[SA:MP] Developers Answer: Give Examples

[Brad.]

Imagine the following Situation

I'm a bog standard cop, SAPD Senior Officer etc, am patrolling with SMG and Deagle as standard etc...

I drive past Grove Street, and there are a group of about 10 people, Araatus and others, and practically every single one opens fire on me with Combat Shotguns, M4s etc.

Could this be considered bannable?

No, because we were suspected and you were the fourteenth cop to come around the corner and open fire on us

[JDC]

Imagine the following Situation

I'm a bog standard cop, SAPD Senior Officer etc, am patrolling with SMG and Deagle as standard etc...

I drive past Grove Street, and there are a group of about 10 people, Araatus and others, and practically every single one opens fire on me with Combat Shotguns, M4s etc.

Could this be considered bannable?

I am not a Developer, but this situation is easily solvable in common sense.

If the group is suspected and involved in criminal activities (as a whole), they can engage threatening cops.

Of course, assuming they were all there and not just white-named "backups" called in by those who got suspected... in such cases, "backups" should get wanted on their own first.

[Julio.]

No, because we were suspected and you were the fourteenth cop to come around the corner and open fire on us

Correction, Ness was some way from the group and was the only suspect.


Ness was the only suspect, everyone else just opened fire.

[Vince]

Situation:

Player 1 jokes about player 2, player 2 jokes him back. Admin bans player 2. Jokes were about other guys IG name.

Question:

was that the right thing to do?? Both said only 1 word, but only player 2 got banned? And why BAN, why no warn, kick, banana or tempban?

Ps. happened IG few min ago. I got SS if you dont unserstand from the text.

You should always keep "inside jokes" "inside", in other words admins are not there to make sense of player to player jokes.. normally I tell them to keep it to a CB channel or in PM (if you don't have one). This simply because others can take offense to it and admins can easily get confused.. as again, they're not there to think if it's a joke or not.

[Perza]

Shouldn't there still be /warn, /kick or /tempban before banning other?

[JDC]

Shouldn't there still be /warn, /kick or /tempban before banning other?

There is no set order of punishment. It depends on the case and the attitude. While some learn after a warning, other players choose to be assholes and defy admins, which is not allowed.

And another problem with a set pattern, smart asses will start moaning "OMG ADMIN FFS YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO TEMPBAN MEA FTER KIKC BEFORE PERMBAN".

[Gandalf]

I have a question, many know that surf on the car + shooting it's not allowed. It's allowed to be on the car and carsurf.

But to my question now, is it allowed to be on like a boat/plane and shoot meanwhile you surf on it? I guess boats are allowed but curious about airplanes.

Shooting while surfing any vehicle is prohibited. Even if its a camera.

[Gandalf]

Situation: I'm suspect and i'm trying to escape on foot. Are cops allowed to Driver DB or Passenger DB, when i'm on foot, not firing back? Question relates to both ARPD and SAPD Officers.

Server rules are simple. If you are a suspect you have the choice between surrendering and running. If you run, cops can use all possible legal ways to stop you and make you surrender.
Driver driveby is legal only for single cops on motorbike.

Regarding restrictions to server rules made by SAPD, check their rules.

[Gandalf]

So, is it okay that suspect escape after /hail? I've been cuffing many veterans and half of them did /stopanim and ran/shot me. At the old script when you did /gu you raised hands automatically, but also we got /gu script so why not to use it? Maybe /hail is for RP, i do like this RP situation but i don't like when they suddenly shoot me, also my friend got banned for this month ago.

So is it OK or not?

As soon as you surrender, regardless in which way, you are not allowed to run or resume fighting. This because after surrender it would be easy to get an advantage.

[Gandalf]

Situation:

Player A is on weed field, growing weed. Player B comes there, takes out combat and aims to you saying ''mine gtfo'' and starts blasting you and kills you.

Is that a DM and can I report it? Growing weed is legal afterall

Player B has a reason to attack you: you are growing valuable drugs.
Use a less populated weed field or get protection

[Gandalf]

Good evening,

The situation: Me and 3 more friends who I know IRL are playing and fooling around.. One of them, by joke, shoots me.
Some admin who was spectacting us freezes him, although I didn't report him.

My question is: Are admins allowed to take actions even if there's no reports?


Cheers.

Admins are supposed to regularly watch all players and act if they noticed rulebreaking.
Hope your friends IRL do not have a gun as they might make the same joke....

[Gandalf]

I guess this would go here... when you type /bizzinfo for your own business what is the equation for the profit script? Like it shows since the last time you withdrew money, or since restocked, since bought, etc.

Profit is counted from the last time the bizz was restocked.

[Gandalf]

Could someone from managers/owners can clear me up in which cases crime "aiding" is actually valid.

Case 1: Two people in tha car,driver is non-suspected person,passnager is suspected - I agree,fully valid.
Case 2: Two people in tha car,driver gets suspected for usualy reckless driving/speeding,few seconds after in 99% percent of cases passanger gets suspected for aiding? If this is actually valid,passanger actually should jump outa car instantly just because driver is suspected?
Case 3: Again two people,driver suspected,other guy gets suspected for aiding even if he has noany intentions to dby or in anyway help suspect,in many cases passanger is even afk..
Same case is when there is 3 or 4 people like in Case 3.

Case 1 : valid
Case 2 : if passenger is member of the same gang/mafia I would not call it invalid as in 99% of the cases passenger will wish to "help his friend".
If the passenger is a random passenger, validity is questionable.
Case 3 : see case 2.

[Gandalf]

Someone said that above

I really want to know if CoastGuard HQ must be sold, and my house too which I own since the early times of my stay in Argonath which I used on occasions to hold DD's,  roleplay farmer, sell food and etc, I also want to continue this but seeing as it will be changed I am afraid to start it because if I do then the farm is gone then wtf we do >.< 

Will there be priority given to those who own a building / house for so long and still play, maybe not 24/7 - but I am not inactive ... ? So they can get loan, buy it back then work hard to repay loan and retire for a bit then continue as normal?

I would love the idea of new change that could help server and could not care about my money (because I already lost it a month before because of this same script change I got used to the idea already that I cant use the money, it stays in IVMP now XD).

I don't want to change my whole samp life, because it's nice

Too early in time to answer. We do understand the concerns from people who do not wish to lose their properties to competitors, but until we are close to releas we will not give any thought how to arrange certain things.

[Gandalf]

When you exit/enter building, there is 3-5sec freeze time while you can't move. Is it consider as script abusing if someone does /thawme to avoids freezing?

The freeze time is to ensure all object are loaded. Using /thawme can make you bugged.