Aquila

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Vi gick +-0 på denna fed, men flykten är att minnas 
 

A minority of you may know who I am and what I've done on this server, but for you who don't here's an introduction.

My name is Alfons "Hysteria" Warg, I'm 20 years old and live in Stockholm. Together with a GW and a few other friends we started the CvGaming altis life server as a minor joke in late July of 2014. But it quickly escalated into something we hadn't even thought of. I was at the time the map editor, community manager and the one fixing the balance on the server. 

Fast-forward a bit until October where CvGaming reached its prime when it came to playerbase and active players on the server. This was the time where GW and me still manually restarted the server every 4 hours, we were 2 head-admins running a server that was popping 90 players on most days. Which of course was extremely exhausting both physically and mentally, and since I had some personal and private issues at the time as well I decided to step down as an admin and focus on other stuff instead. 

Even tho I left the server, I never completely left CvGaming. I have a ton of friends in this community that I would never dream of just withdrawing out of my life.

In the beginning of May I started to realize that the server wasn't doing as good as it used too. There were tons more negative posts on the forums than usual. The server population had drastically gone down, and the active players had gone from a dispersion of all sorts of groups to almost only major gangs and official factions. I decided that since the private matters where fixed and I was still jobless this was something I could put time into and actually try and fix. So I contacted Goatis (shoutout to you my friend) and told him about what I was thinking. This then escalated to me personally discussing several matters with the majority of the admin-staff. 
 
But now today I can officially anounce that I have rejoined the CvGaming staff and oh'boy you are all about to see some major changes by us when it comes to server balance and map-layout! I will personally jump around in TS asking about your own opinions about content and such, which is the way I was doing it before. I believe in a server run by the players, not purely by the admins.

Wish me luck!

Fun fact: CvGamings altis life server would've never existed if I didnt rob GW of his hemtt box on secret one! I later felt guilty about dong it so the group I was playing with (Pyaht and Billy Bob, all former admins) gave GW a free weapon, invited him to skype and started to farm cocaine with him.

Tycker alla kan ta och lugna ner sig med den dåliga attityden.
Hoppas på att få få se ett krig som är längre än 3-4 dagar

GW personally asked me to post here, so here we go, sorry this won't be concise. 

Currently on the server the civilian role isn't healthy and fun enough for players to stick with it. They usually try and join one of the current two factions at the first and best opportunity they get. It's quite understandable and obvious that this is standard behavior, but presently the magnitude of this trend is way above of what's vigorous. This results in a buttload of problems both in the actual game and on the forums a.e.
Not enough vanilla civilians* which in turn lessens the roleplay for the major factions on the server. By vanilla civilians i mean players who have no sort of affiliation with a gang or any sort of faction. They usually stick to themself or stay in a friend group of 2-4 while playing.

These players have a vital role for the roleplay on the server since they offer small chitchat oppurtunities for players to discuss random topics inside of the game. Also since they have no sort of connection to any of the banditry focused gangs or the rebels they are seen as neutral by the police, which make the officers more willing to roleplay with them, since they aren't as afraid of getting killed or robbed.
 
Vanilla civlians are also the ones farming the activitys that pay less a.e. Copper, oil, sand, apples and peaches to name a few. This is because gangs usually have the funds to farm the more expensive stuff a.e. Cocaine, Heroin, Weed and Slaves etc etc. Which brings us to the next issue.
Several activitys on the server aren't used since there's no reason to actually take the time to do them. As stated above, the gangs of the server have the funds to do, for the most part, whatever they want. So there's no reason what so ever to farm minor activities which leaves them abandoned and unwanted. Since there's no one using these activities then there's no reason to have them on the server, no?

This is where the two latest concerns relate. Without vanilla civilians, some activities won't be used, but without things for the civilians to do then there's no reason for them to stick around. But since the amount of content that is currently on the server is quite high, then why aren't the civilians sticking around? With that question I bring you problem number three.
The balancing on the server is ridiculously one sided towards the rebels and non-official factions*. Being a rebel is really cool and fun, the roleplay is better, the guns are bigger and your funds are near infinity. The rebels can farm weed basically whenever they want. They have almost no reason to be scared for bandits/robbers, which makes it incredibly safe for them to farm it. Which in turn makes their wallets the most fat and delicious wallets on the server. So if they die, the lose nothing more than their pride and respect.

Police on the other hand have to go off-duty and farm like a vanilla civilian with constant threats from everywhere. But when the server itself is on primetime, they aren't allowed to play off-duty. But they can't play as a solid cop without the money to buy all the necessities needed. So they either go farm with a fake nick, so that they can actually play on prime time, but this isn't accepted at all and have the possibilty for the officer to be dismissed from the force if admins or higher ranked police members find out.

A non-official faction is a group of players that have self-proclaimed an area of the map to be their own and have the amount of active players to actually "patrol" around that area stopping vehicles that trespass, examples are: Scrub Club, Cv-Droghandel, The Underdogs and Los Zetas. These groups of players have come as close to rebels as they can get without actually joining the official rebel faction. They have the money to buy the big guns and the big vehicles. They have the amount of players to for the most part safely farm all the high paying activitys they desire. But most importantly, they are frequently very hostile against other players.

All in all all of this added together creates an environment that's not that fun and interesting for vanilla civilians and newer players. Rebels are overpowered so you can't do anything against them without being completely rekked (Nerf Bobbi R), police aren't well equipped enough to be a threat towards the rebels or the non-official factions and the non-official factions themselves are running such a big part of the map that there's nowhere to earn money safely. With all of this said, it leaves us with the last matter that I will bring up in this post. 
Loads of non-proffesional posts and applies on the forums. This isn't that big of an issue, but it's still work that has to be done by either the admins or the higher ranked police officers. Work takes time, and that time could've been used to create or do something better and more important. This subject knits us with the first issue I talked about. That players don't want to play as vanilla civilians and flood the forums with applies or questions regarding what he or she should do to have more fun on the server.

TL;DR : There's a lot that could be added to the server, but if it hurts the civilians even more i doubt it would be worth adding it. The civilians needs a shot at making it big, they need more overall power on the server and this is only obtained by slowly balancing the server in their favor. We also need to change this quite quickly since there's not enough of a playerbase in that area to justify having all of the current farming options on the server since most of them will just be abandoned anyways. So we could at the moment just remove them to improve on server performance and being able to remove such content without major drawbacks is a bad thing.
 
I know a lot of people in the playerbase will object when i say this but the powerlevel of the rebels and non-official factions needs to be toned down, a lot.

Jag som var schyssta mot er o sålde grejer till er så säger ni att även jag har gjort detta? Absurt, man blir ju arg.

In-Game Name?: Aquila  What is your Player ID #?: 76561197981819870 Age: 23 Do you have any past experience about being a police officer on other servers?: Yes, on the Half-life-mod TSRP (The Specialists RP). Do you have a working microphone?: Yes. How long have you played on CvGaming?: Approx 200h. Have you been banned before?: Nope. Do you promise to always act in-character and never abuse your power while playing as a police officer? Yes.   What 5 qualities are necessary to become a CvGaming Police Officer? 1)
Being able to role play in a good manner.2) Respecting the hierarchy of command.
3) Being able to coordinate yourself with your unit.
4) Being able to keep calm during stressful situations.
5) Having good language skills to outmaneuver wise-ass criminals. 
 
In 3 short paragraphs describe why you would fit as a police officer:  I'm used to role playing from TSRP, GMod RP, Arma 2 RP and a bit from CvG.  I'm eager to find out what Altis Police Department's like from the inside and not just through my scope.   I'm quite an active player.  
In a short paragraph, what is your task as a police officer?: To protect and to serve.
 
Why should we pick YOU as a police officer? Because I like to kick down doors and shoot people in their face. 
 
What do you hope to achieve if you become a police officer?: Having a load of fun and feeling that warm fuzzy feeling that good team work can give you.
 
 
What is your input on respect, loyalty, and rule enforcement?: Three elements that obviously are very important to uphold order and command in an organization that, if it comes to it, has the authority to use lethal violence.
 
Why is the police faction important? The police faction is the only thing that keeps Altis from falling into complete chaos and disorder. It is also a source of well needed RP for the server.
 
What do you personally think that the police faction would need to become better? As an outsider I'd say a more role play-based sentencing system. Perhaps I'll have something else to say in a month, if my application gets approved! 
 
Tell us a little about yourself! ​En inbiten gamer som till vardags jobbar för Försvarsmakten i Karlsborg sedan ett par år tillbaka. Planer på att börja plugga på LTH.
 

KILL 1: 01:00
 
KILL 2: 01:40
 
KILL 3: 04:47
 
KILL 4: 09:15

Event avslutat, bra kämpat allihop! 
 
#1
[sC] Aquila
 
#2
[R] Rarre
 
#3
[sC] J. Snow
 
Potten blev inte så jättehög då vi inte blev lika många som förra gången, men potten blev iallafall 2.000.000$ 
Grattis till Aquila som började ifrån en P07 men ändå lyckades ta hem det
 
Extra tack till Pettson som hjälpte till med gear. =)

Changelog 4.0.2
And we are off with our second patch since the 4.0 release (excluding all the patchfixes inbetween).
We are starting to reach a stable version where we will presume old habbits of releasing patches and fixes together with patchnotes!
This update contains many core fixes for the framework and ofcourse some new stuff.
We also had the 1.44 Arma patch this week and with it came alot of Vehicle fixes, including the Orca (still better then the hellcat, but we are sticking with hellcat due to the possitive feedback from the community). There was also some major updates to battleye, so we had to revisit that! If you want to launch your game w/o needing to activate it, simply start arma3battleye.exe in your directory (unless you go with the launcher, then just activate it when starting!)
 
General
Added Deposit ALL Button on the ATM - Can now deposit all your current cash to your bank Updated Battleye filters Updated autobanscript with the new cheats Altis Life 4.0 core updated Setvar/getvar replaced with 4.0 framework Removed some of the spyglass spam that has been occurring Temporary fix for money exploit (vehicles) Wanted RPT error fix Fixed the existing Rahim Magazines in player houses Fixed precheck on when you buy a house  Vehicle weights and inventory has been fixed Fixed an issue that wiped your bank if you retrieved submarines The driving license script has been slightly adjusted Added a script that cleans out Snakes locally on client (client performance boost) Added a license check on rebel/cop/medic garages  Added a check so you can't deposit money to yourself Added a script to check how many rebels are online - for future scripts Added No voice in sidechat script - modified and improved since before Added new virtual items
GPS Tracker + Icon
Sabotage Evidence + Icon
Money Bundle + Icon New Keybindings ()
Pickaxe = Shift + B
Surrender = Shift + < Added a Event button to the cellphone, can only be seen by rank 3 admins. Used to send out info about Server Events
Along with this addition we have added a serverevent that will be scheduled to run once a week (). New NPC have arrived in Altis, rumors says hes connected to the Mafia:​​
MAFIA:
The mafia NPC contains a few new and old things and is still work in progress, more and unique things will come.
Weapon Shop, Item Store and more to come! 
Aswell as a few jobs:
Slave Trading, Money Laundry, Sabotage and more to come!


Map 
  Diamond mine outside pyrgos now works again Pyrgos hospital can now heal Pyrgos applefield now grows apples again! Sofia Car garage fixed Fog Fog and Fog, its now set to a high decay rate and hopefully its better! Fixed a few floating objects/npcs A News office was built in Kavala (populated NPC vendor etc)
  Rules
Selling weapons in sidechat/forums is now forbidden, to increase roleplay. () A rule regarding fed to increase RP and make it more balanced () A rule regarding house raids to increase RP and make it more balanced ()  
 
Civilian
You can now rob gas stations - 4 of them, marked on the map with a blue house. "The federal reserve is being robbed" message is now only displayed for the police due to balance reasons and rules You can now rob a Local Tax Office that will reward you with Cash and Moneybundles. You can now Sabotage Rebel infrastructure that will be protected by the rebels on their island! You will get rewarded with Sabotage Evidence and Cash CvG Newscrew have been added. Its a whitelisted job with features such as: Own office in kavala, own shops and own cellphone feature (Send msg to all as CvG News). Hopefully we get some good feedback and serversupport for these guys! Remember that Journalism is independent and not linked to any factions!  Altis Police Department
Wanted system now works (patched in earlier this week, but the wanted list is now populated correctly) Paycheck has been increased - The police had to play as civilians to be able to pay for their families Paycheck based on rank GPS Tracker has been added - Track vehicles Crowbar removed - Replaced by Breach feature Added breach to the vehicle interaction menu - Will work exactly like the crowbar did Added a cop check for the use of boltcutter on Federal reserve (its now 7) Seize Weapons from player feature has been added Raiding houses will now give you access to their storage containers Increased the time for breaching doors Restrain now works on all factions (cop/med/civ) Altis Paramedics
Paycheck has been slightly increased Medic inventory now saves properly The Airfield/Athira hospital now retrieves medic vehicles correctly Crowbar was replaced with Breach feature (vehicle interaction menu) Rebels (N.L.A)
Added 1 new uniform Rebel checkpoint got a small rehaul Sabotage Infrastructure added to the map Gold bar buyer has been moved to give space for sabotage Added Restrain for Rebels (it works on all factions - cop/med/civ) Fixed the restrain for putting people in vehicles Rahim magazine in the store has been fixed  CvG Contributor
Hellcat got a new skin (Yakuza (v2 for hellcat, digital version!))

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