Harley

It's probably been suggested before, so I'll keep it brief. Add a blindfold functionality, either through /blindfold or the context menu. If you blindfold someone their screen goes black. They can still see chat, and all things necessary to roleplay, but cannot see around them and cannot see the GPS or map in the pause menu.

Still a LOT in here that needs to come. Accessing bags without dropping them, furni store fixes, etc, yes pls!!!

+1 - Server needs a bit more modernisation. Phone UI update was a great step in this direction, now lets modernise the elements of GTA we use. Animations are built into the game, lets use them to make ECRP feel like a game that wasn't made 20 years ago

Phone Update *First of all I just wanna say how awesome it's been to see swift and huge improvements to the phone. From a simple suggestion in general chat to an incredible new phone in a matter of a week. Seriously Paulius, thank you! That being said, there's a couple things I think could be added/improved with this phone to take it from great to amazing* Instagram App *Looking at how other modern servers do this, Instagram is yet another social media app, that in my opinion is even more fun to use than Twitter/Bleeter. It's almost identical to Instagram before it become an app full of reels. Players can post photos and videos, both taken in game and external source image URLs. I think it's important to be able to have the ability to use external photo URLs to allow more creativity with player photos. People like to edit, crop, and touch up their photos so they look much better than what is possible with the camera app in game. And while we're adding Instagram, move the Live feature into Insteagram as one merged app. People can go Live on Instagram, which then appears at the top of the page like stories do on Instagram IRL.* TL;DR Add Instagram Allow for posting Photos, Videos, and external image URLS for edited photos Add Livestreaming to Instagram, merging Live & Instagram into one add, livestreaming shown as a story at the top of the page Business/Services App *This app allows player-run businesses such as Food Services to list that they are on duty and their services are available. For example, player is a worker for Pearls Seafood. They clock on, open the services app and click a + button to add themselves to the active services app. They fill in their business name, choose a type of service in a drop down menu with multiple different services (Such as Mechanic Service, Food Service, Law Firm, etc), and toggle if they'd like to include their location on the listing. This then lists their name, business, phone number, and location in the service app under a title of that type of service. So for the Pearls Example, you'd see something like the below* Example: Food Services Pearls Seafood *Harley Pavlovich - [471-4790]* *[Set Waypoint]* TL;DR Add Businesses App for people to list their player-run businesses are open and available Allow players to choose their type of service, and toggle their location on/off Allows for players to quickly see which businesses are currently operating and open, allows for passive businesses like food shops, etc, to be utilised mroe Other Improvements Allow for external Image URL's to be added to phone gallery, so people can share edited photos, etc. Replace location map from 3D map to 2D map (Same one in the pause menu) Add audible ringtones to surrounding players, so they can hear if somebody is getting a phone call, a modern version of the old /ame that used to display using the Gen 1 phone Add ability to use custom ringtones (Perhaps a feature behind a credit payment/VIP) Limited to 30 second audios, can use YouTube links for this

I'd like to suggest something I've seen be super successful in other communities, and I think would really help iron out any issues with upcoming changes The Playtesting Team Currently ECRP relies on trusted members of staff to log onto the dev server to playtest updates. This is definitely an improvement on the past, but the next step would be to open up Playtesting Applications to players, and not limit to just staff. Playtesters must apply through a form, applications should be reviewed by senior staff, just like Staff Applications. The application should include any QA experience, and the players membership within the Playtesting Team relies on them actually testing the updates and leaving feedback/bug reports. Once a player is accepted into the Playtesting team, they recieve a role on Discord that allows them access to: Bug Report Channel Suggestions Channel (For non-bugs but things that could make the update better) Test Discussion Channel for just general chat about the update Scheduled Playtests - For group playtest sessions, mainly useful for updates that require grouped activities, like vehicles for pursuits, etc Changelog - Each patch/update added to the dev server listed here Testing VCs This will only benefit ECRP by giving devs a larger pool of playtesting QA data for upcoming updates. The Playtesting Team should include all sides of the server, including Criminals, LEO, Civilian, etc. to gain the feedback from every demographic for each update. Of course only members of the community who have shown their dedication to the community, are known for constructive criticism, or have built enough trust would be eligble to be accepted into the team, but with very limited access (Except logging into the dev server) the risks are extremely low for ECRP, but the benefits of free QA testing is huge!

Also, UI tends to stack ontop of eachother: e.g

First of all, I wanna say the update to the business UI has been a long time coming and I can say we all appreciate the update! No longer am I squinting with a 4k monitor looking at 2 inches of UI - Great update! There's a few things that I think are an oversight that are missing with the new UIs that are vital for this new UI to be successful. Those are: Purchase Logs Treasury Logs for Owners to monitor treasury activity Manager Permission Handling: When assigning a manager they currently possess all permissions. There needs to be a manager permission handler system to allow for business owners to assign set permissions per manager. Currently a manager of a vehicle dealership can see treasury funds, withdraw treasury funds, change prices of vehicles, etc. The permission options that are needed are: View Treasury Deposit Treasury Withdraw Treasury Edit Pricing Edit Businesss Name Import Stock Maximum Expense Limit Any other permissions that the Gun Store UI allows you to toggle Oversights/bugs: Trucker payments default to the same price as the import of the item. It should default to the minimum payment. (e.g if the cost of the item is $8000, the trucker payment defaults to $8000, it should default to $1000) Anyone else with businesses, if you spot any other issues/oversights please feel free to add to this post. Lets get this update done right!

I've been here through literally every one of these failed promises and even I am still shocked at how much you've managed to highlight here. I have stopped financially supporting ECRP for this exact same reason. The donations I was spending seemed to go nowhere. I think it's quite an insult to the community making a new £50/month VIP tier without actually giving anything more to the community, expecting the loyal ones who have stayed here for almost a decade to cough up. I understand the previous drams with prior developers. It was a punch in the gut and I'm sure causes a huge lack of trust from the founders, but PLEASE consider hiring or taking on developers who are begging to do the job. There are plenty of players who pledge thousands of dollars a year to ECRP, I am certain even one more developer would benefit the server immensely. Burnout is real, and I theorise this is why so many features have been abandoned or forgotten about, so bring someone else in. Bring someone else into Development who still has the motivation to build! Also: PLAYTESTING Recently I've experienced and witnessed another community open up Playtesting Applications to their playerbase. Players could apply to be a playtester, were invited to a Discord and invited to a development server to playtest and report any bugs or issues with updates weeks before they were to release. This works SO WELL. Too many times have we seen updates come out, then immediately 100 bugs are found, or changes that need to be made. Let the playerbase who live and breathe your game apply to playtest your updates. No payment needed, and it should be a limited pool of players (The other community had around 50 dedicated players selected out of those who applied) and let them try to break your update! The members of staff in ECRP can only do so much, and who better to test and try to break an update to your game than the players who play it daily? e.g - New Vehicle Update - Released to playtesters 2 weeks before scheduled release. Both crim and cop players are in playtesting group and set up pursuits to test them. Quickly the performance of the vehicles would be found to their potential, and bugs would be found so much quicker. We're a very old community, and we have a lot of old ways of working that modern communities have learned from and do better than us. We need to be less afraid of change. It's been almost a decade, things modernise, things change, but one thing that has never changed is how loyal people are to ECRP. Learn from other communities. Actually review WHY are people leaving? Why do people go elsewhere? Don't settle on "It's just haters". Be better. There's always a deeper meaning. People don't abandon a community like this without real reason, reflecting inwards isn't a bad thing to do

Or have some kind of balancing system. If gang 1 has a bank, 3 stores, 6 atms in their turf and gang 2 has just some atms, take away the bank option. The script legit nerfs you for being a higher tier with more turfs

Phone is just a small piece of the UI issue with ECRP. It defintiely needs an overhaul, but so does everything else. How are we still using the same UI from 2017 for general stores???