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Alright this is going to be a long post but I'm going to go through with it. As anyone can tell by looking at the first date of the opening of the thread Sahrani Life was created November 7th. It was a wonderful map and quickly gained a small following. Soon several servers started opening up with it. It grew to have a small following and Issetea and Fewo were developing it with may bug fixes and some major patches happening. Life was good. On December 19th 2007 the Sahrani Life forum was created. It became the focal point of a lost community as it was during this period that Issetea and Fewo abandoned development. Many new personalities came up on this forum and it became the new home of SL. Issetea ignored the forum doing whatever it was he happened to do. This new forum grew and with it came modifications by fans of the game. What were they supposed to do when it seemed Issetea had abandoned the community? These people did a good job and there was fun again. Sometime in January or February Issetea joined the forum. He posted very few times, a total of less than 25 posts. (I don't recall the exact figure.) Eventually Issetea and Fewo began to work on SL some more and everybody was happy. Fast forward to now. Issetea decides he wants to make his own forum and server. This comes days after the original forum has announced plans for its own server. Issetea creates his own forum. Why he does this now is unknown. Could it not be supposed if he really cared about the community he might have created his own forum somewhere in the Month and a Half between the creation of the original forum and the creation of his map? Issetea becomes arrogant and snotty. First he refuses to develop unless people side with "him." http://img381.imageshack.us/img381/4525/000003pq3.jpg - Large image After that he attempts to hack into the original forum by taking over the owner's account. Finally he is banned. Well of course he is banned. He clearly violated the server rules. He attempted to hack into someone's account. Lets note that the first time he was banned he was quickly unbanned as it was seen as a mistake. The second incident was after the picture above. So in short what happened is: Nov 7th 2007 - Map created Dec 19th 2007 - Original Forum created January - February - Development halted Early May - Issetea creates his own forums because he wants control of the community Early May - Issetea is banned and unbanned within a day Mid May - Issetea refuses to develop SL unless people side with "him Mid May - Issetea attempts to hack into the creator of the original forums Mid May - Issetea is banned from the SL forums forever (account delete) So there you go. You can tell where I am on this point but those are the facts. Decide for yourself. Are you going to be bullied into joining a forum for some pissy 17 year old? I sure am not. I would rather either A: Create my own mission, or B: Edit the current version of SL. And B: is what is going to happen. But honestly decide for youself. Hell I dare Issetea to make a response to me. Go for it Issetea. See if you can defend yourself. And here you can't delete posts you don't like.

MFCTI. I missed its glory days. However I think it will return. I once happened to find a match vs one other player. Just the two of us. Some of the most fun I have ever had. I'm tired of Evo. It don't like it and never have. I'm not going to spend hours clearing the Isle from AI. I need to speak with players and taunt and gloat. No fun without.

The stun guns are fixed in the latest version Jana has on.

I wholeheartedly second this! Definitely one of those things I've wanted to mention but forgot each time I came to this board. Many times as cops if you try to take the time to type in direct chat to someone to do something... 1) Citizen runs away before you can abort the typing and stop/stun them. 2) Citizen kills you with a gun. 3) Citizen runs you over with a car. Its a catch 22... try to bark orders and die like a fool while typing, or shoot first and ask questions later and be called a really bad cop. Definitely something in the game crying out for a solution. Thanks for posting this, Icewindo! The answer is voice chat.

Honestly I think it is all in the spirit but I understand as "God-Emperor of Sahrani" I had several coups but I hired civ assassins whom I pardoned and gave money to help me out. But certainly I think it would be nice to be able to set cops as wanted and let certain civs kill them. Just shows why you need civ guards and militia. The cops can't be trusted.

The stun gun definitely needs to be fixed and some clearer laws need to be added. I was kicked off a server because the damn stungun killed at range when I aimed at chest. Also it does too much damage. What if you want to stun a heavily wounded civ? Then you end up killing them. Also is there any rules you can set down for a basic city in a codified way? Or guidelines. For example I shot a running man who misheard me with a stungun and it oddly worked and I jailed him for 5 minutes. While that may be harsh it is hardly fair that I was once jailed for 10 minutes for blocking a cops way by being in front of his vehicle when he could have easily gone to the side.

I think one of the major problems is abuse of the "new life" rule. For example it would most certainly be a violation in my opinion if one is to shoot a civ during pursuit and then on respawn be arrested or shot. Another argument I will make for putting in a default melee weapon of sorts. Also I encountered a weird bug in 1.11. I started the game and a bunch of random friendly T-72's spawned. Perhaps a miswired invasion?

This mod has inspired my first post on the forum and at the risk of looking like an idiot and reposting previously (and commonly) posted ideas I'm just going to layout my thoughts. One of the key things I notice in games of SL is people playing version 1.02 to which is worse than 1.11 in every way but one. Food. I don't know if any of you have ever played The Ship by Valve but if you haven't it involved having to eat and take care of needs. That was the major problem with it. You became so preoccupied with needs you didn't pay attention the game and attention to it dwindled. Every time you wanted to do something it was a "well I could complete my objective but then x would happen because I need to fulfill x need." Now even if it is only food this is disastrous for a game. At the very least listen to the players and remove food. Remember at its core this is a FPS not the Sims. One of the second points I have noticed is being killed off of spawn. It sucks and it happens so I have one idea. What about including some form of melee combat? That way a civ who has not had a gun yet can try and fight back or tackle another. Several times I have respawned to find a robber above me telling me I'm going to get killed unless I transfer all my money. Obviously I choose to get killed for the most part as I prefer to wait 120 or so seconds at that point then lose my fortune which I spent several hours building. However if I had a form of melee combat I could rush and have maybe a 25% chance of disarming them. Hell just letting civs attempt to disarm other civs with maybe a 25% chance to succeed. It could even add in a gym where a civ could pay for training to raise the probability to 50%. Surely there have been times when people have charged and caught a gunman off-guard and been able to disarm him? It isn't probable but image a massed rush. I just think this is a necessary tactic. My next complaint is the lack of south Sahrani. There is nothing there and to be honest I think the terrain of the south is just as interesting as the first. Gradual integration could begin. Just a couple of shops and such. Imagine a chase in Pariso. It is the largest city in the game and I think the game should eventually be moved to center in Parisio. A fourth complain is total cop abuse. I understand it is in some people's nature to role play or occasionally TK but what do you do about cops who break the game but ordering hands for no reason and shoot to kill if you don't obey within 5 seconds? For this I propose a third faction. This would be the civilian faction not the independent faction. This would be a judge. They would have the ability to enforce the laws and curb cop abuses by putting cops in jail. Abuses could be curbed from the judge faction by allowing the civilians to arrest them by majority vote, or the cops with a 3/4 vote. A fifth and most minor complaint is clothes. Some of the civ clothes that are in the game I find are quite ugly. Is there any way these clothes could be selected at the begining of entering? I know for a fact that I have reentered a game about 5 times once as a civ just to be able to get decent looking clothes. This isn't a big deal it would just be nice. My sixth complaint is a bit bigger. I don't know how to fix it either because to be honest there isn't much you can do. Now I'm a tad obsessive and I have played on a server for 5-7 hours at a time. This means I normally have a great fortune. However what happens when a server dies? There is nothing quite like after playing for 5 hours having a server die and then restart as an entirely new civ on a separate server completely poor. I see no way to fix it but still it is a complain and perhaps you could find a way to fix it. Perhaps the game could leave a temporary cookie of sorts on your game file which would be automatically deleted if the game has not been played for 3 hours? This would prevent people from playing a super character but still allow them to change servers with ease. My seventh complain has to do with my experiences as a cop. As a cop I find it remarkably hard to be nice an give warning. I try to but too many times when I do it I end up shot. So if I react off the fly I get a negative kill which is annoying. Is there anyway you could make it so that cops can set a wanted on the fly? That way most proper cop kills would get marked as such. What would be even better is to give that power to maybe only one cop who could perhaps be elected. Then on the fly kills could be made. Another potential situation would be to have the default wanted acts list expanded but also made optional. That way the cops could change it about. My eight complaint comes from my experience as a civilian. There is nothing more annoying then not being able to keep all your money in the bank. The limit on money in the bank should be totally revoked. I really don't see the need for it. My ninth and final complaint comes from my experience as a terrorist. Please get rid of the suicide bomb warning. It makes it too easy and gets rid of the surprise. It really sucks hitting suicide bomb and being shot before detonation. Another terrorist complaint is the location of the base. It is on a road that has drugs and the base and the cops always block it. It should be near some other place. Perhaps you could place a workplace nearby? I would like the stress how much I love this mod though. Please continue development. And for anyone who is curious I play under the name Orange_Chimera. So finally-