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April Update Introduction Hello everyone, We have made it one month down the line from our March Announcement on the new path we would be taking. In that timeframe, we have been focusing on a lot of technical work behind the scenes to resolve some stability issues, and streamline some of the existing systems to make them more user friendly and accessible. We have also worked on ensuring some more foreign partners for the project for other language versions of LCRP to eventually be released to a wide audience of nationalities. We still have a long way to go, but we are steadily working towards our eventual re-release. The current partnerships we have compose of the following nations; Turkey, Brazil, Russia, Poland, South Korea, and Spain. Founder Departure This may not be known to all, but the original founder of this project @papa ore has officially had to resign from the project and has been working to transition access and other necessary material to @Biography & @Brett. The reason for such a decision has been a long time in the works due to personal time limitations and real life work that prevented them from being anywhere near as active as they had hoped to be for months even before the original release of the product. In in the interest of transparency I will share his public message to the entire staff team; We have full appreciation for oRe as none of this would have been possible without him starting it up, and although he can't remain with us we wish him the best of luck in future endeavors and will ensure he maintains a tag of honorary founder for all their work and contributions. Staff Member of the Month We would like to give a special shout out to @phyziyx who is currently apart of the Development Team & Admin Team. Phyziyx has since they day they joined the project, been extraordinarily active and motivated to the project to even try to work on it in times they were supposed to be off fully from it. The amount of bug fixing, script creation, and development advice has been invaluable to the project and we are both honored and proud to have such a dedicated individual pouring countless hours and time into such a project in both it's high moments and low. We would like to extend a warm thank you to him for all this work, and to show that we really do appreciate all that they do behind the scenes even though people may not always get to see who it is that is driving some of the updates they may desperately want. Scripting Updates As usual coding continues to work on the project, although the load will be a little lighter then last month due to working on some of the streamlining of current scripts and also having dedicated work to making the script be functional and workable to our international partners who will be using this code base as well. On top of this, some of the updates are made to administrative systems that players will not be interacting with and thus will not be mentioned. In short, we'll just provide some of the miscellaneous updates that have been getting worked on that can be said in a short list; Command localisation. (this means that each partner can do their own locale for cmds which was once hardcoded) One [account] can not create another character with the same name as their other characters (e.g. Phyziyx can have one character called Jack_Campbell, without affecting another player's ability to create another character also called Jack_Campbell.) Poker Script (Early-Stages.) Garbage Job (Early-Stages) Fishing Job (Mini-Game Completed, Early-Stages) Updated Uniform Script. (This was covered last month, but it is fully completed now. Video here.) Smart Teleports (Ability to set an access point between two locations for an instant teleport.) As usual, no where near an exhaustive list, but some of the high-lights. Development Roadmap Planned Features This is the same list from last month, however as you can see we have made progress on quite a few items on this list already. This is not an exhaustive list, however once we manage to clear this section of the list we will focus on other features that are requested or necessary. But for now, the roadmap remains basically the same. Job Script Fishing Job Garbage Truck Job Economic Script Hourly Paychecks based upon activity, Weekly Mortgages. Gambling Script Blackjack (With UI) Poker (With UI) Gaming Scripts (TBD. Subject to RageMP limitations on what this can be. Pool, Bowling, Golf, Tennis, Basketball, etc being looked into.) Character Customization Plastic Surgeon (To change character appearance post-creation.) Tutorial Script Closing Remarks Closing Statement Thank you for reading the April update. Progress has been made, and will continue to be made. We also acknowledge we have been a bit quiet then what we would usually be, but we are still very much doing our best to take our time and work this project into something people will actually enjoy and want to play. No date yet to be announced for when the re-release will happen at this time, you will need to stay tuned on future updates for when we officially change this status. Thank you for everyones contributions, and thank you for reading!

1. There won't be a relaunch until it's fully ready. It's why there is no date, but we're playing it month by month to see how things look before we announce any new date. 2. Different code in the earlier portions. There are some salvageable points of it that are being used, but some of it has to be re-coded. A dev would have to shed more light on that part though. 3. Mainly working on 4, and down the line we can expand to 8, 12, etc post. 4. Image is fixed. Live progress can be found by connecting onto the server which is public for people to join, just as it was before launch. Nobody ever needed to "take our word," they just needed to connect to the very same server the devs work on that has been public for months. Unfortunately, some didn't do that and then wanted to claim something was hidden when it wasn't. We can lead a horse to water, but we can't make it drink.

roger. will check forums once a month

I'm well aware of the CK regulations. I was geniunely asking questions so that maybe there could be a more middle ground solution for those who are in favor of not implementing CKs vs the ones that are in favor of removing PKs, and making it less tedious on the staff to have to plow through mountains of reports or CK requests because someone may disagree with their death. Discussions like these could go a lot more smoothly if you didn't jump right into insulting someone or jumping into troll mode for simply asking a question for having a slight difference in opinion. We are a community after all. It's a lot more concerning that you couldn't simply do just that. Thanks for your input anyways.

I’m genuinely asking a question so that I can possibly come up with the best middle ground solution.

“Non-fear rp shit” sounds situational and would probably require a bunch of administrative decisions to determine whether it was justified. Should LCRP come up with some sort of master list of things that should be considered CK worthy?

Is participating in discussions and providing middle ground solutions difficult for you? Understandable. But how do you combat the throw away character mentality by not implementing any repercussions like character kills?

What’s your solution? I was trying to come up with a middle ground, but since you’re the all around expert please elaborate.

What about implementing a 3 strike system? If you’re pked 3 times, then your last death becomes a Character Kill.

“Judges, lawyers, and politicians have a license to steal. We don’t need one.” ~ Carlo Gambino The Giannetti Crime Family The Giannetti Crime Family is a La Cosa Nostra family in Liberty City, Liberty. The Great Arrival In the late 19th Century, the whole peninsula of Italy was brought under one flag but the land and people were by no means unified. There was violence and chaos regularly and poverty was widespread, the richest of areas were even finding the struggles. The government was in no position to help its people and eventually many Italians overheard chants about the 'American Dream', where boatloads of Italy’s people moved to America in an event known as 'The Great Arrival' which lasted from 1880-1920. During those five decades, it was just numerous Italian-American gangs that preyed on each other in their own neighborhoods. It wasn't until prohibition was ratified in 1919-1920 that the U.S Government would unknowingly cause the butterfly effect of organized crime in Liberty City today. Once the gangs realized the large amounts of money they could make from the production and distribution of alcohol, many of them started to surge in the power and money. Two gangs in specific grew exponentially, causing a bloody power struggle to break out in an event known as the 'Castellammarese War' in the 1930's. The war was fought for control of Italian-American organized crime in Liberty City and eventually, after many failed assassination attempts, Maranzano declared himself the boss of all bosses (capo di tutti i capi) and reorganized all the Liberty City gangs into the crime families we know today. In September 1931, Maranzano was assassinated in his office by a squad of contract killers. In the aftermath, the families added a Commission to mediate disputes and prevent more gang warfare. Also in 1931, Leo Mancini became head of the gang, now the Mancini crime family. Mancini also received a seat on the new Commission. The modern era of the Cosa Nostra had begun. Mancini Era Leo Mancini now took over the family, still believing in the Old World mob traditions of "honor", "tradition", "respect" and "dignity." However, he was in a somewhat troubling position. To compensate for loss of massive revenues with the end of Prohibition in 1933, Leo Mancini moved his family into extortion, union racketeering, and illegal gambling operations including horse betting, running numbers and lotteries. He'd get close to Jewish hitmen who performed contract murders for the Cosa Nostra nationwide, had close ties with the vice-president of the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA). Through the ILA, Mancini and the family completely controlled the Algonquin and Dukes waterfronts. With the family's backing, the Dukes waterfront was Mancini's bailiwick for 30 years. Around this time, John Giannetti was also promoted within the Mancini family. Mancini's underboss, Adduci, was creating multiple conflicts within the family during this time. Mancini felt uncomfortable with Adduci's close ties to top mobsters outside his family. Mancini was also jealous of Anastasia's strong power base in the ILA as well as with the Jews. Eventually, during a failed plot by Mancini to assassinate Adduci, Mancini ended up dead instead. Called to face the Commission, Adduci refused to accept guilt for the Mancini murder. However, Anastasia did claim that Mancini had been planning to kill him. Adduci was already running the family in his "absence" and the Commission members were intimidated by Adduci. With the support of a boss from another crime family, the Commission confirmed Adduci's ascension as boss of what was now the Adduci crime family. John Giannetti maneuvered himself into the position of consigliere soon after. Plot against Adduci In 1952, Adduci ordered the murder of a Broker man who had aided in the capture of a bank robber. The Commission were outraged by this killing which brought a lot of heat on the families so they recruited John Giannetti to the conspiracy by offering him the chance to replace Adduci and become boss himself. In May 1957, however, Giannetti soon learned that Adduci was conspiring to regain power over the family. It was then decided Adduci had to die. Giannetti Era With Adduci's death, John Giannetti became boss of what was now called the Giannetti crime family. Giannetti then allegedly helped pay a Puerto Rican drug dealer to falsely implicate a rival mob boss in a drug deal, sentencing them to 15 years in federal prison. Giannetti quickly built the family into the most powerful crime family in the United States. He was helped by an offshore gaming house in Cuba and the Bahamas, a lucrative business for the Cosa Nostra. That combined with everything else Giannetti built during boss brought in an astonishing annual income to the family. In 1964, the head of the another crime family conspired to kill Giannetti and his allies on the Commission. However, the man they entrusted with the job instead revealed the plot to Giannetti. The Commission, led by Giannetti, forced the current boss to resign and as a result, they fled Liberty City. Giannetti then became the most powerful leader of the Liberty City families. Giannetti's influence also stretched into behind-the-scenes control of the every crime family. In 1972, Giannetti allegedly even picked the front boss of another crime family. Under Giannetti, the family gained particularly strong influence in the construction industry. It acquired behind-the-scenes control of Teamsters Local 282, which controlled access to most building materials in the Liberty City area and could literally bring most construction jobs in Liberty to a halt. On October 15, 1976, Giannetti died at home of natural causes. Against expectations, he had appointed Caggiano to succeed him over his underboss Delistefano. Giannetti appeared to believe that his crime family would benefit from Caggiano's focus on white collar businesses. Delistefano, at the time, was imprisoned for tax evasion and was unable to contest Caggiano's succession. Caggiano's succession was confirmed at a meeting on November 24, with Delistefano present. Caggiano arranged for Delistefano to remain as underboss while directly running traditional Cosa Nostra activities such as extortion, robbery, and loansharking. While Delistefano accepted Caggiano's succession, the deal effectively split the Giannetti family into two rival factions. Jack Galletti Over the next couple decades the Giannetti family went through many successes but also many hardships after his death. Caggiano become boss and took over the white collar businesses. Delistefano dealt with more traditional LCN activities and allegedly did up to 200 murders until the mid 1980s. As Caggiano became more powerful in the Giannetti family, he started to make large amounts of money from construction concrete. Caggiano's son was the president of Scara-Mix Concrete Corporation, which exercised a near monopoly in Alderney on construction concrete. Caggiano also handled the Giannetti interests in the "Concrete Club," a club of contractors selected by The Commission to handle contracts between $2 million and $15 million. In return, the contractors gave a two percent kickback of the contract value to The Commission. Caggiano also supervised Giannetti control of Teamsters Union Local Chapter 282, which provided workers to pour concrete at all major building projects in Liberty City. In response to the rise of the Giannetti family, federal prosecutors targeted the family leadership. On March 31, 1984 a federal grand jury indicted Caggiano and 20 other Giannetti members and associates with charges of drug trafficking, murder, theft, and prostitution. The following year, he received a second indictment for his role in the Mafia's Commission. These incidents drove the family into an even further downward spiral. Jack Galletti, a Delistefano protégé starting becoming a big vocal critic of Caggiano. Galletti was ambitious and wanted to be boss himself. Galletti rapidly became dissatisfied with Caggiano's leadership, regarding the new boss as being too isolated and greedy. Like other members of the family, Galletti also personally disliked Caggiano. After Delistefano died of cancer on December 2, 1985, Caggiano revised his succession plan: appointing Bacchini as underboss, while making plans to break up Galletti's crew. Infuriated by this, and Caggiano's refusal to attend Delistefano's wake, Galletti's resolved to kill his boss. That evening the boss and underboss were ambushed and shot dead by assassins under Galletti's command. Galletti watched the hit from his car. Several days after the Caggiano murder, Galletti was named to a three-man committee to temporarily run the family pending the election of a new boss. It was also announced that an internal investigation into Caggiano's murder was underway. However, it was an open secret that Galletti was acting boss in all but name, and nearly all of the family's capos knew he had been the one behind the hit. He was formally acclaimed as the new boss of the Giannetti family at a meeting of 20 capos held on January 15, 1986. Galletti appointed Frank D'Aggano as underboss and promoted Frank Vecchione to capo. At the time of his takeover, the Giannetti family was regarded as the most powerful American mafia family, with an annual income of $500 million. On April 13, 1986, D'Aggano was killed when his car was bombed visiting a Caggiano loyalist. It was carried out as revenge for Caggiano and Bacchini by killing their successors; Galletti also planned to visit that day, but canceled, and the bomb was detonated after a soldier who rode with D'Aggano was mistaken for the boss. Bombs had long been banned by the Mafia out of concern that it would put innocent people in harm's way, leading the Giannettis to initially suspect that "zips"—Sicilian mafiosi working in the U.S.—were behind it; zips were well known for using bombs. Following the bombing, the judge presiding over Galletti's racketeering trial, rescheduled to avoid a jury tainted by the resulting publicity. From jail, Galletti ordered the murder of Robbie Dell’Aquila; both Dell’Aquila and Vecchione had been trying to secretly succeed and challenge Galletti's leadership until Vecchione accused Dell’Aquila of this publicly to the family. Afterwards, Vecchione got promoted to underboss. The family then ran smoothly until 1992. 1990s-2000s Conviction On June 23, 1992, Galletti got sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole and a $250,000 fine. Galletti surrendered to federal authorities to serve his prison time on December 14, 1992. On September 26, 1994, a federal judge sentenced Vecchione to five years in prison. Galletti continued to rule the family from prison, while day-to-day operation of the family shifted to three capos acting as bosses. Galletti's son then took over as head of the family, but he pleaded guilty to racketeering in 1999 and was sentenced to 77 months in jail. When Galletti died in prison on June 10, 2002 his brother took over as boss behind Vecchione's back. The family's fortunes dwindled to a remarkable extent, given their power a few decades ago when they were considered the most powerful criminal organization in America. Pete Galletti was imprisoned as well in 2003, and the leadership allegedly went to Vecchione but most historians believe the power got put back on the three capos. Pete Galletti remained the official boss while in prison. Galletti rivals regained control of the family, mostly because the rest of Pete Galletti's loyalists were either jailed or under indictments. The former head of the family's white collar operations and one of the last Galletti supporters, turned state's evidence due to increased law enforcement and credible evidence to be presented in his racketeering trial. He chose to testify against mobsters from all of the Five Families. He testified against Pete Galletti, among others, from 2003 to 2005, and then disappeared into the Witness Protection Program. On Thursday, February 7, 2008, a federal grand jury issued an indictment which led to the arrest of 54 Giannetti family members and associates in all of Alderney, Dukes, Bohan, Broker, and Algonquin. This indictment was the culmination of a four-year FBI investigation known as Operation Old Bridge. It accused 62 people of murder, conspiracy, drug trafficking, robberies, extortion, and other crimes. When federal and Liberty State authorities rounded up the entire Giannetti family hierarchy in early 2008, Vecchione took back control of the Giannetti family while the administration members were in prison. In July 2011 it was made official, Vecchione was promoted to boss, effectively putting an end to the Galletti regime. Frank Vecchione and the Modern Giannetti Family Frank Vecchione has been in power unofficially for 3 years and officially for 10. The family continues to be active in a variety of criminal enterprises including gambling, loan sharking, extortion, labor racketeering, fraud, money laundering and narcotic trafficking. During 2009, the Giannetti family saw many important members released from prison. On November 18, 2009, the LCPD arrested 22 members and associates of the Giannetti crime family as part of "Operation Pure Luck". The raid was a result of cases involving loan sharking and sports gambling in Alderney. There were also charges of bribing Liberty City court officers and Sanitation Department officials. In 2012 the Giannetti family still had some control on piers in Broker and Alderney through infiltrated labor unions. Indictments from 2014 to 2018 showed that the family was still very active in Liberty City. In 2014, FBI and Italian police arrested 17 members and associates of the 'Ndrangheta Mafia, and 7 members and associates of the Giannetti. The arrested were accused by prosecutors and law enforcement officials of organizing a transatlantic drug ring with aim of shipping 500 kg of pure cocaine from Guyana in South America to the port of Gioia Tauro in Calabria. A US Attorney singled out Giannetti family associate Francis Lupino as the linchpin of the operation, accusing him of conspiring with his father in law to set up the network. On December 12, 2017, five associates of the Giannetti family were arrested and accused of operating an illegal empire from January 2014 to December 2017, on charges of racketeering, extortion, drug trafficking, loansharking and illegal gambling. Associates of the Giannetti family were also alleged to have sold cocaine, marijuana and Xanax in large quantities. Prosecutors said they sourced the drugs in kilograms then sold it to the others to be distributed, facing a minimum of 10 years in prison. An undercover agent alleged that he paid $1,250 for an ounce of cocaine and also bought nearly a kilogram in 12 different sales between February and June in 2016. Ambrosio was said to have been the head of a very profitable loansharking and illegal gambling operation, including unlicensed gambling parlors, electronic gaming machines and internet sports betting. Prosecutors said that he attempted to obstruct the federal grand jury proceeding into their criminal activities by intimidating a loan shark victim into lying to law enforcement. In July 2019, Tommy Giannetti, (considered by the FBI to be a significant member of the Giannetti family) was one of 15 suspected members arrested in coordinated raids in Sicily and the United States. Italian police said Giannetti was caught on video meeting with ranking members on a speedboat off the coast of Liberty a year earlier. Robbie Giannetti was also arrested. On December 5, 2019, a Giannetti family capo and nine other gangsters were arrested in a federal mob crackdown in Bohan, on allegations of threats of violence to extort money. All of these things showcased that the Giannetti family is still one of the most active families in the Liberty City area. OOC Section ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Giannetti Crime Family aims to portray a completely fictional yet realistic La Cosa Nostra family in LC-RP's Liberty City. This faction takes inspiration from the real Gambino crime family while taking liberties of its own for creativity and originality. A big factor we wish to display is the politics of LCN and organized crime around it as well as an accurate depiction of The Commission. Open to being very interactive and giving anyone we come across an authentic experience of dealing with the American mob. For all that wish to take part, we will be following a strict canvas of rules to make sure all roleplay is kept to an authentic level while also being fun for everyone apart of the organization or around it. One very important reminder to anyone who intends to make a Italian character is that we will not condone off the boat characters. A high majority of Italian Americans do not speak or know Italian besides basic phrases, being said that any use of the Italian language to powergame hiding conversations or talk shit on people will not be tolerated at all. Anyone who joins this faction has been warned. Any and all people who join the faction accept a CK (Character Kill) rights clause. Faction leadership reserves the right to CK (Character Kill) anyone in the faction and we in turn ensure we won’t kill characters under any circumstances without valid reasons. Screenshots are posted with the approval of leadership. More information on the faction, and inquires to become part of the faction or any issues regarding it can be directed to the following person(s) on the forums or Discord: @TheMac_Aodhagain Mac Aodhagain#0858 [Work In Progress] - Official Faction Discord