Dan

According to the poll it is clear that the majority of people want to be able to KOS anyone that is a victim of their raid. That goes along with how I feel, however it's clear many people would like a non lethal way to secure players they are raiding. Although these tools will be available I believe we will leave it up to the players to decide whether or not they'd like to be lethal. I've also introduced door alarms which you can purchase which will go off whenever a player lockpicks or damages a door.

Application Accepted. Welcome to the team!

I find it hard to believe that you think we aren't listening to anything you're suggesting. We've made over 350+ changes/features since the release of the Open Beta on August 16th. Assuming we made the same amount of updates each day, that's 29 updates each day. Additionally since the start of the server there has been 226 suggestions in the discord. I don't have time to work on the server if I'm just staring at the suggestions page. The suggestions are not limited to just that channel, for I wake up ( no exaggeration at all ) to messages from 5-8 different players. Not only am I developing for this server I am also managing/updating and answering support tickets for gmodstore. I try to have a social life and take care of the home I live in while catering to your needs. I've increased the amount of searchable locations on the map, practically doubled them and have increased the chance of finding scrap metal several times. If you're going to call me brain dead over not listening to your suggestions believe me I will surely look past every single thing that comes out of your mouth. I'm not you buddy, I'm not your friend or anything that you think I am. You have no idea what I'm working on. You clearly have too high standards for us and I'm truly flattered, but being an asshole won't get you anywhere. Appeal denied.

I'm not going to deny or accept your appeal. Other staff members are welcome to make this decision.

2 minutes ago, Tyler said:

 I attempted to tell you about the racist person numerous times in Discord as can be shown in that channel we talked in, and I don't recall you saying you would look into it or do anything about it until its ya boi troy brought it up.

4 minutes ago, Tyler said:

but when you don't acknowledge that I was reporting that to you and ban me for making harmless, non-racist jokes, it just doesn't look good from my point of view.

Hopefully it "looks better" since you're banned and the rest of people who abused the exploit.

Alright looking back at our chat in discord and here it's clear you don't think you were impersonating staff. I don't care if you weren't trying to be me or Xavier or anyone else. Console is used by administrators as of now to directly communicate to the server. If you are using an exploit which makes your text appear as if you are console, then yes you are impersonating an administrator whether you like it or not. Although you may have only done it once, the fact that you were using it even though you know it was a bug and other players were using it ( and have been banned ) it creates confusion and incredibility from anything that comes from Console. It's embarrassing on our part, for this should have been fixed yes, however just because it isn't doesn't mean you use it to make any form of joke. 

You continued in discord to bring up other players that did it to make it so it seems that you were being singled out. I can promise you that you weren't and you can check https://bans.csiservers.com if you think otherwise. I don't appreciate at all how you handled the situation. I was being very forgiving by only giving everyone a 4 day ban. I was more willing than to reduce your ban if you were to just make an appeal like I originally stated in the beginning of our conversation in discord. Even today I still feel like it was a mistake for only giving such a short ban. I can promise you next time if anything, any bug is abused, the culprit will surely receive a permanent ban. It's simply unacceptable.

Edit:

Also going on to say I support slavery surely isn't going to get you unbanned.

Just now, its ya boi troy said:

Yea it’s a tricky one to decide from how things are now. But if zip ties were added it would stop them from pulling a weapon or calling /911. The problem with the killing if they saw your face. Is you could say that with any crime. What if I was robbing the bank, lockpicking a car, or any other crime that has to be done in public. Would that allow me to kill every civ near by? Like robbing the bank, after I killed all cops and I’m running out with the money, lets say there is two guys sitting in the spawn box. Can I kill them since “they saw my face”?

I understand where you're coming from with this, however I think it's solely different because when raiding a home, the home owners are on defense. Bystanders in a public area for example have no responsibility or ties to the crime that is being committed. However the person who is having their home attacked has something to lose which is why I believe they should be considered a threat regardless and yes as of now you should kill cops when robbing the bank for more than likely you're going to be armed and they will shoot you on site just as you should shoot them.

With the current state of DarkRP being very experimental we're trying various things that other servers don't typically do. I'm currently trying to find the best set of rules that'll make the gameplay enjoyable without having to have a copy of the rulebook in everyone's back pocket. An issue currently rose up recently about raiding. To be clear this is not related to Police raids.

The problem was there's no rule against killing unarmed players while raiding.

The reason for this is due to the following:

• The unarmed player could potentially call 911.
• The unarmed player could potentially arm themselves and attack, thus safe to kill them first.
• Witnesses can pose a huge threat to getting away with committing armed robbery.

These are my personal thoughts and why I believe raiders should be allowed to kill unarmed players on the property without warning. In real life there are robbers who will kill you just for seeing them. It's the sad reality we live in.

Although these are my thoughts I'm more than willing to go with what the general vote is. Your opinion is valued here and I want to make that clear.

20 minutes ago, |⎛ ҉ ٩DamnedOne٩ ҉ ⎞| said:

That's bias...

Well according to the video you broke FearRP so it doesn't matter what he thinks as long as you broke a rule which you did. I'm going to reduce your ban to 8 hours. The rules about raiding and killing unarmed players are being brought up into discussion. You technically didn't break any rules when killing the guy with the watering can so I'm going to reduce the sentence. Also according to your previous ban, you were banned for RDM not FailRP/FearRP.

@|⎛ ҉ ٩DamnedOne٩ ҉ ⎞| Do you have any response to the newly linked video. At this point I believe the ban is valid due to that, however it might be lowered.

25 minutes ago, George said:

https://gyazo.com/eb5ca4c9c3f2e726ca491d494362213d

You visibly have no intent to roleplay a situation out. Every experience I have had with you is either you driving around (into people, either by accident or not), farming and shooting people in the back of the head. You are simply ruining the experience for other players, shown by your actions.

From the clip you posted it appears he's raiding the home in attempt to rob and take what's in the home. When doing this typically, even in real life, people will murder the home owners they're attempting to rob. The scene displayed can be played out as roleplaying, for unfortunately these criminal actions do occur like this in real life. Is there any additional evidence other than the clip? I believe the raid and murder was valid.

8/23/2019

• Adjusted the medic salary to $22.
• Added a dealway driver job.
• Fixed a scoreboard error on player disconnect.
• Added a Dealway recruitment NPC.
• Added in a package delivery system inside the shipping building.
• Fixed some bugs related to pickpocketing.
• Disabled damage for Ram against players.
• Reduced search time from 4s to 3.5s.
• IC chat will not show "Masked Player" if a player is wearing a mask.
• Reduced the price of Alprazolam.
• Increased crafting XP reward again.
• Added additional vehicle spawn points at dealways building.
• Added vehicle parts to scavenging list.
• Removed teapot from scavenging list.
• Disabled dropping of paramedic vehicles.
• Added a /me command.
• Grow tent fans now require drug skill level.
• Increased the amount of searchable locations on the map from 35 to 50.

Accepted! Welcome to the team man. Yes within 24 hours too.

Hi Miguel glad to see you've made it to the forums!

Welcome! Hope to see you around more often.

8/22/2019 

• Increased starting cash to $2,500.
• Fixed crafting exploit/glitch.
• Added 2 Quad Bikes
• Adjusted the radio fonts.
• Added secure channels to the radio.
• Increased respawn time to 80 seconds. ( Gives Paramedics more time to respond )
• Fixed bug where spike strips wouldn't remove themselves after changing jobs.
• Made it easier to see player overheads.
• Added an M16 to Police Sergeant job.
• Added Ram to Police Officer and Sergeant.
• All jobs should receive XP on paycheck.
• Reduced vehicle health from 3190 to 2100.
• Reduce price of vehicle repair kit from $800 to $500.
• Increased the price of Alprazolam to $350.
• Set max Pill Press per player to 1.
• Fixed strobe light LEDs
• Added Medic/Firefighter vehicle repair NPc
• Removed teapot from scavenge list
• Added credit store masks in clothing stop

This issue has been fixed. Closing thread.

Thank you for reporting this. I will try and have this fixed today.

8/19/2019

• Added ambulance to medic job.
• Fixed vehicle upgrades not equipping after purchase.
• Increased the fence 2 crafting requirements by 1 wood.
• Fixed scoreboard tags for administrators.
• Disallowed selling if the player can't accept money into inventory.
• Disallowed mining if the player can't accept the ore into inventory.
• Disallowed woodcutting if the player can't accept the wood into inventory.
• Wood cutting trees now display the wood type on the HUD.
• Disabled pick pocketing for developer accounts. ( sorry sometimes we test things live that require in-game $ )
• Fixed an error related to the DXans container.
• Fixed some misc errors related to timers with the weed tent and weed rack.
• Updated the descriptions for weed items so they're more user friendly.
• Fixed door groups for police.
• Tazer rounds can now be refilled in the PD.
• Players receive 75% of their realestate purchase back on disconnection.
• Bump total ores on map from 75 to 90.

Next time, hopefully there isn't a next time, use the ban appeal template.

For now you will have to wait out the two hour ban. Denied.

8/18/2019

• Potentially fixed an error where tent would be nil for weed pot
• Added a Police Vehicle Repair NPC inside the PD Garage
• Potentially fixed error related to weapon skins.
• Adjusted some of the crafting requirements for ammo.
• Changed sort order so seeds are displayed first in market.
• Added a medkit and bandages to paramedic job.
• Removed police vehicle from Cadet.
• RPName is now showed by default on scoreboard. Hover to reveal steam name.
• Reduced cuff time to .5 seconds.
• Arrest reward has been knocked down to $20.
• Potentially fixed exploit to quick enter cars.
• Bail has been reduced to 300 per year.
• Pickpocketing has been fixed and takes 12 seconds to successfully pickpocket.
• HUD will now show jail time remaining.
• Players will now automatically be put into a cell upon jailing.
• Fishing prices have been adjusted.
• Water loss for weed plants reduce 40% slower.
• Job salaries have been adjusted and should now work.

8/17/2019

• Fixed a potential error with the fishingrod when missing content
• Disabled vehicle damage
• Fixed max allowed not tracking correctly for farming plot
• Fixed players being able to add stone and coal to furnaces
• Fixed potential duplication glitch with furnaces
• Increased baterringram level to 46
• Force exit vehicle seats when vehicle is picked up with LALT + E
• Add vehicle recovery system. ( Vehicles can be respawned if there's no players in it )
• Increased 35 River RD price to 10k
• Fixed some errors related to the door display
• Bumped the starter cash to $1,750
• Increased some mining levels for some ores
• Add crafting support for LED light
• Reduced XP Boost time to 30 mins ( Sorry this is to help increase total play time)
• Changed market overhead to Purchase & Sell Items
• Added spike strip to police officer and sergeant
• Increased level requirement for officer and sergeant
• Added taser to police officer and sergeant
• Increase fishingrod crafting requirements ( 1 more iron bar )
• Fixed bank exploits.

The DarkRP Beta will be updated frequently. I'm going to use this forum post as housing for note worthy changes. You can click "Follow" in the top-right corner of this post to get notifications.

• Disallowed Police from using a furnace/woodcutting
• Removed pistol from Cadet
• Buffed Arrest Speed and dragging Speeds
• Added approximately 40 spawnpoints for mining near the river
• Fixed farming plot water overflowing during rain
• Reduced smelt time from 100s to 50s
• Police will receive XP every paycheck
• Increased Walk/Run Speed however reduced stamina xp reward by 20%
• Potentially fixed furnace errors

Ladies and Gentlemen the time has come! Our DarkRP server will be releasing this Friday on August 16th.

Here's a quick little montage of the server and some of it's features. We hope to see you there. Another official announcement will be made when the server is up.

18 minutes ago, Ariesl said:

I can see that the word "******" has offended people and I'm going to change and as you can see I said that last Wednesday and haven't said the word up to this point and am truly sorry for my language and take full responsibility for my actions. 

If I notice a change between now and the decision of this application I will surely +1. I understand you should be allowed to say whatever you want whenever you want, however when you wear the tag of Can't Stand Idiots and are representing the community, we can't have ties to such language. It's unacceptable.