Aldarine

Thank you for your time Mr. Costello. I look forward to potentially utilizing your services once you are officially licensed and registered within Los Santos to practice law following successful completion of a bar exam or whatever methods the government puts into play. My best regards to you and your brother.

To Whom It May Concern, I would love to see your credentials that provide you with licensure to practice law within Los Santos. As you claim to be a law firm, this shouldn't be too hard to provide. I look forward to this being presented before contacting you for services. Best Regards.

A lot of us are just like you - trust me. I work full time and split my relaxation time at home between ECRP and other games. The issue may be that you're looking at it from a "stuff" standpoint. You are completely able to role play an average citizen even though what you are making with farming is fairly low. There is absolutely no rush to get "stuff" and so much can be done without it. Is having a house and a decent car nice? Absolutely but it's not necessary. We are all here for roleplay opportunities, not to just grind money. If that is where a lot of your time is being spent, I do advise you to start branching out. There is the possibility that before you know it, you'll have a decent salary saved up just from participating in RP scenes and not even paying attention to work.

Script support is not necessary for everything. There is so much power in RP - just use your imagination. After RP implementation of something like this some areas that would benefit from script support will come up of course, but just because it's not there now doesn't mean "theres no point"

+1 Something so simple but would be a nice addition

I would like to see a variety of new cars added, not just fancy sports/muscle cars. It would be nice to see vehicles that would be realistically used and obtainable by average civilians.

+1/-1 I would like to see something like this being implemented with in-game currency and not necessarily upgrade an interior but change the layout of it. The following is my explanation: 1. In-game currency is better suited for this because it would add another place for us to throw our money which is desperately needed. Also, using in-game currency allows people who cannot afford a real life contribution to also partake. 2. I am against the idea of "upgrading" interiors to nice premade interiors and would rather see options available such as the standard furnished interior, a demolished version that's just an empty box, and an unfurnished version with the same wall layout as the furnished. The reason for this is because of limiting RP and player businesses. We presently have players who have remodeling businesses and if there were nice prebuild interiors that you could just buy with the click of your mouse, it would just harm those players and take something good away from them.

-1 Just like in real life there are areas where people can make postings such as ebay and craigslist. They are free and seller managed. There is a very clear benefit to using Weazel in game as that is that your advertisement is seen by ALL citizens who are in town whereas the forums are limited to those who actually check it. Also the forums are a place where we can show our creativity and make/manage our postings in a way that represents our characters. This shouldn't be taken away.

-1 You are suggesting a forced CK which is not fair to any player and will do nothing to deter shootouts. Nobody should be forced to completely abandon a character they put so much time into. That is a personal decision we make as players in the server who have dedicated a ton to breathe life into these citizens.

As much as my ears hate me for saying this but -1 because this can so easily be abused to just ignore somebody and ruin another person’s RP experience. How would you feel if you were trying to actively engage with somebody and they just turned you down to the point where they couldn’t hear you anymore?

-1 We are all expected to know and understand the rules upon entering the server and we are held to that understanding every single time we log in. Through our reporting and appeal process you are able to provide proof if it truly was a mistake as well as explain to our staff that you have learned from your mistake and time away should you be banned. Not all perma bans are actually perma due to our appeal process. Rule breaks are very serious in nature, especially DM, and having "rehab" or a time lapse for wiping the offense will only give players allowance to be clean for a bit before breaking the rule all over again. It can be easily argued that breaking the same rule just goes to show that you didn't really learn anything from your first rule break/punishment. When server rules are broken you are disrupting the integrity of the server and ruining the enjoyment for other people. This should not be excused. It's very simple, don't break the rules you agreed to and again if it was a mistake, provide your proof, state your case on the forums. Should you read over punishment appeals, many things are considered before a final decision is made including time elapsed since your offense, your sincere feelings behind the rule break and what you learned, and your stated approach going forward should your punishment be lifted. If none of this wasn't taken into account, we wouldn't have an actual appeal process and it would just be perma ban and done.

At the end of the day, government jobs are just that, government jobs. If you chose to be a criminal, you are in for a hard life as it is IRL. It is no easy task being a criminal, making lots of money, keeping all your weapons/drugs, etc. As stated by a previous poster, you seem to be under the assumption that these government jobs are just so easy and it's clock in, grab a vehicle, and make money. I'm not a member of PD but instead a member of EMS. I've put countless hours of work OOCly into my faction and hours IC can be very hard and demanding while on the job. Along with this, I am held to high standards as I am an employee of the government and represent LSEMS be it on or off duty. This means that should I engage in any form of criminal activity (including reckless driving), be involved with the wrong people at the wrong time, or misspeak regarding certain things, I can be subject to disciplinary actions. I assume the same can be said for PD as again, it's another government job. No path of life is without its pros and cons. This is also a RP server, not a money grind. Criminals can have incredible backstories and there are so many doors for RP opportunities should you make them. Stop focusing so much on the grind aspect as it does raise the question of why you are on a RP server to begin if you have such a win mentality. Let it be known that I fully support increased script support for criminals and more things for them to do, but this is just a ridiculous suggestion in my opinion.

It still wouldn't solve the issue of just another thing clogging up the text box. It may not seem like a big deal to some people but when you're a medic on scene with a million things going on at the same time, it's already hard enough trying to find /me and /do. This would only make it worse.

Let's work towards getting this done IC! This sounds like a fantastic idea.

-1 The only thing I could see this doing is making life incredibly hard and confusing for people who fly government aircraft. Not only do they already have normal radio chatter to deal with and sort through but this would just add more text. In EMS when you have a lot of text based RP, the last thing needed is even more to flood your text box. This would also create essentially double the work as the flying party would still need to make their normal radio calls to their department dispatch on top of this.

I really do understand the convenience but I still just don't see the realism in it, I really don't I'm sorry. To me it would be so immersion breaking to see a nice helicopter land on a small run down hospital in the middle of an incredibly run down and seemingly impoverished area of the city. The heli-pad across the street doesn't relate to a heli-pad at the run down hospital.

Kind of on the fence for this one. While it would be convenient for some people, it really doesn’t make RP sense for the Sandy hospital. The hospital in Sandy is small, run down, and looks like a small clinic that is the only form of medical treatment for northern residents and this turned into a hospital. Looking at the hospital visually and the environment, it is true that a helipad wouldn’t make much sense. Realistically, helipads and medevac are stationed in highly populated central areas at state of the art hospitals equipped to handle the traumas that come from calls requiring medevac. Sandy just doesn’t fit the bill and I tend to lean on the side of realism over convenience.

I wasn’t around for snow on the server but one thing that would be nice is some weather implementation aside from just rain. It would be nice to see rare snow (considering geography of Los Santos). I’d like to see it taken a step further where perhaps we have actual temperatures listed daily. It’s kind of weird walking around and seeing some people bundled up and others in shorts and a bikini top.

-1 As stated by previous posters, all this would do is create the sport of hunting cops which is something that is absolutely not needed in this server.

-1 Even though it is purchased through OOC means it crosses the OOC/IC line once it becomes a physical presence in the server (the car is imported) and thereby is bound ICly (even referenced as a special bitcoin import to further bind it IC). Also think about this - how would two people who do not know each other, have full access and ownership to the exact same vehicle? If said vehicle is parked at a personal residence, how does a stranger have access to the garage?

-1 I'm all for civilians getting things and improving the server but this one just isn't it. Not only is desync an issue but then you're also looking at air traffic control not being possible, aircraft being stolen by criminals, obstruction to the flow of emergency aircraft, etc. The aircraft in the server are not for fun - they are emergency vehicles that respond only to emergency situations.

I'm just going to go right ahead and tip my hat off to you for stating all of this! I would absolutely LOVE to see more drug roleplay. If more effects are added to entice people to really use them instead of grind money (which I mean, go ahead make money but still) it could open the doors for so much roleplay potential.

+1 I absolutely love Weazel but I agree they need a phone app or anything else for advertisements as opposed to mixing it in with text chat. Depending on the number of ads and timing, it can completely take over your text box and push text based RP interactions out of view so fast.

I do not think there should be a prison sentence cap due to the abuse that comes with implementing it as well as the fact that realistically there is no cap (people can be sentenced to prison for multiple life terms). What was stated before by another poster regarding the abuse of the 2 hour limit is absolutely true. There was nothing stopping a criminal from going on a rampage after they know their crimes sum up to the max prison sentence. That being said, I do think that the prison system needs some heavy work and to me it's a combination of 3 things - criminal players mentality, prison activities, and DOC involvement. 1. Criminal Player Mentality - When criminal players (not all) get arrested and jailed they like to complain (it's pretty evident on the forums especially on threads about prison sentence caps). They are very quick to state "it's an OOC punishment for something IC" "I'm just going to sit in my cell and AFK" or something along those lines. This mentality needs to change. As players on a roleplay server, we have to find ways to create scenarios. Stuck in prison for a few hours? Round up some inmates and play dice which secretly recruiting them into your gang. Make some new connections for when you get released from prison. There is a lot of RP potential with inmates alone if the effort was put in to create these scenarios. 2. Prison Activities - There should be more scripted activities in prison such as laundry duty, library duty, etc. I do think the stamps system was a good call but it needs to be heavily reviewed and adjusted. 3. DOC Involvement - I am not speaking bad of the faction in any way, shape, or form, but I do believe that members of the DOC faction do need to step it up. There have been countless times where I've seen groups of DOC members fooling around outside the gates, hanging out outside the prison entrance, etc. when instead they could be inside the prison watching over inmates. Yes, guarding the gate and everything else is part of their job too but when there are so many doing it, it raises the question of how much attention is given to the inmates and increasing their RP enjoyment as well. As I am not a member of DOC, I cannot speak to how their internal structures/guidelines are set up nor their full job duties but I do think some balancing needs to be done to ensure that the internal area of the prison is properly staffed for the inmate population along with potentially scheduled rounding and RP scenes involving moving prisoners from one area to another for things like lunch, showers, etc.

1. Storage items have been implemented so that point is null 2. I'm on the fence about new interiors that you can purchase. While this would be nice and all, you can already renovate your home. Nice purchasable interiors would potentially take away business opportunities from players and thus reducing RP possibilities.