Quietthecutie

Honestly at this stage there is no excuse to not have some kind of recording software running. the software at this point is as unintrusive at it can be. most software allow you to delete and upload as you go so drive capacity should not be an issue. no ones saying you have to provide POV at 4k quality, but you should be able to produce something if you are asked to. if you have a 2TB hard drive filled with clips then golly gosh thats a you problem for not freeing up space. i have about 20 gigs alloted to clips i need to save and so long as i mange it thats plenty. take some responsibility as a player and its never a problem.

i feel like you entirely misunderstood what i was trying to say. I was praising LEOs for improving response times for impound in my personal experience, despite the fact its a poor quality RP experience. i wasnt insinuating it was a poor RP experience because of LEOs. Its a poor RP experience because the LEO has higher priority calls to attend to and the person trying to get their car out dosent want to sit around any longer than they have to. therefore both are motivated to just run through the motions and get it done as fast as possible. Reading the rest of your comment we agree on a bunch of things.

In general just make DOC worth participating in again. they spend alot of effort in terms of redesigning the yard and cellblock but also tickets are nerfed into the ground and theres less activity variety. DOC has never looked so pretty nor been so pointless. Logged in the other day to serve out a sentence, no fewer than 8 inmates just AFK in cells or sitting on benches, waiting out their jtime cus theres so little to do and the activities offered are various skillcheck minigames with very little monetary reward or incentive. It is not a fun roleplay experience.

This is an idea suggested once every few months (in the past by me) and its clear that the Devs have no intention to change the current format. particularly as they have just revamped city impound. I will say that my experiences recently have improved. usually i can get my car out in about 10-15 minutes instead of 25-45. credit where it is due clearly LEOs are trying to make it work despite the fact that it is not an activity they enjoy and the RP quality/variety is always dogshit. To be clear, I agree that it should be automated, but it wont happen.

a tentative +1. In total agreement that the current drug production systems are unfulfilling and heavily geared towards larger groups with the capability to hold public labs, or the super rich who own island property where they cannot be disturbed as they cook outside. the only way for small time crims to cook drugs presently is through the use of RVs, which can only hold about 3 tables if you are being honest about placement. this produces less income per hour than "working" at burgershot does. As i have said before. Private labs were removed and nothing was added back in the fill the monumental hole that was left behind. cooking in private labs was a moneymaker that so many solo/small group crims used and now its gone with nothing to fill that space. as a result cars to chop are more scarce, Stores to rob are more scarce, and the competition for public labs is hotter than ever. I dont think that private labs should be brought back in their original format. but its clear that something, anything needs to be added to help divsersify criminal roleplay.

From a realism perspective, youre right. But it still wont happen. The entire reason private labs were nuked was because it takes people into a private instance, where no one can interact with them barring altRP or them messing up their cook. essentially this took players out of the public game and into their own little private server. which made the city feel quieter than it should once you consider maybe a third of criminals would be cooking like this at any given moment. The devs identified this as a dealbreaker for the server and thus removed it. In order for privatelabs to make a return, you would have to make it so that this is no longer an issue. and I can see no way to do that. yes you can make private labs have more steps and be more difficult than public cooking, that was already the case with the watering mechanic, but it still dosent fix the main problem.

In fact, having mulled over this on my lunch break. I'm now convinced we are in a never ending war of escalating BS. a snake eating its own tail. Cops tase quickly and with little escalation due to criminals not properly RPing the effects of a taser necessitating multiple shots and further RP/FRP of grabbing the crim while they are still on the ground encouraging the crim to NRP the Tase more necessitating the cop to shoot more etc etc and round and round we go. Fault is on both sides. but both sides can also agree the current system is unfulfilling and tedious at best. We need to sit down and come up with a better system that both gives the crim more options when it comes to interactions with the cops whilst retaining the cops ability to swiftly end foot chases etc. What that would look like, im not sure yet. Best ive come up with so far probably involves some kind of combination of rule and mechanic change. something like the taser now aimcones and is slower to reload, however if it hits, it hits much harder, person is stunned longer and the target is then obligated not to resist further and accept a cuffing if the RP is carried out while they are still stunned on the ground.

You Quite literally sent if off a waterfall.

+1 Niche problem but ive been there wondering "where tf did i park my sultan..."

If this is the case would the car return to stock performance levels upon getting new plates? its my understanding NPC cars performances are less than player owned models.

+1 with the caveat that the car should be using off road wheels for obvious reasons. (wheels required just for hillclimbing, not general off roading.)

Well that was incredibly brash. If you read the very first comment i put on here it clearly said i can see both sides of the argument. and i can. there are alot of crims who are W orientated, will not properly RP tasing, and will look for any way to edge out a victory and basically game the system. what exactly crims driving about in sports cars which are affordable to them by the economy controlled not by them, but by the management of the server, has to do with any of this i dont know. As for any kind of skill issue i might have and be looking to compensate for. again, i dont understand where the hostility is coming from. you seem to be tarring every crim character with the same brush, that which they are the worst kind of crims. the type that cannot take an L, scheme and metagame to eek out every little advantage they can, hold very poor standards of RP and will do everything they can to obstruct and delay LEOs even after they have been arrested. To be clear I hate that kind of player. My criminal character is based around anarchy and general mayhem. she has a strong background in this but also has friends outside of her criminal circle and for christ sakes always roleplays getting tased properly. I also really dislike any LEO mains who just want to get into chases and shootouts and anything which isnt either of these things they either avoid or speedrun through so they can get back out on patrol, usually using the taser to speed up the parts they find "boring." So again, to go back to my original point, I can see both sides of the argument because i believe both sides make valid points and that both Crims and LEOs have players that contribute to the problem. cops pull tasers out as soon as they have met the requirements to do so (i,e "are you failing to comply with a lawful request" draws taser as they say this) because they are wary of the criminal trying anything. and crims feel the need to resist and not RP tasing realistically because their RP has just been cut short and they feel annoyed.

-1. would create low RP toxic interactions

If this were to be considered, i would like it to be extended to things like lockpicking too. we are only just starting to scratch the surface of RPG elements with the recent drug update. its its given alot of agency to drug production rather than just for profit. and it makes sense that an experience crim would have an easier time picking harder locks than a complete novice. On the civilian side, for freelance jobs it could be the answer to keeping those jobs worth for more experience players. lets say a fisher maintains a certain level of fishing exp they fish faster/make better money than someone who only does it very occaisionally, because rply they are a more skilled angler, thus producing better results.

Lets move away from the argument of having to use voip. it has very little consequence on the discussion of tasers being overused. it would make very little difference if this suddenly became mandatory. @Demonmit1s argument is alot more relevant once you read into it: The TLDR is that Tasers severely limit creative roleplay due to them being a constant reminder that the cop can instantly secure a W in any situation at any time that does not involve criminal guns. and the threshold for using them is extreemely low. The stangard logic flow for taser use goes like this: -Is the perp doing something that could be deemed illegal? YES -Take out taser and demand the perp puts his hands up. does he comply? if yes, arrest and collect the W, if no, Tase and collect the W. either way, the taser ends the RP then and there and the criminal gets no satisfaction or motivation to do anything other than abandon creative RP and insted engage in W orientated RP of their own. Ultimately the problem is the LEOs inability to occly distinguish when a crim is oocly trying to do something for his own benefit or the benefit of others. creative RP is for the benefit of others, therefore he should not just instantly pull taser and give comply or else demands, but join in and have some fun with it. if this is something that LEOs cant do on the fly (or unwilling to do because they just wanna get into chases and shootouts) then i believe tasers need to change.