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Updated 27/9

As many of you already know, several accounts were taken over and used maliciously on the 24th of September. We have a very clear idea as to who is responsible for this attack. I will not be giving out any names however.

One main thing to note is that our database was in no way compromised so all information you have both in game and here on the forums is completely safe. This attack was simply gaining access to a staff members account and then using it to edit others in order to gain control, modify information, or delete theirs or others accounts.

Here is the most complete overview that I can put together.

Starting around 9:10AM CEST the individual first gained access to a former Administrator who will remain nameless. However all permissions from this account had already been revoked so nothing of value was gained.

From there the individual gained access to @Xquality's account and added an offensive rating, renamed some users, banned certain IPs, gave administrative permission to 4 users, deleted accounts (including myself), etc.

To note: @Jordan was a former senior admin for those of you unfamiliar with him or his previous role so we decided upon his resignation that he will maintain all his abilities but hold no formal title. Which fortunately allowed him to help hinder some of the individual's "attack" despite their best efforts. So I would ask that everyone thank @Jordan for his efforts to help us during this, I officially thank him as well on behalf of us here at PH.

One individual that was granted administrative permissions was actively seen looking through sensitive areas of the forums, including but not limited to: Staff Complaints, Admin/Mod discussions, and PLPD related matters. Because of this, that member has received a community wide ban.

One other individual looked through some other typically...

Past Community Awards

2014 - https://perpheads.com/threads/perpheads-community-awards-2014.4802/
2015 - https://perpheads.com/threads/perpheads-community-awards-2015-results.11574/

Category Poll

You may be thinking this may be a little early for opening the polls, however this is just asking the community for what categories they would like to see in this years awards. Below will be a Google Forms sheet where you can suggest awards such as "Best Shooter" "Most missed outlaw" "Friendliest User".

This poll will close on the 01/10/2016 and we're hoping to open the votes for the entire awards later on in October.

ANNOUNCEMENTS


16/09/2016 - Meetup 2016 Round 2 announced for December

25/09/2016 - Planned date for the event 17/12/2016

INFORMATION


The first meetup I would consider a success just a shame it was a bad turnout, a lot of people said it was because they didn't think it would happen, BUT IT DID MATE. We're planning on having another one this year in December during the holidays. The exact date will be confirmed at a later date well in advance so people are able to book it off work.

More information will be posted internally in a private section.


The day will probably run the same as it did in London, have a little walk around, check out some really generic London landmarks and then find the nearest pub.

If you're interested in coming, we're inviting recognized members of the community, just so we're not meeting up with complete strangers, contact me if you're interested!

Location: Birmingham, United Kingdom.
Date: 16th December 2016

PREVIOUS MEETUP

https://perpheads.com/threads/perpheads-meetup-2016.11750

APPLICATION STATUS

APPLICATIONS
SITUATIONAL JUDGEMENT TEST

SUPERVISED PATROLS


IMPORTANT: Supervised Patrols are changing. If you have passed the old SJT, you have until 18/09/16 to pass your Supervised Patrol; otherwise you will have to complete and pass the new SJT prior to this.

APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS

Here's one of the updates you've all been looking for! FPS boost!

Overall your FPS should about double* it seems in most cases. You can access this by pressing F1 -> Options ->
*Depends on your own personal hardware and what else you may have running

Granted you could use this command before, but to anyone who used it already they quickly realized it had drawbacks. Originally it made clothing flicker like mad, but the GMod devs changed it some awhile back but it still turned everyone's clothing to pure white. This was still less than ideal for trying to track down someone specific. After much thought of how to do this properly, @Fredy and I have created a way which should allow all colors to remain. You will not lose any clothing or metals for your vehicle and can still customize to your heart's desire. We may even be able to add some more things that previously we were limited to doing, and no change in content needed more than likely.

There were some odd results at times while we tested this out to get it all functioning, but all of them seem to have been resolved so we are pushing this update out. Occasionally cars may appear incorrectly, same with players or NPCs. It is yet to be seen how often this might happen with a full server, hopefully all you notice is an increased number of FPS.

I hope you all enjoy this and I will be working on a few other ways which should hopefully boost FPS in their own way, but will be more noticeable in the way they change things.

Known issue: In demos you will likely find NPCs as pure white with no clothing texture at all.

WHAT TYPE OF THINGS CAN YOU WRITE ABOUT?


It's up to you! You can write about anything you think we should know about, particularly anything that you think would help us improve our service. This could be a recent good or bad experience, any dealings with staff, any questions you may have or a story you have recently heard involving the Paralake Police Department.

Please note: If you wish to open a formal complaint against one of our employees conduct, please see here: https://perpheads.com/threads/information-complaint-information-and-format.7948/

SUBMITTING FEEDBACK


You are able to submit your feedback in the hyperlink provided below, the link will take you to a Google Forms sheet. Your feedback will be sent to our Public Relations team. None of the fields on the form are mandatory so you may remain anonymous, however this means the Public Relations team will have no way to contact you.

Some of you may be aware that since release we have been using the Evolve Admin Mod since our initial release. While it has sufficed, it was less than ideal in a number of ways it operated both front end and back end. So we have created a whole new admin system which should hopefully allow our staff team to help effectively serve you if you have a valid report. We have titled this Super Cool Admin Mod, or SCAM for short, for the lulz.

What does this mean for you as a regular user? Other than using /report not a great deal; you may notice a few changes here and there otherwise but nothing game changing.

So here's the new stuff with /report...

In your F1 Key Bindings you have a new option to bind (default is F6) to open up the reports window which will show your past reports from your current session.

You can either create a report here by pressing the create button or typing in chat like normal with "/report [reason]" the reason being optional and will automatically fill in the report window box.

If you have already submitted a report, do not create another report if it has to do with the same incident. This has always been true and why sometimes you will see a report of yours get closed without any staff member talking to you. However now, you can fill in more details of your report as needed so staff have a better idea of what your story is before by opening your report. Keep in mind that this is not a substitute for all situations where an admin will need to speak to you directly via voice or otherwise in game. Only give as much information as you can and be as truthful as possible.

You are also able to close your own report if you find it was invalid, a duplicate, or do not wish to continue with the...

@MrLewis
@Mathias
@HolyShititsDannyD
@arron/faith
@Torben Torben
@Lucia Younty
@John Daymon
@Rogue Car Tyres
@Archibald
@ShadowZoey
@Matt

B1 | VEGANS vs SCOTLAND | 4-16
A1 | HARAMBE vs AZERTY | 11-16
A2 | BRAVO vs DNT | 16-12
B2 | FISSE vs KOMMANDO 9 | 16-9

B4 | SCOTLAND vs FISSE | 16-12...

Hopefully this update addresses some crashing people had while loading car dealer or any other car related window. This also eliminates the annoying audio while it loads all the car models.

• Overall better looking GUI skin which makes EVERYTHING better (more colors potentially on the way) (can change in F1 menu)
  • Spoiler: blue

    
  • Spoiler: garry

    
• Car Related windows (you can click and drag side to side to rotate the car around)
  • Spoiler: Test drive / Purchase

    
  • Spoiler: Selling

    
  • Spoiler: Customize

    
  • Spoiler: Personal Garage

    
• Night times hopefully not nearly as dark or faded
• Some new / changed administrative features / info
• Car customizing limits colors in a more straightforward way which hopefully will reduce glow in the dark cars.
• Car dealer now stocks cars in the displays with all but the basic paint to show off the variety better
• Car sales tax is now 10% of what the actual rate is. So if sales tax is 25% for buying a car it is 2.5% which should hopefully should make their prices not go completely out of sight with any amount of sales tax.
• Other stuff

Some more information may be added into car dealer or slight window tweaks in the future. If you happen to come across any issues with colors on the new skin please make a bug report. There are also a variety of bug fixes, some critical, some basic so hopefully this fixes a few things for people. Anyways enjoy!

Oh lord another one?
Some pretty good points were raised in the Rules Discussion thread and we felt that the chat and some other things weren't properly covered by the rules. Below is a brief changelog and a picture of the newly edited rules.

In addition to some new rules the F1 menu help sections have been updated, please note that the FAQ is still being updated. If you have any suggestions or you've spotted a mistake feel free to reply to this thread or PM me directly. They can be seen here: FAQ Chat Help

2.2 Voice Chat

• Clarified when Voice Chat should be used (partly suggested by @Allen Kennedy)

2.9 Text Chat

• New rule, states that it is now against the rule to misuse various chat functions. Also references the Chat help.

3.19 Evading Arrest

• Reworded to Eliminate some confusion, shortened to hopefully make it simpler.

3.21 Non-Player Characters

• Clarified what is meant by 'treated as regular players' and added that Killing NPCs doesn't always qualify as 'taking into consideration' (Partially suggested by @lelios1)

4 City Employee Rules

• Renamed to 'City' employee in order to include taxi driver and courier to accommodate new rule. Just to clear things up ALL jobs are city employees but not all city employees are government employees, (see the definitions section of the rules for clarification)

4.2 SWAT Officer

• Changed the last sentence to apply to more than just the Mayor.
• Specified when it's appropriate for SWAT to deploy (Suggested by @Chrissy )

4.10 Taxi Driver...