LULA 2022 - PT 13

Well, way back in the day there used to be one for Corporal too, APD ditched it and the RnR kept it. But the flight test is really just fear mongering, if you can take off, land, and keep a heli stable you'll pass with zero issues. It's not like they're asking you to line up shots on a car engine for a left bench gunner or combat land a tier 4 hummingbird in an active warzone flight. It's purpose is making sure you won't blow stuff up with your auto hover landings and you won't keep getting stuck in the middle of the woods as the only flight medic on because you wrecked your main rotor every other landing. Even if you've never touched flying, with the 30 minute tutorials in the base game you'll be more than ready to pass it.

Three things. Any cop lowering a tier just for party to a crime is bitchmade, I'd say find the cop's Sgt or Lt on the CoC and message them the video as it's not IA worthy but it is a breach of general decorum (or at least it was when I was active). But keep in mind that it's situational, if the vigi is driving the getaway car in a fight where cops were tased/taken, or is involved in an event like pharma that's a whole different story. There's wrong place - wrong time, then there's doing a support function that would be done by someone on the crew regardless. There's also a huge disdain for vigis who help robbery crews, even just pulling security becomes unbalanced due to your taser. Having it be a Sgt + authority would effectively take it off the table. More often than not the highest ranking officer on the server is a Cpl, unless we allow cops to seize your shit while you're offline through Life Control (never happening) it's just not viable. And more often than not the decision is solid, I have 1300 cop hours and nowadays play about 8-12 a month. Maybe it's the times I play or how I run my patrols, but in 5 years as an active APD officer from 2017-2022 (2 as Cpl + 1 as FTO) I've never seen these great injustices firsthand. The first line of the vigi rules is that they're not above the law or server rules. As a vigi you can still play with friends, have fun, and do illegal stuff, but use your brain and know when to walk away. I speak for about 70% of the APD when I say you don't need to be a choir boy, but you do need to make choices that will protect what you've earned. There's a difference between a vigi doing an illegal run where they just drive away and a vigi helping others rob legal runs, do pharmaceuticals or similar events. You know the grind and often for the APD perception is reality, if you know it looks sketchy sit it out and go do something else. I'm not a vigi, but I can appreciate that you guys do a lot of work for it. Just like most Cpls having 300+ hours shouldn't shield them from disciplinary action for sketchy shit, tier 3+ shouldn't be an aegis from being held accountable for your actions. If you're courteous to the APD when they interact with you, build name recognition, and don't engage in unethical conduct your chances of facing an arbitrary punishment plummet. The other side is I'll openly admit to ripping vigis for petty stuff after they had built up a reputation for following the APD to steal bounties, going to support when they were in the wrong and being belligerent dicks. There was a vigi who would follow the APD around in Kav and try to engage everyone the APD didn't go code 3 or chose to let go. You bet your ass the day I caught him with a manslaughter I seized his shit without a second thought. Perhaps an (admittedly) RP-heavy middle ground could be mandatory reporting on vigilante seizures and reductions past tier 3. When seizing or reducing a vigi license officers would need to fill out a quick google form with the IGN (or PID if they choose to provide it) of the vigilante, a justification for the seizure (immune from meta e.g. subject has a history of impeding the APD would be a valid reason) and supporting documents if they exist. Not worth much, but if the vigi feels it's unfair they could request a copy of the report and appeal it with staff and it would make it easier for staff and SAPD to see if there was a pattern of an individual being targeted or certain officers forgoing RP/discretion.

Oh yeah, the current radar sucks so having you hold it on for 5 as it currently is would be as good as nothing. On that note, we'll have to see it implemented to see how it works but I think a priori it should be 2 seconds or instant speed but longer hold for name. As is, by the time the thing gives you a name you'd be close enough to have it anyways.

Quick question on the ALPR, does "5 seconds to open" mean from scrollwheel it will take 5 seconds to start capturing or it will take a full 5 seconds from first contact to showing the information? Also on that note, the current radar function through shift L barely works in the sense that getting a hit is very rng based. Will you have to maintain ALPR contact for 5 seconds before the information appears?

I ain't reading allat. But I *am* the guy who designed the dad swag Hawaiian shirt with mom jeans and I can vouch, it was an O+ skin from the day it hit the trello.

Damn bro, didn't have to roast me like that

Shit, the RnR lost a good one today. You were by far one of my favorite boomers and a chill dude. Now enjoy e-retirement by taking the kiddos to a park or something.

This could be a cool dynamic for rank progression TBH. Corporals get access to slick cars or slicktops with the bullbar, being able to use unmarked cars outside of undercover status if they have a police furniture on them, etc.

Fuck that, I want an invisible car.

Good initiative, bad execution. Arma 3 is so old it's going to be starting middle school soon. At this point it's such a weird niche game with so much video content that in all likelihood anyone who would come due to a TikTok ad already owns the game. At this point, anyone getting this ad will undoubtedly already have seen drewski or sovietwomble clips, and if those haven't convinced them to buy the game I doubt the sub-par (sorry devs) vanilla RP server ad will move the needle.

Fire Science Nutrition's Blue Raspberry Burn would just leave me itchy is hell and not have that much of an effect, every other pre workout I tried was similar, and since I like to alternate land days and swimming that shit would leave me feeling ill after a few laps. What does work for me is a nice shot of espresso with honey. Truth be told, you don't need supplements if you just want to get big, most of those giant guys shilling unregulated supplements are juicing, people could still get big naturally before the supplement industry got big and doing your daily 1 hour workout won't get you to that beast level even with expensive supplements. Eating a balanced diet and sleeping enough will give you better results than supplements without those two things.

My brother in christ; how? There's only so much "roleplay" you can do sitting in Kav and talking to people that doesn't break medic or server rules, and not the most exciting shouldn't mean more boring than doing excel sheets. How about this; go lobby about taking casino and escort away from APD and then we'll talk.

So what are medics supposed to do in those long ass stretches where nothing is going on? Or for that matter during most times below peak where there's only revives in Kav or more medics than revives. Yesterday I was on with 5 other medics, fuckall going on so me and a paramedic were sitting in a heli at air hospital watching Netflix and waiting for a call outside kav to come in, played for a solid 2 hours and got about 10 revives that entire time. DP missions don't pay enough to cover the insurance and pull cost on the aircraft to do them, viable revives aren't abundant outside small stretches and DP missions were the only thing filling those hours. Like myself and plenty of other Sr Medics have said, despite the complaints cases of legitimate dereliction of duty for side activities is close to non-existent. It's also funny how y'all say medics, the faction with the least gameplay opportunities should only do their one small mission, meanwhile you don't say anything when APD spend hours in Casino, goofing around or doing shit like escorts vs proactively patrolling.

Jesus H christ, minister carb went full sicko mode. Mang, I guess those 50+ hours on the RnR redesign are down the shitter now. Either way it's been fun and congrats on making it out. When I started to get the ball rolling on quitting I thought it was too late to make e-friends, you and the windows key enthusiasts proved me wrong and I'm happier for it. Go treat yourself to some coloring books and two juice boxes mr business major lime, you've earned it. And deadass best of luck on your new adventures, even if they involve the IRS in a capacity outside of tax evasion. also, Hell yeah we're gonna bring the shitposts to Nexus.

Reforger uses a new engine that has switched in-engine scripts to the new Enforce language and the engine itself works with different frameworks. By BI's admission it's completely different, not very interchangeable with things made for A3. and has a learning curve. Right off the bat, it requires learning the new language, salvaging what's possible and having to re-do a lot from scratch. That's not a simple task, especially for the dozens to hundreds of scripts currently on the server and when you have to keep up with the heavy workload of development for the server, with a team of volunteers, part time, and not exactly a large one either. The game could be used as a testbed, but don't expect a server anytime soon, what little content there is, it's 100% military focused and as far as I know we don't even have any 3d artists to make the dozens of models for the game to be barely playable in an RP game mode. By being set in the 80s, a lot of things we take for granted will also have to be re-made from scratch or wait until a rudimentary version comes out from BI. The real goal is A4, but information on that is minimal. Like many have said, reforger is a glorified tech demo and test-bed for Enfusion, don't expect a server anytime soon, but as @ Ryan has already said and implied multiple times that when the time to transition comes, it will happen.

5 days.