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The following changes should go live tomorrow morning.

• The bank vault restocks slightly faster
• Added a couple of new tools for staff
• Removed the old dispatcher exam
• Police are now only allowed to take the pots and water from planter boxes
• The Car Dealership now asks for confirmation before you sell your vehicle
• Buffed first aid and repair skills slightly
• Civilians can now use their bandages directly on other players
• When there is a firefighter on duty, fires may randomly occur in abandoned locations
• Fixed the fractions of dollars being handed out after bank robberies
• Fixed various problems with 911 calls and smoke alarms
• Fixed players being very slow when being dragged are being tasered or revived
• Fixed some bullet hits not being correctly classified as headshots
• Fixed cop slots changing to 8 briefly after the Mayor...

There will be a significant update tomorrow morning, mainly focused around helping various aspects of the server stay balanced at all levels of activity. While I'm not going to go into detail on all of the numbers that we have chosen, then general approach is to aim for low risk resulting in low reward and high risk resulting in high reward if successful. As we have only been able to test balance settings on spreadsheets, once these changes have been live for a while we can tweak them if we receive detailed and constructive criticism on how fair and balanced they are.

• Added another radio station
• Added a new event
• Added a /call command to speak to people you are on the phone with
• Stopped adverts being anonymous
• Improved how the Mayor Election runs
• Mayor can now adjust the Road Crew salary and job slots
• Mayor can now pay Medics and...

Small set of bug fixes from the last week with a couple of little bonuses...

• Roadcrew trucks are discouraged from flying
• Increased the AFK timer for premium players when the server isn't busy
• Fixed being able to rob the bank while running for Mayor
• Fixed mayor being able to spawn cars
• Fixed defibrillator not coping with stacked bodies
• Fixed TV's breaking parts of the UI
• Fixed not drowning while driving cars under water
• Fixed various bugs with chairs
• Fixed some life alert descriptions
• Fixed the bank vault not coping well with explosives
• Fixed NPCs searching people's pockets for knives
• Flushed away some deprecated code

Thanks to @Super_, @Momo, @nickjedl and @Henk