Dear citizens and officers alike,

We'd like to let you know that behind the scenes, we are still working to make the VCPD better, pursuing efficiency of operations and optimization of the department.

After some debate with the Server Management, some core changes have been made to the Vice City Police Department, and with how the Police in the state of Vice City will operate in general.

First of all, the Vice City Police Department is splitting from the Argonath RPG Police Department's (ARPD) structure. This is more of a symbolic move with not much significance, as the Argonath RPG Police Department as a united, community-wide police organisation has ceased to exist a while ago due to the general inactivity of the ARPD community wide. Every still active police department branch of Argonath RPG has been acting in isolation, mostly ignoring the ARPD's structure. We've found that the existence of both in the server causes confusion among new players, as well as creates convolution.

With that being said, the term "ARPD" or "ARPD Officer" ceases to exist in the state, with the only, and sole police force in the State of Vice City being Vice City Police Department.

How does that affect you, as a player, and/or former ARPD Officer (freecop)?

Not much. ARPD Officers/Freecops will now simply become VCPD Officers, with the rank VCPD Officer no longer being a career rank of the Vice City Police Department.
Every player on police duty will now be considered Officer. This rank will no longer be bound by the VCPD Regulations and Procedures, unless you yourself willingly do so in order to pursue a career-path in the police department.

This works in synergy with the changes in recruitment and officer training - any Officer is now able to seek out a ranked member of the VCPD in order to express their interest in the VCPD, and conducting an interview. Once expressed interest, and if deemed to meet the most basic needs, they become subject to VCPD Procedures and under-go an on the field training and evaluation of indefinite period. Once/if deemed suitable and ready for a career officer path in the VCPD, said Officer becomes Senior Officer of the Vice City Police Department.

With said changes come some core changes to the structure of the Vice City Police Department:
- the rank Cadet is retired
- every current Senior Officer is now promoted to Sergeant
- every current Officer is now promoted to Senior Officer

We strive to become a more visible and open part of the community, and in turn improve the policing of the State of Vice City.

FBI will not be affected by any of the changes and will continue to operate as usual under their own structure.

Yours,
Chief of Police
Gabriel Adams

Quote from: Jerry on February 01, 2025, 11:27:16 am

Wow.

You guys still here?

A lot of us are still here. The problem is nobody is taking the initiative to organize and get the activity back up again and running.
I guess most people still here are staying for Nostalgia reasons, but often find themselves too tired or unwilling to kickstart activity again due to real life responsibilities and what not, as most of us are adults with jobs now. Some with children even.
For me that is definitely the case. I feel very nostalgic and miss the sense of belonging to this community, but the real life kinda sucks the spark out of me to try and do anything to improve the situation, and when I want to game with the little time I have I just fire up my PS5. I guess I'm just hoping someone with a little more enthusiasm will take lead in kickstarting actvity again so I lurk around.
It's really unfortunate because with the amount of us still around, just lurking, if we all just got in game we would have quite decent numbers of players in game.

king yapper at it again

Been a while. Congrats Jcs. Lot's of great memories from 2008's

Wow.

You guys still here?

Well damn.. even the old forum is back. Nice to see so many familiar names. This place truly has something special, it keeps bringing people together..
Think I lost my old account, but well.. hello y'all!