Sam

Mean :(

Wait, I thought the slicktops were meant to be female? Continuity error much?

Networking doesn't matter, authentication was only a requirement for the test builds. What are your system specs, what OS are you running, and what mods are you using exactly? Have you tried it on a clean install?

Well I'm certainly glad to see that some progress is being made. I'd like to wrap this up fairly soon and I'll make a point of posting the final reply to this topic with a list of actions we're going to take moving forward from this. We'll then go about making these changes, starting with our Community Guidelines. After this, I have several big ideas for improvements to the website and community as a whole, which I'll say more about in due course.

Thanks so much for the unlocked models of the GTA V cars. With the modifications done by Lt.Caine, I honestly think they are the best cars available right now for standard patrol vehicles. Low poly, low texture size, fitting with the game, yet at the same time very good looking.

How are you finding the API?

I actually think it would. You might have noticed that Lt.Caine releases all of his work unlocked these days. I've not been made aware of a single case where anything he released unlocked was ripped, or where someone deliberately and knowingly took credit for his work. Similarly, I release all of my stuff unlocked as well, and I've never seen anything like my non-ELS lightbar conversions or ped edits ever have been claimed to have been made by someone else.

Only took them 6 months to put things right.

For us, this as you know, is one of the biggest challenges facing us. In just about every case where there's been an incident in the gallery - nobody actually claimed credit for the work. If you look at the link I posted in my first post here, you'll see that it was merely an image of a car and an explosion. Nowhere does it say that anyone is taking credit for it. Despite this, everyone throws around their accusations and silly pictures. Everyone here understands that it is 100 percent wrong to claim someone else's work as your own, but in most cases, nobody actually does that. Whenever somebody actually claims something as their own (most of the time by uploading it to the downloads section crediting purely themself), it gets reported and gets dealt with. I already showed a screenshot of the most recent example of this in my first post. I'd be more than happy to present more. I already said that we'd do our best to help out if someone was repeatedly posting images of models that you believed to be yours which were ripped in an attempt to taunt you, and we started an investigation into one person because of this, who has now asked for their account to be closed a day after we stepped up that investigation. I'm not sure where the misconception that we don't do anything about plagiarism comes from, as time after time, people that wrongly take credit for the work of others are found out and dealt with. If this wasn't the case, I'm sure BPM would still be running rampant around here, along with ANTI and whoever else. I could split up the gallery so that there's a category specifically designated for releasing images of work in progress modifications if that would sort the problem. In that section, we can apply simple rules to protect the work of others - simply by stating that all images post must reflect modifications which satisfy the following: The modification is created from scratch, entirely by the author. The modification is created by a third party, that has given their express consent for a derivative work to be produced. All credit is given where expected. So if you saw one of your models in that section, we can easily take action once it gets reported to us. The problem though is that what's to stop people posting their WIP images in the other gallery section? Well we can make a simple rule saying that images which show the development of a modification, such as those taken from 3D modelling applications, or images which serve to promote the eventual release of a modification, such as those featuring an unreleased modification where the author states that the modification will be released, must be posted in the designated WIP section. That doesn't solve the problem though, because again, most of the time nobody actually takes credit or says that anything will be released. Again, look at the first image. It's just a picture of a car and an explosion!