eTaylor

Idlewood Pizzastacks

A small submarine so I can sit at the bottom of the ocean surrounded by salt water as far away from everyone as possible.

A lot of things are poor on GTA W, doesn't mean anyone does anything about it. This is a community where 4 friends on discord can go to a hardware store, buy a baseball bat and start terrorizing players who are running a complex multifaceted legal business for months to a point where they can't operate anymore. On the other hand you have someone trying to set up a church only to be subjected to drive-by's and executions and religious trolls, while across the street a venue is hosting public sex parties. A place where a few friends smoking pot at the Sandy Shores skatepark get held at gunpoint by someone called Blackraven "Alabama" Wolfangel, a 4'3" "athletic" blonde who just got a PF license driving a $310k truck becoming the harbinger of justice because they decided the county is "lawless". On one side you have people fresh off a Roblox server who desperately pursue the "grimiest" roleplay while RDR 2 VoIP venturing into text RP trying to open a bar in the county and think that shooting everyone who they don't like is a constitutionally protected right. The same place where if you hit a cactus on accident with your dirtbike you get admin jailed for GTA:O driving, but told to write a RPQM casefile on someone running through the same desert in an alien costume with a combination wrench attacking coyotes after beating a local to inches of his life.

Except most people show up and for the first 30 seconds of their existence immediately start a fight because their character thread said they’ve been in the county for 46 years and are the baddest motherfucker on the island

The amount of OOC that has infested our roleplay is staggering. I can’t do anything within the legal roleplay sphere without some sort of OOC involvement. Whether it’s teamspeak effecting roleplay, or OOC relationships influencing in character affairs - it’s everywhere. It’s server wide and doesn’t discriminate between roleplay areas. People acting like their characters OOC is by far one of the least hurtful forms, if you ask me. But more than often I find that it’s the other way around. I’ll get berated OOC by players, every third roleplay situation requires some sort of admin intervention. Hell, even a simple traffic ticket can’t remain IC. It’s even worse when you’re forced to deal with people OOC. Like I’m not here to get to know you OOC.

On LSRP we had the report formatter where all you had to do is put in a name, a video/screenshot and list the broken rule and it would automatically generate a complaint

Provided video evidence of blatant and malicious rule breaking on multiple occasions, got told they can’t do anything because the player logged off. 10/10 would /report again.

The LSPD is a municipal police department, the LSSD is a county sheriff’s department. Both are general purpose all around law enforcement agencies with their own specifications based on their real life counterparts. These two are the only ones you can compare to one another. State Parks fall under a park management system with State Park Peace Officers which operate within their own niche, a much smaller corner of LEO RP. Highway patrol falls within the latter category. Contrary to your point of “adding another team”, it would neither add nor detract the amount of police anywhere. The LEO RP playerbase generally remains the same, they naturally fill up where ever their personal interests align. State parks didn’t add 30-40 new officers, players who like that niche naturally filtered out from PD/SD with a frequent rotation and occasional new on-boarding. All a highway patrol agency would do is change aesthetics (cars, uniforms) and allow more people a chance at LEO faction leadership within a niche of LEO RP. You’ll see the same players who you find on the highway now.

I’ll consider this when it’s not an absolute joke and it can be proven it’s not a waste of my time. I’ve been forced to sit in a 45 minute admin situation, imagine sitting in a forum report for weeks or months. Maybe if they brought back the reporting tool we had in SAMP.

Imagine a public opinion barometer like a special tool that helps us understand how people feel about different things. Think of a public opinion barometer as a magical happiness meter. When lots of people are happy, the meter points to the happy side. If many people are sad or worried, it goes to the sad side. So, it helps us know what many people are thinking or feeling together.

I personally feel that voids occur way too often

Imagine if we had IV handling. I’d like it if we had more realistic driving habits. It’s gotten to a point where reckless driving is the standard, people are genuinely offended OOCly when you enforce IC traffic laws. The consequences for reckless driving are irrelevant for a lot of people, I once stopped a person with his 17th count of reckless driving and couldn’t care less. People will also drive around recklessly with guns and drugs in their cars, leading to a traffic stop, and often leading to arrests. But it’s never their fault, it’s my fault because I have the audacity of pulling them over after they overtake me on the incorrect lane doing 100mph while I’m yielding at an intersection.