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March Report

30 03, 2026, 04:09:04 pm by Arran | Views: 369 | Comments: 16

Notable advancements on priorities were made this month. Here's what priorities players voted on, how many voted, and what progress was made.

Anti cheat / catching cheaters — 65 (15.8%)

Because so much work was done on anti-cheat last month, not much could be done this month. It seems that all players who were cheating were banned already, except one case (ZraGen14), who was eventually permanently banned after overwhelming evidence. They evaded a week after the ban and I knew it was them because of how many detections they were triggering.

I believe now that almost nobody is still cheating on CIT (or if they are they do so in a limited way). Anyone who was once cheating and isn't banned likely stopped. Any new players who try to cheat are either detected quickly or banned after triggering detections.

Improving the game world — 35 (8.5%)

This priority remained unclear due to vague player expectations, but some indirect improvements were made:

Added multiple new enterable locations (Little Mexico earlier in month).
Added new jobs and activities (Paper Boy, Ice Cream Man).
Added more UI customization options (HUD settings, shaders, map icon toggles).
Improved map clarity (turfs showing resource/drug type on F11).

Money sink ideas / ways to spend money — 34 (8.3%)

The main money sink added was the Lifetime Motor Club Membership. There are about 30 money sink ideas in the topic, unfortunately I just don't feel motivated to implement any of them.

New ARs / CEs — 33 (8.0%)

Significant progress here with 4 new AR's and 1 CE added:

Previously added:

Safe Deposit Center AR (8th)
Santos Investments AR (10th)
Airport Hangar Robbery (26th)
Willowfield Garages AR (27th)
Unity Station Freight Yard AR (29th)

Also North Rock Hut improvements on the 7th.

Low / unstable FPS — 33 (8.0%)

Ongoing improvements:

Many script optimizations (some unannounced).
Continued MTA-level fixes (object streaming bug, sync fixes).
FXAA shader option, which implents a weak form of anti aliasing at no performance cost.

Inflation — 32 (7.8%)

As "Inflation" is about F7 prices, some major changes were made to F7 this month, mainly AI sellers being disabled.

I also realised that we may have created price inflation by fixing what was overpaid jobs, jobs that paid in resources weren't taking into account the average sale price and so some resource paying jobs were paying multiple times more than what they should, but when you pay based on average price, resources goes down, causing prices to go up, creating an inflationary spiral. So I decided to try an experiment with Iron, where Miner and Cave Miner will both use a fixed $44 (instead of the F7 average) this way if the price goes up, those jobs will become intentionally overpaid, and hopefully players will then play those jobs, adding to the supply to keep the price down.

Fixing bugs — 30 (7.3%)

52 fixes were made this month.

Including the major bullet sync bug that have now been fixed at the MTA level, so that the hack fix could be removed.

I also disabled the hit by bullet animation to help reduce desync, as these animations are randomly applied to players meaning that you would often see players sliding because of this.

Administration systems / policies — 28 (6.8%)

No major direct additions this month.

Network issues — 27 (6.6%)

No major direct additions this month.

Multi day / seasonal events — 22 (5.3%)

No major direct additions this month.

New civilian jobs — 21 (5.1%)

Strong progress with 2 new civilian jobs:

Added Paper Boy job.
Added Ice Cream Man job.

Improving user interfaces — 16 (3.9%)

Good progress:

Map icon toggling (F11).
HUD customization options.
CITphone improvements (dark theme, drag icons).
Financial tracking in /myhistory.
Better pricing visibility in F7 (average price + % difference).

Generally adding suggestions — 15 (3.6%)

22 suggestions went from the suggestions board, to the news board. I've also modified the suggestions board to now use the up/down vote system and the scores are shown by each topic.

More stats / achievements — 11 (2.7%)

Progress includes:

Added 13 new achievements.
Added multiple new stat categories:
Event wins
Personal skins
Trivia wins
Improved job progress tracking.

Website improvements — 9 (2.2%)

The suggestion board has been improved. If anyone has any website suggestions they should just post them in the suggestions board. And actually, that goes for all the other priorities really. I don't see the point in making a new priorities poll for April because the only thing that needed work and didn't get suggestions was anti-cheat, which seems almost entirely resolved now (if anyone starts using aimbot again we will know)

Exporting Groups History

29 03, 2026, 09:16:25 pm by Chapo. | Views: 112 | Comments: 4

Group history is already a really useful feature with all the filters like joins, departures, blacklist changes, bank logs, kicks, and the option to view everything together. The issue is that for groups that have been around for years, especially older ones, the panel becomes extremely cramped and hard to deal with. Scrolling through that amount of data just isn’t practical anymore, and it makes the feature a lot less useful than it could be.

What I’m suggesting is simply adding a way to get that data out of the panel, either by having a button that exports the logs into a file (like CSV or even a simple text file) in the MTA directory, or a button that copies the currently filtered logs so they can be pasted somewhere else, like Discord, Excel, or Google Sheets. That way, instead of struggling with the in-game panel, people can actually work with the data properly.

The system itself is already there and does its job; it just needs a way to make the data usable outside the game so people can do useful stuff with it, such as following up with their group's financials, attrition, and diplomatic ties. This would be a small quality-of-life change, but it would make a big difference, especially for older and more active groups.

The access to export the logs can also be a rank-tied perk where founders can pick who can export the data and who can't.

Add the newly added jobs to the Employment Office

29 03, 2026, 09:14:08 am by Pythh | Views: 134 | Comments: 6

Hello everyone,
There’s something I’d like to mention. As you know, two great job have been added but I checked the employment office and couldn’t find them there. If you’d like, let’s add these here so we can quickly assign professions to make things easier for our new players.

SF-Employment Office and Los Santos Mall

Thank you for listening.

Ice Cream Man's upgraded panel with icons

28 03, 2026, 04:42:18 pm by Prototype | Views: 106 | Comments: 3

Hey! Recently added Ice Cream Man job has a pretty understandable panel but it becomes harder to tick the needed ingredients. Imo, these tick squares are too small and need to be upgraded.

Clicking on mini icons may look more delicious, more comfortable and kinda realistic. Here is a visual example:

Currently this is how the panel looks like:

... and here is suggested version:

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Add the newly added jobs to the Employment Office

Ice Cream Man's upgraded panel with icons

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