If I conducted myself like half the staff team here I would’ve been lynched within a fucking week
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Fucking love this
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I would've raised some points about the PD but I would get told to post it on plpd.online
Got raided twice when I didn't have any items/money on me at all in my flat that basically just had a loada furniture in it.
Then when Finlay Russell raided me, I locked him in the bedroom when he went in to take the piss outta my interior design, and I got someone to shoot him through the door because I'm a pussy
I want to be afraid again when staff is online while breaking rules
Now nobody is afraid! of breaking them!
Now nobody is afraid! of breaking them!
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Been in the community, on and off, for about a year now, only recently just come back. The server, as far as i'm concerned, has never been at a level of roleplay i'd personally like to see. I'm optimistic currently, and i'm trying to be the change I want to see. There is a lot of people who are genuinely interested in serious roleplay, this is a serious roleplay community after all, but they usually go unnoticed, unappreciated or simply disregarded by the majority. I understand that winning gunfights, being in shootouts, and so forth, is exciting, but surely it must get old when that's literally all you do?
Shootouts, TFU responses, and so forth are not special anymore because it's just the norm. You find yourself genuinely thanking people, especially veterans in expensive cars, for pulling over and interacting with you instead of just executing you on the spot for a speeding ticket, to have no admin response should you even attempt to make a report. There are some good eggs, even ones that don't generally attempt to roleplay seriously, but are competent and would switch given a change of circumstance.
There are, of course, bad eggs. Not naming names, and i'm not trying to be controversial but there's definitely some veterans, including some "PD mains" -- of which the majority are TFU or high ranked, who literally do not have any consideration of roleplay whatsoever and wait around looking for that "next fix" - that next fix being yet another shootout.
I love the community for all it's flaws, it's unique, but this constant KOS is just killing the enthusiasm of serious roleplayers and it's getting boring for those who ONLY want to KOS. Why not try and be the change? You know something is wrong when you're thanking dispatchers for taking their role seriously, or find yourself commemorating officers for roleplaying somewhat decently, even just a little, in a hostage situation??? come on.
Shootouts, TFU responses, and so forth are not special anymore because it's just the norm. You find yourself genuinely thanking people, especially veterans in expensive cars, for pulling over and interacting with you instead of just executing you on the spot for a speeding ticket, to have no admin response should you even attempt to make a report. There are some good eggs, even ones that don't generally attempt to roleplay seriously, but are competent and would switch given a change of circumstance.
There are, of course, bad eggs. Not naming names, and i'm not trying to be controversial but there's definitely some veterans, including some "PD mains" -- of which the majority are TFU or high ranked, who literally do not have any consideration of roleplay whatsoever and wait around looking for that "next fix" - that next fix being yet another shootout.
I love the community for all it's flaws, it's unique, but this constant KOS is just killing the enthusiasm of serious roleplayers and it's getting boring for those who ONLY want to KOS. Why not try and be the change? You know something is wrong when you're thanking dispatchers for taking their role seriously, or find yourself commemorating officers for roleplaying somewhat decently, even just a little, in a hostage situation??? come on.
This is true though, a lot of staff has different opinions on different things. This is staff discretion, not all rules have to be followed by correct point by point Such as building rules, it's whether staff thinks it's fine or not, which I don't feel should need to be changed, except of some few points that everyone should keep such as Spotlight limit etc.
This is also quite false, mostly recently there has been a well amount of staff members on, theres still lack of staff and some staff members could really work on their stuff. There is some staff members aswell such as @Cole who got a JOB to attend to, which is 100 Times more important, than making sure kids on a roleplay server follow rules, as he doesn't get paid other than christmas payment thingy thing. Which is far from enough to live a life.
That is a massive lie, if Staff complaints didn't get accepted, I would never have been demoted, or been punished for certain things. Staff Complaints in often cases takes ages to be done, which is annoying, but in most cases they get done properly.
Statistics on garry's mod playercount right now mean nothing for its long term health, or are you ignoring the fact that we're in the middle of a pandemic where everyone is quarantined playing videogames at home (from which a portion goes to garry's mod)
Before the quarantine I had checked through aswell, there were still 40K people, that is only 10K more, game isn't that dead. It was even one of the games with most players on at that point I checked, at that very moment, atleast at the page I checked.
@Synatec Staff complaints still do get dealt with and you shit yourself when you get a ‘can you come on TS’ message from @Collier or @Madda. Some people when it comes to reports don’t even follow the guidelines to make one which is literally there for you to help make your own life easier and ours as staff. The reports go around as ‘RDM’ or ‘Fucking cunt RDM’d me’ like what help is that? The people who make reports like these are most commonly crims that power grow as if their life depends on it and just want logs for their AR or RR.
Staff are, for the majority, always on, they can deal with your issues. Staff discretion is a thing yes and it would be hard to implement something else to replace that like some sort of guidelines because most people would just be shit on with the amount of bans some active players have.
From me personally, I normally ask Bolli if I need some guidance on a rule since obviously you’d trust him to have the most knowledge on it and that’s what most other staff members would do. We punish differently and you can’t expect us all to punish the same like that, I’m more heavy on the bans and I don’t tolerate bullshit.
The server population currently depends on if they can bait cops and KOS and have people to raid, people who passive RP are being mugged and shot down and there’s a constant complaint being thrown about PD being too OP?
The server is toxic, this is literally common knowledge and it’s at that point more OOC tools and restrictions are implemented because some idiots can’t just keep their anger in and have to type something to start pointless beef.
Enforcers and people are being called PD mains as if that is a bad thing but that is a choice of play style and it’s better than being a crim main and just growing and getting your daily fix of shootouts like a junkie.
Most of the things said in IC chat when someone is angry is aimed at an OOC way and none of us can deny this when we or other people are angry.
PERPheads has developed more into an E-Sport rather a roleplay server and it has the same sort of game style which you expect in a GTA online lobby.
As someone who is staff, a decent rank in the PD and low-key gets shit thrown at him, I throw your shit back at you. No one is happy and there is always a problem everywhere.
Staff are, for the majority, always on, they can deal with your issues. Staff discretion is a thing yes and it would be hard to implement something else to replace that like some sort of guidelines because most people would just be shit on with the amount of bans some active players have.
From me personally, I normally ask Bolli if I need some guidance on a rule since obviously you’d trust him to have the most knowledge on it and that’s what most other staff members would do. We punish differently and you can’t expect us all to punish the same like that, I’m more heavy on the bans and I don’t tolerate bullshit.
The server population currently depends on if they can bait cops and KOS and have people to raid, people who passive RP are being mugged and shot down and there’s a constant complaint being thrown about PD being too OP?
The server is toxic, this is literally common knowledge and it’s at that point more OOC tools and restrictions are implemented because some idiots can’t just keep their anger in and have to type something to start pointless beef.
Enforcers and people are being called PD mains as if that is a bad thing but that is a choice of play style and it’s better than being a crim main and just growing and getting your daily fix of shootouts like a junkie.
Most of the things said in IC chat when someone is angry is aimed at an OOC way and none of us can deny this when we or other people are angry.
PERPheads has developed more into an E-Sport rather a roleplay server and it has the same sort of game style which you expect in a GTA online lobby.
As someone who is staff, a decent rank in the PD and low-key gets shit thrown at him, I throw your shit back at you. No one is happy and there is always a problem everywhere.
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I was the officer that told you it was ok to shoot him
@Jack P "That is only 10K more" are you fucking kidding me? That's a 25% increase. Also what you're saying doesn't disagree with what I say, I didn't say the game is already dead, I'm saying statistics now don't mean anything for its long term health and that it's progressively dying even though slowly and the fact that there were 40k people before the pandemic doesn't change that. Look at this graph
Look at 2020. First little bump that barely hits the middle line is January 2020 (winter sale). Then a small drop because immediately after, so now, we're on the rise because of the pandemic.
You can tell the trend is going downwards, aside from small bumps in playercount that happen every year (I assume winter & summer sale). From 2014 to 2018 the game stayed mostly above the middle line, after 2018 it's been going downwards and on/below the middle line until the pandemic hit.
Source: https://steamcharts.com/app/4000#All
Look at 2020. First little bump that barely hits the middle line is January 2020 (winter sale). Then a small drop because immediately after, so now, we're on the rise because of the pandemic.
You can tell the trend is going downwards, aside from small bumps in playercount that happen every year (I assume winter & summer sale). From 2014 to 2018 the game stayed mostly above the middle line, after 2018 it's been going downwards and on/below the middle line until the pandemic hit.
Source: https://steamcharts.com/app/4000#All
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Hi, this will be my reply to this as I'm someone who is very vocal about my thoughts regarding this community since I've been in it since day 1.
Staff Team
The staff team has always had flaws, you're going to have people complain about things all the time since it isn't something that can be perfect as they're all human beings and it's something that can never be perfect as it wouldn't be progressing which would be terrible.
I do not agree with your point regarding the reports anymore I definitely used to however the last couple of reports I have made I've gotten a lot of help and very quickly.
The staff team is being worked on and is one of the key parts of the community, Bolli and his senior administration team obviously know this; thus the update regarding it yesterday was released which is totally fair and I think we're moving in the right direction.
I can speak up about staff meetings as this is something that has always been close to my heart and I was always pushing for it, the reason why they don't happen is because lack of discussions in there, simply because people are pussies. If I was an administrator now I would hold a community meeting to let the community speak their minds and have them explain what they think the staff team could do to improve the server.
Censorship
Firstly, this is not a controversial topic, I don't know about the rating stuff thus I will not comment on it.
However I will talk about something that I have been very vocal about during my times as a staff member and that is something you and I have had our disagreements on and till this day I do not like people using these certain words even if it's banter. We already know the word(S) is/are "nigga"
It's the silliest thing and the most ridiculous word to use even if there's no bad intent with it.
Roleplay
This is something serious and has to be worked on a lot, I do agree with a lot of your points here since this has been an issue for a long time. The problem with this issue is that the people who are the main issue in this are also a part of the people who complain a bunch about it, they all cry about it yet a lot of them are just general retards who don't know how to roleplay, all they do is just run around and get in shootouts and when you sort them out for it they cry about the game being boring; simply because they don't belong in a roleplaying enviroment. I do agree that staff should crack down on this, a lot.
Community
I think that the community toxicity is something that is being worked on heavily, from what I've understood as my short period of time as a helper the server is going to crack down on the toxicity a shit ton and sort players out for their idiotic behaviour, I will try my best to sort people out for being absolutely retarded to other players. The problem I see with forum reports is that you have no way of communicating with the person who's dealing with your forum report and it often gets closed without any communication between the staff member and the person who reports it.
I think that the reason why events don't happen is simply because of the fact that people beg for them at random times which results in some higher up administrators hosting them at random times meaning they have no special feel to them, which really sucks. However I think this is something that's going to change since we now have a community manager and I think it's important that this role works hard with bringing the community together.
I also think that the helper rank will do a ton for the forums while the moderators and such can focus on the server and the main issues on there we as helpers can work very closely with the staff team and sort this platform out which will result in them not having to care about it as much.
I myself will be staying in contact with the senior staff team and give suggestions on how we can improve the community as a whole.
Ban appeals for example will have to be dealt within 48 hours, if they're not I believe that the player should just be unbanned and the appeal to be automatically accepted. Thus I will be doing everything I can to enforce this.
Staff Team
The staff team has always had flaws, you're going to have people complain about things all the time since it isn't something that can be perfect as they're all human beings and it's something that can never be perfect as it wouldn't be progressing which would be terrible.
I do not agree with your point regarding the reports anymore I definitely used to however the last couple of reports I have made I've gotten a lot of help and very quickly.
The staff team is being worked on and is one of the key parts of the community, Bolli and his senior administration team obviously know this; thus the update regarding it yesterday was released which is totally fair and I think we're moving in the right direction.
I can speak up about staff meetings as this is something that has always been close to my heart and I was always pushing for it, the reason why they don't happen is because lack of discussions in there, simply because people are pussies. If I was an administrator now I would hold a community meeting to let the community speak their minds and have them explain what they think the staff team could do to improve the server.
Censorship
Firstly, this is not a controversial topic, I don't know about the rating stuff thus I will not comment on it.
However I will talk about something that I have been very vocal about during my times as a staff member and that is something you and I have had our disagreements on and till this day I do not like people using these certain words even if it's banter. We already know the word(S) is/are "nigga"
It's the silliest thing and the most ridiculous word to use even if there's no bad intent with it.
Roleplay
This is something serious and has to be worked on a lot, I do agree with a lot of your points here since this has been an issue for a long time. The problem with this issue is that the people who are the main issue in this are also a part of the people who complain a bunch about it, they all cry about it yet a lot of them are just general retards who don't know how to roleplay, all they do is just run around and get in shootouts and when you sort them out for it they cry about the game being boring; simply because they don't belong in a roleplaying enviroment. I do agree that staff should crack down on this, a lot.
Community
I think that the community toxicity is something that is being worked on heavily, from what I've understood as my short period of time as a helper the server is going to crack down on the toxicity a shit ton and sort players out for their idiotic behaviour, I will try my best to sort people out for being absolutely retarded to other players. The problem I see with forum reports is that you have no way of communicating with the person who's dealing with your forum report and it often gets closed without any communication between the staff member and the person who reports it.
I think that the reason why events don't happen is simply because of the fact that people beg for them at random times which results in some higher up administrators hosting them at random times meaning they have no special feel to them, which really sucks. However I think this is something that's going to change since we now have a community manager and I think it's important that this role works hard with bringing the community together.
I also think that the helper rank will do a ton for the forums while the moderators and such can focus on the server and the main issues on there we as helpers can work very closely with the staff team and sort this platform out which will result in them not having to care about it as much.
I myself will be staying in contact with the senior staff team and give suggestions on how we can improve the community as a whole.
Ban appeals for example will have to be dealt within 48 hours, if they're not I believe that the player should just be unbanned and the appeal to be automatically accepted. Thus I will be doing everything I can to enforce this.
It's really sad when stuff like unnecessary posting is apparently a more common warning reason than toxic behavior. This and the RP aspect was what made me leave again. I went on to get some good RP, but every time I tried, I would get mugged, killed, raided or constantly harassed by some people who finds it funny to annoy others that are just trying to be chill. Once I got tired of it, I went back to the PD, where it was just even worse. People take off for the most minor speeding offenses, they constantly bait police and when they actually kill everyone, they stick in the area instead of running away, which leads to the entire shootout starting again. This can be on repeat for hours on end, and the sweats answer is always "police likes shootouts too, we're just making it fun for you". Did you ever consider that we actually enjoy normal police RP? There's a reason I went to play FiveM instead. People actually talk to the police instead of just shooting or driving off. It's much more enjoyable than the current KOS state. Honestly, Perp is a glorified DarkRP right now.
Sorry for ranting and thanks for making this post @Synatec but it's not the first of it's kind and nothing ever gets done which is sad.
