My Feeling towards the server right now

[ghost]

Please describe and elaborate on the topic as much as possible

Respectfully if i could keep this anonymous, it’d be greatly appreciated. I’m currently writing this as I see Highlife going into a decline. This wipe has all in all been in the nicest way, dogshit. There’s been no criminal activity since roughly a year ago. I’ve been talking with a lot of people, from my friends who’ve been playing for a long time to staff which they all agree with me that the server was in a better state when the server had 32-64 players, people used to value RP and actually feared gangs and police when during this wipe people only try to get in police chases or try to fuck with gangs to get in shootouts cause its the least bit fun thing that is going. This wipe has been essentially a VRchat world and that's why every person who was here before is leaving. The reason people sit in garages and shitRP is cause Legion Square is basically shut off with no parking spots and i'm not saying legion square was the best place but it’s the best related thing i guess. First Person shooting has basically fucked gunplay and apparently stops crosshairs and is realistic but in reality it’s doing jack shit to stop crosshairs, crosshairs will never go away no matter and in reality they only help with the first shot as well as every criminal activity like tables and actually gaining respect from a gang to be able to purchase guns which is how it should be, and i'm not saying tables are good but they’re definitely better then these drops and warehouse which gives you no RP cause you sell to locals where with tables you could have all sorts of actually gang beef for control of drugs but now everybody has the opportunity to do it so it diminishes RP and gangs tend to keep to themselves instead of interacting with other gangs. Tables no matter how dog shit they were they gave RP to gangs and gave them something to claim. Gun slings are the most stupid thing in the world i can’t lie about that, unracks weren’t bad except the fact that people could pull it from their ass but not slings just show a whole fucking AR on your back and its honestly stupid and unrealistic and no one wants to put in the vehicle due to the server could crash at anytime and its gone, eitherway the positives of unracks outweigh the negatives In conclusion, you can ask any person who has been here before the wipe and they will agree with most of the things I've said and want the last wipe back.

When i first joined the server i would wake up play go to sleep because it was so damn fun, now i can’t see myself connecting once a day for anything cause its so damn boring right now, main solution is that the last wipe comes back along with some of the good things that have been added this wipe, i really hope this feedback will be taken into consideration if anything because I see so many people just giving up on the servers potential and leaving. Either Way i’ll be here to see highlife grow and become its best. Thank you for reading.

[sorreia]

Hi Andy,

Thank you for your input.

I'll try break this down into the sections of your issues.

1. I’ve been talking with a lot of people, from my friends who’ve been playing for a long time to staff which they all agree with me that the server was in a better state when the server had 32-64 players, people used to value RP and actually feared gangs and police when during this wipe people only try to get in police chases or try to fuck with gangs to get in shootouts cause its the least bit fun thing that is going.

I too have been here since the 32 slot player server, I was in WL jobs and I was running drugs and all sorts. Back then with only 32 slots, the biggest issue was that there was a minimal amount of roleplay on the server, EMS rarely got any calls and was AFK at pillbox. PD has a limited amount of involvement with drugs as they were, so that would be something people would just grinding with little to no RP, the only interactions there would be would end put in a staff situation. Cracking modules were easy to get so PD would mostly do back to back of bank robberies and it would always be the same song, with very little creativity, so saying that the roleplay was better than would be disappointing to hear because there were very little of it. We've strived to make things a little harder to get, so it's not something people can just grind by themselves, we try to encourage people to roleplay with each other to easier gain items such as illegal weapons, running drugs more "safely".

2. The reason people sit in garages and shitRP is cause Legion Square is basically shut off with no parking spots and i'm not saying legion square was the best place but it’s the best-related thing i guess.

You might not see this as an average player, but legion garage was a very central garage that just attracted shitrp, the number of staff situations we had every single day was worrying, there are so many things going on in the central spot of the city ie. legion bank is the most popular bank to hit, mostly because the police station is nearby and nowadays people value the roleplay interaction that they do have with the police when robbing a bank, jumping back to the 32-grind-only servers, people would repeatedly just rob Paleto bank to just dip before PD arrived to avoided roleplay, because money was more important. When a garage causes such a huge amount of problems, the best we can do is to remove it, not because we can stop the problems fully, but we can reduce them.

3. First Person shooting has basically fucked gunplay and apparently stops crosshairs and is realistic but in reality, it’s doing jack shit to stop crosshairs, crosshairs will never go away no matter and in reality, they only help with the first shot as well as every criminal activity like tables and actually gaining respect from a gang to be able to purchase guns which is how it should be, and i'm not saying tables are good but they’re definitely better than these drops and warehouse which gives you no RP cause you sell to locals where with tables you could have all sorts of actually gang beef for control of drugs but now everybody has the opportunity to do it so it diminishes RP and gangs tend to keep to themselves instead of interacting with other gangs. Tables no matter how dog shit they were they gave RP to gangs and gave them something to claim

First-person shooting has made gunplay a lot fairer, we now have the same advantage as everyone else, it's the best thing against crosshairs. It doesn't remove crosshairs from other people, but it more or less makes them useless. We use to let gangs control different drugs and weapons, but giving this amount of power to a person/gang comes with great responsibility, it still needs to be fair and unfortunately, we've seen the power reach peoples heads, it's not something we've seen being utilized successfully.

4. Gun slings are the most stupid thing in the world i can’t lie about that, unracks weren’t bad except the fact that people could pull it from their ass but not slings just show a whole fucking AR on your back and its honestly stupid and unrealistic and no one wants to put in the vehicle due to the server could crash at anytime and its gone, eitherway the positives of unracks outweigh the negatives In conclusion, you can ask any person who has been here before the wipe and they will agree with most of the things I've said and want the last wipe back.

You can't hide an AR under your shirt, ofc you need to be careful with this, the fact you don't see that this system is more realistic makes me question this whole complaint. You also say ask anyone who has been here fore the wipe and they'll agree with you, this is also untrue, your fact here is based on the small sample of friends you have around you. You can't see pistols, because them you'd realistically be able to hide, but larger weapons you can't, if you were interested in the roleplay aspects of guns, then you would understand that protecting larger and more expensive illegal weapons would be part of the roleplay, but reading through this post I personally get the feeling that you're not really here for the roleplay, perhaps I'm wrong, but it's the feeling I get reading through this.

5. When i first joined the server i would wake up play go to sleep because it was so damn fun, now i can’t see myself connecting once a day for anything cause its so damn boring right now, main solution is that the last wipe comes back along with some of the good things that have been added this wipe, i really hope this feedback will be taken into consideration if anything because I see so many people just giving up on the servers potential and leaving. Either Way i’ll be here to see highlife grow and become its best. Thank you for reading.

Lastly, I don't see any feedback or constructive criticism in this post, you're just complaining... Instead, you could have voiced how for example you don't enjoy the drug-running system and come up with an alternative Ie. this is how the drug system is working now, these are the flaws I see and experience as a player and here is my suggestion to how it could work differently, taking into consideration the reason to why I changed in the first place. You could spend your time actively trying to make a constructive change but instead, you just complained about how things used to be better IN YOUR OWN OPINION, trying to make it sound like the rest of the server feels the same way when that is not the case.

I understand the change can be difficult but this is also a public server, so it needs to be Danny proof, we've seen it time and time again that if a player can take advantage of a system, they will do so and therefore we need to change the server to stop that.

The server is built on feedback, not complaints, so I hope you can take this into consideration and perhaps help the continuous development of HighLife through constructive feedback.

Kind Regards, Sorreia, Lucy

[ScratRid]

Hi Andy,

Thank you for your input.

I'll try break this down into the sections of your issues.

I’ve been talking with a lot of people, from my friends who’ve been playing for a long time to staff which they all agree with me that the server was in a better state when the server had 32-64 players, people used to value RP and actually feared gangs and police when during this wipe people only try to get in police chases or try to fuck with gangs to get in shootouts cause its the least bit fun thing that is going.

I too have been here since the 32 slot player server, I was in WL jobs and I was running drugs and all sorts. Back then with only 32 slots, the biggest issue was that there was a minimal amount of roleplay on the server, EMS rarely got any calls and was AFK at pillbox. PD has a limited amount of involvement with drugs as they were, so that would be something people would just grinding with little to no RP, the only interactions there would be would end put in a staff situation. Cracking modules were easy to get so PD would mostly do back to back of bank robberies and it would always be the same song, with very little creativity, so saying that the roleplay was better than would be disappointing to hear because there were very little of it. We've strived to make things a little harder to get, so it's not something people can just grind by themselves, we try to encourage people to roleplay with each other to easier gain items such as illegal weapons, running drugs more "safely".

The reason people sit in garages and shitRP is cause Legion Square is basically shut off with no parking spots and i'm not saying legion square was the best place but it’s the best-related thing i guess.

You might not see this as an average player, but legion garage was a very central garage that just attracted shitrp, the number of staff situations we had every single day was worrying, there are so many things going on in the central spot of the city ie. legion bank is the most popular bank to hit, mostly because the police station is nearby and nowadays people value the roleplay interaction that they do have with the police when robbing a bank, jumping back to the 32-grind-only servers, people would repeatedly just rob Paleto bank to just dip before PD arrived to avoided roleplay, because money was more important. When a garage causes such a huge amount of problems, the best we can do is to remove it, not because we can stop the problems fully, but we can reduce them.

First Person shooting has basically fucked gunplay and apparently stops crosshairs and is realistic but in reality, it’s doing jack shit to stop crosshairs, crosshairs will never go away no matter and in reality, they only help with the first shot as well as every criminal activity like tables and actually gaining respect from a gang to be able to purchase guns which is how it should be, and i'm not saying tables are good but they’re definitely better than these drops and warehouse which gives you no RP cause you sell to locals where with tables you could have all sorts of actually gang beef for control of drugs but now everybody has the opportunity to do it so it diminishes RP and gangs tend to keep to themselves instead of interacting with other gangs. Tables no matter how dog shit they were they gave RP to gangs and gave them something to claim

First-person shooting has made gunplay a lot fairer, we now have the same advantage as everyone else, it's the best thing against crosshairs. It doesn't remove crosshairs from other people, but it more or less makes them useless. We use to let gangs control different drugs and weapons, but giving this amount of power to a person/gang comes with great responsibility, it still needs to be fair and unfortunately, we've seen the power reach peoples heads, it's not something we've seen being utilized successfully.

Gun slings are the most stupid thing in the world i can’t lie about that, unracks weren’t bad except the fact that people could pull it from their ass but not slings just show a whole fucking AR on your back and its honestly stupid and unrealistic and no one wants to put in the vehicle due to the server could crash at anytime and its gone, eitherway the positives of unracks outweigh the negatives In conclusion, you can ask any person who has been here before the wipe and they will agree with most of the things I've said and want the last wipe back.

You can't hide an AR under your shirt, ofc you need to be careful with this, the fact you don't see that this system is more realistic makes me question this whole complaint. You also say ask anyone who has been here fore the wipe and they'll agree with you, this is also untrue, your fact here is based on the small sample of friends you have around you. You can't see pistols, because them you'd realistically be able to hide, but larger weapons you can't, if you were interested in the roleplay aspects of guns, then you would understand that protecting larger and more expensive illegal weapons would be part of the roleplay, but reading through this post I personally get the feeling that you're not really here for the roleplay, perhaps I'm wrong, but it's the feeling I get reading through this.

When i first joined the server i would wake up play go to sleep because it was so damn fun, now i can’t see myself connecting once a day for anything cause its so damn boring right now, main solution is that the last wipe comes back along with some of the good things that have been added this wipe, i really hope this feedback will be taken into consideration if anything because I see so many people just giving up on the servers potential and leaving. Either Way i’ll be here to see highlife grow and become its best. Thank you for reading.

Lastly, I don't see any feedback or constructive criticism in this post, you're just complaining... Instead, you could have voiced how for example you don't enjoy the drug-running system and come up with an alternative Ie. this is how the drug system is working now, these are the flaws I see and experience as a player and here is my suggestion to how it could work differently, taking into consideration the reason to why I changed in the first place. You could spend your time actively trying to make a constructive change but instead, you just complained about how things used to be better IN YOUR OWN OPINION, trying to make it sound like the rest of the server feels the same way when that is not the case.

I understand the change can be difficult but this is also a public server, so it needs to be Danny proof, we've seen it time and time again that if a player can take advantage of a system, they will do so and therefore we need to change the server to stop that.

The server is built on feedback, not complaints, so I hope you can take this into consideration and perhaps help the continuous development of HighLife through constructive feedback.

Kind Regards, Sorreia, Lucy

While I agree that there were many flaws in Andy's topic, he is right about something, last and generally previous wipes were much more fun and memorable, and I'm sure many experienced players can and will agree with me on this one. The main reason why many people have left the server and/or not enjoy as much anymore is because lack of content and promised updates not being pushed in time. While, yes, whitelist weapon dealing was not ideal, do you honestly believe commercial areas are effective solution to that? Constant shit/failRP that takes places in those areas are unreal, and to be honest I understand why. When you make such valuable items only obtainable through one location, you can't expect people not to behave the way they are, especially when there's only limited chances of getting something decent once in a blue moon. With whitelist gunrunning you had significantly better interactions than people fighting over crates like apes, you would actually set up meetings, have your gang organized to secure the area, speak with the dealers, make transactions, etc. You also mentioned PD having lack of interaction, but this is partially not true, even with constant bank robberies it was more fun and interactive than it currently is, me, as a PD member enjoyed last wipe way more than I do this one, and I'm very sure I'm not the only one.

We have gone to loop and spoke about these topics many times, most probably what's going to happen with this is getting a long reply defending why the current state is better and bury this thread in archive, but let's be real, things haven't really gone better excluding some exceptions and most of us (if not everyone) know it's true.

[ghost]

I too have been here since the 32 slot player server, I was in WL jobs and I was running drugs and all sorts. Back then with only 32 slots, the biggest issue was that there was a minimal amount of roleplay on the server, EMS rarely got any calls and was AFK at pillbox. PD has a limited amount of involvement with drugs as they were, so that would be something people would just grinding with little to no RP, the only interactions there would be would end put in a staff situation. Cracking modules were easy to get so PD would mostly do back to back of bank robberies and it would always be the same song, with very little creativity, so saying that the roleplay was better than would be disappointing to hear because there were very little of it. We've strived to make things a little harder to get, so it's not something people can just grind by themselves, we try to encourage people to roleplay with each other to easier gain items such as illegal weapons, running drugs more "safely".

In no way am i asking for slot count to be back I'm just talking about some of the things that were there during those times not everything, but some which i mentioned like tables and more criminal activity. I definitely agree that 32 or 64 players is a low amount that wasn't my point on that matter. What encouraging is the fact that there are people sitting at commercials waiting hours for the chance of getting a gun, where is the rp in sitting for an hour and pressing a few buttons and its been like this since wipe.

You might not see this as an average player, but legion garage was a very central garage that just attracted shitrp, the number of staff situations we had every single day was worrying, there are so many things going on in the central spot of the city ie. legion bank is the most popular bank to hit, mostly because the police station is nearby and nowadays people value the roleplay interaction that they do have with the police when robbing a bank, jumping back to the 32-grind-only servers, people would repeatedly just rob Paleto bank to just dip before PD arrived to avoided roleplay, because money was more important. When a garage causes such a huge amount of problems, the best we can do is to remove it, not because we can stop the problems fully, but we can reduce them.

That's why I'm not talking about the garage im talking bout the square granted a lot of shitRP would come from it but thats where staff can get in and be more harsher to rule breakers nowadays all people do is drive around and sit at other garages where the same things that happened at legion garage happen there.

First-person shooting has made gunplay a lot fairer, we now have the same advantage as everyone else, it's the best thing against crosshairs. It doesn't remove crosshairs from other people, but it more or less makes them useless. We use to let gangs control different drugs and weapons, but giving this amount of power to a person/gang comes with great responsibility, it still needs to be fair and unfortunately, we've seen the power reach peoples heads, it's not something we've seen being utilized successfully. First person has introduced an unrealistic strafing COD-like meta and crosshairs are still abused and the field of play is not equal or fair. Dont you think making it available to everyone diminishes RP due to everyone keeps everything to themselves and you don't need to be respected or anything or have any allies but just go around making guns lets say and shooting whoever for talking shit. I'm not saying giving to one set person but let there be one person at the top who can deal with weapons lets say and who can be attacked in said gang war and lose his ability to deal guns where it is transferred to the winning gang giving more criminal RP and a criminal storyline.

You can't hide an AR under your shirt, ofc you need to be careful with this, the fact you don't see that this system is more realistic makes me question this whole complaint. You also say ask anyone who has been here fore the wipe and they'll agree with you, this is also untrue, your fact here is based on the small sample of friends you have around you. You can't see pistols, because them you'd realistically be able to hide, but larger weapons you can't, if you were interested in the roleplay aspects of guns, then you would understand that protecting larger and more expensive illegal weapons would be part of the roleplay, but reading through this post I personally get the feeling that you're not really here for the roleplay, perhaps I'm wrong, but it's the feeling I get reading through this.

Yeah i understand that but what im saying is that its unrealistic to roam the streets of the Los Angelos and see a G36c on someones back either way the slings aren't even bad im just saying that it looks stupid on someones back. a replacement to sling and unracking is every time a bigger weapon is pulled it should /me unracks or grabs gun and if people pull shit out of their ass they get reported and banned.

_Lastly, I don't see any feedback or constructive criticism in this post, you're just complaining... Instead, you could have voiced how for example you don't enjoy the drug-running system and come up with an alternative Ie. this is how the drug system is working now, these are the flaws I see and experience as a player and here is my suggestion to how it could work differently, taking into consideration the reason to why I changed in the first place. You could spend your time actively trying to make a constructive change but instead, you just complained about how things used to be better IN YOUR OWN OPINION, trying to make it sound like the rest of the server feels the same way when that is not the case.

I understand the change can be difficult but this is also a public server, so it needs to be Danny proof, we've seen it time and time again that if a player can take advantage of a system, they will do so and therefore we need to change the server to stop that.

The server is built on feedback, not complaints, so I hope you can take this into consideration and perhaps help the continuous development of HighLife through constructive feedback._

It might come across as complaining but its mainly because this wipe has been stale, I've given my opinion as I've talked to literally tons of people agreeing on this matter all who were present before wipe and my WHOLE feedback is based on the things I've discussed with old members of highlife and new agreeing with everything. I understand the Danny Proof but when I first joined people would value RP and try to get good standings as gang and not shoot everyone for no reason, while nowadays people will provoke gangs, wear their colours all cause they want shootouts and at this point its just stupid. A soft whitelist would help make is danny proof. This is Feedback not a complaint because if it continues like this with no criminal RP people will continue to leave

trying to make it sound like the rest of the server feels the same way when that is not the case. As I said I've talked to MULTIPE people old and new ever staff agreeing with what I've written. Thank you.

[DsyncXO]

I am extremely sorry but I feel as if this server is not built on feed back, time and time again feed back has been generated and sent, even really good feedback at best and nothing has happened, the only thing that gets added to the server is the cringe records and people getting shut down on their feedback.

I personally think the RP line of Ghost records was ruined when it turned into a whitelist Job as everyone and there mums wants to now join, why cant it just stay as an RP even created by themselves,

I don't remember me and Jase or anyone else in NRB getting Fight night whitelisted, we done that all ourselves.

I personally feel as though jarrrk and his team need to step up their game and work together to develop this server into a better server, gameplay and rules wise, there are so many things which could help the server grow, especially now that the server is at around 300 population, which I rarely see capping any more, people are paying for a product that is not stable, what good is that to your loyal customers?

We need to stop forcing updates and providing fake promises to your player base, its sad and pathetic, the new phone is so cool and Im glad the seperate characters works well...

DISCORD RP, just remove that shit, its literal cancer, put the features on the god damn phone, RP should be in the game and in the game only.

Ive been a part of this server since 2019 when it was 32 players and transitioned into 64 player servers, when City two was removed, it merged all the shitters, with the above average role-players.

Radios - Its about time radios needs to be added with the metacancer that is going on right now, not one person knows how to use both key bindings, there is a free system built into FiveM for it if I am not mistaken, that would crack down so much on the shitRP, if someone does not record and it looks obvious, ban them not hard.

FPS - First person shooting should not even be close to a thing, it its not intended for GTA, it was created when the next gen consoles released, not because its good, the server should be RP over Gun play, but unfortunately, that is never going to happen with the criminal features in this server. it does not neglect or remove any crosshairs, because the people who are shooting 24/7 care about winning, but win Mentality is all the server is about, the police force is a joke and single hand breaking rules just as much as the crims, but I guess that's a court case. when it does come down to shooting, Im literally given brain damage using that crap, everyone sliding across the floor, how you suppose to kill an overpowered cop, you cant because they have crosshairs and OP gear too.

Jewellery store - not even sure why this was removed, why not bring this back and add in some diamonds etc, it would create some more overall RP, even when it was just full of money is bearable at the least.

Why is it you can give a million and one changes to the police force, but for anyone else its just a new set of clothing, come on man, this is ridiculous, the server has so much more potential but its being wasted, so many people who were the long term players left and this will continue to happen with the state of the RP, no one is cracking down on this anymore and there is barely anyone to give an example.

I see the same people in the staff room every day, they are obviously doing something incredibly wrong and need a real stern speaking too, not just banning for a day to understand, give them bigger bans or teach them, tell them not what to do.

[Jarrrk]

I am extremely sorry but I feel as if this server is not built on feed back

There's only one person, for the most part that's capable of actually taking feedback and transforming it into the server.

On top of mitigating attacks, infrastructure development, systems security & improvements, bug and exploit testing/patching.

I'm not superman and can't do every single item that's suggested, most things don't think about a changes impact or balancing implications, not everything fits the way highlife is made, not everything is viable.

Also, you've only popped your head in here to further badmouth the server when the opportunity arises, we know who you are, we're not blind.