Sandwich

Make the resident voice over guy do it. @Sandwich

EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY
 
 SWAT Commanders are changing how removal of SWAT with points goes. With this new policy update, we are aiming to keep current SWAT officers in check by changing the following.
CURRENT POLICY 
If an officer receives TWO or more points you are removed from SWAT.

CHANGES:
If an officer receives ANY point(s), SWAT Commanders are able to remove an officers SWAT Whitelisting at their discretion.  
 
If you have any questions or concerns on this change, please feel free to message one of the SWAT Commanders.

Lieutenant zdeat
Lieutenant Bush Tiger
Sergeant William (Bill)
 
Thanks,
The SWAT Commanders

Day 2,
I believe I have fully finished the first draft of the event Added some things here and there but didnt want to clutter the place with objects. Here are some screenshots that I took:

Castle Layout:
 

Sector 1:
 

Sector 2:
 

Sector 3:
 

Vault Area:
 

Office Vault:
 

Bunker Vaults:
 

Again this is a rough draft, let me know what should be changed and added.
Thanks!

Ill teach you how to spawn in those castle walls 🙂

This is the type of detail and info we are looking for in suggestions, great work.

May 10th
Expect the next score update no earlier than Sunday. In the meantime, I will keep you updated with standings.

This actually sounds pretty unique and genuinely fun. Would love to see where this idea can go. Great suggestion!

This event could be really cool. It could be a "for the people" event maybe. Completing it could set tax back to 0% for the session as a lil extra too.

Roleplay Scenario:

After a long few years of the Governors keeping taxes at a constant 15%, they have finally been able to afford a new castle in Oreokastro. Here lies the Governors new office where they keep all of their "hard earned" money they get from their outrageous taxes. After the Civilians of the Island hear of this purchase from the Governors, they are outraged and want to raid the Castle and take their tax dollars. The Governors have fortified the "Governors Castle" with members of the APD when needed, as well as a mine field around the castle. In order for the Rebels to get inside of the castle, and take back their tax dollars, they must first disable the computers that control the mine field sensors. After they've successfully disabled the mine field, they must next fight the APD that stands guard inside of the Castle. These cops are heavily armed with MK's and MX's and will fight to the death to defend the Castle. If the rebels are successful, their next job is to hack into the Governors vault that will give the rebels access to the Tax Dollars. Once the vault is open, rebels will have just a few minutes to get the money out before the vault re-locks. The money inside of the Governors Vault has dye packs in it, so the rebels will have to wait until those dye packs wear off to deposit the cash.
 
The Castle:
I'm not much of an editor myself, I am going to try and make something in the next few days that would look cool for this type of raid. As for the outside of the castle, I would like to see something that would be well defended by the APD inside of the event. Cops would get a notification just like the evidence lockup, that allows them to spawn inside of the Castle area. Once inside, they are given a randomized loadout that could give them MK's or MX's.
Rebels are not able to fly an Orca into the Castle because of the Governors concern for his safety and items inside of the office building. This would be secured by an AA turret of some sort. 
 
The Mine Field:
The Castle is heavily guarded by a mine field that secures the entire perimeter of the Governors Castle. To be able to enter the Castle area, rebels must be able to hack into the computer that controls the mine field. They will have 2 minutes to defend the mine field computer, if they are successful, rebels are able to drive into the castle area, and start attacking the police. 
 
Inside of the Castle:
To be able to get access to the vault doors, the rebels must first break down the doors to the office itself. This would require a crowbar and would take the rebels up to 2 minute to be able to get into the office. Once the rebels have access to the Governors Office Building, the rebels next job is going to be to open the highly secured and encrypted vault doors with a trojan USB at the computer in the front room of the office building. This process would take around 10 minutes to do and once the vault doors are open, rebels will now be able to use demo charges to blow open the vault doors [ Prison barracks building ] and take the Tax dollars inside of each room. There would be multiple stacks of money in each room so rebels would have to blow all the doors to get the biggest cut.
 
Payout:
Payout would be something like banks where rebels are given bank notes inside of the vaults. How much I haven't given enough thought about, and I'm sure with feedback from the community it could be decided, keeping in mind that 7+ cops are needed to start this event ( Same number needed to start a Mental. )
Completing this event would change the taxes back to 0% for the remainder of the restart.
 
APD:
APD Would get a notification once the rebels are hacking into the mine field computer and would have a chance to spawn inside of the Governors Castle. They are able to push out and attack the mine field computer, or stay inside of the castle area. Officers are also able to skip this part and spawn at Dump HQ to get their own gear or vehicles to attack the rebels from behind. 
The amount of officers needed would be 7+ for this event.
 
Changes to Governor:
With this new federal event, there would need to be a change to governors money ( Unless added and money is separate from how Gov works now. ) Instead of Governors being able to go to the office and claim money that has been sitting there since they last checked it, they would now get a paycheck at the end of their term for whatever their taxes were set at. The more rebels raid the Gov Castle, the less the Gov makes. With this in mind, if even possible, adding a notification over the governors head would be needed so that if the Gov is inside of the castle defending his money, he is not instantly downed / shot by APD. 
 
This is an extreme rough draft of what I had thought about from that last post that was moved into the discussion section of the forums. Give me some feedback and let me know if this is worth building something on and I could get the layout figured out!
 

We're making changes to resolve this.

To be fair if they didnt change it apd higher ups would be required to do 25 hours civ 25 hours cop if we wanted to keep our house taxes low.

Hotfix #1
Domination Added CSATs and Tactical Vest (Police) to SRT. House Tax: Playtime now counts for cop too. Changed the Highway HQ SWAT spawnpoint. Fixed an issue with granits in loadouts. Fixed Sofia HQ gate. Fixed police horns.

Glad to see the welcome screen and the new player search made it in ❤️

Glad to see the welcome screen and the new player search made it in ❤️

I believe the only thing we aren’t getting is nitro? @Sandwichwas testing it out and looping the rest of the CPTs in so he’d know what the APD have

Glad to see the welcome screen and the new player search made it in ❤️

Bunkers in sofia HQ are badass.

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Added:
Welcome Screen when loading into the server. Click "PLAY" to spawn in. New background@MyrtleDesign New Police HQ's Added Sofia HQ Closer to Sofia Underfunded & noob friendly, No deer stands and weak towers. Highway HQ Further south closer to federal events for faster response time. No Heli pad More entrances                  Credits to @Sandwich; )
Vehicle Modifications Changed the vehicle mod menu with more stuff! Added new vehicle mods: Hardened Locks: Takes longer for someone to lockpick your vehicle. Basic Locks Medium Locks Advanced Locks Nitrous Tracker Qilin/Prowler Doors New Asylum Plus skins: (preview) Pilot Coveralls (Quarantine) Pilot Coveralls (Ode to Mitch)                 Credits to @Kelly
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House Tax To minimize players holding onto houses without actually using them, we will be implementing a new tax system for houses. This system is intended to hold individuals more accountable that only log in to maintain possession of their houses, while having as minimal impact as possible on our active players. If you are finding it difficult to maintain your houses, it is recommended that you decrease the number of houses you own. Houses will still be removed after 30 Days of 0 activity regardless of tax payment (Unchanged) House Tax Scheme: After 10 days since your last house tax payment: You are able to pay the house tax. You can view and pay house tax using your phone -> Housing app. Day 31: House becomes overdue, you cannot use doors and inventory. Day 33: An extra 20% is charged per house. Day 35: House is put back on market. House Tax Prices The upkeep price of the house depends on: Playtime: Every 10 minutes, you get 10 minutes added to all of your owned houses at that time. The more you play the less you pay House type (1C, 2C, 3C, Garage, Shop, Shed). Total houses owned. Overdue or not Base upkeep cost (Per IRL Month, Per Building) Shed: $45,600 150k: $20,250 120k: $15,000 70k: $9,000 40k / Garage: $8,250 Playtime Discount/Penalty modifier chart: Visible Cartel Payouts Cartel payouts are now shown in one place on your gang bank statements. Money is added after the cartel changes ownership or before server restart.  Rebel Weapon Shop Car-95 Hex & Green Hex Variants Car-95GL + Variants AFD Equipment Nitro to shop Flare gun for Paramedic+ New Billboard Texture APD Federal Event notification. Show if a player is new to the server when searching them. Quests & Title Chop 25 Orca's - "Shamu" Title + $10,000 Pay $500,000 in property taxes - "Tax Man" Title + 2 RPG Rockets More Titles  Hell Taker, Achieve a current war rating of 7,500 Almighty, Achieve a current war rating of 10,000 Tormentor, Achieve a current war rating of 15,000 Tyrant, Achieve a current war rating of 20,000 Angel Of Death, Achieve a current war rating of 25,000 Changed:
@Mitch (IFRIT) Farm & RV Modification Centre After retiring from owner of Asylum, Mitch purchased a piece of land where he spends his days working tirelessly from sunrise to sunset. However, the soil on his property is in poor condition and doesn't yield many crops. As a result, he decided to pursue a more lucrative business by selling used tractors and modifying old RVs to cook and sell crank and moonshine. This conveniently located farm is close to the new Highway HQ allowing stranded citizens to get a new ride when those APD officers won't lend you a quad to get home.  Moved Sofia RV shop Small changes to Jewelry Emporium van locations to make them more defendable by civs. Gang Boat can be used after 10 minutes of winning it. Bounty Hunter Arrest cap $175,000 -> $250,000 Qilin (Armed) price $85,000 -> $90,000 Crafting Added Car-98 Car-98 Mags Rahim Mags Ak-12 Lush & Arid Variants Changed Cash to craft frit $90,000 -> $80,000 Rahim unprocessed cocaine 13 -> 10 Katiba Opium 12 -> 8 AK-12 Uncut Diamonds 4 -> 3 Lowered Mental deer stands. AFD Federal Event notification. Moved Medic Request button and added Yes/No confirmation. Performance optimizations for main server and domination. Many titles had "The" removed from in front of them Fixed:
Some Gang Boat objects moving around. Not being able to gather oysters in a specific area. Blue Evidence Locker polygon will no longer be drawn when domination is active. Vehicle inventory being in use when it is not. Check in to Rehab action not having the correct radius. Not being able to go out of Passive Mode while having a bounty. A rare memory leak. Storing tanker helmet in houses. Being able to glitch out of prison after a court session. Lucky Bastard title not working. Removed:
Some unused map objects and wrecks.  
DOMINATION:
Respawn cooldown  2 minutes -> 1 minute Added Vehicle Garage to flags when owned. SRT Kill unlocks SPAR-16 16 -> 5 MX 25 -> 10 MXM 35 -> 25 *New* "Touch Grass" title: 1000 Fixed incorrect notifications when unlocking weapons (SRT) Fixed some items not charged in loadouts.  
Hotfix #1
Domination Added CSATs and Tactical Vest (Police) to SRT. House Tax: Playtime now counts for cop too. Changed the Highway HQ SWAT spawnpoint. Fixed an issue with granits in loadouts. Fixed Sofia HQ gate. Fixed police horns. Hotfix #2
Welcome UI fixes for some monitors. CSAT not charged in loadouts for SRT. Changed spawn rate of Medical Airdrop. Not being able to sell the Vehicle Airdrop at Chop Shop. Hotfix #3
Added Wreck Excavator inventory full sound. Added Dump HQ for firefighters. Changed Highway Patrol HQ to original location. Fixed: SRT pulled vehicles still showing in garage. Prison Break being able to be stopped multiple times. Floats in some inputs. AK-12 (Arid) not being able to be stored in houses. Flare ammo in loadouts for AFD. AFD hose exploiting Some titles with wrong text. Oyster Field incorrect gather range. Getting out of vehicles while downed. HW HQ arrest/seize range. Hotfix #4
Fixed skiptracer bonus calculation due to the new arrest cap.

Event Description
 
Welcome to the May Community Event, this event will be base on capturing cartels!  Gangs will be competing against rival gangs to see who can get the most points.  We have heard your plea's for better rewards and looking back on previous events it was clear the amount of money and resources spent far outweighed the possible winnings, so we made sure to make it worthwhile this time around and for the rest of the community events!
 The event will start on 5/6/2023 at 12:01 AM EST and end on 5/31/2023 at 11:59 PM EST
*Disclaimer*  Event may be pushed back a week due to complications *Disclaimer*
 
Rules
 
- Cartels captured will award points to the gang who captures it, Oil Cartel and Wong's Triad will be worth 1 point, Arms Dealer and Drug Cartel will be worth 2 points, and the Cartel Capture Point event will be worth 4 points.
- If your gang owns a cartel, you are not allowed to have someone leave gang and make a new one just to down cap a small percentage for the original owners to capture it again for free points, this also applies to having friends in other gangs.
- People can sign their gang up with the link below, please only have 1 person from each gang sign up.  Sign ups will end on 5/5/2023 11:59 PM EST
 
Rewards
1st Place Gang:  $20 Million Gang Bank Funds, 25 Ifrits Gang Garage
2nd Place Gang:  $15 Million Gang Bank Funds, 20 Ifrits Gang Garage
3rd Place Gang:  $10 Million Gang Bank Funds, 15 Ifrits Gang Garage
 
Registration
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc_PolNVL-Dg8bfYIDcuAwrl6P32HcJ9AiIHUQgrGxeZzpouQ/viewform

When someone speaks, there should be something that shows that they are the one talking, right now the only way of knowing who is talking is if you know their voice or you see their mouth move ingame (can be hard when you are surrounded by a bunch of people and they have a mask on / they only talk for 2 seconds)
My suggestion is to either add a microphone above someones head when they talk, or change the color of their name when talking in direct chat

To give a response to this for now, we are internally discussing the matter explained and looking at the best option to resolve this issue.

Hmm i remember that a bit different.
Included a few more N words and trying to hide scripter money

This is mainly a coniuation for SRT getting better personal protect such as CSATS and Granite's that can be found here: 

The conversation's main focus led to this post being made and that adjustments needed to be made. The armor that we currently have is insufficient, with a simple one-bullet leg shot doing the average SRT enjoyer in. This does not help because most SRT members use 5.56mm and 6.5mm. The last comment mentioned on the previous thread stated, "Adding Granite B's/CSAT/Pilot coveralls for SRT has been an ongoing conversation for some time that we have yet to reach a consensus on." So let's end that debate here with a poll!
Other solutions have been voiced in TS and on the forums, so I'll start the list of what has been suggested thus far. As always, new input from everyone is greatly appreciated.
Allow SRT to have CSATS/Granite Bs as an additional payment option. Normally, each respawn will cost you 5k. Make it so that it is increased to 10K as an option to use extra protection to balance. (Personally, not a fan of this since an uncap is 20k already, and depending on the type of day you're having, it will be more of a loss than it's worth.) Allow SRT to UNLOCK CSATS/Granite B at around 50 kills. This way, you'll spawn with the usual SRT default gear and change it out later at the vendor with no additional cost. There are others that I'm clearly forgetting, but this is an excellent vehicle to work with regarding this conversation and possible solutions. I would also like to hear from a developer perspective as well so that I can get more of an understanding of the tech side of things. Thanks for reading if you did!