Prob gonna get roasted and made fun of for this, but I legitimately hope it helps the situation here regardless. I’ve been playing here about 2 months now and id like to share some of my experience to hopefully give the staff/development some guidance on how they can improve things as they seem generally out of touch with what much of the community wants. I also play mostly by myself so it might give a more unique perspective.
Money making - Honestly the grind on this server is terrible shit reminds me of black desert online or grinding for MR in warframe. I was lucky to be brought into the game by a friend from eve online that showed me the ropes, I however can’t imagine how difficult it would be for a player without experienced players to guide them on how to make money
Some of the issues ive come across regarding this are primarily most of the runs aren’t profitable and take a large amount of time for the reward. Notability a full orca of cocaine, plus backpack for example nets 68k. For a hours time. Heroin around the same, the most profitable runs like meth however that do have a reasonable payout are constantly camped by larger gangs making it almost impossible for smaller gangs/new players to make money. Hyper was quite bad for this when I first joined, and most recently WS. Other gangs etc. Even with houses I was killed trying to scout the lab with hatchbacks 7x times in one day. New players without houses and that don’t know about the system, will most likely go for larger vehicles which are almost always robbed due to the time to finish them.
Example I had brought another new player into demolition, he tried playing here three times. He was robbed every single time, or had cops arrest him etc. Tried running cocaine which is a nightmare due to it being right fucking next to rebel/spawn city which is retarded. Tried running a hemmit transport of heroin same thing. Lost interest and went to another server, after spending 6 hours not making any money, Even with other players guiding him. That is the average experience/learning curve for a new player
Roleplay - Im not some GTARP fag and I understand that this is a light rp server, BUT there is little to no role-play from APD which should be the primary ones promoting it. Given I have dealt with some great people aswell that are willing to work with you and have a fun time when the role-play comes up. But the vast majority do not care and use cop as a money maker same as medic due to the civ grind being more aids. The only role-play ive really gotten to experience is in athira which has been the best of my time on the server frankly.
Example im driving a van full of moonshine to Wongs, cop sirens me, I have no bounty, so I go ill role-play with this guy. Super friendly put my gun and wannot in the vehicle. Pull over put my hands up. I spend 15 minutes roleplaying with this dude, trying to apologize for going off-road and saying can I please go and it won’t happen again. Cop continues to tell me over and over that I went off-road so he was allowed to search the vehicle. Even before that he had checked the inventory when I was trying to role-play with him. Finding the mk1. Absolutely no interest in anything but searching my van. Even though I didn’t just hop out and dump a full mag into his hatch when he sirened me.
Server Events - Ive participated in a large amount of server events since ive been here, around ten from my memory. I actually only was able to enjoy one (along with the majority of the other players that attended the events feeling the same way) It seems that there’s a trend of the staff team which mostly seems to be made out of APD higher ups making the events to be fun for themselves or cop sided.
Example. Nikolai events staff team had us setup looking towards the shore with the boat spawn thing and had told us that the APD would be coming from the same direction. The second the event started all the players that had setup were promptly roached in the back from 600+ metres by APD which had setup in the opposite direction. Which angered a lot of people and resulting in quite a few quitting and retro raging and rpg the truck…lol
Purge event, admins had spawned a a tank with very little balance, and this was coming from the one that was gunning the tank might I add. So I prob should be bias. I was given a tank however killing 20+ people with an admin driver, no civs were given any actual means of combating the tank, and were left to air support which weren’t able to take it out for 30 ish minutes, maybe spawn in some anti tank weapons. Also the loadout spawns did not work and the event was buggy in general. Admins also were letting friends keep kit and taking other peoples.
Fighting Cartels - Honestly this is the reason I came here, because I wanted to learn and this is the type of gameplay that my friend was able to sell me on. After fighting for two months and working through the steep learning curve, especially where I have to footpush solo 90 percent of the time has been difficult to say the least. Mostly because of the way the player base behaves in general around these events.
Rebels - Rebels are almost always getting camped the ones close to free fire island area specifically. When fights start players will almost always be camping one or both rebels, with the sole purpose of pissing people off and blowing up vehicles etc. It destroys fights and people dont want to play when some Chinese kid is just gonna wait in the bi-box till you pull a heli or frit and then hop out of his vietcong tunnel and blow you up. (The smart thing to do would be to add a safe zone rebel in the area like there is for gangboat/fort for this exact reason I just described. )
Gangboat/Gangfort, honestly both these events are pointless because of the way they are setup with current large gangs logging on well before the event starts, and setting up/digging into all the best positions making it extremely difficult for other gangs to push. Ive seen quite a few of these events over in 10 to 20 minutes for this exact reason.
Crimson - I do believe that admins should have the right to play just like anyone else, But for a gang that has so many admins it feels like theirs very little oversight in exactly what they do/the way the behave/treat other players in general. Ive constantly seen crimson players putting down newer players on the server trying to fight cartels including myself, all whilst being extremely toxic and pushing with 4x or sometimes more the numbers. Crimson at this point for how large it is, and how much staff are in the gang should be acting to help the server and help balance things ive seen nothing of this, Other then the we switch between cop to help numbers things. They will not accept or trial new players and trash the ones trying to learn. The staff members in this gang should be promoting them to be friendly with new players, help them out and help them learn rather than making things an uphill battle at every step. There is also little to no oversight when it comes to numbers in a event, maybe with that many admins someone should go "hey can we have some people do runs or something else so the other gangs can have a fair fight at the fort today?"
Development - the development here is rather sad the reason for this is nothing to do with the development team however, no money to my knowledge goes to development. That’s a huge issue, to keep a large community like this growing and healthy you need to invest in it. Since ive been here I haven’t seen anyway funds go back into the server other than for the basic costs like teamspeak the server itself etc. the fact that someone or a group of people are collecting all these funds are retarded. Especially when people like @ebola are spending 120+ usd a month alone. It also seems like the requests of the community are largely ignored in favour of a select few.
Please don’t, this makes it 10x harder for cops and civs, if you’re a cop (lower rank) you can’t pen the glass so you’re sat there waiting to be dropped on or you chase them until they crash…
For rebels, cops already pull enough armour, swat always gets deployed and we will spend more time mag dumping hunters and striders which intern gets our heads shot off by the mk1 camping monkey 500m out…
sure change the medic hunter and strider who cares, but bounty hunter, cop and civ are fine, if you want ifrit glass buy an ifrit.
Please don’t, this makes it 10x harder for cops and civs, if you’re a cop (lower rank) you can’t pen the glass so you’re sat there waiting to be dropped on or you chase them until they crash…
For rebels, cops already pull enough armour, swat always gets deployed and we will spend more time mag dumping hunters and striders which intern gets our heads shot off by the mk1 camping monkey 500m out…
sure change the medic hunter and strider who cares, but bounty hunter, cop and civ are fine, if you want ifrit glass buy an ifrit.
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its much bigger, as well as much more new player friendly, since the lower tier money making methods are surrounding it, like wreck excavation, weed, mining, sea turtles, etc while athira is basically just coke or mining.
How does this work for the people that have the experience and just want a better fight? You me and bherky will go and fight 9 cops with the 3 of us just because we want a challenge. I'm gonna be honest, I have 3x the amount of hours on civ then I do on cop and I was an Lt in the past. Fed events aren't being won now because the people doing them haven't played in a while or are new. Ifrits and Mks have nothing to do with it, I've won and lost plenty of fed events on both sides throughout the years and it always ends up being a skill issue or a leadership issue. Crimson alone has done 3 feds in the past 3 weeks and won all 3 of them... Now if we were to add the ratio to ONLY the Hugo's and Ivan's I would be ok with that seeing as its MEANT for newer groups and shouldn't be slammed by the entire APD.
On the gun, I take my stand,
Waiting for the enemy, in this harsh land.
My heart beats with purpose, steady and true,
Guarding the line, with a vigilant view.
- Aleec Spazeed
Amidst the fallen, wounded and scarred,
I lie in silence, battle's disregard.
A tapestry of pain and strife,
In this field of death, we fight for life.
- Aleec Spazeed
In this cold cell, where shadows creep,
A life misspent, secrets buried deep.
For murder and robbery, my fate was sealed,
In this lonely cell, my past revealed.
I lose them enough with the current price and with shedding back, I promise you there is no reason to up this price.
Can I advise your broke friends to possibly do a Cocaine run?
I'm definitely going to push for adding castle cap. Those fights back in the day were a lot of fun. I want to add more civ vs civ content in the top left area of the map. I want to see more fights in areas where players can't just sit in houses.
I want to find places to add a turf that isn't right in the middle of a city full of player owned houses. I also want to see how people feel about removing the cool downs on turfs in general and make more like a tug of war.
Hello brothers long time no see big hug to the boys and gl iam not playing arma 3 atm for sure but i will be watching some videos and remember the old times like always BAD BLOOD 4 EVER ! hehehe
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