The FiveM server has been up for almost a month now and I think it's safe to say that we've got it to a place where we're happy with it.

What this means is we will no longer be developing on the live server, instead any updates will be announced before going live and will be developed on a separate dev server.

Now that we're at this stage, I think it's a great time to get a regular afternoon/evening setup for a few of us to get on together to RP.  Currently, the server is empty most of the time and it's not that great being on an empty server by yourself or to just have a couple of people on, especially if one is a cop and the other is a civ, one is going to be following the other rather than going about their own business confident they'll encounter RP along the way.

I want to open a discussion here to see whats the best day/time for everyone who wants to participate on the FiveM server.

I will start by suggesting Wednesday evenings, say from ~7PM Community Time.

The Big Community Challenge (Teams) Season 3 sign ups closed last night.

The BCC lineup for the teams variant is as follows...

REPRESENTING EARTH'S ELITE:
Scott Archer, Chief Operating Officer

REPRESENTING THE LAST OUTPOST:
No Contestant

Season Three of the BCC Teams is cancelled as we did not hit our minimum of 4 contestants.

Scott Archer, representing Earth's Elite is deemed winner by default!

There are only 4 days left to sign up for this if you haven't done so already!

Our teams currently look like this:

Preference to represent Earth's Elite: 1
Preference to represent The Last Outpost: 0

Apparently we're really not having much luck with Teespring this year.  I have updated the above URL to reflect that I have had to recreate the campaign for a 3rd time!

The campaign was set to keep going and printing every 3 days until I end it, however it seems to not want to keep going past the 3 days...

I have set this new listing to last for 21 days (maximum they do), though I have also specified a custom end date of the 9th of Feb. (whether that'll work is anyones guess), however, this means any orders from this point will be held until the 6th of Feb. before they will go to print and be shipped.  My apologise for this but it seemed like a better option rather than keep having to create URL's etc every 3 days (don't get me started on the 'relaunch campaign' button that they have, I presume, just for show).

The 2018 edition of the EE mug was supposed to go on sale this Monday, but due to issues releasing the design we've only just been able to publish the mug.

The 2018 mug is extra special as it marks our 5th anniversary (EE turned 5 on November 21st 2018).

Along with marking our 5th anniversary, this mug is also featuring out 2018 member of the years name, Scott Archer!

Earth's Elite makes no profit from these mugs, we are selling them at cost price + shipping.

If you wish to get your very own mug you can do so here - https://teespring.com/ee-mug-2018-5y

The sale of this limited edition mug will end February 9th 2019 at 23:59 GMT.  Once it's gone, it's gone.  The mugs will print and ship every 3 days (hence the timer on their website).

Staff positions are now reopened!

Ladies and Gentlemen,

It is almost that time of year again, where we pit two teams against each other and see who will be victorious!

Season 3 of the teams BCC will see a slight change.  Once again we have teamed up with our friends over at The Last Outpost and this year we will be putting EE against TLO to see who will be crowned the winning community.

How will this work?
The basics of the teams variant will remain fairly normal.  The event will run weekly as usual (Fridays at 8PM GMT), one week will be a team leader challenge and the next will be a head to head teams challenge.
The team leader challenge will be held inter-teams to see who will be that weeks team leader, the team leader is tasked with deciding who will be doing the following weeks challenge and if necessary, deciding who will be leaving their team if their team loses.
Head to head team challenges will put the teams representative (if applicable) against the other teams rep, this challenge will decide which team is the winner or loser (note some challenges may put the entire teams against each other).
By the season finale we should be left with only two contestants, one representing EE and one TLO, they will go head to head aided by their former contestants along the way to try and crown their community the winner.

I'm a member of EE and TLO, what happens?
YOU MUST CHOOSE! or we might choose, it depends....
When you sign up you will be asked to declare your memberships, if you are part of both communities we will ask you to pick your preferred team (EE or TLO).  We will strive to assign you to your preferred team, but some team balancing may be required depending on numbers.

Whens the sign up event?
That's another change being introduced, there will be no sign up event, instead, the first live event of this years Teams BCC will be a team leader challenge, you can sign up right now and continue to do so right up until the cut off point (24 hours prior to the first challenge).  So you have until January 31st at 8PM GMT to sign up.  You can sign up here - https://goo.gl/forms/jnciI3SDafhhQYqK2

We are two days away from our annual 'get as mashed as you can' event.

As always the PG rating of this event is PG-18 (and/or your country of residence legal drinking age).

If you are joining us there will be optional drinking games to participate in.  This years we are doing a bit of a throw back to the very first one we did (where I only remembered what happened because it was streamed).

We will be starting out on GTA Online with some races.  Full rules of the drinking games will be published here on the night and may be subject to change at any point during the live event.

The event kicks off at 9PM Community Time Sunday 30th December.

If you are joining us or playing along by way of the stream, please drink responsibly!

Happy new year to everyone!

Secret Santa for this year is now closed, I think it's obvious who got who

REMINDER!

If you want to join this you need to register your interest before the end of play on Friday!