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There's no LSPDFR Discord, the option you see there is for testing.
 
We do have a Discord server for our new RDR2 project, which we're using as a bit of an experiment to see how an LSPDFR Discord server may work out.
If you're an Insider, you will get granted Discord roles there if you associate your Discord account with Patreon. https://www.mod-rdr.com/

The hype is real can't wait! 🤠

Sure, why not?!  I think it'd be pretty awesome playing as a lawman in the West.  

The hype is real can't wait! 🤠

None of us can say for sure but it's unlikely to be an issue.  I suspect most people will be getting it on the Rockstar store because of the delay on Steam.

It's an exciting time for all of us here at LCPDFR.com with the debut of Red Dead Redemption II on PC just a week away.
 
When the first RDR game came out on Xbox 360 and PS3, we were inundated with requests to develop a police mod for it, which unfortunately was never to be.  Now though, with RDR on PC finally just around the corner, we're really excited for the possibility of doing so.
 
So, it's in that spirit that today we announce the launch of a whole new website, Mod-RDR.com, dedicated solely to all things RDR.   We've been working on Mod-RDR ever since the news that RDR was coming to PC broke, and will be hosting all of our RDR specific modding content there.
 

 
We hope to see you on www.mod-rdr.com, which you can log into with your LCPDFR.com account, as we prepare for our next adventure into the Wild West.
 
Sam.

It's been a while since our last major update, and as you might've guessed from the title, there's a good reason for this... It has taken us a lot of work to get to this point but we can finally proudly announce our latest project: Lenny's Mod Loader.
 
Modding. Reinvented.
Most people on this forums will have had their fair share of issues when it comes to installing mods, be it that you replaced the file in the wrong place, forgot to reinstall mods after an update or just found yourself in a situation without any installation instructions at all. We aim to make this a thing of the past and focus on what modding should be: fun! With Lenny's Mod Loader you can replace files and load new mods with just a few clicks - without ever touching an RPF. Many mods, such as addon vehicles, can even be loaded directly from the website into your running game, allowing you to quickly test our new vehicles in a matter of seconds.
 
Many mods can be loaded directly into your running game - just one click away!
 
 
Release Information
Lenny's Mod Loader will be released later this year as a beta test. We are currently looking at a public release around December, but might release a little earlier if testing goes well. Being a completely new project, we would like to get in as much test coverage as possible to ensure a smooth public release. This is why we will make LML available as early access software for our Community Insiders.
 
Future Development
We are only at the beginning of our journey and there are still many things that we would like to add to Lenny's Mod Loader. Ultimately we hope to provide you with a fully-fledged user interface to easily manage your mods, all integrated into our website to make sharing and discovering new mods as easy as possible. We hope you will join and support us on our way and are looking forward to your suggestions on how we can make modding more fun for everyone!
 
For a much more in-depth look at LML, check the:
LML Homepage: www.lcpdfr.com/lml LML Wiki: www.lcpdfr.com/wiki/lml Early Access: https://www.patreon.com/lcpdfr

This is the second part of our LSPDFR 0.2 preview series.  For more information about the background behind 0.2, check out the first installment in this series here: http://www.lcpdfr.com/forums/topic/51800-lspdfr-02-announcement-first-preview
I think by far the most hotly requested feature for the next version of LSPDFR was the resurrection of the police computer.  A vital tool for those of you that like to add some detail to your patrols - the police computer makes it return with a vengeance in 0.2.
The new Police Computer is capable of searching both license plates and subject names, and will actually perform a real search on every vehicle or person currently in the game.  If a match is found, it will then be returned to you via a notification after a slight delay.  In essence, this is a very real implementation of the system, and we hope that it will be more immersive than our offering in LCPDFR, which felt fake at times.

The brand new Police Computer featuring both license plate and subject record searches.
Of course, to achieve this sense of immersion, improving the Police Computer itself wasn't enough - we also took some time to boost the quality of the data that it relied on.  In early versions of LCPDFR, there were around 15 or so 'funny' names in the entire data pool.  In later versions, there were literally thousands of names, all able to be dynamically generated, which was far more realistic, but also gave some really weird results at times.  You might go as far as saying that it could feel as though everyone in Liberty City was named by a member of the British royal family or some crazy celebrity parent.  At first, we used this same system in the early implementation of the LSPDFR Police Computer, but it simply wasn't good enough and really let down the system as a whole considering the new functionality that was there.
For those of you unaware, we were deeply involved in San Andreas Multiplayer (SA-MP - a multiplayer mod for GTA: SA) in 2012.  As part of this, we ran a server titled Fort Carson Roleplay (FCRP), which was essentially a simulation of a small American town, where players could register on the server, make fictional characters and then spawn in the world to do any number of things like run a business, join a gang, be a cop, etc.  FCRP quickly became one of the top 175 servers in SA-MP and had something like 12,000 registered accounts.  Of course, long after its closure at the end of 2012, the masses of character data from FCRP were simply sitting on an old hard drive, collecting dust.  Just a few weeks ago, I moved the data back over and thought that it would be nice to actually do something with it, and the development of the new Police Computer for LSPDFR seemed like the perfect opportunity.  Indeed, LSPDFR now uses persona data from just under 3,000 FCRP player characters.  We took it a little further than merely importing the names as well, with some other attributes from the server being recognised (making for some interesting easter eggs).  The key advantage of this system, though, is that we have close to 3,000 names which were actually made up by close to 3,000 real people.  Hopefully this makes things feel more natural, and will give some persistence as well if you see certain people more than once.

We will post the third, and probably final, installment of this update series tomorrow.

Holy cow I'd all but forgotten about FCRP and SAMP

GTA SAMP was truly the highlight of my younger years. I have the fondest memories playing and meeting various people on those servers. I dont know if its the nostalgia but I dont think I'll ever be able to have that much fun again as I did on those random servers.

So, i've been around GTA and Sam for long long time. However i'm new to GTA V.
I was surfing on youtube while i came up on this youtube channel. Which has lots of videos of the very popular (back in the days..) Roleplay server, Fort Carson Roleplay, That Sam and Cyan owned.
I thought it would be fun to share it.
 
 
 
 
Here you can see Sams good scripting in action. A plane crash while celebrating the 4th of july.
 

The character system itself should not cause any loading delay. That is mostly resolving memory patterns and loading files from disk. We are working on improving reload speed by caching data externally and hope to have most of that work done in the next update. As for your texture-redraw issue, that is caused by reloading certain map components when loading LSPDFR to ensure the multiplayer map is loaded. I will see if we can instead detect whether it is already loaded instead and skip that step.

Considering the character/RP aspect was pretty much the bread and butter of 0.4, I highly doubt it'll have the option to be disabled.  I don't recommend using reloadallplugins, it just causes issues for those who do have a lot of plugins.  Manually load the ones you want one at a time.

Stuff is going on. We have a testing team already (there's no application process), and we don't generally share development progress unless we want to build hype.

We've released a minor update to LSPDFR 0.4 which fixes a number of issues that have been reported to us over the last couple of weeks.  As well as a number of fixes, LSPDFR 0.4.1 includes some performance enhancements for slower systems, reworked controller bindings and new API functions. 
 
LSPDFR 0.4.1, as well as full release notes, is available here: https://www.lcpdfr.com/files/file/7792-lspd-first-response/

First time playing 0.4?  Check out our new getting started guide for LSPDFR 0.4: https://www.lcpdfr.com/wiki/lspdfr/04/getting-started/
 
About a year ago, we announced the development of LSPDFR 0.4.  We said it was big, and we said it was different, but I honestly don't think any of us quite imagined just how big and different it would turn out to be, nor how much of a challenge it would be to take the concepts and ideas that we had and turn them into reality.
 
Still, here we are.  Thousands of changes later, we're here.  Everyone on the team is delighted to announce the first public release of LSPDFR 0.4, available now.
 
LSPDFR 0.4 brings sweeping changes which have been implemented over a number of years, so much so that we're not able to provide full release notes.  Instead, we've put together a number of resources, new to LSPDFR 0.4, including a 'wiki' and a collection of more in-depth guides.
 
Note as well that because of this - the sheer number of things that have changed - there will  be issues.  We've put over two months into testing 0.4, and we've made hundreds of fixes in this time.  Still, there's undoubtedly going to be things that we've missed, or things that simply can't be tested in a controlled environment.  This is a big release, and we wanted to do right by all of you by getting it out as soon as we can.
 
With that being said, I'll shut up now and let the mod speak for itself.
 
LSPDFR 0.4 Page: https://www.lcpdfr.com/lspdfr
LSPDFR 0.4 Wiki: https://www.lcpdfr.com/wiki/lspdfr/04
 
Note that we strongly recommend installing LSPDFR 0.4 for the first time on a clean copy of Grand Theft Auto V with no other mods or plugins. 

It's not really an unofficial thing if we get involved with it though, is it?  On the topic itself, it's not like we have said no to having an official LSPDFR Discord Server.  The explanation given was simply us stating that the one that we do have currently isn't public.  That could change.

It's not just a simple matter of permissions.
Anything officially tied to us would need to have a similar set of moderation rules, baseline level of active moderation and time and effort spent.
Right now the disadvantages outweigh the advantages, but it's something we will explore when we have more time (e.g. after 0.4).

I think people have made numerous unofficial attempts at one -- however we do not allow advertising outside outside of peoples profiles and signatures.
 
We already do have a Discord internally which is used mostly for staff and friends of. We may extend it to be a more open one, but at this time there are no concrete plans.

Sounds good now all we need is MTA Fort Carson.

Great question.  With my department, we are issued take home vehicles that are ours.  If you live in the Town, you can use them off duty to do personal errands, but you must have your radio and firearm with you.  Some smaller agencies do not issue take home cars and I know in California it is standard practice to check out a car once you clear roll call.  In Florida, most departments will issue you your own car after you clear field training.

So with the patrol car, do you use the same one every shift or do you have a different car each shift?

Hello everyone!  First off let me say that I decided to start this thread after getting PM'd by a couple people who know me.  For a little background; I started playing police mods back at the inception of LCPDFR for GTA IV.  On my profile you will see I have made some texture mods, which were orginally for my enjoyment until I released them.  I was in college back then and only had aspirations of getting into law enforcement.  Fast forward all of these years later and I am a full time police officer currently working in Florida.  I have worked for a large department in Broward County and I now work for a medium sized city in Palm Beach County.  I find that people are constantly interested in law enforcement information, but are either too embarrassed to ask questions or don't know where to turn.  I hope to turn this thread into something that LSPDFR members will utilize to reach out and ask any questions they want to be answered by me (or any active LEOs) on the forum.  For some reference I am currently on road patrol.  I have been an explorer post advisor, I am a DUI and narcotics specialist and I am also trained as a hostage negotiator.  Ask away!

I don't know about anyone else, but I'm very much looking forward to the 31st of February.

Hi everyone, it's your beloved Community Manager here.
 
I'd like to quickly thank everyone who applied for Community Moderator in November - we got 4 times more applications this time than last time! There were a lot of good ones in there and it was tough to just pick out a few, but we managed to narrow it down. With that, please join me in welcoming @0taku and @WillUnderscore to the LSPDFR Community Team. They'll be starting out as Junior Community Moderators, which is considered their training phase. After that, they will be global Community Moderators like the rest of the team.
 
We are also welcoming @c13 back into his old position as Community Moderator after a hiatus due to work.
 
Again, thanks to all who applied, especially those who took the time to speak with us. We hope to bring additional staff in once everyone is settled into their new positions.
 
-willpv23