What does everyone think of the new crime update?

[Ajc33]

((HOT TAKES)) One of my 2 main characters (the criminal obviously) is RPing as a cook/runner and I was curious on everyone's options on the recent update. Because with so many labs I kind of worry about actual RP in these places yes, the 4 active labs will be the most RP active, I feel like Gangs can just go to a lab that doesn't have anyone, kind of diminishes the risk and amount of fun RP. I know 70% of the time gangs just roll up and immediately rob or kill you but that's part of the risk and I've had some good RP moments. I don't wanna start a fight about if "Eclipse ruined drug running." I just wanna see this from another perspective.

[Bala]

I think the frozen lakes is pretty cool.

[Paulius]

16 hours ago, Ajc33 said:

((HOT TAKES)) One of my 2 main characters (the criminal obviously) is RPing as a cook/runner and I was curious on everyone's options on the recent update. Because with so many labs I kind of worry about actual RP in these places yes, the 4 active labs will be the most RP active, I feel like Gangs can just go to a lab that doesn't have anyone, kind of diminishes the risk and amount of fun RP. I know 70% of the time gangs just roll up and immediately rob or kill you but that's part of the risk and I've had some good RP moments. I don't wanna start a fight about if "Eclipse ruined drug running." I just wanna see this from another perspective.

I dont understand how gangs will just go to lab that doesn't have anyone, when there is less labs active at one time than before, if anything its opposite.

[Bala]

@Ajc33 I think perhaps when changes like this happen, it's probably best to approach it with a clean slate and take things as they are. People like things a certain way and on the one hand, people want change but then on the other hand, we're not quite open enough to accept it when it happens either.

These things aren't an exact science, they will take tweaking and fiddling until things settle, of course. But, for me, what the labs brought to the server was a hierachy. Big does fuck small, usually. But, if you can find a way to do business with big, even as a solo or small group then that's good.

If you always getting robbed, just call police when you get free and we'll go shut that shit down. 

[Quietthecutie]

I don't think anyone has had enough experience with the new system to have an informed opinion quite yet. sample size is too small. give it a month or so and lets see how we feel.

[Ritchie Stones]

before the update you could leave your tables inside your house cooking for 2 hours without them exploding, (sometimes explode randomly)
this was perfect since it made a semi passive income.

so many pro's and issues where resolved
- it was not just cooking inside,
you had to actually fill 30 waterbottles outside hoping to not be noticed.
- you could not break down tables that easily for cops and crimes, that would also include that 1 crim could not just take all your tables in a matter of minutes, it would actually take them to be with more members and or take one guy at least 20 minutes to cool and sort everything.
- the issue with needing 1000 waterbottles was resolved by having needed max 30 bottles, for 10 tables since you needed to cool each one 3 times.
- another pro side was, that you needed to go outside more and could stay outside while cooking, so there was more outside RP,
- your tables would explode random, wich meant that you could take on like 7 rounds of cooking meaning you would have earned back that money for the least. but also to let go of control for them ever exploding, making tables more demanding and people more frequently ordering and refreshing their table set up.
- giga labs where a part of the past since it did not matter when tables exploded, so it was better to have multiple small labs to reduce your risk,.
this created more planning, investing and also, spending more time outside between each location and filling waterbottles, increasing the risk to get caught by ops.

i still want to compliment ecrp staff for that update though, because I have never seen them resolve soooo many issues at once, to me this was a master piece.
so I don't know why this has changed again, now you cant leave tables alone anymore, forcing private cooks to stay inside again.
i gues it is truly not a straight forward process, and I'm not upset, its just that i feel a bit unmotivated to start all over again,
i think the issue with many crimes is not that the tables have changed over the past year more than Instagram algorithm. its more that we lack direction on the private labs because we don't "understand" the changes that are being made.

i was in love with last update about the private labs. i don't want any cop here posting about " printing free money in another dimension" because that update was actually way different, it was simply different, and i liked it, 
if anyone has more insight to why this was changed recently again ? it would be pretty cool