I think the shops need to be changed, This is based on GTA and Los Santos, it is a cesspool.
I should be able to walk into a shop, alone and pull my weapon and demand the cash. I should be able to shoot the shopkeeper and TAKE what i want because im a bad mamajama.
However thats a 187, a murder with malice aforethought
"Malice aforethought" means the killer "with wanton disregard for human life, does an act that involves a high degree of probability that it will result in death.".
This should trigger the Death Penalty.
So now if ive not worn a mask then im on CCTV and every cop gets my ID and description. If i do wear a mask then i still have a flag on me that for example only pops up when stopped by police. Thus turning the criminal bad mama jama into a super cautious civilian for x amount of time till the heat dies down.
Ive made money, ive not ruined anyones day but an NPC and lifes good.
Get caught and you get executed, full death RP, obituary and news report in the weazel news the whole nine, and that char is gonzo! all money all contacts all everything.
This would go for killing players aswell. So yea sure you can walk up to someone and pump rounds into them for no reason, but if you get caught you are done. 10 RL hours in jail followed by your last 450 Taco and then its goodnight Vienna.
There are however flip sides to the discussion! i tried to live the work a day civilian life, i really did, i even saved up and bought a Car and when i say a car i mean an unmodded Ingot station wagon because who the hell comes to a new city and drives a Postal van or Cash Truck but has the money for a supercar?
I have been robbed and killed so many times in shit RP situations that my guy had enough, i stole a bike and was on my way to sell it when i was pulled by the cops, we had some great RP even if the one cop kept using ooc to tell me he had mistakenly kicked me IC but i was using it as good RP and trying to crack on with it, police brutality etc i found it interesting when i was in the back of the squad car that the cops seemed very surprised that i stopped. Well im a decent RPer and i knew that in real life it was an impossible situation so i gave up.
Then i got a ridiculous sentence in prison for a first offence i was stunned, thrown in a room and left doing pressups for hours (RL hours i might add) which lead me to miss and IC meeting with a group i was meeting. Now to my point
PRISON SUCKS
and im not saying that in a cry baby dont do the crime if you cant do the time way
im saying that its so bad it makes me never want to comply with police ever again, suicide by cop is now a better option than jail. Im not saying make Jail more fun or less of a punishment im just saying that anyone who goes to jail will come out and either never break the law again or never stop for cops again. Which in fairness is a fair description of the justice system now i think about it lol.
Overall though ive enjoyed my time on the server and i hope to meet more people and get some good RP going
p.s. Oh and also the one time i did have a gun in my hand (legally purchased with a licence i might add) someone tried to mug me, i hit him 3 times in the chest bam bam bam perfect grouping centre mass....he walked right through that and killed me with one hit of a golf club...mmkay