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Pink hairstyles were only really a thing when I ran the place, now it's only the odd one or two guard, but frankly it doesn't matter. The main reason I kept allowing colored hair was that it allowed for character individuality as the gta character maker is pretty limited. Basically I looked at how nearly every LSPD officer looks the same and how most LSSD look the same and thought, nah. Its a balance of realism vs game. And even then, there's limits on making things not look too...funky. Shotguns are limited ICly to specific ranks or divisions. There's no non-lethal ones, but all in all these get deployed in officer threat of life situations. If we're talking about realism, guards don't get attempted murdered multiple times a day in California prison (The current rate is 2.7 per 100,000. With 40% being intentional.). And even then, usage of firearms is monitored by faction higher ups as its mandatory to write a report about what happened and why when one is discharged. 99% of the time they're used passively to deter attacks, and once in a blue moon an attack happens and someone gets shot for it. In an ideal world beanbag shotguns or something would be used. Making a claim that they don't provide passive roleplay is very wrong and misinformed. Just because you don't see it personally doesn't mean it happens. The faction thread even highlights some of the passive roleplay you probably don't see but I'll list a few: Groundskeeping and allowing inmates to assist e.g. cutting grass There's a post even dedicated to the kind of paperwork they do There's a post on FRD which is a big one that involves criminals And that's just the ones they showcased. II know for a fact there's more things. Finally, the pride parade was a server-wide event ICLy ran by the government that many other factions got involved in (LSEMS, bayview, LSC, DCC to name a few). They were only on duty for the vehicle part then had to be off duty for the actual party. Go-karting was an internal off-duty event between friends and coworkers not unlike IRL teambuilding days or whatever and just isn't relevant. All that being said, if you have criticism or suggestions on an OOC level, scroll up to the post by @Chunder.

Vehicle spawn points were manually set so none should be spawning on private property. As you said, this is likely people putting them on their private property which the respawn rate change should fix as it was preventing new ones being spawned. Archived

Honestly it's how people act on freelance jobs that's the actual issue not really the mask aspect. People's standard should be upped when playing these roles. E.g construction workers starting fights over cones and people riding bikes into burger shot. It's something we've been clamping down on when it's seen or reported. As mentioned above the masks being illegal thing is an in-character law but the jobs do prevent you putting on a mask when on duty but I believe if you clock on with a mask it stays on which is how this happens so it might be worth putting in a bug report to see if that's intended behaviour. There's some cases where it's justifiable however e.g. the burger shot mask when working burger shot.

I don't like the idea of you paying money to an officer it just seems like a weird concept. A button on the bank app to pay your outstanding fines (or a phone notification telling you to go to MRPD or sandy station) would be good though as you'd likely be able to pay fines online irl right? If the officer interaction is what you want from this as opposed to convenience then disregard this. But I never get tickets so I don't have much stake in this concept just putting in my 2 cents.

Because people like yourself buy them for 2.2mil. The price is purely the perceived value on the secondary market. Because un-nerfed it was so strong. Kinda proving why it was in the first place. I personally do not miss seeing half the server in a kamacho and drag, Sure there's common "meta" vehicles still but it's nowhere near as bad as it used to be thankful to this nerf. I wouldn't mind them being in dealerships again with the current nerf. Unless there's some reason beyond "people who bought them for 1mil+ will be salty" that I don't know.

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We do, and it's tedious to do so. I would like to see some form of change for dead bodies, they last an hour which is a pretty long time. I feel like a body should automatically generate a 'call' for a coroner after X amount of time. Reliance on players calling them is absolutely not working in bringing in workers to the freelance job. One in the city could also be beneficial.

If you're in DOC and MD after "reforming" why do you need it expunged. The only thing you're locked out of doing is PD and SD really, yes some people fuck up their character on the first few days but instead I think you just make it part of the character development and if you want a truly clean slate make an alt. That being said, record expunges have happened IC in the past, I don't see any need for an OOC way for it to be done. Edit: that's not to say some IC way of "forgiving" lesser things that can be proven to be a silly mistake won't be a good idea. I mean look at DOC hiring people with form C is going well. But that depends on the specific charges and the time. But I think it's mostly an IC conversation as opposed to OOC

As ex prophet of the epsilon program cult, and as a assistant wizard prophet of the Bathsheba family church and also as a owner of Cobb's Community church I can't wait to see this in action! If you would like any advice or discussion around this concept hit me up in forum PM's Hope to see you IC

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Been saying this for ages +1 I'd be happy with a compromise where aliases would "decay" after a certain amount of time.

RP is the incentive.

Honestly, this is already supported within DOC roleplay. If people go to the proper effort of roleplaying hiding small items like lockpicks, drugs etc inside food, lining of clothing or other reasonable places and then take a screenshot of the rp with /time then DOC guards are pretty competent in acknowledging it as valid smuggling roleplay. Usually this kind of smuggling RP requires more thought and realism with how it's executed but if you do it well then they're receptive. (By this I mean no guns or knifes up the bum or /do you wouldnt feel a baseball bat during pat down) A good example I personally saw first hand was in a visitation where the visitors had a knife hidden inside of a submarine sandwich inside the bread with butter on top covering it to get it past the initial search and then during the visitation distracted the guards by saying their vehicle out front was being lockpicked and then handing the knife over to the inmate amidst the commotion for them to later use inside prison. Not everything needs to be as elaborate as the above example, something as simple as /me would hide a small baggie of crack inside my sock and wedge it between my foot and shoe prior to any sort of arrest on the off chance you went to jail could go a long way to facilitate this kind of RP. In 2 years of being in DOC I have always wanted a gang that puts a lot of effort into smuggling things into prison but unfortunately no group has put in the effort for that.

Correct me if I'm wrong but is it not low risk and low reward? If you're doing it right and not keeping evidence on you like packed money you're can get away with a misdemeanour at most. This is just not true.

It'd be a nice compromise but its not a major thing, just thought id sprinkle in one of my main nitpicks with the current tables.

+1 Another thing I'd love to see is somehow the ability to sit on the seating within burger shot and actually sit at a table and eat

I'm on the fence about this, I do think more action timers would be cool in general, but at the same time I assume talking whilst focusing on an action timer would result in actually less rp from people chatting whilst working.

-1 for now I think it may bring more interactions with people being more pushed to less areas when being dropped off instead of the current lot of MD's being a 2 second trip then leave. I can see the criticisms above but I think it's worth trailing for a little while to see how it affects interactions. As for the BLS location, there's MANY solutions to that: property requests to commissioners what pd sd and doc all have done (pretty sure you guys have a zonah interior which is basically unused), other government facilities, Paleto MD (I don't see how making more activity in paleto is a negative and that's a lot of the criticisms so far which is odd.) etc. Point 4 of avoiding congestion is against the whole concept of rp imo, if it's ooc chat, tell them to take it to PMs, if it's general IC congestion this absolutely isn't bad. I do think sandy hospital should return, however. And as I've said many times before, pillbox is criminally underused for such a good MLO it is, its completely behind all locked doors and doesn't promote people spending more time within MD and taking advantage of the increased recovery thing. So I personally think pushing a bit more activity in that direction is good.

This might already be a thing, you should discuss this in-character with cops to find out more info on if it's a thing or not and if not then suggest it to them IC. Archived

In my opinion this is an issue with the implementation of LifeInvader and this is more of a band-aid fix for the base issue. I'd much prefer to see some resources put into LifeInvader development making it work correctly in-game with auto login & not be extremely slow.

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Looking forward to seeing what new RP you can bring to the trucking job!

Store owners have absolutely no right to hate vending machines. Stock for vending machines has to come from somewhere and that's store owners. I have a deal going with 2 store owners to stock my vending machines. There's plenty of opportunities for store owners with them since they're the only ones who access items for stock price. I'll correct you, store owners who don't actually play the game other than to log in and stock up hate this.

This completely. As the 2 above me have just said, you scratch the back of established organizations and you get access to their resources like weapon shipments.

+1 I have 2 vending machines in prime locations (Right next to paleto MD and on the pier). I've made... ~$3,000 profit from them both combined since the cash-only system got rolled out. One even had a blip on it. I can live with the reduced refrigeration effect and basically be unable to sell food but being cash-only makes them effectively unusable. Don't get me wrong, i'd love to see changes personally that encourages more pocket cash on people, but at the current state, for most vending machines that I know, the nearest ATM...Is right at a store. So there's basically no benefit to using a vending machine as there's no convenience when most people need to go out of their way to get the cash out. A bold suggestion from myself is to make more things cash-only if the goal is for people to have more pocket cash e.g. stores and burger shot, clothing stores, barbers etc. But honestly just making vending machines able to take bank transfer again I think is the answer I think. In terms of realism, EVERY vending machine I see IRL takes card.