 seconds) must be given to acknowledge a declaration must be given. 5.1.2 An acknowledgement must be a noticeable change in behaviour. 5.1.3 Direct communications cannot be used to declare on any vehicle. 5.2 All declarations must include the following: 5.2.1 An action for the person being declared on e.g. Hands on your head! 5.2.2 A consequence for failing to comply e.g. Or you will be shot! 5.3 A declaration ends when all ingame/online members of an opposing faction are incapacitated or 10 minutes after all hostile actions have ceased. 5.3.1 Upon death/incapacitation your individual declaration with the opposing party will no longer be valid. 5.3.2 5.3.1 is void if you are revived using an adrenaline shot 5.4 A declaration on one member of a gang/faction is a declaration on all members wearing the same gang tag/faction map wide. Note: Please see the linked announcement regarding the interpretation of the use of Gang Tags in Combat 5.5 Declarations on Police must be done by either direct communication (this includes voice) or by text to Police dispatch. 5.5.1 Declarations via Police dispatch must state a name and a vehicle (if applicable). 5.5.2 If a name is not applicable, a location must be used instead. 5.6 Registered civilian contractors must declare via text message before participating in an active contract involving a robbery 5.7 If the player has acknowledged your declaration and complied with your demands, you may not engage and must continue roleplay. (If you decide to kill them while they're complying, this will be seen as Fail RP). 5.7.1 Hostages may only be killed should negotiators fail in complying with reasonable demands 5.8 If you are outside city limits you cannot declare on any players that are within city limits. 5.8.1 If a player flees into city limits during a declaration you may follow them and continue the engagement. 5.8.2 If you follow a player in during declaration using rebel gear, you may not start a new declaration until you leave city limits. 5.8.3 After concluding a situation pursuing a player into city limits in rebel gear, you must immediately make all attempts to leave city limits. 5.8.4 If a declaration is initiated by a player inside city limits where both parties are inside city limits, rebel gear may not be brought into city limits. 5.9 The robbing of a house does NOT form a declaration between the robber and owner. 5.10 All civilian groups are to wear the gang tag associated with their group. (Example: [123] YOURNAME) Note: Please see the linked announcement regarding the interpretation of the use of Gang Tags in Combat 5.11 You must declare on a person before you can restrain or knock them out. An acknowledgement must be received before you can restrain or knock them out. 5.11.1 Police are exempt from this rule when restraining to check licenses or ticketing. 5.11.2 Police may use tasers or knockdowns without a declaration against players who trespass within Sydney, Melbourne or Brisbane PDs. This does not start a declaration between the player / player’s gang and the Police. 5.12 Anyone in an air vehicle within a “No fly Zone” can be met by undeclared force by police. 5.13 Any damage or deaths that occur from crossfire will not be considered a form of declaration. 5.14 Any combat taking place in a KOS zone is exempt from the above rules. Should a party leave KOS whilst in Active Combat, a declaration is formed between both parties 5.15 Anyone inside of the red border around gang bases will be met subject to KOS from the whitelisted gangbase members. 6 - Random Death Match (RDM) 6.1 Killing any player without a valid declaration (see declaration rules) will be seen as RDM. 6.2 The killing of EMS will be seen as RDM, however excludes EMS in KOS zones. 6.3 If you are caught in the crossfire of an active declaration, this is not RDM. 7 - Vehicle Death Match (VDM) 7.1 The usage of vehicles to cause harm, damage or gain an unfair advantage will be considered VDM. 7.2 Running someone over with the intent to evade/flee is not seen as VDM. 7.3 Players who become ragdolled will gain immunity for a short period of time, until the rag doll animation is over and they have been allowed to remount a vehicle or re-engage in a combat situation. 7.3.1 Immunity period only applies when the rag doll was caused by the opposition not teammates. 7.4 Armoured VS Armoured is permitted 7.4.1 Armoured Vehicles consist of the Strider, Ifrit and Hunter 7.5 Ground vs. Air Ramming is prohibited. 7.6 Unarmored vehicles can not be used to ram other vehicles. 8 - Safe Zones 8.1 There is to be no hostile acts within a safe zone. 8.2 When in an active declaration you can not flee to a safe zone. Police can arrest people from within safezones. 8.2.1 Police v Rebel declarations are called off when all members of either party reaches their safe zone (Police Stations or Rebel outposts). 8.2 is void in this situation. Cartels and civilian contractors must also return to the Rebel Outpost over their set outposts. 8.2.2 If a single member of either party returns to the safezone, the declaration is still valid 8.2.3 All above rules (8.2.1 and 8.2.2) do not apply for when a robbery is being conducted. Any players that are part of either the gang or police force and are present at the bank within the declaration area of a 2km radius will be considered active in the declaration. Anybody seen withdrawing to a safezone will not be permitted to return and is calling off their individual declaration. 8.2.4 Police may return to Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney PDs during a bank only for the purpose of escalation and will not call off their declaration in doing this. Only in this case are they exempt from rule 8.2.3. 8.2.5 Police are exempt from rule 8.2 if they are bringing the individual back to a Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane police safe zones for processing purposes. They may not re-join any active situations once processing has begun. 8.3 You can not steal any items/vehicles from a safe zone. 8.4 You are not to airlift a vehicle from within the city limits. 8.4.1 The only exception to this is vehicles you own or have keys to and can only be lifted from the air garage. 9 - Robberies Robberies - Gas Station robberies, Major robberies and Vault raids 9.1 You must declare on the Police when robbing any of the gas stations however, major robberies and vault raids are KOS on all cops involved within 2km. (Please see Section 11 - Vault Raids for more information on Vault Raids) 9.2 Touching off any robbery and running away for the benefit of baiting cops or annoying other players will be seen as Fail RP. 9.3 Gangs performing any robbery must do it for the robbery itself and must roleplay an escape once the robbery is over. They can’t wait around for the pleasure of killing Police officers. This will be seen as Fail RP 9.4 If you leave the server whilst spawned in or die for any reason during a robbery situation, you cannot return and engage in the situation. (This includes aborting to lobby or being kicked). 9.5 During scheduled server events (events with prior notice given more than 24 hours ago), no player may conduct any major robberies or vault raids. 9.5.1 Players, regardless of faction, may not rob or raid houses during these events. 10 - Major Robberies Major Robberies: Westpac Bank, AGL Office, Research and Development Facility, Federal Reserve. 10.1 All Major Robberies have a minimum requirement of Police online before the robbery can be commenced 10.1.1 Ten Police officers must be online to rob the AGL Office 10.1.2 Ten Police officers must be online to rob the Westpac Bank 10.1.3 Twelve Police officers must be online to rob the Research and Development Facility 10.1.4 Twelve Police officers must be online to rob the Federal Reserve 10.2 When a major robbery is hit off, all declarations that include the Police are called off 10.2.1 This rule is only applicable within a 2km radius of the major robbery area. 10.3 Declarations for all Major Robberies are only within the immediate area of the robbery. Any hostile actions to either the robbers or the Police responding to the robbery by an unrelated gang/third party will be considered RDM within 2km of the active robbery. Two gangs (Rebel/Cartel/Civilian) cannot commit to a single major robbery at the same time. 10.4 All Major Robberies have cooldowns before they can be robbed. 10.4.1 The cooldown between different major robberies is two hours, the cooldown starts at the beginning of the robbery. This can be checked by using the bot on the Strayagaming Discord or the Gangs Discord 10.4.2 AGL Solar Office and the Westpac Banks have a cooldown time of two hours. 10.4.3 Research & Development Facility and the Federal Reserve has a cooldown time of three hours 10.5 You may not randomly join in a major robbery or sneak around unarmed and act as a bystander then pull out a gun and assist. This is known as Third Partying. 10.5.1 Registered Contractor Gangs with an active contract approved by Senior Staff may assist in conducting a Major Robbery or assisting Police in retaking 10.6 After the detonation of the Federal Reserve vault, neither party (rebel or Police) may have any additional people join in to the active robbery. 11 - Vault Raids Vault Raids: Abandoned Bank, Abandoned Factory, Military Compound, Altis Shipping Yard, 9 Lives Headquarters 11.1 Eight Police Officers must be online before a Vault Raid may be commence 11.2 A 1km KOS Area is established around the Vault Raid when it is started. If any party enters this KOS Area during the Vault Raid, they are placed in a declaration with all parties involved. 11.3 Vault Raids have cooldowns before another one may be attempted. These are not affected by Major Robberies 11.3.1 The Cooldown between any Vault Raid being attempted is one hour. Only one Vault raid may be attempted “per hour” 11.4 Any Party may join in and attempt to take the prize for themselves 12 - Hostage Rules 12.1 A message should be sent to the Police requesting a negotiator for the hostage(s) prior to the start of the robbery 12.2 If you kidnap a player with less than six Police online, you cannot initiate a hostage roleplay scenario with the Police. 12.3 All negotiations must be done face to face in game and any money must be done on site NO wire transfers. 12.4 A declaration is formed with the Police & Hostage Taker(s) when negotiations are called off by either party face to face. The Police must wait 30 seconds or receive acknowledgement of negotiations being called off before any hostile action is taken. 12.5 Do not use a hostage that is playing with you. This will be known as fail role play. 12.6 The negotiator of any hostage situation can not be taken hostage. 12.7 There can only be one hostage situation declared with the Police every two hours. 12.8 You cannot take EMS members hostage. 12.9 The negotiator must value the life of the hostage as his own. 13 - Civilian Groups 13.1 Civilian Groups consist of Rebel, Gangs, Contractor groups in addition to ordinary groups / gangs 13.1.1 All Civilian Groups are to wear the tag associated with their group in front of your player name. (Example: [123] YOURNAME) Note: Please see the linked announcement regarding the interpretation of the use of Gang Tags in Combat 13.2 Civilian Groups are all their own separate force, therefore no team tactics between groups is permitted 13.3 No more than 15 members of a civilian group may be on the server under tags at any one time 13.4 Any Corrupt Roleplay must be documented. Corrupt Roleplay consists of turning a blind eye to drug trafficking and other illegal activities such as kidnapping and capture points. 13.5 When performing any robbery, civilian groups must ensure that the appropriate amount of time has passed between cooldowns. This information can be found by using the discord bot (See robbery rules). 13.6 Civilian Groups may apply to become a registered group. The benefits can be found here 13.7 Registered Civilian Groups have the ability to take over a major settlement, known as a rebel takeover. More information can be found here 13.8 Registered Civilian Contractor Groups may form contracts with any groups / faction throughout the server. 13.8.1 Any contract formed must be documented and made available to staff at any time. 13.8.2 Civilian Vehicles must be used in city limits. This includes donator vehicles and helicopters. Vehicles purchased from a rebel store are not permitted. 13.8.3 Contractors must be paid prior to any commencement of work. 13.8.4 Any gear purchased at Contractor Base that is not available at a civilian store is considered rebel, unless you hold a valid contract approved by the APD Commissioner. 13.8.5 Contractors are only allowed to operate with their specific contract parties or other contractors groups. If they are seen operating with groups not contracted with them, then AL Senior Staff may revoke their registered status. 13.8.6 Contractors can only participate in robberies should they have an active contract approved by AL Senior Staff. 14 - Additional 14.1 The Altis Police Department (APD) and the Altis Paramedic Service (APS) have protocols that govern each department. They can be found below: 14.1.1 APD Protocols 14.1.2 APS Protocols Contact the respective Command Teams for help regarding protocol breaches. 14.2 The Basic Laws of Altis can be found here 14.3 The Registered Civilian Guidelines can be found here 14.4 The Rebel Takeover Guidelines can be found here 14.5 The Gang Base Guidelines can be found here 14.6 Donation Benefits for Altis Life can be found here Rules written by the StrayaGaming AL Staff Team. Rules effective as of Altis Life Version 11.7 >> If any grey areas are found, please forward them to Altis Life Senior Staff <<

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Altis Life in 2019 This post will give a small overview as to where we currently stand regarding Altis Life as we moving into 2019. There are still unresolved issues that we are bring across from 2018 such as a broken Fed and Judicial Government set up. We are also looking to introduce aspects of the server we have seen in the past. A Broken Fed As we all know the Federal Reserve is currently broken. This frustrates me as much as everyone else but I can assure you we are working towards a fix. Judicial Government The Judicial Government was reintroduced in the last part of 2018 and has been idle. I am currently looking for people to take key roles within the Judicial Government. If you are interested please message me on the forums. Introduction of Past Content In the past different items of server content has been removed for many different reasons. We are currently looking to reintroduce some of the past items that people like etc. Nothing at this stages is confirmed but content like crafting, rebel take overs and more are all on the table for possible reintroduction. Some require supporting documents to be created and finalized or updated others are server development and will take longer. Content Optimization Now that we have built up a stable base of content it is time to review it all and see what is good, in need of improvement or replacement. Currently the AGL and Convenience store robberies are being reviewed after suggestions and feedback from the community. Changes have been made and will be coming soon. If these changes do not work then the robberies may be changed out for something else in the future. Content Optimization also means that if a better option is presented then it would be considered. Server Staff With the recent appointments of Corey & Jdawgz to Server Administrator the Altis Life Senior Staff Team will be given areas to watch over, give guidance to and be the first point of call for. The areas and appointed staff member is listed below. Cop - @Corey. Medic & Judicial Government - @JdawgZ (Jdawgs will also be taking over as the Health Minister as of this post) Civilian - @Fusionable Events & Moderator Training - @Kat. We have also welcomed Jake on to the Development Team working with James. Jake is currently on a trial.

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Sergeant Expression of Interest Note: By placing this expression of interest you are not in-titled to Sergeant and can be denied as well as issued a non-apply period of no less than 1 week. Do not bother anyone about your application, if you do it will be hidden. Name: Maverick Callsign: [K23W] Training Completed By: Robert Hill List all Pub Slot Inductions you have done: Rippa, Samuel, VirtualSeahorse, Hobo, Spycee, Haider Why do you deserve a promotion? (50 Words min) When i was a pub slot my only goal was to reach sergeant, then i got into Academy and Detective, If i can become sergeant I believe it can enable many benefits for me, for example I am one of the late night cops because i am currently in a different time zone, where many Australians are either at school, or work, or asleep. And at that time there are normally civilians doing illegal stuff and there are no sergeants to place charges. I believe if i get sergeant I will be able to add charges to criminals and make sure they are dealt with probably for all there charges. I also believe that it will also allow me to help pub slots and higher ranking officers as it can expand my knowledge. In Academy i have learned even more how to help people, and in Detective I have learned how to work in a team better as we do ops. I have not done many inductions before, but i am starting to increase my efficiency as well as doing many training's and interviews as Academy. I have also taken CO whenever it was required or when i was free, or the slot was free, As sergeant i would love to help new Senior Constables learn how he/she can become a better and more efficient CO, and I would also like to learn how to Operate and lead a bank or any operation. Who would recommend you for a promotion? LM, Omuia, Delta, Dandoo, Keeno, Sebastien, Phatzball, Loxton, Michael Phelphs, Nick, Johnny V, Luke, Iamjack, Chris Shaw. And I guess anyone else that likes this post Edited July 24, 2018 by Mitch

I don't really have the time to respond to this properly, and in-depth, but I can briefly explain some tidbits. The money that comes into the community goes mostly back into running costs, anything extra is saved up for giveaways or paying for development. Unfortunately there isn't enough coming in to pay for a competent developer full-time, not to mention that they are also extremely rare. Arma3 is an old game and our mission is very complex compared to your average Altis Life server, it takes longer to understand how it works, it takes more effort to write code that is up to scratch, and it takes even longer to find someone we can trust. We have tried getting other Developers to assist us, after going through several we have failed to find anyone that has more than the ability to plagarise or write a really basic script. With Connor gone development will be slow, and there are currently issues on-going internally I am trying to deal with. We are trying to get things back on track, i'm sorry it is taking a long time, but this really isn't an easy task.

Name: Home Steam 64 ID (If Blacklisted): Date of Disciplinary Action: 30/12/18 What Disciplinary Action was placed against you: Demotion Who were you Disciplined by: Critters Reason for Disciplinary Action against you: Messing around, not listening to higher up officers orders Why the appeal should be accepted: [50 Words] : To be honest, I dont think I deserved a demotion for my actions, I understand and agree with the officer on why I was in trouble, but I do not think that my actions within two days should result in something so severe, messing around for a small period of time is not always fine, I didn't listen to an officer, but after the 2nd time I followed his command, I had multiple reports about refusing orders of a higher officer, and just generally messing about within the APD Sydney Station My rank (senior constable) I understand was a privilege not a right, I know I am expected more of than what I was achieving, but I believe that this disciplinary action was not needed, I know what I should've been doing and I am extremely regretful of the way I was acting and the things I had done. The way I had performed my gd routine was out of the regular, and I will definitely not slip up like this again, I have changed my attitude and my emotion towards the APD, and I believe I am ready to represent the APD in a much more positive and open way, I promise to represent the APD in a positive light, by showing both my fellow officers and the public respect. What I have done recently is not a summary of who I am, my actions were only a one time thing and I have never wanted this to occur. Any other information: [K28W] Home -> [O40W] Home All incidents given occured within a two day timeframe, other officers will be able to vouch for me that this is not a re-occuring thing I was not provided with evidence during my demotion interview, I would like to see it Thank you for anyone in the StrayaGaming community who has taken the time to read my appeal

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