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90% of the time these robberies have little to no RP involved. "Hands" and /me pats down is not RP. If you really wanted to RP, you can hop in the victims car, hold him up silently using /me and tell him to drive somewhere more remote. After that you can do what you please to him. That is called RP, not "hands hands" and taking people's GPS' off

Robberies IRL have witnesses that can direct the police. In Eclipse its not possible. Plus what are you gonna rob anyways? A GPS? Theres no point.

I think this faction looks way too similar with what we’ve already had and went through in the past. Right now it just looks like yet any other “gang,” even though this claims to be a Cartel.

This can be archived as was finally introduced in the latest update.

I agree with most this post has to say but I think this line in particular is false. In my opinion over the last 4 months when I was still active on a criminal character natural conflict over turfs definitely existed. One of the biggest examples is the Ballas and WCA conflict that started over WCA contesting Ballas' claim over Grove street. This was something that happened naturally without the need of any script. A smaller example is a brief conflict between Ballas and the short lived gang "EBK." Shortly after Ballas claimed Jamestown, EBK attempted to contest that claim and was eventually targeted by the Ballas. I think should the Triads (example as it is your personal faction) choose to operate in a "turf" someone could surely come into natural conflict with them. I know that in many RP stories Triads mention control over Little Seoul but very rarely do I see anyone there. I think should you choose to RP there more often just driving around and making your presence known someone will soon come into natural conflict with you and generate RP.

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-1 Agree with everything @Luxas said.

I've roleplayed as both someone called in for questioning by detectives as the one being investigated and also the one filing a request for investigation. They do allow you to have someone with you during questioning as your lawyer.

You can have someone RP as a lawyer with you, but only during questioning. As someone who's been part of detective RP multiple times I know that if a detective would want to question you about a crime / any other info you can ask for a lawyer and have someone RP that way with you. However, a DOJ faction has been suggested multiple times and I personally don't see it plausible or happening any time soon.

Happened to me during selling at the foundry where I got injured from a fall and noticed my weapon dissapeared cause my inventory was full.

I agree. Sometimes it is very demotivating to roleplay with a new player be it in a simple taxi ride or processing at prison just because so many fail to be able to roleplay and often mix IC and OOC. While we're often told to be patient and teach new players, if they pass the quiz then they should already know IC, OOC, /me, /do, I get teaching extra commands but those things they should already know.

The Midnight Club. What was once something barely known, now the club is recognized in the city. Plenty of people, car enthusiast or not already know of the club. From that fame comes unsavory people, but also people who have found their calling to join the club. The club is bigger than ever with more and more new faces coming in. Other than the original founders of the club, new faces has started taking up positions of leadership in the club. To keep things interesting, Akio orders them to find more and more tracks for them to race. Other than the regular races, the Midnight Club has also started to host more low-profile legal car meets. Seeing as a couple TED officers tend to try and bust any high-speed events, car meets are a great way to get the word out of the club yet stay out of TED's crosshairs. From what started as just a couple friends bringing their cars, Midnight Club hosted an event with over 30 vehicles attending at the LSIA parking lot near the DMV. The event was a major success and Akio thanked everyone who made it that way. While the club forbid any hard-illegal activities, some people still mistaken the legal car club for a gang. Akio knew some members of the Wanted from back in the day and he knew their history. He did not want the Midnight Club to end up with the same fate as the Wanted. He had to make it clear that this was not a gang, so he started coordinating to expand the club to some other legal sectors. Seeing the new LS Magazine, Akio thought that a partnership between the both would benefit all parties. However, as it didn't work out, Akio didn't give up but decided to start his own magazine with the club. After several weeks of writing, editing and also polish, the debut issue was done. Introducing the Midnight Magazine, Los Santos' first Automotive magazine. Check out the full magazine here: https://forum.eclipse-rp.net/topic/38133-midnight-magazine-issue-no-1-automotive-magazine-by-midnight-club/ After the success and popularity of the Midnight Magazine, several high-profile people has started to notice the club. During another regular shift at Bayview, doing what he loved, Akio received a text message. Reading over it, Akio saw this as a opportunity that he couldn't let past. He told the plan to the club and met with someone called Tom Moretti. The location was ideal, next to the Del Perro Freeway and across PurmsPumps. After an agreement was made, they soon planned their first event together. Organizing the sponsors and prizes, its time to see if this event would be bigger than the last. Things are looking promising for the Midnight Club.

As someone who is currently leading an "organization" of their own, I admit that having a system like this could definitely be beneficial. As a group we have a shared treasury handled by the command team that is scriptly inside my own bank account. Although it might be more convenient its not really something crucial to functioning. We require the treasury almost everytime we host an event, giveaway something or purchase something for the group, but a lack of such system doesn't prevent us from functioning. I think a treasury system should be left for Official Factions only as something extra to look forward to, as you can manage without one.

I mean then be tighter with your recruitment process maybe...? Seems like an IC issue that admins won’t need to investigate. If you don’t trust someone then why let them in your crew. I’d rather grow slow with people who would last till the end than swell with people who would leave the next week.

Major props to @Dan Pearce for making the excellent video!

Having more JDM cars like the Kanjo and Sugoi could be super cool. Need to hop on board that civic lifestyle. +1 Oh and the Sultan classic also massive +1

NLA already had that property since before it was next to a NCZ. I think even if you roleplay your HQ undercover it will still be known to nearly everyone because of forum posts. Previously when Ballas were in a war we moved our HQ to a lowkey warehouse in the Docks. Noone ever attacked us there for weeks cause noone knew. The second we make a story post about it and share OOC pictures on Eclipse Discord we get attacked everyday there. Its hard to roleplay something hidden, share/highlight that RP as part of your faction thread and not get metagamed.

This sounds super interesting and could definitely be something cool to implement

Thanks for the awesome support from everyone making me go

Have a lot of mixed feelings as you guys were the first ever criminal faction I've joined, yet later on you would also be the ones to kill the later faction I had. Its been a lot of ups and downs but for sure your time in the official faction stage was cut too short. Will miss the West Coast Assassin's presence in the city, from the Jewel Motel all the way to Grove.

I see where its going but I think theres a big chance it will be abused like zip ties. Currently almost every low level robbery ends up with you being zip tied for no reason. 30 minutes is a long time without being able to do anything. I just can't agree to possibly being powergamed into sitting in my chair doing nothing for 30 minutes.

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