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Fat +3 I'm glad a suggestion for this has already been made, as I was about to create a suggestion based on this myself. My opinions come from all sides, as a crim and a mechanic. Firstly I totally agree with the fact that you need a car wash every so often, whatever adds realism to the game is a +1 all together. I think vehicle's, or player personal owner cars Is a HUGE aspect on ecrp, I can barley name a few things you can actually do on the server that does not revolve around driving or using cars. I certainly very much enjoy the aspect of personal vehicles and I'm sure 90% of the serve does, people like to cruising around playing music, they love to customize their own car to their own taste making them look great, go to car shows, races what have you. I know for me, I like the look of my cars, I enjoy the clean look they give for pics or what not. And I feel and probably many more can agree, that although the aspect of needing a car wash every now and then Is absolutely a +1, the fact that you need to pay the amount that It requires Is kind of a joke. As well as how fast It becomes dirty again after literally just being cleaned. I know for me, when I do clean my high end cars, I literally NEVER drive them or pull them out again because I don't want them to get dirty and blow even more money on the most pointless thing. Low end vehicles and most bikes yes sure, Its no problem, cheap as anything. But I do not know anybody who would pay to clean a BF400, or a warrener unless Its your only vehicle. People would pay to clean their nicer, showy vehicles, the ones that cost nearly 10k+ for someone to scrub water and soap onto it. It doesn't really make any sense. Pricing system - As a mechanic, and realistically, the whole pricing system Is just wrong. If you wanted to play by the book of realism, would It not make more sense for someone who needs an engine repair, that probably requires brand new car/engine parts, or any exterior vehicle repairs such as brand new wheels, to pay more money for a repair, rather than for someone to get a bucket of hot water, and soap, and scrub a car. If you are trying to get at realism here, the engine repair would depend on the cost/higher value of your vehicle ... Engine parts for a warrener would be far less expensive than engine parts for a super car, yet to get both repaired It would cost the EXACT SAME, However If you wanted your Super car washed, compared to a warrener getting washed, EVEN THOUGH YOUR RECIEVEING THE EXACT SAME WASH, WITH WATER AND SOAP, there's a huge price difference. There's 0 logic In this. You should only have to pay 1k or less for a quick wash for every vehicle. I'm NOT now saying repairs should be as expensive as visuals, and visuals should be put down to 1k like engine repairs. I'm saying this as an example of If you were trying to get at being realistic, that's how It actually would go, but this Is a game, a very time consuming game, where I'm sure new players and such would appreciate not having to grind free lance for hours, to literally blow It all on a car wash. Realism of your car getting dirty - I kind of don't like the fact that after paying for a car wash that is ridiculously over priced, you get a spanking clean, shiny car again, and then colors fade and starts to become dirty again after hardly 10 mins of driving around. It makes total sense for this to happen ... If you was driving around In sandy, or off roading, or driving In any sort of muddy/dirty areas. But It doesn't feel right that your car literally goes from pristine, shiny black, to the bottom half of your car being almost grey after only driving in the city / or on concrete roads, yes after prolonged driving your car may start to get abit of dirt on the wheels and skirts. But how or why would your vehicle show signs of dirt, muck, as If you've been doing barrel rolls down a cliff, then landed Into a pigs pen, when all you've done is drive on clean, concrete city roads???? After receiving a car wash IRL, It takes absolutely days, If not a week (If you take care of your car) for It to get dirty again. So I don't see how that translates to 30mins of driving, on concrete city roads your car goes from looking A to Z. Just doesn't make sense what so ever.

Huge +1 I admit bank heists before this new update were completely unrealistic, Criminals robbing banks up to 7 or 8 times a day seemed far overkill. And I fully agree and support the changes that were made, EG banks taking twice as long to open. But what I experienced In game yesterday was just even more unrealistic as before, It was not fun or enjoyable at all.... We gathered numbers, we all met up at a location and planned out the action of the heist, we gave everybody roles and organized things properly as you would In a bank heist... Then after maybe 30 mins of waiting we finally decide to hit Chumash, we go In, everyone knew what they was doing .... And did the aim perfectly, and the bank was unavailable to rob because It was closed ... I'm sorry, but do you think this is realistic? A group prepped and armed ready for a heist running into a bank, aiming at civilian's without even knowing its robbable/open or not? Would that happen IRL? Would the tellers just go "Oh sorry, were closed today, you cant rob us, try again tomorrow though!" So after this very disappointing and frustrating fail, we deiced to see If 68 was open, again we pre plan, we wait another 20+ mins for the all clear, and we go rushing into 68, and to no surprise it was closed. Bank robbers IRL know, as soon as they step Into a public bank, armed, and with masks, If caught they are going to prison REGARDLESS If they managed to get cash or not. So I ask again Is having 10+ armed people rushing Into banks completely clueless if the bank is open Is good/fun and creative RP? Or Is this even realistic at all? I fully understand you don't want banks to be as easy as they was, and I said I agree with making them harder, and more challenging, however making is COMPLETELY ICLY IMPOSSIBLE to know whether the bank Is open or closed, unless you've already have people In the bank, sticking guns in peoples faces, already alerting people nearby seems so overkill. What I would do to fix / Improve banks? If It was me, I would like to see some new / Interesting IC ways to not only just see If the bank was open or closed, but to plan for the bank In way more depth, that would take a little bit more time, not too much money, and would pay off well. Not just running In, Pressing E at the vault and basically abusing script to find out. Personally, I like the Idea of firstly having to purchase "A heist board" or something you would use to "plan" the heist like a laptop, or what have you. This can be done from ordering off cartel connected gangs, or other ways like going to the furniture store, or purchasing from the "Equipment Dealers" From here I would love to see actual script "Bank Set ups/mini missions" You would have to complete In order to rob the bank. A lot like GTA5 heist set ups, but far less packed and detailed. Maybe these bank set ups would literally take 5 or 10 mins of time, but are fun to do, and makes total sense when It comes to robbing banks.... NOT just running In guns blazing aimlessly because quite frankly I and I'm sure many others can agree, are bored of this. These are just a few Ideas that come to mind ... 1- Bank stake outs - You , or a group of people would get Into a low profile vehicle, (personal vehicle or script) and conduct a stake out / surveillance on the bank. You would be required to buy something like a "camera", or "surveillance kit" from the "Equipment Dealers" Take pictures of the bank, get to plan proper get away exits / routes, examine the exterior of the bank. Monitor how often PD/SD patrol these areas, what have you. 2- Undercover work - Whether this be script criminal "job", or doing It freely, you would be required to dress up as a technician / janitor / Garbage man / Money transporter, what have you. And actually go Into the bank, do your required "job" as well as taking pictures of the vault, the cameras, the front desk. Possibly be able to plant bugs Inside the bank, or cameras of your own. Or a device than enables you to "Hack" Into the banks systems, (Which Is another Idea I have In mind) 3 - "Hacking" - The final stage of completing the set ups would be to use the "Bug" you planted Inside the bank via the previous set up, and you would be required to "Hack" Into the banks systems/network via a script mini game, similar to the in action locking picking / hotwiring mini game, Or like the GTA5 hacking Mini games. You get a limited amount of attempts. And once completed, you will be able to see / learn the following Information: - If the banks Is currently open / closed. - A rough estimate of how long until the bank opens, If closed. - How much money is currently In the holding of the vault. - The possibility of being able to temporarily disable / prevent the alarm from triggering once the vault doors open. ( My idea of this would be you would be able to disable the alarm for a minimum of +5 seconds, to a maximum of +30 seconds or longer, this would all fall under a chance, or depending on how well the hack was completed. ) Obviously, nothing to over the top, as It would be unfair for PD/SD to respond and arrive. I know I ran Into a bit of a fantasy land here, and I know Its highly unlikely to happen. But I, and possibly others would love to see something like this being Implemented. This, In my mind would make banks a whole lot more Interesting. bring much greater RP possibilities, and actually be realistic In bank prepping. Yes It would take a tad bit longer to actually execute the bank, but at the end of the day this Is a ROLEPLAY SERVER and In my opinion, banks should not take 10 mins or less to prep, and 5 mins or less to execute. Please add your comments and opinions to this, I'm really Interested to see what others think and If they agree, or If I'm just going Into some fantasy land lmao. Thanks for reading!

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Personally I could not agree more with everything that's been said, and this suggestion gets a HUGE +1 from me. I totally feel like, and I'm sure other will agree with me that crim RP nowadays Is not fun anymore, Its very limited to these strange script restrictions, which In return just quite frankly ruins our RP experience by boxing every criminal up inside a little corner and not letting us fully expand on our RP capabilities and Imaginations. Creative, fun, expansive RP Is what makes a roleplay server go from okay to great, It adds so much more Interesting, and enjoyable roleplay so I do not understand why were being limited to script. what Is possibly stopping us from hiding or concealing heavy weaponry, or what not, Inside your vehicle during a traffic stop? Just because your heavy does not fit inside a script glove box that means we have to get out the vehicle and let ourselves be detained losing thousands of hard earned $$$, or evade and get Into a crazy goose chase across the city, until police swarm you with sports shinobis and air1? If a criminal got pulled over IRL do you think they would just sit In their car with their shotgun strapped to their back and wait to get arrested? I don't see no reason why we cannot expand our RP responses as criminals, as long as It is not powergaming and realistic. Its honestly SO sad to see police In this server so Invested In a play to win mentalities that they force you to limit your RP which leads to you getting caught 90% of the time. Might be fun for the police to arrest us, but what's the fun In that for us when were the ones who have to sit In jail for hours and hours? Criminal roleplay Is just not good anymore, its the same old same old every time, this Is the main reason why I've made a legal and for now quite being a criminal.

100% +1111111111111111111111 I do not fully understand why OOC reasons are being brought ICly Involving Russia, resulting In a prevention for their to be a Russian Mob on a RP server. This server for most people Is here to get away from the real world, bringing the real world issues into the server shouldn't really be happening. Their has been Russian Mob RP In eclipse for 3 years In total, during this time there has been a Russian gang who made official. I do not agree with It being forbidden from the server.

I don't know where I stand for this suggestion, I've read reasons for both sides and to be honest I support both. First of all I personally do not think the tunnels should be re-opened UNLESS the bugs that remain there can be fixed, however that being said I support the fact that air 1 just seems Impossible to evade from, like I cant recall the amount of chases I've been In that's lasted for 10, 20 mins, after BF set ups, losing cruisers, yet the Heli seems impossible to shake off no matter what Bridge I go under, or mini tunnels, or anything. Now I am not saying remove helis or anything mad like that, Its a realistic tool police use IRL to fight and stop crime, however I agree with others In the fact that before hand, where only a certain amount of police officers could use heli's was fair, or that they would only really get air 1 out for major scenarios. I do disagree with police getting Air 1 out for every little thing. An example of this off the top of my head Is when I got pulled over weeks ago for something as silly as unpaid tickets. I had 5 or 6 cruisers pull up behind me, a police sports shinobi, a BF400, and Air 1. Now the sound of that to my ears doesn't seem fair what so ever, Its limiting our overall choices and RP freedom as crims and It very much ALWAYS ending up In the police's favor ... We In DOC for hours on end. I'm not even going to touch on Police being able to obtain vehicles such as supers / sports cars or sports bikes. I enjoyed chases back In the day where we actually stood a fair chance of escaping custody successfully, which by the way Is a big enough challenge alone when you have Shinobi's and Bf400's and other sports related vehicles. And I know many more would agree with me on this. I believe It was better back In the day where you rarely saw Air 1, due to the fact that limited police could take it out or was trained. As it really does not make sense that the majority of PD can take out a Heli.

+1 I agree with sicos statement. We already have prison times that are incredibly over timed, I believe license suspension should be reduced to a nice 12hours. I do not believe being unable to drive a vehicle for 24 hours without getting arrested / having the fear of getting arrested should happen due to maybe a 5 or 10+ minute chase. Its just not fair, It’s my same reason for being in a small rp situation with cops that lasts a couple of minutes that lands you in doc for 3,4,5,6+ hour sentences. Chris, you say 9/10 cops forget to use this command. Personally I have not once ever been arrested and the cops forgotten to take my license away. It’s like the ONE thing they do do, I know cause there sarcastic and laugh about it every time they remove it… Some do it right away, some forget and I’ve actually been serving mid sentence then out of no where I’ve had my license suspended for 2 days. Also you say don’t drive or evade without a license and there won’t be risks, but I can’t think of one thing that we don’t need cars for. It’s a huge map, and it’s so time consuming to run everywhere because you lost your license due to a small or silly reason such as driving faults. This overall ruins out rp experience and all we do is get demotivated and log off for the license suspension as we can’t do anything. And it’s certainly not like we’re going to waste money calling taxis everywhere, ‘hello sir! Can you spin me round labs please I lost my license!’ You don’t have to be ‘evading’ or doing ‘criminal’ things to loose a license. I’ve lost licenses for simple driving mistakes on the road for a whole 24 hours, it’s abit mad.

I have to agree on what’s being said In the fact that both parties crim and cops mentalities need to change when it comes to banks. Crime only think ‘ money moeny money, escape escape escape ‘ and nothing more and cops think ‘ shoot shoot shoot, cuff cuff cuff ‘ I feel like this could change because I agree I don’t even enjoy doing banks recently, you either end up going in and getting out of there within 5 short mins with all the money and escaping without even seeing and cops, or you get sprayed down on sight by police, get pitted crash / stall. I feel like the cops mentality also needs to change especially when it comes to hostages, I feel like most cops completely disregard the fact that we have a innocent civilians life or lives at stake and their main priority is getting us in cuffs, not giving us the proper upper hand in the situation that hostages are ment to deliver. There has been times we’ve done banks with hostages for the RP, and to do them differently, but we always find we have to leave one or multiple people inside the bank to get caught, we’ve tried bringing the hostage with us in a vehicle holding the last people from the bank, they follow and pit even though we have a gun to the hostages head in the car. I and many crims find that cops definitely have a ‘ play to win ‘ mentality when it comes to banks even if we have hostages, and we feel like this ruins the sense of wanting to do the proper full RP when it comes to banks as we know if we stop and slow things down for the RP, we get steam rolled by hero cops or so on and so forth. We do now just take it the easy and quick way for banks so we don’t end up in prison for hours on end over a few 10k packed cash afterwards. but in my opinion both crims and cops mentality needs to change for banks.

Marcus Falcone - 5 Tickets

Amazing thread lads All the best to your faction

Amazing post lad keep it up

+1 I totally agree with what's been said, If their was a mass unban to occur It would be very healthy for the community, It would refresh moral for the players now, who would be able to reconnect and play with their friends. Would Increase the numbers which would mean more rp opportunities and things to do and more people to Interact with, and therefore people continue to enjoy the server. It would definitely benefit. However yes the line has to be drawn as to who remains banned and who doesn't based on their actions upon getting banned, which I'm sure staff could easily point out who would deserve a second chance from a small slip up, or someone hacking and cheating and purely being toxic. New year, fresh start? Also hope everyone has a good Christmas !!!!

I fully agree with this, I believe something small should be done to slightly improve clothing/suit options for this server so people have more options and variety that they can enjoy and explore when It comes to professional, classy Looks. Right now we are limited to specific looks and suits that don't have the undershirts glitching through the suit. Plus we are unavailable to wear the pocket watch vests, with a long sleeve shirt. It would be amazing to see a few more/new clothing's that could easily be added/downloaded to this server that would spice new looks up for everyone to enjoy and embrace. I also like the idea of more choices when It comes down to undershirts for suits Little things like this makes the difference !!!

Its been a hell of a run bratans, Ive loved spending time RPing with each and every one of you. My most memorable and favorite moments in my time In eclipse so far Is hands down being In the Mob. Im grateful for every Interaction and opportunities Ive been given from the Mob, Im proud we've come to make it this far. Sadly nothing lasts forever, Thank you to everyone who stepped up and kept us going. For everyone involved In this amazing faction, I wish you the best for your future time In eclipse. Once a Russian, always a Russian