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Finally, we have started to host our private poker games, as a test run we invited few of our close friends and allies in La Familia and Shadow Cartel. This was only a first of many events that we are planning with poker and gambling. The stakes were rather low only 20k to sit at the table for testing the waters and seeing how everything works out before going for higher stakes For the future of these poker games is to spread the word across the city and gather interest of high rollers that would participate with much higher stakes. Also to make it more regular so that there is set dates and times every week that people can participate and try to get into this poker game The point of this is to create a private game for friends, allies and other "friends of ours" where they can play without being harassed or annoyed by the players at tequila or having to deal with the usual bingo players that don't seem to understand how poker works ( Another point of this is to have a much higher level of poker rp, and also dealing with certain issues like someone accidentally hitting the all in button. We deal with this by usually giving the correct amount back to the correct people if its possible and try to have an honest game. Also having a "private" poker game we can deal with a certain bug that sometimes the wrong player wins the pot or the pot gets split due to the bug. All in all it's to provide a better experience for everyone involved and to raise the rp level for poker across ECRP)

The Clown gang first started with Jamal Debose who created his own crew after leaving Vikings and moving on with his own life, few others like Vova who was a high ranking member at the Vikings also left and joined Jamal to have a change of pace and have some fun in the city without having to stress and worry about being in charge of a large group as Vikings At first the idea was to be just a small group and cause a little trouble in the city and make a bit of money here and there, stealing cars and robbing some stores but nothing major that would put the group into the targets of the Investigations Bureau. Even though you try to stay out of trouble, eventually it finds its own way to you. A lot of was going on with the war that Fog City Crew was waging onto a few big groups, during that time old friends from the Irish Mob made a comeback to the city from that point a lot of business meetings were had and lots of ideas were born that made the top members of the crew think about expanding and setting their sights on a much bigger piece of the pie in the criminal world. After that things started snowballing where we decided to get ourselves our own warehouse, while it is difficult to acquire one in the city of Los Santos we managed to make a deal with another group called Bratva that influenced the growth of The Clowns. The deal was for the warehouse as Bratva was on its last legs so The Clowns made a deal to accept some of their members and take over the warehouse permanently and also removing the threat of Narcos trying to take back Bratva’s warehouse because Bratva did not exist anymore Bratva has quite the history in the city as they went through quite a few up’s and downs with their leadership changing several times before disbanding. Bratva started off when a group of like minded Russians met each other in the city of Los Santos searching for their American dream. A known person named Boris Putrin started the whole idea of Bratva when he met other like minded individuals Vladimir, Vadim, Dmitryi and a few others. All of them started as common criminals doing every job they can to survive and make money for themselves. Bratva started getting more and more bigger as the amount of Russian’s and eastern Europeans has increased in Los Santos due to the word of Bratva’s existence spreading and their reputation getting bigger and bigger. When Bratva hit around twelve members. It was a solid group of core members that basically made Bratva what it was not too long after that Bratva started gaining members from different countries, cultures expanding the family that they were. While they had a lot of friends and connections there was one group called Narcos that seemed to want a never ending war and always kept pushing and trying to cause problems for Bratva, but what the whole war ended up doing is ruining Narcos themselves and making Bratva much stronger as they were able to acquire a warehouse with the help of such groups as Shadow Cartel, La Familia and a few others. Bratva became really strong with powerful allies but the good times don’t always last too long and this was the case here as well. Boris due to interests in his home country, had to leave and left Bratva in Tbag’s hands who joined with some of his people after the collapse of Narcos. Not too long after he took over the leadership Tbag disappeared and Bratva’s strength started to decline, Vladimir took over the leadership but it was too late as the family was becoming smaller and weaker day by day. Narcos coming back and starting their war again did not help and that is why the deal offered by Jamal, Benny and Vova made so much sense Currently like most high profile criminals we partake in drug production and trafficking as it is very profitable and always provides the thrills that some seek. We also run our own chop shop from Benny’s garage. Taking stolen vehicles and parting them out or sending them out to south America, Mexico, Cuba and sometimes to Eastern Europe due to contacts that we have from some of our eastern European members. While not earning money we usually partake in all kinds of different activities. Organising private poker events for our own members and soon will be doing it for important people in the city of Los Santos or those with deep enough pockets to buy a seat at the table. Even though the gun shipments have stopped, we still have a use for the warehouse and use it to store all kinds of illegal goods Plans for the future is to hold the Benny’s garage and warehouse, continue running the garage shop and expanding it to make it more profitable. Find a new supplier for illegal weapons as the ones across the border cannot provide their services anymore and continue business of selling them like before providing weapons to other factions in the city and having great financial benefits for our members from the gun trafficking. There are also plans of creating special events for certain groups and people in the city, acquire businesses to make money and opportunities for the crew. There is no real way to join us at the moment unless we notice you and decide to send you an invite. If we take interest in you, we will find you and contact you personally. While we are not the biggest faction in the city of Los Santos but we prefer quality over quantity. And we believe that this is more important when trying to build something different. However if you do need to find us, we can be found at Benny's garage as we hang out there a lot. We have couple of rules which are more common sense than anything and everyone is really expected to know these things like respecting members in the crew, following all of the rules of the server. While the report system works pretty well we do have our own warning/punishment system where if someone breaks the rules of the server like dm, failrp or anything else and for some reason they are not punished by the admins of the server we make sure to make i`t clear to those members of the faction that we do not need people like that and they either have to change their ways and adapt or they cannot be a part of our faction anymore. With The Clowns we are trying to build something different, that is not the usual hands up, shoot and repeat. We want to build a heavy rp based group that wants to involve themselves in different rp scenarios while in recent months to find such quality members has been difficult but with all of the changes the progress can be seen as the server is leaning more and more towards quality rp and within our faction we want to contribute to this and we also expect from similar standards of other factions that we are allied/friendly with. WIP

it was more to use as an example of things to be added, this server does not have to portray real life with absolute accuracy. And hunting could be an exclusive thing to give players what to work for and maybe instead of only buying sports cars to invest somewhere else.

Thats an amazing suggestion, i think another thing that i could add and came up myself is printing money. It could go on a similar process of crafting where you go to a warehouse and bring required materials and you start printing money and after you are done you take that money to another warehouse to launder it and you get lets say 70% value of it so if you take 100k and you launder it then you get 70k or something similar. Money like that could also be physical objects so you would put them in bags so its more fun. It could also be used as a secondary criminal currency where you could buy guns with cash like that and make exchanges by dropping money bags on the floor and taking your goods. Because currently things like weapon sales usually happen at the bank and then people go somewhere to exchange the goods. It's not very rp way to do it . And introducing this currency would also make it fun as for example if a third party hijacks a deal and they want to launder that money they would be under the threat of retaliation of both parties involved and so on. Also it could be another way of solving the tax issue. People would be able to buy these printed dollars for legal ones and store them at home avoiding taxes and hiding their assets etc. Always under threat of being raided by police and losing it all but this would make things so much more interesting in the server

There is a problem with high level crime in this server. The lack of crime for one and repetitiveness of it are big issues right now in my opinion. With the new faction requirements of higher level factions that they have to RP accordingly and can’t do petty crimes like robbing stores and chopping cars there is only one thing left to do and that is to make drugs. The biggest issue with making drugs is that it is almost impossible to do so, on the weekends police and swats destroy them by the hour. If you are lucky you can make something until they come but then you are also in high risk of being caught which is fine. But the destruction of labs by police is not fine at all. It all should be left up to criminals of who want to raise the prices and maybe control the market or certain labs etc. Another issue about swats getting involved in drug labs is that basically there is no way to fight them. You need insane resources and man power just to fight against a few good swat guys. And these kind of trade-offs and risks just make no sense so that’s why no one ever really tries to fight the labs being destroyed I know that it’s hard and time consuming to develop such systems but the crafting system is already in place why not add such things as Moonshine Whiskey Rum Cigarettes or Tobacco These are just a few examples of what the crafting system could be used for. Another thing that could be added for “rich” people is hunting. Could add animals into certain areas where people could hunt if they have a permit which could let say cost 250k or something. Permit holders of that license could purchase a hunting rifle (one of the sniper rifles but modified to not do a lot of damage on people so it couldn’t be used as an assassination weapon and so on) Police officers would be able to check the license and if the hunting rifle is valid. If for example the rifle is used on people, then the license would be scrapped and the person would have to buy it for 250k again or whatever the sum of it would be. This would add variety and a very nice RP aspect of hunting as its one of the things that usually rich people do. It could also provide way for people to earn money through this adding more variety. Import jobs could also be added for example importing goods from “Mexico” like cigarettes, cigars and so on. It would be something that would require to invest but you could sell those items for profit either to people or drop offs like with drugs. I think the biggest frustration is that with the new faction changes and the requirements we are very restricted on what we can do especially the factions and people that want to follow those guidelines and do everything right. It’s hard to control members of your faction when they want to make money but they can’t because due to the RP nature of the faction they are restricted in what crime they can do and are forced to stand around doing nothing. While not everything revolves around money but everyone loves to make money and it’s a big part of everyone’s RP and currently I think there is just not enough ways to make money illegally following the new RP requirements from criminals EDIT: I did forget to mention the fact that Impound lots are removing a lot of cars from the streets making it even harder to do criminal stuff. But even then stealing cars could be seen as a petty crime unless its a very expensive car. But this new addition does not help at all

The first issue that needs fixing is the undershirts. Currently there is no way to purchase a normal suit without having to spend 10k+ to find the correct jacket that can have an undershirt. The other issue is that if you equip a hoodie over a suit jacket and an undershirt. you instantly lose the undershirt. To fix this in my opinion there should be a command to either remove all clothes into inventory to undress, or undress each item one by one with commands or like there was a wardrobe suggestion that could be used for changing taking on and off clothes. Ability to sell old clothes for 50% of the price. A lot of people spend a lot of money on clothes and there is no way to get rid of them besides leaving them on the floor all over the place. Also the wardrobe system would be helpful with the fact that currently its impossible to find what piece of clothing is what with just the ID codes of the items. So having a similar menu of the clothes shop at home would solve this issue and make it much more enjoyable and more accessible for everyone I'm sure there is more that could be added but i think that these are badly needed as soon as possible especially the undershirt issue with suits right now

+1 But also i would like to suggest the ability to purchase supplies to allow group activity with the drug making. Currently there is no way to actually make decent money at the lab if there is more than 2-3 people as the supplies come in too slow. and it's very high risk. Giving the ability to purchase supplies maybe only for lets say 30-50k where it would allow to for the group to transport those supplies to the lab and turn them into drugs which they could sell at the drop off. This would allow for groups to make money while risking a lot to lose At the moment drug crafting is not good enough for the amount of risk that it involves because of police and other gangs. By allowing bigger groups to participate it would add higher stakes but also more opportunities to work as a group. So far the criminal life barely provides any group activities And i agree that drugs should provide some sort off buffs with downsides much later. Currently if you use drugs it's way too fast that you become addicted and start losing health so there is no real benefit of them and no real purpose of buying them Hope this makes sense