To start, there is a huge problem with gang activity in the server. Mainly the Zeta's, they are literally the biggest faction on the server, and are aligned with the other top factions. This presents a huge problem for anybody new or existing to play the game. The Zeta's literally outnumber any group or faction. You cannot drive or do anything without running into them. They never not rob a person unless its their friend or a fellow gang member. Numerous times I have been approached with no hopes of getting out of the situation without losing something.
Gangs do not just drive around cities and find people to rob. This is not true to real life. If its thought that gangs operate this way, they have no experience with the life style. I have personally been directly around a Tongan gang for years. They never once acted in this manner. Most only will have friction with cops, opposing gangs, or random people who step into trouble.
With the above being said, the clothing stores should be free of crime. Cannot ever sit in a clothing store to look through the items long enough to buy an outfit desired without taking ten trips. This is also partly due to how fast the time out before going to Schematic View. Its like seconds before, this continuously keeps the player using F2 to disable mouse to turn in order to see view the potential clothes. This time out happening extremely fast is causing lost time on trying to counter the time out or preventing it. This in turn makes you stay at a place way longer than one should just to get robbed by the over zealous Zeta's. It would be nice to comfortably look through the clothing to choose something out.
New players do not have groups of friends they can play with. Once the New Player tag is gone, which can be fast, you are subject to immediate robbery. If you later want to change your clothes, its not safe.
I would love to have the clothing stores considered for an NCZ(No Crime Zone) as to help with this issue.
The parking lot, its the only place one can store their vehicle unless they get a house. Houses are not cheap and not really available for new and newer players. The one parking lot has been subject to massive groups of people sitting and waiting for people to get their car or park their car and then rob them. I get IRL parking lots are not protected but groups of people in reality do not sit at a parking lot waiting for random people to show up. The cars come out of the parking lot open and if they are quick, they pull a gun and take the car before you can get close enough to lock it. Which means, people get their car out to drive and participate in the server community and just lose their shit and have to wait hours to get their vehicle back. This seems absurd if you want to have a live city with up to a thousand players actually making Los Santos come alive. Currently, everyone sits at the bank, works a normal job, or joins the Zeta's. I cannot even use the car I paid 50 EUROS for as it gets destroyed. The import car thing was a way to deter people from chopping them but now they just destroy the. I prefer to not drive at all due to how many times I have seen issues at the parking lot.
I think the Parking Lot should be NCZ to spread the players out from the bank and to keep people driving around town.
I am not trying to soften the entire city, just need something to mitigate getting robbed at the clothing stores and the parking lot. These places are normal to go to. I like to change my attire often and like to get to my vehicle and park it when I am ready.
Others might not agree with this but I do feel the New Player experience is suffering heavily from these points and other points.
