Pseudonym

I mean, idk how the current chief system works, but if you are locked in for 1 year once voted in, you can kind of just do whatever you want cuz sure all APD might have an uprising against you, but what is that gonna do? your locked in for an entire year. You need some sort of system to remove the chief after they become bad, but if you have that system, then maybe that's the only one you need and you don't really need the voted in terms and 2 years max stuff, if you system for getting rid of a bad chief is good enough.

honestly yeah that would be an interesting change. forcing actual use of flashlights

Pseudonym here 1 month later to provide peak commentary on this issue after the fact: A few times, I've seen a guy landing a blackfish at like kav square or whatever. Then I text him: "Store your blackfish or die". Then he flies off, and text back calling me a dick for preventing him from storing his blackfish. If he stored it, I don't think any admin would ban or punish or warn him or anything. And I wasn't going to report him for it anyway. But there was something in his mind where he was like "I'm initiated against, therefore I can't store", even though the initiation is explicitly telling him to store. I think a relevant problem to this is the text based engagement system. Rather than being a more gamified engagement system. A gamified engagement system would be something like: Imagine if whenever -A- initiates on -B-, all -A- and -B- were notified, so that everyone gets the message like: "-A- Adam initiated on -B- Bob", and then maybe tell -B- how far away Bob is from them when he got initiated on. The current text based system is more based around roleplay. You can use the text messages to talk back and forth with people, or to engage on them. And when you think about it from a roleplay perspective, those are the same thing. IRL, if someone says to you: "Give me your money" then shoots you, you don't get to say "ahah u forgot to add or die retard comp 250k or ban". But with Olympus engagement, you generally have to use a demand + consequence structure, which is almost always power gamed to a simple "hands up or die". And that leads people to assume that any demand + consequence message would entail some of the same implications of a standard "hands up or die" message, which I believe is incorrect. If I tell someone in Kav square "if you pull out a minigun qilin i'm going to kill you", depending on the context of that situation, that doesn't meant they shouldn't be allowed to store their hatchback, but If it was a more generalized total engagement like "hands up or die" then yeah they shouldn't store their hatchback at all. All of this is basically to say: I think the standard "hands up or die" text, and maybe a few other common ones, should be gamified into another system on the server, that notifies all relevant parties about the engagement, and that the text system should be left for more specific demand + consequences. So if you send a medic the general initiation through this new game mechanic, then yeah that medic can't redeploy or store vehicles. But if you send a more limited engagement just telling them to leave or die, then more implicitly as long as they are following that, they are fine doing anything else as they are complying.

Sounds good ye i like the changes generally, i am kind of w orrired that this would almost obsolete illegal runs with how much more you get to do with WPL. and also this puts more emphasize on getting more accounts for doing different things. E.g: gotta get you WPL account, your rebel account, your vigi account, your swap to whatever license out of convenience account. In a game like wow, you can just swap to your druid character, or your priest, or your warrior. In battlefield, you change class with a click of a button, and in Olympus, you either swap to an entirely different steam account, or lose a large amount of wealth/progress when deciding to switch roles.

Ok I have to be 100% honest the Charlie Kirk thread should not have been deleted that is horrible. It was the first open discussion this server has ever had, and I was holding off reading all of it until a later date so I am extremely disappointed and saddened. @ Toretto plz bring it back!

LMAO bro you get it! we need more creative solutions like this to solve Pseudonym shenanigans

That is a good point, and something I think should be fixed, and after talking to Rexo about it he had a good and reasonable opinion on that. But my message was specifically responding to someone saying I favor the sAPD, so I showed him counterproof of me attacking the sAPD.

My most recent IAs: Kaotic IA #241630 Wong/Cash False Impound IA #241453 (Weak case) Abraham IA. #241274 Oleg IA #241405 Oleg IA #241407 I also have a rexo IA in the works for refusing my Kaotic IA, and refusing my False Impound IA.

"Civ council voted years ago to have a notification tell cops theres items in a vehicle so they don't accidentally impound legal stuff. Guess that took a back seat to all of aegis' priorities. "

Can you search a vehicle before you impound it if you have no PC? If you see a random vehicle, how do you know it doesn't have, say, 100 silver in it, and that someone is going to go back for it?

Your refusal to engage is rather enlightening, an enlightenment you will never achieve if you keep acting like this. You are nothing but a hedonistic troll, where as I am an intellectual and reason based troll. You have a brain, which refuses to think. You have a mouth, yet refuse to speak. You have a fist, yet neither raise it, or fight with it. You are a match which refuses the spark of life. You are trapped in an eternal neutrality, refusing to maintain a position, or change your position. You are like a rubber band, seemingly in one spot, yet one somewhat pushes park on your opinion you avoid them, then when they finally move on, you return to your original position. You are a being, forced by your own self ordained condition, to never have an actual opinion. Break free from these self inflicted chains, break free from your self induced slavery to the average. Start your journey to find your self. You will eventually realize through this journey that there was no you to find, but in the process you created the you that you were trying to find. I believe in you brother. Become great.

Your arguments are reductive and pointless. I initially had a bad impression of Jose Cuervo, then I was able to bribe him 20k and it showed me how he's a good part of the APD who is willing to roleplay and have fun. I gave my examples, you gave nothing but your hatred. If you would be willing to engage in an intellectual battle to determine the merits of this Officer Cuervo, be my guest, but right now it appears you are actively avoiding your prefrontal cortex, and are merely acting on brainstem impulses of which you've learned over countless hours of saying the n word.

I gave an example of a positive experience I had with him. Would you be willing to give a negative example of an experience with him? I will say he generally seems abrasive, and loud, but that appears to be due to some RP reasons. We need some abrasive and loud people, we need polite and calm people, we need a variety of people for the arma experience to be good

As an Auditor, I have to say Jose Cuervo is surprisingly willing to RP. I asked if I could audit the bank right after it ended, he said "BANKS CLOSED!", I slipped him 20k as he was counting down shooting me, "Banks open". It was actually an incredible role play expereince I genuinely thought that if forum warnings existed I would have gotten one already. @ -dante- wtf?

yo can you fill me in on this ANCIENT OLYMPUS LORE? who was this man? why does he have negative 1000 votes? why did it take you 7 years to become staff?

I will not confirm, nor deny, the allegations.

this is an incredibly based and REAL common sense pilled take.

oh I thought it might mean like you needed to have that charge on you 3 times. But yeah your interpretation seems more like how it's intended and common sense, but like..... i'm probably on my 40th offense on some of these crimes. Does that mean they can do the third offense level punishment every time I get charged with it from now on? It's stuff like that in the handbook that I really dislike. It's not even a gray area, it's just like undefined, unknowable.

After further reading, I'm not 100% sure my previous message is correct, but I don't think there is much differentiation between detainment and arrest, and reasonable suspicion vs probable cause in the handbook. The only real mention of "detain" is saying you can detain a civ if they are "interfering" with an investigation, and if you notify them why they are being detained. I believe I have been detained multiple times when I was completely innocent, without doing something that could be considered as interfering with an investigation. I will be paying more attention to that from now on. And, sadly, there is no use of "reasonable suspicion" in the handbook, which in the USA is generally the level required to detain someone. Given the handbook says: Let's take that serious and go through an example situation. Let's say someone is flying without a pilot license. If we look at the ticket guide we can see: Let's think about this more carefully. Probable cause, according to the handbook, is when you have grounds conduct a search OR make an arrest. Now, if you were to send someone to jail, it's pretty obvious that you would have to arrest them. Yet flying without a pilot license doesn't actually provide you the probable cause needed to be able to arrest them. So it's a crime that you can be jailed for if you do it 3 times, but it's not a crime that you can be arrested for. You'd have to be arrested on some other crime that grants probable cause, and then you could finally get sent to jail for this crime. Does this sound right? Does this sound like how it's intended? Does this sound like how it's actually played out on the server? I don't think so, yet if we accept your logic that people need probable cause to be arrested, it means that you can't arrest someone for these "Does not warrant probable cause" charges, and if you can't arrest them, how could you even ticket them either?