SA-MP Solutions against deathmatchers, abusers, and alike

SA-MP

Getting started

• Installation
• Server Rules
• Server Warnings
• Role-playing guide
• Reporting Guide
• Getting a passport and/or driving license

Important

• Administration
• Argonath Vision
• Solutions against deathmatchers, abusers, and alike

Scripts

• Script Commands
• Scripted Missions
• Scripted Jobs
• Scripted Drugs
• Ammu-Nations
• Automated teller machines
• Modding Garages
• List of clothes
• List of vehicles
• List of interiors
• Vehicle Colours IDs
• Properties Guide
• Property Naming Information
• GPS Guide

Groups

• SAFD
• SAPD
• FBI

San Andreas

• State of San Andreas
• Los Santos
• San Fierro
• Las Venturas

Deathmatchers

Typical situations at the server:

1. A player asks in main chat, "how to get a gun?"
   Regulars answer like a choir: "/buyweapon at ammu"
   Problem 1: no regulars instruct the player that the server goal is not killing others, so guns are not critical to play.
   
   
2. Player attacks a regular. Gets called a "DMer" (which he probably doesn't even understand) and gets /reported, while getting suspected and killed by cops.
   Problem 2: "DMer" is not a clear term. New players might not know what does that mean.

Solution: When a player asks where to get guns, first explain that the server's goal is not killing others. Help in getting guns ONLY after a player is aware that fragging is not the objective! Better instruct "don't deathmatch", or better yet, "don't attack other players"/"killing is not the goal in this server".

Abusing cops

A player asks in main chat, "how to be cop?"

Regulars answer "/jobcop" or "/duty at LSPD"

Problem: The player is not warned about any restrictions, like shooting civilians. If you're going to help a new player, don't stop on telling how to go on duty. Explain also how cop work is supposed to look like.

Solution: When a player asks how to be a cop, either ask a regular cop to teach him how to play properly, or teach him yourself.

Rammers and Carkillers

Problem: Not everyone is aware that SA-MP is horribly desynced and laggy. Report only repeated and obviously on purpose attempts of ramming and carkilling. DON'T report single ram on a road intersection at a road with heavy traffic.

Solution: Pay'n'Spray is FREE, so just get over it and respray your car.

Role-play ruiners

Problem: Your definition of role-play. A good role-play can't just get "ruined", hardly "disturbed".

Solution: If you expect that no one is allowed to interact with you while you're doing something else - go play The Sims.

Money-hungry players

Problem: Some players are money-hungry.

Solution: Give them a mission to do!

New players are not (yet) used to be greedy like regular players (that require minimum 10k payment just for going to one place and sitting in a car) so they will most likely take any job that you offer them. You can use new players to do things for you for only a little payment (like clear your parking lot/street out of junk with a tow truck), or just keep them busy (like tell them to re-park opposing Mafia's cars to somewhere else). Will save chat flooding and begging for money, and will give the players something proper to do (so they don't rule-break).

NOTE: Giving a new player a job to rule-break for you will get YOU punished. So don't even try tricking new players into rule-breaking.

"When I was afk..."

When I was, afk a...

• ...cop suspected me
• ...DMer killed me
• ...admin kicked me
• ...carjacker stole my car
• ...money cheater sent me money and got me banned
• ...player stole weed I was growing

Problem: There is completely no advantage of going AFK over disconnecting. Furthermore, going AFK causes problems (like the ones above), yet you never learn from experience and keep doing it.

Solution: Do not leave your game/character unattended, there is NO reason to do so.

While in the old days your position, skin and weapons were not saved and you had to re-spawn at a spawn point, the current script version saves your position, skin, health/armour, weapons, and in most cases even the vehicle you're using. There is also no player slot problem, since the server can fit 200 people. If you need to do something out-game (eg. start TeamSpeak or check forum), quit the game, do what you have to and restart the game.

General Summary

• If you're lazy and don't want to explain players how things work, you're not allowed to moan about rule-breakers & abusers and players not knowing rules & regulations.
• If you're greedy and don't want to give players jobs, you're not allowed to moan about money beggars and money hungry players.