Samperino

"It happened to me so it shouldn't be allowed." It's part of the risk. If there's nobody in jail, and you sit there sniping at cops for an hour, you're at risk of just getting sent to jail. If there's someone in jail, break them out and get them out of there. The longer you linger, the higher the risk.

So, out of curiosity. Did you understand the risk before or after your group initiated the prison break?

First of all maybe you can explain the whole situation and put yourself in the shoes of the officer at the time (welcome to 90% of IAs). Second of all, how on earth could you possibly know whether or not I personally did something about it? So you know that situations can get out of hand. You also know that if you feel you were wronged that you are to file an Internal Affairs report. You know that walking up to an officer in game and bitching about something isn’t going to achieve your desired outcome. Yes something was “done about it.”

I'm not giving you the answer you want to hear, so I'm dodging everything and not taking responsibility.

Well it seems like you're trying to hold this movement to "improve the APD" which to me seems like you just want a bigger challenge in combat situations. That's not going to happen. This isn't wasteland, this is Altis Life. The main objective of the APD is role play, not combat. Combat situations do require some combat awareness and strategy/leadership, but to an extent. If you're looking for a bigger challenge, it's not going to come from the APD, it will come from other gangs.

The APD is not an organized gang. Think of the APD as a very large pot of soup. There's a crap ton of ingredients and flavours, but there are some ingredients that just don't work in the soup. Sometimes you'll take a bite and it won't be very pleasant. Organized gangs, think of those like a really nice filet mignon. There's one ingredient, and it knows what it is. And it's a really good ingredient. The filet mignon will always be nicer than the large soup with a ton of ingredients in it. The arguments here are trying to assume that the APD is an organized gang, when it is not, and it never will be. What people are suggesting is for it to be run like one, and that can become dangerous.

Just get rid of the higher ups then. More complaints come in about higher ups than the Constables/Corporals. Just take a look at @Pizza Man, he complains about the medic prestige perks when he can't shoot someone point blank. Can you tell me what you mean by them being too powerful outside of the game? Unfortunately we'll just be going around in circles with this one.

The upper end of the APD is too powerful, and the lower end of the APD is not powerful enough. There is a big balance discrepancy. If there are a crew of Constables/Corporals on, a gang can usually pretty easily take them on. Throw a Lieutenant or two, maybe a Captain into the mix and that's when things start to get spicy and the complaints start rolling in.

Force retirement is bad. It pushes "promote quantity over quality" even further. What if there aren't any great candidates for the roles? Then we're promoting just to fill the numbers of the force retired.

Can you quote where you interpret this?

The suggestions & feedback section isn't really my domain but the APD is top heavy right now. Too much emphasis on the upper end, not enough on the lower end.

Yeah, my point is that there is always going to be politics no matter what system you have in place. You can't accurately measure "leadership" and "dedication", etc. It's all fairly subjective.

Badabing gave it to you

It's beginning already

Briefings. Deploy strict orders to officers (redeployment orders, give tasks, etc). Drones. MX 3GL. Hunters. Can authorize lethal ammunition. Ride alongs (VERY important). I think Sergeants are a good step up from Corporals to differentiate their rank. By the way, verbal warnings aren't to be fucked with. If you get a verbal warning, that's a red flag on your application that says "Bend me over and fuck me if I do something wrong again" to the Lieutenants who issue points. Sergeants are important for that kind of thing. People may find verbal warnings to be a joke, and that's totally fine, but don't come crying to us when you don't get your promotion, possibly due to it. I know you're probably joking, but Sergeants are not getting 7.62 rifles. This is my own personal opinion and does not reflect the opinion of anyone but myself: if it were up to me I would completely remove 7.62 rifles off the server.

Aren't all your attempts at shooting anything embarrassing?

Looks like April 21st, 2019 according to video date. @RoguePilot likes to hold on to videos to use at a convenient time. God knows what else he has on you, your sister, your mom, your dog, or your left pinkie toe. Be careful out there, soldier.

I’d like to see how whitelisted medics are before any balancing is done.

Alliance. Must be a gnome. Also EMFH OP.

It's a screenshot of a AH-99 Blackfoot in the editor.

Allow civilians to see their own individual charges. Maybe through a phone app, or allow us to open the wanted list and only see our name by default with no talents.