Unfortunately not a positive post time however it's come to our attention that a small number of individuals within the community have been using trainers in order to assist their gangs in keypad cracking. Upon discovery of this we have updated our AntiCheat system today in order to prevent this from being able to occur again.

In response to this, due to BRing being a gang activity, we have decided to take action against the gangs and name n'shame the individuals responsible to allow gang leaders/HQs to punish the members themselves.

The individuals responsible are:

@Ammar (Underground Empire HQ)
@Jesse421 (Underground Empire Member)
@Thrzu (Underground Empire)
@Mechul (CDC Member)
@Jasser (Black Bullets Member)
@Daglow (Arms Assassins Member)

As a result of this, the actions SAES HQ and GM have decided to take include:

Underground Empire

• Demotion to Level 4 due to HQ team member being involved
• 50m fine
• BR Rights removed for 30 days

CDC

• Official Warning
• 50m fine

Black~Bullets

• Official Warning
• 50m fine

Arms Assassins

• Official Warning
• 50m fine

May we take this opportunity to remind you all that we take the use of exploits/trainers very seriously with a zero tolerance policy and never should similar actions be performed. Any similar events should be reported to SAES HQ.
Apologies for inconveniences caused.

Hey guys, just a quick one. We'd like to welcome @Terry as our latest addition to the community staff team, he's been working hard as SAHA for quite some time and has finally been proven worthy. Welcome!

In addition to this, we've decided to choose @JohnnyEnglish to fulfill Terry's old position within the SAHA team due to exceptional performance in-game with helping new players out. May this be the start of a very rewarding journey for him.

Cause of his awful 3 years of serving the community staff team, we have decided to give the Irish kuch @Joe a promotion into the Clan. Congratulations man.

Thanks,
SAES HQ

Edit: apparently @Joe is SAES now as well

Dear Citizens,

As you are now aware, over the last number of weeks steps have been taken by the Homeland Security, in close cooperation with the Government, to curb the increase in violent crime, specifically bank robberies. We are proud to unveil today the results of two weeks of hard work by the workers over at ZIP.

As stated in our last update, we closed the bank of Los Santos for a period of one week. During this time massive renovations underwent and the bank is now re-open for business. The Department of the Treasury allocated extra funding to these renovations, allowing us to install a state of the art vault system with a 4th security check prior to the vault opening.

A number of photographs of the renovations can be found below:

In addition to this, action was taken by Homeland Security with respect to LV Bank. We're proud to announce that the succession of attacks on this bank dropped by just over 21%. (Now 79.17% from the 100% it was previously) out of the 19 attacks that took place over the fortnight. Due to this success, HLS units will be pulling back from the Las Venturas Bank area and will only be deployed if state terrorists are spotted.

Non-RP sidenotes:

• All credits for bank mapping go to @Zwolle and we're proud to announce him as the winner of the following competition found here
• Payments of LS and all 3 county banks have been increased by 1.5x to motivate gangs to target the more challenging banks (This may be subject to change going forward after we review bank trends).
• The reset time if a gang fails to reach the vault before cops take over has been reduced to 20 minutes from 30.

Dear citizens of San Andreas,

As we delve deeper into the winter months, we realise Christmas is soon upon us. A side effect of this is citizens regularly visiting highly populous places during the holidays such as banks, especially when consumer spending is at its peak to manage their finances. As a result, Homeland Security is issuing another public statement advising citizens to stay safe during periods of increased terrorist and gang activity. Homeland Security will be taking measures into ensuring the citizens of San Andreas are kept as safe as possible.

In order to do this, HLS is releasing a report stating high threat banking areas and addressing highly dangerous organisations which our agents are working tirelessly to counter. The report begins below:

Intelligence Data

In its current state, out of 136 during the past 2 weeks organised crime attacks on official government banking assets, 82% were deemed successful. While we are aware this figure is exceptionally high, we're confident that measures which are being put in place will reduce this figure.
Robbery Success Stat Table:

These incidents have been reported to take place most commonly around the 3 cities within San Andreas therefore we advise citizens stay most vigilant around these areas and report anything unusual to law enforcement authorities immediately. Whilst the threat around County areas is still moderately high but less severe, will still advice citizens to take extra care.
Occurrence Stat Table:

Although law enforcement units do the best they can at attempting to prevent these incidents in certain areas around the state, some are more successful than others. This therefore has given us credible intelligence on which areas need more attentive law enforcement engagement which will be addressed down below.
Location Success Rate Table:

We acknowledge many citizens are concerned as to whom is behind the majority of these attacks - in response to this, HLS has been collectively gathering intelligence on the organisations involved and who law enforcement agencies will be closely observing. Out of the recorded incidents, the organisation held most accountable is @The-Outfit which has been responsible for a total of 22 attacks. Organisations which have been deemed no longer a threat due to no recent successful attacks are @Comando-da-Capital , @Underground-Empire and @Arms-Assassins with @Clandestine-Mob being classed as a minimal threat. Other high threat organisations include @Tuga-Thugs and @The-Company due to law enforcement's inability in preventing successful attacks. Citizens are advised to report any presence of these individuals to law enforcement's immediately.
Gang Occurrence and Success Table:

Intelligence of where these organisations are most likely to be seen has been collected in order to raise awareness of these individuals in the stated areas. In the city of Las Venturas, @Tuga-Thugs and @The-Company are deemed the highest threat, in Los Santos: @The-Outfit are the highest threat and in San Fierro: @The-Outfit are again, the highest threat. Within the counties around San Andreas, @Tuga-Thugs are again deemed the largest threat within Bone County, @Organization-Zero the biggest threat in Tierra Robada and finally @Mongols-MC attempting the most attacks in Red County despite law enforcement's preventing 75% of them.
Gang Occurence Based on Location Table:

Law Enforcement Measures

HLS and Law Enforcement's are primarily looking to reduce the threat levels in the highly populous areas around San Andreas where these incidents keep taking place. As a result, a number of security measures have been put in place.

These will include:

• A new squad has been deployed next to the San Fierro bank named @Five-0 . We believe this newly located policing squad will have a strong influence over the success of attacks taking place within SF and HLS will be working closely in order to observe the impact of this squad's new presence in the area.

• As the elections will soon be drawing to a close soon, the Homeland Security Director will be organising a sit down with the elected president with suggestions on how to resolve the ongoing security issues of Los Santos National Bank . More information to follow.

• After reviewing the intelligence gathered, law enforcement's have currently been unable to prevent any incidents that have been reported within the city of Las Venturas. Consequently, Homeland Security will be deploying additional support in response to any attacks on banking assets within the city for a period of 2 weeks from this report release regardless of whether a member of a known terror organisation has been spotted within the vicinity.
  Note: This means HLS will be responding to ALL LV BRs over the period of the next 2 weeks

We hope these measures will reduce the success of attacks on banking assets over the next few weeks and ensure citizens are provided with a safe state to enjoy their Christmas.

~Homeland Security.

Hey guys,

It's that time of the year again where we want to wish you all a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from all of us here at SAES. We want to thank you all for being with us through 2019 and we hope to keep you here as we go into the new decade.

We have an exciting year planned ahead of us so remember to keep an eye out for things hidden in plain sight.

But quickly, an even bigger thanks to the donators this year that are keeping the server alive. Remember you have just under 24 hours left if you want to claim on the limited time offer. We really wouldn't be here without you guys.

Once again, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

1. One gang is allowed to do a maximum of 3 gang bank robs per day.

2. Members of the gang who are robbing the bank can kill any player inside the bank or immediately outside the bank.

3. Members of gangs are not allowed to attempt to ruin bank robs of their rival gang by raiding that bank spawned as Police Officer Trainee, Prison Warden Trainee, State Trooper or informing other cops on the server about the bank rob.

• Temporarily joining a squad to evade this rule is also disallowed.

1. When a bankrob concludes, you may not kill other robbers or asked to be killed by robbers in order to leave the bank via a respawn. You may also not use F1 -> I'm Stuck on the roof, or commit suicide to leave the bank/roof.

2. In a City Bank (LS/LV/SF) you can only defend an ongoing bank robbery from behind the glass in the lobby (SF/LV) or behind the double doors (LS). In a county bank (RC/TR/BC) you can only defend an ongoing back robbery from past door 1.

3. You can claim a bank robbery or rob a bank only when a complete team of robbers from your gang (4+) is present.

4. Switching gangs to assist another gang cracking during a bankrob is not allowed.

5. Whilst a bank rob is ongoing any criminal in the lobby can be killed by either side.

6. Leaving and rejoining a gang within 2 days to bypass the minimum police quota is punishable. (This includes spawning purposely as special policing groups to increase the count without the intent of responding to the robbery).

It said write an application not an essay bro.

Either way, exceptional performance displayed within SAHA. I'm pleased to announce you have been successful with your application.
Welcome to the team! Please wait until I'm done before bothering people!

Hola,

Unless you've been living under a rock recently, you will have noticed the ongoing staff recruitment with applications gradually being answered over the period of a week. It's also no secret that this has been a particularly large recruitment which will hopefully keep the server administrated to a good standard over a long period!
So without further adieu,

Congratulations to the following new CS:

@DROT @Licano @Sam_ @Julio @bachwa @xTrade

And congratulations to the following new SAHA:

@Crash @Brazz @Terry @Note

Try not to abuse them too much!

Below Above you'll also see a poll for some quick feedback on this recruitment. Basically do you prefer it how I did this recruitment with individual responses or copy/paste. Ofc individual responses takes much longer so pls vote for next time.

Thanks!

Good Application.

Unfortunately I'm pleased to announce that you have been successful with your application to be part of the CS Team.
Welcome aboard, please standby to be contacted in the next few days.

Good application with strong reputation around the server.

Unfortunately at this time we're unable to offer you a position within the Community Staff team.

However

We are willing to offer you a position within SAHA should you choose to accept it.
So I guess:

Good application, always looking for new Norwegian blood in the team. Sure he's not related to you at all @Magnus with him being Swedish?

I'm expecting a king of the tower event upon you reading this so I can procrastinate from answering more apps.

Welcome to the team!

Good quality application, decent reputation especially amongst our US TZ team!

I guess nothing more to say other than welcome to the team!

plz wait to be contacted in the next few days. Apparently actually putting effort into app replies takes a long time

Afternoon, we hope everyone's having a good weekend and decided to make a news post about what's been going on within the clan/development news this month.

Community Staff

As most of you have probably seen already, we've added 3 fresh community staff members to the team however we didn't make an official topic about it because they all suck. In all seriousness, congratulations to @Tut-Greco @Arma and @Groove who hopefully haven't started abusing already yet.

Vehicle Mods

@Bone has been hard at work adding 2 new vehicle mods to the server. These include both the Club and Enforcer. Images of the mods can be found in the following album: https://imgur.com/a/vFFphvz Both mods are high quality and low in size hopefully giving you a more sexy playing experience.

KATLA / 1.4 Development

As you all know, KATLA is the new game mode that NanoBob and Deso have been working on for some time now which was initially supposed to be the 2.0 sort of release for the clan. However, due to a disagreement which took place between the HQ Team and the KATLA devs, KATLA will no longer be continuing as a gamemode under the SAES Clan. This means, the KATLA gamemode will still be developed however it will be on a completely different server from SAES and is no longer a clan project,
All we can do is apologise as it feels we have been in this situation many times before.

Onto a more uplifting topic, this does infact mean that the 1.4 gamemode is our core focus for development from this point on and our active dev team includes @Blade @Mega9 and @jonas13362 . All of them are sexy beasts and will be looking to make the server a better place for you all.

Bank Robbery Balance Changes

As you've all seen with my topic in general chat concerning the recent BR balance changes, (more details can be found here.
This balance changes put in place are very likely to stay due to the intended performance ingame that we've been witnessing despite some contradictory opinions.

Please Note: Based on the Kill Arrest change listed below, the money reward border could still be subject to change based on how OP kill arrest is.

Kill Arrest Trial

So this is probably the core topic to this post. Poll Details can be found here

Granted this was a very contradictory feature according to the poll however we've decided to give it a trial anyway. At this current stage, kill arrest will only be enabled in the bank/jail for now. This method of arrest will give criminals 50% less jail time than that of a melee arrest while also rewarding cops with 50% less the reward. Massive props @Mega9 for sorting this.

Again, nothing is setting stone here and is purely down to trial due to the high contradictory response we received (we would never expect all criminals to be 100% satisfied with this though). This will be closely monitored with a feedback thread.

I think that's all for now, have a great summer.
Thanks,
~SAES HQ Team / SAES Dev team

PS: Brophy is a mook

Just a quick Merry Christmas/Happy holidays from all of us here at SAES!

We thank you all for spending the year with us and hopefully you'll stay with us again for another long year throughout 2019.

Also a small christmas competition created by @Mega9 for those who aren't busy with stuff!

Basically how it works:
each official gsc can build using /construction
but only up to 120 from their spawn point (of the gang class they are spawned as)
each person has 10 object limit and no save/load ability

Best wins something from @Mohd

Also a reminder, type /nohat to get rid of the ingame Christmas hats if you don't want them!

Barely feels like much time has passed since I made a thread similar to this a while ago but apparently some individuals never learn.

Anyways, over the past few days a few clan members have been conducting an investigation into a few cases of potential money exploits that have been taking place around the server due to some very niche yet major undetected bugs in certain server scripts.

As many of you have probably seen, the majority of cases were brought to a close yesterday which resulted a large sum of individuals receiving a ban from our services. You can see many of the individuals that have already decided to appeal here despite a lot of the denial.

Alongside this, I write with regret that during the followup of our investigations it was revealed that Gengar, a long standing clan member, had been found assisting one of the offenders in trying to cover it up. This is a reminder to all current clan members and potential future recruits that this behaviour from a clan member is not tolerated at all and therefore he has been removed from his position within the clan.

The 2 primary scripts that were exploited involve both the casino and captain scripts and as such they have both been disabled for the time being. Having a large number of jobs/scripts available on the server is beneficial for both us and the community however our options when introducing new features become very limited when there are individuals that will exploit features without reporting them. Transporter has since been fixed by our dev team.

TL;DR We have a zero tolerance policy towards bug exploiters and all bugs should be reported on bugs.saesrpg.uk or alternatively privately to @Mega9 or another dev if the feature has a chance of being heavily exploited in a short period of time.

Thanks,
SAES HQ

Hi all,

Just a few changes within the clan etc just to keep everyone informed that cares.

Gang Management Changes

We realised that Gang Management performance was seriously lacking within the community and therefore we've introduced a few structural changes to it. We are trialling a new system which consists of considerably less members in an attempt to improve communication and ensure results are completed on time and to the highest standard.

Consequently, the GM Team is currently:

Apollo/ESO - Responsible for gang levels and reports

Jonas - Responsible for uploads etc

For any GM concerns, please contact either @ESO or @Apollo

New Additions to the SAES Clan

It became recently apparent that during some times there is a lack of clan members online inside the server therefore we decided it was time to finally bump up some well deserving staff members to the clan. Feel free to use and abuse them and give a congratulations to @nicus @hesha @System31

This does of course mean Comm Staff additions coming soon so stay tuned!

And finally, as you've probably noticed TheKiller has departed us. May we take this chance to thank him for the services he provided and we wish him the best in the future.

Until next time,
~SAES HQ

I'm sorry to mess you around.

We've had some last minute discussions and decided to reconsider, lmao. We're very organised as you can tell.

I think UE needs a new trainer in making meme videos

Due to a recent influx in terrorist and organised crime centred around the banking economy of San Andreas, the Department of Homeland Security has taken a significant interest in monitoring and countering these activities in order to aid national security.

Enclosed are official statistics accumulated over the periods 26th August 2019 to 5th September 2019. During this period, a total of 96 attacks have been recorded around the state on Banking buildings.

Primary Results:

Most Commonly Assaulted Locations:

Most Likely Suspects:

Organisation Failures:

If you are interested in following succession rates, I update this sheet every few days based on logs. Might make a topic like this every 2 weeks or month if people like them, dunno yet
Enjoy.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1f74p9hg8wkrT5EsAfXFNyHz4OY2rppgcvJp0w31sbXM/edit?usp=sharing

It's that time of the year again!

With the winter holidays fast approaching, some of you vigilant guys may have noticed we've been cleaning up rosters in places and promoting a few people here and there. Now it's time to outreach to you guys to fill the last step.

We're now accepting applications for both SAHA and CS so get your applications in ASAP!

Please read the following thread for guidelines.

All applications must be posted here

And may I take this opportunity to wish you all the very best of luck.