Austin Rogers The Original

Howdy Everyone!
We know it's been a wild couple of months here on Asylum.  We've made a lot of changes and are continuing to do so to enhance the Asylum experience.  As we look towards a better Asylum community, we want to thank all of our loyal players for sticking around to make this place what it is.  
In the last 10+ years we have had a lot of ups and downs, from dealing with the depths of the pandemic, to Turkish lawyers, and rough days at work, this community has always been a place for people to come together to be away from the outside world.  We just want to thank everyone for being a part of this crazy community we call Asylum.
In honor of this we are going to be running a slate of giveaways to reward all of you, all in all we are giving away $2,000+ of Asylum gold rewards, and $20 mill of in-game content.
They will be running for the next 2 weeks; you must be an active member of the server to be eligible to receive the rewards.
Must not be banned at the time of winning Must have been reasonably active on the server within the last 30 days at time of winning In order to enter the giveaway, please like this post, and make sure you have your player id linked to your forum account.
Asylum Gold Items:
2 Winners x 6 Months of Asylum Plus  4 Winners x 3 Months of Asylum Plus  15 Winners x 1 month of Asylum Plus  Donor levels (the value of that donor level gets added to your account) 1 Winner x Donor Level 8 1 Winner x Donor level 7 1 Winner x Donor level 6 1 Winner x Donor level 5 1 Winner x Donor level 4 1 Winner x Donor level 3 1 Winner x Donor level 2 1 Winner x Donor level 1 15 Winners x 10 crate keys of your choice 5 Winners x 2200 Asylum Gold 10 Winners x Camo bundle of your choosing 4 Winners x 25,000 Asylum Points
In Game Items:
2 Winners x Mar-10 2 Winners x SPMG 1 Winner x M320 LRR + MOS scope 1 Winner x lynx + MOS scope 2 Winners x Cyrus 10 Winners x Ifrit 5 Winners x 750k Cash 10 Winners x 100k Blood Money 3 Winners x Ghosthawk, civ, cop, or medic (rank doesn’t matter) 5 Winners x 1 next token of their choice 5 Winners x 50,000 prestige on cop 5 Winners x 25,000 honor 5 Winners x 25,000 Infamy Thank you all for being a part of this community, and good luck! 
-Asylum Staff

I got you @Fitz
Changed/Tweaked:
-Removed Zafir/Spar-16S from gun game
 
Excited to finally spend some of the money for more cop benefits

Id be interested to know if this is an actual Arma issue that cannot be fixed or if there is a potential workaround. As everyone knows its one of the most annoying parts of the game by far.

Id be interested to know if this is an actual Arma issue that cannot be fixed or if there is a potential workaround. As everyone knows its one of the most annoying parts of the game by far.

Tough to balance anything like this, I'll look at something to rectify it, but at the end of the day due to the low levels of actual happening, plus SGT+ can use drones to find them.  It will be added to the QOL backburner

fine a compromise, only have overeating if you try to consume food when your hunger is already at 100. anything below that don't do the overeating affect. I'm OCD and just want my shit to be at 100 and its annoying that if I eat tactical bacon when im at 90 or 95 hunger I can now nolonger sprint.

EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY
The APD is introducing the use of Armed Ghost-Hawks
Information below:
1.  Actively Seated Captain must be in the helicopter to ensure proper use of the armed Ghost-Hawk.
The armed Ghost-Hawk shall not be used to land officers into an active firefight.
2. Only one Armed Ghost-Hawk may be used at a time or:
In the event the APD lose control of an armed Ghost-Hawk, another may be dispatched to disable the stolen helicopter. A stolen armed Ghost-Hawk will take priority over everything until it is secured. Once the Ghost-Hawk is secured an Actively Seated Captain may issue one officer to pilot the stolen Ghost-Hawk back to an HQ, no other officers may occupy the Ghost-Hawk's gunner seats at that time.
3. Armed Ghost-Hawks shall only be used if cops are heavily outnumbered and/or are repeatedly responding to federal events with no reprieve.
 
 

Aaah yes, let's add the ability to launch an almost unstoppable bomb deployment method with no difficulty or counter play. 👍
Heck let's add a mortar strike killstreak that obliterates everything in a 100m radius for 1 mil a pop. 
 
For real though we have enough suicide vests already. No need to make it even easier. Current cops aren't capable of stopping ground based explosives as is. If you really wanna do this get a hummingbird with some rpg's and rain fire.... actually forget I said that. Don't do that.

Aaah yes, let's add the ability to launch an almost unstoppable bomb deployment method with no difficulty or counter play. 👍
Heck let's add a mortar strike killstreak that obliterates everything in a 100m radius for 1 mil a pop. 
 
For real though we have enough suicide vests already. No need to make it even easier. Current cops aren't capable of stopping ground based explosives as is. If you really wanna do this get a hummingbird with some rpg's and rain fire.... actually forget I said that. Don't do that.

Aaah yes, let's add the ability to launch an almost unstoppable bomb deployment method with no difficulty or counter play. 👍
Heck let's add a mortar strike killstreak that obliterates everything in a 100m radius for 1 mil a pop. 
 
For real though we have enough suicide vests already. No need to make it even easier. Current cops aren't capable of stopping ground based explosives as is. If you really wanna do this get a hummingbird with some rpg's and rain fire.... actually forget I said that. Don't do that.

Casino is back baby lets gooo!!!!

Casino is back baby lets gooo!!!!

Everyone please welcome @HunterB into the rank of senior admin
 
and congratulations to our newest support team member
@william
 
Thank you
- Asylum Staff

Added to exploiting
Shedding/unlipping vehicles into structures  Intentionally unflipping a vehicle into a structure/object or closing a door/gate to destroy a vehicle that doesn’t cause the death of another player shall now be considered exploiting. Intentionally soft logging after being revived/reviving another player to bypass the revive cooldown is considered an exploit

Officer Name: Austin Rogers
Player ID: 76561198041733604
Rank: Lieutenant
Application URL: 
 
Month(s) of Absence: September, 2023
Reason: Personal reasons, spoke with Captains

Effective Immediately
The Following Charges are NO LONGER STACKABLE
Weapon Trafficking - Now a $5,000 charge
This charge is applied when an Individual is in possession of 3 or more weapons that exceed the limit of Personal Use.
Possession of Federal Reserve Gold (Gold Bars) - Now a $15,000 charge
This charge is applied when an individual is in possession of gold bars
Money Laundering- Now a $10,000 charge
This charge is applied when an individual is in the possession of Banded Bank Notes
Policy regarding event vehicles
Any legal server spawned vehicle will have the following policy in place.
Shipping, Evidence, Mental, Jewelry vehicles are all standardized to
1 minute all clear to seize, or 3 minute APD control to drive to the nearest HQ.
Any Illegal server spawned vehicle will have the following policy in place.
Example - Jewelry/Shipping Minigun Quillin -
1 minute all clear to seize, or 3 minute APD control for an LT+ to drive to the nearest HQ.
APD VEHICLE Update 
The Marid has been replaced with the Marshal. The Marshal will follow all previous policy of the Marid.
CPL+  can Utilize the APD Rhib Boat which can be Purchased at Boat Shop (This falls under standard vehicle use policy)

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Most of the Devs have been quite busy as of late. Lots of things have happened in the background such as migrating everything to a new server. Our infrastructure has greatly improved. You may notice some unlisted changes as we continue to tweak them (Ping kicks).
Mostly a QOL/Server maintenance Patch this month. 
Added:
Bright Night Select night brightness via settings slider! Sheds Broken down sheds on the map have been repaired to full working order. (36 Total) We will be slowly introducing these new sheds via Give-Away (Join our discord), Asylum forum auction and random market seeding This is being done this way to ensure equal opportunity for shed ownership and as to not crash the shed market.  Owning sheds is now limited to 2 sheds. If you currently own more than 2 sheds you have until the 1st of November 2023 to sell sheds until you reach the 2 shed cap, after this date we will sell them for you until you reach the 2 shed cap. CCTV Security Camera's 50+ Camera's have been placed around the map and are accessible by scroll wheeling on any screen with the camera icon. Activatable by all factions Provide live feed in stunning 240p (or less) Note: PIP must be enabled in your client settings, Arma only allows a maximum of 6 PIP screens at anytime. @goyneyfor icon Ranked Based Pay (APD)
The APD is a profitable faction, but it's the higher-ups who primarily carry the risk and bear the heaviest costs. These adjustments are aimed at helping to balance out those expenses. We're also taking this opportunity to get rid of most of the stackable charges. In the past, being caught with gold bars or banded notes almost always meant serving time in prison. These changes give you the choice to either pay the charges or find ways to realistically RP the charges down to a payable leve. APD has undergone a financial restructure APD SGT/LT of the month cash reward removed (See APD policy update) No longer stackable charges (See APD policy update) Money Laundering $5,000 -> $10,000 Weapons Trafficking $1,000 -> $5,000  Possession of Reserve Gold $15,000 (unchanged) APD pay (per 5 min) Cadet  $500 -> $350 Constable $500  ->  $500 Corporal $500 -> $650 SGT $500 -> $800 LT/Captain $500 -> $1000 New Mobile HQ Layout - Thanks to @Hubschrauber for the help Mobile HQ Cost $40,000 -> $25,000 Default mobile HQ now has vehicle spawn. Prestige Upgrades as follow Default/Unlock Mobile HQ 40,000 -> 15,000 Prestige Lvl1: Adds Air Garage 75,000 -> 30,000 Prestige Lvl2: Adds Gates/Guard Shacks + Enhances walls with barbed wire. 45,000 -> 30,000 Prestige Lvl3: Adds two towers. 25,000 Prestige Are you an APD officer about to make a post? Keep reading!
Pick up animation New animation for picking up virtual items while prone. (You stay prone instead of exposing yourself) Painkillers Painkillers remove the fatigue after you have been revived Painkilllers DO NOT remove any revive cooldowns Health regen 1% of dmg healed every 5s -> 12s Illegal marker around Drug dealer/Wong's (30m) (See Rule update) CMR + Ammo can now be found in airdrops. Cadets now only count as half (0.5) when calculating officers required for federal event to start. Caesar BTT (Racing) is now available in the air shop Added Rhib to APD (Cpl+) AK-12U Arid/Lush
Changed:
Seize Prices
Hey you made it! Gold Bars $3,000 -> $5,000 Patient Remains $5,000 -> $8,000 Hope Jewel $3,000 -> $5,000 Unprocessed Cocaine $150 -> $175 Crank $450 -> $500 Raw Dog Meat $250 -> $400 Cooked Dog Meat $250 -> $500 Ephedra Plant $100 -> $150 LSD Pill $150 -> $175 Purified LSD Sheet $150 -> $450 Golden Wax $300 -> $500 Meth $400 -> $550 PCP Powder $150 -> $175 PCP Pill $200 -> $300 PCP Sheet $150 -> $450 Homebrew moonshine $100 -> $200 White Lightning $100 -> $550 Profiteer (APD talent line)
Keep Going! No Profiteer talents Money/prestige earned on arrest (Percentage of bounty) 65% -> 75% Profiteer 1 Now applies to seized vehicles (Ifrit/50cal ect.) 10% bonus Money/prestige earned on arrest (Percentage of bounty) 75% -> 80% 10% Bonus on seized illegal items (Unchanged) Profiteer 2 Now applies to seized vehicles (Ifrit/50cal ect.) 20% bonus Money/prestige earned on arrest (Percentage of bounty) 85% -> 90% 20% Bonus on seized illegal items (Unchanged) Profiteer 3 Now applies to seized vehicles (Ifrit/50cal ect.) 30% bonus 30% Bonus on seized illegal items (Unchanged) Cop to Civ Ratio logic Cleaned up to be easier to understand. TLDR: 7 cops allowed at anytime. After 25civs log in cops need to maintain 3.5:1 Ratio or better.  Graph visualizing the change Ammo Prices  Car-98 100Rnd mags $750 -> $1750 Spar-16 150Rnd mags $750 -> $1750 Refill Price on above $300 -> $500 Vehicle Mods Shield and Scope for the Offroad Armed (50 cal) is now a vehicle modification. I/V Global Elite (Cop cpl+) (Blood-bag while prone) 80,000 -> 65,000 Prestige Gang Boat will now target APD Helicopters Max House listing $4,999,999 -> $9,999,999 Reduced Gang Fortress house spawn prevention for active participants from 5000m -> 2000m Holding Cage to HW Patrol AFD can attend jury duty All DP Missions give 30% more pay. Governor candidate 30 day check. Custom Hexes/On screen kill notifications enabled by default  Existing players keep their existing settings (Apparently that's not obvious?)  Marid Swapped for Marshall Fixed:
APD Officers using banded notes instead of seizing them Mobile HQ being placed too close to Jewelry  Give Ticket bug using interaction menu. Civs now actually pay after a medic repairs their home.  Gathering while being downed. No longer stuck in jail if bounty is negative value. Putting Crank/Moonshine lab underwater or pushing it into zones. Put in vehicle action on aircraft carrier. Moved Mental Asylum bomb as to not block gate. Always being able to unflip vehicle from interaction menu. AFD Quests Removed:
Some unused code Some map objects who wouldn't behave  Some unused Map folders DOMINATION:
Removed weapon smokes from the shop. Removed AK-12/AK-12U Hotfix #1
Mobile HQ Gates not opening  Gang boat Air-defense not shooting down cops Firefighters not being able to pull out the firetruck (Too many firetrucks out already) Some sheds who think they should be for sale but are owned Fixed some titles (Lower case The/Of) @Ruffian Hotfix #2
Fixed RHIB cost Fixed login bonus grenade not being given. Fixed create gang not enough money message. Fixed vehicle mod skin change for cops. Fixed opening wanted menu on respawn screen. Fixed CMR mags not being able to be stored. Fixed titles & colors. Gang Skin system fixes. Hotfix #3
Added the new balaclavas (7),  bandannas (11) and caps (2) for Asylum Plus

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Falls under that logic imo, just don't think its bee updated to include the spar yet.

EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY
We will now grant ACTIVE seated captains the authority to take unconventional measures when dealing with heinous individuals/groups who consistently violate/disrupt the community. Captains will be allowed to exercise discretion/alternative methods outside of the guidebook to address misconduct ensuring a more effective/immediate response.
This is meant to encourage Captains to create an environment where lower-ranking officers can actively participate in an enjoyable experience. 
Captains will still be bound to the guidebook on these sections with zero leniency. 
Marid/Ghosthawk House Raiding Cartel Raiding Professionalism  
Captains actions can be subject to review via SAs for severe cases of misconduct and will be handled on a case by case basis.

2/6 so far on your hitlist

Suggestion: Blow up the C4 bomb on the bank or open the door of the house. Perhaps he needs many. It can only break open the door of the house and cannot obtain the items inside. So the mice have no place to hide.

Please join us in congratulating our newest moderators:
@Austin M

@Junker

@Niels

@Smurfyslaw
We have also added new support members:
@Hubschrauber
@Canna
Feel free to reach out to them for any assistance you may need.
 
- Asylum Staff

Totally agree!
I also suggest that when an APD member is caught cheating everyone of the same rank gets demoted for 1 week. If a Cadet gets caught cheating all Cadet weeks get reset. 
Let's make all the cheaters feel the pain by punishing everyone. They will feel empathy and see the error of their ways. 

I suggest Cadets don't count towards the number of cops online required for each Federal Event. Late night heists are being taken advantage of and spammed one after the other while each Constable has 2 Cadets tethered to them at a time. Cadets can't lethal, used zoom scopes, or even pull a hatch when they are killed and need to come back to the scene.
 
Thank you,
Moneyz 😎

Actually, I think we should add Flash bangs that can be launched from the grenade launcher off the MX. I think this could really help the APD.