Ash

Whilst I don’t agree with all the below points, these tend to be the key points used in complaints: - dev work is few and far between with updates over the years. They put out a roadmap in late 2025 and failed to meet the commitments there even which decreased peoples opinions on the effort being put into the server from the dev side - royal vip was added with higher cost and more benefits such as very low jail time, this annoyed a bunch of people ranging from those thinking its devs being greedy to people being unhappy with how “pay to win” it is - the usual cop vs crim argument is ongoing with both sides disliking the other and never being happy, the mentality around this is really bad as no change is ever good enough for people - some people were unhappy with the direction both illegal and legal faction management was/is going, several gangs have disbanded and left the server citing this - various bans for cheaters, evaders, mass rule breakers resulted in entire gangs shutting down and people leaving as a result - The general obvious one is gta rp is just dying. Between people losing interest, and others just not bothering to play until the fivem migration happens it affects player count overall it’s just a combination of factors mostly resulting in the main people active are those suffering with sunk cost fallacy or those holding hope the fivem migration might bring a nice influx of old and new since if the server is mostly 1:1 ecrp will be in a position where it’ll be quite unique compared to most of the fivem copy-and-paste slop. personally I think the main issue is people’s mentality of always wanting more or things changed instead of just..having fun and roleplaying. And the focus on assets is another big one for example people don’t show up to fun events unless there’s a raffle for a car or something which is a piss poor mentality to have on an rp server. covid probably accounted for the drop to sub-200 but we were at 100-200 consistently for a long while from covid. I think the rest is a combination of issues

Read my first post on this thread, you can already do this via message app

As a humble journalist roleplayer completely outside from crim and LEO, I know my input has little weight but I think the current state of gangs adhering to lore is abysmal. This doesn't apply to all gangs, or even all members of some gangs. But as a whole, most gangs are generic ass mafia/druglord/shooters and those gangs that started out with really cool theme now have members not doing right accents, not dressing lore-friendly, not driving lore friendly cars, and/or not doing activities that fit their gang. We effectively have no real street-level block gangs as an example. Whether this is because gangs are forced to do xyz to maintain imports or whatever, I think it's an issue.

I might be wrong or it might have changed but i thought PD/SD could only stabilize if there's only like 1 MD on shift? "Players must see members of EMS or NPC to heal." I agree with most of the points in this section, I said it back when i was LSEMS and i'll keep saying it, having LSEMS camping ambulance bay is BAD for the faction. All idling LSEMS should be in the lobby interacting with people who come in, with a vehicle spawnpoint right outside for calls. Even if people are self transporting to pillbox, /dropbody and the "press e to heal" NPC should only work if there's not a medic in the general vicinity of the pillbox lobby. But we know what the devs are like with updates, so let's assume the latter part is not implemented: Faction vehicle spawnpoints can be moved/placed by head admins. stick one at upper pillbox and force idling medics to linger in the lobby, you'll instantly see an uptick in roleplay if not just from people choosing to rp with you instead of the $3k payment NPC.

+1

https://discord.com/channels/229240178441584645/229240248687656960/1508784595053711370

However, air dropping whatever location you have set as a waypoint would be good e.g. "I want to go here mr taxi driver"

the little triangle button in text messages sends your location they can set as a waypoint lol

kinky +1

The phone stuff is the obvious big winner for me. Between the shit talking on bleeter, and the easier access to idiots to record via location pinging in messages, and livestreaming earning me more money than any gov faction i worked in, and the illegal marketplace to buy my GPS zero days easier, im quite glad Mr Claude joined the dev team Several of the phone features yesterday basically allowed me and @Frewer to create scenes and content out of thin air at the mines

Agreed. /hidehud true works great but it also hides a bunch of shit like phone. I think ideal would be a command to hidealias/hideid or both so you can show what you prefer

they changed it ages back where IDs and aliases were not visible unless you held alt or some shit, then everyone whined like little bitches about it. The needing IDs for reports thing was way over-complained about, I was admin at the time and through staff tools and logs you could see who shot someone as long as there was a timestamp. there was maybe a tiny handful of reports that couldnt be resolved due to not being able to get identification, and this was when reports were significantly higher than they are now. I personally would rather not have anything above head other than new player, if not that then just IDs or at least a removeallalias command so i can reset all mine so i just see IDs. if you're memorable enough i'll remember you, if you look and act like generic npc then i wont remember lol

you can removealias already? And also LEO can toggle off auto alias in the phone settings > game settings so license doesnt auto alias them

They work in texts, don't work on Bleeter.

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