KongouPak Posted October 19, 2025 Report Posted October 19, 2025 (edited) It's very obvious that there are a lot of players on ECRP that enjoy the pvp aspect of the server. I don't inherently think there's something wrong with that. Unfortunately due to the server being advertised as a serious roleplay/realism server, seeing a lot of PVP all the time causes a lot of issues. PVP usually results in /b whining, and reports for various different reasons that we all know. While I personally do enjoy PVP, I like that PVP to have a meaning, some kind of reason or story behind it outside of just gaining assets. Others aren't necessarily of the same mindset. The idea I propose is something that will allow players who do just like to roll labs, shoot, and gain assets a proper outlet to do that without pissing off people that aren't into that. I suggest implementing a PVP zone. Specifically 2 out of 7 active labs will be an instanced zone that rotates during the day. In these zones, when instanced in, you can die, and respawn, not losing anything on you. Instead what happens in these zones is you respawn, and continue with the shooting. Kills in these zones grant a specific currency that can then be used at black market dealers to get specific things. When the zone is about to end (be rotated to a new lab), the cops will be called by a "random bystander" that there's a lot of heavy gunfire in this area. This will then also translate to everyone in the zone that cops have been called. This is now the chance for criminals to leave before cops show up or now continue fighting. For each on duty officer killed in this zone at this point will offer bonuses of the currency given, but if you now go down in this zone you risk being arrested and or robbed of whatever you have on you. The reason I think this should be instanced is so that cops cannot be accused of sitting by active labs to find said zones by hearing the gun fire. If a cop does show up before being called, we can now ask why they were there to begin with and go from there on a rules standpoint if no valid IC reason is given. As far as rp goes, this can give the "shooters" a chance to make a name for themselves within the criminal underworld. Items they can get from black market dealers with the currency can show this. It could be simple things such as a special t-shirt on up to maybe assets like a rare gun. (I recommend not making any assets gotten from this something that can be meta, just something to give players that like to show off their skills in this area of the game something to do without getting reported for it.) This also gives cops more to do now without interrupting the mainly crim activity that is cooking in labs. Something that is often complained about these days, memes being made that GND is a gang that just rolls labs now. Cops can get action that some crave without the threat of pissing off crims who are just at labs to cook. I feel this will also fix a lot of the pointless shooting that happens outside of labs that some people complain about as now people that legitimately care about their prowess as a shooter, or if its just two people having beef, have places to go settle this kind of stuff. I know this isn't exactly a thing we want to see in a serious RP/realism server, but I feel we have to face the fact that ECRP hasn't been that for a while despite some people very much so wanting it to be that way. I think adding more things that will simply just be fun without worrying about "how realistic is this", or "how can we implement serious RP into this" will ultimately help the server keep its player base. This is a game at the end of the day, and I think it's been long enough to know your player base by now and what they like/want. I am not a developer by any means and do not know how much work this would take to implement into the server. I understand developers are hard at work, but I do feel like giving the people who enjoy this, is definitely an outlet for those people that enjoy this gameplay. Also ECRP has unique gun mechanics that personally I enjoy enough to consider shooting in GTA fun where as i usually find it very annoying and wonky most of the time. Why not give people an outlet to show off that aspect of the game that was worked on by developers. Edited October 19, 2025 by KongouPak 1 Quote
