WLS Rumors

NPC witnesses, rumors and informants for RedM servers running VORP, RSG-Core or QR-Core, by West Life Studios.

What townsfolk see becomes a rumor. Informants in saloons and sheriff's offices sell what they have heard: law informants know who did what, saloon gossip knows where the money is. Every report and every bribe is checked by the server.

Townsfolk talk

• Witnesses: NPCs within 35 m with a clear line of sight see what a player does. Players and animals don't count.
• What they see: shootings, murders, illegal weapons in hand, trespassing at forts and the prison, moonshine stills.
• Credibility: mask -0.30, night -0.20, drunk witness +0.10, more witnesses add up. All values in the config.
• Rumors fade: every rumor has a lifetime and gets vaguer every hour. A collector cleans up every minute.
• Only when it matters: the scanner only looks around while the player runs, rides, shoots or draws an illegal weapon. 0.00 ms idle.

Law informants

• Deputies and clerks: each one hears about his towns, districts and everything within a radius around him.
• Dynamic dialogue: built from the rumor: who, where, when, which weapon, how many victims. Several variants per type in 8 languages.
• Names only when sure: a name is told only above 0.80 credibility and never when the person wore a mask.
• Fair play: a player never hears about himself and never buys the same rumor twice. Bribe and cooldown per informant.
• Telegrams: murders and robberies send a telegram and a map circle to law on duty.

Saloon gossip

• Full tills: a big sale in WLS Shops becomes a tip about that store.
• Full pockets: a big cash withdrawal at a WLS Banking counter becomes a tip about that person.
• Unguarded routes and stashes: ambient tips from the config, so the underworld always has something to sell.
• Law on duty: how many lawmen are on duty, per town or for the whole territory (WLS Society or framework duty).
• No badges: underworld informants refuse anyone with a law job.

Notebook and admin

• Notebook: /notebook keeps every bought tip: what was said, how sure, where, when and from whom.
• Map marks: a circle around a fuzzy position for a few minutes, never the exact spot.
• Admin panel: /rumors shows every rumor with its metadata and which informants know it. Delete, forget all, teleport.
• Test rumors: create any rumor where you stand to set up informants in minutes.
• Informants in the config: model, position, heading, scenario, hours, zones, hearing radius, price and cooldown. Ten are included.

Exploit-safe

• Reports about the sender: the suspect always comes from the server character. Nobody can frame another player.
• Server checks: position against the server ped, illegal weapons against the weapon the server sees, zones and victims against their radius.
• Bribes on the server: informants are named by id only. Distance, refusals, cooldown and cash are checked on the server.
• One entry point: rate limit, cooldown per action and a report limit per minute. Abuse is logged and can kick.

Also included

• No database: rumors live in server memory. Nothing to import, nothing to clean up.
• Frameworks: VORP, RSG-Core and QR-Core, found on their own. Another framework only needs one open bridge file.
• For developers: server exports CreateRumor, GetRumors, RegisterRumorType, RegisterHook and more; client exports to report own actions, count witnesses and check masks; created, expired and sold events.
• Connects on its own: WLS Shops, WLS Banking, WLS Society and WLS Target. Works without them too.
• Languages: English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese (BR), Polish, Dutch, including all dialogue.
• Interface: the WLS 1899 style, movable and resizable, native RDR prompts or WLS Target, no 3D text.

Requirements

• vorp_core, rsg-core or qr-core
• Nothing else: no database, no items

Good to know

• Asset Escrow: the resource is protected by Cfx.re Asset Escrow. After purchase it shows up in your Cfx.re Portal under Granted Assets.
• Open files: config, server config, language files, zones and the framework bridge.
• Documentation: installation guide and README are included.
• Support: available on our Discord.

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