Officer Toshi

Yes, that's a man in a spacesuit, stole a truck

There's one easy way to test. Turn your internet connection off, if everything runs as intended then you're right. If there are crashes or plugins disable themselves breaking your game preventing you from playing as intended then I'm right. Wrong. Do you use w10 privacy or similar program to turn off Windows spyware and remove Microsoft's malicious callback codes? Then you're a lying hypocrite. If you don't then you're just silly and obviously don't care about ethics or having malware on your machine as much as normal people. There's nothing wrong with removing malicious code intended to cause you harm.

To make it clear, I have nothing against bejo and I think his plugins are amazing. I even donated! First time I've ever donated to a mod. But writing in malicious code does make it malware. I'm not mad, I'm disappointed. I sincerely regret ever reading this thread, it's likely that if I hadn't I'd have never have known or found out about the malicious code hidden in it. I also disagree with redistributing, when I have a freelancer look into removing the malicious code it'll be for personal use only as I don't like having malware on my machine. No redistribution will happen. I like to know that something will run as intended without malintent if my connection goes down or some arbitrary condition isn't met. It's software that maliciously breaks a game if your internet goes down for whatever reason. It's software that punishes you for not being online, that is malice, which makes it malware by definition. Mal means malicious Ware for software. Google it. That's what malware means. I disagree with what those people did by the way, redistributing is not on. But had he removed the malicious code himself then it would never have happened, so you can't really blame them too much if he left them no choice, right? Though they should have kept it for personal use and not share it.

If it maliciously stops something from working then it's malware by definition, clue's in the 'mal' part of ware. And yes, it is software. It's not hardware is it? It's code that runs on your computer. Anyway I'm not arguing anymore, as my first post indicated I was a big fan of the plugin I literally had no idea it was malware until I read this thread, I regret that I did, it's unlikely I'll be without a connection but saddens me that if I ever am I have software that'll maliciously prevent me from playing a game. I've removed it and will look to an alternative, maybe a freelancer can be paid to remove the malicious code or rewrite a similar plugin for me I'll have to look into it.

Uh, websites require an internet connection. Do you not know the difference between a web service and software? Wordpad does not require an internet connection. If Microsoft maliciously stopped Wordpad from working if there was no internet, then yes wordpad would also be malware.

Stop The Ped is better coded, more efficient. Plus it actually gets updated 🙂 edit: wait, STP needs internet connection to work? Wow that's.... So it's basically malware/spyware? Will remove it then 😕 what a shame

I use a real radio now. Grammar Police & Immersive Dispatch So don't need policesmart radio anymore. The couple of things you can't do through radio yet (ie: ambulance/taxi as a transport) you can do through bejojo's plugin.

Did you start with fresh /plugins folder? It sounds like you've overridden something somewhere with a conflicting mod 😞

Interaction+, smartradio, traffic policer, computer+ are all outdated unfortunately. You don't need traffic policer anymore with stop the ped & ultimate backup, they both perform the same functions, and with traffic policer being badly coded and outdated it can cause issues. Bejo's plugins are a lot less resource intensive and better coded KTFO is outdated, use EVA instead (enhanced vehicle actions) Interaction+ will be conflicting, stop the ped already has those functions and use alongside Compulite: https://www.bejoijo.com To have peds pullover the way you want use Custom Pullover instead of traffic policer But yeah it sounds like you could do with wiping your plugins folder all together and starting clean 🙂 Vocal Dispatch is outdated too, use Grammar Police instead (same, but better function). immersive dispatch just adds extra immersion on top of it. Here's a vid of me using it (and my mod list)

For what you just said regarding odour, you need Stop the Ped. Really the only essential mods you need are: Stop the Ped Compulite Ultimate Backup +1 or 2 decent & recently updated callout packs. Anything else is just icing & a balance between your FPS and variety. Other notable mentions that I use are mostly immersion-based Grammar Police Immersive Dispatch LSPDFR Comes Alive Super Events Enhanced Vehicle Actions Siren mastery Glove Switcher I don't have many callout packs, here's the ones I currently use Super Callouts United Callouts Simple Callouts The reason being they're the only 3 that seem to be regularly (and recently) updated at the moment that don't cause FPS issues or crash.

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