Sandwich

Vehicles are not being touched is what I’ve been told. Everything else is fair game 

Officer Name: Austin. M
Player ID: 76561198062406670
Rank: Lt
Application URL: 
 
Month(s) of Absence: March
Reason: Personal reasons, spoke with Jr.

Approved, good luck and see you next month!

Great work guys. Monthly Events like this to some degree will be a great thing to see. 🔥

Excited for this hopefully we get some fun fights

APD Cadet Entry Video [COMPETITION]
ENDS: March 31st at 11:59pm PST
Hello everyone! We're looking for an updated Cadet Entry Video to give Cadets after they pass their interview. We wanted to make things fun and turn it into a friendly competition with prizes. 
Overview:
Any Constable or higher will be able to produce a Cadet Entry video meant to be given to the Cadet upon passing their interview. This video is meant to briefly, within 10 minutes or so, give the Cadet an overview of the APD, the DOs and DONTs, helpful tips and tricks, and whatever else you think a Cadet could find useful if they just passed their interview and joined the APD! Be creative and have fun with it!
How to win:
-There can only be 1 winner. That's whoever produced the video. Only APD Officers Constable+ can be eligible for the reward. (Retired officers of the current rank Cpl+ can also participate) 
-A winning video will be the most creative, fun, and thought out video submitted to the Google Form below via unlisted youtube video. 
-You can use whoever you want in the video. Civilians, Medics, Cadets, Constables, APD Staff, etc. Even Captains. Just keep in mind APD Staff cant always be free so please be weary of their availability. 
PRIZES:
-1 Year of Discord Nitro from @Rogue
-$50 Cash via Paypal, CashApp, Venmo, etc from me @Sandwich
Please keep your video around 10 minutes in duration.
Please submit your videos using this Google Form!
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSedlyIlbb4p9qxTEwXKkcJpVtO_BwhzIniWIgjOzIn8QApbXw/viewform?usp=sf_link

I have been given the go ahead to build and lead a team of Designers for Asylum.
I am looking for anyone who is interested in contributing cosmetic content to the server in hopes to compete with the current higher volume of cosmetics that other life severs have. However, this doesn't mean standards will be set low.
We will be working with the Development team to provide any graphic requirements that they may have, such as icons or billboards, as well as working on cosmetics for players including clothing and vehicle textures which will be priority.
I am willing to help those who want to learn, but I won't spoon feed.
Please send me a DM on Discord if you are interested and we can discuss further.
goyney#8564
 

Great work guys. Monthly Events like this to some degree will be a great thing to see. 🔥

APD Cadet Entry Video [COMPETITION]
ENDS: March 31st at 11:59pm PST
Hello everyone! We're looking for an updated Cadet Entry Video to give Cadets after they pass their interview. We wanted to make things fun and turn it into a friendly competition with prizes. 
Overview:
Any Constable or higher will be able to produce a Cadet Entry video meant to be given to the Cadet upon passing their interview. This video is meant to briefly, within 10 minutes or so, give the Cadet an overview of the APD, the DOs and DONTs, helpful tips and tricks, and whatever else you think a Cadet could find useful if they just passed their interview and joined the APD! Be creative and have fun with it!
How to win:
-There can only be 1 winner. That's whoever produced the video. Only APD Officers Constable+ can be eligible for the reward. (Retired officers of the current rank Cpl+ can also participate) 
-A winning video will be the most creative, fun, and thought out video submitted to the Google Form below via unlisted youtube video. 
-You can use whoever you want in the video. Civilians, Medics, Cadets, Constables, APD Staff, etc. Even Captains. Just keep in mind APD Staff cant always be free so please be weary of their availability. 
PRIZES:
-1 Year of Discord Nitro from @Rogue
-$50 Cash via Paypal, CashApp, Venmo, etc from me @Sandwich
Please keep your video around 10 minutes in duration.
Please submit your videos using this Google Form!
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSedlyIlbb4p9qxTEwXKkcJpVtO_BwhzIniWIgjOzIn8QApbXw/viewform?usp=sf_link

Great work guys. Monthly Events like this to some degree will be a great thing to see. 🔥

Community Challenge
 
This is going to be the first community challenge Asylum will receive. We want to try and start giving community challenges at the beginning of every month for you guys to grind for. If your gang comes out on top for the monthly challenges you will receive rewards such as Crate Keys, In-game currency, rare/expensive vehicles that may not even be purchasable in game as well as skins and titles that only the winners of these events will be able to obtain. While we run these events we want you guys to give feed back on things that you all believe would make these events better. This is new, so things will need tweaking and we want the community as a whole to help make it as fun as possible.
 
Event Description
 
The first challenge will be the gang that raises the most gang funds from federal event activities (Evidence Lock Up, Mental Asylum, Federal Reserve, Bank of Altis, Jewelry Emporium, Shipping Robbery) at the end of the month (March 31) wins the event. Money that is put into gang funds will be tracked. The money may only come from federal events, anything else and it will not count towards the challenge. For the duration of this event APD equipment will be reduced by 50% during all federal events.
 
Rewards
 
-10 crate Keys
-5 ifrits added to gang garage
-5m added to gang funds
These rewards will be given to gang leaders to distribute out. The winning gang will need to msg me the player IDs of the people he/she chooses to get the keys.
 
Rules
 
-Only one person from each gang needs to register the gang
-Money from anything other then Federal events will be looked over
-You must register your gang by (3/9/2023) and on (3/10/2023) money will start being tracked.
 
Registration
 
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfJ2UOIwxJcWCrANk0HLeXFVKsRhBtBrxkzhN8rzYAlX--WoA/viewform

APD Cadet Entry Video [COMPETITION]
ENDS: March 31st at 11:59pm PST
Hello everyone! We're looking for an updated Cadet Entry Video to give Cadets after they pass their interview. We wanted to make things fun and turn it into a friendly competition with prizes. 
Overview:
Any Constable or higher will be able to produce a Cadet Entry video meant to be given to the Cadet upon passing their interview. This video is meant to briefly, within 10 minutes or so, give the Cadet an overview of the APD, the DOs and DONTs, helpful tips and tricks, and whatever else you think a Cadet could find useful if they just passed their interview and joined the APD! Be creative and have fun with it!
How to win:
-There can only be 1 winner. That's whoever produced the video. Only APD Officers Constable+ can be eligible for the reward. (Retired officers of the current rank Cpl+ can also participate) 
-A winning video will be the most creative, fun, and thought out video submitted to the Google Form below via unlisted youtube video. 
-You can use whoever you want in the video. Civilians, Medics, Cadets, Constables, APD Staff, etc. Even Captains. Just keep in mind APD Staff cant always be free so please be weary of their availability. 
PRIZES:
-1 Year of Discord Nitro from @Rogue
-$50 Cash via Paypal, CashApp, Venmo, etc from me @Sandwich
Please keep your video around 10 minutes in duration.
Please submit your videos using this Google Form!
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSedlyIlbb4p9qxTEwXKkcJpVtO_BwhzIniWIgjOzIn8QApbXw/viewform?usp=sf_link

Nice images,
 
I like the idea tho don't see why not

Was thinking about the Tempest and how OP it is for certain thing.  What if we add in other vehicles that would be able to do the same thing for more legal activities like mining, or excavation.
Hemmt Flatbed for mining
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and maybe Tempest Fuel for excavating, 

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or maybe Zamak Ammo/Tempest Repair for metal detecting.

 

 
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Would also be cool if there were other processors (Maybe one like purification) that you could get one big process going for the trucks inventory. (Legal things though) Maybe a special license that you would need to buy for like 50k or something to be able to do all of it at once.

New players under 8 hours of playtime pay only 300 dollars

You are not supposed to keep the quilin, we might look into one of both options above

I don't see any issues with this being and staying an admin hosted event, we can even throw in some development help for hosting them but having this as a solely managed item by the APD isn't going to work for us unfortunatly

Hotfix #4
Changed the crafting recipe for the Hatchback, Offroad and SUV.

Please join us in congratulating @Zurph and @King into our newest role of event coordinator, they'll be working along side the admin team to help with old and new admin events in the near future.
 
 
Also welcome our newest contributor:
@Solar
 
 
- Asylum Staff

Most of my disdain for the convoy event comes from having hosted it a number of times as an Admin event. I tried it long before I ever became a contributor and have tried it since becoming a dev. @Gen. Henry ArnoldEven had a script at one time for it

I want to list out the issues I faced and the solutions I came up with, as in theory it seems like a simple event. Convoy V1 Spawn a few vehicles put some gold/guns in a truck. Gather up APD officers and have them drive around for a bit. Send out admin message with their location/route.
Admin Issues
I was Banning 2-3 people per event for VDM. A single bad actor with a drug runner plane completely destroys the event meaning i had to manually re-spawn what was lost or restart the event. Accidental VDM. (It does happen, lots of vehicles moving) Convoy would constantly De-sync and explode APD officers seemed to struggle with the fact that it was meant to be an event and drove past any conflict they possibly could. Very rarely would they even drop out of the armor on any threat. TLDR Just a major disconnect between what I expected from the APD. (Staying in a semi realistic formation until attacked, RPing unloading the convoy goods. Dropping on threats.) Its fair because they wanted to "Win" but using the most optimal arma 3 strategy for convoying often isn't the most fun for Civs. 

  Dev Issues
The trouble I have is automating it to where APD can run it themselves without an Admin present as I faced the following challenges,
It was a lot of "Dungeon Mastering", Often the convoy wouldn't be attacked or would only be attacked by a single guy with an RPG/Suicide vest. So I was having to spawn gear and essentially TP rebels and organize the ambush myself. This could be solved by some sort of OPT in (Like pressing 9 for battle royale) spawn  civs in a known location the convoy is going. give them some gear and toss them all in a group together. The civs will still shoot each other because red = dead and War rating is #1 but good enough i guess Dungeon Mastering continued.... I was constantly destroying the convoy's tires/creating object road blocks to slow the convoy down so they wouldn't just drive past everyone.  This is fixed by locations the convoy must go to and having them sit in a radius for a set amount of time. Thus giving the chance for rebels to ambush/attack Also giving all Civs the location of the main convoy vehicle via updating map marker Randomly giving the convoy vehicle a flat tire a few times 🙂 Suicide Vests/RPGs In V1 i had rules like no suicide vesting or else the loot would be destroyed. Naturally the event is pretty lame when a hatchback sport pulls up beside the vehicle and just detonates a vest and we all go home.  (This rule didn't stop rebels as they didn't care about the loot they just wanted to kill cops). So then it became a rule that you couldn't use a suicide vest on the convoy at all and every single time someone would still vest it/VDM. Obviously the answer is "Ban them" but the damage is done. The event was disrupted, my time was wasted. APD time wasted and now we just have one more banned player not playing the game. This could be solved by disabling RPG's/suicide vests during the event (100% guaranteed i wont fuck this up and no bugs will happen ;3)  Opportunistic Rebels  The second you do this event a opportunistic group would would immediately do the highest value federal event they could knowing officers wouldn't respond. This is obviously easy to deal with as i just began disabling federal events. It led to alot of salty DM's in my discord because i was "Ruining Rebels fun" whatever that means. Eventually i started re-routing the convoys to the federal events because i wasn't about to let the rebels win a full fed without any resistance. Which would then lead to accusations of "Spawning in gear for my friends so they could win the federal event"  Again not that big of a deal, disabled starting federal events while convoy event is happening. Disable my Dm's Un Co-operative cops i would often run the event and it was.... difficult to coordinate the APD. Often I would run the event with an  LT/Captain. Id be busy spamming commands in the console and setting up rebels while the LT/Captain would try to push a rope getting officers to listen. Inevitably the APD is about as coordinated as a drunk toddler and often the "Feeling" of the convoy was lost. Often APD officers would opt to not get in the shiny vehicle I gave them, instead preferring to take the most random UC vehicle in an attempt to "Get free frags" on unsuspecting civs. They would also often refuse to put more than one person in a vehicle as "You don't drop as fast" (Again fair) but oddly enough ive never seen a convoy of 10 brinks trucks with only a single driver in them. This was solved by forcing officers into the spawned vehicles i provided Putting them in forced uniforms so they look like officers Naturally this went 100% to plan and we never had higher ups giving out points to officers. (Award for dumbest way to lose their SGT rank goes too....) Big Bounty's, The number of times the APD would ditch the entire event/plan to chase after some random high bounty for the payout was fun. Solved by forcing Lethal's for duration of event Reinforcing Obviously rebels die, alot harder for rebels to get back in the fight than for a cop to hit re-gear and hatchback back I think this could be solved again by the opt in thing. I would just respawn you to the next ambush point with gear as a civ For cops, It felt a bit unfair how fast they were able to come back. Smash the re-gear button and head back in a hatchback sport now with a nice flank on the enemies.  Probably solved by just longer re-spawn timers? Could also just hold them in purgatory until the convoy reached a pre-determined destination and the cops would then be automatically re-spawned with gear inside convoy vehicles




I could go on but i think you guys get the point, Its a difficult event to code to the point of 0 admin intervention (Atleast at my skill level), For me its a lot easier to put a crate with loot in some base, TP cops there and have the civs assault the compound with spawned gear. 10x less effort 10x less bans. Generally people had more fun and thus is why i stopped messing with the convoy event and did more assault based admin events 

This post isn't to say we will never do it, but just to say I have worked on it. Here is what I'm up against.

The Altis Shipping is a federal event you are supposed to do by driving the spawned in truck to a drop off, not just kept at the start point purely to kill cops.  Make it so that if the truck does not leave the chop shop area it blows up after a short amount of times, maybe 5 minutes?  15 people should be banding together into a group and doing a kill shipping, that is clearly enough to do the event the intended away

The UFO player limit should be reduced down to 75 players instead of the current 90 The UFO is very rare there's a better possibility that it pops on the weekend but even then it is still quite rare.

A cop started fed event is an awesome idea. It would really spice things up a little as long as the incentive for rebels are there to attend. The only real pain with a “moving fed event” is going to be the VDM/etc that comes with the cars. It could also be a potential annoyance for civs just on the path of the fed event. 
 
When I’ve brought this kind of idea up, I always default to a static police started fed event instead of having driving part of it. So you’d just have maybe a defendable compound with a building or two in the middle that the cops can go to. They scroll wheel something and it starts the event. Then they’d hunker down and defend while rebels can attack. You remove the “aids” of a driving fed event. 
 
Either way, I’d just love to see a cop started fed event. However it’s implemented. New is good. Really hoping something similar gets pushed through and added. It would be a healthy change of pace for the server every now and then when started. 

I was doing my best to think of what could be changed to make things not only different for the sake of 'spicing Asylum up' but also a little more welcoming to a new player or even a returning one. Right now when you enter the server, you of course experience the typical server slots to choose from. After that you get a nice fancy-ish loading screen for a few seconds but then you're tossed straight into the spawn options. This is a change that could really make Asylum feel more at home. Having some sort of screen between choosing a faction slot and spawning in. Since thinking of this idea, I've been made aware that other servers have this sort of thing to some degree. That really shouldn't be a problem. Especially if its different. 

Having a screen that showcases things like tabs between recent updates, changes, quick tips, hyperlinks to helpful places like the Forums and Wiki, the rules, APD/AFD apply sections, etc would be a GREAT QoL change. Of course you could also promote Asylum+ and Crates way more efficiently with this idea too. 🔥

The background could maybe be some Asylum Art that the Design team can work on. Maybe even make the background slightly moving to keep it fancy but still nice on the eyes (if possible). 

THE CONCEPT(?)
Orange background (placeholder) could be asylum artwork by the Design Team 
   -maybe could be swapped out with new art every month? 

Each tab would be clickable and switches to a different window with different info

The Login button could be at the bottom to get the spawn screen?

This would be AMAZING for holidays and themes (events too)

With hyperlinks to the Forums, this will naturally bring more traffic to the forums (really good thing)

I wholeheartedly believe this will be a great step in the right direction for a new/semi-new players experience. This will also show Asylum has that extra bit of love for its community/servers with a change like this to that said player. It doesn't NEED to be the concept above, but this idea overall is a solid one in my opinion that should be pushed through!

A nice QoL addition to the server that could suit Asylum well for years to come. I don't see any negatives besides the time it would take to make it happen ❤️

Approved