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

It wouldn't be SAES without a recurring yearly post concerning this.

After working closely with MTA Staff, it has become apparent yet again regarding the use of cracking trainers during bank robberies from a number of individuals within our community.

The perpetrators identified using this on SAES services are as followed (All of which are now banned from our services until further notice):
@Makaveli
@BucKK
@Phobos

In addition to this, as all individuals were/currently apart of @BloodZ during the use of this trainer, the gang is consequently demoted down to level 1.

As we repeat every single time, we have a 0 tolerance policy for using 3rd party applications to cheat on our services (anticheat will detect it) and we will punish accordingly.

Thanks,
SAES HQ

Hey guys,

Just a quick one as I felt this needed addressing a bit more. In response to a large number of negative player feedback concerning the BR changes made a couple weeks ago, we'll be updating the current 6 banks to the following:

Los Santos - Returned to normal state. (4 gates, max 8m safes)
Las Venturas - Slow opening gates will remain, safes returned back to max 8m.
San Fierro - Slow opening gates removed, safes max 80m will remain.

Bone County - Returned to normal state. (3 gates, max 8m safes)
Red County - Slow opening gates will remain, safes returned back to max 8m.
Tierra Robada - Slow opening gates removed, safes max 80m will remain.

Whilst we do realise that making significant changes to areas of the gamemode such as Bank Robs can be very controversial at times, granted not all of them are perfect, we do have to remind people that it can be very difficult to find the perfect game balance when a large majority of the server is on one side in what's essentially a cops vs criminals server. We do encourage you to reach out if you have genuine/constructive feedback to either Gang/Group Management or SAES HQ.

Thanks,
SAES HQ.

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.

Good evening citizens of San Andreas.

After analysing recent statistics surrounding attacks on banking assets within San Andreas, the Department of Homeland Security has deemed it necessary to announce a state emergency due to the significant surge in successful attacks in these areas. This means that HLS advises all citizens of San Andreas to avoid extremely populated areas within the affected regions for your own safety - whilst we are aware that a Government election is currently in progress, we would encourage all citizens to submit a postal vote where possible or avoid these areas during peak footfall hours.

Intelligence Data:

During the month of March, the Department is announcing the most amount of successful attacks to ever take place within a 31 day period in recent months. A huge 334 incidents took place around San Andreas and a total of 85.93% of these were deemed successful. During 334 attacks, a total of 2672 bank safes were made vulnerable with a total of 2528 successfully being cracked. This means 94.61% of all vulnerable safes were successfully cracked. This outlines a huge decrease in law enforcement success in preventing these attacks and therefore Homeland Security will be increasing their influence of certain areas. (More information will be stated below in the report).
Safe Stat Table:

As is consistently stated, city banking assets are always at a much higher risk of attack than those that are located within counties. However, due to the recent security upgrades provided by the Liberty Party (Current Government of San Andreas) made within the Los Santos, the occurrence of attacks has seen a significant decrease compared to both Las Venturas and San Fierro. The city deemed most at risk is San Fierro with a total of 24.55% taking place here. This means almost 1/4 of all bank attacks take place within San Fierro and citizens are told to avoid this location at all costs. Conversely, Bone County is deemed the most safe with only 10.48% of all robberies taking place here.
Occurence Stat Table:

There is a strong correlation between the number of successful attacks and the number of these attacks happening within cities. This is displayed by San Fierro having the highest frequency of attacks and consequently the highest frequency of successful attacks with Las Venturas coming in second. Alternatively within counties, Law Enforcement have greater success in Red County over Bone County.
Location Succcess Rate Table:

In connection with locations, HLS observes whom is actually responsible for said attacks to aid law enforcement intelligence of organisations which are most likely to attack these assets. Out of the recorded incidents, @The-Outfit is held accountable for the largest amount of attacks, a total of 74 recorded attacks, and will therefore become law enforcement's highest priority for observation. Though @Organization-Zero were the previous priority, they remain a close second with a total of 46 recorded attacks.
Although already previously described as no longer a threat, both @Comando-Da-Capital and @Rebels-MC maintain this with little to no recorded attacks with @Underground-Empire now joining them in this category. @Black-Bullets have been reconsidered from a high threat to minimal due to the significant decrease in attack numbers.
Gang Occurrence and Success Table:

Whilst keeping a record of whom is responsible for said incidents, HLS also records the locations of the gangs sightings in order to predict future incidents. Data suggests that @The-Outfit are deemed the highest threat in all San Fierro, Red County, Tierra Robada and Bone County making them the most unpredictable. @Clandestine-Mob is recorded to be the highest threat within Los Santos and @Tuga-Thugs being the highest threat within Las Venturas.
Gang Occurence Based on Location Table:

Homeland Security Measures

As described above, due to the influx in successful attacks on all banking assets around San Andreas, Homeland Security is forced to take action within heavily targeted regions.

This means Homeland Security will be adopting The Bank of Las Venturas and The Bank of San Fierro under their jurisdiction until the date/time of 00:00 Monday 13th April. (A period of 10 days). We hope these extreme measures will significantly reduce the number of successful attacks within these regions and figures will be closely observed and analysed by Intelligence Agents.

We thank all citizens for their cooperation during this time, stay home and stay safe.
~ Homeland Security

Seasons Greetings!

Just a quick Merry Christmas and/or Happy Holidays from all of us here at SAES. Its been a bit of a crazy year for everyone with Covid and we hope everyone is safe and well. Despite all the issues around the world, 2020 saw our highest player count that we've seen for a few years and we thank every one of you choosing to spend that IRL downtime with us.

If for whatever reason you're spending Xmas alone this year due to Covid or anything, don't hesitate to jump onto the server and spend time with people in similar situations and those that don't celebrate it to keep yourself busy.

As per usual, another massive thanks to all of you which have donated to keep our services alive. I haven't ran any numbers but I feel like we've probably had more donations this year than any other recently and hopefully we'll be able to give you a little something back throughout 2021 so don't go anywhere!

So once again, Merry Xmas!

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.

It's long overdue that I passed the crown and and made 2 new noobs as GM.

Congratulations @Licano and @DROT !

Try not to make these 2 quit after 2 weeks and give them time to get up to speed, thanks!

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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

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

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

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

9. 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).

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!

Just a big congratulations to the following people:

Community Staff:

@MrGamer / @SAFP-Stone

SAHA:

@Versace / @TripleX / @MrSolrac

Give them a few days to get up to speed and abuse them!
(CS who were accepted get in touch with CS leaders (@Daryl / @Honer112 )
(SAHA who were accepted get in touch with @Shaun )

Congratulations again!
SAES Team

Greetings!

As many of you have observed lately, our player-count has been consistently high and with this there has been a significant increase in day-to-day server administration required therefore it's time to add to the teams!

If you're interested in being part of our staff teams and have the time to dedicate towards it, head over to here and follow the instructions.

Applications will be accepted up until Monday 13th April.

We wish you all the very best of luck.

P.S. Those who are abusing forum rules for that section and not posting genuine applications will receive a 72hr forum ban.

We have enough applications to sort through, let alone salty or piss taking ones.

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!

Dear citizens of San Andreas,

As its been a few weeks since an intelligence document has been released, the government has deemed it necessary that the Department of Homeland Security releases one to observe the state of National Security.

Intelligence Data:

Over the entire period of the month of January, an astounding number of 315 incidents were recorded on banking assets within San Andreas. Out of this figure, a total 71.43% were deemed successful attacks. This is a slight decrease in the successful attacks based on previous data and law enforcement's were working tirelessly to reduce the figure further.
Safe Stat Table:

As previously reported, attacks are still much more likely to occur around the cities of San Andreas with the city of San Fierro being deemed the most under threat by a small margin. County bank incidents occur significantly less.
Occurrence Stat Table:

The lack of incidents within county banking assets amongst San Andreas is believed to be due to the slight increase county law enforcement's have in preventing attacks in the areas. Again, Las Venturas appears to be law enforcement's weakest area of impact, preventing only 12.5% of attacks.
Location Success Rate Table:

Due to previous concern of who is behind the attacks, HLS has collected intelligence on the individuals that are believed to be the cause of each issue. Out of the recorded incidents, @Organization-Zero is accountable for the largest amount and therefore being deemed the highest threat by law enforcement's due to the huge amount of 54 recorded attacks. @Black-Bullets however are the most threatening in terms of successful attacks around city banks.
Although previously written off as no longer a threat, HLS ensures that @Comando-da-Capital are still no longer a threat with @Rebels-MC joining them in the category. This is due to no recorded incidents taking place over a long period. @Underground-Empire have been reconsidered to a minimal threat due to a small number of recorded incidents.
Gang Occurrence and Success Table:

Whilst keeping a record of whom is responsible for said incidents, HLS also records the locations of the gangs sightings in order to predict future incidents. Data suggests that @Organization-Zero are deemed the largest threat in all Las Venturas, Los Santos and San Fierro. As for counties, @Undisputed-Command is reported to be the most threatening to Bone County, with @Clandestine-Mob sharing the title with @Undisputed-Command for the Tierra Robada threat. @The-Company joining @Organization-Zero for the highest threat around Red County.
Gang Occurence Based on Location Table:

Law Enforcement Measures

No substantial Homeland Security efforts will be put in through February to counter attacks this month however this may up for review during the month of March depending on if the number of attacks increases in certain areas.

~ Director of Homeland Security

I think UE needs a new trainer in making meme videos

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

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