It has recently been brought to our attention that there have been more cases of people communicating via third-party applications such as TeamSpeak, Discord, etc. on the server during RP situations - primarily shootouts and other situations where players would gain an unfair advantage by utilising these applications to communicate. As you all know this is commonly referred to as metagaming and traditionally, cases of players caught metagaming were dealt with harsh punishments but as of lately less severe punishments were issued for metagaming.
As a result of this we have seen more cases of metagaming occurring and we would like to remind everyone that under Rule 3.2 Third-Party Communication Applications metagaming is against the rules and going forward, the staff team will be getting more stricter on cases of players metagaming by...
Welcome to the third Community Spotlight! Time has been flying by during lockdown. As Community Manager, I just wondered if there is anything you would like to see from me apart from more content and events! If there is either leave it in this thread or DM me on forums or Discord. Anyway, let's recap this last month...
Roleplay Acknowledgement
We have seen some excellent roleplay within the community this month, even from new members...
Such as @JeanMacronwho joined this month and has already had success roleplaying as a pianist for hire with his amazing talent on the piano!
Contact me in-game for your reward of $50,000.
@Eagle Williamshas been keeping the American population happy with his roleplay such as his radio station or his poker business in the Office.
Speak to me in-game to claim your reward of $50,000...
An update will go live tomorrow morning at the restart. The primary aim is to get some urgent bug fixes live, but there are also some features that are in the update as well.
The changes:
Combat
Swapped the Remington 870 for the Mossberg 590A1 for light TFU (@Shiwo)
Reduced the amount of plastic required to craft zip ties
Reduced the amount of damage taken from explosions when inside vehicles
Grenade explosions now damage unoccupied vehicles
Remote explosives can't be placed without a phone
AFK Timer
Increased the premium 1 hour AFK timer to be active below 95% server capacity
Removed anti-AFK from staff members when the server is full
Fixed the AFK timer from activating on dispatchers using CCTV (Thanks @jacf104)