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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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).

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.

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

Fancy getting access to beta test Vice City in the next few days?

Donate 5GBP before the 23rd of November and get access during our selected beta tests over the next few weeks! (you still get ingame rewards and donator spawn)

The good thing about it, its ran as a 'resource' on the server, so no mods are required to be installed!

All donators during this period will be added to a 'hall of fame' on the vice city map when its public!

Here is a few taster images:

Later today, we will be pushing a change to the server which will allow you to add vehicle shaders to your donation vehicles.

I'd like to thank @Mega9 for developing this new system.

The prerequisites to gain a vehicle shader are:

• You must already own a donation vehicle (if you don't, you need to donate separately for the vehicle).
• The donation required for 1 shader (generic) applied to 1 vehicle is £5.
• The donation required for 1 shader (custom) applied to 1 vehicle is £10.
• Once you own a donation shader, you may change it for free, however, you will be limited to 1 change per month.

For example, if you didn't already own a donation vehicle, it would be a total for £20 for a vehicle (£10) and a custom shader (£10).

Difference between generic and custom shader wraps:

GENERIC SHADER WRAP

• These are basic patterns and gradients. You can't put logos or text

CUSTOM SHADER WRAP

• You can draw penises onto the hood, put squad logos on the doors, state that Tombaa is a Swedish whore etc

Vehicle wraps must be divided by 2, preferably between 256x256 - 512x512 (maximum dimensions) in DXT1 .DDS format without mipmaps. You can find wraps on various sites or make them yourself.

Hopefully, a few of our talented community members can start doing tutorials or create a service you can use.

However, until then, feel free to use #saes-support channel on discord if you get stuck.

We have set up a bug tracker to manage the uploads of files and keep track of what needs pushing to the server, it can be found here: https://github.com/saesrpg/donation-vehicle-shaders/issues

Once you have donated, please edit your donation topic with a link to the issue raised on the tracker and a SAES Developer will process it for you.

Here are some examples of generic wraps:

Here is an example of what a potential custom wrap could look like:

Quick heads up by @Tut-Greco (For Designers):

More information about vehicle wraps can be found here: https://saesrpg.uk/topic/8309/about-donation-wraps

From today until the 25th of December 2019, the following changes to donations are 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 25th October 2019 or after 25th December 2019.

Hi Mooks,

Simple poll, would you like to be able to have reactions on posts like you do with discord?

Example:

I would like to thank everyone who donated and participated in this third test.

We can confirm the 'game-breaking' issue we found on the second test is now gone and we can continue to finish off the gamemode.

With the way things are going, it looks like we will have one final test (a test run of the final gamemode) and then we will go live.

I don't have any dates for the next test, it will be purely when the code is ready. (I'll make sure its a weekend)

I would like to thank @Kain for sorting players who needed access sorting, @Tut-Greco for taking the screenshots you will see below and for @CodyJL for joining us and giving us some new suggestions and solutions to improve the 'map' side of things.

Here are some screenshots:

Hi Guys,

There will be another beta test tonight (Sunday 20th Jan).

This test will be starting between 7pm and 8pm GMT and it will be focused on the secondary parts of the server such as Bank Robs, Store Robs and Criminals selling stuff..

Hope to see you there!

SAES/VCES will be 15 years old on the 23rd of November.

I have a Vice City server ready to go for the birthday (its deathmatch based atm)

However, what's your opinion on this server? Do you want it to run a DM server and replace RvB / DM zone or would you like it linked to the current game mode where you can purchase a "flight" to Vice City and buy houses, play as police or criminal and do the things you can currently do on the main server?

We are still taking donations, if you wish to donate 5GBP or more (from today, game give-away was scrapped), you will receive beta access to test the new server and we also have a few more donation perks in the works (something to do with the words, pack and jet?)

The poll ends on 31st October.

Video below shows the DM gamemode based on the old MTAVC core: