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imma be honest my g, I don’t think so. myself and A LOT of others love the current state of labs with the update so I genuinely feel like there’s no more updates that need to happen besides allowing us to refund our extra tables

public labs are more fun, in the limited time i’ve played since the new labs i genuinely had a blast on them. You have to be smart now about when and what lab you go to, you have to not be total cunt to everyone ICly so you can hold without people robbing you. Whole lab update was a complete W update. Only change that needs implemented is the ability to pawn our leftover tables.

+/- 1 I absolutely love the suggestion of adding more ways to hunt and just updating the hunting system so MASSIVE +1 to a hunting overhaul. I say -1 to this specific suggestion of adding animals that will attack you. As of right now hunting is done by a lot of criminals with knives as we simply can't go out with a gun or we'll be arrested. With a system like this that animals attack back it essentially means a LARGE majority of the people who hunt would only be able to go to green areas to hunt as they'd end up dying if they tried to go anywhere else. Also animals are desync as fuck a lot of the time, so making them able to hit you would result in you getting randomly damaged without even seeing an animal.

oh shit! Anthrax is back

Please no, we don’t need more reasons/excuses for cops to solo challenge gunfights because they have better guns and armor. This would just give them more excuses of “it’s my character”. It’s a rule break for a reason

What requiem said, someone else should never have the ability to “delete” one of your characters. If this was implemented the person who’s gonna be CK should have to agree to it and then it’s be fine IMO. But someone else being able to just delete YEARS of playing a character is a huge no no

It simply doesn't matter if you have YEARS of evidence of them consistently doing shitty things that would warrant a CK like you said. Making somebody losing their entire character that they spend those months developing is practically a complete OOC consequence. There's simply no other way to look at it, making someone forcefully not be able to play a character that they love and enjoy playing is so un-called for.

+/- 1 There's other just as effective storage systems :winkwink

BIGGEST -1 EVER. I have a little over 2,000 or so hours on this server, that's from June 25th 2022 - Present among 3 different characters, roughly 300,000-400,000 EXP. There is a GREAT majority of criminals on this server that have twice to 3 times that. To get 1 million EXP that's around 200,000 MINUTES of playtime ( assuming you have VIP ) which accumulates to a little over 3,000 HOURS of playtime, on just that character. If you didn't know there's ~8,760 HOURS in 1 year. Now some may think I'm just rambling off numbers but there's a point to it. There's a good majority of people that have just HOURS of playtime, years of playing their specific character. They have done COUNTLESS things that would technically make them available for a CK with your application and reasoning format. Lets just say this was a thing, someone who has a genuine hate for them applies for this CK and gets it. That person who's spent HOURS on this server doing what they love and hanging out with friends, HOURS farming money to buy the new cool car they want, HOURS spreading connections, has ZERO idea they're about to lose EVERYTHING, Hundreds to Thousands of Hours of experience just gone because someone wanted to kill them. I'm sorry but it's absurd. The current way to get revenge on people for wronging you has ZERO issues right now. Someone wronged you, okay kidnap them and create RP without completely ruining their mood for days. I don't know about other people, but if I lost anything that I put Hundreds of hours into, I would be EXTREMELY upset at it. I've seen countless times people take EXTENDED breaks from the server because their gang they put hours into disbands, or they have a falling out with a good IC friend, they lose a weapon they really liked, or they got raided by PD/SD and lost a lot of their stuff. I'm sorry and it's cool you put a lot of thought into this suggestion and wrote it out, but the ability to just take someones hobby away at the snap of your fingers is crazy to me and shouldn't be considered. Unless the individual breaks a serious server rule that gave them a lot of items, rule breaks don't even result in your character getting wiped most times. Just the suggestion of someone being able to apply to permanently kill another character, another character that has thousands of hours of playtime on it. Is quite insane to me.

Only reason to go to Bayview is because it's cheaper. So you make the auto repairs link to LSC workers but cost a lot more and take longer so it seems pretty balanced to me.

Pushing = Broken Mechanic. I'm pretty sure i've had more instances of it just not working then it working.

In Mr. Mozzerella we trust.

This the realest thing I've seen all day.

I think you missed the point of the post... There is CLEARLY some problem as of right now with mechanics with the fact there's rarely ever any LSC mechanics on-duty. Having to drive 5-10 minutes to go to Bayview to get a repair is absolutely ridiculous. As for mechanic RP, that is the most non-existent thing in the server. 90% of the time this is the RP I see at LSC. This is no hate to the people of LSC as I like them, it's just nobody cares for the "RP" of it. They just want to go get their car fixed. "Can I get a repair" "Yes mask off" *Takes off mask & shows license* *Various mechanic license check and invoice AHK* /mechaccept *signs invoice* ((TABBED OUT)) People simply just want to be able to utilize the auto shop of LSC, and as of right now it's practically impossible to. For the comment of "being the change", 1 person is not gonna make a difference in the fact that there's no mechanics at LSC which completely cuts off people from a CRUCIAL part of RP. A simple change to incentivize people to work for LSC instead of Bayview would be very good to balance out the Faction Member and Activity Count between the 2.

The point of this is to get peoples ideas/suggestions on a "Phone-Overhaul" update. In the Weazel news post Harley mentioned a phone overhaul update and I decided to make another suggestion on the matter as I thought it was a good idea. Here are some of my ideas. 1. Notification System - Attach a notification system that goes with calls & texts. Make it clear what chats you have "unread" messages in and add a notification counter in the corner of the app similar to how the iPhone does it IRL. Along with that rework the Call system where you can clearly see any missed calls you received while offline. 2. Weazel News App - This goes with the weazel news update suggestion but make a weazel news app where you can see ALL previous advertisements posted. Taking it 1 step farther make a "marketplace" app that is similar to the marketplace we have on the forums, where people can post and fully contact each other through IC methods. 3. Food Delivery - Make an app where you can potentially order food from burgershot, this would open the door to make another freelance job as a "Delivery Driver" where people put an order in for something and you can go get it ( similar to trucker but not as large in scale ) 4. Settings - Make a settings app on the phone where you can change things about it, the background color, the icons, ringtone, etc. 5. Lifeinvader & Gov - Make both of these apps actually usable on the phone. Lifeinvaader just doesn't work and Gov is super laggy it's just easier to tab out to google and go on the gov website if you need. 6. Camera - Make a camera system similar to Base GTA's that allows you to take pictures of things and potentially send it via texts. This could open up some really cool RP of people being "photographers", potential for LEO RP of them getting search warrants for your photos, etc. That's all I can really think of off the top of my head, would love to see some more suggestions on the matter as the phone system is very old & boring and could definitely use a re-work!

Why yes, I see how this could be an idea. If you move the ads from text chat to the phone, I doubt they'll be utilized. You would have to greatly scale down the size of the text/ad to make it work to appear on the top of your phone like you're suggesting. The ads would be so small I doubt you'd be able to properly read it. Then there's also the issue of having to open your phone every single time an ad pops up just so you can see it. While the ad system that they have right now isn't perfect by any means, I see no issues with it. They're big enough to the point where you can clearly notice them and the wonderful people of Weazel make them eye-catching as well. I just think if you move them from how they are right now, it won't be utilized as much as it does right now. The biggest complaint I see related to Weazel ads and the text is that they "clutter" it and cause people to miss RP. In my opinion, I genuinely think it's not as big of a deal as people make it out to be. Weazel posts 3ish "Bulk" ads every 5 minutes and then they post ads people buy, I don't think they post so many that you miss RP. I personally think it's just not as a big of a deal as some people make it out to be. I agree with Harley tho, A phone-overhaul would be amazing. Currently phones are basically useless, you have cab, call, text, and contacts. I don't remember the last time I used anything other then those 4 things.

I think your shorties have abandoned you by now, you've been MIA for a couple months buddy

I see why this thread was originally created, but I don't think what's being discussed applies anymore. I played around 6 or so months within the SD Faction and I have friends I regularly communicate with that are within "LEO" factions ( DOC, SD, PD ). Just because you see a "Non-RP" thing happen, doesn't mean it's not being dealt with. A lot of times Supervisors within these factions will reach out to the members and talk to them about the Non-RP thing or whatever rule-break might've occured and make sure it doesn't happen again. You break FearRP by dismounting your vehicle when you really shouldn't have, they put an OOC Announcement reminding players that "hey this is FearRP" and also will host training to fix it, Someone does some NRP driving during a pursuit, they'll normally get talked to about it. I personally think that the server isn't as bad as some players think when it comes to LEOs and "NonRP Rules". Hell, go to the player reports section, go to archive and see how many cops are getting FearRP and NonRP for things. Admins enforce the rules just as much to LEOs as they do Crims, honestly a lot of times, LEOs are held to a MUCH HIGHER standard than your average "crim" is. I personally see no issues with the NonRP rules regarding LEOs as I think the NonRP rule right now covers it pretty well.

In my opinion there shouldn't be a rule on adding every charge you can or not, I think instead of making a rule against "charge-stacking", just lower all charges times, for example Evading is 30-40 minutes instead of 60 and Possession of Illegal Firearm is 30-40 instead of 60. Lower the times on all charges and allow cops to add whatever crime you actually commit to it. It sucks that the server can't be "realistic" and provide "barriers" of time instead of exact sentences, it would be cool if Murder you could face up to 30 minutes to an hour and a half or 2 hours depending on, what you did, how co-operative you were with police, etc. Sadly this would never be able to be done as it would probably get abused by people to either max sentence people they dislike or minimum sentence people they do like. I personally think there should be a max of 3 hours at DOC initially and no cap on fines. So if you commit lets say 5 hours worth of crimes, you get 5 hours in prison and then have to pay the full amount in fines. Another suggestion would be to lower time and in return raise fines by a little. Criminals are richer then ever on the server right now and replacing your time served for money, I don't think many people would have an issue with that. Please stop talking, RP is RP.

+1 Makes no sense why we cant.

Before you go about just saying + or -1 I would like you to hear me out. Currently on ECRP there is really 1 main crim event that happens ( car boosting ), this event is limited to Factions that have established themselves in good standing with Cartel/LFB. These are events that happen every so often at random times and focus on the criminal side of the server. I have participated in around 3 or 4 of them and I for one can say they are extremely fun. Now my suggestion is trying to have "criminal leaders" within the community attempt to work with Event Team/LFB/Staff and attempt to come up with more events similar to this one to try to focus some event attention to the criminal side of the server. Currently, "event" wise the server is quite limited like I said before. It would be cool to try and get some more events that a majority of criminals on the server can interact with, we've seen staff try to do this before with the Money Truck & Plane Crash which both turned into absolute DM Fests, which is why I think if we have some of the people who are considered "leaders' of the criminal side work with Staff to try and plan events that utilize criminal activities that won't just turn into a DM Fest. Now full transperancy, I am not very creative and can't think of many suggestions for this, so that's why I'd like other people of the community add comments to this in regards to potential events that could be held. Some ideas I thought of that could be interesting. Cartel/LFB reach out to the different gangs on the server with a task, for example "Bring us $250,000 worth of Packed Cash for a reward". This would be an event that would focus on the criminal side and maybe push people to doing the different types of robberies to get that packed cash, Stores, ATMs, and Banks. 1.5x or Double Money on drugs for 24 hours or for a weekend, Now this is a little more iffy one but it would focus on the criminal aspect of the server being labs. Essentially LFB would once again reach out and contact all gangs or an event ping could be posted in the ECRP discord that ICly LFB is in need of drugs and they are paying 1.5x or 2x the amount they normally would to get them, meaning when you go to sell to dealers you're selling for more. This I understand would be more difficult to do as you have to look at the aspect of the economy but it's just an idea. General LFB Events given to gangs, This is something that is already being done but it'd be cool to get more. If you're confused about what this means it'd be similar to the D6 Kidnapping of Matthew Burns, Rooks kidnapping of Dmitri, and more that have been given out but I either haven't heard about or seen. These are extremely fun events and I've gotten the opportunity to be part of a few in which I've had a blast, these also have the ability to INCLUDE LEOs in the events to give them RP to. Overall, the 3 suggestions above are just suggestions and I would love to hear other Criminals, LEOs, and Staff Members give their opinions on potential events that can focus on the criminal side of the server and the different criminal mechanics as it seems there's rarely any events that are held to focus on these mechanics. ADDITIONALLY PLEASE AVOID JUST DOING +/- 1, I WOULD LIKE TO SEE THIS BE AN ACTUAL DISCUSSION WHERE THINGS ARE BEING DISCUSSED AND PEOPLE ARE GIVING THEIR OPINIONS

common marty w ngl, just get rid of private labs and let us sell the shit, public labs = fun

I’ve been playing a lot recently actually going to labs and cooking and I can now say that I don’t mind the update, I actually like it for a lot of reasons. 1. It’s given way better interaction & connections - Throughout the time at the update I have been able to drastically increase connections with multiple gangs from just seeing them at labs often and chilling talking to them. It’s made the server way more fun having interaction and building connections with people. 2. Actual reason to pull guns out - Before the update the only time I was ever really pulling heavies out, was for major shootouts that were about to happen. Now with the update I have an actual reason to go pull out an SMG or a Pump. It’s a lot more fun with actual reasons to use guns other then shootouts. 3. The grind is fun - I have made more money in the last few weeks of the update then I ever did with cooking. I have had an actual reason to talk to people and make friends so I can hold labs with them. I actually utilize all the labs and go farm marijuana to go hold somewhere to make money. Overall, the update has been a big change but it’s overall a lot more fun and I encourage people to keep more of an open mind about it.

+1 To the changing of the DM rule. As it is right now, if anybody sees "(167) says (phone): Police", they're just KOS. The part of the DM rule where it states that "such as a report to the police" has made DM basically a checklist. I think that needs to be changed, I don't know how. But there needs to be some change.

MAJOR +1 This is the stupidest thing on the server and I hate how you have to transfer it. When you get out of prison you say you were in there for X number of hours. Just make it hours inside to. It adds 0 immersion to saying "I'm in here for 6 years" and is just very pointless.