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I have to say that the team won't be sleeping in the meantime I know about several plans and preparation. Stay tuned!

Rest easy for now, come back stronger!

Dear Members, It has come to our attention in recent weeks/months we have not been able to provide the community to the players that we had hoped for. This has came to a decision, led by myself to close the MTA Server pending internal revamp. We have a staff team consisting of 22 people and the reality is, about four people pull their weight. Right now, we have a lot of moving parts internally. From the lore vehicle switch, to players sabotaging services and overall a staff team that can't provide consistent support to the community and its people. Whilst we have been effectively working hard on certain forefronts to make staff life easier, it's just a losing battle. Right now, we will be focusing on changing the internal works of the server and its practices. This will be an overhaul that has never been seen before on ArdicGaming or even for some of you guys, San Andreas Roleplay. The aim is to ensure a consistent environment that everyone can enjoy love stopping by. This will include an entire rework of; - The Game Rules - Admin Handbook - Mapping Handbook - VMT Handbook - FMT Handbook - The Server Setting - Theme of The Server - Ticket Handling - Transparency of Systems (including systems available) - Updated Documentation Now, unfortunately... a lot of our staff team is now currently LoA (on leave of absence) and will be for some time to come. This means, that this overhaul is going to take some time. Something like this can't be pumped out in a few weeks. I'm hoping, with the Christmas Holidays inbound, that this will allow myself and some others to work on completely overhauling the entirety of how ArdicGaming operates - to help old roleplayers and new roleplayers alike define their new home here, enjoying their time. Thankfully, many of our developers are not LoA, meaning our bug-fixes, improvements and overhauls can continue from a game perspective. Other members of auxiliary staff are available to help ensure the aforementioned backend changes. This is a long overdue change and it's one that should have been completed a few years ago if we're being honest. The changes set forth will help players who have yet to experience a heavy roleplaying environment, ease into it without being overwhelmed. The changes will also mean that less staff intervention will be required that will disrupt your roleplay. We are anticipating changes to some game systems too that will allow for a smoother transition without breaking anyone's immersion for striding in a roleplaying-environment that feels natural. There is no estimated timeline for this change to take place. During this timeframe, the server will be locked and not playable. The server will become locked on 15/DEC/2024 to which after this point you won't be able to play. All other services will remain active during this timeframe. Kind~Regards, Portside

Good shit, Q: when will the server close?

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^^ Sounds like a lot of expensive work and time!

Would you consider moving to a heavily modeled Red County resembling rural Virginia/North Carolina/Georgia I (and some other players not only from MTA RP community but from other communities as well) think that the environment is very important to the QoL aspect of Roleplaying.

Hi, as a lot of you may know, the server has been changing recently. It has all been very good changes, with in-game changes, server changes on the backend, UCP changes and a lot of auxiliary changes as well. However, most recently a lot of players have been assuming, or spreading false information. this has led us to make an announcement regarding the recent changes of the server and the direction that the server is taking. This is going to be an in-depth read, so if you don't read, then don't cry about not knowing. The information is here for you to read. If there is a certain question or topic that is unanswered, please do reach out and we will update this announcement with the Q&A attached. Lore-based Systems Yes, this is true. We are moving more into lore-based systems. I don't know why this is such a shock to everyone; considering that we've been using lore-based from Red County. How? Simple, the LSPD is a lore-based theme, along with every other functional faction from a civilian/government standpoint. LSFD, LSTS, LSPW and so on. These are dynamically created in the lore environment. If we were truly reaching after a real life experience we would have changed their names to real-life counterparts, LAPD, LAFD, LAPW and so on. What's most annoying is the fact, with the LSPD, the entire structure was made up by myself and Sonny, using various sources from older roleplay servers along with IRL documentation which included but not limited to; New York State Police New York Police Department New York City Sheriff's Office Los Angeles Police Department Orange County Sheriffs Police Service of Northern Ireland An Garda Síochána The Metropolitan Police Swedish Police Authority Okay, so you mentioned one thing, what else? So that in itself, isn't realistic nor is it based on any particular law enforcing agency. ON TOP OF ALL OF THAT - in Red County, we deployed the Specialized LSPD Unit of C.R.A.S.H - which is a lore-based unit within Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. In Red County, some of our vehicles were entirely made up which included the cash trucks, some road trains and other vehicles. Oh, that wasn't enough? Finder Cluckin’ Bell (KFC) Burger Shot (Burger King) Pizza Stacks (PizzaHut) How the driving test is based on ALL GOVERNMENT MANDATES THAT YOU ABIDE BY Some of the very items you roleplay with which include; The LSPD Firearm safe Ziebrand Beer Bastradov Vodka The RDD (remote dispatch) These are only some of the things that are in place already based around the lore of the game. What's Changing? Below are the main changes; Vehicles We are moving to an entirely lore-based vehicle system, along with that we will be able to create brand new makes and models from scratch. An example: An entrepreneur has lots of money to spend, that person is called Michael Bigsocks. Michael Bigsocks reaches out to FMT along with spending lots of cash to make his very first vehicle called The Bigsocks Model X. This is entirely possible now. Reason for the change is simple, we provided lots of reasons but here is the main; reduces staff intervention by tenfold and stops players from winging all the time. "BUT BRO HOW!?". Right now, a player wants to steal a 2019 Mercedes GLE. Admin now has to literally research everything about this vehicle to see if it can be stolen. The vehicle comes equipped with factory standard which include some of the following without optional extras; Keyless locking Engine immobilizer Alarm System Vehicle Anti Theft John Doe, the stealer now tries to /me hotwires the vehicle. Admin says nope (the same admin who hasn't the first clue on how to steal a car past the year of 2002 by the way) and tells the player, "no, sorry, you cannot hotwire this". Player rage quits because the player isn't a vehicle expert IRL. New System The new system will simplify things, vehicle from 1990+ will have X as standard, giving you an inclining on how they are stolen. The new system will simplify things, vehicle from 2000+ will have X as standard, giving you an inclining on how they are stolen. The new system will simplify things, vehicle from 2010+ will have X as standard, giving you an inclining on how they are stolen. There will be additional that you can physically buy in-game which will have scripted features or passive features which the admins can refer to on if your stealing method cannot be done etc. This reduces workload on staff by 1,000 times and makes everyone happy without anyone crying on how their vehicles was stolen. BUT BRO MY TESLA MODEL DASD 34323 HAD ELON'S LINK ADDITIONAL, I RP PAYING FOR SUBSCRIPTION AND THIS MEANS THAT JOHN DOE CAN'T USE HIS HARRY POTTER WAND TO STEAL MY CAR. - Yes, these scenarios will no longer be a thing, thanks. DISCLAIMER If you own IRL vehicles, they will not be deleted or forcefully removed from your possession. It would be unfair to delete players stats, even if we are substituting for other things. No, instead, if you want, you can crush your IRL vehicle; receive the full money back along with 15k on top of the purchase price as a thank you for transitioning. You are not forced to crush or delete your assets. Items Items will be moved to a lore-based specimen though this won't be enforced for mainstream items (such as safes, firearms, drugs and so on). However, we will be mainstreaming lore-based items which will be available on our UCP or Forums (undecided which), so that you can check out the specification and data. The Theme The overall theme of the server will be more mainstreamed. We will have something to base ourselves on. Places such as RCRP or SoLS done this. Whilst we won't be moving our game setting from present day, we want to add a vibe to the city, for us all to talk about and dive into the history. We briefly done this back in Red County and on Liberty City (for the brief moment we were there). We won't be enforcing strict lore-based scenarios where you can't reference IRL, or anything like that. We're hoping that as we move forward into the future that we won't need to reference anything from IRL because we'll have built up such a cool atmosphere in-game! Missions/Activities It's true, we want to focus on missions/activities for the players when there's maybe not a lot to do. The server already complies with this in some jobs such as the taxi job, delivery job and fishing. We want to expand on that for both the legal and illegal side of the gains. We want to introduce automatic systems that will allow illegal roleplayers to grow their own weed or deliver firearms to an NPC buyer in San Fierro. Why? Because it gives people something to do, and yes whilst this does take away slightly from the heavy RP scenario; we still will expect players to roleplay heavily - on top of that, it allows us to appeal to the wider population of roleplayers who haven't been doing anything other than playing RPGs. Does this mean we're turning into a light RP server or an RPG? No. All RP servers have had an element of RPG in them all throughout the years, we just want to modernize our approach. We don't just want to offer taxi jobs or bus jobs. We want to offer street sweeping jobs, gunsmithing, pizza delivery, parcel delivery, gun distribution with high risk high reward schemes. I won't go into further details on this as it's only concept stage and not properly thought out. I hope you are as excited about the future of the community as I am. Whilst I understand some of these changes may upset you, we have to follow the wider community and what they want. We need to follow what's right whilst still maintaining a lot of heavy roleplay. We're not forcing you to take part in missions or lore-based items, you still can keep your vehicles and avoid scripted jobs. Truly, nothing major is changing around here. It's amazing what a simple rumor can do... Any questions, ask them below and I'll answer them; I'll edit this original post to include the Q&A. Community Questions: Q: When will be able to sell our IRL vehicles? A: Whenever we make the announcement. You can visit the crusher to get the full vehicle price plus the $15,000 incentive. Q: Can I just buy vehicles and get the 15K incentive? A: No, vehicles purchased for the sole purpose to abuse the $15,000 dollar incentive will not be eligible. We will have an internal process to exempt these vehicles from refund to stop abusing the system. Q: Are the selling of cars variable with the extend of modifications pushed into them? Essentially, if an IRL car had 60k of added parts. A: It's unlikely we'll account for this unless special circumstances are presented in the interests of keeping everything simple. We'll review this on a case-by-case basis. Q: Would you consider moving to a heavily modeled Red County resembling rural Virginia/North Carolina/Georgia A: No is the short answer. We will be trying to detach ourselves from real life basis. So, if we were going to move or include other parts of the SA map (Red County, Whetstone etc) it would be for "seasonal" purposes. I'm not going to touch on this idea right now, but we are constantly tinkering with the idea of having an escape village or area that players can roleplay in, on designated holidays like Halloween, Christmas or Summer for example. Kind~Regards, Portside

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Darnell grew up in a hostile/toxic family. At the age of 12, he ran away from his parents because they would beat him without reason while intoxicated. Now, Darnell lives with his aunt, who has always defended and cared for him against his parents. Ace currently attends Crenshaw High but struggles significantly in school. His grades are low, and he often finds himself in trouble with teachers and peers due to his short temper and lack of focus. Despite his difficulties, he remains determined to open his own tattoo parlor in the city, which fuels his ambition and keeps him going. Ace is addicted to narcotics and actively smokes marijuana. In his neighborhood, he is better known for growing and selling marijuana and designing tattoos. Ace is relatively large for his age, standing 6'4" tall. He has been going to the Ganton gym since he was 15.

Home — Testimonials — Resources — Blog UPDATE: Erin Kowalski's Law Office Wins Lawsuit Against City of Los Santos, Judge Confirms Parking Enforcement Unconstitutional Erin Kowalski's Law Office confirms today a significant legal victory in our fight to challenge the constitutionality of the Parking Enforcement Ordinance of 2023. On November 14, 2024, Judge Oscar Keahi ruled in favor of Erin Kowalski's Law Office on all counts of constitutional violations by the City of Los Santos in relation to parking enforcement rules. Our law office represented various plaintiffs in the City of Los Santos who have had their vehicle disproportionately or wrongfully clamped, towed away and impounded. We initiated civil proceedings on November 8, 2024, and after a preliminary hearing, Judge Keahi suspended the ordinance after we raised several constitutional concerns. Today, Judge Keahi ruled completely in favor of the plaintiffs, finding as follows: Barry Martin, Director of Los Santos Traffic Services, engaged in unconstitutional retaliation for protected First Amendment speech by explicitly choosing more severe enforcement actions based on plaintiff's prior criticism of clamping practices; The practice by the City of Los Santos of immediate seizure — through clamping or towing — for minor parking infractions, particularly in empty parking areas where no public safety concern exists, constitutes an unreasonable seizure under the Fourth Amendment; The fee structure employed by the Los Santos Traffic Services, including $750 for a clamp removal, a $1,500 base storage fee and $300 per day in additional storage fees, is grossly disproportionate to the minor nature of the parking violations and constitutes an excessive fine under the Eighth Amendment; The Parking Enforcement Ordinance and the enforcement practices used by the City of Los Santos failed to provide constitutionally-required due process protections, including: clear procedures for contesting violations; adequate notices; and proper hearing opportunities before and after the seizure. The ordinance contains unconstitutionally vague provisions that fail to give citizens fair notice of prohibited conduct and enable arbitrary enforcement. The City of Los Santos failed to meet the deadlines to present a defense. As a result, Judge Keahi ordered the ordinance void by summary judgement. The City of Los Santos and the Los Santos Traffic Services were ordered to end all enforcement of the parking ordinance, including clamping, towing and collecting fees without due process, until a new constitutionally sound ordinance is signed into law. In addition, the court ordered the City to reimburse all plaintiffs who joined the litigation, affected by the excessive enforcement of the ordinance. Erin Kowalski's Law Office is proud to share this victory. Our office continues to serve all residents in Los Santos and nearby communities in various fields. © 2024 Erin Kowalski's Law Office. All Rights Reserved. This website is not to be construed as legal advice and does not create an attorney-client relationship.

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Hi I'm Vinnie this is how you can do your radio station. 1. Create a Zeno.Fm account Go to https://zeno.fm/ and do an account. 2. Create a station Once you have opened an account, go to stations and add a new stations, add a random name and configure it by your liking. 3. Add songs Go to auto DJ once you have created your station. Download your songs using Youtube and https://ytmp3.la/ ((or any mp3 converter you know)) Once you have downloaded your songs, Press upload, and select every file song (( after you have added songs, press restart for it to configurate well)) 5. Introduce your radio to the server In order to do this, press [F10] Key on your keyboard, and once the menu pops up, press on Radio Station. Once you do that, create a new radio station. This is the important part. Go back on zeno.fm, and open your settings tab, as you copy your stream link. Once that is done, go back on the game and paste the Stream URL into the Direct Adress tab, and your desired Station Name!

Home — Testimonials — Resources — Blog UPDATE: Judge Sides With Erin Kowalski's Law Office And Plaintiffs, Suspends Unconstitutional Parking Enforcement Ordinance Erin Kowalski's Law Office is pleased to announce our first victory in our legal battle against the City of Los Santos, as we challenge the Parking Enforcement Ordinance of 2023. Judge Oscar Keahi has sided in favor of the plaintiffs our office is representing, and has ordered the City of Los Santos to cease all enforcement of the Ordinance. As such, residents in Los Santos will no longer face citations for parking violations, and no vehicles will be clamped, towed away or impounded until a new revised parking ordinance is ratified by City Council and deemed constitutionally sound by the court. On November 9, 2024, our office initiated legal action against the City of Los Santos for its unconstitutional enforcement of the Parking Enforcement Ordinance signed by Mayor Victor Chase and enforced by the Los Santos Traffic Services, the City's parking enforcement agency. The Superior Court of Los Santos accepted our action, finding proper standing. The City of Los Santos was ordered to suspend all enforcement of the Ordinance in question, and has thirty (30) days to respond. This City's lawmakers will have to return to the drawing board and revise the Ordinance to comply with constitutional standards under the scrutiny of this very court. Additionally, the City was ordered to preserve all records related to parking enforcement, including records of fees and penalties issued. We hope for the full release of these records, as we believe it is in the interest of the public to know the extent of the Towing Services for-profit enterprise. If you have been affected by the parking enforcement regulations of the City of Los Santos in any way, including wrongful seizure, excessive fines, or harsh penalties, feel free to reach out to our office. © 2024 Erin Kowalski's Law Office. All Rights Reserved. This website is not to be construed as legal advice and does not create an attorney-client relationship.

Home — Testimonials — Resources — Blog Erin Kowalski's Law Office Challenges Draconian Parking Enforcement Ordinance Residents in the Los Santos area, has your vehicle wrongfully been towed or clamped by local law enforcement or the Los Santos Traffic Services? Or have you been subject to excessive impoundment fees, fines or penalties? On November 8, 2024, our office initiated legal action to challenge the constitutionality of several provisions in the Parking Enforcement Ordinance of 2023, signed into law by Mayor Victor Chase in March 2024. The Ordinance has given the City of Los Santos unconstitutional authority to enforce Draconian penalties on its residents. We represent several plaintiffs who have had their vehicle wrongfully clamped or towed away and imposed severe impoundment fees. In some cases, the Los Santos Traffic Services seized vehicles on private property without consent from the landowners, and in others, claiming the vehicles overstayed beyond the hourly limits by a few minutes in otherwise empty parking lots — sometimes even erroneously. The Los Santos Traffic Services is in a for-profit business of constant monitoring of potential parking offenders. With over 39 parking locations under the agency's surveillance, many of which on a pay-to-park scheme, and most of which rarely reach full capacity, it is questionable whether these measures can be justified by a legitimate public interest. We are asking the judge to order the City of Los Santos to repeal unclear provisions in the Parking Enforcement Ordinance of 2023, rule the penalties and enforcement of the ordinance disproportionate and unconstitutional, and to reimburse the plaintiffs. Our office is challenging the Ordinance on the following counts: A violation of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution by engaging in retaliatory penalties for the free expression of ideas; A violation of the Fourth Amendment by engaging in unreasonable seizures by clamping, towing and impounding vehicles over minor parking violations; A violation of the Fourth Amendment by engaging in warrantless seizures of vehicles on privately-owned property without the consent of landowners; A violation of the Eighth Amendment by enforcing excessive fines by setting up an exorbitant clamping and impoundment scheme and a for-profit interest; A violation of the Fourteenth Amendment by not including clear and concise procedures to contest wrongful penalties, clamping and impoundment; A violation of the Fourteenth Amendment by broadly exempting all city government employees from non-hazardous parking rules regardless of function; A violation of the Fourteenth Amendment for enforcing an ordinance containing numerous vague and ambiguous provisions. Prior to filing this suit, we reached out to the Director of Traffic Services Barry Martin, and Mayor Victor Chase, who both admitted parts of the Ordinance are unclear and could be defined better. While the mayor promised it would be rectified, the City of Los Santos continues to enforce the Ordinance as is, imposing their interpretation without legal merit. We are looking to put an end to abusive parking enforcement practices by the City of Los Santos. If you have been affected by the parking enforcement regulations of the City of Los Santos in any way, including wrongful seizure, excessive fines, or harsh penalties, feel free to reach out to our office. © 2024 Erin Kowalski's Law Office. All Rights Reserved. This website is not to be construed as legal advice and does not create an attorney-client relationship.