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Not at all. If anything, creativity is encouraged. Nobody is going to complain about elaborate /me's or /ldo roleplay. The point is that this server has always strived for realism (to a point), and we used to/still have elaborate requirements that fostered the "heavy roleplay" theme (signing paperwork, /me to show licenses, etc, not robbing stores with heavies, not pulling out a LEO supercar to chase, roleplaying injuries, increased car damage, not being able to "stunt jump", old fearRP rules) . Granted, that has waned and is not the main reason the player count is low. On the subject of player count and development, Plague said it best, Yet it's taboo to talk about the issues with development. Also, to reiterate my last post, there are no roadmaps, polls, or anything that gives the community an idea of what's going on. Remember when they teased ATM robberies? Two years later, they finally implemented it, and when it was implemented, it wasn't even worth doing because the payouts were so low. Edited for clarity and added additional examples.

There is no reason for Civs to interact with anyone on the server. At this point, they just become traffic to dodge while in a police chase. Sitting around at a mechanics shop grinding money while spitting out canned me's is not roleplay. The only way to fix this is by implementing systems to force criminals to need civilians for progression, or vice versa. People seem to forget that the prison has already undergone a massive overhaul in the past; the likelihood of it being overhauled again is close to 0. The devs did have a good idea by tying Criminal XP to being active in jail, but nobody wants to run around for an hour picking up laundry and trash for less than half a level of Criminal XP for features that may or may not work. On the subject of events, it's all about keeping people engaged. Let's be real, most events that are not done by the event team are just people sitting around, and are usually boring. People want to see progression in their characters, they want to see the numbers go up, and they want to feel like they are doing something. Sitting around listening to music and chatting with other people can be done in a Discord channel, which is what most events turn out to be. I would also venture to say that the reason they are so boring is that they are mandatory to advance in faction tier. Want to increase player count? Drop the idea of "Heavy Roleplay", stop gating guns behind factions, add group size limits for crims and LEO's, and start showing transparency in what priorities are when implementing features. Someone earlier mentioned the bus system... totally unneeded. Wasted development time. Nobody has a reason to use it. If given the choice, I bet the majority of the community would have voted against it. Any live service game must have a constant stream of good updates; otherwise, they become stale and lose players, which is part of the issue we see here.

Date and time (provide timezone): 09/18/2025 8:30PM Game Edition (Legacy/Enhanced/both): legacy Character name: Johnnie_Everdeen Does this issue appear again after a full game restart?: Yes How many times did this issue appear for you?: Always Issue/bug you are reporting: Smashing ATM's gives burglary xp, which is inconsistent with the rewards. The robbery skills give bonus to ATM's, so smashing ATM's should give robbery xp. Also, pulling ATM's and smashing them gives criminal XP. Not sure if this is also intended. Expected behavior: Smashing or Pulling ATM's should give Robbery XP. Evidence (MUST provide either UNEDITED photo or video) , notes worth mentioning, steps to replicate: Vehicle license plate number*: N/A

People's time is more valuable than the RP potential this provides. +1

Something similar happened to me. I had two more people in the house but they were still (also, I was the only one drilling), and the noise meter just leaped 50%. https://clipchamp.com/watch/BcQiKjRtdTu

I have a few more videos on my channel, but I made this clip compilation 2.5 years ago. I'm a very bad editor haha.

Noice! Got a desktop version?

Her body tensed and quivered as she felt wave after wave surge through it. Johnnie probably should of told her that outlet had been faulty since day one. He shrugged and began to produce a pack of Redwood’s as the chefs in the kitchen picked up the new hostess by her arms. She was alright, just a little shock; the chef’s pointed her body toward the door and into one of the couches at the lounge. The head chef glared at Johnnie as he put the cigarette in his mouth, but with a measured and nice tone said, “Ah… no no, Mistah Everdeen, Miss a’ Ravyn will get so a’ mad if you smoke in here! Please go outside!” Johnnie squinted at the man and tried to look menacing, but only felt like a fool. He made his way through the dining area and lounge, nodding to the employees who were cleaning up for the night, and sat outside in the veranda. He took a sip from a small flask in his jacket and tried to rationalize the cost of hiring a contractor for a single outlet versus installing an outlet plug. Johnnie Everdeen crossed his legs, took a golden Zibbo® lighter from his breastpocket, and lit up a cigarette as he lost track of himself at sea. The crests of the water spray glittered in the sunset while the droning sound of waves crashing into the large wooden beams underneath him lulled him almost to sleep. He felt his cheeks flush as the last swig of peppermint schnapps made his blood vessels dilate and Johnnie felt a bit paranoid, although the employees usually mistook it for mouthwash if they got too close to him. A sudden caw from a nearby seagull snapped Johnnie partially back into consciousness, just in time as the last hostess was leaving Pearl’s for the night. Taking a drag on his cigarette, he raised his hand in a small, professional wave. At least that’s what he hoped it looked like, his body wasn’t responding well at the moment. His mind, however, was responding very well. A few months ago one of his house cleaners had almost thrown away one of his most precious possessions, a crude portrait drawn of him on a simple sheet of paper. It was given to him during the last time he took a vacation at the DOC, by someone whose face he could hardly remember. He remembered when he first looked at it the sudden overwhelming feelings of emotion that washed over him, probably helped along by the copious amounts of booze he had been drinking lately. Since then, he started asking for pictures from his friends, and then progressed to asking people on the pier, to actually tracking certain individuals down and persuading them to draw something. He didn’t know why he liked them, he just did. Subconsciously he knew that he was collecting these drawings as memento's, many of the drawings he had in his possession now were from people who were long gone. Last night he caught himself looking at the picture of another Rook, Frank Morello, and he was overcome by emotion when he thought of the potential of losing the masterpiece. So, in a moment of clarity, he turned on his phone, took a picture, uploaded it, and continued on until had had backups of each. He wasn’t worried about the police tracking him at this house, it was clean as soon as he moved the rest of the… product out. Now, sitting on the back veranda at Pearls and swooning to the beat of the crashing waves, Johnnie decided to make the album of his drawings public. “I wonder if I still have the drawing I got from Commissioner Langly?” he thought to himself as he lit up another cigarette with his gold Zibbo® lighter.

Glad to have you here! I hope you have tons of fun!

@HighTV Told me that a good idea would be that you need to use a gun to interrogate, that would help at least make it clearer that someone is interrogating, because at the moment there's no indication.

The current system provides no downsides for people who run around comping drops all day just to shoot. I do think that if someone is willing to drop cash, a successful bribe could probably give the time that the drop is too. +1

-1 Too much room for abuse, why can't you just use discord pings? To be fair faction chat is mostly meme's anyway for most of the factions I've been in. If they got rid of fchat altogether I wouldn't miss it.

Like home alone, it depends on how much prep time Batman gets.

Glad to hear you're enjoying yourself, welcome to ECRP!