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The escalation rules should be viewed as a shell and starting point, not a rigid checklist. UA looks at the full situation, all factions involved, and all relevant factors before making a determination, including faction size, recent hires, main character status, alt characters, and whether anyone is trying to gain an unfair advantage. The purpose of a lockdown / hire block is to prevent war jumping, temporary recruiting, and alt abuse. It also makes escalation uncomfortable for everyone involved, which should push factions toward a quicker resolution instead of letting the conflict drag out. If someone was actively maining a faction but never formally set it as their main, that is ultimately on the player and their faction leadership. If they were involved enough to be impacted by the escalation, they should have seen it coming and made sure their main was properly set. Leadership also has a responsibility to warn members before things reach that point. A lock can be adjusted or removed if UA believes the specific situation calls for it, but it should not be assumed. Unless UA clearly states otherwise, factions should treat the lockdown and main character requirements as active. In your case, you were scared because you thought Popov was going to PK you, so you left the faction to do hits for Supreme in another faction. Once you realized there was no orders you left the other faction and now are stuck as a civ. watching from the outside. If you want numbers.....at the start of the escalation Supreme had 140 alts(More than any other crim. faction) to Popov 30 alts, for mains there were 25 for Supreme and 13 for Popov...... this was taken into account during the main lock decision.

New gen freak of nature try hard gets trolled by scary auraful @String If you take GIFS in your DM's as a sign of "crashout" then you might be severely autistic and should be tested dude... String and I were in VC laughing our asses off when he was sending you them because WE KNEW you would sperg out like this LOCK IN GANG!!!!! SHIT AIN'T THAT DEEP!!!!

All of this is government propaganda and I will not stand for propaganda against String, still a +1!

Reminder that String made this staff app literally less than 12 hours after crashing out at AceAdmiral, Boosted, and me in general.

-1 I rarely speak out this strongly against giving someone another chance, but in this case, I feel it's necessary. Attached I've sent the recent DMs he sent me during the time to which I banned him. Besides that I'd like to say this. While he wasn't the worst staff member we've had, the team is currently running smoothly without him. We shouldn't lower our standards just to add more bodies. This is the Diverge of today, not a few years ago. He was recently banned and continues to disagree with the reasoning behind it. In his forum post, he simply dismissed it as "retarded." He lashes out angrily at anyone who personally disagrees with him. This level of reactivity is unprofessional for staff. Even in his likely response to post, he's likely to push back without any apology or politeness to me whom has been nothing but professional towards him throughout his ban that I administrated in good faith. That should say enough alone. As a staff member who's been here for nearly a year, I have zero notes on my account. He has over 30! A consistent pattern of bans and notes shows a lack of accountability or issues with emotional regulation which are essential for any staff member to have and maintain during their duties.

I'm the professional gambler here and I know for a fact 95% of this community doesn't know how to apply perfect roulette strategy so it's just a random stroke or luck unlike blackjack that requires some sort of skill and user input.

Name of Faction: Murder, Inc (Murder, Incorporated) Number of Members (Minimum of 5): 18 Type Of Faction (Family, Triad, Street Gang, etc): Organized Syndicate Ethnic Background (ex: Italian, Greek, African American, Irish, etc):Mutli-Ethnic Name of Character running the faction: Richard Mazza Your Discord # (ex: gamer#4210): bakedoutamind Your SteamID: STEAM_1:1:493953043 Your Server playtime: 2 months 3 weeks 7 hours Do you acknowledge and agree to all faction rules as detailed on the server rules page? (Yes/No): Yes Do you acknowledge that your faction discord will be owned by us? (Yes/No): Yes Provide an example of the unique Roleplay your faction will bring to the server/what type of roleplay we can expect from your faction (Images/Videos Preferred): Our intention with Murder, Inc. is to offer an organized roleplaying experience of a multi-ethnic criminal enterprise based on reputation and professional relationships rather than “families” or any other stereotypical outfits. We intentionally made our organization multi-ethnic rather than limiting to just one group of people in order to open up further roleplay potential for a wider group of people and characters and to showcase the furthered success a faction can have by removing this largely limiting factor. In our faction, there will be a high degree of professionalism, competence, and reliability. This will allow us to form a fluid and flexible organization capable of acting independently and unbound to specific ethnic, racial, or cultural ties. Our roleplay will be professional contract killings performed by trusted members according to the specific needs of our clients. High-quality performance, complete discretion, and organization will be the most important factors in determining the success of each job. Being the best and the only choice ofr those who need discreet murder services, we plan to build a reputation as a reliable and efficient organization. Additionally, we will perform various other criminal activities to sustain our network and provide for our members. Protection, collection of debts, and trafficking will be among these activities. However, our main goal will remain professional performance of tasks. Our members will have to act in accordance with the rules that we lay out for them. Our roleplay will be based on professional interactions with our contacts and clients, as well as with other factions. Some likely roleplay scenarios we would conduct include negotiating and planning high-level hits and meticulously building positive relationships and a reputation with other factions. When conflicts take place, they will be organized and meaningful, developed step-by-step from negotiations to confrontations and escalations. As a result, we will get a lot of interesting roleplay going such as law enforcement investigations, confrontation with other factions, and fighting to establish our reputation in the criminal scene dominated by old-world crime families. Provide examples or event ideas to promote activity within your faction and keep people interested. (Reference your unique RP from the question above): Our faction is based around professional contract work, long-term reputation management, and a multi-layered street network. To keep our members active within Murder, Inc., we plan to promote structured operations and a thorough system of progression rather than random and infrequent events. One major point we want to emphasize is the concept of contract developments. Before any high-level hit is approved, members of our faction will have to do their due diligence. This will look like determining client standing, risk assessment, and whether or not the contract is logically sound. The idea is for this to create multi-day roleplay situations involving “surveillance” such as tailing, trading information, and controlled meetings/sitdowns. Not every contract will be accepted, which encourages discussion, tension, and internal politics. We will also run a ladder progression type system for our members. New members will not immediately participate in high-profile work. They will begin with smaller assignments such as collections, message delivery, and/or intimidation. Performance, discretion, and discipline will determine an individual’s advancement in Murder, Inc. This will provide a clear in-character path for growth and will give newer players structured goals. Another major roleplay opportunity is the actual planning of our work/operations. These will look like structured meetings where members will break down target profiles, escape routes, and fallback scenarios. This will allow for collaborative roleplay where every role matters, such as drivers, lookouts, and shooters. Even members not directly involved in a job will remain active through equipment sourcing and safehouse management. To integrate ourselves into the city itself, we plan to host some scale of front-facing business. Members will engage with legitimate business that will create natural roleplay. These will provide faction activity even when no criminal contract is active and will strengthen immersion within the server. Finally, we will give plenty of material for law enforcement and government characters. After major jobs and operations, members will have to adapt to pressure from the police, adjust routines, and manage public perception (both in the criminal and public side of things). This will keep the roleplay active even after a contract concludes and will allow for long-term roleplay between our faction, other factions, and the government. Organization Backstory (Min. of 250+ Words & any images):https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hritsSQ2aXFWEx__jLkEZMJU7Lelq7taCIj-WDjHwL0/edit?tab=t.0

-1 theme park faction like most of the ones out right now, just some bs with an ethnic origin

This literally makes sense. Incentivize making factions run casinos on properties they own instead of lazy money generation. It would generate RP and just be so much better. I used to love pulling up to the polish casino at the pawn shop and interacting with them as I won their money. These days I just steal $100k+ of lucchese money without them even knowing. Where is the rp in that? I used to love the rp interactions of being banned from casinos bc I won too much and I do mean that like it was fun interactions and banter.

+1 Interacted with a few members of this faction over the years (as-well as recently) and they are a mature and motivated group. From what I've seen they have a good understanding of what it takes to create good roleplay, internally and externally. Faction application isn't perfect, but none of them are. Could do with being reformatted and some more detail in certain areas. But I do like how the application gives a solid timeline with dates included, as well as it being well thought-out with referenced links. Overall, solid application. Would like to see how a British faction would do in today's New York. Fox has set the bar high. - Dong

+1 again for the haters

+1

+1 bonnano

+1 i wop rp

Im sold +1

he is very quiet now how odd

-1. There is already enough Italian Factions, adding more is just saturation unfortunately. Though the concept is written nicely, I don't see a point in adding more of what we already have. Colombos, Altoviti, Luchesse, Cassanos, Gambino's, Bonnanos, that's six and more to add on.

-1 hell nawh

-1 god no

+1 Server needs Russians, Faction app is well put together all in all see this Faction going places instead of dying instantly

Could of course use some grammar improvements in the lore, but I think it has really good bones from what I've seen of them in-game. I also think nohardfeelings has overall been playing long enough and would do good as a leader of a faction. + 1

choose a better name before i flame you guys in rumor. (+1)

+1, well written app, and rp that isn't a bar, boxing, and the usual stuff

Major +1 Very creative and detailed as well. You seem to have a solid plan and to have it as part of the underworld will also be interesting. Your time on the server is pretty good, having dupes built are pretty dope too. It’s nice to see a faction not completely centred on being a crime faction but have other aspects of revenue/attention.

+1 love tobins.

+1 BPs best friend. I think Tobins has the right view on how to run a faction and run this faction idea specifically. He has been putting in a lot of time in trying to get this off the ground and has a lot of dedicated people helping him out as well. I think this has a chance to bring back the true Russian Mafia RP styles and be a worthwhile faction.

Thank you for submitting an application for a faction. I am pleased to inform you that your application has been accepted. Please create a ticket within our Discord server in the #support-request channel with a link to this application to get set up. Factions are given 1 racket and 1 property to start with, given the number of applications accepted alongside yours, there will be high demand, these will be given out on a first serve first come basis.

+1 Good with RP and events. Entertainment company is a great idea.

+1 - Bring more oil!!

+1 Finally, after how long now?

+1 They have been doing none stop events and bringing RP to the server, so much fun!

+1 need more place for oil, rockefeller keesp getting seized

+1 Legal faction great idea. I think we need a couple more legal factions.

+1 I thought I +1'd this a while ago but I didn't. This could be a really interesting faction and I think Basel has the right idea.

Just an fyi playtime was never wiped

Nope not at all we focus on mainly legal operations and do very little illegal operations. I originally had written Legacy's backstory to be completely legal but then soon realized it just isn't realistic in the current economy of the server. Making enough money to sustain a faction purely off legal business simply just isn't possible. That being said, that's why I incorporated the illegal side to Legacy so we are able to sustain ourselves. Like I mention several times in the backstory only long term trusted members will have knowledge of our illegal business. Thanks for your feedback!

-1 There’s a reason why there aren’t any African-American organizations which is because they always get abandoned or get fucked over. This isn’t a "banger" like a certain someone said.

-1, faction is being made just to be under Olympus as another alt faction. The unique rp being provided is already provided by others. Are you trying to be a legal faction or an illegal one? You claim to be an organization, but that's extremely vague.

HELLO EVERYONE Thank you all for +1’ing my faction application! Promising to do something and doing something is two different things, so I do not plan to throw out a bunch of empty promises- I truly do wish to improve the server for the better and I do feel like the “legal side” of the RP on the server could benefit from it; as well as benefit it. Yap aside, the reason for this message is to update everyone that Brown & Sons Co. will not be indulging in the stock market as promised in the brochure (as the new business system created by our Governor won’t have any), so in it’s place I plan to open up 2 other successful, profitable legal operations that I will personally ensure the workers gain profit, along with the other 4 legal operations within the company that are planned- Best part is, not every person working for the company has to be whitelisted(only the main ones and oil workers have to be of course, which understandably a lot of oil workers may be alts for their own factions which is fine as long as they don’t break server rules), however I will set a swift oil production in place that will see a daily sale of oil at any given time of the day. Legal work isn’t boring, it just doesn’t pay very good- though I will see to it that it works well, pays well, and is supportive. A true “all in one stop n’ shop” company that is on the people’s side. All the people. This faction/company will guarantee a wide variety of value to anyone and everyone and touch all bases from new players to faction leaders, with a wide array of assistance from legal help, to dupe builds, to event management and help- You name it, Brown & Sons Co. has a team that can do it! Last but not least is I encourage people to dm me, and help me with whatever they’d like to help with- any ideas you may have; im willing to work with everyone! Just because the application has not been accepted yet doesn’t mean we cannot plan and prepare

It’s okay, man. Clearly you have an absent father figure and didn’t win a victory at 16. Your arguments are retarded and you clearly haven’t been here for pre/post cartel times. Maybe know the people that are running the faction more and actually read the backstory before you say something dumb again little bro.

-1 I don't honestly see the appeal for a group/faction to appeal to the player base in an MC on Gmod; if this was FiveM sure, but it isn't. But if it gets accepted, I would like to see where the group takes its story.

+1 Good rpers All Fax, No Printer. Good Good, No Bad.

+1 A good Irish faction will be great, and I think Thomas could do a great job running this faction. Just don't fall into the IRA trap and make it an actual nonterroristic Irish mob

Basel returns and brings oil with him. +1

+1 pretty baller

+1 - Good backstory, good app, we could use more interesting roleplay

+1 cool guy

+1 Cassano!