Hi Guys,

HQ have decided to move forward with promoting members of staff and the community into new roles with SAES.

We have promoted the following CS staff to full SAES members:

• Licano
• Terry
• Arma
• DROT

Due to the gaps left in the CS team, we have decided to recruit the following members of the community to join the CS team:

• Scorpyo
• Crash
• JohnnyEnglish
• SNome

I would like to say on behalf of the SAES team, congratulations and welcome to the team, in addition, I would appreciate that members of the community would allow a few weeks to let them bed into their new roles before hounding them.

Hi All,

Two months ago we recruited our fellow community staff member @Scorpyo into the development team.

As you have seen, he has been constantly working on improving the server in which you all play.

For all his hard work, we have granted him full SAES membership, which happens to coinside with his birthday!

So @Scorpyo , welcome to SAES and Happy Birthday!

Congratulations to @Tut-Greco, @Human_ and @Groove, who have passed their probationary period and have successfully joined our clan.

However, @ZeKinG has a bit further to go because he smells and is french.... Nah, but he joined a bit later, so has a bit more time in probationary to do first.

I'm sure you will all congratulate them in your own way

Hi Guys,

Give a warm welcome to @Scorpyo who is joining the SAES development team.

He will be touching on all aspects of development, so he will be going through github issues and also requested community changes that have been approved by hq.

Please don't hound him as he obviously will need to get used to the new role.

Hi All,

For a number of months, @JojoDb has been working on several things for us in the background of SAES, which will future proof us as a community.

For his work ethic and work he's put in, we invited him into the team and he accepted!

So please give him a warm welcome into the team.

From everyone at SAES, welcome @JojoDb !

On this day, 15 years ago....

I was groomed at the supple age of 17 by a gaming sexual predator called @Ronseal and we formed what was known then as VCES back on the MTA:VC mod and the rest is history!

We would like to thank you for keeping our community thriving and turning it into one of the most successful servers and community that GTA has seen, even after all this time!

A special shout out to all the donators over the past 15 years which have helped us keep the lights on.

Unfortunately, due to some issues detected in our beta test last night, we will be unable to release our VC server for the birthday! However, we are hoping to have it out for Christmas.

Also we want to announce that we are going to reset our 1500+ ban list and grant a majority from it a second chance to play again and most importantly having fun!

This will happen at a later point today so stay tuned.

Keep an eye out on the main server tonight, there might be a few surprises

Due to the spate of people going around creating servers or becoming admins (and therefore supporting such servers) with stolen SAES / WSS scripts, I'm introducing the following rules.

For clarification, when we say "WSS scripts", we mean SAES scripts that was renamed/stolen.

From today (9th April 2020) the following rules are in place:

• Creating a server using SAES/WSS scripts or being a 'developer' for those servers will result in a minimum of a 12-month ban from our services and you will not be guaranteed an unban after this time.

• Becoming an admin on servers using SAES/WSS scripts will result in a minimum of a 3-month ban from our server, however, those who report server owners serials to us may (not guaranteed) be given a reprieve and unbanned before the full 3 months.

These new rules are not negotiable.

P.S. For those who don't really care and want to stick it out trying to develop servers with our gamemode, it should also be noted, that we also send cease and desist orders to server hosts and get MTA to blacklist any servers who fail to comply with removing our scripts from their servers.

Hi All,

As you know VCES/SAES is 16 years old on the 23rd Nov, in light of this, I will be doing a main event at Mount Chilliad.

I will have my damage reduced to a mere fraction of the actual damage your weapons will do, so it will take quite a while to kill me. (Don't worry, issue from last time has been located)

I will also have SAES members spawning near me to act as my personal guard.

The person who kills me will win a big reward (still to be decided).

I will also be doing other events on the server at this time and handing out more rewards.

(Rewards include money, vehicles, x amount of equivalent donation rewards and properties that I own)

It will start between 19:30 and 20:00 GMT on 23rd 24th Nov.

P.S. No special spawns or abilities are allowed during events (eg, Headshots etc)

Due to the spate of messages, myself and other admins receive about people being fleeced or 'scammed', I've decided to do this message.

SAES will not get involved with people who have 'fleeced' or 'scammed' you out of money or, any other commodity that you can hand over to another player unless you had an LWS, G6 or SAHA/admin representative involved during a competition for money.

If you have given someone money to look after for you, if someone is offering you a house but wants the funds upfront instead of using the housing system or one of your gang members has stolen money, then unfortunately, that's YOUR fault.

Messages regarding the above will be ignored.

Another year has flown by and yesterday (a day late I know....) we celebrated the clan's birthday with a few in-game events.

The first being a DM event which pitched the members of the public against me and the members of the SAES clan, with the first person to kill me winning Madd Dogg's mansion.

Congratulations are in order for @Adistar who managed to get the final shot on me and win the mansion.

There we also minor events in-game in which people we tasked with trying to flip @NanoBob 's car over for the chance to win £20 GBP worth of donation perks. Congratulations to @Ntruder who managed to get the deed done!

The final event was to "find the rainbow faggio and delivered it" event for £10GBP worth of donation perks. Congratulations to @JohnnyEnglish who managed to win the event.

I would also like to take this time to say thanks to all the members of our community, past and present for taking a little clan-based server into building it into a thriving community for the last 16 years.

Due to the success of these events, you can be sure we will be running more of these type of events each month.

Going forward, we will still be working on stuff and suggestions in the background, so keep an eye out for announcements and also keep following any server changes on the #saesdev-changelog channel on discord.

Dark mode is now available on the forum.

I must stress it's still a WIP, so please report any issues in this topic, however the majority of it is done.

Now you can browse the forum at night without eye cancer.

Hi Folks,

We have a task for decent mappers out there.

Although we are not in a desperate need to replace the bank mapping for BR's, I would like to add some variation to them.

This is where you guys come in, if you are a mapper of decent quality and are interested in creating an environment for BRs, then get designing and posting your screenshots/maps here or on discord in the #bankdesign channel!

The map will need to consist of the following:

• Standard banking area for usual banking activity.
• 2 'gate' type doors leading into the next 'area'
• 1 'safe' type door leading into the safe itself.
• 8 'safes' (visual).
• Areas between must be balanced enough to accommodate both defending and attacking.
• Areas can be over a max of 3 floors (if you wish, though not required).

I do warn you though, your maps will be subject to scrutiny and you may be asked to modify things to make it acceptable, you may even be told that it's simply not good enough, so please don't rage.

For those lucky enough to have their bank map accepted, you will receive a donation reward equivalent to £30 to use as they like, including the perks and privileges of what comes with it as if they actually donated.

The deadline for entries is 30th September 2019

Located on the outskirts of Los Santos is a mansion (Madd Dogg's crib) that is going to be up for grabs!

This mansion is owned by myself and rather than sell it to the highest bidder, I am going to be putting it up for grabs in an event taking place on Sunday 17th Feb, 19:30 GMT.

The event will take place on the top of Mount Chilliad and the first non-saes player to kill me will win the mansion.

However, it won't be as simple as you think......

• Damage to myself will be reduced considerably, so it will take (longer) an immense level of firepower to kill me.
• I will be protected by SAES clan members who will have a spawn at my location.

This will be a DM event, so don't cry about being killed, everyone is fair game, so if you see someone trying to kill me with 30 stars, arrest them then try to claim the prize yourself!

The only rules at the moment are:

• The mansion can only be won by non SAES clan members.
• No game exploits are to be used
• Overpowered spawns such as CLO/DE are not allowed and spawns must have no protection or reduced damage against weapons (if any exist).

We are reintroducing bonus rewards for donating from tomorrow (12th October 2020) until the 1st December 2020.

During these dates, the following changes to donation rewards will be in place.

• Donate £10 for a car and get a standard wrap free (instead of a total of £15)
• Standard wraps are £2.50 (instead of £5)
• Custom wraps are £5 (instead of £10)
• Ingame cash reward is $200,000 per £1 donated (instead of $100,000 per £1)

These reward changes do not apply to donations before 12th October 2020 or after 1st December 2020 (if you donated in the previous reward bonus periods, please refer to those topics)

Hello,

It's with a heavy heart that I have to post this...

The last 15 years have been a hell of a ride, however, I no longer have the time or dedication to keep everything running while trying to juggle a wife and two kids, therefore I have been looking for suitable candidates to take over the SAES mantle.

Fortunately, I have found someone who is willing to keep the server running and someone who can keep it running for at least the next 3 months!

SARS:RPG will be taking over SAES:RPG and implementing their core shortly, please stay tuned.

Imagine using a trainer to crack safes and doors but still having a only a 36% percent success rate

Hi all,

From 8:30 am tomorrow (30th Sept 2020) all SAES services will go down as we migrate our services to a new dedicated server with better specifications (within the same data centre).

We are unable to give an estimated time of completion as this task may take all day, however, we will prioritise the MTA server and the website to be first ones to move and put back online within the first few hours, if not sooner.

IPs and DNS/URLs will remain the same after the move, so you will not need to remember any new IPs are web addresses.

Have you stopped pulling your network cable out for packet loss?