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Well it was suppose to be serious...

So, I was thinking that after a day of April fools jokes and such that perhaps a few people would appreciate some real news regarding our community, LCPDFR and our plans for the future.  I used to do something like this at the beginning of the year however we were a little sidetracked and honestly didn't have much news that we were ready to share - something which has changed considerably.
 
The first thing that I want to say is that right now, as I speak, we're actually in the middle of a huge surge in popularity, traffic and activity and although the numbers are still a little rough, I can quite confidently say that the past few days have been our most active ever.  Yesterday alone we saw over 400 registrations - a phenomenal number for one day.  Today, we've had 414 so far.  Put simply, we're doing our biggest numbers ever and as the guy that sat for years and watched this project grow slowly, the past few days have been really exciting for me.
 
We have now surpassed GPM in total member count, which I'm pretty sure was the only thing that was left to surpass them on.  Indeed, just a year ago when we really started to expand and grow I don't really think anyone expected that we'd do so well in the long term.  Back at the time, we understood the surge of traffic, all the new content and our sudden boost in popularity, but we didn't really think that it would continue that way - we thought of it as something that would come and stay, or even go, but certainly not come and then keep coming and coming (don't read that the wrong way please!).  Back in late summer 2011, all I could hope for was that we could be a viable and progressive alternative, and now I feel pretty silly for setting my expectations so low.
 
On the subject of all this development and activity, 2013 is shaping up to be quite a big year for us.  Aside from the blockbuster release of GTA V later on in September, there's a lot more going on closer to home with the recently announced ELS v7 coming out, for the first time ever on LCPDFR.com, in a little bit and also with LCPDFR and another project I've been working on for the past couple of months in close collaboration with Lt.Caine and LMS.  Basically, as a lot of you will know, I've always wanted to make a lighting system that's a decent alternative to ELS.  Years ago I put out a small and unfinished script called Illumination which used GTA IV's native method to draw light coronas in the game world, making a decent LED lightbar and an absolutely horrible traffic advisor.  This didn't really go anywhere because of how bad it was, the complications of the whole thing and the popularity of ELS at the time.  A while back I decided to revisit it, and didn't really get much closer although I did come up with some ways of making things look a whole lot better but nonetheless it was scrapped and forgotten about.  The real breakthrough came early this year, however, when Lt.Caine sent me a message after something like 2 years of being away.  After a few days, we had a basic plan put together, which brings me to the first announcement I have for everyone:
 
Emergency Lighting System (ELS) Dot Net
 

 
ELS Dot Net is a special version of ELS, running on the .Net Framework and being developed primarily by myself.  It is a corona based system, like a few of the ones that have been shown of recently, although it has several key differences:
Fully customisable and distributable patterns and vehicle configurations The ELS interface everybody knows and loves Several different light types, such as LEDs and halogen bulbs Realistic rotator lightbar emulation (with rotating beacons and environmental lighting) Built-in visibility checks for coronas shining through solid objects and such AdvancedHook integration for flashing headlights and taillights (agan, these are customisable) I hope to get some video of some of the cool features of ELS.Net released in the next week.
 
 
The next thing I want to address is LCPDFR, and where we're headed with it.  For the past few months, LMS has been really hard at work with the mod, doing his best to write a whole host of new systems for it which I'll talk about a little later on this year - most likely in a couple of months.  All of our development energy and focus as far as LCPDFR is concerned has, however, been directed towards these improvements which I suppose you could describe better as a complete rewrite, because that, to be quite frank, is what they are.  We wanted to go further with the mod in the sense that instead of adding new callouts or pursuit features, we wanted to make the very core of it much more powerful and easy to build on.  After many months, we're finally almost there with almost all of the features of the ever elusive 0.95 RC3 ported over and re-worked for the new engine.  I thought that instead of waffling about the things LMS has been doing, it would be better to briefly list some examples of the new functionality present:
PedIntelligence class - it handles AI for peds, meaning that now instead of people not giving a damn that you're pursuing a highly armed suspect right in front of them, they'll actually notice and care about it! Pursuits - We have some really powerful stuff for all sorts of chases, both in cars and on foot.  Instead of using ranges and distance checks, officers can now lose sight of the suspects, and if they do, will spread out and search a perimeter like in real life (helicopters are really useful now). Drastically improved Police AI - Suspect with a gun?  Cops will start shouting at him to drop it. Misc. Improvements - New tasks for things like pulling over (they do it a lot better now), ability to get the side of the street that a vehicle is on (useful for traffic stops) and full support for controllers. All in all, we're trying our best to make the next version of LCPDFR (which is most likely going to be 1.0) as powerful as we can given our limited resources not to mention all of our other commitments.  I'm sorry that it has taken this long for us to provide some concrete information about the state of the project - we've just been incredibly busy with all sorts of other things and only a few weeks ago were we anywhere near certain of what direction we were headed in with it.  That being said, the one thing I can say with confidence is that you will see a release of LCPDFR this year, unless of course LMS gest run over by a bus or something and my screen spontaneously combusts sending highly charged lethal glass shards through my body, but that won't happen hopefully!
 
To conclude, I'm feeling really optimistic about the next 8 months.  I think we've got a lot of exciting things on the way and from what we can tell, we're obviously doing something right on the community side of things given our recent statistics.  I think we've all proven that LCPDFR, both the mod and this awesome website, has been nothing short of a total game-changer.
 
On behalf of the entire team here, I'd like to thank everyone for their continued support, even after 3 and a half long years.  We've really made something special here, and it's not going to stop anytime soon.
 
Sam.

Community Team & Staffing Update - 05 March 2013
 
As many of you will have noticed, we have three new faces on the LCPDFR Community Team, with cp702, c13 and Original Light joining us as junior moderators.  We've been looking at how to improve our staffing arrangements for the past couple of weeks now, and hope that these new additions will be able to better enable us to provide a better experience for everyone by increasing the overall efficiency, visibility and activity of the Community Team.
 
On the same note, I'd like to say thanks to Flambe and Synapt, two longstanding members of the team, who as of today are no longer with us due to a lack of activity.  Unfortunately we've been unable to reach Synapt, although we hope to welcome Flambe back onto the team when he gets some time during breaks from his studies.
 
Our new staff members will be working initially under the guidance supervision of NicolaiB, who has recently undertaken the Community Team Supervisor, taking over from Olanov who resigned it a few months ago.  I will also be personally overseeing this.
 
I hope that everyone will join with me in welcoming our new staff members to the team,
Sam.

Moved to a more appropriate section. Also can you put a bit more effort into your threads? (and perhaps keep them all as one thread)

Moved to a more appropriate section. Also can you put a bit more effort into your threads? (and perhaps keep them all as one thread)

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All of you, knock it off, The rep system is NOT to be used for personal gain, if you have issues with a member, that doesn't mean you can -rep him/her just because you feel like it, knock off the attitude and keep on topic, anymore offensive/off topic posts by other members will not be tolerated and will be deleted.

Can you not double post please?

I haven't got much in the way of ideas but you'd need some way of getting it popular.

Can you not double post please?

I haven't got much in the way of ideas but you'd need some way of getting it popular.

Sure I could try.

Lamar Smith said that they're putting it on the floor again in February, unfortunately I saw it on one of the sites that are currently blacked out, they only "shelved" it, they didn't drop it.

Even if they do drop SOPA, there's PIPA, which will be supported by most of the anti-SOPA co-operations.

SOPA were never intended to actually pass, like when salespersons gives you a higher price than both you, and he knows is too high, then he lowers his offer to something that sounds reasonable, but are still higher, in the hopes that you'll take the bait and accept it, it's PIPA that they're aiming to actually pass.

Guys, I don't think he speaks fluent English, so using words like "Latter" and "Revise" isn't going to get you anywhere...

Recent changes to the Community Team, social media, staffing and more.

There have been quite a few changes to the LCDPFR Community Team as of late and I figured that now we've just strengthened the team some more, it would be a good time to provide a little update on what's happening.

Firstly, we are going to be creating a public relations section of some sort within the Community Team that we anticipate will give us some new capabilities when it comes to keeping everyone up to date and informed about changes over time. We do hope to establish a Facebook and Twitter presence shortly which we hope will allow us to provide small, but important updates that sometimes go unreported in this news section. Secondly, we're hoping to raise the profile of the mod even more as after enabling Facebook and Twitter registrations on the site, we're averaging over 120 registrations a day so there are clearly a lot of people who we think we'd be able to reach out to and promote to the mod to by establishing ourselves on social media - something which we've never done before.

Secondly, there have been a few new additions to the staffing here on LCPDFR which haven't really been announced, so I hope that everyone will join with me in welcoming some of our newer staff on lcpdfr.com, NicolaiB, Penguin2254 and James. As you probably know, James and Penguin were both at one point in time section directors of the gtapolicemods.com public relations department. Both James and Penguin are well experienced in most aspects of website promotion and relations work, and will be working shortly to help take this mod and it's great community even further. As for Nicolai B, most of you will probably know him from his amazing YouTube videos which never fail to deliver. NB has built up a subscriber base of 3,000, accumulated over 2.35 million total views throughout all his videos and helped to publicise the mod in ways I never could.

As for LCPDFR 0.95, we are making good progress towards releasing a second RC version which we hope will address some annoying bugs relating to callouts, as well as include some cool new features and enhancements to existing ones.

Finally, I'd just like to finish this post by thanking you all for your continued support of the project as a whole, and for making our community one of the most vibrant and certainly the most friendly police related modding site there is. Because of everyone here, lcpdfr.com truly is a special environment which thrives throughout the day, every day.

Sam.

Just found this:
http://mmomfg.com/2011/11/18/gta-v-maps-fake-1118/

To answer your first question, No, You are not required to have Any DLC downloaded to play lcpdfr correctly, Also, To fix your problem, Run your game as administrator by going to the directory: Computer>Programfilesx86>rockstar games> Grand Theft Auto IV> GtaIV>LaunchGTAIV.exe <right click on that, run as administrator, Or at this directory: Computer>Programfilesx86>Steam>Steamapps>common>Grandtheftautoiv>GTAIV (For steam purchased copys), From your error, If This doesn't work, Try re installing via running the installer as admin, If that doesn't work im lost and some one else should be able to help you, good luck bud :thumbsup:

The PrtScn button on your keyboard. And the blur is normal.

I have uninstalled the game and reinstalled it, i updated it to 1.0.7.0, i added the trainer i installed the mod. The game works but not the mod so i unistalled the mod and reinstalled it and i came up with nothing, i uninstalled trainer and that didnt help so now idk what else to do to get it to work.

Thanks for this workaroud. This will be pinned until we fully integrated controller support.

It seems .95 only recognizes using the mouse to aim at suspects, so it's impossible to get it to work with a controller.

ControlMK (http://www.redcl0ud.com/controlmk/) does work, however.

This is my workaround:
"Z-Axis+" (LT) gets set to "Mouse_Right_Click", and "Button 4" (it seems CMK switched the shoulder buttons, so 4 is "LB") is set to "VK_E". Hopefully that will help anyone else using a controller, at least for arresting. It's a little finicky, you usually have to aim a few times, but using LB works fine.

Edit by LMS:
You can also hold the right mouse button while aiming, not as handy as the solution above though.

Edit Sniper296:
Recovered and pinned.

Say goodbye to the forums..

I expect a legitimate D.O.S to happen as that clock hits zero..

The amount of people trying to download it will just cause it to crash and have a nervous breakdown..

Bu-bu-bu-I thought we wanted realism D:

Can you edit your posts instead of double posting please?

And I'm pretty sure they usually just stay on the ground.

Can you edit your posts instead of double posting please?

And I'm pretty sure they usually just stay on the ground.

Oooh! I love riddles! (lol) Here's one:

Since this is going off topic and wasn't the best to start with, I'm closing it. If you need help regan, read the stickies and rules, then make a new topic.