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Of course the developers are busy bees, but the REASON they are developing is to help improve and expand the experiences of the community, I share @Harley's point!
There is reservations, of course, saying "This update will be released on this date, 3 months in the future" is extremely specific and can easily be missed, but just a general ball park of progress, like new movies do, "Coming this winter, Irish Hat update!".
Especially about active issues, which isn't just down to the devs to communicate, yesterday having the server go down so often, people in game where asking "Does this happen all the time?! This is ridiculous" and in the discord there was obvious frustration, even @Ranger had to perform some 'boredom/crowd' control by doing a counting exercise in #general! Would be nice to see an official notice about server issues in the future.
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I think now, more than ever, this would be super cool! A lot of people don't like the government structure and have compared it to a dictatorship, people not having a say in who is in power. It would bring a whole new dynamic to the server which would be great to explore.
You'd be able to have a mayor who assigns more funds to law enforcement, increasing their fleet, payroll money and helps them apply state laws at the cost of lower funding for public services like LSC, Bayview or DCC for example.
Then you could have a new term with a different leader who is bias toward Grapeseed, increasing money made from farming but reduce it from city work like roadworks, burgershot etc.
It just opens the server up to an update in the legal world. 'Election Season' and such would be big events!
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Totally for crim rp...
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I agree with the idea of blocking IDs from showing with more things, like removing IDs when someone is masked, or in a vehicle with windows up.
However, removing it completely would difficult unless there was a huge amount of variation between player models available.
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People have already mentioned that this would just make things simply more enjoyable, from the stand point that PD and SD are engaging in all sorts of RP across the city and county and all of your RP is completely halted while waiting for someone to think, "fine, I'll go". It would simply make people happier, balancing the pros and cons, the pros win.
A question of RP is similar to that at the scrapyard, or Mors, even comparative to the parking system, click a button, select a vehicle and bring it out, if we are demanding people use roleplay in the form of /me's and /do's at the impound, perhaps we'd need to enforce it elsewhere.
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Welcome!
Starting off can be difficult, but just remember it's an RP server and is built around player interactions. Getting involved and interacting with others is the main way you'll enjoy yourself! A lot more than being a lone wolf at least! (Although that is an option too!)
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Although it would be nice to have some difference in licenses, there has been some other suggestions involving being able to show individual licenses, pehaps adding "/license ID prison" could be another one!
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A modder with game improvement ideas and solutions is a valuable modder.
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@alexalex303 @MrSilky Thank you both for inputting to this discussion! As I'll continue to remind all readers of this, I am not in a Legal Faction with Pagers, nor in a Criminal Faction, I am simply looking to discuss the possibility of balancing this as it uses a 3rd Party tool to increase one sides advantage, from a neutral stand point.
1 hour ago, alexalex303 said:If you think you're about to fight someone, and you ping, that's a ping for clapping not "for the RP of being ready".
This is loosely the example of the original post. Something to either allow criminals to be able to utilise 3rd party (Discord) to ping in a reactive way as Legal Factions are permitted to do via role-playing pagers, or disqualify both sides for doing it. As permitting one side and not the other is unbalanced.
Would you agree perhaps that if a gang was to also utilise pagers themselves, RPly giving themselves them, and creating a channel such as "#call-to-arms" or something in their discord that a reactive ping, like that of SWAT, SED, CERT, etc. would be acceptable in your view?
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@FatherOsborn Thank you for replying! As I've said already, I don't have a character who is in a Criminal Faction nor in a Government Factions that utilises a pager, the purpose is for discussion, so points like this are perfect!
17 minutes ago, FatherOsborn said:Take a situation, for example, a group takes people hostage inside of a property with heavy weapons. There's no SWAT or SED online, there's no one trained to negotiate or even equipped to deal with the situation, if there were no pagers, it's a roleplay situation that ultimately would be ignored as there'd be no point in sending officers to their deaths, they are just realistically and actually not trained for these situations.
In the situation described, you mention a group of people with heavy weapons taking people hostage. We realistically can assume that this group in the scenario are experienced players due to co-ordination plus their equipment, and the group would have enough time on the server to understand how the server works. If they were attempting to create a hostage RP for PD to attend they would do so when there is adequate police presence on the streets. How would they know this? They'd simply looks outside, perhaps scout around, seeing 1 cruiser in 20 minutes in high traffic areas would clearly indicate that there is not a high police presence and an attempt to RP heavily with police wouldn't be beneficial.
If this was to happen, the hostages would not be for PD to deal with, but would be apart of something else, potentially gang affiliated. This would be a potentially exciting RP scenario that would not even require police to attend. If it was witnessed by on officer and an interaction began, it wouldn't be in the Officer's favour, as it's not designed to be fair for them. It would simply be a loss.
The time chosen with limited police would have been done so on purpose, and using an OOC ping to awaken people to overwhelm the situation would potentially take away from a deeper RP planned.
Promoting fun and deeper RP should be considered before stomping it out with overwhelming force!
@MrSilky Thank you for your addition to the thread also! As mentioned this is for a discussion on both sides, I'll just be balancing the statements as best I can!
32 minutes ago, MrSilky said:There is no advantage here whatsoever as we allow all players to ping others OOCly for “RP opps” and it is not restricted to just the Gov factions as you have mentioned. The gov factions simply roleplay it as a pager to make RP sense, other factions be that criminal or legal don’t even need to roleplay a pager!
There is no issue with notifying friends/faction members OOCly about roleplay opportunities in game, as long as the OOC ping does not contain any IC information - which the Gov factions don’t as they simply say “You would receive a page” or something along those lines. Not only that, but these pagers are restricted to SED/SWAT meaning that less than 25% of the faction even gets them.
Factions are able to OOCly remind people of RP Ops. Normally in the form of "Reminder, RP 1 Ops in 1 hour!" And repeated, until "RP ops now!". There is a difference between this and what happens with the pager system.
Here is a difference in the pings.
Situation - A gang has attempted to take a drop, PD have discovered this and a shoot out has started. Both sides use their 'Pager'.
Upon receiving a Discord ping attached to the 'Metro SWAT' pager saying "Your pager would go off", a member can look at his/her/their Discord, stop what they are doing, load up and log on to ECRP, jump on their character, grab their equipment and be out of the door at Mission Row and have hopped in their cruiser before they even know what the situation is.
Upon receiving a Discord ping in the faction notice area saying "Rp Ops Now", checking their discord, a member might consider missing this 'meeting' to carry on playing Minecraft, they then decide "actually, sure I'll log on", load up ECRP, jump on their character, attempt to radio their faction by finding the right frequency from text messages, ask what's happening, run around collecting their equipment from their houses, getting a car ready, and then begin to head in the direction of the vague location.
The amount of information you'd think is being restricted by not including IC information in the Discord ping is not equal. Legal factions have a much greater understanding by using their pager and the type of pager about what the situation is, "Rp Ops" gives no sense of direction due to it being so vague. How would you balance this?
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I'd also like to add to this my personal view on Pagers. As I mentioned in the original post, I support Pagers, and I support them 100%, but only if there is a counter balance for crims, making them something in game too promotes realism, perhaps even alternate in game recruiting tactics for factions, legal and illegal, getting members in all time zones perhaps!
I'd like to ask in this thread these questions;
"Should a gang vs gang fight where a ping has been used to bring members online for the fight be penalised?"
And, "Should it be considered to NonRP to log out while inside a Legal Faction HQ?"
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It's a shame, when I used to see a new person and stop for a chat, they'd often ask, "Where is a good place to go/meet people?" I'd always recommend the pier, regardless of the time of day, there were people there, all type, legal, illegal, cops and crims. So much life was there, so many people to meet, coupled with an easy, relaxing way to make money.
It's how most of us started off, making some money, making connections. If it wasn't for the pier I would have had such a lower quality experience as a whole. Like @XeV mentioned, it's likely the only reason I played after the 2nd week of my time on the server. I just knew so many people so quickly that going off and finding something to do was so easy and enjoyable.
I think an increase in prices for selling fish would actually help. ICly there hasn't been as much supply of fish, so demand is surely higher
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I am currently only apart of Weazel News faction and this suggestion does not effect me entirely, however it is something that I think would allow the server to be more balanced as oppose to 'Nerf PD' or whatever else.
During my time in the LSEMS faction, I was told about a particular rule, "You cannot use a panic while injured, due to criminals not being able to." This meant that as a legal faction member you were not allowed to CTRL+E or type /em while your character was injured this is due to causing a call number and a blip to appear on the map, allowing other members of the legal factions (LSEMS/PD/SD) to know exactly where you are to come and help you. Obviously criminals on the server do not have something as powerful as this, and the rule was made to create a balance in the server between legal and criminal, relying on a call to 911 or texting your location. This led me to think about what areas could be improved by balancing the Crim Vs Cop aspect of the server.
Issue
Currently LSEMS, PD, SD and DOC all have an incredible advantage over illegal factions due to the use of 'Pagers', for those who don't know, ICly players can receive an RP 'pager', this allows them to respond to an OOC ping on Discord that there is something happening so they can log on and help in the situation. This reaction is often so quick due to faction members often not 'going home' after a shift and instead log off in a locker room. This means that as soon as the Pager is pinged, it can take a player less than 5 minutes to log on, instantly go on faction duty, get their loadout, and respond to the on-going situation.
Criminals don't have this luxury and a ping in discord regardless of what it says, is classed as Metagaming, enough said.
Solutions
There are two main solutions I'd like to put forward to balance this for criminals.
1. Remove the Discord ping entirely, keep it in game. Use an alternative method or something, perhaps even script support for ACTUAL Pagers, that send a notification to the wearer. (Right clicking the item and selecting 'Use' attaches it to your character.)
2. Allow criminal factions to have their own 'Pager' system, either being a Pager too, or perhaps a ping "@Gang Text" Or something similar. Just something to allow Criminals to be able to enter into situations after being notified OOC through discord when they aren't in game.
If you think it sounds overpowered for Criminal Factions to use this, take it away from Legal Factions too. Having a ping on Discord which permits players who aren't even online to be able to log on and join into an active roleplay is a crazy advantage.
Please let me know your thoughts and suggestions on this matter. I'd like this thread to maintain the core theme of Pager/Discord Ping for an IC advantage.
Thank you.
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Darkness was increasing across the city.
The end of the day; requesting Los Santos’ slumber.
Sophia stood up from the cold, grey concrete floor. Her clothes, saturated with blood from the night before. Taking in her surroundings, she didn’t recognise where she was. Tall buildings all around her. She took out her phone, checking the time. She skipped almost a full day? How? Confused, she opened her contacts.
"Come pick me up.” She texts Marcus.
A few minutes passed before her phone began to ring, her brother.
"Evening Sis, where are you at?” asked Marcus.
"Fuck knows. In the city. LSC I think.”
"I’ll find you, I have someone with me you’re going to want to meet.”
The call ended, and Sophia made her way to the road, where, indeed, she was outside the mall, near LSC. It wasn’t long before the green VST-R pulled up alongside her, this time with two masked occupants, one clearly Marcus, the other… Unknown.
Sophia got into the rear passenger seat and sat back as the car moved off, she was trying to recollect what happened to her last night. She could remember the guy with the van, and she remembers stabbing him, then a blur. Nothing. No recollection from the moment her blade penetrated that man. What hap-...
Her thoughts were interrupted when Marcus turned around to her and said,
"You remember who this is sis?”
Sophia shuffled over to the centre spot and looked at the man, who turned to see her too. Removing his mask. Sophia knew him instantly.
Leonardo, the middle brother.
"Nice to see you again Sophia. Been a while!” Leo said enthusiastically, looking up and down at his little sister he paused…
Sophia nodded at him.
"It has.” She returned.
"What the fuck happened to you? You’re covered in blood…”
Hearing this, Marcus pulled over and turned around to view his little sister’s clothing.
"Holy shit Sophia, you okay?” He asked.
"Yeah. I’m fine, it’s not my blood. I… had an issue last night, but it’s dealt with. Don’t worry.” She responded hesitantly. Not wanting to be treated differently like she normally is. She wanted to hide what she’d done so she could continue to stay with her brothers… She needed to control this.
"Bloody hell, right, we need to get you cleaned up.” Marcus said as he put the car in drive and sped off toward Chumash…
The Falcones arrived at Chumash Pier, a very quiet area of Los Santos.
The three walked along it, nobody else there. Once reaching the far end, Marcus turned to Sophia.
"Clean yourself off down there. We’ll wait.”
She returned a slight nod before using a ladder to climb to the water level, discreetly. She begins to scrub her clothes while her brothers keep watch.
It wasn’t long before she returned to her brothers. Soaked.
"This was a shit idea Marcus.” Sophia muttered.
He smirks under his mask and tilts his head,
"Better than bloody clothes.” He said,
"Come we’ll get you some new ones.”
The trio soon arrived at Suburban near Burgershot. Marcus gave Sophia some money and allowed her to get an outfit. She never cared for fashion, just something to put on so she didn’t get cold. Black shorts and a buttoned shirt, that’s the cheapest she found.
"Looks great sis, let’s go” Called Marcus. Sophia agreed and ran to the car, hopping in. The car took off east, to Mirror Park.
BSB were having a gathering, Sophia recognised a load of them as they pulled into Bridge St. She saw there were packs within this gang, cliques that stuck together, only pretending to be there for one another. It was subtle, little arguments, who’d take whos side. Little things she noticed, but there was one person who stuck out, one of the youngest. Anakin Bridge. He was different, despite his age he had control beyond his rank and seniority, he earned it by butting heads with opposition. Sophia took a liking to him, interested in who he was, who he was trying to hide.
"Anakin, lay with me." Sophia said, laying on the pavement.
Anakin shrugged and agreed, taking up a space next to her.
"Why do you hang out here? You argue with everyone, why bother?" Inquired Sophia.
"These guys are like my family, th-" Anakin was interrupted by a loud sigh from Sophia.
She pushed herself up and got to her feet, the thought of him considering these people 'family' annoyed her. A bunch of hooligans could not be a family... Family, the Falcones were a family, right?
Anakin looked up at her as she inspected the group around her, looking confused he stood up too, and run up to and hopped the fence, to talk to some members around the back.
Something felt off, a slow wave descended over Sophia, it felt like anger gift-wrapped in adrenaline. Surrounded by people, but completely alone, this feeling. Why? The rage kept building and building...
Sophia looked to Marcus,
"I need to go. Now."
Before he had time to answer, Sophia began to run toward the corner. Turning, she head into the city...
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Hi! As someone who doesn't have a 'mainstream' crim, nor an LEO character I can take a non-bias view of this.
Most of the issues with Crim vs Cops comes from lack of RP between the two making the whole 'RP' scenarios negative and not fun. Both sides need to give something back to each other to avoid the negative experiences.
Over-powered LEOs
The LEOs in the city are meant to be able to win to prevent 'gangland' from being the norm, it's designed that they have an advantage over an average criminal. There is plenty of times where LEOs 'lose' but that is normally down to being out-gunned, out-skilled or even from not knowing what they are meant to do. To say they are over powered is fine, but they are meant to be that way, or gangs would rule their area of the cities with PD not being able to shield the civilian/legal population from this.
It's been mentioned, that paying for equipment, vehicles and fuel etc should be added to "take away their advantage" but I support this simply to add more immersive RP for LEOs, this shouldn't be locked to Law Enforcement Factions either, all Official Factions with the ability to take out equipment and vehicles should be treated the same.
Another key thing, which does actually push LEOs to be considered over-powered, is the reliance of Lethal Force, due to the FearRP rule as soon as an officer LEO points a gun at a suspect all RP that the person could add to a situation fades. Have fun, don't spam taze people instantly when they run, go for a parkour foot chase for a little bit, see where it goes, it opens the door for different and sometimes hilarious RP when you give people a bit of rope to play with. At an IC level I believe that aiming a potentially life ending weapon at someone who's just evaded from a ticket, as a law enforcement officer, is ridiculous. I live in Europe, and there is minimal cop shooting for this, so if that's an American realism thing, or just a server thing, I don't know. Let people have fun, and you'll be better for it.
Improvements to Criminals' experience
I've had the privilege to roleplay as an alternate type of criminal, and it's seriously been some of the most fun I've had on the server, and I know that LEOs also enjoyed the RP I was able to provide them with because it was designed to encourage active and fulfilling RP. I mention this for one simple reason, we are all here to RP. We joined ECRP and some of us who've been playing for a long time do so still because we really do enjoy RP. If criminals WANT to RP with Law Enforcement, give them some rope too, allow a situation to be more enjoyable for both sides. If you've just run away from a shootout where you've been shot and PD have pulled you over for speeding, utilise /do to make your scenario your own, "yes sir" "no sir" "you're a pig sir" "thank you sir" isn't fun, it's repetitive and neither side benefits from it. Using your skills as RPers you can make a simple traffic stop meatier and slightly more enjoyable for either side, that's just one example but as we know you can actually make almost anything more enjoyable with a little creativeness and effort.
If your RP involves you needing to get to point one to point two, and a police stop is the last thing you want, do what @SkyeFuryy mentioned, drive normally, lower your suspicion level, that is ROLEPLAY, having a motive/mission and acting as though you want to be able to achieve that under any circumstances simply makes sense. Having an AK on your back, and being pulled over for going 120kmph past Burgershot is your fault.
Use your creativity to outweigh the LEOs tactical advantage. I know @Melody Frey used RP to beat PD in many ways, and it's something that should totally be explored more, if winning scriptly doesn't work, try something else until changes are made.
Improvements to Law Enforcement's experience
This will also include other legal factions, DOC and MD namely.
Similar to what I've been mentioned above, we're all here to enjoy the world of RP. Not mentioning individuals, as it's a long list, but in all legal factions that frequently interact with civilians and criminals alike there are robotic members. People who have their script, and stick by it, when making an application to join one of the government agencies you're required to give a background to the character you want to play, and if you are a black and white, cut and paste of a person, you'd be denied. One thing that is so often missing from interactions from faction members and non faction members is that colourful roleplay that your characters are meant to have.
Law Enforcement, if you want people to stop shooting at you, if you want people to stop being 'assholes' to you, talk to people, build respect, be a character who wants to enjoy their work, just because you're not in your community relations department ICly doesn't mean you can't interact with people. Give people opportunities to RP with you, and allow yourself to enter other people's roleplay, you don't have to control the direction 100% of the time, you'll have much more fun, and so will they if you switch it up. (Within reason, don't get into a stranger's van pls).
DOC, you have a pool of people in your cellblock that are bored, they've just been given 6 hours of prison time by the over-powered LEO factions (lol). Talk to them. Interact, if you think there isn't enough to do, ask for things, script might be limited but as an RP server you can ask @Chunder to add items from the furniture store, be creative.
LSEMS, it doesn't matter if it's a civilian who fell off of their BMX or a gang member who's been shot during a gun fight, RP with them. That doesn't mean the robotic, copy and paste "/me looks over the person for injuries" "/do what do I see?", talk to them, elevate from ticking the boxes to drawing on the corner of the page, make people think you aren't just a means to 'not die' but a person who's trying to save their life.
Closing
This thread does raise concerns, and rightfully so, but learn from other people's posts. At the end of it the staff team and development team can't fix things if points aren't raised. Voicing concerns is absolutely the best way to help a community, but only when done right.
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DISCLAIMER: Involves detailed violence!
Marcus and Sophia drove across the city, exchanging little words as they got used to being in each other’s presence. Sophia soaking in the city, Marcus keeping his eyes on the road.
Woooo! Police lights ignited the back of Marcus’ green V-STR. An LSPD car signalled and followed him to the side of the road. The officer called for backup, 1. 2. 3 units responded to his request.
“Afternoon Mr Falcone,” said the initiating officer as he approached the window.
“Can I see your licence please?”. Marcus nodded, presenting his licence to the officer. After giving it a glance, the officer bent down, peering to the passenger side where a masked Sophia was sitting.
“Hello, miss, can you remove your mask and do you mind showing me your licence too?”
Sophia slowly dragged her head to face the officer, raising an eyebrow at the request.
“Why do you want mine?”, she enquired.
“Just policy ma’am.”
Sophia looked at her brother, he gave her a slight nod. Reaching into her back pocket Sophia withdrew her ID card, showing it to the officer as she unclipped her mask revealing her face.A few moments later the officer returned, giving Marcus his ID back.
“Do me a favour, keep the speed down Mr Falcone, you’re free to go after I turn my lights off.”
Sophia looked at Marcus,
“What was that about?”, she asked.
“Dumb fucking cops love pulling me over. Come, let’s go Bridge St.”
Sophia squinted at the vacating police vehicles as they drove away, her heart pumping harder as she felt a rage come across her body….png.4b341f41e13aebde073536934ac1addb.png)
It didn’t take long for Marcus and Sophia to arrive on Bridge St, where a woman in a rat mask and {REDACTED} stood on the sidewalk. The two siblings exited the car and took their place in the group for a few minutes, allowing the two to finish their conversation, Marcus interjected.
“Guys, this…” He paused, still not believing it himself, “this is my sister. Sophia Falcone”.
The woman quickly examined Sophia, before giving her a quick nod. Sophia returned the nod, confused why this woman was wearing a rat mask, but not thinking of mentioning it.
“Nice to meet you, Sophia, I’m Melody Frey.”
“Likewise,” Sophia replied.
Looking toward {REDACTED}, Sophia nodded,
“And you?”
“I’m {REDACTED}, I didn’t know Marcus had a sister.”
“He left when I was young, we haven’t seen each other in a very long time.”
{REDACTED} gives an understanding nod before turning to Marcus.
“We’re about to run stores, coming?”
Marcus turns to Sophia and tilts his head, offering the question to her instead. She nods.
“Sounds good bro, let me get her set up.”Sophia spent the day with Marcus, BSB and Melody, running stores, and earning little money. Sophia thought she’d enjoy it. Crime. But something was off, she was listening to orders, and following directions and all her ideas were being shut out, she needed more control…
The day came to an end and they loaded up the last of the packed cash into a Kamacho.
“We’re going to the east side, meet up with Drift now,” Marcus said over the radio.
Sophia hopped in the passenger seat, and they sped off to Los Santos Drift’s HQ, 2 members of LSD came out and greeted Marcus, and Sophia listened.
“Cheers brother, we’ve got your cash now.” Said one of the men in Orange, collecting the packages from Marcus.
“We’re bored as fuck right now, we could do with some chops, to be honest.”
Hearing the mention of ‘Chop’, Sophia was intrigued, hoping for something bloody.
“What’s a chop?” Her voice floated out of the Kamacho window.
The two LSD members approached the passenger door smirking at Sophia,
“Who’s this?” One said to Marcus.
“Gents, this is my sister, Sophia Falcone. She’s riding with me for a bit.”
She nodded at the two of them.
“I’m Ansel Snow”, said one of them.
“Bring vehicles you steal to us, and we’ll let you keep the cash.” He said.
Sophia let out a sigh. Nodding at him.
“Gotcha.” She returned.
“Take my number.” Ansel offered, giving his number to Sophia to save.
Marcus nodded at the two and collected his cash, hopping back in the car.
“Let’s go, I need to sleep.”
Marcus was asleep, and Sophia was alone in the city. She began to wander around, before making it to Legion Square, where there was a high-end-looking sports car parked outside a hotel. Thinking about what she was told earlier that day, Sophia checked the area, the sun was still up, but it was still dim outside. The streets were quiet. She approached the driver’s side of the car slowly… Peering inside, it was empty. She took out a lockpick from her pocket that she stole from Marcus earlier. And placed it against the lock of the door, she looked around once more, before seeing the door of the hotel was slightly open… She paused, looking at the lockpick, she put it back into her pocket and approached the hotel door, keeping her senses on high alert. She entered. The foyer was highly decorated and she could hear chatter and music in one of the rooms. This was enough she needed. They were distracted. She slipped back outside, leaving the door as she found it. She went back to the door and began to pick the lock. Click. Click. Click. Click… She stopped. Tried the handle. It opened. Sophia quickly hopped in, as soon as the door opened the car’s alarm began to sound, but that didn’t matter, she started the engine and put her foot down, she was away.
She quickly got onto her phone, calling Ansel.
“You still want a car to chop?” She asked.
“Of course, come to our HQ”, responded Ansel.
Sophia sped to the LSD HQ where Ansel was already waiting on his motorbike, he beeped twice signalling Sophia to follow, and she did. They went around to LSD Mechanic.
Some spannering, hammering and dismantling later, Sophia got her 16k and Ansel was happy..png.0c1a841eb2a9445bbd72a67041efc4f3.png)
“Need a ride somewhere?” offered Ansel.
“Sure, can you take me to Eclipse?”
“Of course, hop on.”
Racing through the city, Ansel suddenly stopped in Strawberry…
“You need to get off, I need to go now, the boys are fighting!” Ansel exclaimed.
Without a word, Sophia obliged. Watching as Ansel spun around and sped off.At this point the night had begin to creep in. Looking at the cash in her hands, Sophia examined her surroundings. She located a store and entered it. Sophia’s emotionless stare, while she was requesting to buy a knife, was unnerving to the store owner, but he accepted her cash and handed her the knife…
Walking. Walking. Walking. Sophia strolled over the bridge near Mount Zonah. Something caught her eye, a postal van, she attached the mask across her face, concealing herself. Crossing the street toward the hairdresser, where she approached the Go Postal van which seemed to have crashed into a tree. She stood near and saw the driver swearing and cursing at his van. She watches him have a bit of a meltdown, before approaching further.
“The fuck are you looking at woman?!” Belted the man.
Sophia didn’t say anything, staring at him.
“You don’t speak, baa! Fuck off you stupid bitch”, continued the man.
She felt her heart pump and an impulse growing inside her. She took another step toward him.
“Can you fuck off? This isn’t a kitchen you fucking whore!” The man’s temper was clearly peaking, and he approached Sophia aggressively.
Sophia finally opened her mouth, “You should be nicer.” She claimed as he stepped toward her.
“Shut the fuck up dumb bi-...” His voice was lost.
Sophia stood still, as did he. Their eyes met. A confused expression on his face, zero expression on hers. Droplets hit the ground between them. The driver’s eyes slowly lower to his stomach. Sophia’s fist was pressed against his belly, retaining the full length of her blade inside the man.
Sophia pushed him softly, causing him to stumble backward. Dropping to his knees. Sophia crouched in front of him. She stared at him in his desperate eyes.
“Pl-please… Don’t. Help me”, he pleaded.
Sophia had a wave of power come across her body as she places the blade of her knife against his throat, closely watching his facial expressions. She pierced his throat and dragged the knife horizontally severing his windpipe and artery in one. His body dropped to the ground….png.3f6d5cb9dc9c17f43cc7cae8c1a609c9.png)
Sophia looked down at his lifeless body. Disappointed in how quickly that feeling faded. She clenched her fist and gritted her teeth in anger, delivering a flurry of stab wounds to the corpse. Nothing, the feeling was lost. She grabbed his glasses as a trophy before sprinting off into the night. Kicking walls, punching windows. Sophia spent the night fighting herself, confused why she couldn’t feel the way she did when having a life in her hands…
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As the year ticked over to 2021, Sophia was determined to find out the truth about her brothers, unsure if they survived the fire years ago which claimed their parents. No bodies were discovered, yet no sign of them, Marcus or Leon.
Not having access to the internet herself, Sophia went to the library and opened up a search engine on one of the computers. Sighed, and hesitantly used her weathered fingers to type;
“Falcone”
Instantly the page was filled with news articles, a mix of information about their family home, along with the sinister discoveries made public about her father’s enterprise with the Italian mafia, each image filling Sophia with slightly more hatred to her family, yet, she needed help… Sophia refined her search, she entered;
“Marcus Falcone”, her closest brother.
There. Right in front of her, Weazel News articles and social media posts, her brother Marcus was in Los Santos, where he was making a name for himself in gangs and crime mafias. Marcus Falcone was a notorious criminal who, although known for crime, wasn't caught by law enforcement too often for his wrong-doings. Regardless, Sophia had found what she was looking for. Over the coming months, she stole and saved money, just enough for a flight, she was ready to reunite with what was left of her family.
2nd of March 2022, the tires screech, the momentum causes everyone to nod their heads at once as the brakes are applied. Her plane touched down at Los Santos International Airport. It wasn’t long before the shuttle bus arrived at the bus station opposite the hospital, Sophia Falcone arrived in Los Santos…
It took very little time for Sophia to find the right people to ask if they knew who and where Marcus Falcone was. The answer she found, Eclipse Towers. Sophia walked from the bank to the apartment area, and there. Getting into his car was Marcus.
“Oi! Dickhead.” teased Sophia.
“Holy shit, is that… Is that you?” Marcus returned.
They both exchanged a stare, taking in how much they had both grown since they last saw each other, Sophia, from a young girl to a strong nineteen year old woman, And Marcus from a scrawny teen to a fighting fit gangster.
“Sophia? Is that you?” Marcus questioned.
Sophia replied with a single nod. Smirking under her face mask. Years apart, and now reunited. Sophia hopped into his car and they sped off, heading to get Sophia some ‘experience’ in Los Santos…
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DISCLAIMER: Involves detailed violence!
Seven years had passed. Sophia was put in the foster care system after the passing of her parents as authorities were not able to find any relatives in the country. She was passed around between four families over the years due to them not being able to handle her sudden, and often violent outbursts of rage & frustration. Her lack of compassion and emotion was scary to the families she was delivered too.
During her time at what would be her final foster family, Sophia, aged sixteen broke into the streets, she found a temporary solace in a local street gang, known as OTM, or Over Time Mandem. OTM were a violent group of teens to early twenties who were known in the area for their crimes against vulnerable people like old people, pregnant women, and even young children. They would overwhelm their victim, often kicking, punching and trampling them before taking their belongings. Sophia was never the first to take anything, she used to continue the onslaught of attacks when the rest of the group ceased, it was clear getting pleasure from the act of controlling the victim.
The sirens roared down the road. Weaving in and out of cars, bursting through intersections before arriving on scene. The fourth police car had arrived. The alley way was pulsing blue, illuminating the victim, a seventy or so year old man, blood oozing from his mouth and nose. The officers sought to give treatment, however as they rolled the man over, it was clear there was no life left in his body. They noticed something odd, a huge laceration from the top of the thigh to the knee, the freshly opened wound oozing still after death. But something else. Something foreign remained in the wound.
A blood-soaked piece of paper with some writing was revealed…
“This is it. He tried to fight back. I wonder if you’ll be able to save him…”
The message was signed “Sophia”, with a smiley face, a smiley with both of the eyes sliced like an ‘X’.
Sophia was caught shortly after in relation to the crime. However a minimum sentence of corrective community service was given for her to complete as it could not be proven for intent to kill, or an accident. After the arrest, Sophia’s foster parents changed the locks on the house and refused to let her back in. She spent the rest of the year in and out of hostels, trying to keep herself together, but she was struggling, her volatile nature and inability to control her urges to hurt and injure caused further issues with her foster family.
Alone again. Abandoned again. Sophia's mental state, after all these years, was collapsing...
Darkness seemed somehow darker tonight, the lights were dimmer than normal as Sophia approached the house, a 10 inch knife in hand… She secured her hat to her head with a tug and a twist, before clipping her bandana across her face. As she arrived at the path leading to the front door, the spotlight from the automatic sensor beamed down onto her. Still. Sophia examined the windows… The doors… Clear. She approached the main door until she noticed the living room window was not closed fully, Sophia crept to the window, peering inside. Empty. Slowly and carefully, she opened the window enough to climb in. Taking her time, she scouted the room. Nothing unusual. The footsteps were almost silent as she climbed the stairs, peering into every room on the top floor, all abandoned, left in a mess and no effort to clean. Sophia’s own breathing was the only thing she could hear, pressing her hand gently to the master bedroom, she saw two outlines in the bed. Husband. Wife. She approached the husband’s side as taking out the bigger threat would be ideal in case they awake… She stood there, looking down at him, she raised her blade high into the air, before crashing it down through the man’s chest, his eyes darting open! He tries to raise the alarm but all that comes out is gas, no words, nothing louder than yawn. Sophia repeatedly strikes the man’s torso with a fury of blows with the knife, splattered blood soaks the sheets. She stops. Wiping the blade on the bed sheet, she walks around to the woman, she lay, still resting, not knowing her life is about to end. Sophia places the knife against the Wife’s neck. Emotionlessly, Sophia slowly drags it across, severing the artery… No resistance, just death. Sophia calmly strolled to the light switch igniting the bulb as she flicked it. The bed is red, the floor is red. The blood rained over the walls too. Sophia had destroyed these people, her last foster family, decimated.
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This Character Story is based on Sophia Falcone, using experiences from ECRP. Based in truth, with changes for story purposes. I hope you enjoy.
Born into the Falcone Family, Sophia was the youngest of her siblings, being the only girl in her Italian family.
With her dark eyes and black hair, Sophia shared her physical features with her mother, despite looking like her mother she was always the lowest on her parents priority list, her families business' took priority and her older brothers were the ones invited to help their father with the simple jobs, not her.
Sophia become isolated from her family, growing up she struggled to make friends, and her family seemed to neglect her and her needs. They would not let her speak at the dinner table, nor offer to help her with school. Her brothers ignored her when they went to play, and her father always seemed disappointed in her.
Her mother was the only person who she could talk to, but even then, it wasn't about anything nice, it would be for discipline when she messed up as her father didn't want to waste time on Sophia. When they did speak Sophia would ask to join her brothers with the tasks they were being set, to help the family business, of course, the answer was always no.
Sophia felt powerless, not being able to control anything going on around her, the anger and frustration grew through the years, following her closely...
The day was ending, the sun had retreated behind the gloomy clouds of the evening, dragging the temperature down with it.
The suburban streets stood empty, not a soul.
Suddenly wheels screech! A four door truck hurtled down the street, racing past a lonely Sophia who was scratching a smiley face onto a wall with a knife she stole. The truck's exhaust pipe spitting smoke and debris as it flew by. Sophia recognised the vehicle instantly from a few weeks before, following her brothers as they worked with their father, the truck belonged to her father’s competitors, the enemy.
Sophia, wearing her all black clothing, secured her hat to her head with a tug and a twist before darting home.
One street. Two streets.
Three streets she ran, before turning down the road where her home was… A blaze, no sign of the vehicle...
Screams of terror from neighbours and from within the house echoed to her ears. Her breath was shallow, her energy depleted, she stared, hopeless at her home in flames. She began to walk toward the inferno which had captured the majority of her house already. The screaming had stopped.
Sophia stood still. Nothing spoken. Nothing done. A twitch in her eye as she grasped her knife in her hand.
Waiting. Waiting. Nobody left the house as the fire brigade arrived, along with the police. The usually quiet suburban neighbourhood was transformed with flashing blue lights and the amber glow from the house's structure. Burned out beams drowned in the hoses from the firefighters, the house was all but destroyed.
It wasn’t too long before a single ambulance and a coroner vehicle arrived… One. Two bodies were slowly extracted from the embers. Mother. Father. Dead.
Sophia was left. No sign of her brothers. No parents. Sophia was alone…
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I'd like to add a suggestion for DOC, there are too many guard that passively carry firearms. In and around prisoners.
In real life it is very rare to see firearms be used by prison guards without being in an active situation.
In game this limits RP for prisoners, at the moment it's agreed that DOC is very limited for RP possibilities for inmates, most of the RP that people can have is with either violence or 'criminal' acts in the prison, due to most guards carrying firearms, this limits massively the extent of some RP due to the overwhelming advantage of the guards. As soon as lethal firearms are drawn, which is done by some guards more than others, all chances of escalating or developing some existing RP is removed.
I'd like to see what other people think about this.
Edit: This has been resolved ICly by some cool people
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For the same reason as AtlasOfLimbo. As it stands with DOC there is too little to do for long periods of time for people to enjoy.
Also, a lot of the players on the server RP their main character as a criminal. There would be such a large amount of people who would face 'life' in prison under this, it would render a huge amount of RP loss for the rest of the server involving criminals!
Playing as Sophia, I gave the detective branch something more than finger-printing guns, tracing phones, and just generic anti gang rp. I rp'd with lots of people and took many lives icly (haven't been caught for OOC ones yet teehee) and was arrested a few times for 2-3 murders at a time. It was becoming less fun due to being let out to do the same again and again, where in the real world life sentences would have been given for less! I thought it would be a great idea to intiate a long term sentence (life), in DOC. I reached out to the Faction Management and got permission to do so, I continued my RP as much as I could as an OOC 'finale' and an IC spree. My RP journey made 100% sense to go to DOC and as my character was not financially dependent, for example, didn't take part in drug cooking, or gang crimes majorly, and her only focus was/is her drive to cause pain/kill, there wasn't much of a reason not to try it.
I'm trying to find ways for long term prisoners to enjoy the RP in prison, and not making it a Alt Tabbed simulator. At the moment it's a mixed culture in DOC with the RP, more on the negative side however. I could go in deeper, but there is a different place for that discussion!
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Remove the /Alias command completely.
in Game Suggestions
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Also! Playing different characters can be difficult if you don't have an alias tool, not quite remembering who your character knows, as oppose to an alternate character you play does mean you accidently meta game a relationship with someone who you shouldn't.