Doctor_Diddler

You know this got me thinking - who's to say some of these car materials couldn't also be found rarely from chopping cars? Or perhaps guaranteed if you chop a more expensive car that has them installed, such as someone else's supercar?

So the big problem around town is that every gang, regardless of origin, is driving around $6M supercars and electric protoype cars like the La Co... well you know what it is. Not to mention, the entire meta revolves around cars that essentially accelerate the fastest, with every other type of car that can go fast but are slow to accelerate basically being relegated. My proposal is that cars will start with their baseline and then the mods that actually turn them into meta cars - like the HSW upgrade - are the result of underground modding scenes adding illegally obtained and illegal-to-own parts. You can still own your incredible hihg speed electric 240 super car, but unfortunately it now poses an additional risk; if you're caught, or you dump it, you're about to lose those parts. That's right! Lose them! When cars are impounded, LEO's will need to check for illegal car modifications, which they can miss. However, if they catch them, they can confiscate them, which lowers the vehicle's stats unless the car is re-modded. These car parts could be potentially obtained through things like the illegal trucking shipments or drops. Perhaps you could peruse parts on those laptops that are basically useless? A new dark mode app? Eh? Finally, Benny's mechanics can be criminals while on duty! The benefit is simple; it shifts the "meta" to focus more on picking and choosing your battles as well as adding potential for underground illegal mod shops (maybe an addition to chop shops?). More RP server wide with more cars getting the spotlight; for example, while a niobe might hit 240 easily, its mods might be far more expensive than, say, a vigero which is a significantly more common car in real life. With a tiered car part system to boot, suddenly every bank robbery becomes significantly more tactical and fun for all parties. Suddenly rolling out with your expensive monstrociti to a store robbery doesn't sound like a good proposition - maybe take a caracara or somesuch. Now, suddenly the width of usable vehicles becomes far more expansive, RP-friendly, and immersive. Police chases no longer end in 5 consecutive vehicle swaps after dumping your net worth at the pier to go for a swim. Gangs whose lore is being a local street gang will have more opportunity to drive more appropriate cars rather than whatever hits 240 the fastest. You want more RP on the server? Well brother, we're gonna have RP for days. You're going to have a thriving underground modding scene complete. You're going to have LEO's RPing taking cars apart. You're going to have interactions based on simply retrieving the car parts and fighting over which gang might get the upgraded pistons or whatever. The fun never ends, truly. Why would I support this when it means I wasted all my money on an HSW only to have it now be illegal? I think this could easily be solved with a buyback program. After all, it would be unfair to criminalize everyone who had one installed prior to it becoming illegal. Where there's a will, there's a way. Should this apply to every vehicle? I don't necessarily think so. I don't think anything would be significantly improved by, say, removing turbo mods from a packer or mule or something - their primary purposes is essentially just bulk storage and they aren't very fast to begin with. Perhaps something to be looked at if this suggestion is ever accepted, such as if pounders become the new battering rams.

+1 Just hope crims would use this more often. Don't feel like attracting too much PD attention? Just beat each other with bats! Has anyone ever seen brain damage? No? Well then stop worrying!

When suggesting things like "PD should get their cruisers fixed", you're only really considering it from the perspective on how to put the thumbscrews to PD. Why, exactly, shouldn't smaller gangs be forced underground? Law enforcement represents the state's just monopoly on violence to preserve order. If you want to flagrantly break that order, prepare to have the arm of the state descend upon you. If you're small time - act like it. You surrender peacefully and serve less time. You avoid police attention. You don't have the resources to wage war, so you keep a low profile. Maybe instead of trying to flee in a doomed evasion, you just bite it and save yourself the time. It is horrifically unrealistic to have cars doing 240 in the city, or have, say, OTF literally killing almost every cop in the entire city without the national guard descending in. LEO'S just adapt to the crim meta. If every chase was a warrener, you'd see more caracaras and staniers. PD has to be able to keep up with the likes of Niobes, kamachos, drags, etc. I love the caracara, but it's so slow that you're basically inviting anyone you pull over to laugh at you while they drive away. I love the light enhanced Stanier, but I'm not going to even entertain pulling over a drag with it. You want less meta choices? Easy fix - lower the speed cap. I will happily oblige.

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Removal

So this is a suggestion that is twofold; 1. Add an item like a toolbox available for purchase and re-usable (because getting minor damage is a frequent occurence and charging for something this minor every single time is just cruel) that can be used to buff out cosmetic damage/fix windows. Look, let's be honest; nobody goes to the mechanic to pay $500 just to have their windows fixed. When you log out for the day, it'll just be fixed when you come back anyways. I've had times where I strive to drive carefully just to keep my ride pristine only to find that during my brief trip to a convenience store, my car vibrated so hard thanks to server lag that all the windows and both headlights are broken. The amount of cars I see driving around with a broken windshield is obscene and unrealistic. 2. Add a "clean car" functionality to the microfiber cloth. As far as I can tell the only use for it is to clean fingerprints? Giving it a one-use car clean adds another reason to buy one and lets you pick and choose when you want to spruce up your car's look. The dirt-caked wheel wells looks awesome on a semi barreling down the highway, but it just looks out of place on somebody's day-old Zentorno. I know people have asked about a car wash but if we're not getting this, this makes for a good alternative. Plus, if you wanted to be an enterprising but awful person, you could buy up all the microfiber cloths and offer to clean cars for a profit.

Is this where we're doing them all? Okay. Let me try my hand. 1. Pay people a small amount from the city (say, $50) to report bodies. 2. Advertise the coroner number noting that you're doing your part at a citizen AND you'll get paid. 3. AI generate some dead bodies in secluded places (i.e. say North point at Paleto, the dock where Devin Weston was pushed into an early grave, the humane labs parking lot, Davis quarry, etc.) 4. Have those AI generated bodies "anonymously reported" like the trucker order list. 5. Add coroner drop offs to major hospitals to increase interaction with LSEMS staff and add potential for more RP experiences. 6. Maybe emphasize the job every October for spooky month? You know, increased payout, some crazy stuff happening like really grisly scenes or something. Hell, you could include those normally as a rare spawn to create intrigue. You go out for a routune mission and find a body nailed to a wall or something.

I think we can circumvent the whole "nobody knows how to get a coroner -> coroner doesn't get work" thing if we paid people for finding bodies and then advertised that. Have it be a small amount to avoid abuse (like $50) but it incentivizes the behavior. ICly this obviously makes sense and oocly it makes people want to report them. I'm thinking addiitonally it can publically credit people so that if you've just shot someone you may want to think twice about reporting a body and profiting off of a drive-by. With that in mind, you could make generated bodies "reported anonymously". Oh, and additionally I think it'd be useful to have coroners travel to lesser-used roads like say North point at Paleto, the dock where Devin Weston was pushed into an early grave, the humane labs parking lot, Davis quarry, etc. to generate traffic to those areas. This also makes sense because if you're going to dump a body, you're obviously going to do it in secluded places.

I mostly roll by Doctor Diddler outside of a few platforms with draconian speech regulations. I've got essentially 10 years of RP experience on other... games? Mostly Runescape, so none of this stuff is majorly new to me. From my experience so far it looks like my biggest hurdle will be getting in-game experience and networking, because for some reason my microphone just will not work with RageMP. Hope to see you all around.