The Sovereign

Banned.

Sometimes just beating a gang isn't enough. Sometimes you need to utterly destroy them economically and cripple their ability to wage war. This strat was one from the CTF playbook that resulted in much loss of enemy morale. More than killing ever could. It's simplicity is understated, yet the results are devastating. When you restrain your enemies... ONLY EVER UNRESTRAIN THEM AT THE CASINO.

20% would have to be after the WPL factored in. Just a rough number, but yeah very good point.

Buffed less than legal. Everything should be making more in my opinion, the the 10% difference would be more significant than you would think. This game has been out a long time. And the natural course of games when they age to keep them entertaining is to curb the grind up and just let people do their thing. There would be inflation among the blackwater gear and vehicles, but who cares? Honestly? It would balance out. Instead of nerfing runs, we should just be buffing everything to be doable, while favoring illegal runs with the advantage and increasing that advantage to push for more fights.

I do tend to side with the price increase more than processing speed for the same reason others have stated. Most of the entire point of getting illegals going again is to encourage more APD fighting. Players can always just do smaller runs and make more from it if they don't want to go as hard on the timer. It balances out with options.

My idea for the price increase was 30% for illegal runs and 20% for legal runs (excluding alloy). Thoughts?

I was pushing for more pay per resource, some people saying faster processing speed. I'm just gauging opinions to make sure I'm in step with the civs I'm representing. ** I have absolutely no authority over this matter, just present ideas **

I don't think you're sus because you beat me. I think you're sus because I beat you on long kill streaks, then you keep beating me. But i digress.. my opinion doesn't matter.

Not even joking. I killed that kid 9x in a row on cqc. I know cqc dont mean shit typically, but i was on dildo all 9x in a row, and he slammed fully knowing i was there and maximum efforting. Kid is sus af. Then the next day hes single tapping me from across the field over and over.

Fr fr though, it's a little odd this kid gets by for years with silla with nothing sus, joins 88, and immediately starts scripting. Seems like they probably set him up like this and he wasn't smart enough to not be obvious with it. Maybe an investigation of the whole gang is warranted. I know when playing against sicario on cqc, half the time hes way worse than me, and the rest he's god tier. Those types of skill gaps dont make sense.

I dunno, 88's been getting humiliated pretty bad lately. Surely we can let one of their hackers go.

Way ahead of ya.

@ Doc and his magic school bus flying around results in forced kidnappings of half the server that led to a dance party so epic it broke the voice chat.

Still MIA...

Most of this server, especially anyone who's done any even moderate amount of coding, appreciates the mind numbing work you guys do to drag this game's fun into almost a decade after its launch. I apologize on behalf of anyone giving you shit. Most of us don't think like this. We appreciate the entire dev team. Taxi was great. The problem is people on this server have trouble seeing that other people enjoy playing it differently than they do. I feel like some of these people are genuinely surprised to find out that that server 1 exists outside of gangbase events. People enjoying the game differently than you, are valid members of the community. People who are less skilled are equally valid to the skilled players. Hell, if anything, skilled players on this server are worth less than unskilled players because they get all the events tailored to them, and put them out of reach of less skilled players, and then the skilled players who set the bar so high just fuck off and leave everyone else to roleplay as taxi drivers and farm copper.

Never actually got to know you, but good luck out there chasing whatever you're chasing.

@ Doc You need to give 88 the Evidence Lockers they demand, or they're all going back to Roblox.

EL was ridiculous before. Was easier to do than banks which made absolutely no sense. Love the new design. Hopefully this gets some of those welfare lim tasers out of the hands of shitters who didn't rightfully earn them.

Yeah but those vigi rules tend to usually need to be enforced by staff investigations. Lots of stuff has gone unpunished by so many people so long that it's beginning to tax vigis that actually follow the rules. Vigis now join groups and don't even bother changing their names to vigi their own gang members, sometimes leave gangs to vigi their own gang mates, sometimes openly offer in side chat to buy bounties, and it happens with such frequency and so blatantly that it just seems like there either needs to be a round of crackdowns or the rules about vigis need to be relaxed, because the current system is just punishing rule abiding vigis and cops by clearing bounties too easily.

For the last four months people have been blatantly paying for bounties in sidechat, and many, some even tier 5 vigis, are under the impression that it's not against the rules to do. There's been times where staff have been online for these discussions, and nobody has been punished for it, nor corrected. Feel like we've let these rules slack so hard, and nobody is policing it like they used to, that we should either just officially change the rules and make it legal to split bounties, or go back to enforcing the rules. This middle ground stuff is going to lead to a lot of surprise bans if it's ever enforced again out of left field.