Missi

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I completely agree. We need to get people up to the same level of roleplay.

Awesome.

The long awaited property update is now in! How does it work, you may ask? Take a look at THIS for most of your questions answered. But, since I know lots have people who have come to me with questions already on how it will be run. Here, I will try to answer most of your commonly asked questions. 1. Okay, so how do I get started? I want to make money and involve myself in this roleplay. I want a thorough explanation. A. 1. You want to get into real estate? This is how you will get into it as a real estate agent and behave as a real estate agent. 2. You want to get on the construction side with your friends? 2. How do I acquire a business with this new update? Auctions are gone? A. Acquiring a business is much like acquiring a house now. You must meet with a Dynasty 8 Real Estate agent with your intentions of creating a business, where you want it, etc. This will be the process for acquiring the business. 3. How do interior changes work with this new system? How do I get a new interior? A. You may get a new interior via these steps. (Please note, this doesn't mean someone making a custom interior for you via the blank interior- This is simply for those whom want to change the interior of their house or business. If you want someone to decorate your house with furniture, that will be coming up in a following update, or you may advertise that you are looking for someone to decorate your property ICly. ) 4. Does this mean new areas of the map will be added? Do I have to get my houses and businesses through this system now? A. YES! We are now adding Vespucci with this new update. You will no longer be able to just go up to a house and /buyhouse like in an RPG game. You must be in contact with a real estate agent who will guide you through the process, and get you set up with the house, just like in real life. Just a bit more touch of realism, and plenty of opportunities to be had! This server strives for heavy/serious roleplay, and this is just one of the many things we have planned to bring you the absolute best experience that we can. Feel free to ask any more questions that you may have in THIS thread . Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all. -Missi

Just make it control f able with the words "misdemeanor" and "felony" to it, No need to dumb it down.

Once we expand out, yeah, I already added a new one just last week.

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Congrats!!!!

Definitely glad to see this being taken far :)

Send me a message on discord and we can find a time to change your name.

I suggest you all take a look at the new update as this will have a lot of effect!

Yup. I’m working on it. I gotta build these interiors from scratch :(

I don’t mind having this. @Crayons could you please write something up?

I’ve already added these in? Where are you having this issue?

I’m working on a casino interior at the moment.

Yes this will be available / required once we have the player base for it. Invite more people and we can add more things like this. Right now it isn’t fair to make someone wait for a specific 30 minute time slot one tattoo artist might be awake and online for.

As a heavy RP server, we will be introducing an update to the Real Estate system of GTAW that will create roleplay opportunities for players to engage in. This includes the adding of construction firms, where players of 3+ can organize themselves to bid on contracts for the work required on property development. The second addition to this update will be realty management agencies who will be handling and managing the sales of auctioned properties, this includes existing and newly introduced properties to the server. The idea is, instead of auctioned properties profit being removed from the server economy, players will be able to organize themselves into new opportunities as legal firms applying for contracts. This update benefits illegal role-players equally as much as legal role-players, and new and old players alike. Interior changes and property auctions are regular and so this update will be creating regular roleplay and profitable initiatives for players involved, at no extra expense to the buyers of the property. This is entirely funded by the money that would otherwise leave the economy through OOC auction revenue. Dynasty Real Estate Dynasty Real Estate will first be introduced to the game to manage the auctioned properties that were handled previously OOCly by Property Management. Each property will be a per job basis and players will have the opportunity to establish their own Real Estate Agencies underneath the direction of Dynasty. This initiative is for the players, and established agencies will work on a first come first serve. This will take effect to compliment the extensive introduction of new properties on the server. Players interested in this legal career path should display their activities in an upcoming forum section (TBC). New Real Estate roles – Dynasty Real Estate – Property management will run the first IC auction firm handling the property to be given to the buyers. They will also oversee the player created real estate agencies and looking over how these are ran. They will be given no "special" features (IE- No extra pay just because they are staff members. I am aiming to keep things fair, but since many of the incidents of arranging property can be OOC, I am going to bring in 2-3 members of property staff that will actively be able to guide the player created real estate agencies and handle the administrative side of things. This way, there will be an over sight without having too much control over the market.) Player created Real Estate Agencies – Players can create their own agencies to arrange the bidding & sale for auctioned properties on a per job/property basis. This is to prevent any hoarding or excessive bias to one Agency or another. Agencies will be required to show their activity and operations on a thread as to increase their appeal to both house buyers & to ensure Admins can distribute the auctioned properties accordingly. Construction - Construction is a hugely popular legal career path that can greatly compliment illegal factions by adding depth to their illicit operations. Not only will this create vast opportunities for factions, but so long as you are numbering 3+ players, you too can run your own construction firm. Similar to Real Estate agencies, construction firms too will be required to create a thread on the upcoming forum section (TBC) and display their activities to ensure that roleplay is being followed and delivered. The new construction firm opportunities will take place when an interior change request occurs or a new business/property is added. The house owner will have the opportunity to bid for construction jobs by firms and roleplay around it and provide adequate screenshots of the roleplay taking place. Each firm will be able to work on a per job basis, only able to accept the next job once they have completed their current accepted work. This is to enable players to enjoy the game more freely and engage when they are available, as this system would unlikely work long term if it is too rigid. To give an example of how this would work, let’s say that the cost of materials for an interior change will be 20,000US$. A construction firm can then bid higher/lower considering that they want a neat profit above the costs of the construction job. So the buyer decides if they want Construction Firm A, who is charging 35,000US$, or Construction Firm B charging 38,000US$, cheapest or not. This creates the opportunity for illegal roleplay to engage and attempt to influence the outcome. Meanwhile those interested in pursuing a clean, legal route can charge higher should they focus on the quality of their service provided. If a construction firm wants to scam or blackmail the construction job customer to make a higher bid they will need to get admin permission as this is technically the equivolent of the property scam. They need to have a company profile, with evidence of a organisation of members and activity of roleplay. Players interested in this need to show initiative, they need to make their company appeal more than just on price. The idea of this is that your roleplay and expertise will be your price basis. The better you come, the larger the charge. New Construction Roles – Player created Construction Firms – This requires 3 Players+ and a profile documenting their members and their activities as to reassure both admins and the house owner that their requested construction is completed ICly at an adequate quality. Construction workers – Players, new and experienced alike can apply to work for organised firm and receive a salary for their work on the job. As firms require 3+ to complete construction jobs, there is incentive to hire players and organise on the pursuit of the pay check. Relax, there will be 0 delays in property auctions Players can be reassured that should there be any delay due to a lack of progress being made in the RP, this may be due to time zones etc, the process can optionally be NPCed following the current system after 7 days of sale or interior change request approval and or business reques, from the first date of application with no response. If it has been a total of more than 14 days for the process, it may be NPCed due to the constraint of time. However, no body should want to miss out on a great opportunity to make some IC cash like this, which will prove to be a great hefty sum as many businesses and interior changes can get expensive! Like always, if you have any questions, feel free to message me or another member of the property staff. Happy holidays everyone, and I hope you enjoy this update! -Missi (Co-written by OhSoFly)

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These are now added.

If I recall correctly, We are going to have it so eventually that each item will be individually priced and catalogued.

I wished for this to be the case at the beginning of the server when helping planning out the economy, but many people decided (even though the fact that they were earning 5k an hour) “hey let’s go mining!!! Yay grinding!” Which has caused a massive inflation because they were grinding money into the server when they should’ve been spending the time roleplaying. I opened a coffee shop for RP the initial 2 Days and only 1 or 2 people came. They were (and are) so focused with this “gotta get money gotta get it fast gotta get best car gotta get best house”, that they ignore the roleplay opportunities available and just want to compete with the other people. This rpg mentality that carried over from other servers was ultimately detrimental to the economy, and that’s a large part of the reason that you see the business owners charging what they do. Script jobs were NEVER EVER EVER supposed to be a steady flow of income. I mentioned this several times before and people very much overlooked this. They were supposed to use that basic income to their advantage as well as to help contribute to the economy via purchasing things via businesses and promoting a healthy economic flow, but ultimately this did not happen. Instead, ample amounts of money was pumped into the economy via script jobs, and business owners had no way of keeping up with the people that were making this runescape mining simulator 2.0. Well. What now? We are actively trying to find a system that’ll correct this issue, and reward business owners with higher rewards for providing roleplay opportunities. How will we do this? It’s still being discussed. Want to help fix the problem? Stop grinding/spawning more money into the server and try to find RP ways of making money. We are actively trying to find s fix to this economy issue though, and it is being discussed. Feel free to PM me any suggestions. tl;dr: Stop grinding. It’s bad for the server.

This is something that will be implemented in the future, but at the state of the server at the moment, there’s no one even on here that could even afford the prices that we would start the auctions at, so the point is moot.