This suggestion will probably bring a lot of controversy but I have heard many people say that they would like static drug labs back, and I would love to see them return as well.
The way drug making in the server is nowadays has its positives and has its negatives. I believe that indoor cooking with tables should be a thing, but I also believe that static drug labs should also be a thing in the server, why can we only have one?
It is no secret that crime rp has been going downhill. The turf update brought us crims some new things and some new rp to explore, but its becoming the same thing over and over the more days that pass. Crime RP started to decline when static drug labs were removed. This is because there was endless rp, and endless interactions that came with the static drug labs, especially for criminals. Not knowing if someone has an ambush set up, or if you will find their stash of drugs, or even solo cooking in these labs had risk and fun rp involved. Bigger gangs controlling labs, going from lab to lab robbing and taxing the lower criminals cooking there. It also provided recruitment rp as many people cooking wanted to join gangs. Static labs were places criminals could go to find other criminals, and fight other criminals without it being non rp, or cops showing up every time like it is now days.
Cooking in the server now is just getting materials, going to an apartment and sitting there alone for an hour until your drugs are done, and then driving to a turf to sell them. Where is the RP? where is the risk involved? Sure they have a chance at blowing up, but with a vent, and watering the tables, its nearly impossible for them to ever explode. Cooking how it is now has zero rp involved, and is just plain boring.
Static labs even brought PD and EMS more RP than how cooking is now. If police were called into a lab, they would radio for the fire department to come and take down the lab, and the lab would remain down for a few hours. This gave the fire department more RP and a real purpose, along with PD raids which is even more RP.
I dont think that the indoor drug tables should be removed, but I do think that there should be a system that indoor drug labs, and static drug labs can be in the server together. Right now the static labs in the server have zero point in being there. Yes, it is the only place to make marijuana, but no one cooks that. The only real purpose of labs now is to get weed, but people are even starting to stop planting weed, because its just plain boring, and not worth the time.
I think many people can agree that crime rp was at its peak when the static drug labs were in the server, and I think that they provided a lot of criminal RP that the server needs, but is lacking.
here are what the old labs used to look like in case you forgot.