Top Requested Quality of Life Updates

[Requiem]

EDIT: Several of these items have now been implemented. A few have not been. I will try and manage the list and cross out the items that are done. 

Looking at the development roadmap for December, quality of life improvements was one of the items on the list to cover for the month. I wanted to put a post together to cover all of the top requested Quality of Life Updates that in my opinion have been the most requested by the community over the past several years based on past discussions and posts here on the forums. This is in hopes it will make one easy place for the developers to look at for any QoL updates they may look to implement this month. I am trying to reserve this list for only the most important items that impact large numbers of players to keep it realistic to the number of things that can be addressed.

If there are other topics you would like to see added to this list, please comment below and I will look to add it to the main post in an update. Please keep replies relevant to quality of life updates only so we can keep this thread clean for staff and dev's review in hopes some of these items can be addressed this month. Disclaimer: There is of course no guarantee that all or any of these items will be addressed this month, but I only put this together with the hopes that we can have a better chance of some of the more frustrating game features see improvement in the near future.

In no specific order of priority or organization, below is the list of the top requested QoL updates for the server from my point of view:

Capability to repair any vehicle you have keys for - IMPLEMENTED

This is a feature that's been requested for over 5+ years now. Allow any player that has a copy of the keys to a vehicle to repair the vehicle with mechanics. 

Faction Loadout Customization & search bar

Currently all legal factions have faction uniform lists that are hundreds of items long and many faction members can see dozens of those uniform options in their out loadout menus. Allow for faction loadout customization, which was meant to be a feature in the menu from the start, where faction leadership can enable clothing options to each F4 menu rank and branch and then faction members would then be allowed to create their own uniforms from those options enabled for their specific rank/branch. Then when faction members open up the menu, they only see their own uniforms and any uniforms that the faction leadership has created for them as a common uniform for the whole faction.

In addition to the above, a search bar in the faction loadout section would make it significantly easier to find the uniform or equipment you are looking for within a long list of possible options to help prevent endless scrolling. 

Any Mask Will fit any size face/head and hair

Masks only fit people with thin or small faces and small heads and they also clip through many of the larger or newer hairstyles, making them look terrible or unusable. Many hats have the same problem where they cannot be used with newer hairstyles. Adjust masks and hats to change your face shape to a default size that allows the mask to fit no matter what. When you remove the mask, your hair and face would go back to normal. 

Custom Purchase Quantity from General Stores and Humane Labs - IMPLEMENTED

Currently in order to purchase large amounts of lock picks, drug ingredients, food or water or many other items from any type of store, you have to manually click the buy button dozens of times. Add a space in the interface menu for both general stores and humane labs to type a custom number you want to purchase in.

Non-Emergency Law Enforcement Phone Number and/or Front Desk Buzzer

Both LSPD and LSSD currently have no way of being informed if someone is at the front desk needing assistance with something at a police station. There are also instances where someone wishes to speak with police, but for non-emergency purposes. Create a non-emergency number for police to respond to and place a buzzer identical to the one DOC has to inform law enforcement when someone is waiting at the front desk. 

Jail/Prison Temporary Inventory Removal

Similar to the frustration players faced with impound wait times, there are many times where there are either no law enforcement available for legal item release, or no DOC online to help with item release at the prison that creates very long wait times just to get basic items such as a GPS or clothing items back after serving a jail sentence. 

Change the system so when the /jail or /prison command is run on a player, it will temporarily remove their inventory and replace it with the DOC inventory with stamps. Then when the player is released from DOC, wipe their DOC inventory, removing stamps, litter, or dirty clothing they may have picked up in DOC and automatically put their items they had before processing back into their inventory. 

Alternatively to solve this issue if the above option won't work, create a legal locker that's shared with PD, SD and DOC that is accessible by civilians so that only on duty police can place items inside, and civilians can only remove items from their own locker. This will allow police to place legal items taken from criminals inside from any police station or at the prison, and allow civilians to retreive their items from prison or any police station right in the lobby without the need for law enforcement assistance. 

Group Texting on Phones - IMPLEMENTED

This one is simple. Allow players to text multiple people in one large group text on phones. Also adjust the notification on phone texts to make it easier for people to recognize when they have received a new text or they have a new text waiting on their phone. 

Remove the Scoreboard (or the XP rates)

Players have no reason to need to see the main scoreboard in game. Commonly, players will maliciously use the scoreboard to metagame other players identities by matching up the player's ID with who they think that player might be by looking at their amount of experience. This leads to metagaming problems with using OOC information IC. Simply eliminate the scoreboard or remove the experience amounts to prevent this abuse from occurring. 

Make Bags Accessible from the Normal Inventory

Currently bags have to be set down onto the ground in order to access the contents. This leads to unrealistic and frustrating interactions where a player may set a bag down and another player might pick it up from the ground and run with it or simply steal contents from it even though the bag owner is already searching it. Allow a bag to be "used" from inside the main inventory screen to pull up the bags inventory and move items back and forth between the bag and the normal inventory, or even another inventory such as a safe or vehicle. When searching the bag, provide a /ame above the player's head to indicate they are searching the bag, similar to what you would see when a player searches their car's inventory.

Add a "Store" option for house safes

Players are able to pick up crates, bags or other carriable objects and store them in the trunk of a vehicle with a single button press on the WI for the car. Make the same "store" option available for house safes to make it easier to put large/heavy objects into the safe easily. Also, any object in the game should be carriable. I see no downside to allowing any object to be carried in someone's hands and treated like a bag or piece of furniture. This would allow for something heavy such as a drill to be carried in hand so you did not have to clear out the entire inventory to pick it up. 

Set Player Stamina to max for GTA Enhanced - IMPLEMENTED

Many players enjoy playing on GTA 5 Enhanced rather than legacy given it runs smoother, has better graphics and is an overall improvement over the legacy version, however, it makes the game difficult to play currently due to the game not referencing local save files so player stamina is essentially 0, so you are unable to sprint or swim for long before you begin moving slowly. Set the server player stamina to max value so players can enjoy playing GTA enhanced without any hinderances. 

[Eliza]

+1

[Harley]

+1 to pretty much everything except the leaderboard thing. The ability to metagame someone being online was taken away when names were censored on it. Having the leaderboard is still very useful to understand what kind of player you're dealing with. They may have 6000 xp, not have a ((New Player)) tag, but may still want to give them a bit of leeway because they're still fairly new.

Or you may have an xp requirement for recruiting into a faction, which the leaderboard is useful for to check if someone has an xp limit.

[moVex]

+1!

[PenguWin]

+1

[NEO77]

+1 and -1 as well cuz the bag will be so bad like u talking with a pd and from nowhere u taking the gun out from the bag it doesn't make any sense it's not rp at all

[AtlasOLimbo]

+1 For the most part. The bag searching would still need some kind of animation or even an /ame, but could very well be solved to prevent the issue mentioned above of pulling a heavy out with 0 RP and 0 pre-visibility.

[Kevin Biker]

+1

Edited December 3, 2025 by Kevin Biker

[Requiem]

I've updated my bag suggestion to include an /ame above the player's head to give other players an indication that someone is adding or removing something from the bag. 

[Harley]

I think the bag thing could probably use an animation too. Perhaps the same animation as taking out a heavy? Just something that looks like you're twisting your body to reach for something on your back?

[loy_jet]

+1 

 

[Blazendary]

+1

Pleaseeeeee add group texts

[Billy Valentine]

yeah +1 thanks.

[Ms.Somebody]

+1 To all of this, especially storing crates via store rather than having to empty my entire inventory to pick it up. I have clothes I want to wear, but I just go buy new ones and sell them as needed because it’s such a hassle to go grab the crate, look through it, drop EVERYTHING, and then pick up the crate. Being able to store it would cut so much bs.

[DoubleA]

+1 to it all! There is no reason NOT to have most all of these other than the leaderboard

 

[Requiem]

Added max stamina for GTA 5 Enhanced to the list. 

[NinerTwoGolf]

One I just thought about as I encountered it: A way to search through the POI Blips.

Adding so many has been great for the variety but there are 700 of them organized in no particular order.

[Daxu]

From my Smoking QOL post here: Can we please pickup/hand over items, use cell phone, etc. while smoking? Maybe if we feel festive, a way to hand over a single cigar/cigarette/blunt and share it with someone? 

[Earl Mud]

1 I have that I haven't seen talked about so not sure if it's something that anyone wants is updating how drops work. Working as a gang that does a lot of orders it kind of takes all rp away and you just sit alone for hours doing drops which is unfun and provides next to no rp unless your drop gets comped. As far as a better solution I'm not sure. 

[Pazz]

A very minor addition that I think should be added is to display the house/apartment addresses shown in /vehiclestats. Great, my car is in a house... where? If vehiclestats was added for the sake of player convenience in offering a little oversight in where exactly their vehicles are, then we should actually make it convenient. There's no benefit to not displaying where it is parked, unless we're out to waste people's time.

One of my biggest other gripes in terms of QoL and background development in general is the lack of care for (older) menus. The furniture store menu, for example, was designed with a handful of categories in mind. Now, it has been expanded, and it's an absolute nightmare. Maybe it's a problem because I'm on 4k and it's fine for everyone else, but this? This is a joke. There are so many categories now. We can display more than four.

 

As a follow-up on the above, some of the UI really needs addressing in terms of scaling. I understand that 4k wasn't as popular when these menus were designed, but we're in 2026 now. It's time to accept that there are players on this resolution, and that the way some of these gameplay features and menus are designed is horrendous. I feel like I require a magnifying glass to look at my phone. The only reason I can now read my chat without squinting is because Thang developed a custom chat that lets me choose my own font size.

Sure, UI scaling might not be the QoL that the server needs right at this moment, but I think that letting these deprecated, old menus exist in their current form and not even adjusting them to today's use cases (eg. furniture store) or making them scalable (eg. phone) is a lack of polish that tends to turn into appearing as if there's a lack of care for details. Details matter for a good player experience. 

 

[pooria]

+1 

[Requiem]

Original post has been updated to reflect the changes made to the server so far.

[Harley]

Still a LOT in here that needs to come. Accessing bags without dropping them, furni store fixes, etc, yes pls!!!

[Requiem]

Added search bar to faction loadout section.