Senka Wolf
Paradise Life RP
Website / Discord Bot / Hosting
About
Paradise Life RP (PLRP) is a FiveM roleplay community inspired by the NoPixel server.
I started building the website on 21 February 2021 as a passion project for the community. As it grew, it became a paid role, with payment made in in-game rewards on the FiveM server. I built and ran both the website and the community's Discord bots.
I later stepped back from day-to-day community life, but carried on hosting and maintaining the website and Discord bots until January 2023.
Challenge
Creating a comprehensive platform for a gaming community centered around a FiveM server. The platform should consist of a website that displays server rules and provides guides for new players. Also create a Discord bot for efficient support ticket handling.
Solution
I built a responsive website with server rules, donation information, a gallery, a live server status page and player guides. The guides cover game mechanics, server rules and community etiquette. I also built pages for in-game groups, such as the Los Santos Fire Department and Paradise Trading Cards.
For Pixxel Studio, an in-game business that took and edited photos of players, I ran a separate gallery website on a subdomain of the PLRP site.
I wrote the Discord bot in Node.js. It had a reaction-based support ticket system with ticket logs and transcripts, a live server status message that updated every minute, and a random member picker for giveaways. It's now open source on GitHub.
Gallery
Results
The website became the community's central hub. New players used it to learn the rules and how the server worked, and in-game groups used it to show off their departments and businesses. The Discord bot handled support tickets, so staff had a clear record of every request.
The site was popular enough to be copied. In January 2022, another FiveM community saved the PLRP website from a web browser and published it as their own. Leftover pages and links that still mentioned Paradise Life RP gave it away.
In January 2023, the bot went down because of a bug while I was abroad and unable to fix it. By the time I returned and got it back online, the community had moved to a different bot and pointed the domain at another server, which ended my involvement with the project.
4,331
Registered Members
2
Discord Bots
23
Months Maintained