ReportsPlus - External MDT [NEW Custom Reports] V1.5.3-alpha

Alright, so after even more time using this App, I have even more things to report that can be improved or should be outright fixed. 

• Sometimes, I will pull over a Vehicle, and the Person Driving is not the Registered Owner. COMPLETELY NORMAL, until I go to look up the R.O. and the R.O. is a 2 Year Old Child who has a Warrant and is on Probation. Sometimes they're 2 Years Old, sometimes they're 8 Years Old, I've had 16 Year Old R.Os pop up too, which would be acceptable. 
• I am not entirely sure if this is something that could be fixed, at least probably not easily, but I really wish that Warrants would be sensible. Sometimes I will have a Person who is wanted for something like Possession of a Controlled Substance 3rd, but they have zero prior PCS Charges. Or it will be something like Felon in Possession of a Firearm, but the Person is not a Convicted Felon. If there is anyway to fix this, even if it would have to be on my own accord, let me know!
• It would be nice if the License Box in the PED Lookup worked the same as the Boating License, Fishing License, or Warrant Box. I would like to be able to click on the License Status and be able to see when it was expired, or when/why it was Suspended.
• One minor thing I would like to see more use out of is the Flag, Alias, and Affiliations System. I have just now began to see Flags pop up on PEDs, but I have still never seen Affiliation, or Alias Flags pop up. 
• One BIG thing that could hugely improve immersion, on top of the other things listed, is to be able to have PEDs with Multiple Warrants. I am not sure if this is something to do with Engine Limitations, but if it is possible to do, I would love to see it! 
• It would be nice to have to type in the Name & DOB, maybe even License Number for PED Lookups. But make it optional of course. 

On 1/1/2025 at 3:59 PM, GrizzlyCMMG said:

Alright, so after even more time using this App, I have even more things to report that can be improved or should be outright fixed. 

• Sometimes, I will pull over a Vehicle, and the Person Driving is not the Registered Owner. COMPLETELY NORMAL, until I go to look up the R.O. and the R.O. is a 2 Year Old Child who has a Warrant and is on Probation. Sometimes they're 2 Years Old, sometimes they're 8 Years Old, I've had 16 Year Old R.Os pop up too, which would be acceptable. 
• I am not entirely sure if this is something that could be fixed, at least probably not easily, but I really wish that Warrants would be sensible. Sometimes I will have a Person who is wanted for something like Possession of a Controlled Substance 3rd, but they have zero prior PCS Charges. Or it will be something like Felon in Possession of a Firearm, but the Person is not a Convicted Felon. If there is anyway to fix this, even if it would have to be on my own accord, let me know!
• It would be nice if the License Box in the PED Lookup worked the same as the Boating License, Fishing License, or Warrant Box. I would like to be able to click on the License Status and be able to see when it was expired, or when/why it was Suspended.
• One minor thing I would like to see more use out of is the Flag, Alias, and Affiliations System. I have just now began to see Flags pop up on PEDs, but I have still never seen Affiliation, or Alias Flags pop up. 
• One BIG thing that could hugely improve immersion, on top of the other things listed, is to be able to have PEDs with Multiple Warrants. I am not sure if this is something to do with Engine Limitations, but if it is possible to do, I would love to see it! 
• It would be nice to have to type in the Name & DOB, maybe even License Number for PED Lookups. But make it optional of course. 

Thanks for the feedback!

• for #1, I have been told about this before it was an oversight in my part when making the algorithms to calculate data for owners. Since R.Os are not physically there, I need to calculate data for them, and overlooked the age calculations, currently working to fix this for next release.
• #2: I have been trying to come up with some better way to do warrants but there really isn't much I can change on this part. Warrant charges come from whatever charges.xml file you are using, so if you are using a charges.xml that is not the base one, I didnt want to have charges be on it that werent on your charges.xml, especially if yours is translated since the warrant charge would always be in English. I will keep looking for another way to do this hopefully I can come up with something.
• #3: This will be added, just didn't get time yet to implement it, I had to push out v1.3 earlier than I wanted to since it had bug fixes that I needed to get out asap since people were having issues.
• #4: For flags, this was easy to add data that will come up since I just go based off how many previous charges they have, basically more priors -> more likely to have flags. This is more difficult to implement for Affiliations and Aliases since I dont really want to have it so that say someone who is squaky clean is say a gang member, I may do the same thing I did for flags where it goes off priors but im not sure yet, any ideas are definitely welcome.
• #5: Multiple warrants would definitely be doable, I just would have to implement it, I will put it in my notes.
• #6: I definitely plan on expanding upon the lookup windows and this would certainly be apart of that.

Thank you for the suggestions these greatly help me to improve the application!

1 hour ago, Guess1m said:

Thanks for the feedback!

• for #1, I have been told about this before it was an oversight in my part when making the algorithms to calculate data for owners. Since R.Os are not physically there, I need to calculate data for them, and overlooked the age calculations, currently working to fix this for next release.
• #2: I have been trying to come up with some better way to do warrants but there really isn't much I can change on this part. Warrant charges come from whatever charges.xml file you are using, so if you are using a charges.xml that is not the base one, I didnt want to have charges be on it that werent on your charges.xml, especially if yours is translated since the warrant charge would always be in English. I will keep looking for another way to do this hopefully I can come up with something.
• #3: This will be added, just didn't get time yet to implement it, I had to push out v1.3 earlier than I wanted to since it had bug fixes that I needed to get out asap since people were having issues.
• #4: For flags, this was easy to add data that will come up since I just go based off how many previous charges they have, basically more priors -> more likely to have flags. This is more difficult to implement for Affiliations and Aliases since I dont really want to have it so that say someone who is squaky clean is say a gang member, I may do the same thing I did for flags where it goes off priors but im not sure yet, any ideas are definitely welcome.
• #5: Multiple warrants would definitely be doable, I just would have to implement it, I will put it in my notes.
• #6: I definitely plan on expanding upon the lookup windows and this would certainly be apart of that.

Thank you for the suggestions these greatly help me to improve the application!

The pleasure is all mine! I really enjoy this Application! as for an idea towards implementing the Affiliation System smoothly, I was thinking maybe a locational System? I am not by any means a programmer nor do I know the first thing about it. But I was thinking maybe if you are Patrolling a Specific area, say Davis, then there is a much higher chance that the PEDs you interact with will have an Affiliation Flag, or, just simply make it a Probability System. I will say, there are plenty of People who would be considered Documented Gang Members, who do not (yet) have a Record. It does happen through things like Officers and FIRs (Field Interview Reports) though, I cannot speak to how common it is.

As for Aliases, if you wanted to do a really simplistic route, have it be based in an XML format, and use the help of AI to generate a long list of random Street Aliases, while also writing a few of your own, and then create a Probability System for how often they will appear. Doing it this way is, I assume, simpler for you as the Programmer, and also since it would be in XML Formatting, us, the consumers, can go into the XML and do it all ourselves, or add to it. 

About the whole Warrants ordeal, I knew when I added that point that it is likely something that isn't quite in your control, I use a fully custom and realistic XML set that is extremely specific to my State, outside of a few Charges and Citations added for Gameplay sake. This makes this particular issue pretty annoying, since my Charges have a few things like "Possession of a Controlled Substance 1st" so occasionally I will see someone with a entirely clean record with a Warrant as a "Habitual Offender". I can understand if this is something you can't really fix since I do not use the default XML sets. Just throwing it out there as a general gripe that I have with all Plugins that do similar things, including CompuLite.

1 Idea I had, and I have absolutely no clue how feasible it would be, would involve making it to where I can add exceptions to PEDs having certain things as Warrants, unless they meet a specific criteria in terms of what their priors are that I set myself, building it around my specific Charges XML. Maybe adding an entirely new "app" that would allow me to do this. Basically, I am thinking of something akin to "If, X then, XX" Statements that could be baked into the Data for my App, but instead of me learning how to Code (and destroying everything in the process!), maybe you could pull off a small Application that would have the capability of creating the necessary Code and turning it into a useful File Type for the App itself. Again, I am completely ignorant when it comes to Coding, so if I sound like an idiot, forgive me. I am not entirely sure if/how this would be at all possible, since I assume the Data for every PED is generated upon Interaction, but I am just throwing it out there and seeing if it is at all something that sounds reasonable without having to make you overwork yourself.

In any case, the Application is very well done, and I greatly appreciate and respect the amount of work you must have into it and I look forwards to seeing some of these things implemented, I hope to see it's continued Updates and Support long into the future!

On 1/2/2025 at 11:44 PM, GrizzlyCMMG said:

The pleasure is all mine! I really enjoy this Application! as for an idea towards implementing the Affiliation System smoothly, I was thinking maybe a locational System? I am not by any means a programmer nor do I know the first thing about it. But I was thinking maybe if you are Patrolling a Specific area, say Davis, then there is a much higher chance that the PEDs you interact with will have an Affiliation Flag, or, just simply make it a Probability System. I will say, there are plenty of People who would be considered Documented Gang Members, who do not (yet) have a Record. It does happen through things like Officers and FIRs (Field Interview Reports) though, I cannot speak to how common it is.

 

As for Aliases, if you wanted to do a really simplistic route, have it be based in an XML format, and use the help of AI to generate a long list of random Street Aliases, while also writing a few of your own, and then create a Probability System for how often they will appear. Doing it this way is, I assume, simpler for you as the Programmer, and also since it would be in XML Formatting, us, the consumers, can go into the XML and do it all ourselves, or add to it. 

 

About the whole Warrants ordeal, I knew when I added that point that it is likely something that isn't quite in your control, I use a fully custom and realistic XML set that is extremely specific to my State, outside of a few Charges and Citations added for Gameplay sake. This makes this particular issue pretty annoying, since my Charges have a few things like "Possession of a Controlled Substance 1st" so occasionally I will see someone with a entirely clean record with a Warrant as a "Habitual Offender". I can understand if this is something you can't really fix since I do not use the default XML sets. Just throwing it out there as a general gripe that I have with all Plugins that do similar things, including CompuLite.

 

1 Idea I had, and I have absolutely no clue how feasible it would be, would involve making it to where I can add exceptions to PEDs having certain things as Warrants, unless they meet a specific criteria in terms of what their priors are that I set myself, building it around my specific Charges XML. Maybe adding an entirely new "app" that would allow me to do this. Basically, I am thinking of something akin to "If, X then, XX" Statements that could be baked into the Data for my App, but instead of me learning how to Code (and destroying everything in the process!), maybe you could pull off a small Application that would have the capability of creating the necessary Code and turning it into a useful File Type for the App itself. Again, I am completely ignorant when it comes to Coding, so if I sound like an idiot, forgive me. I am not entirely sure if/how this would be at all possible, since I assume the Data for every PED is generated upon Interaction, but I am just throwing it out there and seeing if it is at all something that sounds reasonable without having to make you overwork yourself.

 

In any case, the Application is very well done, and I greatly appreciate and respect the amount of work you must have into it and I look forwards to seeing some of these things implemented, I hope to see it's continued Updates and Support long into the future!

Great ideas! I will see what I can come up with for them as far as finding a solution or implementing them. Feedback and ideas are definitely always appreciated. 😁

On 1/9/2025 at 9:15 PM, Lennyy said:

I absolutely agree with this! At the moment it’s very simple with Firstname Lastname.
I’m not sure how the applications and the US databases work but here Lastname and DOB is enough to get somebody to show up on your MDT.

As far as I know, he plans on implementing some changes to the Lookup!

If you're interested in some info on how U.S. LE Operates in a very general sense:

U.S. Databases vary by State/Agency. However, the most common thing I have seen is First, Last, DOB, SSN (Social Security Number, a unique & secretive number assigned to U.S. Citizens at Birth) Most normal Traffic Stops/LE Interactions use the specific State DMV (Dept of Motor Vehicles, sometimes called other things depending on State, responsible for issuing Licenses, Vehicle Registrations, ect) in order to Run checks on Individuals and Vehicles. Law Enforcement also has the capability to utilize NCIC (National Crime Information Center) this is a System that LE uses to check for things like Nationwide Warrants, Verify Identity, Verify that things like License Plates are not Stolen, ect in the U.S. basically, if a Plate on a Car is from a different State than where the Traffic Stop is occurring, Law Enforcement can run that information through NCIC and see if it is in fact stolen. 

Are the region and report type graph gone for good? Quite enjoyed the look of them? Would it be possible to ever integrate some simple statistic tracking with an app within the MDT? Would be super cool to have it back if it's gone. Otherwise, this is one of the greatest mods I've ever seen. I have so much fun using it and taking my time to fill in reports. Please keep this project up as long as you can and don't give up! IT'S INCREDIBLE

7 hours ago, bonk said:

Are the region and report type graph gone for good? Quite enjoyed the look of them? Would it be possible to ever integrate some simple statistic tracking with an app within the MDT? Would be super cool to have it back if it's gone. Otherwise, this is one of the greatest mods I've ever seen. I have so much fun using it and taking my time to fill in reports. Please keep this project up as long as you can and don't give up! IT'S INCREDIBLE

I actually was planning on something like a Statistics app, but I'm not sure yet.

a detailed map would be good but i love this mod 

Where I can contribute for this project? You have Patreon? 

1 hour ago, Shramm said:

Where I can contribute for this project? You have Patreon? 

I do yes, it should be linked in the User Guide or https://www.patreon.com/guess1m 👍

i use callout interface but for some reason callouts arnt showing up in the app 

2 hours ago, bondi9mm said:

i use callout interface but for some reason callouts arnt showing up in the app 

When RP Loads does it say anything about missing CalloutInterface?

20 hours ago, Guess1m said:

When RP Loads does it say anything about missing CalloutInterface?

not that im aware of 

This is incredible! Following, and looking forward to the future of this mod. 😄
Personally, I'd love an iOS/iPad-compatible version! Gonna experiment with it on Steam Deck later tonight. 🤔

4 hours ago, Lennyy said:

Since Reports+ requires both java and java sdk, it will only work on devices support those frameworks (Windows, MacOS, Linux).

That makes sense! 
That's why I'm excited to try it on Steam Deck's desktop mode, I have a feeling it's going to work well, especially with the touchscreen features.

Is there a BG customization option? I'd love to get it based on state

So first off, thats probably one of the nicest mods. But, I have a problem. Im using the mod "Immersive law" 1.1.8 by Anonymous1800 for the charges and citations and whyever I cant create a traffic citation anymore. Whenever I want to create one and click on "traffic citation" it doesnt open and it gives me an error. Im very thankful to any help or advices. 🙏

5 minutes ago, MaLeDo101819 said:

So first off, thats probably one of the nicest mods. But, I have a problem. Im using the mod "Immersive law" 1.1.8 by Anonymous1800 for the charges and citations and whyever I cant create a traffic citation anymore. Whenever I want to create one and click on "traffic citation" it doesnt open and it gives me an error. Im very thankful to any help or advices. 🙏

Problem fixed. Has nothing to do with the Immersive law, instead with my stupidity. 😂 I forgot one single " at one line and it made it all not work. Now it works again.

I have the game running on PC and the Reports Plus Client on laptop, I have a client connection for 10 seconds and then no connection anymore.

Would be awesome if the ped didnt instantly drive off after handing the citation. 

the id and the rest that needs to be pop up in the game doesn't work for me but I use everything that is needed when I go to report+ the id and such are there