I get RDM'd & car jacked right as I spawn in & spawn my car. (spawned at the parking lot.) I also KNOW I lock my car every time I get out & before I put it in the garage. Also someone just shot me while I tried to block the car with my body so he woouldn't leave (I think this person thought I was trying to steal his car so he shot me 0 RP involved) so a few things 1. WHY WASN'T MY CAR STILL LOCKED WHEN I UNPARKED IT!. 2 I sent in a report & waited literally 20+ minutes. Sure nothings perfect. but 20 minutes when literally all I wanted was my car back is a little insane even if you only have 5 people admining 500. (I have done this before on jedi knight jedi academy as one of said server admins) Even so. I doubt they would have given me my car back chalking it up to "well you got robbed" & it's like no I didn't. 0 out of 0 times have I ever heard of someone IRL (which we're roleplaying IRL) pulling there car out of a parking garage & someone gets to the door of the car before them so now they just get the car. Police do 0 about car theft. & here's the real kicker. guess what's still above my head? NEW PLAYER! I've been robbed 5+ times not including this, in the past 4 days i've been a new player on this server. I love it when I get to RP, most people are fine. But the second you go anywhere not around a NCZ it's always some heavily accented person screaming at you for your stuff. Me being a good rule abdiding new player I let them jack me so as not to ruin the RP & contact an admin about it. NOTHING HAPPENED 5 TIMES! The only tip I got once was the command /vehiclestats which then once I told the admin that it said it was on the map he said "yea that means someone has stolen it & you need to go talk to the police IC about it." I know a bit of this seems run on & like im "reporting" but I just wanted to give a detailed explanation behind why I suggest these things. I understand stuff happens & I still want to play regardless. I say this because I do actually care & like the game. Instead of just saying "this is dumb" and not playing because I do think I've gotten kind of a bad experience so far.
TLDR:
1. answer new player reports, more then non-new player reports, & if you don't have a system for it make one.
2. Police need to be better about car theft. If all cars have GPS all cars should come with an engine off switch cops can activate if you really don't have the man power to chase them down. (noticed you 're not hiring cops atm too btw which makes 0 sense because you need more.)
3. Cars that just spawn in, in a parking lot should always. ALWAYS! be auto-locked even though I know I locked mine before I put it in the garage.
4. Law abiding citizen NEED access to ammo. I got my permit & now I have to get ammo from gangs to defend myself from them.
5. Criminal activity needs to be punished harsher to deter it more. Literally everyone turns to crime because it is 100% worth it. I would too if I cared about meta-gaming & min-maxing my money, But I want to RP a singer. So treat 1 week like a year in prison. & murder charges come with 5-25 years of prison IRL so 5-25 weeks of IG prison. & just actually make an IG prison area with things for the inmates to do so you can have a whole other section of RP & don't have to feel like you're taking away there ability to play the game completely. (they have a prison you can actually RP in, in many RP games like ALTIS life an arma 3 mod.) (you could also instead of time just do heavier monetary losses for crime then you wouldn't have to do any of the above prison stuff. MANY irl murder bails are 1mil+ so if I can get 2.5k speeding tickets how are some people getting outta jail for only 15-20k?)
