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+1 Please fix the current situation for crims. Nothing but heavy nerfs removing the ability to get the basic of most weapons. Just getting harder and harder to play as crim + the additional disadvantage of having to spend ridiculous OOC hours if you're caught. Crim should always be more rewarding as playing legal due to the higher risk.

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Thank you for such a forthwith answer. I appreciate your utmost honesty in your statement above and I appreciate you being able to reinforce my opinion albeit your experience being parallel to mine. Eclipse RP would benefit greatly with such honest faction members as yourself. Kudos. It's not often you see this reciprocated.

@FatherOsborn So you're telling me there's no way a house fire can be diverted and that at this point criminals are basically fleeced when their drug labs are guaranteed to detonate within 24 hours? Be prepared for a house raid every time no matter the scenario. I highly recommend that the chances of labs detonating is reduced significantly in order to win over the current crim community. Everyone who placed a lab 24~ hours ago would not have them right now.

@FatherOsbornFurther to my post above, Why was my stash emptied as per a normal house fire? When I say the following this is the context surrounding it; Law Enforcement officers are already required to submit search warrants reviewed by their Chief and then one of the 4 Commissioners before they can raid a property (property as in business, house etc). The only other time they can raid a property is if they have probable cause, which is heavily enforced In Character" I woke up this morning and my door was rammed down. A floating red stash spot was raided (almost like they knew it would be a house stash.) This to me seems unreasonable due to all evidence being destroyed in a fire (when the drug tables blow, all the drugs on the vicinity of the floor are burned and destroyed.) What basis did they have to raid my property? There are SO MANY rules restricting criminal movements, but are PD now realistically allowed to act above and beyond what most gangs would do regarding the recent changelog? This is a problem that's going to deter a lot of people from using labs.

UPDATE: After a day of continuously running the labs, I woke up this morning to discover that my tables had exploded. Now if you look at the profit mark-up, the drugs I manufactured pre-detonation will only sell for 32k. The tables alone cost me 7.5k each. That's 2k profit before detonation with my house left unlocked overnight for anyone to raid. This isn't even taking into account the cost of the materials purchased from Humane. I am ultimately at a loss. The chance of detonation is too high. I won't be using labs until a fix is put into place. When they were released NBDY declared that there is a very low chance of explosion, however, it seems like if you use the labs they are almost guaranteed to blow up within 24 hours. This is not the system we asked for.

@FatherOsborn I understand absolutely however all criminals can interject on your argument to come to the same conclusion that these rules are not always adhered to. To know they are punishable if not followed would make us feel a lot more confident with our roleplay. There has been times where sheriff's have patrolled chopshops, and maybe rolled by the same drug lab 6-7 times waiting for shots or something along those lines which the majority of the time cannot be avoided. Cops are humans too, and like criminals they may get bored and look for action. We cannot bait cops all the same (not like we want to) so why are they allowed to do the same with us? For example, there was an instance today in which a full squad of SED members attended a trailer in which an explosion occured. It was quite obvious the commanding SED officer wanted in on the trailer. The FD responding had told the SED that it was a small house fire which was now handled. The SED member had then stated "Why is there such a large criminal presence?" There was not. We were in an unmarked vehicle (all black Schafter V12) and there was only 3 of us on scene. It's times like this that make the criminal community quite nervous with change. To know that officers know what's going on inside the building is uncomfortable to an extent but to see them persevering to access the property just angers me entirely. Bare in mind this was 5-10 minutes after the initial explosion. They had time to suit up and respond which is more than likely what happened. Feels like there was a lot of metagaming involved which starts us off on a wrong foot with community standing.

HI there, Thank you for reading my post. I wanted to put this forward to the community to get your input on the brand new drug lab system. Obviously the system has some teething issues that are now beginning to settle in. During my time creating this post I will be compiling a list of improvements you've put forward, hopefully that will be taken into consideration by developers. For anyone thinking that these suggestions carry no weight, please take a look at my previous post. I don't think it's any coincidence that the new drug lab system has taken some of these suggestions into account; So the suggestions; -The ability to grow weed AWAY from static locations & possibly at home (or on already owned properties/properties with building access.) This obviously has its own risk completely. -Deduction of risk of explosion (whether this be skill based or down to an artificial element.) During the first day of these labs being heavily used, there were multiple explosions in which FD responded to. (One instance in which SED turned up. It makes you consider why SWAT would turn up to what looks like an ordinary house fire?) Keep in mind that when the labs explode, there are no traces of the labs left behind scriptly. -Some kind of ruleset applied to Law Enforcement Officers to stop random house raids/busts for drug labs. There are going to be PLENTY of new players that acquire these labs that don't often have the money to invest in a second property. This would stop them from losing every asset they have in their house. Much like PD officers have an unwritten rule for chopshops and old static drug locations. It's nice to know these are rules that are generally applied but I can speak for all criminals when I say they're not always listened to. -Potentially lower the amount of time it takes to cook drugs, or add bonuses to batches etc based on the amount of people present in the room. This would ultimately increase risk but increase benefits from each cook. Naturally, this would make sense due to the cook being supervised/improved based on skill levels etc. Altogether I think it'd be more beneficial to have rules surrounding cops for once to give criminals a bit of an advantage when it comes to potentially losing hundreds of thousands worth of dollars for a risk that wasn't really worth it. Please note this is an unfinished list. This will be added on to as time moves on. PLEASE PLEASE post a suggestion below no matter how minor you think it may be. Remember this is a system that us criminals HAVE ASKED FOR, so please let us maintain the system by putting forward your ideas. Thanks guys.

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With Skinny recently perfecting a brand new strain of marijuana, he was eager to pitch a sale to set up supply lines with other gangs in order to push his new product. He had created his own strain of weed which was a spin on Sensemilla, It was a seedless crop which would become tainted by the very presence of other plants due to its own reproductive nature. It was sustainable and the haulage from each crop was bountiful. He had spent the whole week, moving between his plantations to manage his crops and ensure that they were receiving the due care they required. He had become inspired by figureheads in criminal agricultural progression which spearheaded his entire project. It was growing season and Skinny definitely wasn't wasting any time. With his harvest now successfully flowered and picked, he was left with a problem on his hands. It was a particularly large, 18 wheeled problem that was sitting behind his house hotboxing the block. He had a truck full of weed he needed to move and fast before the cops caught on to what he was doing. The smell was so potent that his neighbours were coming out of their houses fucking baked. He got on the phone to Deandre who he planned to meet at the West Coast motel. Deandre didn't seem enthused about the whole idea of moving weed, especially with the heat that they currently faced after holding police commissioners hostage. He didn't want the bud. Simple. Skinny had to move on. He had another idea. He decided to head down to the NLA Church in Paleto with Draymond, Ricky Brasco and a pre-prospect who decided to tag along to arrange a potentially large business deal. He met with Juan Moto on a nearby pier who was inducting some pre-prospects. They decided to talk business. Skinny had left the meeting in high hopes. Juan loved the idea of cutting the time they spend at labs in half and maximising their profit. Skinny had successfully a supply line with the Mexicans which he hoped to maintain. All he had to do now was wait for the call. Skinny's phone rang. The meet was set up. 20 minutes, Zancudo airfield. The boys convoyed up and moved out after palletising almost 600 kilos of marijuana. The truck was on the road with multiple heavily armed vehicles in tow. They were ready to annihilate anything that stood in their way of this deal. They pulled up to the Zancudo airfield. The money had moved hands. The doors of the truck swung open revealing a beautiful fucking sight. More weed than you could imagine was now moving from truck to truck. The bags were loaded up into the Mexican's vehicles and they had dispersed from the drop point. It was a HUGE success.

When you say gangs are ran by admins/mods there's about 1/2 possibly 3 at a push current moderators/staff members that engage in criminal roleplay. This is just derogatory. A lot of people within the community work hard for their positions as official faction / gang leaders. If you've really come into this community thinking a couple of hours of playtime a week is going to overthrow factions that GRIND to be where they are then you're seriously wrong. With a server consistently holding 400+ players a day have you ever thought that your playstyle is the reason you're so frustrated? "Oh, another thing I noticed, when some official factions get into shit, and leave their vehicles behind cause they had to escape...etc The cops NEVER check who owns the car or for fingerprints. That would make it so there friend on another char gets arrested. Ofc they dont want that." What server are you playing? Every time i'm arrested my car is impounded following all the other implications of being a criminal, but we suck it up because shit happens. I have a tonne of friends who play as cops but adhere to the RP standards put in place. None of your statements have any type of evidence to back your claims. This is merely a post swamped with opinions without any type of context. That's all it will ever be. Just a thought.