Personal Word
After nearly an entire year of owning IM:RP, it's clear thousands of you value the server and the community a lot. While I'm still getting used to all the thousands of commands and server mechanics as well as 12+ years of history, I'm doing my best to get familiar with everything as quickly as possible. In the meantime, I will keep referring most of your questions to the staff team and management, because they have a much firmer grasp on why things are the way they are.
We're still making daily changes to the server and have several exciting major updates coming soon. Every forum suggestion gets read and taken into consideration, and while they might not all get accepted, they all contribute to our sense of the direction the community wants the server to go. At the moment, our main focus is to balance the server economy and make it more welcoming for new players and factions, to add more variety to the server, especially during the night times when there are fewer players online, and to find more ways for any (legal and illegals) to interact with each other in a fair and fun way.
The only thing I can ask from you is your patience and understanding. We've already launched V8, which was several months of hard work and lots of testing, and major changes like the inventory system also easily take up several weeks. Combine this with all the other day-to-day tasks, changes, bug fixes, balance fixes, player reports, support tickets, and crashes, and I hope you understand why things can't always be implemented as fast as we'd like or why someone in management does not always have time to help you with your stuck trailer or house claim.
Finally, I'd like to thank the entire staff team for their continuous support. Specifically, I'd like to thank the helpers for helping players every single day, the admins for making sure everyone is playing fairly, and the management team for taking care of the major aspects and helping me make big decisions. The server would literally crash and burn without you.
That being said, let's move on to the fun parts! Starting right now until January 1st, you can earn rewards and gifts ranging from in-game money to materials, name changes, premium memberships, unique vehicles, and much more.
Unwrap gift boxes, earn candies
Santa is visiting San Andreas and has gifts for everyone. Use the command /giftbox to start hunting gift boxes dropped by Santa that can be found all over San Andreas.
Using the command /giftbox will put you into event-mode and instructions will be given to you on where the next gift boxes are located. Gift boxes require 1 player to open. If you are near their designated gift box, it will unwrap and you will collect candies found inside.
Gift boxes contain a random amount of candy and will be distributed to you. Candies in a box range between 25 and 40 candies.
Any gift boxes opened between 17:00 - 02:00 (server-time) contain a +10% bonus. Additionally, premium players will receive an extra +10% candy at all times, and premium >5 players an extra +20% candy at all times. (= up to 52 candy/giftbox)
Players need to wait 3 minutes before being able to open another gift box. Premium players only 2 minutes.
There must be at least 30 players connected for gift box hunting to be enabled.
Other ways to earn candies
At every paytime, you will receive a random amount between 30-60 candies.
You will get a gift of 50 candies if you are in the top 3 state lottery winners and qualified poor people also get 25 candies.
By winning a race you can also earn 50 candies.
Bonuses are excluded from these ways to earn candies.
Candies for surprises
Exchange your candies for surprises at the Christmas tree at the main bank Christmas tree. Use /candy to choose your surprise box.
Exchange 200 candies for a surprise box that contains 1 of:
- Money ($300k - $700k) [probability: 60%]
- Materials (10,000 - 15,000) [probability: 30%]
- 1 name change [probability: 5%]
- 1 number change [probability: 5%]
- Money ($1m - $2m) [probability: 50%]
- Materials (20,000 - 40,000) [probability: 21%]
- 1 name change [probability: 10%]
- 1 number change [probability: 10%]
- Random vehicle [probability: 3%]
- Premium vehicle claim [probability: 3%]
- Premium account balance (1 - 2 EUR) [probability: 3%]
Happy Hour
If there are more than 100 players online, happy hour will be enabled automatically. If the player count drops below 60, happy hour will be disabled.
100% top-up bonus
Topping up your EUR account balance for premium membership and items will be rewarded with a 100% bonus. If you top up 10 EUR, you will receive 20 EUR to your account balance. You can top up through your UCP: https://sa-mp.im/profile/topup
All rewards, gifts, and settings are subject to change if we deem it necessary.
