Good start
 

If you haven't been active here are a few updates;

Great news!
The trash picking system has been re-done. Now, when you use the pencil (normal pick to be done soon), you do not have to be square with the item you're attempting to collect. Instead, if you're close, you will dash to the item, and collect it. This should make for a much faster collection of trash, and make it less of a hastle.

Also, in keeping with the ever growing economy, we've raised the prices of the items:
*Newspaper - $45
*Paper - $40
*Broken Bottle - $50
*Old Newspaper - $42
*Old Tire - $55

To make it even more fun, the higher the level you get now under Community Service, the more money you will get per item recycled.

Remember, only you the citizen can keep our streets clean.
Happy picking!

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Hey there Gang Members!

Couple quick updates to the Gang Points shop (P toggle menu).

* All gang guns now only cost 50 gang points!
* New gang weapon, "MK-14" !
* Increased Gang payouts!

Most importantly, Gang Point conversion to money has been increased from $50 per gang point to $150 per gang point!

All these updates can be found in the points shop on the gang menu, happy raiding!

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Great start, I like that the server is starting to give a bigger incentive for players to get actively involved in PKing and have given a better pay-out to their hard work.

I don't understand the mentality of some Staff members though.

When did it become okay for Staff to instigate players and then resolve situations with using the privileges they are given and trusted not to abuse to finish them?

I'm glad that some people listened when I brought up the next generation step of basically GIVING away money to create an incentive to play but I think that you need to start filtering out the bad eggs among the team because believe me, there is too many to count.

yeah it's pretty cool. i like the buff to trash picking and pking. anyone know if they will buff up mining and shoveling as well?

Second day in a row that I have been thrown in jail by Blackfires when he has instigated an issue between the two of us.

I'm not sure if anything will actually be done with this useless team filled with bad eggs but I really hope something is done soon, if ever.

You know it's an issue when players can mass very personal hate filled comments towards you about things in your life but when you mass about how you were disconnected for absolutely nothing whilst putting the culprit on blast you get jailed...

*Godzilla (Jailed) (Thu Nov 13 15:25:43 2014):
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Yeah, quite pathetic really.

I don't understand the mentality of these useless staff members; prime example blackfires. The kid instigates issues and then finishes them by abusing his powers to disconnect you or throw you in jail for 30 minutes.\

Also being on 19 coins, winning 2 sim raids since and not getting awarded, the second I'm thrown in jail they host another sim raid, getting tired of the **** real quick.

It was my idea to update the trash picks :D

@Godzilla You could probably benefit from just ignoring them (by using the ignore feature) instead of responding.

I'm interested to see how you're going to balance mining, especially with jobs (Gun Point, Ammo Mart, Pyro Tech) etc. I mean, you're not going to be able to just raise the pay-out like you did with picking trash.

I have a few ideas if you get stuck, feel free to PM me in game.

well mining and shoveling got buffed now:

Fiberwire (Developer) (Thu Nov 13 22:00:16 2014):
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Hello, Era. Mining has been buffed. We added 4 new minerals, as well as raising the prices of old minerals.

If you're interested, here's a spreadsheet with all of the information:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...it?usp=sharing

We also buffed Digging. Shells are now worth twice as much as they were previously.

Hello, Era! Mining and Digging have been updated.

Changes to mining:
-4 new* minerals have been added (Quartz, Gypsum, Silver, and Copper)
-Drop rates have been adjusted to accomodate the new minerals
-Prices of minerals have been raised across the board**

Changes to digging:
-Shells prices have been doubled***
(Prices maybe be increased again if they're too low)

Changes to businesses:
-All businesses which require lead or iron to stock have been compensated for the increased price of minerals. They now stock 3 times as much as they previously did per mineral.

Other jobs are soon to be updated as well.

Happy mining/digging!


*Oldbies will probably recognize most of these minerals from a while ago.

**You can see price information here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...it?usp=sharing

***Aerolatas were increased to $7 instead of doubled, which would have been $8.