The Sovereign

Evidence locker is back like a mf.  

Ok the clarifying details I was missing.  Starting the property lockdown doesn't require a player to be occupied doing it.  You can move around and fight after you've started it.  If cops get pc on a gear house, you just gotta stall for 10 while it works its magic.  Kinda sick ngl.  

What is the point of the property lockdown kit?  Like to prevent apd raids?

Ngl this description makes it seem absolutely pointless and I have so many questions.

I love how we were actively told on CC that BM loadouts were w aste of time and too much work and NOT HAPPENING all the while you were CLEARLY WORKING ON THEM lmao

That's what it takes for a great update though.  Break 100  things and then fix them all at once. 

Fr tho good update.

On 3/15/2023 at 12:34 PM, Devan - Black Jesus said:

• Blackfish Maximum fuel decreased by 33%

While transporting a vehicle fuel consumption is increased by 50%

any competent b-fish pilot will easily go around this not gonna say how but it's fairly simple

loading a manned fuel truck in the back?

Huuuuuge QOL update.  Ty so much for this whole thing basially.. going under the radar no double because its a lot of little things, but great fucking job.

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• Players with a Bright Night of 50% or higher no longer spawn with Complimentary NVGs at Night

Better than any of the ideas that anyone came up with.  Sounds complicated, but awesome. 

I like the warrants system.  50k is way too cheap though to negate it.  200k at least. 

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Ladder from APD Roadkit

Aww I never got to see one.  

Mmk.   You want to try to play the crazy card again.  Gonna dish some facts and screenshots this weekend.

8 hours ago, Rafa said:

From my understanding, Mako clearly said that they were automatically billed but the customers themselves turned off auto-renewal. Did you just not understand what he said or are you saying that Olympus is being dishonest because of something the customers opted out of? 

That's never been the case.  I've had unis on two separate occasions, for many months both times.

It used to be the devs would message you when it was due and tell you the dates coming up and you pay it.  Then eventually it switched over an automatic invoice email telling you the billing date.   I even had conversations with staff on multiple occasions suggesting that add an auto billing feature.  

Autobilling wasn't introduced until oly+, and if it was added to unis it was done without any notice. 

I could sit here and list the entire long history of events leading up to this point of Mako trying to get rid of gang unis, including a rant about it and how it's a waste of devs time and everyone should just be happy with oly+.  

This wasn't an accident.  It wasn't an oversight.  It was intentional.  

He was working up to this for a long time, and I honestly wouldn't even be upset if he would just admit it and not try to act like he didn't manufacture this on purpose.  

4 hours ago, Strae said:

Once again since you didn’t respond in discord… did u submit a bug report?

Yes, but it's been an extremely well known issue for a very long time that has a major effect on the game that all of staff has been aware of, but yes.  

 

4 hours ago, Strae said:

Tell that to any game that has ever existed. Devs always tweak minor things whether its a small buff or nerf.

It's killed.  Way too late for small buffs to 'balance' it.  300k/hr buffed to 350k/hr ish.  

 

4 hours ago, Strae said:

Gang uniforms, designs, etc. are not required to be discussed with civ council. Not even administratIve staff are involved in those matters.

 

as for the other stuff u said. You’re dumb and mako responded pretty clearly yet you don’t understand.

No shit.  All I'm saying is that it was handled very dishonestly.  

 

Could have at least tried to fix illegal run processing bonus this patch though.  Honestly, it's been like 5 months and nothing has been done about it.  

7 minutes ago, Mako said:

Automatic billing is still on, they chose not to continue payments. All you have to do is literally read, it's not a conspiracy because I don't care whether they renew or not. The mission file can support a decent chunk of gang textures the issue remains with Design for not being able to keep up with demand hence not accepting any new purchases.

Designers tell a diff story.  

29 minutes ago, Mako said:

They're automatically billed, I used to have to manually keep up with invoices. This is some meth-head conspiracy moment lol. People literally stopped paying for them because they are automatically billed, they turned the auto-invoices off.

So you're saying they're automatically billed, but that was shut off, and even though you just agreed what I said was true, it's a conspiracy?

40 minutes ago, Farrel said:

Where are the map changes?????????????? 

Texture design team making the map team look like fools. 

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• Map Design: 
  • 200% Pharma Drop-off @ NokiaStrong
  • Jail dome Interior @ NokiaStrong
  • Iron Processor @ TapTap
  • Salt Mine @ Brandyn
  • Cocaine Field @ notsodank
  • Moved Northern Hospital @ notsodank
  • Pharma start point @ NokiaStrong

14 minutes ago, Mako said:

A: This was a buff, this increased DP payments. 

Barely.  If you aren't gonna make it worthwhile, there's no point even fiddling with it.

 

14 minutes ago, Mako said:

A: Some of these skins hadn't been paid for the past 2 months on their renewals. We haven't had a gang texture intake in a decent bit as well due to lack of supply from the Design Team.

Because they haven't been billing for them.  It's not like everyone stopped paying them.  You wanted them gone so you stopped billing for them, and acted like everyone was too busy to make them because you want it all to  be O+.  At least own it and stop making excuses.   You broke a long standing oly donor tradition because you want people paying for the same outfits to save mission file space.  You didn't discuss it with CC, you did it underhandedly.  

I'm not saying doing so couldn't be justified, but lying to everyone and manipulating the circumstances to make it happen is the type of shit that makes people not trust you.  

 

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• Ex: 100k at 50hrs will be $80k instead of $75k
  • 50h 75% -> 50h 80%
  • 75h 50% ->75h 60%
  • 100h 25% -> 100h 40%

Like killing a guy, coming back 2 months later and digging him up, and then beating his body with a shovel for an hour and then burying him again.  

 

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• CTF Gang Uniform
• Noops Gang Uniform
• Dankpods Gang Uniform
• Dankpods Gang Granit
• Dankpods Gang Hatchback
• Prime Gang Granit
• Prime Gang Ifrit
• Teamplayers Gang Ifrit

Basically removing custom skins without telling anyone, while allowing people to still buy them until recently and not even having a discussion about it.  

 

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• Alloy price decreased by 5%

Justfiable.  It's about right where it needs to be now.

 

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• Auction House expiration increased from 7 days to 31 days

Fucking BRILLIANT.  Best change of the update.

 

1 minute ago, Weaz said:

It caused a bug when it was implemented so it was reverted.

Wrote this before I saw what mako wrote lol.

Was just curious anyways.  

Patch is fucking amazing!!!   God i hope it's playable out of the gate and not too buggy.  Sometimes that shit can't be avoided tho.

backpacks arent giving storage space!

2 minutes ago, Mako said:

Was causing issues, a nice QoL change however it was related to a serious bug. Sorry for the inconvenience.

More than makes up for it...  Once all the bugs with this patch are hammered out probably the best patch since processing bonuses.  Fucking bravo Dev Team!

A solid fucking patch. 

Whats this about?  
 

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• Players can no longer fix their clothes inside a vehicle

Ok so if I'm reading this, people who paid for gang uniforms no long spawn with the gang uniforms???

On 6/14/2022 at 1:24 PM, codeYeTi said:

I like how I've spent my entire day on your gang base and you're over here acting like a 4-year-old who feels entitled to the valuable time of people who fucking volunteer to make a game for him.

Back-end infrastructure changes are the only way we're going to move past the performance issues we're seeing these days. If you knew the amount of time that was being invested to deliver you the game you play, and how little reward there is for it, I don't think you'd be behaving like this.

"futurecept", the new I/O backend, was the culmination of 500+ hours of work, and has grown to ~1/5 the size of the mission as a whole in terms of lines of code, at least. With it, we are seeing tangible benefits, including 7500% performance increases in some functionality. Changes of this size are going to have some growing pains, even with the literal 50+ hours spent on just fucking testing.

If you want to do the work, be my fucking guest. Until then, why don't you try to work with us instead of just wandering around like a  whiny twat? I refuse to believe you're being 100% serious here; I don't think anyone can have that few brain cells.

I'm sorry for coming off unprofessionally here, but but pouring a bunch of my life into thankless shit and then getting told off by the person I'm trying to help is a bit of a motivation killer my dude.

Comparatively to things like "futurecept", the taxi system took one of our guys little more than an afternoon. Are there some inefficiencies in our processes that cause things to still take longer to get released even though they were developed quickly? Sure. But, I think you're misunderstanding how much development time goes in to various things. The taxi system took very little effort, from a very small amount of the team. The gang base changes that are in progress required reworking something in order to get the result that you desired; rather than just half-assing it, we're putting the work in to do it correctly so that it's a system we can work with going forward. Even if some of these smaller features were taking up as much of our effort as you seem to think, they're important to someone, which is why they decided to pick up that task. If you want to take it upon yourself to sit in TeamSpeak with me all day and work through the issues on gang base to accelerate the process, you're more than welcome to do so, but until you're willing to put the effort in to be a team member instead of just a third party advisor/complainer, then I don't really see you having any room to continue opening your mouth.

Hopefully this literature is more your speed. https://americanliterature.com/childrens-stories/the-little-red-hen

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.

@ 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.

Add an ATM To the sofia bank.  Why in gods name would there be a new bank that doesn't have an ATM. 

On 5/16/2022 at 8:31 AM, madcat said:

A nerf to DP missions? Perhaps we will see more drug runs happening instead of a hummingbird flying past every few seconds? We can hope.

On 5/18/2022 at 5:34 AM, madcat said:

Not sure about solo players, but I can assure you that gangs were doing it too, risk-free money comparable to meth. 

 

They wanted to lower the payout for it pretty drastically.  It was cash on hand or a cash nerf.  Sometimes when you win, you lose.  Could have been far worse.