BlueBirdRP

https://fundraise.nbcf.org.au/fundraisers/littlefirestone/game-on-breast-cancer

The 24+ hour charity event will be taking place on 23/10/2021 starting on Friday Midnight AEDT time until Sunday tsunami unless I die within the 24 hours.

Stream Time in Different Timezones:
AEDT (Australia Eastern Daylight Savings) - 12 AM Friday to 7 AM Sunday
AWST (Western Australia) - 9 PM Friday to 4 AM Sunday
BST (United Kingdom) - 2 PM Friday to 9 PM Saturday
EDT (United States) - 9 AM Friday to 4 PM Saturday
Note: I will probably nap on stream at some point..

I would love to thank the amazing ScarAus for supporting this event and I am dedicating the entire stream to BlueBirdRP. I will be streaming GTA Roleplay for majority and maybe some Gartic Phone or Marbles on stream during server restarts. The vibe of the whole CITY has been incredible, from the PINK police cars, to pink uniforms, to free food events, to the big ride the other day and the list goes on. You guys are all incredible people and I have much love and appreciation for raising awareness.  Like I said before as a person diagnosed with this cancer myself, I have a special warmth in my heart for you all   

DONATION MILESTONE GOALS
$1000 - I will eat 2x Carolina Reaper Gummies 
$2000 - I will eat a whole pack of WORLD'S HOTTEST Chips
$3000 - I will Dye my Hair Purple or Pink (Tash Dane style)
$4000 - I will get a Breast Cancer Ribbon Tattoo
$5000 - I will Giveaway 5x Game Keys on Stream
$6000 - I will do Egg Roulette with your fav Twitch Moderator The PUBBLES
$7000 - I will Giveaway 4x $25 Steam Gift Card Vouchers
$8000 - I will Giveaway RIG Headsets thanks to Nacom
$9000 - I will let PUBBLES do my makeup from scratch on stream
$10,000 - I will do 123 KM walk IRL stream Cape-to-Cape

DONATION REWARDS
Every Donation- Name on Pink Helium Balloons
Every $25- Beanboozled
Every $50- World's Most SOUR Lolly
Every $100- Shoey... yes I WILL FKN do a Shoey... 

Toward's 2nd half of the Stream Tash Dane is taking Adonis Vidal on a date you've never seen before. You don't want to miss this, there is many ways the RP can go wrong or right.. I'll let the RP take wheel. Thank you to everyone who are helping me make this content possible.

I am so EXCITED! Get READY to fucking SEND IT.

#GameONBreastCancer

Love LittleFirestone (aka. Tash Dane)

Count-Down:  DAYS TO GO
https://fundraise.nbcf.org.au/fundraisers/littlefirestone/game-on-breast-cancer

The 24+ hour charity event will be taking place on 23/10/2021 starting on Friday Midnight AEDT time until Sunday tsunami unless I die within the 24 hours.

Stream Time in Different Timezones:
AEDT (Australia Eastern Daylight Savings) - 12 AM Friday to 7 AM Sunday
AWST (Western Australia) - 9 PM Friday to 4 AM Sunday
BST (United Kingdom) - 2 PM Friday to 9 PM Saturday
EDT (United States) - 9 AM Friday to 4 PM Saturday
Note: I will probably nap on stream at some point..

I would love to thank the amazing ScarAus for supporting this event and I am dedicating the entire stream to BlueBirdRP. I will be streaming GTA Roleplay for majority and maybe some Gartic Phone or Marbles on stream during server restarts. The vibe of the whole CITY has been incredible, from the PINK police cars, to pink uniforms, to free food events, to the big ride the other day and the list goes on. You guys are all incredible people and I have much love and appreciation for raising awareness.  Like I said before as a person diagnosed with this cancer myself, I have a special warmth in my heart for you all  

DONATION MILESTONE GOALS
$1000 - I will eat 2x Carolina Reaper Gummies 
$2000 - I will eat a whole pack of WORLD'S HOTTEST Chips
$3000 - I will Dye my Hair Purple or Pink (Tash Dane style)
$4000 - I will get a Breast Cancer Ribbon Tattoo
$5000 - I will Giveaway 5x Game Keys on Stream
$6000 - I will do Egg Roulette with your fav Twitch Moderator The PUBBLES
$7000 - I will Giveaway 4x $25 Steam Gift Card Vouchers
$8000 - I will Giveaway RIG Headsets thanks to Nacom
$9000 - I will let PUBBLES do my makeup from scratch on stream
$10,000 - I will do 123 KM walk IRL stream Cape-to-Cape

DONATION REWARDS
Every Donation- Name on Pink Helium Balloons
Every $25- Beanboozled
Every $50- World's Most SOUR Lolly
Every $100- Shoey... yes I WILL FKN do a Shoey... 

Toward's 2nd half of the Stream Tash Dane is taking Adonis Vidal on a date you've never seen before. You don't want to miss this, there is many ways the RP can go wrong or right.. I'll let the RP take wheel. Thank you to everyone who are helping me make this content possible.

I am so EXCITED! Get READY to fucking SEND IT.

#GameONBreastCancer

Love LittleFirestone (aka. Tash Dane)

The only stuff that still needs "fixing" would be:
 - the trailers that don't work together [temp fix... hold F6 and get a new job]
 - the Distance perk points being usable [temp fix is on the back end, everyone has 6 points, it just doesn't display them]
 - the removal of locations that are impossible to park in [temp fix is people quiting the jobs when they realize it doesn't work after recording the location]

Other than that, I'm going through and improving things, like:
 - more job types that don't require special upgrades, so we can have more people at low level doing the job so we can open it up to the wider community
     - Need people to suggest job titles (they can be meme ones like Modest Hydration Water Delivery)
 - adding more locations across the map for deliveries
     - Need people to first record all the existing locations (Which I will provide a list of), then start suggesting new locations (preferably difficult to get to ones but not impossible)
 - Adding more trucks and trailers
     - Every truck that is added needs to be added the attachment file for all existing trailers
     - Every trailer that is added needs to be added the attachment file for all existing trucks
 - Adding a second depot
     - The script looks like it should allow for it, but it doesn't seem to want to do it any time I try

This Topic will be a centralised hub for all things Trucking Logistics.

The job is currently whitelisted to those who came down on the first day while we are testing out issues with it.

I will add comments below with more information including:
 - Known bugs/issues
 - Things being worked on
 - Things that will require those doing the job to submit information

Once the job is at a place that feels as if all bugs are either fixed or can be lived with, the job will be opened up to more players
 (I will be making the choice if it's ready to go not anyone else, so don't nag!)

The link attached is a list of XYZ coordinates for all current drop off locations. Using this we will hopefully be able to figure out which locations are causing issues. Unfortunately giving me a post code isn't the same as coordinates as they are into the decimate places. So hopefully we can get closer using these coordinates to look at removing locations. This will hopefully be turned into something on the wiki at some point so that it has a nicer interface with photos/videos to help people out.
 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YzYtDxWcVil2wKNFuOC0UJ_GxZ2VTh9z39TdTuBrmHg/edit?usp=sharing

To make things easier, I've enabled comments on that sheet so we can keep the coordinates chat all together

With the new Achievements system, you will be able to earn badges for your actions on the forums.

What we can do with these in show how much effort people put into the community!

We'd love to hear some suggestions of badges that we could add.

When making a suggestion, please provide an example of what you think the badge could look like by attaching an image as well as what you think people should have to do to get the badge.

To help you out, I've attached what Rules we have access to at this stage. These are not currently the active ones.

The way it works is we can decide if one of these actions is done if we:
 - Give a badge
 - Give points
 - Give a badge and points
 - Wait for the action to be completed X amount of times before doing any of the above

Hello everyone!

It is the first of a new month and that means it is time for some BlueBird news!

 

Charitable cause!

The first and most important thing is giving you all a wrap up on the money raised for RedCross. We would like to thank everyone involved with donating to the stream and purchasing the merch.

 

During the BlueBirdRadio streams, we were able to raise $3,065.43

The RedCross x BlueBird merch was able to raise $17.75

Bringing our total to $3,083.18 raised in the month of January!

 

This money will be donated over the weekend and head off to help those who need it most in Australia at this time.

 

Next news – Merch!

This month marks the start of our new, more general population style merch. We are looking to get clothing and designs out that feel a bit more natural to wear rather than slapping logos on random clothing items.

https://streamlabs.com/bluebirdrp/merch/1083867 

The merch is currently running through our StreamLabs store until we gauge interest in the project, we'll be looking to move towards a more local solution when we find one that is suitable.

 

Next news – Paying it forward!

In the coming week we will be releasing information on how you can apply to become a BlueBird affiliate. We have had applications for this closed for some time while we've been coming up with a better way to run the program and we've finally found one. Thank you for your patience while we've been working on this. We look forward to rewarding even more of our wonderful content creators in the coming weeks/months/years.

If you've been living under a rock, the affiliate program allows you to sub to one of our content creators via the forums and receive the exact same perks as if you'd subbed straight to BlueBird through the forums, with the added benefit of supporting that content creator. If you'd like to check out who is currently affiliated, visit our forums under either our affiliates page or staff page.

https://bluebirdrp.live/index.php?/store/category/19-support-affiliates/ 

https://bluebirdrp.live/index.php?/store/category/20-support-staff/ 

 

Next news – Projects, project and more projects!

We're working on more than just FiveM!

There are currently 5 projects happening behind the scenes ranging from fully secretive to ones you already know about.

 

Project 1 - BlueBird Rivals

Rivals is our esports organisation who will be doing regular esports events starting in the coming weeks. The primary focus will be Rocket League events to start with, with other esports being added as time goes on. If you want to get involved ,you can join the BlueBird Rivals discord here:
https://discord.gg/uDhFYmD

 

Project 2 - RedM

We are working on a RedM server which will allow for a Red Dead Redemption 2 roleplay server. This will be a slow process as there are currently not a lot of scripts available and we want it to be a good experience when we officially launch it. The server is up and running 24/7 already so people can come and alpha test with us, so feel free to jump in:

https://discord.gg/pySasHQ

 

Project 3 – Minecraft!

We are working on a Minecraft server. Some of you may have noticed a post put out the other day asking for anyone interesting in helping us to build a Minecraft server. We had a lot of people come forward and we have almost set up all the basics for it. Over the course of Feb we will do additional testing, refining plugins and gamemodes and we’ll be doing out best to find ways to reward our forum supporters! Keep an eye out for Alpha testing dates.

 

Project 4 – Secret Project #1

We want to make everyone’s lives as easy as possible, so we are working on something that will allow new players, old players and just the entire community to be able to get involved in everything we do with the use of one central place. We will give more details over the month as aspects of the project are refined.

 

Project 5 – Secret Project #2

As I’ve said before, we want to expand into other areas, we are working on something for FiveM that we think people are going to really like. There have been very obvious preferences that people have had since we started BlueBird regarding how they like to play in FiveM and we think we’ve come up with a solution that should allow people an outlet for certain preferences. This project will also be announced once additional testing has been completed. I want to stress that this project will in no way effect the main FiveM server that we all love to play on. It will be something separate, meaning you don’t have to worry about any adverse effects of the changes coming into play to mess up what we already have.

Check out the site https://challonge.com/events/BBBris19#/

Any ideas for the event or questions can be put in this feed

BIG CHANGES

Hello BlueBird users!

BlueBirdRP was created just over 14 months ago, and since it’s creation it has evolved into something a lot bigger than many people expected. The staff and I are so happy that we could take you all along with us in the journey from then until now. 

  The reason for this post is due to some changes we are going to have to implement to the way we run things at BlueBird, to fall in line with changes that have been made elsewhere. For the majority of players/users, the experience won’t change at all and even if it does, it will be quite minor.

 

The first thing we’d like to talk about is the name BlueBirdRP.

 We love the name and it’s amazing to hear people talk about it and hear so may positive things. We do however need to make a slight change to it when looking at what we do as a whole. BlueBirdRP, has become much more than just an RP server, but a whole community of gamers doing different things under that name. With the introduction of our (in Alpha) esports discord, and looking into other games like Rust, Minecraft and more, we’ve realised that BlueBirdRP doesn’t quite cover what we do. So the change is simple, moving forward, we will just be BlueBird. It’s not a massive change, but it an important one. This means for the purposes of categorising us, we are a gaming community, and all income is for the community, from there we have subsets that specialise in different things. This obviously would be the RP subset for GTA (and other future games), the esports subset for all competitive games and more. We just wanted people to know about this before we started dropping the RP from things and people become confused.

 

 

Secondly, Patreon!

 

Although our community may be over 14 months old, we didn’t start utilising Patreon and StreamElements until January this year (2019). When we first started taking subscriptions, we made three tiers; Bronze ($5), Silver ($10), Gold ($25). The only perk that came with that from the start was Gold tier subs, having priority access in the queue. It was very simple and easy, but over time, we decided that we wanted to really say thank you to those who involved themselves in our community and started creating the BlueBird Affiliate tiers. This program allows you to receive all the same perks as subbing to BlueBird, while also giving some money back to the content creators. Once this started we were asked if people could contribute for larger amounts. Never before did we think people would say, “Hey, can I give you more money than you’ve asked for?”. So we started to create higher tiers and introduced the BlueBird Partner program, allowing those Affiliates who’ve proven themselves to get larger subscription tiers associated with their brand. Over time we added a lot of new features, including our system of “Golden Feathers”. This system was fantastic, it allowed people who contributed to be rewarded with in game items that didn’t effect RP, having additional money allowed them to purchase some cool cars and focus more on interpersonal RP over grinding jobs. As a team we knew any good RPers would know that you don’t need money to roleplay, roleplay can be made from anything and it was great to see the good RPers realise this simple fact.

 

 The future of our payment plans will be a little different, while still retaining the same style that everyone has come to know. We will be moving our subscriptions and donations from Patreon and StreamElements to our forums at http://bluebirdrp.live/index.php?/store/ 
These forums will allow us to do a lot of very cool things. The subscriptions you make will work in the same way as they did before, where you will get your discord roles, you will also get a badge on the forums depending on who you subscribe to. The biggest change is, all forms of payment will be moving to AUD instead of USD. So you will get a lot of the same features for less. 

 

This brings us to Golden Feathers.

You are probably wondering how this all effects golden feathers. All current golden feathers are being converted to in GTA currency, however after the 01/12/2019 you will no longer receive them and rewards will be based on your subscription tiers. We will be releasing a full breakdown of the changes to subscription tiers and what perks will go along with them. 

Our wonderful content creators!
Contracts will be handed out to our creators which will outline more closely the what it means to be associated with BlueBird. One major point will be regarding perks for being subbed to a specific content creator, admin or dev. This will no longer be allowed in any capacity and all subscriptions of the same value will receive the same rewards. The payouts will also align with the changes from USD to AUD.

Lastly Multiclanning
This is something we haven’t looked into much in the past, but it is becoming more relevant as we grow. If you hold a position of power, you won’t be able to hold a position of power on another server. This is to make sure you aren’t spread too thin between places, in the same way we don’t want other servers to suffer for having less of your time, we don’t want to have big roles being half done.

BlueBirdRP - Police Constable (Student Police Officer) Requirements.

-Learn basic laws and enforcement Learn basic communication skills for dealing with members of the public.

-Learn how to use GTA weapons appropriately and use of force

-Observe through ride alongs of other Police Constables of how to RolePlay appropriately.

-Learn how to drive Police vehicles

-Learn how to use radio codes and communicate effectively.

-Learn server rules including police requirements.

-Respond to Emergency Calls

-Attend Car Accidents, Home Invasions, Traffic Stops, Abductions, Armed Robberies, Burglaries, and many other crimes.

-Patrol assigned areas providing a visible police presence.
Answer General inquiries in relation to the server, its menus and operation (think of this like giving directions to a member of the public.

-Issue Penalty Infringement Notices
-Arrest & Charge Offenders
-Conduct Licence checks and Roadside breath testing
-Assist other Government agencies as needed from time to time.

Please apply through https://bluebirdrp.live/index.php?/support/ > New Request > BlueBirdRP Police Force

I'd love to see who would be interested in working on the radio channel (in game pay not IRL)