Mithridates VI Eupator

we are aware of domination payouts not working correctly 

your gang is getting your cut from the payout, 

it is on you guys to go to your gang and get your cut

we're working on a fix and until then you will need to get your cut from your gangmates

We "think" this is happening due to players joining gangs after event has started , do your best to join before event

EDITED TO PROPERLY EXPLAIN WHATS HAPPENING

yeah we all got our problems bud, you're dealing with obesity aka addiction to food.. If you ever wanna talk man i get it, u wanna get your anger out and the way you do it is by being toxic via asylum. i feel sorry for you 

yeah we all got our problems bud, you're dealing with obesity aka addiction to food.. If you ever wanna talk man i get it, u wanna get your anger out and the way you do it is by being toxic via asylum. i feel sorry for you 

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I STILL READ THESE DEAD TOPICS!!
It definitely need to be reworked. I thought that slick could have been working on it however he just retired shortly after replying here.
Just keep voicing your opinion, it's one of the only ways you can make things happen.

this is why i been saying we need a civ rep for gangs and 1 for cops or a cm that is in touch with everyone and knows what is going on and what is wrong.
for 50’s on dom it’s so easy. just make it cost money to pull out. easy
overall i dont think it was a bad update tho

Why would you remove literally the BEST thing that has ever be added to the server?
Also ONLY 5 mins to get to the mental remains? You do realize half the time they spawn next to the APD HQ and people need to go to rebel to pull ifrits and get more mags.
The mental remains is meant as a reward for winning the Asylum not for the cops to wait for it.
Stupidest thing I have ever seen in my entire life.
Why did you disable .50 cals on the dom server? 
You are touching things that you have no knowledge of and are clueless on the subject.
I appreciate yall wanting to help out BUT THIS IS NOT A STEP IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION

great mini update! Looking forward to what is to come.

RELAX, it's friday, people are probably having real life fun 

Can’t forget the days where you would play CQC for 10 hours straight to warm up for pushing tower drug.

So, yeah, at least we have dom. despite me not making it to most of them they've been an absolute blast and it's apparent that it's been succesful. come on for gods sake most of the top 10 of the my asylum leaderboards don't even play altis life. It attracts alot of people. not much content like this is created anymore. 
Pertaining to the cartel income situation on altis life #1, general consensus is that everythings kinda nerfed. and it's probably somewhat true that the massive amount of different ways to make money somewhat cripple cartels. I guess i'm just gonna have to try to make it to dom so i can be rich like all these other doods
 

This is my viewpoint, and is mostly subjective. 
The whole economy is pretty fucked. Fed. events and domination are the only money making source that is worth your time if you have a half decent team.
Cartels are dead at the moment and the idea of raising the money that you earn from cartels isn't a bad idea. The only problem I see with this is that the server will (and has) become a "pvp" server fewer and fewer people doing money runs. (excluding newer players and people with great houses). 
The dynamic of the server has changed from what I have seen, changing from a "make money/do runs to fight/pvp" to a "fight/pvp to make money".
People have gotten used to being able to fight fed. events and domination to make their money that if we ever were to go back to how it was before when people ran drugs to buy their loadouts it would have a shitload of community backlash. 
There have been adjustments from what I have seen to try and combat this (not sure this is 100% correct), like reducing the amount of gold bars in the fed. reserve, but even if there weren't any federal events, domination still rakes in an absolute shitload of money.
I'm not against making money off of domination at all, its great, it allows me to have fun and spend my money freely, but it removes the need for people to run money on the main server and that takes away a huge aspect of the server. 

almost all of the people who slammed this post are in city gangs. In all of my years on this server i've only seen them push cartel a handful of times and everytime they get wiped. It's no secret all of these gangs are responsible for many noobs going over to olympus. they're even more toxic in game. They come on these forums and act like they're hot shit literally everything that may be good or is of substance on this website gets shit on by them as well. if you go back and read the older topics on here, you'll see what I'm talking about. They raid and de-rail genuine topics, especially ones that have nothing to do with them IE cartels.
These are the same people who i see on here all the time usually in kavala. They're so invested yet it's almost as if they want the server to die.(look at their donor levels too 

KEEP IN mind, that this topic is specifically about CARTEL INCOME and not ifrits. the price of ifrits compared to the overall payout from cartels is one example of the many that's making the cartel scene feel unrewarding. also keep in mind that i am talking about the main server. we all know dom is amazing but a lot of people just can't make it to dom with their schedules.

we have completely bogus cartel payouts, drugs getting nerfed made it worse, and now ifrits are twice the price they once were. I'm starting to see the negative effects of this imbalancing. full teams without any ifrits, especially lower skill gangs just get wiped. even when the skill ratio is a lot more balanced you're still at a significant disadvantage without ifrits.

you never post more than a sentence in any of your posts on these forums. doesn't surprise me that you're incapable of reading ONE paragraph. why don't you just deactivate your account at this point... 
I'm never going to stop caring about the progression of this server, so you might as well just stop reading my posts.
It's not even that there's not enough, there are still plenty of ifrits being driven around, but they're all being manned by the richest gangs while lower tier gangs are having to fight them with hatchbacks and quilins. see the difference?

Its funny because half the people who commented on this thread are against the cartel buff and they actually don't take cartels themselves. You guys can keep saying the same shit of oh "Your a rat" or "the server is dead why bother" then what's the point of commenting on this thread or even keeping the server up? I'm here to make suggestions not ridicule the player base.

Maybe add a "said amount" to gang account after every 5 minutes or something. Sometimes taking cartels doesn't payout the price especially if you were to lose an Ifrit (Rn there's more of an incentive to take the ifrit and chop it over staying and taking the cartel)

we have completely bogus cartel payouts, drugs getting nerfed made it worse, and now ifrits are twice the price they once were. I'm starting to see the negative effects of this imbalancing. full teams without any ifrits, especially lower skill gangs just get wiped. even when the skill ratio is a lot more balanced you're still at a significant disadvantage without ifrits.

I agree. I just think that cartels should be buffed and Ifrits should stay the same.

we have completely bogus cartel payouts, drugs getting nerfed made it worse, and now ifrits are twice the price they once were. I'm starting to see the negative effects of this imbalancing. full teams without any ifrits, especially lower skill gangs just get wiped. even when the skill ratio is a lot more balanced you're still at a significant disadvantage without ifrits.

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I STILL READ THESE DEAD TOPICS!!
It definitely need to be reworked. I thought that slick could have been working on it however he just retired shortly after replying here.
Just keep voicing your opinion, it's one of the only ways you can make things happen.

What I got from your post is that you want to add something to cities to make them more popular, and then made a point about how the map is so cluttered with stuff that it's confusing for a new player to navigate. I think we can see how those two points contradict each other.
I think that a good idea for both reducing map clutter and promoting more interaction between players is reducing the amount of legal and illegal activities there are for civilians to do. Right now, and this is just going as far as illegal activities, we have LSD, weed (in multiple forms), cocaine, heroin, meth, drug runner airfields, drug runner ports, alcohol (in multiple forms), black market production, oysters, turfs, cartels, rebel outposts, sea turtles, and uranium. There are at least 15 separate activities for people to make money and spend money illegally on the server, and that's not counting federal events or drug dealers/wong's/warlords. As far as legal activities go, you can easily double that amount if we count every single mine, skiptracer, shipwreck, etc. While a large and diverse amount of activities for the server population to explore and participate in is not inherently a bad thing, that's a lot of activities for even a healthy population number, let alone the one we're currently stuck with.
As an alternative which doesn't help reduce map clutter, I think that there should be a small city placed in the northwestern part of the map, or a large one in the midwestern part of the map. The great thing about the illegal activities like meth, heroin, and cocaine, is that their main running route is located near or through cities, making them highly (at least formerly) contested by both cops and civilians, while LSD and Spirit Distillery are unbelievably annoying and tedious to get to as a civilian and are something I've never seen a cop patrol other than myself.

A few suggestions that came to me while playing,
Many have said this before me, but it is worth saying again... the cities need to be made more attractive. What I mean is new players log in, spawn in kavala, pyrgos, athira, and are met with little to no contact. A couple people running around town or rebels going thru in a hatchback but that's it. APD is typically chasing down a high bounty and almost always working in a wolf-pack type system. Recently I have been patrolling kavala with the APD and have seen the impact of low population, and the massive and expansive map. Developers and leadership may want to considering dialing things back, and creating a more role-play and interaction map where cities are the social hubs they once were. Maybe even a couple illegal buildings ? I'm not really sure what needs to be added specifically, but I feel like the cities are being forgot about a bit. Let me remind you what a new player sees when they open their map:
 
New players in an altis life server expect to have some interaction/roleplay, and I feel like that just is not the norm anymore. I hope this sparks some thought and I welcome anyone to give constructive criticism or maybe even an idea on how we can change this? 
Thanks