Hi!
Few days back I decided to give the coroner's job a shot, simply because I never had before.
I Decided to give it a good while to see what it was like and over the course of two days totalling 6(ish) hours on the job my findings were:
Firstly, for the entire period, I was the only coroner on duty.
I did find the Roleplay the coroner offers can be quite fun, I interacted with PD, MD, SD about what just happened, small talk convo's that seemed to be enjoyable for both parties
and afterwards I got to make a few bucks.
Since not many calls were made (during my sessions I had 1 call every 3 hours on average) I took it upon myself to start looking for high activity area's starting off at burgershot, and gradually made my way up to labs to ask around about reports of dead bodies. This gave me the opportunity to interact with some criminal characters too, again, some small talk and generally it was all quite peaceful because my RP goals didn't directly oppose the people I encountered on the job. This "oudsider" RP is quite fun and offers some great opportunities for players that want more Solo oriented activities. So far so good!
Things I think that could be improved:
- Los Santos Coroner's Job and Hearse pickup point. Currently there's only a body dropoff point in the city, at the morgue, it does not have a location for players to start the job, or spawn a Hearse.
- 6666 calls should not require the caller to stay put. The way the system works right now disinsentivises players to make coronerrequests as it relies on them to remain at that location. Changing this so that the caller can leave the scene without it dropping the request could also offer different roleplay opportunities, normally dead bodies don't move by themselves, so if a coroner comes to a location where a dead body was called in yet they do not find a corpse there. that gives them the opportunity to call SD or PD to further investigate.
- Scripted body events: the Coroners get scripted calls for a dead body that's placed somewhere on the map. (similar to roadworks maybe?) If the coroner documents the scene, time of day, or succesfully determines a cause of death for the body they get a higher payout. This gives the job a little more challenge than simply driving from point A to point B. (maybe by Calling in PD or SD if the coroner suspects foul play, and after LEO's did their part the coroner could deliver the body to a corresponding dropoff point for further autopsy)
Let me know what you think,
I've tried the Coroner's job a bit now and I generally enjoyed it, I just felt like there was a lot of potential still left on the table.
