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You are aimbotting and we have enough proof.
Plus, you’ve just made a tit of yourself by accidentally making a ban appeal on your old forum account.
You tried deleting it but it didn’t exactly delete it for us.
That account is banned for… guess what… aimbot!
Declined. Appeal on your main account, but I doubt you deserve an unban for at least a few weeks/months as you are so shit at this 2004 game that you have to continuously cheat and claim we have no proof. Genuinely retarded player!
Hi players,
After several months of development paralleled against the server’s main script development, and after a short while of internal testing, we are ready to release our anticheat launcher to the public in public beta. The speed of this release is testament to the diligence and depth of our development team: one of the best and most prestigious teams in SA:MP.
As it is public beta, issues are expected. Report any issues you find to help improve the experience of using the launcher. It should be noted that while a beta release implies testing, attempts to bypass the launcher or “check if it detects xyz” is not permitted unless given explicit permission by management+. You will be subject to the same consequences of using cheats if you attempt to do either of these.
It is also likely for issues to occur because of the nature of the differing specifications and networking capacities between players varying so much, meaning that we can’t truly account for every situation in every device without identifying the issue in a larger pool of players.
Like any software, bypasses are possible and are anticipated. These will never be fully stopped, and so to the foreign parties and servers preparing their onslaught of bypass attempts to undermine the launcher, I hope it brings you peace knowing that you’ve wasted your apparent intellect on encouraging cheaters on a 2004 game. For players concerned with the efficacy of the launcher given the prospect of bypasses, you must first understand that no software is impenetrable. The amount of investment and time put into preventing this is not proportionate to a SA:MP server, but we will do our best.
By using the launcher, you agree to the terms outlined in the Privacy Policy and Terms of Use outlined here: https://ss-rp.com/launcher-download
Known Incompatabilities
As of now, we have identified the following mods that do not work with the launcher. The list will be updated if there are any more in the future.
Download
https://ss-rp.com/static/launcher/SunsetLauncher.rar
What does the launcher do?
The inner functionality of the launcher is not intended to be publicly known for the sake of keeping the launcher less easy to manipulate. As outlined in the privacy policy, the launcher only involves non-intrusive investigation: including your game folder, your game process and other running processes. You should be aware that cheats in 2024 are not limited to game directories, and so directory checks are solely insufficient.
Who has access to my data?
The specific data is only available to Management+, which includes myself, Valentin, Duplon and N0XIC. Admins will have access to alerts which they can action, but deeper analysis requires investigation done by us in order to protect your data.
Do I have to use the launcher?
The launcher has no downsides to usage unless you’re cheating. It uses minimal resources and helps keep the gameplay fair. But no, unless you’re forced (ie. suspected of cheating), you are only required to use the launcher voluntarily. Usage of the launcher in probable faction wars in the future is mandatory. Staff will also be forced to use the launcher. It is also very likely that we will enforce launcher in highly competitive events, such as the El Cayo island event.
My antivirus flagged this as malware, what should I do?
We are aware from the testing phase that the program gets wrongly flagged as malware - we are not sure why this happens but it’s probably related to the memory checks on the game. Similar flags happen with some .asi mods used by many players (ie. Sprinthook & Crosshairs). To use the launcher, you will need to add an exception / whitelist it for now. We are seeking ways to rectify this to ensure that it doesn’t falsely flag in the future.
To provide peace of mind, you can upload the .exe here for malware analysis:
https://www.virustotal.com/gui/home/upload
A lot of work has gone into the launcher. Aside from my work, there are a lot of people to thank for their contributions in making this task possible in such a short period of time:
Unbanned. But in regards to the justification, please note that not every admin is qualified to TV and only a handful of trusted admins are able to as many players find it sensitive to allow someone access to their PC. Those admins live in varying timezones and have busy lives and are not available to TV on command. The report was made only recently, and so you need to be patient. One event isn’t the “be all or end all”
I’ve read the logs. From what you said, you only play this server to fuck around and break the rules. You have 31 punishments in the past few months, including 2 other bans for RK and DM and cheats. Does that sound like a player that deserves to play? Or are you just using this server as a temporary fix?
We aren’t afraid to cut a player out from the server if it means it is beneficial to the other players - and seeing as you no longer enjoy the server, I don’t see how your unban is helpful to you either.
Hi everyone,
In less than a month’s time, it will be 1 year since the server released its version 2. On the 5th August 2023 at 4PM CET, we released the server to the public. Some additional content discussing and celebrating this will be released in due course, but this announcement is purely for a few announcements (some unrelated to the birth date of the server).
Here are a few of the things you need to know about before then…
We have been working on a major update that is centred around something in particular. This update will add several new features and improve existing gameplay on a specific area. We expect to release this update during the summer, and therefore during the birthday month. There is not much information to be publicised yet, but this update is very cinematic and so there will be plenty of content to be seen beforehand!
This server has done exceptionally well in making high-quality content and attracting people who make successful videos on the server. To help incentivise this further, we will be introducing rewards for content created on the server that follows criteria. To sign-up to this programme, you will need to open a support ticket on the Discord server.
Rewards for top creators will include exclusive items and assets not obtainable by anyone else.
The events team will release an events schedule for the month of events soon.
We’ve repossessed a great deal of properties either manually due to analysis of player inactivity periods, or automatically from the properties being automatically seized due to outstanding taxation. We’ve held these for a great deal of time, but we’ll be giving these out soon.
The plan is:
We received a great deal of feedback from players and the majority of the surveys submitted were in great detail and very helpful. For contextual demographic purposes, 65.1% of participants were PC and 34.9% were mobile.
Firstly, we found that a very low number of participants actually found a need to work for money in the form of jobs and drugs and other means. Only 41.9% did so often or very often, and 34.9% being rarely or never and the remaining being on occasion. This highlights a disparity in the gameplay as earning for rewards in the form of assets and businesses as well as funding themselves and their factions is part of the gameplay cycle. We think this links to other points in the survey where a good deal of participants claimed that they were capable of funding themselves by nuking ATMs and robbing other players which ultimately removes the need to work. Therefore, ATM nuking rewards will be recalculated and balanced to include the number of PD online as a factor in the reward. This should keep it worthwhile to do, while also making it more of a side activity rather than a main income source.
Secondly, we found that there are some jobs used more than others despite them paying roughly the same for time and effort. The most common jobs were taxi and trucker which is not really a surprise. Other jobs such as dockworker, trashmaster, lifeguard, bus driver and train driver were some of the least used. It is possible that some of these jobs are quite monotonous and we do have ideas on how to improve this. However, jobs such as dockworker are not exactly going to be thrilling in any capacity - it is just simple.
Onto criminal activity - we found that 51.2% of people had tried the jewellery heist and only 25.6% of people had tried the museum heist. This is skewed obviously due to legal characters. Jewellery heist is much easier to do, and museum heist had some issues in the script that were not reported - this has been rectified in V2.3.74. Our initial thoughts were that setting up the heist was too difficult, but only 15.2% of people said that the heist was too difficult to setup. Despite this, 0% of people do heists often or very often - with a fairly rough quarterly split of around 20-30% in each category of never/occasional. The main issue seems to be the financial reward and the police interaction. The issue with lack of police response is addressed later in this topic. The financial rewards will also be looked into, but they were calculated the same as other incomes and as mentioned earlier, it is possible that the ease of income from ATMs were skewing the idea of what a good income should be.
Surprisingly, we found that a good majority of players enjoy the dominance-based turfs (flags) with 77.5% of players voting them above average in enjoyment.
With criminal missions we found that the main two missions (arms trafficking and smuggle) were the ones that were done the most often and it is no surprise, as these are the two oldest missions on the server. The newest missions are not done nearly as regularly, and the main reason cited in the responses was lack of good rewards and a lack of knowledge on how to do these missions. We have balanced the rewards in V2.3.74 and will look into making some video tutorials on how to do these missions.
Drug-wise, the server lacks considerably. According to 58.1% of respondents, weed is the most useful drug to produce with the next drugs (cocaine and meth) tied at only 7%. We think there is a severe lack of need to produce these drugs due to other income sources, which we have touched on earlier and fixed. Each of the drugs tells a similar story on never / not often producing, and so it is not exactly limited to one drug.
Overall, the majority of players are happy with the administration team’s performance. The admins were credited on having situations being dealt with well and their helpfulness, but the main issue mentioned was lack of activity and slow ticket handle times. A very interesting distribution was seen in the “It takes too long for my ticket to be handled in-game.” statement. Most players agreed with this on average (27.9% at “5/10”), but the rest of the votes were scattered evenly to the extremes (1 and 10) which implies players have varying experiences and most likely to do with timezone disparities. On the contrary, 72.1% of players find reports on Discord to be effective, and 72.1% also agree that their refund and property requests get handled on-time.
On our switch to medium roleplay, 76.7% of players found that the move to medium roleplay was a good idea for the server, but less people found that the improvement was not yet seen. The great majority players agreed that the server rules are fair and fit for purpose.
Overall, these statistics show a very interesting story into the server and we have had internal talks on how to address these issues and you can see some changes already having been made.
As we had previously back in September-October, the server operated mainly under the guise of singleplayer factions. As we introduced the freight trafficking mission inspired heavily by the singleplayer mission, we believe that reverting back to this period will be best for engagement and interactions between factions. Each faction leader has selected their choice, and we are glad that the faction leaders were very on-board with this change and agree to be lore-accurate which should help with improving the standards of the server.
The changes to factions are as follows:
The server will also begin its lore in 1994, a few years after the events of GTA SA concluded. A more in-depth description of this will come soon so that the lore can be updated progressively.
It is no secret that SAPD has not been active for a great duration of this server’s history. A lack of interest in law enforcement fuelled by shortcomings and poor interactions has led SAPD to become obsolete. However, SAPD is a faction that is the forefront of the server’s legal side and as much as criminal factions hate losing to them, an active police department is needed to keep both sides active.
Temporarily, SAPD’s academy has been suspended to make the entry process into the department easier. There will also be more live recruitment sessions to help drive up interest in the faction.
We’ve also made several rule changes to make sure interactions are more fun and fair:
We’re also planning to add more events for SAPD and illegal interaction. While we’re pushing for more roleplay and encourage factions to hold their own roleplay initiatives, we think some fun is also required for a healthy balance. Events such as armoury restocking and money transports will take place spontaneously, with criminals able to come across these and disrupt them. They most likely won’t be announced, but will be random and secret.
We’ve decided to re-add FBI and HRT to add a bit more risk into criminal gameplay. We understand this contradicts the SAPD commitments slightly, but as they are on different terms working in different fields and not using the same members, it will not have an issue. FBI will not have sniper slots and is purely an investigatory bureau - HRT has the same number of sniper slots as SWAT (3 at the time of writing). Member slots are also heavily limited to avoid poaching from SAPD. This is an exclusive department with a focus on in-depth legal investigatory roleplay.
Undercover operations/stings, property/HQ raids etc are all authorised, and so players must be vigilant and more careful when they are operating a criminal lifestyle. Advertising the selling of illegal drugs is probably not the best idea.
As promised many months ago, the launcher was in development. We are very close to being done, and expect to release it within the next few weeks or so - and we’ve decided on the name: Watchdog Client-side Anti-Cheat (WCA), which reflects our combined anti-cheat collective server-side and client-side. This will be regularly maintained for updates and patches, as it is not possible to make a perfect launcher first time, and any good anti-cheat requires continuous improvement. Anyone that says otherwise has no clue what they are talking about.
Information on what this software does is limited due to maintaining the integrity of its operation, but we will release a Privacy Policy and Terms of Use outlining our commitment on privacy and data collection, and what we expect from users for using our services.
Only players who participate in faction wars or are suspicious of cheats will be forced to use this launcher. Other usage is voluntary, but is encouraged.
A huge thank you to Sixy for her contributions in making the panel side of the launcher, to Foksha for his help in integrating the different parts of the backend, and to Valentin for his contributions and advice on all parts of the launcher.
“but I also edited it like it wasn’t that much copied text”
What? You copied it word-for-word - even the name of this server was still in your copy.
Advertisement and ripping off our hard work and our content are not only rulebreaks, but are just generally shitty things to do - especially for a server that lasted less than 60 minutes.
Don’t ignore my PMs when I try to investigate and you won’t end up here. I had to spend more time trying to investigate how you actually did that, which is a much greater annoyance to me than the amount you gained from the bug. In the future, comply with investigations like this and it’ll be fine.
Unbanned.
