Zaydan

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Get a job you lazy bum.

G'day Gamers, In addition to the FiveM rules that have been updated today surrounding bank robberies, we have also deemed it necessary to put in place a set of guidelines for bank robberies. These are the guidelines civilians and police should follow while conducting robberies to ensure a fair and fun roleplay experience. This material is not "server rules" and is just extra reading for people who wish to conduct robberies. Players who are acting outside of these guidelines repeatedly/seriously will be spoken to to improve their quality of roleplay. The primary objective of police is ensuring all civilians are safe, then to retrieve stolen funds. Bank robbers who have civilians held hostage can be expected to be wielding pointing weapons at them. In this situation, pointing guns alone is not necessarily aggressive. However if bank robbers were to be pointing guns and verbally threatening to hurt the hostages, this could be considered aggressive escalation. Police must obtain 'proof of life' of hostages, ideally this should be done in person which hostage takers should assist to facilitate. Hostages do not have to be held at the front door of a building, they can be deep inside a building as well with negotiators entering the building to check on the hostages. Having a hostage is not the ultimate bargaining chip for criminals to get any demands they want. The risk to the public of violent/aggressive offenders easily going free may be more significant than the price of risking 1 hostage's life in a breach. Police will take into account if suspects are repeat-offenders, the amount of hostages used, weaponry and the level of aggression to decide what is an acceptable risk which may decrease their leniency in negotiations. Potential negotiation demands/requests: (Must be followed for the first 5 minutes of a pursuit) - Early release of some hostages - Reduced fines/jail sentences - Use of police helicopters (Polair) - Use of Spikestrips - Types of vehicles used by either party - Distance of police pursuit staging (free passage) (Up to max 250m) Free passage means that police will stage at a set distance from the bank and suspects will be reasonably uninterrupted in leaving, getting into their vehicles and driving away from the vicinity until that distance. The use of "unimpeded" staging should not be used as it serves little practical use. During negotiations, hostage takers should be willing to give & take. Always asking for "no spikes, no polair" as a requirement in all negotiations does not give the police much to use as those are significant police tools. If you want both those demands, you should be willing to give up significant other things such as certain vehicles etc. If negotiations are stalled, either party should make it clear they are not happy with the current situation/demands before randomly resorting to combat. Police may tactically intervene if they believe the risk to hostages is low, such as if there is a low amount of hostage takers and they have no quick means of endangering the hostage after a breach

G'day Gamers, OzzyGaming staff are responsible for administrating player activity on the FiveM server. In circumstances of a serious rule breach, repeated breaches or where a verbal warning is not deemed sufficient or effective, our team will temporarily or in some circumstances permanently ban users from our services. Our team works within a set of procedures, past precedent and their own experience opinion to decide if a ban is necessary and the length of the ban. Bans allow us to keep general 'riff-raff' off the server and provide players with time to reflect on their actions so they can hopefully return to our server with better roleplay values. While our team is generally very fair with punishments, in some circumstances we acknowledge that some players may feel they were incorrectly or unfairly banned. For these circumstances we provide a ban appeal process. In an appeal, the player provides their version of events, what the possible issues were and reasons for why their ban should be reduced or overturned. The appeal is initially reviewed by the staff member who placed the ban who will consider your statements. They may decide to overturn your ban based on your new information. Otherwise, they may instead add their own notes to the appeal and then pass it to a senior staff member to independently review. This process eliminates potential bias and allows you to get the opinion of a more experienced staff member. All ban appeals across our services must be completed via a website support ticket so it can be tracked and monitored. Players should not DM staff members or attempt to have bans appealed via TeamSpeak, as you will just direct you to submit a support ticket. https://www.ozzygaming.com.au/support/ Before submitting a ban appeal please review the following requirements and criteria to ensure your ban is eligible to be appealed. You will also be shown how to write an appeal to give you the best chance of having your ban reconsidered. Spamming additional appeals or failing to meet the eligibility criteria will result in your appeal being denied or your ban extended. For long bans, it is recommended not to immediately submit an appeal unless you have sufficient evidence. Bans that CANNOT be appealed - Bans shorter than 1 week (Unless placed in error) - Executive permanent bans - Hacking Invalid ban appeal reasons - The ban placer is no longer staff - You have 'learned your lesson' - You want to play with your friends again Permitted ban appeal reasons - The ban was placed in error (Staff banned the wrong person due to a misunderstanding) - New significant evidence about the situation is provided - You would like a second opinion on the ban (You believe the admin misinterpreted the rules, may have been involved in the situation or was otherwise unfair) How many times can I submit an appeal? - Bans that are 3 months or less can only be appealed once - All other bans (Including permanent) can only be appealed a total of 3 times, each appeal must be at least 3 months apart Successful ban appeals should be in the following format - Explain the situation as you recall it so that a third party could read and understand it - Identify what you did wrong and what rules you breached (or are accused of) - Identify (with reference to the server rules) what you should have done in that situation - If you abused another player or a staff member, you should also include an apology - Attach any applicable evidence I know the majority of our players will never need this information, but it is important for us to clarify this information for those who do need it. Our intention is to educate and reform players so that the community is a positive place with a high standard of role play. We hope that players who do receive bans can learn from their mistakes and re-join the server and continue having fun. Please be aware that when players come off a recent ban they are held to additional scrutiny and may face longer bans should there be additional rule breaches.

Namaste Baljeet! Can't wait to buy your wares.

Hey man, Stealing and chop shopping cars isn't really a thing. I'd recommend Landscaping, trucking and fishing as easy ways to get started making money and learning the game. Afterwards you could either get a job with one of the cities businesses (Mechanics, Bars, Car Dealers etc.) or find a life of crime doing drug making or bank robberies.

Hey man, just click the discord button on the right side of our homepage for the most up to date link.

Day 12 (25-26th December) CHRISTMAS DAY! Congratulations to @Rise for winning day 11! Today's Prize: - $25 steam voucher - $500,000 in-game - Any car you want!* Today's Hint:

Day 11 (24th December) CHRISTMAS EVE!!! Congratulations to @linx for winning day 10! Today's Prize: - 1000 Job XP - $250,000 in-game - McLaren P1 2014 Today's Hint:

Day 10 (23nd December) Congratulations to @Mattii13 for winning day 9! Today's Prize: - 1 Month Platinum - $250,000 in-game - Yamaha R1 Today's Hint:

Day 9 (22nd December) Congratulations to Travatar2006 for winning day 7! Today's Prize: - 1000 Job XP - $250,000 in-game - Dodge Challenger SRT 2016 (Hellcat) Today's Hint:

Day 8 (21st December) Congratulations to @poprox for winning day 7! Today's Prize: - $25 steam voucher - $250,000 in-game - Lamborghini LP570 Today's Hint:

Day 7 (20th December) Congratulations to @g0D- for winning day 6! (I forgot to take a screenshot) Today's Prize: - 1 Month Platinum - $250,000 in-game - Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Today's Hint:

Day 6 (19th December) Congratulations to @SteezyAU for winning day 4! Today's Prize: - 1000 Job XP (Job of your choice) - $250,000 in-game - Mercedes SLS AMG Today's Hint:

Day 5 (18th December) Congratulations to @MALOSI MURDER for winning day 4! Today's Prize: - $25 steam voucher - $250,000 in-game - Holden VF GTS Today's Hint:

Day 4 (17th December) Today's Prize: - 1 Month Platinum - $250,000 in-game - BMW M4 GTS Today's Hint: Congratulations to @XSketchyPabloXfor winning day 3!

Day 3 (16th December) Today's Prizes: - 1000 Job XP in the job of your choice - $250,000 in-game - Nissan R34 Skyline GTR Today's hint: Congratulations to @Xevofor winning day 2!

Day 2 (15th December) Today's Prizes: 1 Month Platinum $250,000 in-game Jeep Trackhawk Today's Hint: Congratulations to Apollo93AU for winning day 1!

Day 1 (14th December) - $25 Steam Gift Voucher ­ƒÆ░ - $250,000 in-game - Holden HSV Maloo (You can choose to keep yourself or gift to a friend) Todays Clue:

- Login to FiveM each day until Christmas and find the Christmas Tree hidden somewhere on the island to enter the draw. :christmas_tree: (it's very big!) - There will be an option press (E) to enter the draw when you're standing next to the tree. - The tree will move each day when I post the announcement for the new prize and the hint to find the new tree. - The prize will be drawn randomly the following day when the tree is moved. - One entry per player (You can choose the character for the rewards if you win). Good luck!

G'day Gamers & Merry Christmas ­ƒÄà At OzzyGaming we love to celebrate all the major holidays around the year and Christmas is by far our favourite. In the spirit of the giving season, I am excited to today announce our search to find OzzyGaming's player of the year and we have some awesome prizes to give away in the process! There are multiple categories to be won which I'll explain below. Job Of The Year ­ƒæÀÔÇìÔÖé´©Å The first competition category is based on the many popular jobs on the FiveM server. We recently updated the FiveM tools leaderboards to include all XP based jobs and we're on the quest to find the best of the best in each job. It's a race to the top of each leaderboard by the end of the year to win the prizes. The following jobs are in the running: ­ƒî│ Landscaper Of The Year (Leaderboard) ­ƒÜÜ Trucker Of The Year (Leaderboard) ­ƒÅ║ Treasure Hunter Of The Year (Leaderboard) ­ƒÄú Fisherman Of The Year (Leaderboard) ­ƒÉó Turtle Poacher Of The Year (Leaderboard) Each job of the year winner will win the following prize pack: - $1,000,000 in-game Cash - A Discontinued Car - 1 Month Queue Skip - 1 Month OzzyGaming Platinum Subscription The titles will be awarded to the person on top of each job leaderboard at the end of the year (as at 31/12/20 11:59PM AEDT). So a few people already have a big advantage in this one, but it's still anyone's game for each job. Happy grinding. ­ƒñÀÔÇìÔÖé´©Å Player Of The Year ­ƒÄ« This is the big one. This is our quest to find OzzyGamings "player of the year". This will be a fairer competition with everyone starting at the same level. It will be entirely hours based across each of the main factions. We are tracking all of the hours gained between today (6th December) and midnight AEDT 31st December (basically between now and the end of the year). The player with the most hours in each category at the end of the year will be declared the winner. The overall winner could technically win 2 categories and win double the prizes. We are awarding winners for the following categories: ­ƒîƒ OzzyGaming Player Of The Year (total overall hours) ­ƒñÁ Civilian Of The Year ­ƒæ«ÔÇìÔÖé´©Å Police Officer Hunter Of The Year ­ƒæ¿ÔÇìÔÜò´©Å Paramedic Of The Year You can view the competition hours leaderboard here. (Please note the leaderboard is updated automatically every couple hours, it may involve some rounding of minutes played) Each player of the year winner will win the following major prize pack: - $100 Gift voucher to your choice of PC Case Gear or JB HI-FI - $1,000,000 in-game cash - A Discontinued car - 1 month Queue skip *OzzyGaming Staff are not eligible for the hours based competition, however staff will be running their own hours based competition. We will also be giving out special groups/badges to the winners of each category (including the job winners) so you can strut your stuff around the community to prove you're our biggest nerd. ­ƒñô Good luck to everyone, Merry Christmas and happy grinding! P.S. You'll hear more from us next week as we will be launching an advent calendar for the 12 days of Christmas with even more great prizes to be won. ­ƒÿë­ƒÄä­ƒÄà

G'day Gamers ­ƒæï Today I am excited to announce the return of OzzyGaming Rewards! This is our program of giving away freebies and prizes to those who support the community. We will be running things a little differently this time around and I'll run you through how it's going to work below. To be in the draw you must be a current OzzyGaming Platinum subscriber. Being a subscriber automatically puts you into the draw each month with no further action required by you. *Banned members are ineligible. Each draw there will be a winner and two runners up (2nd & 3rd), a total of 3 people each month. Winners will be drawn on the last day of every month and be announced via Discord. The first draw will be held on November 30. Now for the prizes... This time around winners will get to choose their own prizes. There will be a list of all the available prizes on offer each month and each winner in order (1st, 2nd, 3rd) will select which prizes they want. Once one of the prizes is claimed, it is no longer on the table for the next winner to choose. The winner will get to choose 3 prizes and each runner up can select 2 prizes each. For the first month, the prizes on offer are: 2 x 1 Month of full Queue Skip 1 x 2500 XP on the job of your choice 2 x 1000 XP on the job of your choice 1 x $250,000 3 x $100,000 2 x (Limited Edition Vehicle TBC each month) 2 x $20 Webstore Credit 2 x $10 Webstore Credit (Prizes subject to change each month) For Example... The winner could select 1 month of queue skip and 2x $20 webstore credits ($40). 2nd place could then still choose 1 month of queue skip, but wouldn't be able to choose a $20 store credit and so on. The runners up will be told what prizes are remaining when I contact them. So if you win and wanted to be greedy by taking 2 full months of queue skip for yourself, you can do that too. ­ƒÿë This is a big thank you project to give back to all the subscribers who go the extra mile to help support the community. We really appreciate your time and support and hope this is a little something to make your time more valuable. If you have any feedback I'd love to hear it! You'll hear from me at the end of the month to announce our first 3 winners. ­ƒÅå -- Zaydan OzzyGaming Community Manager

Hi everyone, After a few weeks wait, we have today received the receipt from Headspace regarding the community donation. I have attached it for verification/transparency purposes. Once again, thanks everyone for the tremendous support and we hope to get involved again next year!

G'day Gamers Yesterday was an awesome day to be part of the OzzyGaming Community. Before I get to the numbers, I just want to say a couple things. First of all, thank you to every single person who contributed to the fundraiser. We understand given the times we are living in and the age of a lot of our members, not everyone can afford to donate to charity and that's totally fine! But nonetheless everyone got involved in one way or another across the whole community in the form of events, discussion and general awareness and that is really what counts. So thank you to everyone! Special shoutout to @nicatude for hosting The Million Dollar Race event last night, presented by LS Legal. There was a great turnout and I was so impressed by the level of effort and complexity of the event. It was very well run and looked like a lot of fun for those involved. You can watch the full event stream from last night on his Twitch channel (Link in the spoiler): We had well over 300 different members donate to the fundraiser yesterday, which is an amazing effort from our server that only has 180 slots! I'd like to give a special shoutout to @Beast260 (Bob The Fitter), @NeXWolf (Mej), @Mattii13 & @darknessfalls251 who were the top donators in the fundraiser, each donating $50 cash, on top of getting the vehicle. Thank you for your kind generosity. So, the numbers....! I am proud to announce a phenomenal $5,000 has been raised going directly to Headspace! The breakdown of the financials has been attached below for transparency. Gross donations received totalled just shy of $5,000 which smashed our goal of $3,000! Unfortunately after PayPal Fees and GST outside of our control, this comes down to $4,430. However, we couldn't let that much money be lost to fee's so we will be donating an extra $569 out of the community funds to cover all of the taxes and fees and round up a little bit extra to make it a nice clean $5,000! These funds will be transferred directly to Headspace this week. Again, OzzyGaming does not take any commission or admin fees on the donations received as this was all for charity and all goes towards the great cause that is headspace. This means all the donation methods and the E63 FiveM vehicle are no longer available. If anyone missed out, feel free to donate directly to headspace at any time and your money will make a difference. We are so excited by what we have managed to achieve and really want to do it all over again next year and make this an annual event. $5,000 will make a big difference to this Australian Mental Health organisation and their facilities and you should all be proud. Thanks again to everyone, I hope this news puts a big smile on your faces! -- Zaydan OzzyGaming Community Manager