Josh aka Spike

I agree with Joe, I think you can approve on activity and forum activity. Although we all start somewhere, so work hard and you can go places!

- Support Makes gas almost pointless as most people would buy a gas mask like armour. Makes some bases impossible to raid. Tactical units have already been nerfed enough, this would be even bigger unbalance between government and criminal. Will break the economy as gangs just keep spawning money silos and printers, repeatedly killing government who will eventually give up and allowing criminals to gain money super quick just like in the past.

I have no idea about anything you just typed.

- Support I agree with Bryce, many people use the excuse that valk banned them and somehow it wasn't a credible ban. The lack of effort and any sort of proof/evidence plus waiting such a long time to appeal makes me feel you knowingly did something and waited a long time to try claim the ban was false.

+ Support Was a mistake, what a silly goose!

+ Support Please fix this, it makes the vehicle almost unusable

A bridge too far

Good job

- Support New armour changes make us very weak and with criminals having very high damaging weapons, gas is the only way to balance many situations.

- Support NSA shouldn't be even going to general store robberies Tactical units would be called to a major crime like that irl (heavily armed individuals robbing a store with the clerk still inside like npc) It's semi-serious roleplay server, that's why departments like NSA even exist.

Why don't we just increase the number of barricaded suspects from 3 to 4 or 5, keeping the gas SOP we have right now. I think the current one works out fine but may need a small tweak. Rather than complicating things, we could just change current rules. 3+ LEO killed or 4-5 barricaded suspects sounds reasonable.

If this was implemented, how would gas be limited. Can you only throw 1 per raid aka until government give up or criminals die. Or could you die, wait NLR time and come back and throw another gas grenade? Also, it's sometimes hard to know how many players are inside a base when you getting shot. It be hard for tac units to know if they can even throw gas or not in terms of more than 3+ players.

It depends on the situation. Gas is only used as a last resort by high command of each department. We took away gas from lower ranks, we implemented a new gas SOP to counter this and now a gas to player ratio? Many bases just throwing 1 or 2 gases are nearly non effecting due to the size of certain buildings and players just running away into areas not affected. If it's cases of people spamming gas, why not deal with the individuals rather than trying to pass more conditions onto those that only have 1 gas canister anyway. It's super rare to have more than 2 high command members on for tactical units, that means at most times only 1 person has access to gas. 1 gas v 5 criminals in a very protective base with small government numbers is not going to be raidable.

If it disappears it usually means they respawned and the body is no longer there. Unless it does this when the body is still there, then it be a bug report.

- Support

Can confirm being a tea lover.

What you want to see? - Return of Armed Response Unit (ARU) as a department. Why should we add it? - All ARU vehicle skins and player models are already in-game on the server, meaning that it would not cost the community any money in adding to the server. What are the advantages of having this? - ARU should be added back for multiple reasons. One big reason is that it would attract more UK people to the server, increasing our player size and popularity. It would make it so the server would be more populated during BST time zones. Recently our UK player base has been decreasing over past few months and this new addition would be a good attraction for the server. The server is a semi-serious RP and we have many other liberties already in the server. For example; NSA patrolling the streets with MP5s going into shootouts and general store robbery's when in real life, they are not an law enforcement agency and wouldn't respond to calls. Other departments like BSI that are meant to be just a investigation unit are also responding to major crimes. This would not happen in real life, so having ARU on the sever is not much of a stretch. Although this is an American server, ARU was very popular in the past and many people joined the department. It offers something unique to American players with different vehicle skins and load outs and attracts more British people, giving the server more options to role play and have fun. PD have British vehicles and are regularly seen driving around with UK vehicle skins and sirens. EMS also use a UK NHS Ambulance and is often seen on the server. This shows that many people in the community are already open to the idea of having UK related content in the server. PD High Command (Kitty and Bob Bob) support that ARU should come back, which shows that those at high ranks think that the department would work and attract more players. Overall, to sum it up, ARU would increase the player base, attract more people from around the world, add more variety and chances for people to experience PoliceRP from different English locations and altogether, help the community grow. Many people have suggested this problem and support the idea of ARU being added back for the reasons listed above. Who is it mainly for? - The entire community Links to any content - Already in-game

+ Support Past experience Knows the rules Active Friendly Trusted member of the community Good role model

SMT have already stated numerous times that they can't do anything else to fix the lag. They spend money on the most expensive and powerful servers and try to minimize lag by only accepting suggestions that do not contribute to higher pings. It's why many suggestions end up being denied because ping and lag is a priority. The major cause of lag on the server is due to the amount of vehicles spawned in, it's better to have these in than not. Overall SMT try their hardest to make the lag less noticeable and have had great success over past 6 months. Whilst lag is still present, it's much less noticeable compared to months ago. I think we should give SMT credit for this and be thankful for what they have done to help combat the issue.

I was only 1 when this tragedy happened and I remember my parents telling me when the news spread all around the UK it stood still. Just like all over the world, it was a moment that was truly tragic. I wish all those Americans the best and we are always here for you! The greatest alliance in human history will stand strong together.