[Hi all, fresh meat here]

5 hours ago, James_McNulty said:

Welcome!, I was on Next Generation Role Play (NGRP) and Los Santos Role Play (LSRP) back in the days of SAMP!. Good to see another old school SAMP player stepping into the next generation. Big difference you will notice is most of the RP occurs through the VOIP. So you do not need to do nearly as many /me's and /do's and other various /commands. Although it's still advised to utilize them within your roleplay when appropriate. Best of luck settling into the server!, best advice I can give is set some reasonable goals for yourself early. And of course choose what type of character you want to play on the server.

Yeah I personally prefer text based roleplay because I feel like my voice limits me to what I can roleplay, cause I think I sound corny when faking accents/voices. Although i must say its not as bad as I imagined it to be. Pro of using voice is that the police wont have the somewhat unfair advantage over criminals now. 

I didnt really run into many RP scenarios with much context yet. I guess my best bet is joining a faction if I’m looking for high standard roleplay?

[Hi all, fresh meat here]

Hello,

Name’s Raindance, I come from San Andreas Multiplayer, the MP mod for one of Rockstars predecessors, GTA:SA. Used to play on several roleplaying servers there, mostly LSRP but also IBP for some who might remember.  I was mostly known as alpha back then. Any other ex-SAMP roleplayers around here? Would love to hear from you! 

[Rampant robberies is failing Fear RP]

8 hours ago, Wizzidy said:

I agree, I am more and more in love with the idea of 24-48 hour sentences in prison that can be slowly worked down or served offline as well... that would be a much bigger deterrent to the guy at the mines who runs by and holds a gun to a man in broad daylight for $1000 worth of copper... A lot of people say that if criminals are off the street LSPD wont have anything to RP but I disagree, what about community watch, what do cops do when they aren't on call... LSPD currently has so many calls half the time your call isn't even answered in time to get there... I've had a response take nearly an hour proving they have way too much to deal with atm, and as for criminals, quite honestly everyone wants to be the big guy with the gun, wants to feel powerful at the expense of another on this server, but nobody wants to serve 48 hours in prison... well everyone wants to rob a million dollars from the bank IRL but nobody wants to spend 30 years in prison.... Recently its been popping up more and more on the forums and I am glad, I hope a dramatic wave of change comes that kills this cops and robbers mentality and drives the city into more real RP... where the mentality isn't "don't like it, just CK" because CKing is a huge deal because youve put tons of character development into a character...

I think the major point is... half the people in the server don't RP, they RPG where they just collect money and rob... I ended up joining the DOC and I love it there but I never wanted to be a prison guard... I did it because it was the only taste of RP I could get.... real interactions... since then I have expanded my circle and can throw small get together and have some meaningful interactions, but there's probably 30 people on my list that I'd care to call for a party or cookout... and lord knows I could never throw a public event. We need some different rules to encourage real RP... character development.

Yea I started playing yesterday and ive already noticed lots of people not actually roleplaying or just poorly. People shooting at me for accidentally hitting their car, people openly brandishing guns infront of a bank, people approaching me casually asking me if I want to buy a gun and even giving me their phone number as well as wearing face masks in public with police not really enforcing that, but the latter would be more of an IC issue I think. Still i think it breaks immersion. 

I was hoping most ppl here would actually be a bit more serious roleplayers considering the extensive application process one has to pass before being able to play on the server. Guess there’s always the bad apples in any community and maybe the bank is just one of those subpar hotspots i should have avoided. Oh well!

also i am with you on increasing jail times to 24 hours standards. It encourages more long term prison RP and character development and has got criminals thinking twice about their actions. While not inevitable, (a smart criminal wont be caught easily by the police)  it may get people curious about the legal sides of roleplay instead. Police shouldnt have to worry about not having any criminals to arrest, either. Definitely not in a place where give or take 90% of the server pop is a criminal. (an educated guess) like i said, a clever criminal will find their ways and probably deliver a much higher RP standard as well.

 

perhaps its also the scripts limitations that kind of incites the whole cops & robbers esque scene. If there were more interesting, non-repetitive legal jobs or factions, maybe things would balance out a bit more. Interactive jobs all revolving around peaceful(human) interaction with other people, encouraging RP. For example it would have been nice if the parcel deliverers had to deliver parcels to actual players who had actually ordered something. I realize an idea like this may be out of reach due population limits but its just an example.

[Police sirens]

3 hours ago, alexalex303 said:

They have been buggy recently. Sometimes they sync, sometimes they don't.

It's also possible that the officer is breaking protocol.

Yeh I seen several police cars speeding together in a line so think it was desync. Shame tho id want to hear police sirens approaching from afar in some situations

[Police sirens]

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