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1. You are just not paying attention to them. The rights are "You have the right to have a government-appointed attorney during any legal questioning", however in the context of the server, most of the times, the cop will have witnessed you commit the crime. He is not legally questioning you, therefore you do not get an attorney. It's not useless, and it's there for when you actually do get questioned. 2. I'm in favor of having high ranking DOC be able to reduce sentence by about 10% for good behavior, but afking in prison should never be a thing again. 3. They are not, and when they do, they get punished severely, both by staff and internally. A cop was not so long ago punished because he didn't hold N when speaking in Teamspeak. 4. That is good. It is their server and they are developers, listening to the community about everything would result in issues. 5. A judicial system is not practical with the current sentencing guidelines. Felony evading, by far the most common crime is 60 minutes of prison. How do you justify getting together a jury, judge, lawyers and everything else over an hour sentence? If implemented, you would need to increase all sentences by at least 100%, and if the person loses, they would further get a sentence increase. It's not worth the time investment otherwise, and everyone would appeal just for the fake of being difficult. PS. There is a minimum cap of 25k because it is a very high population server, and having the very few administrators that can spawn weapons spend time to go through requests for a single firearm is not feasible. In the grand scheme of things, even 25,000 is pretty low. Most people drive at least an elegy retro, which is ten times that in value. Most people also exaggerate how many times they actually lose things to a rule breaker. In short, it's not worth the time, and if it's under 25k, it's not a big impact on you. PS2. The server has been around for a long time, and will be around for a long time. It will not lose its player count FAST because people can not refund a gun, or because they don't get a lawyer when they're not supposed to.

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4k an hour is very low income. Look for a different job.

Before spending 60 minutes making a "damn" application, you could've read the thread called Re: Selection Requirements & Recruitment Information [Status: Open], if you did, you would've noticed this quote: (( Due to limited capacity, we are not looking to bring in many applicants from the North American and/or Oceanic Timezone. We want to assure that each and every member of this faction is trained and taken care of properly, and we cannot assure that to 100 percent for other timezones right now. You may still try and apply, but we cannot guarantee a spot. )) You tried, you didn't get in, you were warned before.

It depends on your speed. If you only go 59 or less over, its a ticket. If you go 61 over the speed limit, it's an arrest for reckless operation. You should never be going that fast in a no crime zone.

Don't speed in no crime zones.

The point was that once war starts, the official factions have an unbreakable monopoly on importing weapons because of their permanent alliance. Yes, during times of peace, anyone can purchase weapons. However if let's say Seaweed wanted to get heavy weapons today. Who would sell to them? When the two official factions are allies, and at war against them?

Keep in mind that this was during the turf and warehouse system, where smaller gangs working together could take over turfs and warehouses, which would make the bigger gangs not able to import. As it stands, a small gang that pisses off the Zetas will never be able to stop them from importing, and they will never be able to import, because all official gangs are allies of zetas and will back them in the war. Back in the day they could've even taken over a warehouse and started importing themselves. That is no longer possible.

The roleplay standard for some of those factions was very mediocre, and it was relatively easy to abuse faction chat to metagame, with little recourse as you need evidence to report people.

Faction management can, and imposes member caps on factions. It's up to them how high and how low, but it definitively should not cost them IC money. -1

I don't want to turn this into a gang vs PD thread, but inevitably it gets brought up, in every gang thread. The armor is not realistic, the fact that no gangs have .50 cals is not realistic, it's not realistic on purpose, it's meant to deter you from shooting cops. The armor doesn't help that much, just look at the rooks thread, where they pose with dead cop corpses on cruisers. The .50 cal that you speak of, only ~6 people out of a faction of 100+ have access to it, and only when they're in full SWAT gear. It's there because after shooting cops, people even took on SWAT. SWAT should not be something you fight, but people did, and that's why .50 cals are there, for a very few select members. It's true that realistically a cop would not be wearing armor plates, however with how criminally active Los Santos is, it probably sees more gunfire than Somalia in 1993. So if it helps your immersion, you can say that cops were issued plates in response to high crime rates. It shouldn't affect much, just don't get in extended shootouts with police. On to the actual topic though. I personally would like to see the turf system back, working just like the old days. Maybe limit it even more. Since there are only two official factions, make it 5 turfs, and the faction that controls 3 has access to a warehouse. The rest of the turfs can give smaller bonuses, like tax reduction? more % on selling drugs to NPC, etc. If more factions are made official, more turfs are added, but not enough for everyone. That way you can have wars for a reasonable goal, or they can share if they agree IC.

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How many people attack cops in the server compared to real life? In 2013 Los Angeles reported less than 300 murders, for the whole year. I bet we beat that number daily in our server. If you want realism, we should implement the national guard, which surely would've been called by now.

It does, because otherwise you're getting a free DM card every 10/100/1000 hours of playtime.

Yeah but you can do /whatever/ you want with your heavy, with your car, with your everything. That's the point that escapes you, cops have very strict regulations that they have to follow, and there's an army of people waiting with invisible gopros ready to report whenever they think anything is abused. Cops get stuff for free, to enforce the law. If a cop wanted to use his carbine to rob people, that wouldn't be possible. If you want to use your AK to make 50k just chain robbing, that's possible.

No. Going to prison is not an OOC punishment. It is an IC one. You are not allowed to roleplay in admin jail, you are allowed to roleplay in prison. There are a couple of prison breaks every few days, that wouldn't be possible if it was an OOC punishment, would it now? I think the main reason prison is "stupid and boring" is because people go in with that attitude. The fact of the matter, there is very little difference between sitting in prison RPing or sitting next to the 24/7 behind bank RPing. You can talk to people, roleplay, do whatever. The only exception to that is solitary, which is another discussion entirely.

You do not get punished for being a criminal, you get punished for getting caught. The solution is to stop robbing people in the middle of the street, stop getting into chases over tickets, and so on. Smart criminals are not punished.

You can buy as many credits as you can afford to. There is no limit based on account age, nor is 10000 credits even that much.

(( As of right now, the server rules demand you have evidence of turning the recording apparatus on, there is no requirement to provide evidence of purchase. ))

The artwork for the server looks like a royal house's crest. I don't think it fits a government website, nor does the overall blue tint, or the very busy/chaotic smudge borders you used.

The .50 cal does more damage, however the magazine size is seldom sufficient, unless you're executing someone that's restrained/injured. You're likely to miss at least a couple of shots, and reloading versus being able to shoot much longer will win out.

Reports on players are dealt with by any moderator+, reports on staff members need to be dealt with by a senior staff member which has many more responsibilities outside of dealing with player reports. It's the same reason why when your appeal requires a head administrator, it might take longer than when it does not. It's not a conspiracy, it's simple bureaucracy.