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  1. no joke someone messaged me on facebook about it
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    akari.

    how dare you revive this. now im obligated to post more content tonight
  3. User: akari Comment: Thank you for your reply. While at this point I do agree that this piece was unnecessarily biased and already announced Kaizen would be making adjustments to our behaviour in the future, I would disagree that it contains false information. All of the information I provided came from factors that I experienced during my first visit. I have been continuing to make visits to your venue nonetheless, and I've noticed your team has been making small improvements here and there. This is good, and falls entirely within the kaizen philosophy at its core! Kaizen Corporation holds the firm belief that there's no point to running a business if you have no competitors to fight against. We have no intentions to run any venue out of business, including Legion Lounge. We simply hold everyone to a standard. We uphold these standards not only for progression of the venues themselves, but more importantly for the benefit of the consumer. We kindly appreciate that input in this piece has been taken to heart by the team at Legion Lounge, and we're happy to see what the future brings for you and your venue. Thank you!
  4. User: akari Comment: Hello! This is a corporate blog - Not a general news outlet.
  5. Are y'all done? I put my pitchfork down like two pages ago.
  6. This is a very good point - I’d say the entire /bad system could use a rework, tying it to business members rather than donator status - But as someone who isn’t involved in staffing here, I don’t want to hound about it since I don’t really know how much is in progress behind the scenes. And yes, I’d much rather have people actually use classifieds on FB rather than a whole separate website - If not that, the ad list suggestion we were talking about up there would also work pretty well.
  7. A SAMP server I was staff on did have something like that - ads were brought up in a list with a command. You could still post priority ads (one that showed up in chat) but they cost significantly more than posting on the regular list. Just an idea i’ll toss out for anyone lurking the thread? But on a general note, after a few days of mulling this over I’m realizing this doesnt bother me nearly as much as it did when I made this thread while grumpy and sleep-deprived. Still trying to figure out what I meant by “asset flexing”. And another good point was brought up - I’m so used to the three minute timer that I didn’t even consider that most people have a twenty minute timer. My opinions on cross-selling cars/houses in the same ad and the state of car flip rp (tho not really relevant to OP) still stand, though?
  8. Facebrowser marketplace does exist and I wish it would be utilized more - especially in regards to personal sales.
  9. but?they?are?selling?exotics?
  10. If this is the argument you’re making now, then it solidifies my point - These people aren’t actually flipping, since they don’t do any work on the cars. So you can’t consider what they do an RP job at all.?
  11. I'll admit I wrote the OP when I was very tired. Nothing wrong with IC asset flexing in itself - My main does it all the god damn time. But I also acquired my wealth through actual in-depth roleplay which led to character development in several months' time - Which I do not consider comparable to people buying exotics, doing nothing with them as far as inspection and refurbishing goes, and selling them the next day if not sooner. I know this because when I was a wee lad on this server getting back into GTA RP, these are the types of people I hung out with. I tagged along on their car sales. I helped drive cars they purchased back to their houses. I can promise you, when it comes to singular players flipping vehicles, there is no in-depth RP involved, save for rare cases. My main's kid sold a popup lot her beaten-to-fuck Blista Compact, gave them detailed emotes of the car's one-step-from-death condition, and the owners of the lot went on to RP stripping it for parts and vscrapped the script car. They made negative profit from the entire purchase - It was solely for the roleplay. So how come every individual owner magically gains a profit on their investments? Rockford Autos is a popup lot, which is, again, different from someone selling their vehicles on the /ad system and nothing else. It at least allows for more interaction than a /sendlocation and two lines of paperwork RP. I've had fantastic interactions in popup lots, even if 90% of the time I never end up buying anything.
  12. Stop acting like I'm looking to ban people for selling cars. All I'm asking is that people put a little more heart into it, if they're going to make it their character's main source of income.
  13. But here's where the problem lies; If they got that cash through, not OOC trading, but minimum level RP, why should that cash be considered viable? We're here to roleplay. Unfortunately a huge chunk of the community puts script assets before their RP, which is how we end up with such a massive amount of vehicle/property flippers. To elaborate on what I mean by "minimum level RP," refer back to these two points.
  14. You literally entered this thread with an assumption.
  15. This is my exact viewpoint as well, and seems to be the point Zane isn’t getting. The vehicle script is so simplified in GTAW that, unless you find a seller and buyer who go really hard with their mechanic/resell RP, there is NO benefit to flipping vehicles other than the script cash. Buying an exotic, leaving it in /vpark for a day untouched, and then selling it with a few lines of conversation and some signed paperwork should not be considered RP-based income. Let’s not forget these resellers are the same people who used “maxed out” in their advertisements until the term was banned just last week. For the third time, stop comparing car flipping with it’s real life equivalent. Reselling vehicles on here is nowhere near as difficult as the same grind IRL, and nobody should be calling it “hard work.”
  16. Again, ingame car/house flipping cannot be compared to real-life mechanic specials or fixer-uppers. Those take actual time, effort, and generally more money on top of initial purchase price - I highly guarantee you the people that are flipping these cars don’t contribute any RP towards these factors. You could argue that you can have a real “fixer upper” business with the custom mapping system. Though even that’s on the rocks, considering not much RP is involved, but at least you can make it different. But the car modding system is too simple to justify constantly buying and reselling exotics (exotics!!! actual car flippers resell general commercial vehicles!!!!) as legitimate RP-based income. In any case! I just wanted to see if this was as big of a thorn in the side for other people as it is for me. I didn’t know if I was nagging or not, so I decided to get a community opinion. I don’t expect anything to change on a server-wide level (i.e advertisement rework or regulations), but discussions are fun!
  17. Why doesn’t that first line strike you as a massive problem? Why are people on a roleplay server if they don’t want to roleplay? And if they don’t have the cash to be a rich salesman, why are they trying to play a rich salesman?
  18. I’m going to try and say this in the most humble way possible: My main character is a very successful businesswoman, and my alts have no need for money. This is far from a “reee people have more money than me” complaint. Furthermore; There’s no place to compare it to IRL car/house flipping when no work is required before you can resell ingame vehicles/properties. Difference between fixing up a beater IRL and selling three Pariahs a week in the exact same condition you bought them in.
  19. You’re deriving from the main point of the post. If people want to flip cars as an RP job thats perfectly fine - plenty of popup used car lots exist on-server, and I think they’re very fun. But when you’re selling a billion expensive exotics in one advertisement, using nothing but your phone, it gives less the impression of “this is how i portray my character!” and moreso one of “this is how i hoard as much script money as possible!”
  20. Hi! Here's something that grinds my gears; People sending out personal advertisement selling 4-8 (typically exotic) cars at once. I've spent a few weeks now trying to figure out if this was worth speaking up about or not - but that last advertisement, in particular, ticked me off enough that I'm making a GD thread to complain about it. It comes off as asset-flexing and, typically, the entire reason these people are putting out these advertisements is to get script cash through flipping cars (and properties as well! i have seen this same system used with houses instead of cars, and it's even MORE annoying than the advertisements selling cars, but it's also much less common) rather than getting any sort of actual roleplay-based job. Maybe this isn't as big of a deal as I make it out to be, and maybe I'm the only one bothered by this. Or maybe I'm breaking the ice. In any case, discuss!
  21. Dissection of Legion Lounge Akari, President & Co-Founder Kaizen Corporation Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. If I said the death of the “nightclub” and the corresponding surge in “lounge” venues after the success of Harmony didn’t tickle my heart, I would be a liar. However, there is a heavy distinction between inspiration and unoriginality. Legion Lounge fits into the latter; Being a clear cut-and-copy of The Vault, a fine smoke lounge operating under the Kaizen Corporation. The design remains the same, with minor changes; the first and foremost being the heinous DJ booth that’s been shoehorned into the center of the venue. This gives the entire venue the aura that it has no idea what it’s doing in terms of demographic; While it displays and advertises itself as a high-end venue, the DJ booth implies a future of danceable setlists - a concept the rest of the design simply does not accommodate. More notably, the booth was not in use; instead, the venue’s speakers were playing softer, house band-esque music that was interrupted every ten or so minutes with blatant amounts of paid advertising. Then we move onto the service; The Vault, while offering a wide selection of alcohol, is a smoke lounge at its core. The complementary ashtrays, knowledgable staff, and custom-cut cigars available for purchase at the bar reflect this. Legion Lounge seems to only offer alcohol, leaving nothing setting it apart from any other bar you’d find across the city. There is no dedicated aesthetic that the business tries to go for, along with absolutely no personality from the staff; They truly go above and beyond with making you feel like another customer in a sea of personal profit. The bartender’s service was remarkably average, if not below that. Waiting at Legion’s bar kind of felt like waiting in a queue at the DMV; I spent a decent chunk of time waiting around on my phone, and I even had the privilege of being inexplicably skipped over despite staying glued to the exact same position on the bar between the time I came up to order and the time I got my drink. The bartender, a woman with artificial red hair in an outfit that was admittedly very well put together for the type of venue Legion thinks it is, didn’t appear to have much knowledge on the drinks she was being asked to make. Additionally, the venue doesn’t seem to supply any sort of draft beer; On several different occasions, I watched her take a bottle from the fridge, open it, and pour the contents into a glass. Not once did I overhear a patron actually ask her to do this. I do not aim to choke anyone out of the industry. However, If you plan to start up any sort of business, no matter the industry, you should have a clear idea of what you would like to do; Legion Lounge comes off as something closer to a quick cash grab idea after the success of The Vault and other such high-end venues. No forethought has been put into establishment nor execution, between the confusing alterations made in comparison to its predecessor, and the advertisements that were going live of Legion’s owner seeking a bartender two hours before their scheduled open. The next step to a successful venue is finding a niche. No ideas are original, sure; But when your venue comes off as a lite version of another established business, publicity and cash flow will not thrive anywhere near as well as compared to giving your business it’s own appeal. This is the same philosophy that has crushed and tossed dozens of nightclubs into a pile of other obsoletes in the past, and as the “lounge” craze continues to grow, venues of this type will fail in favor of those who offer more to the patron as well; Whether its by way of service, atmosphere, or pricing. My advice to the owners of Legion Lounge would be to adapt to these changes. Find your demographic, and then find your spot in their wants and needs; You cannot expect to successfully capitalize on a market someone else is already providing. Thank you for reading.
  22. Username: akari Comment: if you get paid for it its no longer a hobby
  23. See the last paragraph of my previous post. As for the chef part, this is about bartender RP specifically. I get that not every job position has room for friendliness (again, akari doesn't let her waitstaff chat, either!) but for bartending specifically, there is definitely room for more than cocktail mixing RP. Again, if you're going to get upset with someone for taking the time to type roleplay on a roleplay server, I really don't feel like you have the patience or mindset for this type of platform. All in all, I feel like I'm asking for very little here. Just some bartenders with some actual goddamn personality instead of being Jack Daniels and eCola generators. This is the method I've been using for my bartender RP since my first night on the server and I've yet to receive any complaints about slow service.
  24. a lot of this response is elaboration and justifications for your character and her company's IC actions - personally, i, the player, couldn't care less how justifiable or not things have been for them thus far, as none of the oversaturation and pricing actually matters to me on an OOC level. that's something to bring up with akari isayama, the character, not me. but i'll address the things that aren't necessarily IC. No, no no no. This is not an excuse. The point of running a business is that it's SUPPOSED to be difficult. You've chosen to coordinate openings, harness a team, and keep track of finances. People start up venues and businesses to provide an enjoyable experience for the consumer; and vetoing your staff is very well part of this process. If you go into management of ANY venue head-first with no forethought and realize it's too difficult to keep track of on an OOC level, that is nobody's problem but your own. As for bar openings, if anything that PROVES that the main focus for nightclubs is script money - it's an easy way to cash grab. They don't need as much security, they don't need a DJ, and hell, they probably don't even need to use a management outsource! It's not innovative and it's not "caring for the company." Again, I've kept my thoughts on nightclubs opening as bars/lounges IC for the sake of immersion, but I've always agreed with my character that the entire concept is a cheap and lazy way for management to make a quick buck. And when you bring it to an OOC level, it turns from normal money-grubbing to an issue of the player valuing script assets over the roleplay experience. I wrote my previous post from the perspective of a team leader in the customer service industry as well! I let my people chat up customers all the time - It's friendly! It gives them a good impression of our staff! It keeps people coming back! But there is a key difference between your team and mine; Mine is usually stuck in one spot. A good chunk of yours is not. What you are describing is a restaurant. My character owns one of these (with an open bar!), so I can give some insight from an in-server perspective. I do not let the waitstaff at Sakana chat it up with guests when we've got a lot of people - I want them out on the floor, making sure everyone is taken care of. The barstaff, though? They're essentially stuck in the same ten square feet for the entire duration of their shift. Unless you're Club Royale or Sneaky Pete's and your bar is fifty feet long (a specific interior design nitpick that sends me into cardiac arrest when i see it), your bartender won't be walking more than a few feet at any given time. Their voice would, realistically, stay in range of the customer! And their dialogue still shows up in the customer's chatbox, so - What reason is there not to chat? Ah, yes. Because we are a "text-based roleplay server." And what about it? People who come into a text-based roleplay server should come here knowing full well that they're going to have to allow time for people with slower typing speeds. Time passing on the server is not a 1:1 to the real life flow of time - There are people who put a thirty to sixty minute garage job into a dozen or so lines of RP in ten minutes. And on the flipside, there are people who take a minute or two to type a drink-mixing emote that, if they were to perform the action in realtime, would take them no longer than fourty seconds. Anyone who comes to a virtual bar on a roleplay server, and then complains about the bartender taking to long because they're roleplaying is not a customer you want to have in the first place. It's rude and disrespectful not only to players who don't have as high of a WPM as others, but ESPECIALLY disrespectful to players who don't have English as a first language.
  25. People don’t seem to realize that you can still have a conversation while serving others. I do it all the time at work (granted i dont work a bar IRL but the concept is the same - chat with one person while serving another, pause the convo if i need to ask questions/payout, and if theyre the chatty type and the topic is universal enough, i include the other customer into the convo too!!) And I do the same thing with my bartender RP - chat with one customer, if another shows up I greet them and ask their order, turn around and continue to swap between emotes/dialogue and keep with the conversation I was having to begin with. Granted YMMV depending on your typing speed, but a very large margin of customer service workers in real life are VERY skilled at multitasking - we kind of have to to keep everyone happy. And surprise surprise, most of the complaints I end up reading are about my “stoic, nontalkative” employees. It’s not an issue of realism, it’s an issue of robo-bartenders.
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