Home

Hello everyone. It's been a while since the last news article but there have been quite some changes since then. We've been receiving loads of application from people who want to play on the server and with the growing fame of LS-RP I am sure this interest will grow out to be huge! Also, the max player In Game record has jumped from 404 to 414! That's quite an achievement and we hope to slowly but surely reach 500 players on the server.

Also new is the faction color nametags for people that are in gang or mafia factions. Such as the Akuji-Kai faction now has a dark yellow nametag color for their members, where Seville have dark green nametags. We used to have this nametag system back in 2007 but it was removed after a while. The lead admins have decided to give it some more thought. Though the new nametags are In Game right now, it's still not sure if they'll stay after it's discussed.

Lastly, the mayor elections will be held 5 March. The first batch of mayor applicants will be picked and voted for. After that there will be 3 applicants left. Those three will then campaign to the fullest in an attempt to finally claim the throne of Mayor of Los Santos. Soon after that there will be another election which will result in appointing the applicant that becomes the mayor! Questions go here.

----------------UPDATE----------------

After a successful poll it has been decided that all IC name colors except the EMS / PD / SD will be removed. That means that only the PD, EMS, SD, testerduty or adminduty color will be shown on the playerlist.

Thank you for reading and check back for more later on!

(6) Comments -- << Last edit: Mar 04, 2010, 01:55:32 PM by Cecil >>

Hello, thank you for once again dropping by ls-rp.com! I must say the mappers and I have really put a ton of effort into the week. From extravagant interiors, to bug fixing, to features and adjustments. The week was not only fun for me but it was a learning experience for me also.

I've learned throughout the week that even with things slowly falling in order for me with the bug tracker and the suggestions that there is still more work to do around here and a week just wasn't enough to do EVERYTHING I had planned. I still did a lot but yes, not everything.

Thankyou for baring with me throughout the week, I really needed it. Now needless to say I can start listing off results of what has been done so far and what is still coming for LS:RP!

Businesses:
-Performance Updates.
-Tweaks toward the system(Upgrading / Adjusting)
-Custom Pickup support for the businesses.
-Custom Interior support for the businesses. (Freeze for 3 seconds on entrance)
-/vipdoor is now fixed for the special club interiors.
-Array adjusted to fit more businesses.

Vehicles:
-Pay N Spray Bugs Addressed (Engine Bug / Pay N Spray Full)
-Random guns spawning with cars should now be gone.

Houses:
-Evict all is fixed.
-Tenants reporting is fixed.
-Commands for houses have been made user friendly.
-/myhouse and /househelp have been adjusted.
-You will not be charged for your alarms anymore. When the house robbery system is back it will charge you again.

Drugs:
-Marijuana seeds now available at drug shops for $50 a seed.
-Marijuana growing system. It will take 6 paydays for the plant to be fully grown and potent. /plant to plant, /check to check the plants growth so far, and /takeplant to collect from it. These commands are for drug smugglers in an official gang or mafia only.
Yes they work inside of interiors as well.
-Weed will not add on to your addiction anymore.


Objects:
-Interior and Virtual World has been fixed and now fully supported for custom objects.
-Various interiors created by Pete and ScreaminRayDaniels. From houses to mini interiors made with the pure intention of roleplaying.
-Docks (Nexus / Pete).
-Church interior (Nexus).

Of course with all of that there's been a ton of bug fixes. Got them down by four pages over the week. LS:RP just keeps getting tighter and secured as the time goes on.

To Come:
- LSP will start using the hours system again rather than the day system. Will increase activity in prison and less confusion and problems inside for the people there. It was never my intention to have people punished OOCly, the day system was imposed hopefully to get more people. But as we can see things don't work out that way ;P.

- A new prison interior is being made for the prison.

- House Robbery system of course along with a bank robbery system and a new interior along with it. These things take a lot of planning first. Don't want to just rush into it.

- 3rd party devs are still working on their side projects which will become public knowledge soon.

- New animations and fighting styles. I got to go through a list of 60+ or so animations and assign them names so you're going to have to bare with me once more.

- Mod shops, working out a system with Soap at the moment. Will be quite cool!

- A ton more legal jobs, don't think I forgot about you civilians. Recommend some jobs to me to help speed up the progress. I can't think them all up alone.

- Faction Leader management center GUI, in the planning stage. Will give a faction leader all the control they've been needing for quite a long time over their own faction.

(31) Comments -- << Last edit: Jan 25, 2010, 02:30:33 AM by DamianC >>

Finally we have the four winners from this amazing contest, after seven days of waiting for the right answers, we already have the members!

The winners will be rewarded with a wonderful pre-order pack which contains two unreleased games and full access to the Alpha versions and editors of both games, an amazing combo-pack!
The unreleased games are Overgrowth by Wolfire Games and Natural Selection 2 by Unknown Worlds.

Overgrowth is an unreleased game with no confirmed date, it's for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X, the announced date by Wolfire Games was 17th of September, 2008.

Natural Selection 2 was announced officialy in October 2006, the platforms for this game are: Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Xbox360.
It's another unreleased game just like Overgrowth, the genre of this game is: First-person shooter and Real-time strategy.

The question of this amazing contest was:
In Lugaru and Overgrowth, you play a rabbit going on a killing spree.
Speaking of bloodthirsty rabbits; What game is this?

The right answer of this contest is:
Jazz Jackrabbit.

59 people answered the question correct, it has been pretty crowded and I have to congratulate the people who answered this correct answer, now, we're going to say the winners of this contest:

Savokage, Sickness, LuckyStrike and Flopster

Congratulations to the winners, you will be rewarded with this pre-order pack with amazing features, congratulations!
The winners will receive an e-mail tonight, with this amazing reward.

(3) Comments -- << Last edit: Jan 17, 2010, 12:38:57 AM by ezkNYNE >>

If you've been keeping up with LS:RP you'd notice a lot of things have been happening around here. We've recently inducted a few admins into the team from the tester team- Tendollars, Marcel, Oggy, Ryoma,and last but not least Decker. Each and everyone of these guys have put in a lot of hard and earned effort into LS:RP and with that it's going to be sad with them leaving the tester team.

Up next, Lenny recently moved from 3rd party developer to a full blown developer now. It's not a noticeable change on the outside but for the ones involved it is a major step up. His work and effort has really improved so this promotion was definitely needed.

Now on to the new testers. We've lost quite a few testers over the months, whether it be from a removal or a promotion towards admin we're down to literally 15 testers. And with the workload increasing daily ( 200 applications daily and new responsibilities ) we're in need for a whoole lot more. Congratulations to all the reserved, you'll be tester eventually. Just keep your IRC, forum, and ingame activity up!

I also got a few ex-testers ready to return to their position, which made me quite happy to see them still interested.

So now instead of just talking all day just click the link here to see if you made it.

------------------
Now on to the big plans. It is no secret that there is a lot needed to be done around here script wise on LS:RP. And I'd like to apologize personally for slacking a bit when it came to it. So in response to the many and various suggestions, faction leader section requests, etc etc etc : I am dedicating an entire week towards development.

The developers, mappers, 3rd party devs, and I will be working to fufill as much as possible the entire week. Plan to see something different, new, and or altered in LS:RP everyday.

The week will be titled Development Week: Jan 17th-23rd. I suggest you use this time before this week to finalize out all your suggestions and such, because the random ones with no effort will most likely be over-looked.

(7) Comments -- << Last edit: Jan 14, 2010, 10:19:32 PM by DamianC >>

After giving away 14 games this Christmas, and 1 more game in the upcoming IRPG, you'd think we have given away enough. But we're not stopping here:-)

We recently contacted the independent game developer company Wolfire Games, and they have been nice enough to give us 4 copies of their great Indie preorder pack for one of our contests! This pack contains the upcoming games Overgrowth from Wolfire Games themselves, and Natural Selection 2, developed by Unknown Worlds.

The contest is pretty simple..Answer this question:
In Lugaru and Overgrowth, you play a rabbit going on a killing spree.
Speaking of bloodthirsty rabbits; What game is this?


Submit your answer to contest@ls-rp.com. Be sure you include your forum name and in-game name as a verification that you are a active LS-RP player. The contest ends January 15 at midnight, and the 4 lucky winners will be announced January 17 on the web site. You are only allowed to participate once, so get the answers right!

For those who really don't think they are able to win, or really want to get these 2 games at this amazing price, visit http://www.wolfire.com/pack and get 2 upcoming games for the price of 1! Be aware that there is no release date yet on either of the games, but buying/winning it gives you access to their Alpha versions, so you'll be able to play it long before the release date.

Promotional video for this bundle (only 4 days left)



If you're still not sure about these games, I recommend you to visit their youtube profiles (Wolfire Games - Unknown Worlds)

(7) Comments -- << Last edit: Jan 10, 2010, 01:18:14 PM by Mow >>

Round 3 of the FoCo IRPG starts Sunday, January 10, 2010 18:00 GMT+1 (Server time)

The round will last until the first non-admin reaches level 50.

The Idle RPG is just what it sounds like: an RPG in which the players idle. In addition to merely gaining levels, players can find items and battle other players. However, this is all done for you; you just idle. There are no set classes; you can name your character anything you like, and have its class be anything you like, as well.

For more info about this self-playing RPG game, take a look at http://focogaming.com/irpg/

Prizes:
1st place: 2 months Gold membership
2nd place: 1 month Gold membership
3rd place: 1 month Silver membership

All players with a level higher than 40 after the round has ended will participate in a lottery where the prize will be the game Torchlight, or an equally priced game on Steam. Your lottery number will be your rank on the IRPG. Both admins and players are allowed to participate in this lottery.

You are able to join the channel #foco.irpg now, and register to the bot the second it comes online. The channel is also open to discussions until the bot arrives.

Good luck!

(1) Comments -- << Last edit: Jan 10, 2010, 05:36:17 PM by Mow >>