KonaKealoha Posted August 30, 2020 Report Posted August 30, 2020 Bare with me because I think that this could give a big boost to quality businesses opening up in the city. The current system is everyone sitting and waiting until one day the server drops dozens of business buildings on us to buy and it becomes a scramble to find one for sale and buy it... But for the most part these are being bought by people with no intention of running a business or opening up a building that would contribute to the server at all... I am suggesting a change that if you think about it, it could boost civilian AND criminal RP. It give city hall more responsibility besides just approving/denying registrations and licenses. I think buying a commercial real estate can be done on an individual basis requiring an application to state the type of business that you hope to open along with the location you desire. If you application is approved and a price has been established you are sold that specific location. The prices/size of the interior space will be dependent on the location of the building you want. During the application process the server will build the interior for that one specific building that you purchase. If a government inspector comes and your business is not operating as you state in your license a fine can be levied against you. The real purpose of this is to give creative roleplayers the opportunity to apply and get these buildings instead of the players who have no creativity to start something that can benefit RP and just buy it because they can afford to. How could this help boost Crim RP too? Because IRL criminals don't just have big buildings in the middle of the city that they turn into a clubhouse, they'll need to start a legit front for their business as cover for whatever they do in the back of the building. TL:DR Instead of everyone waiting for the server to drop 20+ businesses that everyone scrambles to get, only benefitting people online that specific day/time, it would be an individual application process to show what kind of business you want to open. This gives CIVrp the chance to flex creativity and be rewarding with a building. and CRIMrp their chance to open a business front and conduct criminal activity out the back. Applications would go through city hall giving them more to do, and then hiring more people, opening up more jobs around the city. 1 1
XtraShrimpyGuy Posted August 30, 2020 Report Posted August 30, 2020 Big +1, I've only seen a few businesses actually open occasionally, and it's frustrating when you want to run your own business or even have a different job than fishing or driving a truck all day ( I know there's more jobs). I would love to see more clubs, independent security teams, and whatever else players could think of, unfortunately many of these businesses just sit and don't do anything with their properties. Hopefully we can see more properties for sale in the future! 1
KonaKealoha Posted August 30, 2020 Author Report Posted August 30, 2020 Big +1, I've only seen a few businesses actually open occasionally, and it's frustrating when you want to run your own business or even have a different job than fishing or driving a truck all day ( I know there's more jobs). I would love to see more clubs, independent security teams, and whatever else players could think of, unfortunately many of these businesses just sit and don't do anything with their properties. Hopefully we can see more properties for sale in the future! That's exactly it, I hate to see so many great businesses just sit around collecting dust when there's great RPers that want to make use of them. I know some are used as Crim HQ's but no reason they can't operate a "fake business" as a front. I think it'd be a big boost for everyone. 1
Xoza Posted September 3, 2020 Report Posted September 3, 2020 +/- Businesses of various types can be run by anyone and with the right connections you can get involved in business whether it's scripted or not scripted. I'm in support more so of having scripting help improve business possibilities. Things like adding vendor (furniture or NPCs) ingame, an item market, or more. 1
