Mayhem

It comes with profound sadness that today Asylum looses a legend. Leady has decided to retire from his 7 years of distinguished service as a staff member. He is the longest running staff member to date, and his contribution, dedication and passion for this community will never be forgotten. 

I could never thank @Leady enough for teaching me the countless lessons over the years. He has been a consistent partner in crime and has always answered my calls for help. 
Take care in your retirement, and we will all forever be in debt to you.
 
Mitch 

EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY
Captains (Active or Retired) additional guidebook abilities:
Pass out weapons/equipment (excluding bipods and msxws) to any online player regardless of rank or faction
If the individual is an APD Officer, he/she must drop and seize the item(s) when the Captain leaves the server
Allow a civilian to keep contraband
Perform Cartel/Rebel Raids
All officers participating must execute the raid at the same time, including the Captain
Only 1 life per raid (unless revived) per officer
Raids may only be conducted every 30 minutes per individual location by the Captain
Captains may test new policies prior to implementation
The policy must have been presented to the Senior Admins for review and approval prior to testing in-game.
Retired Captains are no longer allowed to post on applications
 
To improve understanding and transparency within the community, these abilities are now written down and will be added to the guidebook. That being said, Captains MUST behave reasonably as they are the head of the APD. If you feel you have been wronged, in any form in or out of game, by an APD Captain, please submit a Captain Report via Internal Affairs. The Captain reports, active or retired, will now be handled directly by the Senior Admins.
If you have any questions or concerns please feel free to contact a Captain or Senior Admin.
   - The Senior Admins

It's with my pleasure to announce that I've appointed @HunterB as the new interm police Captain. Its my hope that a fresh pair of eyes will work to continue the APD's mission. Hunter will assume the captian role until a permanent replacement is selected. 
 
Mitch 

EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY
 
Effectively immediately APD Captain's are bound by the guidebook just as their subordinates are. Their conduct in game and out of game will be enforced by the guidebook. There is no one with an APD rank who should be considered above the guidebook or not required to follow the rules they are bound by as such.
 
- Mitch

Honest answer is that it just gets out of control very quickly, 

Spent hours dealing with the old quest system because none of the buffs were well thought out in how they interact with existing buffs/Perks. It was full of landmines that would randomly go off in the middle of the night.

Example
Random guy has crafting quest + Panagia. All of a sudden in the middle of the night he and his one friend are Taru + Hemmtt boxing items to black market making 10mil an hour because they can buy all the items needed for a hellcat for less than it sells at Black market. 
I deal with that and the very next day he and his friend are employing the exact same tactic but making 5mil/hr as he is now using a 20% chop shop quest to chop the vehicle instead of sell at BM
Adding random modifiers quickly gets out of control and has to be added in a thought out way. 

Add 10% increase to selling here and a 5% discount to buying there. Now you have someone who can buy meth for less than it sells and they stand at drug dealer buying and reselling for infinite money. (Bonus points if you do it while a loot crate bust is active)


We have something like 300 virtual items in the game all with a unique Sell/Buy/Seize value that has to interact with three different factions, hundreds of Quests, hundreds of talents/Prestige/Honor perks. Add in clothing/Vehicles/Chopshop/Crafting and you start to get an idea of how much time is spent just making a stupid google spreadsheet before you have even begun to make the actual perk system.

The obvious answer is you just start adding code that basically says "No matter the discount x item cannot be bought for less than y amount" which exists already on asylum. But to know X & Y you are literally still being forced to spreadsheet or make a good guess and hoping it works out down the road. I personally don't like putting these artificial invisible limits on things as it probably feels really bad as a player if they set out to complete two quests + gang fortress + Talents + honor talents thinking they will get instant lockpicking only to find out Patato thought of that and said no. (Its also not how i want to dev a sandbox game so you can actually do what i just said above and its very effective) so i dont really want to go adding another way of getting +10 lockpicking.

Say i add a whole tree of blood money perks but its all useless garbage like +1 repair kit then i just get flamed for adding something useless and it feels like a waste of my time. Imo its a better use of Dev time to explore one time use buffed items that you can unlock as a rebel IE spend x amount of blood money and you get a 20 weight Defib that is 90% faster at reviving but is consumed on use. (This will even have problems as im sure the AFD will be in my DM's malding that the civilians can do their job better than them.) This is all to say im not against doing these kind of tree's but its actually alot more brain power and time than just adding 10% here and 5% there.

Other Devs are free to disagree with this but 90% of the time its @Mayhemor myself dealing with the fallout of some ill-thought out buff that will just get the perk you grinded for nerfed into the ground

Lets just remove skiman. hes so corrupt

If you guys want, I can come back and show you real abuse.

Lets just remove skiman. hes so corrupt

Lets just remove skiman. hes so corrupt

Lets just remove skiman. hes so corrupt

Lets just remove skiman. hes so corrupt

Lets just remove skiman. hes so corrupt

Breaking News!!! IRS Agent Mayhem now being transferred over to INTERPOL to fight the Chinese!

i am not sure what was worse, your insult or your ping? Could be the fact whenever you die with your 500 ping you claim the person is hacking or abusing admin.

i am not sure what was worse, your insult or your ping? Could be the fact whenever you die with your 500 ping you claim the person is hacking or abusing admin.

Have you ever considered that your ping is causing your bullets to not register? Also you were warned to stop making posts such as this. Next time make a normal report. This will be considered your last warning Manhua

Have you ever considered that your ping is causing your bullets to not register? Also you were warned to stop making posts such as this. Next time make a normal report. This will be considered your last warning Manhua

Have you ever considered that your ping is causing your bullets to not register? Also you were warned to stop making posts such as this. Next time make a normal report. This will be considered your last warning Manhua

Have you ever considered that your ping is causing your bullets to not register? Also you were warned to stop making posts such as this. Next time make a normal report. This will be considered your last warning Manhua

APD got nothing to do with it. Its Mayhem and i systematically dismantling everything on your account until the debt is paid. and let me tell you the exchange rate on prestige/honor/civ XP to cash is not good.

Here is my advice.
I told you to make a report I have absolutely nothing to hide lol actually I didn't even use any admin tools yesterday period. But don't come to the forums making threats, This is your only chance and if these post's continue instead of following actual reporting procedures then you will find your posts needing to be approved by staff.


For your information I got a red chain twice last night, Out of my control. You should know exactly what that's like with your ping.


 

Bherky won't be able to do support requests after 9pm

that was absolutely fucking hilarious but why was i not top of the list when i removed all the Money? im offended but i appreciate the IRS tag in the vid

that was absolutely fucking hilarious but why was i not top of the list when i removed all the Money? im offended but i appreciate the IRS tag in the vid