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I agree and i disagree on this point... The rule was specifically about gang tags, not about names. The purpose of the rule was to add balance back to the Cops vs Gang scenario. in rebel vs rebel or civ vs civ combat, when dec'd on, you all use the gang names to identify who you are fighting and who you can incapacitate or target. for cops, its even easier for rebels, you can just look at the uniform and vehicle and see the cops coming long before you see a name tag. in Sydney it was worse, rats would dec on cops, walk up to them and chase them then wait for the cop to turn around and kill them. The cop couldnt do shit until a hostile action was taken. This was perhaps the most stupid part of the game I personally had ever seen. This isnt roleplay and a life server you dont dec on some one then stand next to them for 9 mins and walk with them then shoot them. People wonder why the rule change came in, blame the way the rats would dec/then in plain sight be trolling. I agree with you though, it removes alot of old roleplay which was fun. Cops having to trick you into revealing your identity or catching you breaking a law and decing on you etc. - - - Sydney should be the pinnacle of roleplay on the server, but its not, both civs and cops are to blame. Cops dont want to roleplay with you if they cant stand still for longer than a minute without receiving 3 or 4 decs in that time, they are not going to bother with RBT or trying to give you a roadside ticket cause in the time it takes them to finish roadside roleplay, theyd have been killed 4 times over by civs with nothing better to do. Cops should be trying to tase and restrain, but half the time they try take you back to PD, people eject out of vehicles while in restraints (not VLR) to kill themselves, they scream in their discords for friends to kill them (as a retired mod, i cant tell you how many times i have heard that in evidence videos provided "just kill me before he takes me back"). The side chat of gangs cohesively telling eachother exactly where cops are and working together etc. Then when they do get you back to PD, the same stories told over and over again, then laywers come and do the exact same thing every single time.... i look forward to seeing you nigel in the processing rooms cause its always really funny. Other lawyers seem to follow the same lame script and nothing changes lol. At the same time, Civs dont want to roleplay cause aside from runs outside of city limits, the only thing the server offers is combat or being a troll/rat. So back to my personal POV, theres nothing to do in sydney lol. So what roleplay can civilians do? theres no jobs or points of interest in sydney. so being a rat is literally the main point of Sydney. After wipe, cops left sydney - the city was abandoned and the pop near but all died. Cops barely saw civs or rebels only to occasionally enter into boring dsync battles or banks. Civs basically left the server cause all they wanted to was be rats. The medics try to role play and often get told no or to **** off.... aside form revives all they have is verbal roleplay "are you ok, you need to come to hospital with meso i can roleplay operate on you" etc - no one wants to to do it tho and for the medics theres nothing in the server that gives them anything else to do (i always wanted to see extra things like endemics or plagues etc) No jobs meant nothing really to do and because people dont have purposes any more, the roleplay that goes with it is dead. So yea Roleplay is definitely missing, every faction has a part to play - medics really need to learn to drive - i personally believe we need a new meta or purpose for rebels and civs to do and enjoy where combat isnt the main focus, but a resort they will happily go to if you interfere with their purpose. Then Roleplay in my opnion will start to come back. These are my thoughts - agree or disagree just dont be salty lol

My hat!

Lol if thats your peak achievement on the server....

Ok comments are starting to detract from the original topic so this post will now be locked - thanks all for contributing

sad to see you go mate, we had some real fun times! dont be a stranger and come visit us from time to time

A few changes have gone in - TLDR is Crafting is back with t4/t5 weapons, the robberies have moved - now a total of 5 robberies, gang bases have been set up etc you can see the changes here https://strayagaming.com/forum/1111-dev-blogs/

Fair enough on your response ? like i said i was just giving my perspective without seeing any evidence and how a person could feel targetted after an hour when they are in prison. for the rules - there is a shared doc that we work on collectively between staff and management - often any rule that is changed or put in will result in some one finding a grey spot and trying to use it hence discretion is required. If you ever feel a decision was unfair you can request a review/appeal (as it sounds like you did). for your example of the impound, it is an interesting one that i havent seen raised before - if you have evidence of the cop heli being purposely crashed then id be interested to have a look at it so it can be discussed at a senior/management level. Generally in my own experience i have seen civs/rebels ask cops to impound their vehicle when it blows up in sydney and most of the time they do, impounding your own vehicle costs you your own money so most cops generally dont like doing it. I hear alot of mods get asked to impound vehicles as well to save people time and money (e.g. they get their helis/planes stuck etc). but yea, if you have a video of a purposeful crash/impound then im keen to have a look. as for your comp request, the comp system in my experience is there for when bad things happen to you that either are a result of a rule breach against you (e.g. RDM or VDM) where it wasnt your fault or fair that you lost your stuff, or a server issue resulted in the loss (a big example is people flying a heli then getting battle eye kicked resulting in their heli nose diving and going boom or driving over a hill touching a tree and suddenly being launched to the moon). If you have submitted a ticket with evidence of your deliberately inverting a heli and crashing it... to be fair, i wouldnt be surprised if it got denied as this goes against what the comp system is for. I have denied cop comp requests for similar (one example was 2 cops crashing qilins into each other and blowing up), if its not rule breach/server issue relating they will generally get denied.

I would ask - how did you know he was in jail? did you actually see him in there, did he give you his name or did you see it above his head or did you just see the arrest log at the bottom of the screen? What if he had died in that hour between your dec and his prison sentence, how do you know he is the same person? if your chasing a specific individual post dec to get revenge, you can appreciate how some might think that's targetting. i imagine there was some shit talking in side chat? possible even asking all civs if they had info on a specific person? on the turning up to prison part - if he is stuck in prison and you rock up fully armed demanding he turn over his house keys under the pretences of "give me your keys or your breaching VLR" (whether you actually said that or not wouldnt matter, he is stuck in prison - its like the rebels that go and steal the kidneys of prisoners, yea its funny, but if they are in there for 20 mins, but die from kidney loss in 15 then they respawn with a restarted timer, then the victim is gonna feel like you are a dick etc) but in prison, were he never had a chance to run or defend himself sounds like a bit of a dick move to me... (different if you caught him at his house and captured him outside of prison, but if he is in prison he can easily argue RP that the prison guards took his keys off him, you then killed him anyway resetting his prison sentence... from the outside looking in, your buddy was killed, an hour later your still steaming about the earlier dec, you targetted him/tracked him down, didnt get your way with the keys, killed him and reset his prison sentence - again you can appreciate how some one from the outside looking would see this). - im gonna assume you did actually send a verbal declaration or text declaration before trying to get keys off him lol.. again, people will read and think very differently to what i have written above - im giving you my perspective. I personally feel 2.6 would be a weak issue here as he wasnt specifically doing RP other than waiting out a prison sentence. Would have been less of an issue if you broke him out of prison as a prison snatch (then your back into a new RP - sounds better then breaking in, give me your keys, no?, bang your dead, leave) Rule 2.6.1 - if you asked me if this was a dick move/targetting a player, now I personally was not there to see what you guys said or did with the prisoner, i can only make assumptions but from my perspective without all the facts yet, it looks like you were targetting but id need more evidence (e.g. side chat logs etc) There is a level of common sense that should be applied to the rules otherwise the Altis Life rules would be 10 pages long and we'd all be in HD everyday for every little fiddly thing and no one would ever know them all. An example of interfering with RP would be the likes some of the following scenarios (i say some, these are not the only scenarios obviously) - a hostage negotiation where a random civ/rebel comes up and just kills the hostage - Rebels third partying a bank, killing the bank robbers - rebels capture a rival rebel and a different rival team kills them to avoid hostage RP - Combat logging/Combat insuring a house, logging off to stop a house robbery Again, just my thoughts, but hope it helps

welcome back SF ?

think we will just lock this one now - thanks for the input!

Later gamer! Take care bro

interesting ideas - a few thoughts from me ? 1: adding hats should be easy enough - we are talking about the idea of adding the VR suits (not confirmed but seems like a good idea) so that each base gets its own colour (red, green and blue) these wouldnt be skinned as any one could eventually own a gang base. 2: im interested for more peoples thoughts on this - we could remove the other variants of the armed off road and have the same qilin minigun for all, the original decision to have different vehicles was more a thought on having unique armed vehicles per different gang base (i.e. Our gang really wants to go to war with GB3 as we want the HMG over a minigun etc) but if the people would prefer the minigun for all bases then this can def be looked at. These will still only be rentable however as they are inteded for special use rather then being pulled out every encounter from random garages (becomes unfair for those who dont have a gang base/access to these vehicles) and or the cops just end up pulling out armed vehicles all the time as well. 3: i like the idea of a capture flag but with some slight tweaks - I still think a gang war application is needed to make it a controlled server event (otherwise people would just roll the gang bases while the owners arent on or theres only a few gang members online at the time) it also allows for AL staff to be able to ensure the terms are agreed, that people show up and manage the change in gang base whitelisting if needed.......... but what if we had a capture flag, that if the opposing gang or cops captured, then that acts as a way to win the war? (so the rule changes to either wipe out all the opposing members or capture the gang base flag to win?) 4: if we put wetsuits in, would that mean people spend most of the war hiding in the water and using the water as a bullet proof shield (unless armed with an SDAR?), we will look at what specific guns we could add to each base to make them more special as well again these are just my personal thoughts and stuff id be happy to raise at the AL Senior Staff for development as we are looking at the gang bases and are keen to improve on them to inspire more gang wars/drive interest and desire in making a long standing gang who will want to fight and keep a base

Better late than never ? - check out the announcements

5.56 and 6.5 supps are now craftable for rebels - check out the march update announcements ?

Otherwise please jump on teamspeak and connect to ts.straya.life server and join altis life issues and ask for a senior AL staff member to help you out ?

Dont stress to much, this is just the anticheat script has detected something changed or missing when your client tried to initialise onto the server. Happens often and if you havent been using scripts etc then you have nothing to worry about ? chuck a unban appeal through for altis life at strayagaming.com/support so we can get all your details and unban your client ?

mmm half the cops rock up in lvl 3 vests and no helmets haha, im sure youll be right ?

for first release, Big Guns yes, lvl 5 vests no

I can do one better than voting... yes, crafting is coming back! We are currently working on crafting as we speak! Our intention is to roll out crafting with specific items and weapons in the first release (including 1 or 2 that cannot be bought on the server). Then we will review and see what other items can be added at a future date ? keep a look out as we will announce soon when crafting is finalised and give a date then as to when it will be back on Altis Life.

Thanks for everything Aug! you have always helped me whether it was in HD, as the police commissioner or with medic back in the day. Cant thank you enough! its been a real pleasure and you are a top bloke! good luck in your future endeavours and we hope to see you around! :)

feds fixed now ?

Just a suggestion and feel free to shoot it down - but now we are back in Sydney, it would be cool have the prison relocated back to its pre-wipe location. Further improvements would be: - An ATM outside for reformed criminals who serve their sentence to get money out to use the bus - if they dont get money out from inside prison before their timer is up, they are teleported outside and have no way of getting back. - Add Correctional facility to police bus stop to allow for police to get to the correctional facility faster to prevent break outs of jail (a few of us have tried doing prison guard RP and its been alot of fun ensuring that the prison is kept safe etc). - prison riot - if 4+ people are in jail, then they can trigger a prison riot - if the timer expires before police respond with non lethal force to break up the riot (e.g. 5 min timer etc) then all prisoners are teleported outside jail and broken out (instead of waiting out their 20-40 min sentences etc) - give medics the ability to walk into prison to revive downed convicts (instead of re-spawning and restarting their prison sentence) just another idea for the backlog of things

haha great pics!

Hey Smiddy, Blood diamonds do not need processing, instead you take them direct to the illegal dealer at the north most point of the map and sell them to the illegal dealer (30 civs must be online for the illegal dealer to open). Hope this helps!

Just wanted to wish all the community a happy holidays (Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Winter Solstice, Diwali, Chinese New Year and or what ever you may be celebrating) ? Been a crazy year but man has it been fun! Cheers!