brodyunderwood1

17 hours ago, OlympusAccount said:

Well I mainly meant that they'd sort of amplify the fluctuation in a sense, meaning it doesn't take as much to crash prices.

I understood, but again fluctuation usually only affects things you sell in large amounts. How many kidneys can you gather with new regulations within a reset.  Lets say you were even lucky enough to get 30.  The difference made by a 2k fluctuation in meth would still be much larger when you consider the amount sold than a 3k reduction in kidney prices.  the difference would be less than 100k while the difference of average black market sales (in largest reasonable quantity) can easily be well over 200 or 300k.  Minimal difference. And this didn't even factor in the losses of having to replace scalpels and the time it takes to gather kidneys.  Again, not a bad idea. just one that wouldn't have too much of an effect in the end.

28 minutes ago, OlympusAccount said:

I haven't been on since this was implemented, so I don't know if this is how it already works or not, if it is, ignore me.

What if the prices fluctuated like they do with normal commodities you can sell. For example if a gang decides to spam the shit out of it, prices will drop dramatically and it won't be worth it anymore. Restarts would be the only point where you'd have to be on guard for DB scats in Kavela.

I acknowledge the fact that this is potentially a stupidly bad idea, so please tell me where the problem would be rather than spamming me with shitty reaction pics or insults.

The prices that fluctuate do so because they are features that are meant to be treated as, as jesse puts it, occupations.  The amount of drugs that can be processed in a server reset is much larger than the number of kidneys that can be harvested, as kidneys were not meant to be an occupation.  This means that if the price were to fluctuate one of two things would most likely happen.  The fluctuation would be so small per "bunch" of kidneys you sold that it wouldn't really matter, or one bunch of kidneys by one player would ruin the market and make it turn a loss based on how much each scalpel costs.  Even if these two things didn't happen and they found a balance, it really wouldn't make too much difference as you can only gather and sell so many kidneys per reset.  So it isn't necessarily a bad idea so much as a relatively pointless one in my opinion

Brody

Street Fighter V

It's the only major fighting game series that I don't have any of yet.  Would love to give it a shot as I've been playing a lot of similar titles lately

2 minutes ago, Ramennoodles said:

 

-1

oh captain my captain.  As I've said before, ONE STEP CLOSER.

On 8/22/2016 at 4:04 PM, Stay puft marshmallow said:

95% of olympus

The one on the left is making the same face I've always imagined @Rusty having all the time.

54 minutes ago, I Am Fuzzy said:

Do you plan on streaming more often?

When are you gonna stream Pokemon GO?

we all know that if Peter was gonna stream anything besides gang wars it'd be social eating @Peter Long

1 hour ago, DeadPool1337 said:

how bout fill one crate full of sucide vest???

talk to CoB

Lets not forget, that just because someone isn't the owner of a house, doesn't always mean that they don't have the ability to access crates or inventory. There is no way for an officer to know if the people in said house obtained the key through legitimate means (which would mean the owner could give them access to crates but not show them as owner) or if they lockpicked it and were just hiding inside.  That is enough for a reasonable man to think that something illegal may be occurring in the house.  Probable Cause.  This is what would make it unreasonable to change the rule to what you've proposed.  at least in my opinion.  (inb4 @Peter Long comes in with "FUCK YOUR OPINION" :P)  

@Talindor

also just realized it was @Fedot who originally posted this my bad.

15 minutes ago, Benjamin Remer said:

FIX HEX'S. There shouldn't even be an argument about this between the staff. Just fix hex's. If it's what the majority of the community wants, THAN DO IT!

Weren't you leaving like 2 weeks ago or something?  You don't even know what you're talking about half the time you just try to flame "THE MAN."  The argument was never "should hexes be fixed or not?"  The whole thing was that it wasn't getting done as quickly as some kid wanted.  Like I don't even play except for maybe 4 or 5 times a month anymore and even I got this shit figured out.  It isn't an activity issue that causes you to not know what the hell you're talking about, it is about straight intelligence (or lack thereof). 

5 hours ago, Fat Clemenza said:

If you're referring to when I shot your Taru Transport out of the sky for evading, you could've avoided that by landing. Taru Transports are legal... In any case, only 12 people have access to Ghosthawks. 12... Anybody with 3/4s of a Mil on this server can buy a Titan and shoot one down. I don't see a problem here.

uhmmmm I believe you mean 15

6 minutes ago, Tman15tmb said:

Donut striders  <3

 

You heard the man.  Step to it anyone with photoshop

Locked to prevent further johnson hopping and salt.

We both know how much I appreciate everything you've done in bringing me to where I am on the APD and the staff today Peter.  I can't express how grateful I am for that.  I'm sad to see you go, but I understand.  You'll be missed.

Not to mention that now I have nobody to help balance dili's dumb ass with me.

5 hours ago, McDili said:

This looks like a job for.... the APD ZAMAK

just tell dezree to give it a "little nudge" and she'll take care of it just like the orcas people put on the bridge 

1 minute ago, JBruesch said:

is that a challenge?

You tell me.  Of course I won't listen

You can't tell me what not to do

I WAS HAXOR KILLED ME. 3 MIL PLZ

I was enjoying this

3 hours ago, John Linka said:

We were ALREADY allowed to do it.

Finally!  SOMEBODY UNDERSTANDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

18 minutes ago, Stix said:

And the only reason it did not work is because when there are stupid civ saying there is no way on earth that you can ID me the cops just give up because the only officers that RP is some corps and most of the SAPD

That was a MAJOR MAJOR issue with it, BUT that was not the only reason the tilde guideline did not work.  As I said above, it drew the focus of RP between cop and civ away from the situation and into identification.  Situational RP produces a lot more original and dynamic RP than what we saw with the tilde guideline in place.  With the focus on indentification (and in most cases ONLY identification), there are only so many ways for the RP to go, and unless the civ was producing RP that was worthy of an Oscar the cop would always come out on top.  This lead to most civs (who are by no means worthy of an Oscar nomination for the RP they produce) going down 1 of 2 paths.

1. Eventually realizing they didn't have much of a chance of getting out of being identified (probably only after being caught a few times), they would just give in and there would be a short processing session with nothing original from either side.

or 2.  As you brought up, the civs would try some bullshit excuse each time and get pissed at the cops for not letting them go for their bullshit excuse.  Some people don't seem to understand that good RP isn't measured by how much you are willing to let someone get away with, but that's a tangent for another time.

The civ bullshit wasn't the problem with the tilde guideline, it was only an effect that stemmed from the REAL problems with the tilde guideline.

Few side notes:

1. Not all RP is about getting out of charges on your ticket.  From the moment someone logs in as a cop they are RPing as a cop and the RP that takes place during processing doesn't have to be about how to get out of your charges either.  Make it situational, make it original, and you WILL have more fun of a time than if your motivation is purely to get out of charges.

2.  The SAPD renouncing the tilde guideline did NOT change any rules the APD had to follow.  While the tilde guideline was still in place people did NOT have to RP as if they didn't know your name.  With the current SAPD they were NOT punished for RPing as if they already knew who you were.  With the current SAPD they were NOT held back from promotions if they chose to not follow the tilde guideline as long as they still produced good RP.  With the tilde guideline gone, cops can STILL RP as if they do not know your name.  They are NOT valued more highly for doing so than someone who puts just as much effort/quality into their RP without following the old methods from the tilde guideline.  Literally NOTHING has changed except the number of people who believe that it is okay to RP as if you know someone's name already when you start processing.  Yes, in the past, when there were different standards and seniors for the APD, some people were denied promotions for not following the tilde guideline, however this has NOT been the way things were handled for quite a while.

3.  Before the tilde guideline was put into effect, I never had a problem as an officer that stemmed from the quality of RP.  Problems back then pretty much occured because someone was salty they got caught, or a REAL rule was broken.  Only once the tilde guideline was put into effect did a good percentage of the people on the server get bitter about the way they were processed.  There were relatively few problems before, there should be relatively few problems now, however people need to accept the change again before that can happen.

I'm gonna reply to this the same way I reply to everyone who brings this up.  Before the tilde guideline, RP was situational.  People RP'd about their charges and what they had done and came up with some GREAT stories and RP really took you places.  After the tilde guideline was put in place, RP became all about one thing, how to identify people.  It was people trying to come up with the most unrealistic bullshit about how cops couldn't possibly know who they are, then the cops would find a way around it, and the people would get pissed about being "robo-copped."  It grew stale fast, people began to NEVER RP their charges and only their names and the lack of ways to do that lead to a VERY repetitive process of the cops figuring out who they were and then both parties going through the most basic motions of processing after that.  So we got rid of the tilde guideline (which was never mandatory in the first place) and suddenly the people who accepted that started giving good situational, original RP again instead of the same old stale bullshit we got while the guideline was in place.  It won't change back.  The sooner everyone accepts that and goes with it, the sooner everything will start to get more fun and you'll see original RP again.  Obviously some people (cops included) just are NOT good at RP, so there will still be bullshit from both sides.  Whether you guys realize it or not though, there is a lot less of this than before, people just see it easier so they complain about it more.

The tilde guideline was a decent idea in theory, but it didn't work out.  Focus on the situation and things become a lot more fun.

3 hours ago, AllBlackedOut said:

with dick in your ass

it took you a year and 3 months to come up with that one?  good job bud

Goonie I lose brain cells around half the time when reading your posts....

I haven't been on another altis life server besides olympus since the update but I have heard the damage is still outrageous on some of the ones with seatbelt options