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A chop shop setup is ~200k, a 4 table 1 vent setup is ~80k; the prices that you're quoting are not set by the server, it's what your character is being asked to pay by other characters, therefore, a result of roleplay. I think your complaint is a valid point if you want to mainly play this game to grind money, but roleplaying is supposed to be about interactions. If you make good connections with criminal organizations you can get everything you named in there for less than 500k (and I mean a full chop setup, an RV lab setup, a 1G and the actual RV). However if you just run around with an OOC friend or two, then yes, it is much harder to play criminal.

simple, no cons, stonks +1

I mean speed cameras were a script solution to wide-spread bad roleplay. I feel that making people walk very slow for a few minutes after tased would help avoid reports and OOC tension.

I think this makes sense. I wouldn't literally lower their thirst/hunger but the slouched over animation when you are recovering would be a great way to stop taser non-rp. +1

This is an English only community.

The tollbooth job can never pay more money to the operator than it takes from the user otherwise it can be abused by people working together. Everything else looks good.

The Banshee 900R used to be sold for in-game cash and credits back in the day (think 2017). This will be the case with most supers that you can not find on the auction list, such as the Entity XF, Nero, Adder and so on. They were available for all players to buy, but obviously only few remain from such an old time ago, and the player base was also smaller.

-1 I am strongly against. All other servers where this is enabled sees a huge increase in just driving through shootouts. A long time ago we made ramming during shootouts not allowed and we finally have shootouts with people on foot. I believe this would be a step back.

The difference is that in real-life the police does not simply give up, it usually (in the big cities such as Los Angeles) has a helicopter follow the suspect until he thinks he got away and then arrest him on foot. Alternatively, most people evade in their own vehicle, and they will be arrested at their house a couple of hours later. Both of these tactics are almost impossible on ECRP because the helicopter is a nerfed version of its counterpart and because people only go to their house to store/withdraw weapons in addition to excessively sharing vehicles with no thought about damage.

-1 Cars are very expensive assets realistically and they are already borrowed and lent to friends too much, especially when you know they will use them in circumstances that are likely to damage them (police chase, shootout, etc).

The SWAT team does not operate by itself, and will be backed by the other 90 members of the LSPD, and if the situation is big enough, SED and SD (+90 more people). The reality is that other than the first few seconds of a situation starting, law enforcement is never outnumbered (that is good and realistic).

I think that this thread is all over the place, both the OP and the replies. I'm one of the people that pushed very hard for 2019 labs. Not because they were peak roleplay or peak content, but because they were easy to implement and straight-forward. The changes that are proposed in this thread would affect every person on the server and take months to realistically ease into. I suggest making more bite-sized approaches even if you feel that the situation requires a massive shift, because, well, this is too much.

One of the most amazing side effects of chop shops being rarer is that you can actually leave your vehicle unattended for more than 10 minutes and no one will steal it. I think that's an improvement we should not walk back. The only way I would support old-style chopping is if it was limited to NPC vehicles only.

The solution to criminal RP, as in the actual issues and not symptoms is a simple two-fold: 1. lower the import prices across the board, barring attachments everything could realistically see a 1/3 price cut and still be relatively hard to obtain. 2. bring back public labs to the state they were in ~2019, as in, actual tables to make the drugs and actual components spawning. LSD would be popping right now. Those gangs that go around looking for PvP could find themselves sitting at one of the revamped drug labs and leave other gangs alone in most other cases. The lower barrier to entry into the heavy market would allow even smaller organizations to compete, albeit more selectively in heavy vs heavy fights.

As a person that regularly opens a club with a bar, this is all very nice. +1

As an official criminal faction leader I am against factions using a pager system for pvp/combat and against removing this ability from PD; with all due respect to OP, this seems incredibly naïve, these factions are wildly different and balancing can be had, but not by making everything identical. A very good example is, PD weapons that are spawned can not be looted. Criminals can be looted. Should we allow cops to be lootable or disallow looting of gang members? Of course not. There are a number of issues that criminal roleplayers would like addressed and these were communicated to community leadership, but pagers are not one of them.

I don't see any conflict. Silky specifically said to not twist his words to justify clapping pings. Clapping meaning combat/shooting/pvp. If you think you're about to fight someone, and you ping, that's a ping for clapping not "for the RP of being ready".

This is something that is managed heavily by faction services and you should refer to them once you receive your handlers. In general if they are truly RP opps (meetings), the pings are fine. Pings for "potential conflict" are not.

I would allow people to release their vehicles by themselves if they have no fines or charges. There are already other ways to check via script if you are wanted so this would not change anything other than streamline a process. This would not remove roleplay either as an officer can always come and roleplay releasing the car as well.

Those stats are useless anyway. They do not reflect the performance of the vehicle.