[SA:MP] RS5: Script Updates

[Gimli]

Changes May 7 2014

We've just launched a brand new reward system that promotes low-paying jobs. Once you meet a certain threshold of 'interactions', you will get a monetary reward. This is limited to one reward a day per category and the counter resets at midnight server time (/time)

These are currently:
* Taxi/Limo/Bus Driver - every 5 unique passengers you carry, you will get a bonus of $1000. These have to be separate fares, i.e. passengers don't count, and must be real.
* Mechanic - repair 5 unique player's cars and get a bonus of $1000.


In the future, we plan to add extend this to other jobs (e.g. medics) and add long-term rewards (e.g. 50 unique passengers carried in 1 week  yields a reward of $10k), but these will be added slowly as to not overwhelm the server with these unpopular jobs.

[Gimli]

Changes May 12 2014
Rewards for the update described above have been bumped to $2k each. Furthermore, taxi drivers only need to carry 3 unique passengers now. 

[Zaila]

Changes May 13 2014

Removed female skin from SAPD, FBI, SWAT duty.
Fixed so UC duty for police officers should be working properly.

[Conroy]

Changes April 19 2014 (these changes will be live TOMORROW)
[Police Script] Removed the security guard skin from SWAT duty and added it back to SAPD duty.
[Police Script] Fixed copbans
[Police Script] Fixed suspect wanted levels (1 star for every 5 minutes of RHL).
[Police Script] New criminal mission, more to be announced soon.
[Police Script] SAPD Ceremony objects have been added for tomorrow only.
[Police Script] Suspect escape distance changed from 100m to 250m (like RS4).
[Police Script] Text labels above suspects heads have been moved up a little.
[Police Script] Text labels above suspects heads should not longer stay when the player is a civilian.

These changes will be applied today. New criminal mission is not being added yet.

Changes May 22 2014
* [Police script] Jurisdictions should now be working properly with the group system (special permission).
* [Police script] /rank now shows AirDiv ranks.
* [Police script] UC officers with their badge shown will prevent suspects from escaping.
* [Police/Vehicle script] Suspects can no longer evade in aircraft.
* [Vehicle script] Personal vehicles cannot be despawned if their health is <= 250 to prevent abuse, wait for them to explode.
* [Property script] Fixed map icons not disappearing in /settings.

[Zaila]

Changes May 27 2014

*All these changes applies to the weed part of the script only as it requires a major rewrite. The heroin part will be done in due time.

Weed plant object system
A new object has been put in for the weed plant when it's not grown (Check the picture at the bottom of this post). This object will be there whenever an available weed spot are not ready to be harvested. As soon as players are able to use /harvestweed on an available weed spot, it will switch immediately to a new object (Check second picture). This is done to properly show whenever a weed plant are ready to be harvested.

Weed growing information
Before, all information that was needed for weed growing was attached to players instead of a variable stored in the memory of the server (Dont ask me why, i have no idea). That means, whenever a player disconnected, that information would be deleted. Based on reports from players, i suspect this was causing an issue which would render a weed spot unusable until reset if the grower left the server before it was done. This has now been fixed.

Weed timers
Before these updates, the timer to reset a weed spot and make it usable again was way to low. It could be everything between 2 seconds (Yes, i actually had a reset time on 2 seconds when testing it tonight) up to 10 minutes. This was done when there was only a maximum of 8 weed spots active around the map. Now, it can be up to 16 weed spots active at a time which means this has been changed. Now, the time will be between 10 to 15 minutes.

This is what i have to share with you guys for now. We are discussing additional, major, changes which should benefit both players and groups.

These changes will be in effect sometime tomorrow.


New Weed plant object (When not grown):


Weed plant object when grown:

[Zaila]

Changes 2014-05-29

*Containers has been released
*/giveweapon is now usable again by players.

[Conroy]

Changes June 17 2014
* [Economy system] Selling a loaned property has been fixed and should now sell correctly.

[Teddy]

Changes July 14 2014

* [Economy System] Version 2 released; adds briefcases; removes wallets/cards/pickpocket. Adds dual command/dialog intractability.

[Zaila]

Changes August 9th

* Fixed an issue where players wouldn't be able to buy vehicle licenses.
* When fixing the above issue, i have also taken time to fix the pricing of vehicle license. It should work as intended from now on. (With this fix, your first vehicle license from now on will cost 1, second will cost 100, third 100k and 4+ 1 million)
* Firefighters that are not a part of SAFD now only earns 75% of their actual mission payout. SAFD members will not have their payout changed. This is to give players a reason to join SAFD.

More updates to come.

All updates will be uploaded onto the server sometime tomorrow, and be in effect after the first server restart after upload.

[Jones]

Changes August 9th

* Property loaning fixed. You'll be able to purchase and sell properties without losing the loan money. If your property is already bugged with this and you want to sell your property (which you had bought with a loan) you'll have to contact a scripter to manually sell it.
* Returning from UC duty for police now works correctly.


Changes won't be added until tomorrows uploads.

[Zaila]

Changes 1st September

*Jurisdictions has been completly removed from the server. It might be added again in the future, but then it will be in another form which will work out for everyone.

[Gimli]

Changes 4th September 2014
* The drug market system is back to the old one - different groups have different weed prices every 5 days.
* Number of active market spots bumped from 6 to 10.
* Number of active weed spots bumped from 16 to 32.
* Number of active heroin spots bumped from 16 to 24.
* Improvements to /invent: this now shows HP, armor, bank balance.
* City chat is no longer the default chatmode for new players.

[Gimli]

Changes September 14 2014
* Mechanics can now paint cars of other players using /OfferPaintjob for a fee between $100 and $500. This works almost the same way as repairing someone's vehicle. This isn't a permanent paintjob, and thus can be used on both state and owned vehicles (can't wait to see pink PD cruisers x) )
* Trucking script

[Gimli]

Changes September 15 2014
* Started work on economy scripts, simplifying the way it works and removing tons of old/unused code that either never worked or is easier to rewrite than to debug.

[Gimli]

Changes September 16 2014

Trucking script changes:
* New trucking radio - /r
* You may no longer load cargo whilst on duty as police, firefighter or medic
* More consistant and concise messages
* A few locations have been renamed to be more accurate
* Increased weight limits of vans/small trucks

Legacy stat system removed.
Vehicle container system removed.
Players no longer lose items when they die.