Ransom Ambience 1.6.7

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Ransom Ambience by MarcelWRLD
Version: 1.6.7

Ransom Ambience is a LSPDFR plugin that implements location-based ambient events to increase realism

during your patrols across Los Santos and Blaine County.

Features

Variety: Ransom Ambience offers you plenty of events of which some even have different scenarios! This way you won't get bored and you don't have to play the same stuff over and over again. The plugin is also under active development which means that new events are added every update to keep you busy during your patrols across the whole map!
Lightweight: Ransom Ambience isn't heavily scripted which gives you the full range of opportunities on how you want to deal with an event.
You want to arrest the ped? Go on. You want let the ped go? Go on. You want to ignore the crimes they are commiting? Sure, go on. No annoying scripting that forces you to do something or react in some kind of way. It's just you and your own judgement!
Location System: Ransom Ambience is dependent on the zone/neighborhood that you are currently in. Some events have a higher chance of occuring in certain areas while others have a lower chance of occuring or don't occur at all. Want action? Try patrolling in high-crime neighborhoods but pay close attention to your surroundings. Want to relax? Just patrol in a different area of the map, sit back and enjoy your chill patrol with only small crimes happening.
Customizable: Don't like the probabilities of crimes in certain areas? Want to increase or decrease action in certain areas? Well, no problem! Ransom Ambience allows you to fully customize the chances of crimes occuring. Read the README of the 'RansomAmbience' folder for a (almost) step-by-step tutorial on how to adjust your game experience.
Pursuit System: Ransom Ambience of course offers you plenty of situations where you are able to participate in a pursuit. However, can you still remember how I was talking about your freedom of dealing with events? Exactly: You are not forced to participate in a pursuit, instead you will be asked if you want to initiate a pursuit. If not, simply ignore the prompt and continue your patrol!

Requirements

LSPDFR
RAGE Plugin Hook
StopThePed by Bejoljo (optional; recommended)

As already mentioned the ambient events are location-based meaning certain events have a higher chance of

occuring at certain places while others have a lower chance.

In order for events to spawn you have to make yourself available for calls which you can do using two ways:

1. If you use "GrammarPolice" you have to change your status to "Available" (e.g. going 10-8/Code 4).

2. You can open your LSPDFR interaction menu (default: M), go to "Police Radio" and switch "Available for calls" to "Yes".

If you want events to happen regardless whether you are available for calls or not, head to the plugins config menu (default: F6) and tick "Always allow events". 🙂

These are not callouts but events that may happen around you at random.

Spoiler

Pedestrian Events

Ambush
Brandishing weapon
Burglary
Carjacking
Fight
Indecent exposure
Injured person
Public disturbance

Traffic Events

Animal accident
Broken equipment
Car on fire
DUI
Drive-by shooting
MVA
Pursuit
Reckless driver
Street race
Use of phone

Traffic Stop Events

Guidelines for Traffic Stop Events

Collision
Carjacking
Disturbance

Upcoming

"Friendly" events (stay tuned...)
...contact me if you have ideas 🙂

Reports and Feedback
Discord: marcelwrld
If you experience bugs or crashes please contact me here or through discord so I can fix them for you.

Showcase by @OfficerBenzo

Credits

LSPDFR Team: Creating this mod
RAGE Plugin Hook Team: Providing GTA5 API
Bejoljo: Creating StopThePed
Ragemp Wiki: Providing zone names

Don't hesitate to reach out to me if you need help or if you have questions.

Thank you for reading and have fun!

This mod is fully compatible with Immersive Ambient Events!

DO NOT republish or reupload this file to other websites. This plugin is only available on LCPDFR.com. If you stumble upon a reupload please let me know!

Edited February 26, 20242 yr by MarcelWRLD
new screenshots

What's New in Version 1.6.7

Released February 26, 20242 yr

Changelog V1.6.7

This version fixes several bugs. 🙂

After a long time I finally found time to fix some issues with RA. You can read the reason for this long period of no updates here.

New

StopThePed: Ransom Ambience is no longer dependent on StopThePed, which means that you can play without having STP installed!
(However you are required to use the vanilla LSPDFR ped stop menu to interact with ped events when playing without STP.)

Bug Fixes

Fight: Fixed an error being thrown at the end of the event.
Ped Choosing: Fixed peds (e.g. cops) being chosen for events, which of course should NOT happen.
If you were previously using the "Ignore Addon..." settings within RA you no longer need to use those. The plugin should handle everything automatically now.

Updated files
How to update

Updated RansomAmbience.dll
Added/Updated RansomAmbience.pdb
Updated RansomAmbience.ini

Have fun! If you encounter any issues please report them to me.

Changelog V1.6.6 (Previous)

Spoiler

This version fixes several bugs, changes and adds some small details. 😄

New

Pursuit System: You can disable the automatic spawning of a helicopter now (this should fix an issue with the 'Heli Assistance' plugin).
Check 'DisableAutoHeliSupport' in the .ini or look it up in the config menu!
Event Menu: Added a 'Random' option to the force event button which selects a random event (self-explanatory lol).

Bug Fixes

Animal Accident: Fixed the event being canceled almost immediately.
Injured Person: Injuries should be more visible now.
Drive-By Shooting: Fixed possible issues with the event.
Broken Equipment, DUI, Reckless Driver, Use Of Phone: Fixed an issue where the plugin would run into an error.
Traffic Stop Collision: Reduced the amount of which the driver would miss your vehicle (it's still not perfect though; the missing is not really intended).
Traffic Stop Disturbance: Fixed an issue with animations.
Pursuit System: Fixed a display issue of the controller button in the notification.
Menu System: "Kind of" fixed the key modifier issue. If you press the normal key and then the modifier it should work without spamming.
Check for update: It should no longer lag your game for a split second when pressing the button.

Thank you for reading! ❤️

1.6.7

Short Description

Ransom Ambience is a LSPDFR plugin that implements location-based ambient events.

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Views 406,146
Downloads 83,806
Submitted August 6, 20232 yr
Published February 26, 20242 yr
Updated February 26, 20242 yr
File Size 1.02 MB
Compatibility Newer Versions
Special Features Events, Ambient Events, Customizeable, Location Based
Requires RAGE Plugin Hook
Other (See Description)
Minimum LSPDFR Version 0.4.9
Script/Plugin Type LSPDFR plugin
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MarcelWRLD

August 11, 20232 yr

How to update Ransom Ambience I thought updating might be confusing for some people so I'm gonna try to explain it. From now on I will be adding a section called "Updated files" to each update notice to simplify the update process. It will be a simple bullet point list which will let you know what files need to be replaced/updated. Note that all files that might be updated are inside the plugins > lspdfr of the .zip that you downloaded. Below is an example of an update:

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How do I update Ransom Ambience?

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MarcelWRLD

October 21, 20232 yr

Guidelines for "Traffic Stop Events" Update V1.6.0 added traffic stop events to the plugin which specifically happen during traffic stops. For better understanding I decided to write a simple "how it works" explanation. Scroll down to the bottom if you want to see explanations for events. 1. Traffic stop events do not happen every traffic stop. Unless you set your chance to something really high (e.g. > 90) You can spawn them manually while on

Guidelines for "Traffic Stop Events"

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MarcelWRLD

November 9, 20232 yr

I sort of managed to fix it. I wrote it wrong in the changelog though 💀 Press the modifier FIRST and THEN the main key and it should work without spamming!

My modifier does not work, what do I do?

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MarcelWRLD

December 25, 20232 yr

Ransom Ambience - Update I know there hasn't been an update for the plugin in a long time...The reason for that is because I am busy working on a different, big LSPDFR plugin with @Echooo and @AstroBurgers. It is aiming to be an alternative to STP and UB in the future which explains why we are so busy with it: It's a hell lot of work 😄 If I find time I will work on RA and hopefully release V1.7.0 some time soon. If you want to keep track of "Policing Redefined" (the name of our up

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Maroooo99

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May 17, 20241 yr

On 2/21/2024 at 3:13 AM, r.y.a.n said:

Installed, and I have STP installed as well but I am not able to arrest any of the peds spawned by this plugin. Holding down the takedown key and double pressing the takedown key both cause the ped to start glitching out with a weird in between animation. Have tried this several time with different events and still the same result. When the event "ends"/aborted, the ped is able to be arrested again.

Edit: After playing around with it some more, the peds are able to be arrested ONLY when they aren't in a "pursuit". If they run on foot or vehicle and a pursuit is triggered, the visual glitching starts and they are unable to be arrested

I have the same. I can't takedown ped after pursuit, only when I stop guy using stop the ped

MarcelWRLD

Members Author

May 17, 20241 yr

3 minutes ago, Maroooo99 said:

I have the same. I can't takedown ped after pursuit, only when I stop guy using stop the ped

What specific event do you experience it for? And does this happen all the time?

Maroooo99

Members

May 18, 20241 yr

On 5/17/2024 at 10:45 PM, MarcelWRLD said:

What specific event do you experience it for? And does this happen all the time?

I remember that it happened in public disturbance event, with a man who masturbating (i think) in public. The man tryied to escape and I can't takedown him. I don't know about frequency, because i had one scenario like this in my game.

Wendigo

Members

May 19, 20241 yr

On 5/17/2024 at 6:34 PM, MarcelWRLD said:

It is not outdated, don't worry. That error that u both encountered is (afaik) rare and I will be fixing it in a future update.

Are there other issues that I am not aware of? Is the plugin unplayable?

Right now I am busy with two other big LSPDFR plugins (e.g. Policing Redefined).

Sorry for the lack of updates!

If you have further issues, let me know so I can assist you...

Ah okay thank you. Sorry to unnecessarily worry you with this, I had just installed the mod and immediately got the crash, so I came here thinking that the error just meant the mod doesnt work, but a few mins later when I got back to the game I realized the mod actually works fine and I havent experienced any issues whatsoever since that one error message. Great mod, thank you.

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MarcelWRLD

Members Author

May 19, 20241 yr

22 hours ago, Maroooo99 said:

I remember that it happened in public disturbance event, with a man who masturbating (i think) in public. The man tryied to escape and I can't takedown him. I don't know about frequency, because i had one scenario like this in my game.

Okay, ill check it out.

Mathox

Members

May 26, 20241 yr (edited)

So i was responding to callout and when arrived on scene, my lspdfr crash with a message saying "Pursuit are not allowed during callouts".

RagePluginHook.log

Edited May 26, 20241 yr by Mathox

Mathox

Members

May 26, 20241 yr

Nvm i find the solution

MarcelWRLD
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AHammer

Members

June 4, 20241 yr

Amazing! Breathes new life into this game. I hope you add onto this!

MarcelWRLD
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Mathox

Members

June 19, 20241 yr

This would be cool that when there is a speeding vehicle event, some cars would try to reach their max like getting to 90, 100, 110 MPH. The cars only reach to 77-78 MPH and stay at that rate of speed to me.

1XRAY80

Members

August 20, 20241 yr

love this plugin and the premise is awesome. it was working great but as of August 2024 was causing my game to crash. this was the only plugin i took out and it fixed my issues sorry i dont have any logs attached

MarcelWRLD

Members Author

August 20, 20241 yr

4 hours ago, 1XRAY80 said:

love this plugin and the premise is awesome. it was working great but as of August 2024 was causing my game to crash. this was the only plugin i took out and it fixed my issues sorry i dont have any logs attached

Did it cause your whole game to crash or only LSPDFR? Please attach a log next time or else I cannot investigate.

1XRAY80

Members

August 20, 20241 yr

6 hours ago, MarcelWRLD said:

Did it cause your whole game to crash or only LSPDFR? Please attach a log next time or else I cannot investigate.

the whole game. so bad that auto loggers couldnt find an error. i noticed that the ambient events werent happening anymore so i took out your plugin and the crashes stopped. sorry i dont have a log attached but i thought you and others should know

MarcelWRLD

Members Author

August 21, 20241 yr (edited)

22 hours ago, 1XRAY80 said:

the whole game. so bad that auto loggers couldnt find an error. i noticed that the ambient events werent happening anymore so i took out your plugin and the crashes stopped. sorry i dont have a log attached but i thought you and others should know

Did you make any changes to your game before the crashes started? Apparently you are the only one reporting such crashes. And since nothing appears in your logs (according to auto readers), its unlikely that RA is the issue 🤷🏻‍♂️ If you could provide me an actual log file instead of relying on auto readers (which might not be accurate) it would be very helpful. This way I could also investigate why the events weren't happening anymore, something that auto readers cannot do. You can try reinstalling RA and see if it still happens.

Edited August 21, 20241 yr by MarcelWRLD

1XRAY80
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1XRAY80

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August 21, 20241 yr

1 hour ago, MarcelWRLD said:

Did you make any changes to your game before the crashes started? Apparently you are the only one reporting such crashes. And since nothing appears in your logs (according to auto readers), its unlikely that RA is the issue 🤷🏻‍♂️ If you could provide me an actual log file instead of relying on auto readers (which might not be accurate) it would be very helpful. This way I could also investigate why the events weren't happening anymore, something that auto readers cannot do. You can try reinstalling RA and see if it still happens.

will try and report back. maybe i was working with an older version. hopefully a fresh reinstall wont give me issues

MarcelWRLD

Members Author

August 21, 20241 yr (edited)

1 minute ago, 1XRAY80 said:

will try and report back. maybe i was working with an older version. hopefully a fresh reinstall wont give me issues

We will see, keep me updated! 🙂 And incase it crashes again please upload the .log file here, even if the auto reader doesn't find anything.

Edited August 21, 20241 yr by MarcelWRLD

1XRAY80

Members

August 21, 20241 yr

ok. with the fresh install i was able to play for about an hour uninterrupted but absolutely ZERO ambient events spawned. log for reference. ill play more when i have the time to see if theres any change at all

RagePluginHook.log

MarcelWRLD

Members Author

August 21, 20241 yr (edited)

5 minutes ago, 1XRAY80 said:

ok. with the fresh install i was able to play for about an hour uninterrupted but absolutely ZERO ambient events spawned. log for reference. ill play more when i have the time to see if theres any change at all

RagePluginHook.log 624.57 kB · 1 download

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In order for events to spawn you have to make yourself available for calls which you can do using two ways:

1. If you use "GrammarPolice" you have to change your status to "Available" (e.g. going 10-8/Code 4).

2. You can open your LSPDFR interaction menu (default: M), go to "Police Radio" and switch "Available for calls" to "Yes".

If you want events to happen regardless whether you are available for calls or not, head to the plugins config menu (default: F6) and tick "Always allow events". 🙂

Did you know about this? ^ It is in the plugin description above 😄

Edited August 21, 20241 yr by MarcelWRLD

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1XRAY80

Members

August 21, 20241 yr

yeah i did. thats definitely not the problem as i went into the .ini again and made sure that was selected to try and recreate the crashes

MarcelWRLD

Members Author

August 21, 20241 yr

1 minute ago, 1XRAY80 said:

yeah i did. thats definitely not the problem as i went into the .ini again and made sure that was selected to try and recreate the crashes

Based on your .log "AlwaysAllowEvents" was set to false? 🤔

1XRAY80
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1XRAY80

Members

August 21, 20241 yr

4 minutes ago, MarcelWRLD said:

Based on your .log "AlwaysAllowEvents" was set to false? 🤔

cool ill double check and see but thats one of the first things i did xD probably didnt hit save or something

MarcelWRLD
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1XRAY80

Members

August 21, 20241 yr

1 hour ago, MarcelWRLD said:

Based on your .log "AlwaysAllowEvents" was set to false? 🤔

ok!! crash while dealing with the armed individual event. heres the log

RagePluginHook.log

MarcelWRLD

Members Author

August 21, 20241 yr

4 minutes ago, 1XRAY80 said:

ok!! crash while dealing with the armed individual event. heres the log

RagePluginHook.log 476.11 kB · 1 download

your whole game crashed while dealing with it?

1XRAY80

Members

August 21, 20241 yr

1 minute ago, MarcelWRLD said:

your whole game crashed while dealing with it?

yeah 😕 gives me the whole GTA V has crashed message from RPH

MarcelWRLD

Members Author

August 22, 20241 yr

17 hours ago, 1XRAY80 said:

yeah 😕 gives me the whole GTA V has crashed message from RPH

Does this happen everytime you are dealing with that event? Specifically during that event or others too?

1XRAY80

Members

August 22, 20241 yr

7 hours ago, MarcelWRLD said:

Does this happen everytime you are dealing with that event? Specifically during that event or others too?

it seems to happen with any of the ambient events. there was a point where id get into a traffic stop and it would just crash. i will say after i did a fresh install this last time it happens way more infrequently than it used to but im not gonna solely put that on your mod. although when i didnt have it in i had zero crashes at all even left it sitting open for a couple of hours to see if it would crash on its own. if my game starts acting wonky ill send some logs. do you have a discord??