Drug Lab Changes

DoubleA · June 4, 2024

Hello!

People usually hate seeing DoubleA making a forum suggestion, but ive brought this up to a good amount of people and most people are on the same boat.

The current lab rotation is, to be honest, horrible. When the 4 active labs are grapeseed, sealabs, elysian, and north lab, people are not down to play or do anything via the crim scene.

My suggestion is have different lab levels, make it so there is 3 lab "tiers" so to speak. Labs like island, LSD, garbage, right lake, and cave, ones that require a larger number of people to hold as they yield the most output of the most cooked drugs, like coke and LSD, would be a Tier 3 lab. Always have 2 tier 3 labs open so larger gangs have something to hold and have a way to make a good amount of money, but at the risk that larger groups will push it.

Tier 2 labs like scrapyard, low end, elysian, dam, chilliad, those mid tier labs that smaller groups can hold, the output of those labs is not the same as one of those tier 1s, but still can be held by a small number of people. Have 2 of those open at a time as well.

Lastly, a Tier 1 lab would be something like grapeseed, Sealabs, Chicken Coop, braddocks, north lab ,ones that realistically are easy to be comped by cops, ones that have a bad split of tables that realistically only 1 or 2 people will hold at a time, giving labs for the smaller groups and solo players. These would have 2 open as well.

My original thought was have the split be 1 tier 3, 2 tier 2s, 3 tier 1s, but i think two of the bigger labs would make it so more people can participate in the labs. 6 labs total might seem like a lot to people, originally the labs were 3 with the new rotation, but this would open up the cooking to a lot more parties. Also the "rotations" I wont lie I haven't seen a lab rotate on its own ever, its always shut down in some weird way.

That's my thoughts, let me know of how we can make these rotations better for everyone involved!