Nate

30 minutes ago, Kyle said:

permban @ Headtaps

I second this.

@ Mister gavin  out here running the Altis Crime Reports Facebook Page. Good work officer!

17 minutes ago, The Sovereign said:

Never been so hard to get a straight non conflicting answer

It was @ Masonn , believe @ WALT helped with the playtesting / ideas that went into the cap. Big John might've had some input as well, but Walt and Mason were the main designers. (Mason doing in-game vs Walt giving ideas/guidance). This can be seen most clearly from the hotfix notes though (image above).

While the APD suggestions form does not see too many responses, all Senior APD are able to view it and we attempt to make an effort to discuss these during our bi-weekly meetings.

Easy vote!

Allow me to preface this entire post by saying that I am not taking sides here. I am currently a member of Aegis, in addition to sAPD, and I hope that those who choose to read or respond to this can do so in a civil manner and facilitate a proper discussion instead of the majority of finger pointing posts that I have seen thus far. This whole situation has turned into a she said / he said battle of blame which is extremely sad especially when we have people in power who are equipped to deal with these situations (Chief Winters, Senior / Head Admins, and Lead Dev / Design Staff). Now, I'm not saying that we shouldn't question their decisions, as can be seen from the Staff Gang Abuse post from Sovereign. We should instead focus on doing it in a constructive manner to better improve the community and make sure that this never happens going forward.

I do believe that both parties involved (Mighty / TapTap and Nicole) are at fault in this particular situation.

Firstly, I was directly involved in the situation as a civilian. I logged in after both civilian ghosthawks were already in the air (shortly before they engaged cops at a pharmaceutical). Throughout the engagement, I was on the ground titaning cop ghosthawks at Athira Rebel and was fully unaware that one of the ghosthawks had a medic skin. Once I saw the video that Super_Nova had posted as a status update, it became apparent that the skin was present. 

I personally spent 10 million in titan rockets to combat the cop ghosthawks and protect i chop hatchbacks and McPooperson's ghosthawks. I am not very happy with spending this amount of money (and not receiving any sort of compensation for this lost money) to fight infinite admin money. I will admit, some of the cop ghosthawks belonged to TapTap, Super_Nova, and Clash, which were all fair game. I am unsure of the amount of my own money spent specifically fighting unauthorized admin ghosthawks, and there were also three other people titaning the cop ghosthawks that also spent time and legit money fighting these ghosthawks. I will admit that as a result of my work as a Designer, I do receive staff points that can be redeemed for ghosthawks, other gear, and warpoints / in-game money. This is merely a fallback if I spend too much and is by no means an infinite form of cash. 

I do not endorse the use of RVMAT, MIRROR, PHANTOM, and other vehicle cosmetic changes to be used in combat. This has been mentioned by Jay in the #dev-and-design discord channel and he stated that "if you are found abusing this, you may be liable to have your status removed and texture/material abilities revoked." Nicole has publicly taken responsibility for this and instead of participating in this witch hunt, we should let those in-charge of the designers to handle this issue internally. 

In that regard, the same can be said for the administrative staff team and the Senior APD. Those in charge of those respective factions are responsible for those below them. I believe in Winters ability as a Chief, and he has handled the issue with TapTap as he saw fit. The same goes for Mighty. Gary and the other Senior Administrators are responsible for dealing with those that they oversee. We might not necessarily see the end result, as we have with TapTap's APD whitelist, however, we must trust that the people we have put in charge of these factions will (and hopefully have) dealt with these situations correctly.

I really hope that going forward, we as a community, can find better ways to deal with abuse situations instead of witch hunting people on the forums. I understand that Arma isn't the most wholesome community, but we should at least try to focus on making our server more enjoyable for all those who don't hold senior / staff positions. We must trust in the institution and rules we have in place and facilitate constructive discussions if these rules are not serving their current purposes. Otherwise, what's the point of even playing this game anymore. 




EDIT:
Since I was asked about the video of the ghosthawk, I will leave the gyazo here:
https://gyazo.com/4e85b87eb86e8277ef895cbf1fdf26dc
Credit to Super_Nova via status updates.

Looking to buy a DP22 4 crater. Shoot me a message if you're selling.

Massive purge coming to an Olympus near you. The wrath of hatchbacks is upon us.

I know I’m a bit late coming over this topic and I’ve been enjoying the outdoors instead of sitting on Arma. (Maybe even get a girlfriend next) However, I am grateful that I got to sit around on Arma and get to know you PJ. You’ve been nothing but kind and amazing towards me during the time I have known you and I will truly miss a friendly face around the R&R and on civ. I wish you the best of luck in your future endeavors because you deserve it! It’s a shame for all the medics who will never experience a life changing boat ride with PJ. Stay in contact! o7 @PJ.

o7, good luck with your future endeavors Doofy! 

"Ultimately the whole chapter boils down to NLR applies in all situations except the explicitly stated exemptions RDM, VDM, and Arma bug. If it's not one of those three things NLR applies, the handbook update was to try and clarify that."

By far the easiest way to describe NLR is what David said above... and to boil it down even further:

NLR always applies unless you were killed via RDM, VDM (not a car crash), or an Arma Bug (running through a desk, multiple examples of this.)

3 minutes ago, Overlord said:

sTaTuS uPdAtE

StAtUs UpDaTe

Invisible fanny packs?

The chance of this happening is about the same percentage as Medics getting go-karts.

Could add some more "roleplay" to Kav Square.

https://gyazo.com/c84c0d4a01ea191d7dc80e5f8bb5aff0

I would enjoy custom icons.