Around seven months ago, we introduced an automated hack warning system which would dynamically adjust the punishment depending on the offender's history. As part of our promise to continuously improve Lawless Roleplay, we have reviewed the system after 7 months using player suggestions as one of our main tools. The hack warning system has been entirely put out of use and it will never be put back ever again. Following this review, a poll was posted to gather a wide array of opinions from the community and as a result the following rules have been updated / adjusted:

• Troll-hacking, warping and other destructive illegal modifications
• Hacking, advantageous game modifications, exploits and harming other player's security
• Ban Evading

Troll-hacking, warping and other destructive illegal modifications
Any attempts at troll-hacking, warping and other kinds of illegal modifications will result in an account suspension. This includes any modification which massively harms the players/server.

First offence: Permanent ban

Hacking, advantageous game modifications, exploits and harming other player's security
Any attempts at hacking or exploiting will result in an account suspension. These include game altering modifications which give you an advantage over other players. The following are not allowed:

• All game modifications which display information that is not normally available to other players is illegal
• Aim alteration modifications are strictly prohibited
• A list of CLEO modifications that are allowed can be found here
• Knowingly accepting exploited money and/or items without reporting it is illegal
• This includes distributing or sharing hacks, advantageous game modifications or exploits

First offence: Ban (3 months)
Second offence: Ban (6 months) + Account Termination
Third offence: Permanent ban

Ban Evading
Ban Evading means creating alternative accounts in order to continue playing whilst being either temporarily banned or indefinitely (permanently) banned. It is strictly prohibited, any attempts at Ban Evading will result with an extension of your ban duration.

Any offence: Ban (2 weeks extension of your ban duration)

(Disclaimer: The punishments listed above may vary depending on the situation and discretion of the admin).

View all rules here.

Thanksgiving, a day of giving thanks and massive feasts. We have organized some special events to be hosted on this wonderful day.

All of these events will be hosted on November 22nd.

The following events will be hosted

• Thanksgiving TDM
• Dodge the Plane
• Kart Derby
  
• Thanksgiving Raffle
• Double Experience Weekend
• Facebook Giveaway

Oh oh oh! Merry... oh wait, wrong holiday. Let's get spooky...

Giftboxes
Find the candy scattered around the map before the timer ends to win some awesome prizes!
The top 15 candy collectors can be found on /topcollectors

The Gift Shop
The candies you earn by find candy can be used to buy any of the following from the gift shop. In order to check how many candies you have, look at the purple text just below where your money is displayed on the screen.


Top candy collectors
The top 15 candy collectors will each win awesome gifts which will be announced on Monday 5th November. We have some killer prizes...

Halloween Day 31st Special Event
On the 31st October, throughout the day large shipments of gift boxes will drop. These are very special gift boxes which will all contain awesome prizes and candies. Furthermore, they will have really long time limits. So be prepared!

This event will end on Sunday 4th November but be sure to be online that day for a special announcement!

Other events
We also have amazing events that have been running since Friday, check them out here!

Update

Haunted houses, zombies and trick or treat. Do these things come to mind when you think of Halloween? We have organized some spooky events for the community to enjoy during the Halloween weekend!

The festivities will start on October 26th and last until November 2nd.

The following events will be hosted.

• Survivor Showdown
• Dodge the Plane
• Chainsaw Massacre
• Hotring Derby
• Escape the Witch
• Find the Witch
• Costume Event
• Haunted Attractions
• Halloween Raffle
• Facebook Trick or Treat
• Video Event
• Double Experience Weekend

The Public Relation team along with the Management team wishes you an eerie, spooky, hair raising, spell binding Halloween!

It's been a while since the last update. This patch brings in more stability fixes along with a brand new C.O.C.K. packet verification module.

This module analyses all packets sent between the server and player to ensure all data is not modified or altered. This new module works inline with our recently upgraded firewall and a custom API solution which lets the firewall talk to the game script and uses peripheral tools to analyse packets. The firewall can intercept incoming and outgoing packets and alter them to be correct.

Change logs:
- Updated command processor
- Updated data format processor
- Updated crash and debug loggers
- Updated YSI and AMX Assembly handlers
- Added new C.O.C.K. packet verification module

Dear Lawless Roleplay,

Let me explain...

There have been multiple rumours over the past couple of months that Lawless Roleplay is closing down, dying or been abandoned by the management team.

The truth is I have been going through a really tough time in real life and just like you and everyone else, I too am human. In full honesty, I have been having a lot of problems in real life and on Lawless Roleplay. Though, instead of resolving these problems, I have been hiding from it, hoping it would all go away. However, you can only hide from something for so long before it catches up to you.

I love Lawless Roleplay and I love our community. I have made so many friends, learnt so many interesting things about different people, cultures and different countries. I have been able to use Lawless Roleplay as a platform to have fun with friends and random people all over the world. It's truly beautiful. And I honesty believe that Lawless Roleplay offers the best gameplay experience on SA:MP. I would never give up on Lawless Roleplay because of this.

This is why I am asking for your forgiveness regarding my inactivity and lack of action. I want to fix all the problems on Lawless Roleplay however I am just one guy with limited time and energy.

I understand that many of you think that you just "play" Lawless Roleplay but in my eyes you are more than just "players". As members of this community, I see you as partners of Lawless Roleplay. You are apart of this community and every second you have played here, you have helped shape and create it. So this is why I am here standing in front of you.. asking you to help me.. to help us get Lawless Roleplay back to it's glorious position at the top of SA:MP. Without your support and loyalty, I cannot improve this. I need you.

I will give everything I have and I will work very closely with the players and staff team to improve Lawless Roleplay. As long as I have your support and loyalty, Lawless Roleplay will never die.

The first thing you can do to help improve Lawless Roleplay is to fill out this survey (click here). This survey will help me capture all of your opinions and suggestions on how to improve Lawless Roleplay. I use this as a template on problems that need solving so it's important that you answer the survey.

In light of recent events, I have reinstated Joey as Assistant Management and Toompert as Management. Their roles will be mostly in-game focused and they will be aiming to solve problems directly in-game on the spot. Additionally, Jerome has been promoted to Assistant Management and will be continuing his work as Game Affairs director. Alfred has also been promoted to Head Admin and assigned as Director of Admin Personnel. Finally, I am working very closely with Adam on upgrading the anti-cheat to protect against a lot more hacks and to be more accurate.

This is only the beginning.

Signed,
Barney.

#TeamLawless