Nunya

+1 honestly people would love to role play these businesses they have requested and purchased for food and drink and the ability to customize them and create different menu items and recipes. It's long overdue.

Huge +1 horrible being teased with a fryer and cant even steal a potato from burger shot to test it out. XD Cooking with deployable furniture and some of the fresh produce made available would be epic. Maybe ability to make our own recipes for the prep tables would be awesome for people with restaurants and using at home also.

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+1 Definitely think this has been brought up before as well. Even people with nice Vinewood or even beach properties with nice backyards or upper level decks that you have to build or climb to get to that don't have access would be nice. I'm sure just adding back doors to our current houses would require an alternate teleport place in the inside and outside most likely. Alternatively, having more interior options would be nice. But, would be a whole lot of work as most people have safes and things within their homes that would have to be removed, I assume, to change interiors or even to make blank canvas interiors. P.S. I have a few houses they can use for testing if they decide to attempt such ventures.. Wink Wink

What came first the meat or the bread?.... asking for a friend!

Francesca Romano 1 entry

Speaking of baby momma's... The child support is late!!!!

Frankly, one shouldn't presume a language barrier. Role Play is what you make of it as they say and isn't boring to everyone just because you say so. You worked at LSC for a short time which then you would have to join said Roadside division should you have chosen to do so to focus primarily on roadside repairs where there was an option to go out on roadside looking for repairs etc or taking the mechanic requests providing there were enough mechanics still in the shop allowing those to partake in all sorts of RP which can ever so literally lead to all types of "organic" interactions and socializing along the way. If you choose to just sit in the shop and do repetitive monotonous RP, join HR, or PR that was your choice to do so. Whereas, Bayview all that become part of that faction are trained for roadside mechanic requests and can do them. Otherwise, the faction members also have the option of being involved in every division should they choose to apply to do so. The two factions are not at all ran the same from the top down. I've had the opportunity to be part of both factions and there are considerable differences in the two in very many ways beyond the ignorance that the only organic RP can be had from doing roadside interactions. Not everyone chooses mechanic RP to sit with a speaker and hang out with their pals in or outside a shop motivated solely for easy $$$. There have been a few posts about what people think about the mechanics or lack thereof, when most people choose it just for a paycheck starting out. Some like myself enjoyed role playing fixing cars and occasionally being a mildly menacing mechanic along with some customers as well as fellow mechanics and also enjoyed providing something that was beneficial to the server as a whole like ever so literally being a member of the community that would answer all kinds of questions far beyond any mechanic duties. There have been many people that my thinking outside the box saved them from the side of chiliad, not just their cars. Some actually spend some thought on their particular character arc's beyond having a chill time with the homies. I could have just as soon had my own welcome to the city office which I ever so literally joked ICly with Lewis about. I personally enjoyed interacting with new members of the community answering all of their questions about how to navigate gov website and where to find things and do stuff often not including their interest in becoming mechanics in between repairs, without having to join a faction doing some RP job sitting in a box doing "paperwork", which I already had plenty of experience with and very little actual RP thus chose not to do that anymore. If you personally need examples, I was a customer once with Liam and he RPly found a slice of pizza under the hood my ass picked it up and took a bite and he was looking up a repair in a manual while I RPly did the repair. It was enjoyable RP for us that doesn't mean it will be enjoyable for everyone. It's all what you make of it if you aren't motivated by money and genuinely want to role play. I've also menacingly dropped wrenches in peoples engines and oops left them there. For someone that chose to be a mechanic for a relatively short period of time, likely for an easy paycheck in their minds, I would presume they never really wanted to do mechanic RP in the first place and simply looked at it as an easy payday for the short term goals whereas I solely created a character who I ever so literally developed the arc to be a mechanic and had no desire to join other factions on that character despite attempts by others for me to join other legal factions. What you personally consider fun or enjoyable may be something completely different than what is enjoyable to the next person. I completely disagree that there is no opportunity for any organic varied RP, especially at Bayview where I was a faction member for 17 months. Nor was there no opportunity for organic RP at MPT when it was a thing and didn't even have access to towing. I pushed many cars across the city to MPT to repair them for people when no one was taking mechanic requests. Just because that wouldn't be funny or enjoyable to you, it was to those that witnessed such shenanigans like that of watching someone push the commander of SD's Kamacho down a street for a repair and end up with a whole crowd RPing together along the way. There will never be any two "point of views" that are exactly the same. Mechanic RP simply was not boring at all to me. I had tons of enjoyable interactions both mechanic RP wise and hundreds of various interactions because of choosing that RP. Me stating that very few care that you enjoy doing that RP and even less notice that you enjoy doing it is because they don't. In the event someone does notice you thoroughly enjoy that RP, well that still doesn't matter when you are merely a small fish in the big pond and not trying to be a contestant in some popularity contest. When I quit mechanic RP it certainly wasn't because I was bored with the RP. I had many reasons both IC and OOC for doing so. In saying that, None of which were because I was bored with mechanic RP. I've had many friends come and go for similar reasons. My personal opinion is that saying it being a beginner job is it's only saving grace is only true because the faction leaders and management of those factions choose to not recognize which individuals aren't looking at those jobs like stepping stones to their other goals whether it be criminal in nature RP or simply to gain experience in order to join other legal factions that require a bit more experience in the server. Being uncertain that you were around at a time when we had a packed Pier every single day all hours the place was busy. When they "killed the pier" so to speak, the mechanic shops ever so literally became the new social hubs, way back then, aside from the people that found other more enjoyable places to go fishing or hang out and chill with their friends and acquaintances. Every change that has been made many of us have adjusted in some fashion experienced the growing pains such as the current situation with LSC and with mechanics in general many of us have seen before and will likely see again. and I fully agree with this. However, I don't really agree they need a pay increase near as much as you need a leader and people that genuinely enjoy that sort of RP, unmotivated by personal gain and are looking to do that long term in the community, to take on that responsibility. @Bala Always has pretty good insight on a great deal of topics and his suggestions he has given would certainly help for those that find the RP boring as is. However, to me personally when people suggest that money talks, what I envision is, would be a job attracting more people that do not even enjoy mechanic RP at all just for that paycheck. If that's the case hell they can make close to 20k an hour driving a garbage truck if they become efficient at it. At the end of the day, if you choose someone to lead a faction that doesn't really thoroughly enjoy that sort of RP to begin with, without the need for all sorts of additional bells and whistles that would prefer to be focusing their characters and time elsewhere, we will just end up repeating what has already been done many times before, just different actors same roles.

The mechanic job and RP is not boring for everyone. There are some that have genuinely enjoyed mechanic RP and that weren't so concerned about the pay. I personally enjoyed it and at one point was a member of both Bayview and MPT simultaneously simply because I enjoy the different aspects of what is possible. To be perfectly honest, very few care that you enjoy doing that RP and even less notice that you enjoy doing it. If you are an individual that enjoys that RP and works their way up in rank ICly for actually putting in the work there is very little reward(not talking $$) for someone that doesn't make other events, characters or other IC jobs their priority.

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Great Ideas Huge +1

+1 #helpthedeaf

But did Governor Langley's frat boy bestie Cyrus Carver LSPD(while on duty) ask you if the carpet matches the drapes while on duty? Asking for a friend?

+1 With the huge influx of adding new cameras all over the city...at all the apartments and key points of interest on particular streets and bridges strategically being placed in the past few months and likely more to come. After over 2 years, I think this suggestion is definitely unique and more relevant than ever before. For both civilians and criminals alike, I believe the RP possibilities to be endless. Law enforcement already having access to utilizing the laptops to gain CCTV footage mean that it would be highly possible to incorporate something similar for the rest of the population as laptops have been around for quite sometime. Whether it be just a normal civilian looking after their own properties, plain old curiosity, an amateur with a computer hacking mindset that has been flying under the radar with more sinister plans in mind to cause interference with government entities or other citizens whom have gotten on their bad side or the obvious known criminals gathering intel on opposing gangs or Law Enforcement Officers or planning larger long planned out schemes and heists. Just as the original poster mentions encrypted puzzles, perhaps, to gain access to CCTV via the laptops or the ability to cause interference with the cctv system at a chosen camera location for a brief period of time or maybe the ability to cut power on certain locations or areas of the city for a brief period. I feel, as they are already operable to law enforcement, this to be something that should be able to be accessed for more than just placing orders or things of that nature or just be a piece of furniture for the average citizen. Any input on this I believe to be a benefit to us all and creating a great deal of RP we are missing out on. Thanks for your time!