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You note to not mention times LTs got publicly shamed on the forums yet are asking to call out LTs right now which will then publicly shame them on the forums lol.
Without derailing this thread more, LTs have absolutely been punished in multiple ways as zdeat has mentioned, over many years. It happens every now and then. No you won’t get names. That’s public shaming. It’s not meant to be a “HEY GUYS, THIS LT FUCKED UP!!!! LOL”. It’s “internal” affairs for a reason. 
Other APD staff can see when an LT gets slapped with something beyond a talk via their app (points, etc). Same with other APD staff in similar situations. That’s embarrassing enough of the time to not get them to do shit again since their peers take note of it. 

Effective Immediately
Prestige Weapons
Constable+ may now use any prestige weapon they can purchase from their normal cop weapon shop
 
Charges
The following is a clarification on the correct weapon to be charged
From
Possession of High Powered Rifle - (Zafirs, RPG-42, Mar-10, M320 LRR, Cyrus, .45, SPMG, Lynx, Type 115 .50 cal mags) $10,000
To
High Power Rifle Changes - Possession of Elite Weapons - (Zafirs, RPG-42, Mar-10, M320 LRR, Cyrus, Four Five, SPMG, Lynx, Type 115 .50 cal mags) $10,000

I'm going to start at what seems to be a perception or belief of the community about the Asylum development process.  You guys seem to think that I sit down at my computer and just add whatever I want to add and giggle when it fucks someone over.  I have been in this community since 2014 most of which obviously not as a dev, so I see where you're coming from but also it doesn't make any sense.  This last patch was entirely based around things that people wanted added to the server, QOL stuff, more combat stuff, etc etc etc.  There is no unilateral decision making when it comes to development on the server, everything is discussed with the SA's CMs, other devs, Rogue, COP, captains, Chiefs where applicable, and admins as a whole.  I am frankly quite irritated by the insinuations otherwise that we are just fucking around with code and then say, "Oh this looks good".  
Development has to be a private affair, where possible we will let you know when something is about to come out, however I know for a fact that other servers staff watches our patch notes, and are inside our community trying to steal content, ideas, and players.  I am not going to make that easier for them in any way, shape, or form.  
In regards to this actual list of complaints, I don't know if you just didn't actually read my post before becoming upset and deciding to write a response, or what.  But the exact same changes went into effect for the cop and civ trees, not to mention the fact that I extended how long the cop event takes to give the rebels time to counter and pay the rebels 500k for disabling it in the first place.  These events were never intended to be as easy to successfully complete than they were, so we changed that.  There is more stuff that we have plans for with these events and systems, so we wanted to change them now to see how it would work.  This decision had nothing to do with fucking you over, this was about improving a system that I made 4 months ago when I had no fucking clue what I was doing, to make it better and more able to build off of in the future.  
In terms of balance, everyone things they have the perfect solution, you post your complaints from your perspective, someone else posts it from there's, these interests are hardly ever going to line up, and at the end of the day we need to make a call.  Just because we're trying something that isn't 95% in your favor right now doesn't mean that A) it won't be changed in the future, or  that it is the wrong decision for the community as a whole.
Lastly, considering the previous state of development on here, and the development on other servers, we are more open and forthcoming than ever before.  If this was in other communities, you would have been banned from posting on patch notes with your posts deleted.  You have people volunteering their time, energy, and skills to make this place run, the overwhelming majority of whom are unpaid.  I really don't think it is too much to ask for to give us the benefit of the doubt that we aren't doing it maliciously, and that we are actively trying to better and save a community that we all love.  
If you have something that you think should be changed for the better, make a suggestion, I can't divine what people are upset about, but also give it a chance.  Don't read something, and without logging onto the server or giving it time to play out decide that it is fucked.  We are spending quite a lot of time making all of this stuff, writing the notes and responses, and patching the server.  Spend some time yourself seeing how it is before immediately telling us to fuck off.

W redesign

W redesign

We are currently talking over what we can add for Constables. One of the issues I have with the AK74U is it looks like a terrorist/rebel weapon. Not something that you would see a marked officer use. I also think we can find better options for Constables. I would like them to be able to use scopes. There are many fights where cops are at a disadvantage and having a few officers using iron sights would make it worse. If you have any other ideas post them in here or message me on discord. 

I'm not sure entirely where the disconnect is, tokens spawn on the floor, you have to pick them up.  The previous design was ridiculous, and it gatekept a lot of what we want to do going forward.  I have no doubt that we will have to increase the number of tokens spawned, but yes you have to split the rewards with other players.  It is the same as any other fed event, you need to share the rewards.  Yes you will need to team up with other players to successfully complete the event.  
While it was definitely cool to see everyone joining big groups to zerg the event, it was never intended to be able to have 40 people getting a tier at once.  As with everything we will continue to work to balance this and Nikolai's.  But it isn't as easy as just flipping a switch, no one way is going to please everybody.  I understand what you guys are thinking, but you get ~$4Mill, plus a bunch of tokens.  
TLDR: Yes, it was too easy to do successfully before, and we are doing this to allow us latitude to build off this framework in the future.

Hotfix 3:
Fixed the following:
Minigun boats not being seizable The sway coefficient resetting after dying (From Feb patch) Sui vest bug Drone spawns New drones not taking money on buying A bunch of ladders not working Added van spot on NUHQ Some markers for Nikolais National Gate timer 5 -> 7.5 mins Nikolais Civ Gate timer 5-> 7.5Mins Cop vault timer 5 -> 10 mins Reworked the Following: Prestiging
Changing the way that prestiging actually works on the back and front ends After a successful Nikolai's/NUHQ robbery, 2 of each token will spawn on the ground inside the vault With the token needed in your inventory, Decrypt the Drive at the laptop inside the vault This will start a 15 seconds process to decrypt the vault After completing this it will take your money, the token, and activate the tier rewards You can only decrypt one token each event You can drop them and give them to other people, but you cannot store them in a house or car. We are doing this so there is additional functionality behind this system in the future.  This is being included in a hotfix to see how it goes before additonal implementation. We are in no way attached to these numbers, if we need to spawn more then we'll spawn more.  Doing this to see how we need to change for the future

Hotfix #2:
Processor trucks despawning whilst processing (Somehow still broken) MXM mags not being at rebel Not being able to craft mags for m320 and lynx Being downed while using processing truck not doing anything  Type 115 .50 cal rounds not being able to be bought on s1 NUHQ cop reqs moved to 8 and 14 from 7 and 10 Rebels are now compensated via gold bars for securing Nikolai’s from the cops Battle-eye kick for certain scope

Got bored, made Athira look pretty. Kavala had a nice little revamp but since Athira changed to top of the spawn list, I figured it would be nice to have something new!
Thoughts?

Huge W, gotta put money into the community to keep it going and this is a fantastic way! Might mean a few less crates sold, but will mean a lot of happy players.

Edit, It appears the discord bot is killing itself and cant handle the amount of giveaways, so we are changing how to enter, 
In order to enter the giveaway, please like the original forum post, and make sure you have your player id linked to your forum account.

To link your PID, go to your forum profile, click edit profile in the top left, then fill in the PID box.




If you are logged into the forums via steam you do not need to do this.

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

Gang Wars again would be nice. I remember when I was tasked to stream it back in like 2017. That was a great time that saw 300-400 viewers which was insane even for that periods viewership. I wouldn't even mind helping out with that again with other streamers alike. First one that comes to mind is someone like @zdeatHim and I could be commentators. That was my role in that Gang War all the way back and it was super fun. With admins too and the owner. 

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Not only that but you need to some how market your product. I understand the game is dead. But there's still about 7,000-10,000 people that play Arma daily. There's still some hope to reach out to new people that've never played the server or even returning players to some degree. If you have a product that only relies on word of mouth to market, your product will never see the light of day. There needs to be someone who reaches out to content creators, streamers, etc. Some sort of plan. Maybe with a small budget to help promote the server with these creators. 

I've done the research as a successful creator myself and there's still hope with some specific streamers and youtubers that could possibly give the server a try. It's a slim chance, but making plans with these creators during an awesome server update with good timing could see GREAT results for people wanting to try it out. The Youtube scene for Arma 3 still gets great views, with a good bit still around entertaining Role Play-like videos. The Streaming scene still gets alright views with a few stand out streamers that do RP-like stuff. 

I'd love to work with upper staff to try to make this happen. I've been apart of Asylum for over 9 years now. I'm a creator that to some degree is bigger than 80% of the ARMA creators (400k on youtube, 500k on tiktok, almost 100 million total views over my career, etc). Let me be your leverage to try to help bring some eyes to your product here. I'm retired from the APD so I have all the time in the world to help focus up with marketing and everything with you guys. I cant escape this community. I come back every now and then. I'd love to make another appearance but this time make a difference with the whole server, rather than just the APD ♥️

I'm down to try if you are. @Rogue@HunterB@Akula

would be fun for all the gangs to attend too 

Gang Wars again would be nice. I remember when I was tasked to stream it back in like 2017. That was a great time that saw 300-400 viewers which was insane even for that periods viewership. I wouldn't even mind helping out with that again with other streamers alike. First one that comes to mind is someone like @zdeatHim and I could be commentators. That was my role in that Gang War all the way back and it was super fun. With admins too and the owner. 

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Not only that but you need to some how market your product. I understand the game is dead. But there's still about 7,000-10,000 people that play Arma daily. There's still some hope to reach out to new people that've never played the server or even returning players to some degree. If you have a product that only relies on word of mouth to market, your product will never see the light of day. There needs to be someone who reaches out to content creators, streamers, etc. Some sort of plan. Maybe with a small budget to help promote the server with these creators. 

I've done the research as a successful creator myself and there's still hope with some specific streamers and youtubers that could possibly give the server a try. It's a slim chance, but making plans with these creators during an awesome server update with good timing could see GREAT results for people wanting to try it out. The Youtube scene for Arma 3 still gets great views, with a good bit still around entertaining Role Play-like videos. The Streaming scene still gets alright views with a few stand out streamers that do RP-like stuff. 

I'd love to work with upper staff to try to make this happen. I've been apart of Asylum for over 9 years now. I'm a creator that to some degree is bigger than 80% of the ARMA creators (400k on youtube, 500k on tiktok, almost 100 million total views over my career, etc). Let me be your leverage to try to help bring some eyes to your product here. I'm retired from the APD so I have all the time in the world to help focus up with marketing and everything with you guys. I cant escape this community. I come back every now and then. I'd love to make another appearance but this time make a difference with the whole server, rather than just the APD ♥️

I'm down to try if you are. @Rogue@HunterB@Akula

Gang Wars again would be nice. I remember when I was tasked to stream it back in like 2017. That was a great time that saw 300-400 viewers which was insane even for that periods viewership. I wouldn't even mind helping out with that again with other streamers alike. First one that comes to mind is someone like @zdeatHim and I could be commentators. That was my role in that Gang War all the way back and it was super fun. With admins too and the owner. 

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Not only that but you need to some how market your product. I understand the game is dead. But there's still about 7,000-10,000 people that play Arma daily. There's still some hope to reach out to new people that've never played the server or even returning players to some degree. If you have a product that only relies on word of mouth to market, your product will never see the light of day. There needs to be someone who reaches out to content creators, streamers, etc. Some sort of plan. Maybe with a small budget to help promote the server with these creators. 

I've done the research as a successful creator myself and there's still hope with some specific streamers and youtubers that could possibly give the server a try. It's a slim chance, but making plans with these creators during an awesome server update with good timing could see GREAT results for people wanting to try it out. The Youtube scene for Arma 3 still gets great views, with a good bit still around entertaining Role Play-like videos. The Streaming scene still gets alright views with a few stand out streamers that do RP-like stuff. 

I'd love to work with upper staff to try to make this happen. I've been apart of Asylum for over 9 years now. I'm a creator that to some degree is bigger than 80% of the ARMA creators (400k on youtube, 500k on tiktok, almost 100 million total views over my career, etc). Let me be your leverage to try to help bring some eyes to your product here. I'm retired from the APD so I have all the time in the world to help focus up with marketing and everything with you guys. I cant escape this community. I come back every now and then. I'd love to make another appearance but this time make a difference with the whole server, rather than just the APD ♥️

I'm down to try if you are. @Rogue@HunterB@Akula

I'm on board with this. I appreciate the help. We can set up a meeting to talk over details. 👍

Gang Wars again would be nice. I remember when I was tasked to stream it back in like 2017. That was a great time that saw 300-400 viewers which was insane even for that periods viewership. I wouldn't even mind helping out with that again with other streamers alike. First one that comes to mind is someone like @zdeatHim and I could be commentators. That was my role in that Gang War all the way back and it was super fun. With admins too and the owner. 

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Not only that but you need to some how market your product. I understand the game is dead. But there's still about 7,000-10,000 people that play Arma daily. There's still some hope to reach out to new people that've never played the server or even returning players to some degree. If you have a product that only relies on word of mouth to market, your product will never see the light of day. There needs to be someone who reaches out to content creators, streamers, etc. Some sort of plan. Maybe with a small budget to help promote the server with these creators. 

I've done the research as a successful creator myself and there's still hope with some specific streamers and youtubers that could possibly give the server a try. It's a slim chance, but making plans with these creators during an awesome server update with good timing could see GREAT results for people wanting to try it out. The Youtube scene for Arma 3 still gets great views, with a good bit still around entertaining Role Play-like videos. The Streaming scene still gets alright views with a few stand out streamers that do RP-like stuff. 

I'd love to work with upper staff to try to make this happen. I've been apart of Asylum for over 9 years now. I'm a creator that to some degree is bigger than 80% of the ARMA creators (400k on youtube, 500k on tiktok, almost 100 million total views over my career, etc). Let me be your leverage to try to help bring some eyes to your product here. I'm retired from the APD so I have all the time in the world to help focus up with marketing and everything with you guys. I cant escape this community. I come back every now and then. I'd love to make another appearance but this time make a difference with the whole server, rather than just the APD ♥️

I'm down to try if you are. @Rogue@HunterB@Akula

Already got some gears moving in regards to this. He’s definitely one to look out for. I recall his distaste for Asylum yeaaaaarrrssss ago but maybe that’s changed since. You never know! We’ll have to see I guess 🙏🏼

I've tried this before and have brought it up to some of the SA's over the last year a few times. Doing something like this is a good start and doesnt technically require any budget if only giving in game items.
TLDR: Streamers get creator codes to allow new people or anyone to use a specific code in game. 
 
If anyone's interesting in more of what I talked about, here's the Doc I drafted.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lnGvxaz5uxP_Iwy5hHEjz5IypPcKGI3ZBcACXSKctj8