In no way am I criticising the current admins and I know they work incredibly hard. I just feel due to the scale of the server, it would be beneficial to have a greater staff presence in general.
Since I have started playing the GTA server, the number of VDMers and RDMers has been a major limiting factor for my experience. Of course, playing as a medic and a cop will ultimately lead to myself being a greater target however in the past few days, I have found myself a lot more aggravated over the issue than usual.
I will use tonight as an example. There was a brief, maybe 1 hour period of no staff presence on the server at all. In this period, legion square had effectively descended into an anarchistic state where every police officer on the server literally had to barricade themselves together and then spent the next 30 minutes defending themselves from countless articulated lorries being driven towards the police positions. It was comparable to some of the videos that can be seen from early on in the 2011 Tottenham Riots (Except rather than burning shopping trolleys, it was articulated lorries and vans). This period occurred on the peak playing time of the server of around 9.00pm. I have seen this replicated numerous times recently.
This leads onto my second point of the actual punishments that are given to those who offend. Now, I have no idea how to correctly administrate a roleplay server however one thing I feel I can see is clear in the GTA server in comparison to Altis Life is how relaxed the punishment system is. I came over from Altis life with a very good knowledge of the Altis Life punishment system. I had rightfully been punished multiple times for stupid mistakes I had made on Altis Life. In FiveM, I can often see the same individual screaming racial slurs while ramming a vehicle into myself get kicked and told to read the rules twice within 24 hours. Now that was only one incident but I see very little bans on the server in comparison to a much less active Altis Life server and I don't think I have ever seen a GTA RP unban appeal. I would understand if it was a situation where rules where fairly well kept to on the server however this is not the case. Most players are mature and pleasant however there is still a large proportion of people who join with the sole reason of trolling, screaming racial slurrs and trying to ruin everyones RP experiences.
I do however understand that the actual community has a role to play in submitting report a players however there only so many you can do especially with a game that is so hard to actually identify anyone in the situations.
I would like to emphasise, this is feedback from a single persons perspective and the reason I say such things is I really do want the server to thrive. There is nothing more I would like to see 1 year from now than a community triple the size with 3 full servers.
Lube
Since I have started playing the GTA server, the number of VDMers and RDMers has been a major limiting factor for my experience. Of course, playing as a medic and a cop will ultimately lead to myself being a greater target however in the past few days, I have found myself a lot more aggravated over the issue than usual.
I will use tonight as an example. There was a brief, maybe 1 hour period of no staff presence on the server at all. In this period, legion square had effectively descended into an anarchistic state where every police officer on the server literally had to barricade themselves together and then spent the next 30 minutes defending themselves from countless articulated lorries being driven towards the police positions. It was comparable to some of the videos that can be seen from early on in the 2011 Tottenham Riots (Except rather than burning shopping trolleys, it was articulated lorries and vans). This period occurred on the peak playing time of the server of around 9.00pm. I have seen this replicated numerous times recently.
This leads onto my second point of the actual punishments that are given to those who offend. Now, I have no idea how to correctly administrate a roleplay server however one thing I feel I can see is clear in the GTA server in comparison to Altis Life is how relaxed the punishment system is. I came over from Altis life with a very good knowledge of the Altis Life punishment system. I had rightfully been punished multiple times for stupid mistakes I had made on Altis Life. In FiveM, I can often see the same individual screaming racial slurs while ramming a vehicle into myself get kicked and told to read the rules twice within 24 hours. Now that was only one incident but I see very little bans on the server in comparison to a much less active Altis Life server and I don't think I have ever seen a GTA RP unban appeal. I would understand if it was a situation where rules where fairly well kept to on the server however this is not the case. Most players are mature and pleasant however there is still a large proportion of people who join with the sole reason of trolling, screaming racial slurrs and trying to ruin everyones RP experiences.
I do however understand that the actual community has a role to play in submitting report a players however there only so many you can do especially with a game that is so hard to actually identify anyone in the situations.
I would like to emphasise, this is feedback from a single persons perspective and the reason I say such things is I really do want the server to thrive. There is nothing more I would like to see 1 year from now than a community triple the size with 3 full servers.
Lube
