Aezeryst

Cheaters, toxic players, and the like are exactly what's killing ecrp, I've seen so many decent players who actually have fun playing a character like Roman Cassidy, Ratty, Poppy Popov, Solomon Cobb, Dale Ashcroft, George Vern etc, all leave. The player base is currently retaining a toxic PvP and w mentality majority And I doubt with the reputation you have made for yourself, that anyone is willing to listen anyways

You said yourself you're surprised people donate, I said stop donating. It's on the thread because it's relevant to what you said...

unfortunately i think you might be right, ngl the best outcome at this point would just be move to community to another more caring server or something. or hear me out for my discretion, replace the devs

imma come back to this thread and say this: if you complain about developers doing nothing and you still pay for VIP, you're part of the problem, no im not saying people are at fault for the lack of content and "laziness" but like, you wanna see change, stop funding them if you feel as if theyre not doing anything, its not worth supporting in my opinion. until real good change comes about maybe ill consider donating

me, who does graphic design

tbh i dont see why people are against the idea, i have provided the example that driveby of a gov employee is longer than domestic terrorism, kidnapping is longer than murder, im not saying we SHOULD completely quarter sentences, but i feel as if everything should be seriously reconsidered as its clearly obvious that the charges made were completely arbitrary. and to reiterate, i could rob a bank, get armed robbery, 1st class or 2nd class firearm, face concealment "attempted murder of a gov employee" etc and suddenly i have like 320 minutes, and im only spending 190 minutes because the time is so absurd it far exceeds the limits anyway, so it feels like no matter what i do im spending a good 2 hours at least in prison for like 2 or 3 charges plus 2 small charges like "resisting and face concealment" which are still extreme sentences for the severity of a crime.

Personally my worst experience in DOC is seeing Chris Whittle :PP

I dont believe adding RNG is a good idea for the server, or any of the buffs/nerfs dependent on wearing a mask or closer to a station, i think we should look at it from a different angle such as stores that are robbed more often (as the reason for that is quite literally theyre not in patrol routes or near stations) have less money and the money they have in a treasury slowly regenerates (which i think already exists im not sure???) realistically not having a mask on wouldnt change how much money you get out of a store irl. we should be looking at more rply ways of doing things, not trying to balance the pvp aspect. NPCs to be taken hostage wouldn't be a bad direction but honestly i think people should just get more creative with how they rob banks, personally ive found ways to do that. if you want a hostage get a hostage. if you dont have a hostage, theres literally 2 tellers, so theres a tip for you criminals

What could be done is reintroduce tables as an item to be bought, labs aren't active, gangs or others could go to the designated location and only be able to set up in the same way the weed growing zones exist. Additionally (might get hate for this one) we should have it that only some gangs can bring in certain things so we can add more interaction between gangs. For example drug heavy gangs like OTF should be able to import drug ingredients and tables, racing focused gangs like Alliance should be able to import toolboxes, anti gov/leo like The Souls should be able to import encryption devices. Sure it would be harder to get these things but I believe it would add more interaction other than PvP with each other and possibly add balance. Tho if we are talking about balance we should really be focusing on cops in my opinion. Because cops get everything for free and realistically don't carry heavy weapons and juggernaut armour everywhere they go

It feels as if the charge system in ecrp is completely arbitrary. I would like to mention this is an issue i plan to try and do IC through the LRC (law review comittee) It definitely seems like whoever made the current charges kinda slapped on a time and fine and just called it a day but theres so many problems with it people dont seem to be taking up to the forums despite the amount of complaints. The way the system works right now is they slap a charge on you and you serve that time, however a majority of crimes (like the fun ones) are already a 3rd (or 5th if youre broke) of time youll spend for ONE CHARGE. so by the time you have 3 charges youre already spending probably the max amount of time in prison, then the 4 other charges you have give no real meaning other than slapping some more fines on the criminal. i feel as if we should have it where for someone to reach the max amount of times, they should be doing alot of bad shit rather than like 3 things max. Im very well aware that prison time is the normal punishment for committing crime for a criminal, however it seems the player is being severely punished for the in game crimes they did commit, especially when DOC is extremely limited for RP as of right now. I also believe the time and fines have a damper on the mood for people trying to rp a criminal and its the result of current toxic behaviour issues between criminals and LEOs (especially when charges are stacked). i should mention im not looking for a fight, I am just noting something i think everyone would find fair in the server as cops dont lose anything from the result of less time, maybe less boredom because criminals all wont be locked up all the time and criminals will find they can actually bare the time they get for the charges placed against them. My suggestion is re-evaluate the laws, maybe cut them by 2 3rds and readjust them. An example i also have of clearly unfair and unjustified charges is for some reason, driveby with the against a gov employee modifier is more time than domestic terrorism which is just completely astonishing to me (domestic terrorism is 120, Drive by of a government employee is 135) So instead of capping times to 3 hours, we just cut the times of charges (maybe keep the cap tho, unsure) so that with the result of charges against people, theyll probably spend stupid amounts of time for stupid amounts of charges. again, this will be something i plan to take up to the LRC in character but i belive its an issue to be taken up ooc too. :3

This aged well