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Mecovy

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  1. Tbf the only thing that's a little nuts is paying to boost your server app to the top. but if people really wanna spend money to save an hour or two? go for it lmao. Ultimately this is a game, whilst the server can have its glitchy moments it's still come a long way with advanced web based features, a large dedicated and likely expensive host and development staff which i am convinced likely work close to full time hours trying to code for some of the recent reworks. Yes, some instances like the /bad pay wall can be an inconvenience and I won't lie when I had to run a business it infuriated me. But its not impossible to find a solution around, hiring people who have it can create a sort of IC economy of its own. the other time is when you wanna enjoy playing other video games for 3-4 weeks and need to buy vip to lower those activity requirements. but thats legitimately a premium feature and I have no issue with it being behind a paywall. (i absolutely do wish they'd allow us to BUY that perk individually without the rest of the donor perks tho. like i just wanna invest a significant amount of time into other games without feeling "punished" for not dedicating that time here. or having to constantly fill out inactivity requests with PM.)
  2. I'll drop this here, but please have the place warning that its outdated information. But since discussions steered to pricing, the old system I was discussing during my time as head was a 4 tier insurance system. With the highest amount the player would ever pay would be between 10k-20k depending on injury. 20k would be the complete service with prolonged bed stay. Expensive? Yes. Prohibitively? No if you get insurance OR if you RP'd homeless and could be given an exemption depending on political will (ahahaha good luck). But given the primary clients are generally either cops, who can afford it. or drug dealers who need to launder but still could also afford it. The new administration may look to take a softer or harder approach, but that was roughly where discussion got too in 2022. As for fixing the bridge between treatment and understanding. Whilst not mandated I encouraged players to do (([Healthy Ranges])) at the end of their request lines of RP / on their /do's. This can be automated by adding a cmd players could use upon entering the downed state that ELI5's all the basic medical concepts they're likely to be asked prior to being asked.
  3. oh the amount of times that's been tried its almost hysterical at this point.
  4. no. As Deputy Commissioner from LSRP LSFD at the time we kept having the debate of keeping All Saints or scrapping it. Having both entities separate was always the plan. Both entities here work far better being on their own. Gonna put this out there as I havent seen much mention of it from my skim but don't just view medical RP as hospital/emergent care. When there's a whole pharmacology sector to back up PHMC. You want realism? Let people start producing medical grade opiates and actually consider how LEGAL factions can massively help out illegal factions by the intermixing of drug scripts. The example I use here will be on marijuana because im still angry to my core about what went down in 2021. Once again by having legally sanctioned drug production factories and capabilities, you open up both the illegal market to a major increase in supply and quality which can be cut and spread freely without as much reliance on drug labs under chicken shops. You open up an avenue of illegal RP into mainstream legal RP by opening up the main avenue of every day irl citizens experience with the criminal underworld, sweet sweet drugs. Those factories supply the hospitals/fd/clinics and half of the cities illegal demand. Same can go for the opiate script. Where users could both use the aforementioned industrialized RP to create modern day street drugs like Fentanyl. PHMC will never be the next SADCR or TTCF, it won't be a Rockford plaza style attempt at an RP hub. I can't speak for the current administration of PHMC as I retired months ago. But if you want to see a PHMC more widely utilized, think outside the box on what hospitals represent in our current societies. Both the cure and the creators of modern problems. Also on the topic of privatized EMS services, the idea itself is not bad. But the very small 1% minority of medical RP players who have a tendency to gate keep, belittle and otherwise detract from the widespread enjoyment of those providing EMS whilst claiming to be hardline enforcing absolute realism. If that issue can absolutely be avoided by LFM, I could see it being successful and working well. Edit- Gonna expand here on what I mean with the first and second paragraphs. To understand why concepts like illegal and LEO RP gain popularity on the server, I believe falls down to the general simplicity behind picking up a spot in the faction and learning. It's not really until the later ranks when you have to really be on it with exact details of American caselaw, civil rights law and other combining factors which build up LEO RP. But with Medical RP, there isn't a grace period like that. Yeah majority of what PHMC does, at least in the internal medicine category can be achieved with googling what symptoms lead to what conditions, warning signs etc.. whilst following the guides we've written based on procedure. For a newbie to medical RP, someone not confident or otherwise.. well that shit's daunting for the players. It's why in my tenure as PHMC's head I took a very aggressive stance on those I saw guilty of gatekeeping and shutting out those who wanted to try medical RP but weren't great initially at it. PHMC never truly grew to prosper under my leadership, but a solid foundation and a stable foundation was created for the new leaders to take it in a whole new direction which they have been. I know medical insurance is being discussed for implementation once again which is a good sign of features to come.
  5. Username: Danielle A. Bordeaux Comment: With so much opposition to the death penalty, remind me how it got passed again? Oh that's right, Republican's believe they can do whatever the fuck they want without consequence.
  6. Full Name: Danielle Amelia Bordeaux Signature: D.A Bordeaux Comment (optional): - No surprises the utterly useless Republican-led Senate, who can't even pass bills to finance themselves, refuse to help pay for our kids education too. Wonder where our tax dollars are even going at this point, beyond senseless counter culture campaigns by our colossally incompetent Lt Governor.
  7. LFM being a mindflayer has made my 2023.
  8. depends, sometimes voids are needed when a bug etc has happened, other times its just a way to cover up something you dont want discussed or used.
  9. as a recent failed politician who plays a punching bag character as of late. yes. politics on gta w..... its quite something. a theory we had (not democrats but a group of mine helping with the campaign), a lotta the desire to be right wing rpers stems from this servers unhealthy obsession with hating on LGBTQ characters specifically. if you look at what the parties do (death sentences aside), they're not that different. Serious points below tho... I've always held the belief if GTA W wants to expand its political rp, we need to roll the clock back on this idea of American politics we have in our heads. Politics shouldn't be a competition of who can fabricate the better lie, or who can smear enough crap against the wall of their opp to make even a monkey jealous. Political RP should be one area we take a smarter approach of how to integrate realism. America post 2016 is a circus show that really shouldn't be admired or aimed to be replicated. About a week after throwing my hat into the political RP race, I was hit with intense regret on an OOC level. For me the past election cycle had no enjoyment, it sapped my motivation to even bother to play. I'm not here to blame Nexus on that regard, he didn't start it. Anyway, that's my two cents on my recent foray into political RP. Some may agree with me, some will likely clown me in their private GC's, its just something I've wanted to get off my chest. as for the original questions: 1. irl im pretty in the middle. My views are generally on the mild social and economic conservative end of the spectra, I just cannot stand people making their entire personalities about hating groups which have 0 impact on them. I went Dem cause ahahahah u can't go independent and like fck would my char ever get along with the Republican chars given the events of July and prior. 2. answered on 1. 3. Me and my char are different people, whilst some aspects are inspired by people I've met and the way I've observed them act, the character itself was one I made to explore a particular theme and how that'd interact in a simulated world( with the exception of music taste, as im the player having to listen to it then you can bet your ass my chars music taste is my irl one. I aint listening to some weird shit, its a video game and I'm gonna take minor shortcuts to maximize my enjoyment like that 10 outta 10 times.). But I'd be lying if I didn't say some aspects of my political foray didn't affect me irl (A player got banned for doing some insanely stupid things in an attempt to just straight fuck w/ me.)
  10. Username: HookupHotel Comment: Why is a devoutly racist and homophobic 6ft long turd staying at the hookup hotel? Is it for all those rent boys you so deeply adore Johnny boy?
  11. Name: Toesiewoesies Comment: Jonathan Spencer hates gay men, but loves sucking on male toes.
  12. whilst i adore this mod.... LC certainly imparted strong opinions within the community. some in deep support, others in deep disagreement. i dont see it as entirely beneficial to import this to GTA W, at least to the playerbase, other than to adore how amazing this map project looks.
  13. Username: PorcelainBowl Comment: Jonathan Spencer is the human personification of a skid mark. He's unpleasant, stains the reputation of the party he's in and no matter how hard you try, he just won't go away. **This post did not use a VPN**
  14. Username: Google[Bot] Comment: Here! Our state of the art AI algorithm has found similar content you may like from the CEO of Gruppe 6. Here's a contained snippet " Clifford Hunter shouts: Go back to the kitchen! Clifford Hunter shouts: Should've went to protest in front of the vibrator store! Clifford Hunter says: You gotta be a fucking r*tard to protest against your own police. Clifford Hunter says: The whole hood is here. Clifford Hunter says: You're a r*tard. Clifford Hunter says: Evolution hasn't hit him yet. Clifford Hunter shouts: N*ggas got a job unlike you! Clifford Hunter says: You homeless, man? Clifford Hunter says: Should've went to school. Clifford Hunter says: How many debt credits you got, man? "An African-American protester says: Tellin' me we ain't go to school?" Clifford Hunter says: You dont. Clifford Hunter says: Your whole neighborhood does nothing but sell drugs to children. Clifford Hunter says: And rob innocent people. Clifford Hunter says: That's why you hate the police. Clifford Hunter shouts: Cancel Nikki James and other 19 year old felony virgins inciting riots! "
  15. Username: iWishYou'dBleedOut Comment: Only truly bad people in this state are those with conservative ideologies. **Posted on a VPN, which would trace to Vespucci**
  16. use task manager to kill discord, wait an hour and it'll update. thats what fixed it for me.
  17. username: Rational-thinking Comment: Rather than kill them, why don't we just make them work in a prison company. We could have them producing food, electronics or clothes for penny's on the dollar and no wages.
  18. Username: Uncomfortable Statistics Comment: Did you know more people have died in America due to toddlers than they have from terrorists.
  19. Name: TheLegend47 Comment: It gives more credence to Ada being framed and the natural killer being a part of the LSSD.
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