[Changelog] DarkRP Server

[TitsRP]

April 1st Changelog

 

• Removed a lot of playerspawn hooks causing the server to spike when a player joins the game (view height print,cardealer setup, warnings,gamemode functions,Prometheus,
  
• Lowered max stacker count props to 3
  
• Decreased prop counts from the changelog above
  
• More optimizations to existing swep code
  
• Added shelves
  
• Autowant swep and Admin swep display information and are less janky to use
  

 

I made these shelves in a few hours so I don't know if there is any ground breaking bugs since it's very hard to test them by myself. Let me know!

[TitsRP]

April 2nd Changelog

 

• Changed how Payday works. Now runs through the list of players every 15 minutes instead of having a separate timer for each player + made it a print statement instead of notify
  
• Optimized HUD by 20%
  
• Fixed mass spike in Entity's caused by ULX
  
• Updated Cake
  
• You can now rename shelf items. As a safety precaution it will display the classname of the swep when buying it too. This prevents people from selling things like "CSS AWP" as an "AWP Asiimov"
  
• You can now sell shipments on shelves (I will see if I can get to this in the morning)
  
• You can now stack items on shelves
  
• Think limit reduced to 1
  
• Updated ULX
  
• Removed more darkrp animations
  
• Removed tax timer
  
• Improvements to Weed Zones
  
• Fixed being able to sell more than 1 weapon on shelves lol
  
• You can now adjust the angles and position of the entity you're selling on shelves
  

[TitsRP]

April 8th Changelog

 

I may be stopping development until early may because of heavy school work, since it is the end of the semester but I will still be doing small updates here and there like this one. But either way, it's something that you and I will have to deal with. Today I had an hour to spare so this is what I did.

 

• New VIP job Doge
  
• New VIP job The Supplier
  
• Master Thief Lockpick now picks 20% faster than regular pick
  
• Master Raider Keypad Cracker now cracks 40% faster than a regular keypad cracker
  
• Fixed that damn "bad argument #1 to 'lower'" for CS base
  
• Updated Inventories
  
• Attempted to merge all inventories to SQL (this would help performance like no other)
  

[TitsRP]

April 9th Changelog

• Changed server rates, CPU usage should be significantly reduced
  
• Removing a shipment from a shelf will spit out the shipment instead of a single weapon
  
• Added back the wheelchair
  

Community Contribuitions

• Taking damage while cloaked will uncloak you - GhostlyGaming / AJelly
  
• You can only use Stealth Camo once per life - GhostlyGaming / AJelly
  
• Changing sweps while cloaked will remove cloak - GhostlyGaming / AJelly
  
• Everyone can spawn 1 shelf, gun dealers can spawn 5 - GhostlyGaming
  
• Cloaked people is now slightly easier to see - GhostlyGaming / AJelly
  
• Modified rule for growing zones - Frisk
  

Also, I was thinking about clothing since some servers have it. I messed with it a few times but I never figured out PAC. PAC is also pretty heavy and I decided against it. But I had a thought this morning on how I could do it since it would add a lot of variety. Long story short, my plan worked fine. I rigged up a simple system. Only downside is that you have to rig each set of clothing for most models unless you want it to look janky. The way in the video has no vector offsets, it just applies it to a bone or attachment (which means it looks janky)

[video=youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKN5PJuwPAw&feature=youtu.be

[TitsRP]

April 14th Changelog

 

Get pist or get real. I thought about this for the past few days and our server is so lenient towards helping people. It's time to learn that you can help yourself. This update is to not make mods "lazy" and it is not to strip you from having fun. The purpose is to cut out calling for an admin every single second of you life. Take charge and do something about it instead of asking for someone to do it for you. You will have to learn to grow up at some point. Only call for an admin when shit gets really out of hand. Besides that, report rule breakers on the forums and they will be taken care of.

 

• Rules Revamp. You can preview the page here http://i.imgur.com/bg7goB5.jpg this will go live tomorrow. I will not post all of the changes but I will post the major ones. This page will also change over the night
  
• Raiding and Heisting System cooldown system (!raid / !heist)
  
• Cars have been removed for a lot of reasons. Increased CPU usage, 140MB of worthless cars, VCMod was removed, VDM is out of hand. Post on the vehicle refund thread if you want one.
  
• Wheelchairs have been added to the entity list which everyone can buy
  
• Optimized props by making them prop_physics_multiplayer. You can read about it here if you want https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Prop_physics_multiplayer
  
• Mass removal of pointless jobs List down below
  
• Custom classes have had their base price increased to $10
  
• Re-enabled kill-feed, I thought it was enabled
  
• Job descriptions provide an actual description along with what Base Job it uses
  
• Fixed CSS weapon base making weapons being held like a pistol
  
• Optimized admin chat popups, that thing is an absolute poop fest
  
• Renamed Categories and polished up what goes where
  
• Removed warning system
  
• Destroyer of worlds has been renamed to "The Silent"
  
• !staff  command which shows # of staff online + their ranks and names
  

Removed Jobs:

 

 

• Bus Driver
  
• Mechanic
  
• Preacher
  
• Snoop Dogg
  
• Terminator
  
• Link
  
• Savior
  
• The Corrupt 
  
• The Enclave
  
• Nations Agent
  

 

 

If you aren't going to look at the new rules page, some of the major changes is:

• NLR doesn't exist for the most part
  
• Calling admins for general questions, spamming them, reporting a singular RDM without talking to the RDMer first will get you verbally warned / kicked
  
• KoS signs are not allowed, have a loitering sign instead
  
• You no longer have to advert heist or raid
  
• Usage of vulgar language over and over again will get you kicked / banned
  
• Racism is no longer "kinda allowed", it's straight up not allowed and will result in a verbal warning
  
• Calling admins without an actual specified reason Ex) "ADMIN 2 ME U FUK" will result in the case being ignored and getting verbally warned / kicked if repeated
  
• No job can megabase unless you're part of a gang job
  
• Hobos can micspam but are asked to be respectful what they mic spam
  

Before some of you start freaking out, saying like "ii aaaaamm soo DUNE wit this POOP server fuk u sugar", take a chill pill and think about it. If you're still fuming out of the mouth because it's now basically against the rules to call an admin for a RDM, voice your opinion and have a decent amount of information to share with me to back up your claim. Our staff don't have time to deal with 65 other people asking for help. Only call for help if you absolutely need it. Otherwise, deal with it yourself or report it on the forums. If and when this server gets up to 90 slots (which is my goal), we will never have enough staff to help every single person.

[TitsRP]

April 15th Changelog

 

A lot of these changes are now in the game but it's best to list them here, just incase

 

• Players cannot send messages to admins under a certain character length to prevent spam + unspecific messages
  
• Fixed Prop Pushing
  
• Fixed not being able to rotate and gravgun props
  
• Fixed Electric Plasmid
  

Again, if you have any issues, feel free to post them on the forums.

[TitsRP]

April 22nd Changelog

 

This is for tomorrow (22nd) since I started working on this now

 

• Started work on drugs (if everything goes well, it will be done by tomorrow or Saturday)
  
• Updated ULX / ULib to stop spikes
  
• !staff now shows everything is colors because we all love colors
  
• !raidmenu brings up a menu of all the players + if they can raid / heist and when their last raid was
  
• Removed some lingering vehicles, reducing serversize by another 50mb
  
• Added Parcel Deliveries to the server since it's feature complete and there is no point in NOT having it
  
• Fixed Death notices one last time, turns out I was overwriting the function twice + not even calling it
  
• Fixed the Alchemy Rich potion + removed the chance to get blowtorches from it
  
• Fixed Admin Popups not closing after you claimed a case
  
• Changed Drug Buyer to a non responsive AI since it uses the same amount of networking as a player
  
• Fixed various client errors with the alchemy table
  
• Fixed error messages with people buying items from shelves
  
• Added safety checks to sledgehammer
  
• Fixed a potential nickname error with shelves
  
• Fixed vector issues with shelves
  
• Ton of ULX and ULib optimization
  
• Removed useless ULX commands that we don't use
  

[TitsRP]

April 27th Changelog / Chat

 

This is not really a changelog, but kind of a talk on whats to come / whats been going on behind the scenes

 

Essentially all Lua errors are fixed. Some of the remaining ones are simple to fix but we no longer generate errors like crazy. (It was actually only really 2 - 3 addons doing this but either way, it's nice to see the file less than 500k bytes after a few days of use).

 

Work on the drug system is underway and almost done. I spent the time making the framework for the entities since there needs to be a material added to each box + a drug entity to be made + made more optimizations and re-wrote how a lot of functions worked in terms of drugs + zones. This will allow me to add drugs really easily if we need more.

 

I was unsure if I wanted to make it more complex, kinda like the Meth System but I know a good amount of people would rather not think for more than 10 seconds so I made it rather simple: You get the material, you place it into the processor, you get it to 100% filled and then you can retrieve a shipment of 3. You can then sell your drugs to a guy or players which means there will be a drug seller job added.

 

Other things that have been going on for the past 3 hours was fixing 3D2D text rotation. This apparently didn't bother users too much but it bothered me a lot. I just remembered it and took a look into what I can do to fix it, and it has been fixed! If you don't know what I am talking about, click the spoiler and you can see.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I also have been working on a new theme for the forums. In my opinion, it looks a lot cleaner than the current one. I have been working on this super casually and the theme can be activated via the themes tab and clicking "Exp Theme". Someone sent me an image the other day for what the site could look like and I thought that I can easily accomplish this. Some things are funky so don't expect the best looking theme you have ever seen in your life.

 

This is supposed to be the end result (I just need to change the forum icons too)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Other things I am looking to do:

• Swap and replace all plasmids from custom classes since it doesn't really signal RP for me + they are kinda OP. VIP jobs can still have them
  
• Blacklist anime models from being purchased for custom classes. Again, it doesn't signal RP for me. I would just request that you pick a "normal" looking model.
  
• Finally figure out 3D2D buttons to make entities look aesthetically pleasing
  
• Re-code a lot of addons to be more optimized (a lot of addon creators have insane ways of doing things)
  
• Increase player slots to 90
  

I am constantly torn between this server being a deathmatch server and an actual RP server. No one really "roleplays". No one plays cops so no one does anything but raid in my opinion. A lot of people cry saying "this server is a deathmatch server, it has NO RP". I get that..but the point is...when are you ever looking to RP other than when you're dicking around? I can't even think of the last time I wanted to just abide by the law and live in my house and walk up and down the streets other when I am hobo and I throw boots at people to invoke them killing me. When I ever play a RP gamemode (such as Arma for example), our first thought is "How are we going to kill people? How are we going to get money to get weapons to kill people?" It's never "How can I buy a house? How can I sell items to players?". People like PvP and people do RP gamemodes for the sense of getting chased by the police or hunted down by a gang. The only thing that's lacking is the police force that can actually hold criminals in their spot. It should be scary to raid someone. It should be scary to mug someone. Thoughts like "Holy shit, I can go to jail for 10 minutes if I do this" should be going into your mind. Not "if I die, then w/e". Dying in it's current state means nothing. You just respawn and do it again. Going to jail never happens because people don't play cops, ect. Maybe this can be solved with the new cop fining / arrest system and hopefully a few other things I can do.

 

90 player slots is definitely obtainable and we aren't too far off (server performance wise) to go for it. We run at around 40% - 60% of our CPU with a full server. There are some more tricks I have to do in order to fully sustain a 90 slot server without stutters. On top of that issue is the map. A map change is required for 90 slots. Downtown is NOT going to hold 90 players whether you like it or not. We have a few options and all of them are risky.

• Hire a mapper to make a custom downtown that can support 90 players + is optimized for a playercount like that. It would be one pricey payment ($200 - $300) to get a good mapper since I am not doing that. If you know anyone who is actually good at mapping and they have some kind of portfolio, let me know and we can talk it out.
  
• Go to a bigger map like EvoCity (which I don't want to do for a lot of reasons. One of them being that cars would have to be added back in which means more CPU usage)
  
• Don't move maps and keep the slots at 65 - 75 forever. Least risky but still has it's pros and cons.
  

A lot of you have suggested a map like dowtown_v4c_sewers. I have download that map and its cool, yea yea yea. But I am pretty sure it wouldn't work out since FPS is actually lower on that map. Plus I saw a server on it at rank 30 - 40 a few days ago and now they are gone. Switching maps is death. If you have any suggestions let me know

 

So overall, good stuff good stuff. At the moment of writing this, the server is rank 43 which is the highest we have ever been. So thank you for thinking my / our server is worth playing. It's not perfect and will continue to develop and *hopefully* get better but I am looking forward to a fun summer which will be in around 14 days for me.

 

No update for tomorrow but look forward to Thursday / Friday for the drug update + some other fixes and ect.

[TitsRP]

April 29th - 30th Changelog

 

Drugs and optimization! This update will be done later today and will go in on a crash or reset if it happens later tonight (most likely tomorrow though). I am still hunting down some issues in regards to entity spiking every 3 - 10 seconds. This makes it very hard to get an accurate reading on server CPU usage.

 

• Drugs have been added to the game. Plant the seed and the result to get materials to process through the drug processor
  
• As of right now, there are 3 drugs, Opium, Weed and Heroin. The framework I created allows me to add in more drugs easier, later down the line
  
• Added a Drug Dealer job
  
• Added a Drug Buyer NPC
  
• Updated Cake
  
• Updated Libraries
  
• Talking now uses DistToSqr
  
• Player Spawning is a lot quicker
  
• Fixed 3D rotation on the processor
  
• Removed timers from payday, I thought I did this weeks ago
  
• Removed some animations from playing during playtime
  
• Removed FAdmin support for admin chat popups
  
• Added !false. Can be used within 15 seconds of calling raid or heist. Spamming this will obviously get you banned.
  
• Added a disclaimer before contacting admins. This will run down the list of all of the "DO NOT call an admin...." rules. Obviously if you're lying and you say player X rdmed me and I didn't contact him (Rules #1 for DO NOT call an admin) then you will be kicked or banned for up to 1 - 24 hours
  
• Added an Ignore Case option to admin popups. This will allow you to pick a dropdown list of sayings to ignore a case and close it. You can also write custom ones. Doing so will message the user who sent the case saying "X has ignored your case for the reason: z"
  
• Removed old custom shipments
  

I cannot stress it enough when I say staff need to stop holding everyone's hands. I keep saying it but every time I log onto the server, every admin call is either taken immediately or just never taken. We don't need 300 moderators. When I played DarkRP 2 years ago, I never called an admin because I knew they would never do anything without a good slump of evidence. Which is why I always recorded everything and reported it on the forums. If we can solve the larger issues and let the players solve their own little issues, the community will mature as a whole and everyone can stop freaking out over silly things.

 

Play the game to play the game. Don't play the game to interrupt RP every 5 seconds when Mr PoopyButthole calls RDM and FailRP. Allow Mr PoopyButthole to solve his own issue by talking it out with the root cause of his own issue instead of getting a middleman to gather information and make a decision.

[TitsRP]

April 31st Changelog

 

Began work on the police fining system. I can probably get it in for tomorrow if I am efficient enough since it's already made. Although, I do want to recode it from scratch because it was specifically made for the EvoCity update.

 

• Fixed all weapon errors regarding NextThink
  
• Fixed Admin chat boxes overlapping (I have no clue how I am going to fix this since I can't fix this by myself) already fixed
  
• Fixed and added safety precautions to physicobjects for drug materials
  
• Fixed Nessbat errors from a different base
  
• Fixed props not ghosting
  
• Fixed drug sizing not resetting upon timer expiration
  
• Fixed shelf exploit