[SA:MP] Feature updates

[Bas]

Hello everyone,

From now on we'll be using this topic to inform about certain changes within the gameplay dynamic of the server. To kick this off we'll shine some light on the updates that have gone live tonight.

Changes:

A person may only own 3 houses and 3 busines's by himself:

We believe that property hoarding has become a substantial issue in the server, and reducing the amount of properties one may own seems like the best solution. We still feel that this is a more then reasonable amount. As for the players that currently own more then the new limit. They will have till the 7th of September to either hand over properties or leave them unowned. After the 7th HQ will sell off the remaining properties and leave the 3 most expensive of both kinds of properties.

A change to the tax system:

The tax system has been massively flawed for a substantial amount of time now. It takes at least 3 months for a property to be sold, and all it needs to be reset is a simple login and the owner paying the property tax. We have decided to run a property tax every 2 weeks, the amount of this tax will be halfed from .08% to .04% of the property value. The player has 2 weeks to fulfil his payment. If the player did not pay within those 2 weeks, the property will automaticaly be sold on the next tax round.

A change to the jail system:

As long as we can remember, argonath has had a low jail time compared to any other server out there. While this may be nice it is also quite limiting for roleplay opportunities that may arise through jail. Therefor we're introducing the old Mordor jail interior and 2 new jails will be set in the state. The maximum amount of jail time here will be 15 minutes. Due to freecops no longer being a thing we can strictly enforce the proper use of jail time therefor a few regulations have been put in place:

- All suspects awaiting a court trial must be placed for holding in a PD cell. (Max of 180 seconds)
- All suspects adminited guilty can be jailed in the county jail for a maximum of ten minutes.
- All suspects suspected for crimes against national security must be held for fifteen minutes in the county jail while awaiting trial.
- If a suspect OOCly agrees, he may be jailed in the county jail for any crime.
- All suspects sentenced to federal prison in a court of law must be jailed at Argotraz. (Can only be ordered by the court)

*Airspace above Argotraz is a permanent no-fly zone*

Inactive group leadership:

It has been a long standing issue, one of the founders of a group hasn't logged in for over a year yet is still stuck in that founder rank. As of now Division Leaders are able to remove those people from their rank and a developer is no longer needed.

As a closing note I'd like to thank @Chase for his hard work and staying up with Spike and myself to get these features implemented.

[Nathan]

Great changes. Love seeing Argonath growing from it's past and moving on to a better future.

[Hevar.]

rip to those who owns casino in LV, haha huge taxes

[Chase]

After the 7th HQ will sell off the remaining properties and leave the 3 most expensive of both kinds of properties.

Per Bas's instruction, this has been done today. IIRC, I have sold the least priced homes and businesses that have gone above 3 (leaving the 3 most expensive homes/businesses respectively) from a total of 4 players. There wasn't that many I had to sell thanks to the tax system. The price of the properties has automatically been returned to the accounts of those who have been affected.

If you log in and notice you have a lot of extra money, chances are you are one of four of those people. You have been warned and we have waited an additional 22 days to ensure everyone got the message, and it seems like most everyone did.