Kmart and Coles

Although I did not know you too well, I definitely knew that you were a caring and amazing person to be around. We thank you for everything you have done for this community and I wish you the best in your future endeavours and I know you will achieve greatness in your life ahead of you. You will be missed  

41 minutes ago, Nuu Rushean said:

CQC frag montage? Must be good.

 

oh also @RaPiD Mason aren’t you in the video production team? Why you talking shit in your videos bro, that’s not nice.

Hes just trying to be a kool kid, give him a break nuu

58 minutes ago, Cap said:

When ever I try to do lawyer roleplay the cops always get really hostile and uncooperative and try to do everything in there power to stop me representing my client...

Then those cops just want to get their money quickly and don't want to roleplay. Put in a complaint if you see this happening, cause we don't want this happening.

I agree with bringing Sydney back, but the part about making rules so rebels can come into city limits....I strongly disagree. I also have to agree more with @Daywalker with this. Gangs would just troll in Sydney, and that's why the staff made it so players are more spread around the map. Allowing rebels with 7.62s to come into city limits just to kill cops in un armoured vehicles with 9mms, just wouldn't work. Cause then we get over powered in the city and civilians are no longer safe ANYWHERE. Rebels belong outside city limits, and that will never change. I do absolutely agree that Sydney should be brought though. I wouldn't want it as a main city again, but it should be a spawnable location for civilians. 

If all civilians were like this then cops and civilians would get along much better. But sadly there are some civilians who make it difficult for cops and they aren't willing to roleplay. I also understand that there are some cops who just speed through processing to gain the money from the ticket or arrest, this is quite disappointing. Would be nice if all cops and all civilians were like these people you have spoken about.

When it comes to how civilians can make money, there are many different methods as @bouda118 has stated. But the real question is how can they do it safely. Yes they can take back roads, but rebel gangs are everywhere and some gangs often stay at the processing areas waiting for those civilians, meaning taking backroads was just a waste of time because they’re gonna get robbed anyway at their destination. I remember how frustrating it was when I first joined the server to make money. I couldn’t even leave safe zone without getting decced because solo civilians are easy targets for gangs. What I could recommend is to maybe reorganise the map a bit and move areas such as cargo yards closer to city limits or implement another money making method for civilians but put it in the city where they can at least feel a bit safe knowing Police are always nearby, with the exception of a bank going on of course. We always get dispatches saying someone is getting robbed at iron trader or at a drug field or whatever, but often some officers don’t want to respond to this because it’s too far away, which is a bit disappointing. I’ve had civilians also ask me if they could get a Police escort to where they need to go, and this just shows how unsafe civilians feel. Also if we do give them an escort, I believe it would attract attention and make gangs WANT to challenge us, especially the larger gangs. Which puts the civilians in danger once again. It’s a tough problems to solve but I sill think that the Altis Life lead staff should try and reorganise the map too make it safer for civilians too make a quick buck, a job maybe including some roleplay as well. 

I’m making this discussion post so that we can give ideas to how to improve the new Altis life Server after its wipe. I’m sure we will still go under a number of changes throughout the future, and I think it would be great if we could all contribute and give some ideas as to what could be improved on the new server, or what is becoming a problems. One problems I’m seeing at the moment is that civilians are at a severe disadvantage when it comes to making money. I spend all my time on cop and make money by arresting people and killing rebels, but I’ve been hearing a lot of civilians complaining about getting robbed and not making money, and cop isn’t for everyone and I would like to see civilians have a fair chance at making money without having to join Cop or Medic. Obviously there are issues and they are hard to solve, but hopefully we can figure something out and maybe get the lead staff to make a change. We as a community need to speak up and say what we want in the server and should always suggest solutions to problems in Altis Life.

It would be nice to make zones such as the copper/iron and truck delivery areas a safe zone to help civilians who aren't in a gang to make some money so that they can build their bank account. But there would be some problems such as the ones you have stated @silentkiller. It would be great if gangs and civilians could make some sort of agreement to have a truce and keep the fighting between gangs and the Police Force. But yeah there would be too many problems with making those areas safe zones such as people camping the zones as you have said. Hopefully in the near future the Strayagaming staff can implement something for solo civilians so they can make money without leaving the safe zone in fear of getting robbed by a 10 man gang.

It’s so beautiful it makes me wanna cry

"My wallet is like an onion, opening it makes me cry." 

Name: Kmart 

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Date of Disciplinary Action: 27/08/18

What Disciplinary Action was placed against you: Taser Probation

Who were you Disciplined by: Corey

Reason for Disciplinary Action against you: It was SRT and myself and Silentkiller were on top of officer killing those would you shooting at officers. Then a guy by the name of Sebastien started to lockpick Silent's hunter. Silent said to him that if he comes back then he would shoot him (he had only lethel mags). He came back a minute or so later and started lockpicking, then I remembered what Silent said and decided i'd shoot him, because we had already told him if he came back he will be shot. So I got banned for 1 day for RDM and put on Taser Probation for 1 week.

Why the appeal should be accepted: [50 Words] I believe this should be appealed because I did not have the intention or desire to RDM someone. I was simply just following on what another officer had said, plus we were did dec on him and he did not listen. I don't think I should get a taser probation for this but rather a warning. I am also not completely sure whether someone lockpicking a police vehicle counts as a dec. I would appreciate it greatly if this does get appealed because I did not have any intention or desire to do the wrong thing, and it was a really big surprise to get disciplined for this. 

Any other information: Thank you for reading my Discipline Appeal, I hope I can win your trust back again with this appeal. Because I am not a bad officer, obviously not perfect, but I try my best not to do the wrong thing. For example, earlier another officer wanted me to play tackle using placeables, but I refused because I knew it was against protocols. 

I’ve had many instances where I restrain someone as a cop and then their friend kills me. Then I’ve had some people say it’s rdm, others say it’s a dec. My friend had also asked admins about this and he said that different admins give different answers. So i would greatly appreciate it if someone could tell me the truth whether it is RDM or if it is a dec.

Thank you all for your contributions to my issue, is much appreciated;) 

I have been told that in order for me to be promoted to Sergeant (which is what rank I’m striving for) I must take the initiative to take CO and command general duties. I want to be able to do this well, and I also want to command GD in a different style and introduce new ideas to commanding GD. But, at the moment taking CO is more of a burden to me instead of enjoying the roleplay of taking command, and I’ll say why soon. Whoever I’m CO, not many people listen to me, I feel like I’m talking to a brick wall. An example would be when I asked in teamspeak why there are so many units in PD who aren’t processing, I asked the units by their names why they are at PD just walking around. They did not respond to me and their teamspeak wasn’t even muted, and they were running around in game. Or when there’s a situation going on and I ask ‘what’s the 10-18”.... and no one responds and they just continue with their conversations. It also doesn’t help when all these things are happening when a higher up tells me in the teamspeak with everyone there that I have to talk more and handle GD better, i would rather the higher up tell me in another channel instead of saying it with everyone to hear, it makes me dread being CO and it’s annoying because I want the promotion but I need to take CO more to be promoted. Also if anyone has the time, could you respond to this post with what  is the best way to handle GD, or other ideas on how to be CO, because atm I am struggling. 

I reckon you should be like a sub division within the APD that involves sitting at Police checkpoints around the map (not just PC1) and search vehicles and registrations. I would really love this to be introduced and would make cop more diverse. I understand that GD can just go and sit at PC1 if they have enough people, but I think it would be great if they could make a sub division out of it and get “Border Security” their own set of Protocals as well. Maybe give them their own skinned uniform and vehicle as well to make it more professional. I would love this idea to be introduced and would appreciate it if the StrayaGaming team would look into it

I think there should be more official jobs for civilians. Right now there are not many legal things civilians can do. There a truck deliveries which make no money if you do them the legal way, and then there’s things like peaches and apple picking, which also don’t make any money. All I see from civilians is that they just wait at Sydney breach and rdm or dec on cops. All they do is rob people and kill, I wanna see more from civilians. I mostly spend time on cop, but I can’t go on civ because there’s simply not much I can do that isn’t illegal. I would love to see more civilian groups become contractors and work with the police as well. Some examples of good jobs could be- bus driver (Van), Airlines (like Quantas) and maybe a contractor group that can control the police checkpoints around Altis, and there are many more roleplay jobs. I would like to see this happening because I believe the roleplay on our server would advance.

45 minutes ago, Slep. said:

Well Roleplay - Its there for a reason. Other servers seem to be able to do it, don't know why we cant...

Instead of this game of pointing fingers, why not just go into some good roleplay, since the Altis Life is a Role Playing Game. It is possible. If your arrested by an officer, do some proper good roleplay, same goes for the aforementioned officer.

Civilians should not be making it difficult for cops to roleplay, and vice verca for all other factions. If, for once people would do this, and use the rules as a guideline to their roleplay, we wouldn't have an issue.

There are many debates over getting a Officer's name and badge number, That they wear badges or not. This causes this issue as currently its extremely vague if officers are even meant to have badges on, it needs to be clearly stated in either police SOP's or Rules that either: 1. Cops do not carry badges (its optional) - or - 2. Cops do carry badges at all times unless undercover. The same goes for using the speed radar to get the name of civilians and check the wanted list. That should not be happening.  (In reality it should show the numberplate, speed and vehicle type - not player name). Police shouldn't always be able to catch the criminal via a traffic stop. 

To solve the current set of issues, the best way forwards is to roleplay, not point fingers at who is the boogeyman of the debate. 

EDIT: Also as Red said, If people break rules, report them. Staff do take action, all you have to do is ask.

Yeah that’s how I want to play on this server, but there are just some players who make this ‘role play’ server seem more like a combat server. I get what you mean and I totally agree 100%, but there are just simply so many people who don’t want to do this, all they want is to kill cops or kill and rob civs, I personally would rather roleplay than gunning down a cop or civ. That’s why when I do speeding chases and I stop them I try to be very friendly and engage in proper roleplay, but a lot of the time there will be that gang or group of civs who will gun you down when you’re trying to roleplay. I understand this problem is hard to solve, but there is a way to fix it but it will require the whole community to be involved.

1 minute ago, BartAllen said:

There is also the classic line of:

"hello sir where can I find your ID"

"It is in my ass you will need to get it out"......

At least with this you actually get it XD

3 minutes ago, nclem said:

"id please"

*don't have id sir*

"alright i'll get your fingerprints done"

*fingerprints are burnt off with acid sir*

"alright I'll do a retinal scan"

*I have fake retinas sir*

"Alright I'll do a DNA test"

*don't have any DNA, sir, it's not my DNA*

"do you have ANY documentation to prove your name, identity, or proof of residency?"

*no sir*

"alright well i'll be sending you to the altis correctional facility, it's where we send people to await processing when they come here as illegal immigrants, seeing as you can't prove you lived here legitimately, that's where you'll be going. The waiting time is quite a while, 30 or so years. Bye!" 

Hmmmm I’ll consider this next time I’m dealing with a stubborn civ

And also I love being cop, but civs just make It frustrating. When I pull someone over for speeding and want to roleplay, then his gang member or some new civ shoots me. I want to enjoy myself on this server and make the server more enjoyable for everyone by role playing, but it doesn’t help when your getting RDMed. Also when I take a civ into processing, they make it so annoying and frustrating to process them, they come up with every stupid excuse for me not to find their ID, for example: ‘I don’t have my drivers license, ‘my finger prints are burnt off’, ‘my face is deformed’. All these excuses make processing a nightmare and it is very unenjoyable. I love the server and the role of cop, but the people on it just make it bad. I can take verbal abuse from a civ, but when they start coming up with every excuse in the book for me not to find their identity, it just makes it boring and frustrating. 

I hate it so much when I’m just chilling in Sydney doing nothing and a stupid pubslot decides to come up to me and tell me I’m under arrest just because they saw my bounty. It’s annoying and this is one of the many reasons I am starting to hate this server. Cop should have name tags turned off to avoid metagaming, i got banned the other for simply disconnecting when 2 stupid pubslots looked at my name and told me I’m under arrest. I will probably be taking a long break from the server simply for the reasons of metagaming from cops, RDM from every civ and VDM when I’m just trying to do some role play. There is also absolutely NO role play in this server anymore, when I’m on civ I just get RDMed and robbed, when I’m on cop I just get RDMed by civs in Sydney and medic is quite boring in my opinion.