Town Hall Archives: November Edition

[Wesker]

INTRO

• Hope you had a great Halloween
• Trick or treating-
  • After remaining days on reward calendar, remove halloween update
    • Removing ability to get the special halloween pets, pumpkin juice, candy, etc.
  • Bones will be added to the fence. Don’t throw them away, SELL THEM!!
    • Grave robbing will stay!

SUBMITTED TOWN HALL QUESTIONS

• Can we up the distance for radios?
  • Yes! We are working on figuring out the best way to do it. We may remove the distance limit, or have an item you can create or find that will increase the distance. We don’t have a timeframe for that just yet, keep an eye on the changelogs
• Persistent Parking
  • No, Plasma has shut that down. As cool as it would be, the trade off would not be worth the lag spikes.
• Cars poof at random times, even with people around in the area
  • We can look into this! We can look at increasing the time the cars can be left out. They are meant to despawn if there are no players near
  • If this feels random, please make a bug report to track!
• Do we want the protected 6 slot back?
  • The people that like the idea want it for collectable items
  • We will be adding a loot box rule to the rulebook
    • Not allowing players to rob others just for their items
    • Make sure the RP makes sense when you do rob someone
    • Players should be able to go about their day without the fear of being robbed just because they have something cool.
    • If the items are being used in a crime or in a fight, they can potentially be taken
    • General consensus is no protected 6 slot
    • Rules will clarify the new loot box rule
• Don’t be a cunt
  • We are well aware that as a criminal, it is within your right to say things to a cop, but PLEASE remember, they are normal humans behind their characters. There is no reason to be so disrespectful.
  • We will no longer tolerate “But that’s just my RP!”
    • Warnings and Strikes will be issued if it gets taken too far
• Hospital in Paleto
  • No, can potentially revisit when we have a higher population
• NEW HOUSING
  • We’re doing it!
  • Bag of holding to help move all of your stuff

GENERAL

• Criminal Economy
  • Updates to crime payouts:
    • Tier One House Robberies
      • Specialized loot pool when cops are off duty, buffed when cops are on duty
      • Stethoscopes will be added back to the loot pool
    • Tier Two House Robberies - Prize payout increased by 20%
    • Vangelico - Increased by 15k
    • Fleeca - Increased by 20k
    • Bank Truck - Increased by 25k to 40k
    • All sentences and fines will be reduced by 20%
    • All fenced items will be increased by 20%
  • Drug Update
    • ~50% completed
    • Drug runs will be added
    • Bonuses when Cops are on duty
    • Drugs being brought into the city:
      • Weed
        • We will be looking into the fix for weed poofing, we know why it happens, fixing is just complicated
      • Meth
        • Meth cooked in a camper- DO NOT JUST DRIVE IT INTO THE TUNNELS
        • UI minigame when cooking
      • Coke, Crack, Heroine, Shrooms, Peyote
    • Drug addiction system
      • Most drugs will be able to form addictions
        • Stress increase, being downed if you have too much
        • Can go to EMS to reset addictions
    • Drug missions will be brought back into the city, with the ability to select your difficulty
    • Selling will be opened to the North
• Civilian Economy
  • James funded our new legal jobs! (THANK YOU JAMES!!)
    • Logging, Garbage Collection, Electrical, Window Washing, Construction
      • All can be done as group jobs!
  • Vehicle Delivery, Salvage, House Moving are not going away. We will be live testing them, grabbing as many bugs as we can find, and submitting that to the developer
  • Civilian pay is set to 5k an hour, this will not change.
• Events
  • Pay attention to Squawk
    • Bunch of mini events that are admin run!
    • Seasonal
      • Thanksgiving
        • Big dinner
        • “Turkey” shoots up north. Shoot as many chicken hawks with a musket as you can!
        • Feathers will be the new currency (like pumpkins)
        • Thanksgiving Day Parade! Will be reaching out to groups and businesses for floats
        • Each restaurant will get two new food items
      • Christmas
        • Snow!
          • We will monitor headaches and frequency
        • Snowballs and Snowball fights!
        • Building snowmen
        • Caroling door to door
        • Each restaurant will get two new food items
      • New Years
        • New map
        • 1 new alcoholic beverage for bars
• Mechanic Upgrades
  • We don’t want to set the pricing so we blow through everything in a week
  • Allowing mechanics to purchase parts instead of always having to craft them
  • We will have a discussion about the costs of upgrades
• We invested into a private dedicated server
  • We will be able to do testing that we couldn’t do before!
• Casino update!
  • We will be testing this on the dedicated server soon for about a week of hard testing.
  • Once the testing is done, and everything is settled, we will release it into the city!
  • This is player run, and already spoken for.
• We will be closing business requests for a while.
  • No more restaurants, we have just added Koi as the last one
• EMT jobs need some love. We will be having a conversation about this soon
• We need more cop mains (those who do not have a criminal cousin, or their criminal cousin is a true secondary character)
• We will no longer have individual purchases through tebex
  • We are moving to a subscription based system
  • Character slots may be limited. Everyone with existing characters will be grandfathered in.
    • We will not ever be able to have more than 5, our script does not support this
• New clothes are still being worked on
  • Males will be getting new clothes sooner than females.
• Plastic surgery forgot to move to the new hospital!
  • We’ll get Bug to move him over
  • 10k to change your face.
• Imports being taken away
  • Due to the changes with Rockstar, we will have to find you an equivalent car, or a debadged version of your car.
  • We will make sure there is plenty of time and notice before this happens

QUESTIONS DURING TOWN HALL

• Do we have any incentives for groups to come around or be made? For example: MC's or even (what we need most) street gangs. What are ways we are working to get the community growing further for groups?
  • No more incentives for MCs at the moment. We have enough MCs
  • Would love to have more South Side gangs
  • May offer incentives for cop mains
• Are there going to be anymore additions to crafting? The gun crafting you only have a handful of guns you can craft, maybe adding more items to craft that one could sell on a legal level as well. Right now, being a crafter doesn't really get you anywhere if you wanna make money with it, because it's extremely easy to grind all the necessary proficiency within a week to make almost everything.
  • The development of crafting is difficult
    • We can look into releasing things in waves
    • We would like to have a legal crafting economy
• Can we have a purge event?
  • Hard maybe. Can look into this
• Can we bring Airsoft in?
  • We did have airsoft, but at the very end, it bugged out
• Bring paintball back?
  • The new update for this broke it. We can revert it back an update and bring it back!
• When will we get pets in?
  • We will try for by the end of this year, but with the amount of events and back-end work being done, no promises.
• Scuffed gold rings weigh so much!
  • Make a bug report and we can look into this and the different weights of things!
  • Bug reports are your friend, if you find something wonky, make a bug report!
• Will there be updates to the driving/handling of cars?
  • If you think a car is terrible, make a bug report!
  • We do have our car dev (Carlos) looking into things, but remember, he is just one guy, so things take time.
• Can we have liveries for BCSO?
  • Jugular, yes. All others no
• Gas Cans??
  • Still looking for a good script!

CLOSING STATEMENTS

• Thank you all for being with us! We are trying our best, and we will be staying dedicated to this server and it’s growth!
• We will be working on a Conan server
  • Just to have fun, no admins, no hard rules, just to relax and hang out