Working in DOC

[AtlasOLimbo]

Introduction/Why

DOC sucks for entertainment. I understand that "crime doesn't pay" but you're expected to actively be on the server and sit around for your sentence, this isn't ajail. And it's still a video game. The things you did are IC and you shouldn't be punished with absolute boredom and pain by sitting in there, literally all there is to do half the time is get robbed or rob. Especially on lower player counts, alt RPs are rarely approved. I propose we change that for some prisoners to slave away to the system with a small reward in return! I'm going to list a couple of jobs I've had the pleasure of roleplaying out a couple times with some very immersion enhancing guards.

Laundry Room

The prison has a laundry room, why don't we use it? Things get dirty. Blood, urine, etcetra. They need to be cleaned one way or another, could even wash the guards clothes. Prisoners could retrieve dirty clothes from the nearby bins and begin working at them whether it's washing them by hand or in the machines and then drying them/ironing them. Every clean set would give a stamps reward. It could even create more alt. roleplay for prisoners to partake in if the laundry was actively used.

 

The Kitchen

You think the Los Santos government want to pay someone an actual wage to prep meals?! No way Jose! Just give the prisoners some stamps and I'm sure they'll be happy! Prisoners could prep and cook meals at a campfire-like system and be rewarded for every prepped meal they put into the fridge or something. Anything to make things more interesting!

Conclusion

I hope you enjoyed reading! I plan to make way more detailed suggestions in the future but without having access to these rooms actively it's hard to take screenshots or more properly describe what I have in mind for these places. Please give feedback down below!
 

[Ash]

Laundry room and Kitchen RP is stuff you can get going currently, you just need to take the initiative and do that sort of RP. We even highlighted in press releases inmates who have been using the kitchen to RP making food and doing things to give people the hint that it's an avenue of RP they can go down (even got a recipe of the month section).

Whilst I do think it'd be neat for these to be scriptly implemented for sure, not everything requires script money or reward for RP to happen and I wish people would get out of that mentality, RP is it's own reward after all we're on an RP server. DOC guards facilitate to anyone who shows interest for that stuff pretty much any time. 

[AtlasOLimbo]

29 minutes ago, DrPathetic said:

Laundry room and Kitchen RP is stuff you can get going currently, you just need to take the initiative and do that sort of RP. We even highlighted in press releases inmates who have been using the kitchen to RP making food and doing things to give people the hint that it's an avenue of RP they can go down (even got a recipe of the month section).

Whilst I do think it'd be neat for these to be scriptly implemented for sure, not everything requires script money or reward for RP to happen and I wish people would get out of that mentality, RP is it's own reward after all we're on an RP server. DOC guards facilitate to anyone who shows interest for that stuff pretty much any time. 

You don't get any salary for being in prison and mining gets absolutely draining. I've asked to do laundry and kitchen multiple times and have been denied it multiple times. I've only gotten laundry RP once. Especially at later hours it'd be much easier for these things to be a free money-making method compared to mining when you lose your pickaxe from your OOC death in the medbay.

[Ash]

As I said, not everything is about money. RP instead.
And admittedly laundry is used a lot less than the kitchen is mainly because the kitchen is right by the cell block but it's not a rare occurrence to have those different types of RP happen. Honestly it fizzles most of the time from lack of inmate interest, because people are only concerned about either going afk, mining, robbing, or randomly attacking people instead of RP.

You can ask the guard that treated you to hold your pickaxe for your OOC death.

[Mahanawe]

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