[Masks in NCZ.]

Masks

 

Masks should be used for two things, robberies, and situational circumstances where you need to hide your identity, i.e potential police confrontation. Masks shouldn't be a fashion accessory or a common thing to see. In my opinion it should be against the LAW to wear an identity hiding mask in the city, this law would actually be developed and there would be more to it then that, for example there would be exempt days such as halloween, or in circumstances such as high security transports. 

 

However, on a rule side, it should be against the rules to wear masks in NCZ's because;

1. Try walk into a bank with a mask see what happens.

2. Try walk into a PD with a mask on, see what happens.

3. It's  NCZ, you don't plan on committing a crime, why are you hiding your identity.

 

When someone consistently hides their identity it shows one thing; these people want to roleplay criminal - not a criminal character, but a simple criminal entity. There's no character development, there's no real character to character interaction, that person you're talking to has no identity, which is usually why people wear masks.

 

Ban Masks = Higher chance of getting caught for crimes = less crime.

[Future Event Suggestions]

Olympics;

- 100m Race

- 500m Race

- 1km Race

- State Marathon (Starting from the beach, around the map fully via Los Santos Freeway, back at the beach)

- Swimming

- Bicycle 100m

- Bicycle 500m

- Bicycle 1km

- Boxing 

Gold Medalists from each category: Gold medal + 250k prize

Silver Medalists from each category: Silver Medal + 100k prize

Bronze Medalists from each category: Bronze Medal + 50k prize.

 

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Los Santos' Got Talent;

- Talent show, winner receives 500k

 

[Businesses]

27 minutes ago, Luke kuperus said:

I'm not sure if you actually know how businesses works in Eclipse.
but it would not be beneficial at all for Bayview and LSC for more garage's to open up. 
It is already hard enough to keep people working. Competition between the two company's is already enough. 
It would literally kill the company's. There are just not enough players for that 1000+ at one time sure not 200.
I don't know much about the other company's. 
Regarding Ownership and management. It is working perfect as it is and we can manage it fine without having to have stuff like a board of directors. 
It is not a company like Google. It is a mechanic shop we are running. 
This is getting a big -1 from me. 
Good luck.
 

Like I said the garages are completely fine as they are, and would in fact serve better as sole proprietors instead of a statute corp, which they essentially are now.

I also didn't say it would be beneficial to you or LSC for other garages to open, however if you want to be a mechanic and a mechanic alone - then be a mechanic. You're the owner of a company and therefore an entrepreneur, if you can't handle competition or employee retention then that's your own business abilities and not something that should fall on whether or not more garage companies would be around. 

We need disturbance in the economy, right now there are companies with no competition and therefore lack creativity, basic entrepreneurial skills, and any form of a unique factor or even marketing. All competition does for you or LSC is force you to work harder and market harder, if you can't handle the responsibilities of running a company then either resign or delegate your duties to other roles you can form through a board of directors or whatever you chose to do. 

Saying that it's a bad idea to have competition because it means you need to work harder to get people to come to you is just... not right. 

200+ players is /waaaay/ more then the average RP server, and I have seen and played on RP servers with a 32 player cap who have at least 4 player-owned garages that are all working fine, because they know basic business management skills, they market their businesses via the forums with sponsorships with other companies, races, car meets ect. 

Regardless of what you think is beneficial to your company, it's not beneficial to the economy to have two companies raking in money because their only expense is employment. 

 

After writing this I feel like I'm being hostile - I'm not trying to come of hostile I'm just saying it as I see it, and I see someone who has made far too much money for what they do. A mechanic shop generates money, don't get me wrong - but you face no competition, you don't need ANY business based intuition, yet you own a mansion, and I'm sure an arsenal of cars - let's be real about it.

Someone like James Eriksen, who owns multiple companies and all of which would be companies who generates money is someone that I can amend and say that their money is something made through legitimate enterprise as from the two companies that I know he owns, being a car dealership and a gun dealership, he faces a lot of competition, an insane amount of competition considering the car market and the weapon trafficking that happens so frequently in the city.

Beneficence is dictated by your business intuition and management abilities, not by competition or an oppositions ability to make their own garage.

[Elections, Politics & Government Structure]

On 5/15/2019 at 3:50 PM, Jbacon said:

I feel that the government is doing okay with its current roles, and if you want to see change considering the faction has been created and is run by players, then join the faction, work your way to a trusted position, invest time and effort into it like the members that currently influence its development did. Then work to improve it. I personally don't see this suggestion going anywhere as it is clearly making ooc suggestions to an IC faction.

Best of luck though, and hopefully you join up and work with them and try to help develop it.

I do definitely understand where you're coming from however understand that the statue of a state is formed by a federal body, as this is an individual server and a game - there is no federal body and creating one would cause a stupid amount of stress and effort. As it's a faction and barely a government, there is no way to counter their current actions - I can't join in HR as a intern in the Bureau of Licensing and expect to have any say in the future of the government.

Creating a government without a plan or at least an efficiency program is incredibly impetus as all you are doing is building a path leading to a brick wall. The government needs more to do, and the government needs to be constitutional, elected and most importantly autonomous.

The biggest issue right now is the autonomy of the government - it needs to be able to move on regardless of who is in power, but right now that is not happening. This server comes at least as a second priority to everyone, and that's more then expected as people have lives - however there should of been a plan so there is smooth sailing once the government is put into motion.

I'm not expecting the government to reform today like bread and butter, however I do firmly believe that the people who are currently organizing this reformation (which I know /is/ happening) are not really built for it. Which is not a dig at them at all, I respect the effort that they have put in so far - however I just believe that the government is a very fast paced thing regardless, and when there is a matter as significant as this, it should be done in a matter of days. Personally - I have reformed governments much larger then this in the span of a week, which yes does include sleepless nights, however to ensure a happy playerbase, and to ensure that the intention of the server and of the faction itself is actually being displayed, it's essential.

[Businesses]

Firstly, "Why are you making a server suggestion about this? This could be done IC by the government" - You try and speak to the government, I've sent messages to more people then I can count talking about this and other things and they are ignored, because just as I said in my last suggestion these people don't need to answer to anyone and therefore they won't. I still think that the government needs reformation via staff action, however I know that won't be done.

 

So currently with the faction system there is either government or illegal, that's not really fair for the people who want to RP civilian or as entrepreneurs, it also creates issues for business functions.

There should be 3 types of businesses, (this is on a development level and not on a RP level, you could have a public held company however not listed as one);

Statutory corporations - companies/organizations created and governed by the statute, there is no owner or CEO, but a board of directors, shareholders, and a chairman/woman. Things like DCC, Weazel News, Bayview and LSC fall under this and could be changed to suit this change. 

Sole Proprietorships / Limited Partnerships / Corporations - These are larger businesses, approved by the state government via an application and registration of the company. These companies have full flexibility and are able to make a faction meaning they can pay, hire, fire people through that system, however they also fall under a higher tax band and have their faction income taxed once deposited/money comes in. This tax would be something like 38.9% (this is the current US Corporate Income tax rate).

Small businesses - Unregistered businesses that are unable to create a faction, they would pay their employees privately via cash/private bank transfer. These companies are limited to a staff of 5 people, and cannot exceed a weekly income of over $100,000, exceeding this without registering as a state approved Sole Proprietorship can result in multiple charges such-as; tax evasion, and possibly unlicensed selling depending on the nature of the company. These companies could also fall victim to another Sole Proprietor taking their business name and ideas, making them official under the government and this won't fall under any form of copyright infringement as the small business has failed to register their name.

 

Weazel News

Weazel News should be reformed into a statutory corporation, with a board of directors and a chairman; any other business decisions such as making it a LSP (Limited Statutory Partnership) where there is a board of partners as well as a board of directors and there are shareholders of-which make up these boards can be made IC by the government and the current leadership of Weazel News. What this means for the company is; there would be much more regulation to the company, under-performance means a re-vote into who should be the new chairman and/or the formation of the board. This removes any ability for corruption and inactivity ensure efficiency throughout the company which is needed heavily. This also makes it much more fair for the employee's of the company who thrive for promotions and plan to make it to a high level within weazel news however they can't because the current system doesn't allow for it, this allows for promotions to happen regardless of the persons name or relevance, it simply means that those more capable will go further within the company then someone who is inexperienced and unprofessional.

 

Downtown Cab Co.

I think Downtown Cab Co. will perform best as a corporation instead of a statutory corporation as it is currently performing extremely well without the input of the government, this also allows for competition to arise which is something that is essential for the business market and economy, the idea of a company being sole without competition makes it's more of a sort of PG organization instead of a company, this isn't DCC's fault this is more a fault of the system. DCC are completely fine and the only thing I would change is dis-associating it with the government.

 

LSC & Bayview

Sort of the same thing that applied to DCC applies here, they should be sole proprietors and not associated to the statute, they are performing fine and would perform better in an economically dynamic environment where other garages can arise with ease and be on a similar level.

 

WHY?

This system allows for much more dynamism in the economy and business market, it allows for more competition to be created and thus allowing more businesses to be made, more employment, more civilians and less criminals. This also allows for a more interesting tax society, meaning that the government becomes more essential to the functioning of the economy and there could be even cooler things like possible recessions due to companies ect. 

I personally think there where there should be statute created entities and corporations there should also be many more sole/partnership corporations that can counter these - especially in the media. The way I am looking at it right now, Weazel News is like the BBC, the BBC is a statutory corporations with a sovereign charter, if the BBC under-performed David Clementi and other directors would most likely be fired/replaced within a matter of hours. However on the other end we have things like ITV or Channel 4, where if they under-performed there is no legal obligation that forces them to perform to a level and they are not obligated to replace or fire their leadership, this would be perfect for an independent news/media house. 

 

Let me know what you think, and maybe even develop on this down below - I doubt this would come into act but why not give it a shot.

[Studio Taylor]

[Elections, Politics & Government Structure]

6 hours ago, Randyrandul said:

If you change the name of the roles and shift them slightly you are already describing our current plan. As the faction is already in game and being built upon a server suggestion seems slightly odd. If you want to be a part of helping to mold the government put in an application. 

There's a few things significantly wrong this this;

1. The only job open is bureau of licensing HR, I don't see how I'd have a say in the future of the government.

2. The people should have a say in the way the government works, and without elected officials that's impossible.

3. The current system doesn't work, the government is under effective, and the only way to change this would be through a suggestion in my opinion.

Eventually the government's function should be completely autonomous however currently it's not, there's a lot of flaws and not only is it a waste of power, it's a waste of RP potential.

[Elections, Politics & Government Structure]

 

Government

From my perspective the structure of the current government is inefficient, uneffective and essentially renders the government borderline useless where in a roleplay, serious or not, server the government has a large part to play within the servers economical structure and roleplay standards in general.

Considering the RP standards of the server fluctuates more than Carrie Fisher's mood, I think it's more practical to stay on a safe side and use a very simple, watered down version of a real structure which will reap the benefits of it's working effectiveness and efficiency whilst also discarding complexity and an intelligence barrier.

This server has a large and growing playerbase which allows for so much flexibility regardless of how many government officials there are, which allows for a variety of employment opportunities to actually attract more people to subtle, civilian RP.

The structure would look something similar to this;

Elected Officials:

Mayor

City Council

District Attorney (more on this soon)

Charter Offices/Commissions:

City Treasurer

City Clerk

City Operations Officer

Police Commission

Medical Commission

Charter departments:

Department of Finance (Licenses, Permits, Fee's, Taxes ect)

Department of Public Social Support (Housing Programs, Employment Programs, Immigration Integration (New Players))

Department of Cultural Affairs (Community arts, Non-Enforcement anti crime movements ect.)

 

This leaves room for plenty of employment whilst not flooding the system with empty roles. It would allow for new introductions that will change the way we play as civilians purely integrated through role play and character decisions, an example of this would be; The City Treasurer and Council decide to bring forth and idea of small business grants, government grants given to small business owners to kick-start their careers, however there would be ample research done into applicants, with interviews and business briefs to ensure that the money is used wisley.

 

The importance of Elected Officials.

Having elected officials are a perfect way for you the people to have a say in the community without having to go OOC with it. You could speak to a council member about an idea whether it be a law or a community project, the council member will write a bill and it will be voted on.

It also allows things like petitions, fairness and a fluctuation in character development. It also allows for corruption, an indepth way of roleplaying criminal - this might sound bad however under the correct guidance could be something beautiful

 

Under all of the new government stuff, there definitely needs to be a DOJ which can be discussed further and has been by others. I'll be writing a new suggestion soon about it.