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Civilian Rework SWAT. @ doctor doom Remove APD Requirement. Rework Senior SWAT. Senior SWAT are not enforcing rules. Sergeant Rank should be restructured to a merit based promotion for players who have experience & lead (like Corporal on S1) Allow LT+ to accept applications. The current system only allows @ Caden to accept SWAT applications. The current system is gatekeeping a dying faction. Should allow a lower standard of acceptance in order to increase SWAT roster/ skill. Willing to establish a new alternative metric for application evaluation. Factors: Ban History within previous month of application. Conquest Time/ Experience. Community Standing: (Whitelists including APD, Support, CC, etc.). Results: [1] The official requirement for deputy will be dropped, however, it will still be up to Sr SWAT's discretion to determine who can be accepted into SWAT (including, but not limited to the factors listed below). Ie, players with excessive conquest experience and clean ban history should be accepted, but @ Caden will still retain the ability to deny applications for players that appear unfit for the role. There may be additional discussion on this point with Head CC & Caden to further settle on something agreeable. Changes to application metrics have already been established internally. Cartels Drug Cartel Perk/ Value Changes @ WALT Owning the Drug Cartel automatically speeds up processing to 50% processing bonus for Meth & Moonshine. Owning the Drug Cartel automatically processes Weed, Cocaine, Heroin, & Mushroom to double processed, instead of the current two cycle process for drugs. Incentives Fights & Incentivizes Illegal Runs Change the current drug cartel tax system @ WALT Instead of taxing sales, tax processing instead. Value is determined based on individual drugs at a max flat rate. Reason for Denial: [1] There is already a speed buff when owning the cartel, along with many other benefits (eg tax on sales, passive income, etc). [2] Seeing lots of opposition to this; if you want to buff cartels, I don't think this is the way to go about it. Especially considering that someone doing runs isn't going to be able to consistently pivot to cartel fighting. Overall, this probably wouldn't have a huge impact on cartels but could significantly harm runs. Scats Suicide Vest Rule Change. @ Pol Suicide vests can now be used to kill restrained players. If the APD or the Hostage takers group, spots a tagged gang member from said group with a suicide vest on they can KOS. Players can already crossfire with a Grenade and such + contradicting statements from staff makes it unclear whether you can crossfire with a vest or not, this rule change is healthy as the vest alone is expensive, rarely used, and give much need clarification on grey area. Rule Change - Chapter 15: Explosive Items: Suicide vests may be used at any time following normal roleplay rules. Misuse of suicide vests to kill restrained players or destroy vehicles for no reason may still result in administrative action. Suicide vests may be used to kill restrained gang & group members. APD & players holding said player in restraints may KOS spotted gang member wearing a suicide vest. Reason for Denial: [1] See @ David Miller's response outlining what you can and cannot do; it's almost already allowed, but with some constraints to force a little bit of roleplay. Runs Move Platinum Processor to a new & location. @ TroyOGG Players who participate in run, want a better & safer spot for processing. Due to long travel distance & low pay from platinum, it seems justified. Reason for Denial: [1] Already changed recently, also no reason to further buff legal runs at this current time. https://gyazo.com/92351982985ff66371194a34956c2e7e Feds Add RPG-42 to Blackwater Loot Table. @ doctor doom Item is to be set as "Ultra Rare" Reasoning: [1] Was added as a new dynamic item for the Blackwater loot pool, to give a new rare item to the civilian arsenal. Add Verona to Blackwater Loot Table @ doctor doom Item is to be set as "Ultra Rare" Limit range on Verona to "2 Kilometers" amount. Reason for Denial: Wire guided ground missiles have no place in a life server. Pharma Changes: @ Big John1 Change 85% Drop Off -> 50% Drop Off Create a 200% Pharmaceutical Drop-Off near Pygros. Reasoning: [1] Changes were established because the 85% Drop Off is highly uncontested for both APD & Civilians, leading to this event to be too easy and a money farm for civilians. Therefore, nerfing 85% and adding a 200% Drop-Off will add to the dynamic of pharma for both Civilians & APD. The 200% location will be located near Pygros, so it won't be an easy "cop out" option. Remove CMR from Patrol Officers. @ Big John1 Too overpowered for the ability for all patrol officers to use. Reason for Denial: [1] Gun is not widely used, and there is no valid reason for weapon to be removed from Patrol Officers. Limit APD to 2 Striders per wave at Federal Events. @ Big John1 Only limiting total number of striders pulled for Federal Events, this does not include Hunters. Too much smoke & smoke fighting at Federal Events Reason for Denial: [1] There are circumstances where this may make sense, but others where it does not. If re-proposed, there should be some included bounds where this is applicable (ie, escalation parameters). Additionally, the current fed stats are learning in the favor of civilians, so it's probably not an optimal time to make this change. Increase time to search red zones for APD from 15 Minutes -> 20 Minutes. @ virus Rule Change will be in effect from June 26th and rolled back on July 25th. WPL bonus will be nerfed 5% ( 20% -> 15%) Some illegal processers will receive changes to be more defendable in the August Update. Reasoning: [1] Currently APD numbers are at an all time high, while the percentage of illegal runs being completed is decreasing. We need a reason for players to do more illegal runs, which is why a smaller risk for players to complete these runs are the best way to go about the change to cater to current server population. Rule change is being assessed through a trial period, to determine if illegal run productivity is increased, with that being said WPL bonus was determined to be nerfed with change by 5%. With this change it was determined to buff processers locations for illegal runs, to maker runs easier to defend rather than being a sitting duck waiting to be robbed. RNR Rule Restricting amount of medics that can be taken for a Federal Event The number of medics allowed to be taken would go on the number of medics online. 1-3 Medics Online (Hostages Max 1) 4-5 Medics Online (Hostages Max 2) 6+ Medics Online (Hostages Max 3) Reasoning: [1] This will help maintain the ability for other players to still be revived across the island when there's an active federal event. This should significantly reduce the number of complaints that Senior R&R receive of “Medic didn’t revive me” // “I bled out, and the medic didn’t even move” //. R&R Enter As Co-pilot Simple QOL change; allows medics to enter as copilot without unlocking their helicopter. APD Weapon seizure gives 10% of weapon value split between all APD Officers in the area. Eg. An APD Officer seizing an MK-1 ($125k) would receive a split of $12.5k. Reasoning: [1] APD Officers receive money for seizing virtual illegal items and this should be no different for illegal/charge permitting seizure weapons. A 10% value of the weapon is a reasonable amount of money for disposing of an illegal/charge permitting seizure weapon. Rare weapon item seizure prices are to be evaluated further. Flares and Radar notification to Hummingbird. The Hummingbird is already an exposed vehicle that is not difficult to shoot down. The lack of flares and radar means it has no counter to titans. Reason for Denial: [1] It was determined that their is no reason to add flares for the same reason that vanilla Arma does not include flares on Hummingbirds. It is determined if you wish to have flares on Heli, players should just have to pay for an upgrade for a vehicle that has flares, rather than go cheap and risk being titaned. Perks of paying high value for said protection. Also it was seen as an issue for players that bench snipe, it would give them too much of an advantage. Black, Dazzle and Olive Hummingbird variants for SGT+ for patrol. The Hummingbird is already an exposed vehicle that is not difficult to shoot down. This adds additional varients for SGT+ to utilize for patrol. Reason for Denial: [1] APD Vehicles shall have APD textures; if you don't like your current texture; please work with texture design to get a new one. Ifrit to Active Captain+ Limited to utilizing one Ifrit on the server at a time. Adds an additional armoured vehicle to the APD arsenal. This is balanced due to it only being accessible by Active Captain+ and limited to only being able to utilize one Ifrit on the server at a time. Reason for Denial: [1] Ifrits will not be added to the APD outside of SWAT; additionally, captain was justified as a whitelist with perks no different than LT as a bridge between LT and deputy chief, we intend to uphold this decision. Mushroom converted to illegal item. Cow Manure Field changes to a redzone. Mushroom is a low risk run that is the only single field illegal run that the field is not illegal. Mushroom contributes a significant amount of money to the economy and needs to have additional risk. Reason for Denial: [1] Diversity in runs is good; if you think mushrooms are too strong given their situation, a price of distance change would be more appropriate. Increase Ghillie Suit price. Marksmen $10k -> $25k Rat Ghillie (non-marksman DLC) $10k -> $15k Reasoning: [1] Obscures player's names at close distances providing a considerable advantage for a currently negligible price. Increase bullet damage to tires by 30%. Tires currently take a more than reasonable amount of bullets to shoot out tires on vehicles. Increasing damage to tires makes it easier for everyone to disable vehicles rather than being forced to attempt to pit. Reason for Denial: [1] Many tires are already very easy to destroy, especially with the resources already at the APD's disposal. Remove armour stacking on server 1, convert to Conquest System. CSAT/Granit would only be able to be worn with a tier 2 vest. Pilot Coveralls (only obtainable from Federal Events/Airdrop) would still be able to be worn with any tier vest. Solution: Granit's in-shop are not stackable with t3+ Remove one variant of granits from warpoint shop and make item event exclusive like pcovs. Reasoning: [1] Players are able to wear granits which are reasonably low priced for the considerable amount of protection they provide, paired with a tier 3 or higher vest which in the case of the tier 3 is purchasable for a low price. This turns players into bullet sponges and causes a significant disparity compared to a majority of the APDs armour and the armour of newer or less war orientated players. Solution was created to make granits less accessible and more expensive. APD Escort Vehicle spawns tier 4. Reasoning: [1] The APD escort vehicle spawning tier 0 means it is sluggish to drive. Changing the vehicle spawn to tier 4 mirrors how the Blackwater vehicles spawn. There will be a maximum number of 2/3/4 Qilin/Prowlers per small/ medium/ large APD escort. Reasoning: [1] This was originally added to the APD Handbook when the APD Escort Event was first added to limit the number Qilins/Prowlers that the APD utilizes during the event. Since the event has been added and APD Officers have conducted the event a considerable number of civilians usually attempt to stop the event to get the high value loot from the vehicle. Due to the number of civilians and the gear that they use attempting to counter the event it is no longer felt limiting Qilins/Prowlers vehicles is necessary. You can find the roster for the @Head Civilian Council here. As always you can find details on how to apply here:

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General Revert back to Rain Weather System @ anti Remove Fog Weather System. Re-skin of Monthly Conquest Wetsuit @ ArX Reasoning: [1] Majority selected that the rain weather cycle should be brought back with the removal of fog. As seen through popular opinion and forums polls. [2] Conquest players would like a reskin of the monthly conquest wetsuit, since the current one has been the same for ages. Cartels Weekend Airdrop Event in Warzone @ Nephew Would occur on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays at 9PM EST (after conquest ends). 2 Airdrops on Server 1 that occur in Warzone. Both spawn at same time. Spawns at random points within warzone. Airdrops would include 1 Vehicle Airdrop & 1 Gear Airdrop. Gear would have a higher percentage of better gear including (Mar-10, Zafir, T5, etc.) APD may wave in with a maximum of 8 members. APD may have two waves. APD may utilize 3 armored vehicles such as (Striders & Hunters). Incentivizes Server 3 players to log on Server 1. Best Fights for airdrop events occurred in Warzone before it was removed. Reasoning: Cartel players would like to bring back warzone airdrops with a new twist. With this event the goal is to increase s1 player population with a more appealing attempt to bring s3 players onto the main server for incentivized fights in warzone. Some details may differ in final implementation to make development easier. Scats Add Confirmation/ Checkmark before storing vehicles that have Y-Inventory/ Gear in vehicle inventory @ SPBojo Turtle Poaching Buff @ TapTap Ability to collect/ poach turtles anywhere on map, in the water except within 1.5km of any Turtle Dealer. Alternative if Denied: Increase % of Turtle Spawn signigantly in Turtle Poaching Red-Zones. Reasoning: [1] Addition helps specifically newer players: goal is to prevent players from accidentally losing gear/ resources upon storage. [2] Buff was denied due to the lack of risk for turtle poaching, with would prove too overpowered for profit margins. Alternative is not easily possible to develop. Runs Delivery Mission Nerf @ Fayrel Change payout: so money is rewarded on hand, rather than straight to players bank account. Would work like current Plane Delivery Mission System. Add Gang Vehicles Garage to Olympus Stats Page Database @ TapTap Would be located under players specific gang page. Rank 2+ can view. Reasoning: [1] Profit margins for delivery missions were the highest run on the server, delivery mission were nerfed slightly to increase risk. Change reflects current style of plane deliveries. [2] Added so gangs can see gang vehicles on stats page. Vigis Vigilante Shop Additions/ Price Changes @ Sir Rebral Palsy Prowler added to Tier 4 Vigilante. SparGL Smoke Grenade Price Reduction $10,000 -> $800-$1000 Reason: currently overpriced/ not used. Add Multicam/ MTP Camo Fatigues to Vigilante Clothing Shop If possible add most rebel "base clothing" items to Vigilante Clothing Shop, excluding ghillie suits. Add Hunter to Tier 5 Vigilante Can only be purchased with proposed "Renown" Points. Price: 20 "Renown" Points + $400,000. Locked to Vigilante Hunter Skin. Reasoning: [1] Prowler was added to tier 4 to give lower ranked vigilantes a more versatile vehicle that isn't as overpowered. [2] Price reduction was added for SPARGL since it's currently overpriced and underused. [3] Added more uniforms for vigi, to give more camo and a larger variety of clothing for vigilantes to choose from. [4] Postponed, until initial implementation of renown points before further expanding it. Feds Rule Change regarding APD @ anti Change so APD cannot seize weapons/ illegal gear until being processed at the APD HQ properly, or if detainee volunteers to be processed on site. Although rule change was denied: items seized will have a 15% of gear being placed in Evidence Locker. Remove 30 Minute Timer on Dope Shots @ monster Allows the use of dope shots to be used all the time. Alternative if denied: Reduce Timer to 15 Minutes. Rule Change regarding APD @ rabid Remove rule regarding: inner ring guns Hot after bomb blows for BW GROUND VEHICLES ONLY (rule is highlighted) https://imgur.com/fw52YU2 Rule Change regarding R&R @ rabid Medics who choose to willingly enter an illegal area to answer a call cannot be killed unless they are properly engaged. However, all medics must READ AND UNDERSTAND the Exception as well as the Special Circumstances listed below: Exception: Medic GROUND UNITS (ONLY) are Shoot Kill-On-Sight at Cartels, War Zone, Rebels, at active Federal Events (Jailbreak/Federal Reserve Robbery/Blackwater Robbery), Active Banks and Active Blue Zones. Air units must still be engaged or sufficiently warned. Land vehicles, amphibious vehicles, medics on foot, and pilots who decide to land at these locations are all considered ground units. Reasoning: This will prevent APD from lethaling medics without two non-lethal attempts. Buff Blackwater Loot Table @ monster Reason: Players tired of receiving low-value rewards for the difficult event. Remove Items Listed in pictures (with red X) https://imgur.com/3uzWtxf https://i.imgur.com/SJfjNQv.png Buff Federal Reserve Gold @ monster Minimum Gold Spawned: 200 -> 300 Maximum Gold Spawned: 400 -> 500 Reason: Incentivize gangs to do more federal reserve robberies, creating more consistent content on Server 1. Reasoning: [1] Rule change didn't deem necessary for change due to popular opinion, considered situational and usually gear is only seized during priority events/ situations. Although it was denied gear will now have a chance of being added to evidence locker loot pool when seized upon current restart. [2] Denied, due to making gear hard to lost and causing players to not utilize medics. Also make federal events signigantly less dynamic. [3] Agreement was made for ground vehicles at BW, due to the inability for gangs to properly get ground vehicles out of inner rings because of difficulty and current loss percentage of BW. [4] Denied since it's players responsibility to keep medics alive for said events, and is deemed the players fault if medic is unproperly protected resulting in medics death. [5] BW loot tables will be reassessed, and some low-value gear available at rebel will be removed from loot table. Some good items will have increased % of spawn rates (titans, taser mk-1s, envgs, etc.) will run simulations to get a better sample size of the spawn rates to figure out restructure. [6] Federal Reserve statistics are in a pretty good place and increasing rewards will just lead to larger stacks. Does not need to be further adjusted. RNR Add Recovery Tow Truck Jobs - Revisit from past roundtable Medic talks to Impound Yard NPC and requests a broken car recovery mission. Responding rescue personnel recovers the vehicle and transports to the impound yard for impound cash. Options for Small / Large Broken-Down-Car Jobs Small missions spawn a SUV Large Missions spawn a Qilin. Vehicle spawns within 1 KM of the medic. Can only do one at a time (No cluttering server objects). Steps to prevent abuse: Make them not lock-pickable to prevent abuse from pirates/looters. The vehicle is disabled to prevent Medics from driving the car to impound yards. Reasoning: Significant development lift for miniscule content for a small group of people; additionally, even if medics are dropping these to go to calls, having to drive a HEMETT 1km to get heli back is not ideal. Perm tow hook Only need to carry one & can use it as many times as you want Price would need to be adjusted to be higher Item barely gets used, and when it is, it can be highly inconvenient to have to buy another for such a menial task Larger Backpack Invisible Bergen already exists; allows medics to fully carry dive gear (suit, rebreather AND googles) / extra equipment Northern Hospital This Would help Jr. Medics (Basic & EMT) respond to northern requests quicker, when there are no ADV + Online Establishes an additional nexus for the R&R to use in facilitating any duties in the vicinity Add timestamp to map dispatch markers Allows medics to easily see timers for important messages sent through dispatches I.e. Medic dispatch saying "Medic don't revive anyone here or die". A timer next to the dispatch icon on the map will let medics know exactly how close their 5 minute engagement time is to being over to re-approach the location. Reasoning: [1] Perm tow hooks are to be cross faction & permanent y-item which doesn't get removed after use. [2] Allows for larger storage for all necessary RNR on the job equipment. [3] New hospital allows for easier access to northern part of the map, will help increase efficient revives within that sector of the map. [4] Allows medics to have easier access to timetables for situational initiations and events. Change Denied color - if requested denial If someone has requested denial then the denied color goes to red, would prefer to go to a different shade of orange to show that they are denied because they requested it This would help show the reason why someone is denied, and help deter people revving people that have requested denial Change Medic rank icons above medics heads to help differentiate between the ranks. Example of type of icons https://i.gyazo.com/98a9bc192140fdea8800cdcc058bbd20.png Reasoning: [1] Allows for more efficient denials for players. [2] Helps players identify medic ranks, much like APD rank icons. APD Add: $100k minimum lethal payout in WarZone. The $100k would still be split between all APD Officers within the radius of the lethal. Reasoning: When lethaling in WarZone civs do not necessarily have high bounties (or have already been lethal'd) to cover cost of the death of an APD Officers in WarZone. $100k covers some money towards that death if a lethal is obtained. The ability to deploy smoke from the Strider driver seat. Reasoning: Not easily developable due to the way Arma works, also not hard to just switch seats in a Strider. Change: 7.62 suppressor from uncommon to rare at the Evidence Locker. Reasoning: The 7.62 suppressor is supposed to be a rare item and with the current spawn rate it is fairly common to acquire at the Evidence Locker. Drop the road kit from Corporal+ to Patrol Officer+. Rule Change: Corporal+ Patrol Officer+ can utilize road kits. Reasoning: Denied due to performance concerns by @ Fraali Increase the minimum amount of cops for no wave at Jail from 5 to 7 & for evidence locker 5 to 10 (at least until Jail and Evidence Locker are split). Rule Change: If 5 7 or less officers are online during a Jailbreak, wave rule is not required. If 5 10 or less officers are online during a Evidence Lockup, wave rule is not required. Reasoning: As can be seen from the stats civs have been conducting a good amount of Jails with the intent of doing Evidence Lockers to obtain the gear. A majority of these have been won by the civ meaning a vast amount of gear has been obtained and is now in circulation. Obviously with the Jail being on an island it is difficult to push and this is reflected in the stats, this change will hopefully help with those stats. You can find the roster for the @Civilian Council here. As always you can find details on how to apply here:

Death of all other s3 conquest servers, fun game mode but hopefully it won’t kill our server like the rest.

@ anti

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While I agree it's ratty asf, it goes down to gang leadership to be smarter about who they recruit in their gang. In your defense many small gangs don't imagine or expect a situation like that to occur. But like most gangs over the years we have learned from these toxic altercations to expect the unexpected.

@ anti I personally believe a system like Asylum would work on here. Maybe not the rotating caps but they have a total of 4 cartels. My ideal suggestion would to keep the two top cartels Drug (Church Cap) & Arms (OG) in Warzone. Then implement a similar alternative (that works around Olympus's counterpart features) like Asylum's Wongs/ Oil Cartel somewhere else on the map; not in warzone.

Cartels were never meant for beginners or new players but rather a different style of play to promote an endgame incentive for the rebel faction. As seen over the past couple of years, the cartel scene has been in a gradual decline for quite some time now; which is a result of the game dyeing, game bans, stagnant content, and of course gang life declining as a whole. This change was not in any way discussed as a way to capitalize on the benefits gained by cartels, but rather to inspire the growth of larger gangs, increase combat in warzone, and bring back the overall competitive nature of cartels. Cartels were always meant to be fought over and can be seen as one of the most competitive roots of Arma 3. Because of this decline, now is the time for change before there is no turning back and cartel life in its entirety is gone. Asylum has had two cartels relating to drugs/arms for quite some time now, and was an overall success. This is why we are also making a change of scenery. This change is meant as a testing ground/stepping stone for features to come for cartels and to bring life/content back to the cartel scene. Maybe even add some different cartels not relating to drug/arms One of my biggest arguments is the current state of cartel gangs; there are not that many left. I would hope that this change will promote smaller groups to band together with the common idea of becoming a larger group to compete/dominate in the cartel scene. There is no group cap for cartels for a reason, so take this as an opportunity to recruit & build yourself a larger gang in order to reap the benefits of cartels accordingly. There will always be the "roaches", "backcappers", and "conquest gangs". these are common playstyles for combat regardless of game mode and there is nothing wrong with that. Condensing the cartels in my opinion is best for the server and we will see the results of this change hopefully in the near future. As stated briefly, I originally wanted there to be only two cartels (Drug Cartel & Arms Cartel). Civ-Council & staff came up with a compromise in order to appease the server as a whole which has led us to the current roundtable change which is 3 cartels. Moving all cartels into warzone should increase combat and the number of gangs inside of warzone. By moving tower cap we are freeing up the peninsula for hopefully some new content that is in a very appealing spot on the map. I also understand the argument about the underdogs, but there are already features in place for that like the new black market buffs. Combat takes time and experience, and the best way to counteract that is by practice & overall build up your gang to compete for what I might say is the most generous money making method on the server. Cartels should be earned and fought over. PSA; I try to be as non-biased as I can and I would love for future feedback for not only cartels but conquest as well. Please reach out to me for any content suggestions, questions, or concerns and I would love to work with you to see what we can do.