LULA 2022 - PT 13

Why does that dog look like it's gonna ask if I have games on my phone?

See you man, by far the best corp rec (I think?) I put in. Best of luck in your crayon connoisseur/joint destroying adventures.

I can back you up, you used to be able to load ATVs into the cargo van and I know for a fact because on cop we'd try seeing how fast we could be going before deploying them for shits and giggles.

Women are like cassoulet, the best ones have sausage.

You think it's funny to take screenshots of people's NFTs, huh? Property theft is a joke to you? I'll have you know that the blockchain doesn't lie. I own it. Even if you save it, it's my property. You are mad that you don't own the art that I own. Delete that screenshot.

https://gyazo.com/751c54564d51fd56be57836c4aaa8dc2 I don't disagree that this was technically a rule break, but the rule is scuffed as hell. As you can see, in the entire server rules gang base is tucked away in a subsection of a subsection at the bottom of the server rules, the rules themselves don't even go as far as stating the time it happens or the restriction you brought up of it falling under conquest rules, it just says "warzone rules" which the vigi in this case didn't break. If the dispute was also just the word "one" it was clearly in bad faith and in my (non-staff) opinion should've been rendered worthless just by that fact. The vigis were scummy, but expecting them to follow a rule that's not in the actual rules, and only found in a year old post on the 3rd page of the announcements sections is unreasonable. In my opinion, this ban shouldn't have happened due to the posted rules not reflecting the existence of this restriction, the bad faith dispute and in the future gang base skirmishes should warrant a recurring notification every 10 minutes or so explaining to stay away from the area and city.

O7 airplane man

+1 I know the dev team gets a lot of shit from all sides, but they're the ones who make it possible for the rest of us to do what we find mildly enjoyable. Thank you to all the devs except @ Venomm , he smells like patchouli and dip spit.

@ Mike Lit

Should probably put a little hat on it, since the circumcision took away the natural one.

It is now 3970, pray it does not sink lower, comrade.

He is as great as our immortal chairman Mao. I propose we give him the 七一勋章 for his outstanding contributions! 党谴责对同胞的冒犯性语言。立即停止这种反社会行为！

I get that, my main point is intrinsic vs extrinsic rewards. The APD is still working with the former when it's simply not the same motivator it was even a few years ago. The whole undercover thing was pretty OP when it first came out. we can spend brainpower, resources and political capital making a gimmick for less than 20 people, but we can't figure out a way to motivate and value the majority of the faction? It doesn't have to be anything crazy, but numbers wise the RnR is about the same size as the APD in juniors and they seem to have a higher level of job satisfaction. Like I said, I'm not a decision maker and you're getting paid the big e-bux to figure this stuff out. But from my observations, I think the APD needs to fundamentally change the way it approaches rank structures, gameplay and interactions at a vertical and horizontal level, because having an almost full server with barely any cops at peak times is a symptom of a bigger issue.

The backbone of the APD is deputies and POs, we have 104 in total on the sheets and using the 7 days active it drops down to 77, with Corporals it's only 96 active Jr APD. I'd love to break it down by how many are barely hitting minimums, but sadly the public data doesn't really accommodate that level of analysis. It used to be that by average time, POs were doing most of the work, we're now seeing an inversion of that trend where most of the hours are now sgt>cpl>PO. This goes deeper than a 3 week old fed wave in my opinion, there's little incentive for the Jr APD to play in general. As the server pop declines, faction numbers will too, but it's not uncommon to find the server full of civs with only enough cops to fill a unit channel, those numbers only tick up when seniors or a group of Cpl+ friends get on. Historically, deputy and PO have been rotating doors and currently the numbers aren't looking great when you realize the huge turnover at that rank. There's not much that can be done to alter the cop formula, but I believe that a lot of the recruiting and retention issues could be fixed by getting in-depth statistics and sitting down with a wide variety of Jr APD to see what they want changed. Winters has been doing a decent job, but the Jr APD idea form died out after a few weeks, and, at this point in the server's life, Jr APD participation in the bigger aspects of the faction will only become more important as time goes on to maintain more than a skeleton crew. I don't have a specific fix for this off the top of my head that doesn't result in a half-baked APD buff, but then again I'm not a decision maker so it's not really my problem to worry about. From what I see, it seems the APD is still working with the outdated mindset that tons of people want to play cop and the whitelist is a reward within itself, which isn't really reflective of the current meta, the glory days aren't coming back and the APD needs to take a page from the RnR's book and work on valuing the bulk of their faction more than it currently does.