Morozzini

Nice, three pages of complaints later and the only answer that you came up with is "you guys are actually wrong, I hope you'll make a sensible suggestion instead of whining". Your response in its entirety is not true, I don't know if it's actually intentional or if you're truly so blind to what's going on under your own nose. You've asked the factions that managed to become unofficial/official if they liked the system that worked for only them and nobody else. What a shocker, this small pool of people did like the system which meant that they'd be able to keep hogging the privileges while the rest of the playerbase rolls in muck. Even then, 25% of them still see the faults of the system. "Moving on, the majority of players that do not seem to approve of this process are those whose factions got denied, be it for their admin records, proclivity for breaking the rules, previous rule breaks involving RTM, Mass DM, etc, or simpler stuff like applying for 3 factions within a month. Whomever applied does not need to rely solely on the response they received for their denial, they can very much reach out to us before appealing it, we're more than open to sharing all the information with you guys." This is entirely imaginary story. You aren't open to sharing all the information with us guys, you aren't open to sharing any information at all. You lock applications immediately and do not allow for any discussion, you do not answer PMs be they on forums on Discord, any of you. I can tell because my PMs are still sitting unanswered a month later. You say that it's primarily about rulebreaks when you've had all these examples given to you in previous comments throughout the topic that have nothing to do with rulebreaks or in the very least not significant ones. Then there is "simpler stuff like applying for 3 factions within a month" which is a ridiculous thing to say in its own right, is there something wrong with trying to initiate roleplay? Is there a rule that limits the amount of factions that you can submit within some time frame? No there is not, then how on Earth can you deny a concept because someone submitted several before? That doesn't affect its quality whatsoever. And given that I presume that the "3 factions within a month" remark is in fact about me personally, I'd like to say that this too is a lot of bull since I've been left to wait for an answer to a single faction thread for 22+ days (that is a month for one faction) and well beyond week for both others. As a result I've been told that I'm now banned from trying to start any sort of faction with my friends indefinitely. In contrast, there is a "rule" which states that the applications should receive an answer within 72 hours; something that never happens. It's extremely sad how in order to contact members of the IFM I actually have to write here on this public thread in hopes that due to it being public, you'll feel obliged to answer as to not have your reputation affected. Please stop asking us to stop complaining and to come up with solutions for the problem. No, we're the ones affected by the problem and we're the ones complaining about it. You are the cause of the problem and it is your job and consequentially duty, to come up with solutions for problems that we, the community, point out to you. Don't shift the weight of resolving the issue that you've yourselves created onto back of players who are already suffering because of it. For a roleplaying server, you guys are investing an awful lot of effort into preventing roleplay from ever happening. Thanks for reading, almighty roleplay gatekeepers.

Precisely this! Answers seem so vague, I honestly have a hard time understanding the message. There is nothing to be learned. Here's a cut-out of the last answer I've been given: "There is still major concerns regarding how this will actually be portrayed in-game. We are also conscious of the fact not everything needs to lead a new concept. You're looking to do some loan shark business which is great, but under the current roster as well as the way that the conceptual understanding of concepts being submitted, we do not feel like this is a group that we can give an entire faction script and privileges to achieve." I have no clue what any of this means. Why are there major concerns? "Not everything needs to lead a new concept" what? "Under the current roster" what is wrong with the roster? What the hell is the conceptual understanding of concepts?? What's up with "not feeling" some way about this group which has a flawless admin record? All of this seems like random AI generated sentences, all other responses were vastly similar. I don't know what any of this means and I haven't learned anything but I've been told that any new concepts made by our group of players will not be reviewed or considered in any foreseeable future. We're literally not even allowed to try and come up with something better. Banned from creating roleplay I suppose, don't even know why. Can't shake the feeling that IFM filtering paired with their unwillingness to help aspiring factions actually results in killing roleplay rather than maintaining some sort of quality.

In the very least becoming an unofficial faction should be made simpler. I thought that unofficial faction status was a stepping stone, an opportunity to showcase what a group of players have to offer to then eventually one day be considered for an official status. Having tried to start an unofficial faction three times over the course of past two months and failing each time, I no longer believe that. Even after having spent more time on researching and writing up the faction concept than I've ever spent on writing any of my college essays or work papers, I wasn't able to get anywhere with it. No guidance is given, no suggestions or discussion takes place, no communication whatsoever, just waiting for weeks to eventually receive a blanket reason such as "not realistic", "already too many exist" or "not good enough" without any specifics that would allow for alternatives, improvements. The thread locks, the story is over. Thanks for playing, try again. If this is the gruesome process (and I've left out many details as to not divert from the topic too much) that needs to be taken in order to merely start an unofficial faction, I can't even imagine what otherworldly expectations there are for factions that are actually official. I don't think that I as a player asked for too much when I wanted to roleplay criminals with a group of friends. Two months and hours upon hours of unenjoyable forum paperwork later, we don't have an unofficial faction - or the group of friends. They're gone too because unimaginably they won't wait forever. Having completed this long journey I can say that nobody had fun, there's was no roleplay made and there are now less players. Victory.

I spend more time on forum bureaucracy, writing applications and waiting for reviews than I do on playing the game. 🥱

1.5mil fine? Wtf? Unless we're talking about someone extremely rich who made millions illegally or some big company out there, that's ridiculous.

As someone who runs a business that's not on the main road or in a frequently visited area, I can tell you that the "it's just a decoration trait that gives no advantage" excuse holds no weight and is untrue. The difference between the amount of visitors that the business sees with or without a map blip is astronomical - somewhere around 0-5 visitors when there is no blip, frequently way over 50 visitors with a blip. Can you function without a map marker? Sure, if you own a business in a highly popular/visible area. Or if you don't mind seeing 1 customer per hour, if even that many. Perhaps /bad doesn't have to be made 100% free, but do we really have to dish out 15€ per month to get access to one? I had recently come to an idea that I'd gift a business employee of mine some WP so that they can open the business without me having to be there to personally place an ad with my donator perks. To my misfortune it turns out that the 30wp individual option to purchase a business marker is for an unfunctional web based map (which nobody would check even if it worked), not an in-game map marker. There is only one option and that is to buy an entire gold/platinum+ donator pack, which isn't accessible below 15€. I think that this is too significant of a tool to be walled off behind so high a paywall - it's not a cat or decoration, it's a way to promote roleplay on the server.

Maybe strictness doesn't match the real life, but the amount of people who want to own and use guns in game is nowhere similar to reality. Around 15-20% of Californians own firearm permit. Far less walk their gun around with or without concealed carry permit. Californians aren't generally fond of firearms. Meanwhile like 120% of server's population wants to own and carry a weapon. I don't think making weapons even more easily available and present would add to realism, quite the contrary.

Some people are sensitive snowflakes. Then again, my recent comment on forum was deleted for calling a group of people snowflakes. Server caters to sensitivity and snowflakes, that only encourages them to complain about every little bit they dislike - unfortunately to actual results. I often feel like administrators are wholeheartedly focused on people's emotions rather than gameplay. I guess that's just how times are in the the world now, being a white knight is a popular role. So is being a damsel in distress.

Perhaps CCW should be made easier to get but PF should definitely be way harder. PF is in fact so easy to get that it is one of the first things that new players go through. Everyone and their mother carries a gun, it's incomparably more difficult to get an illegal weapon. This results in seemingly every legal character somehow armed with an extended clip handgun of choice, while criminals are armed with toothpicks. When I'm being robbed/approached by a criminal character, I presume that they are armed with melee weapons. When I consider robbing a delivery guy, beauty salon employee or an innocent granny, I am absolutely certain that they'll be armed to the teeth. Lack of CCW doesn't stop anyone from carrying their PF weapon around, don't fool yourself, it only means they shouldn't be caught with it by the police - something that barely ever happens because legal characters do legal activities and aren't caught and searched.

All those businesses are doing nothing to prevent that from happening however. They have no security whatsoever, whether in form of security guards, metal detectors or something third. You've countless jobless security guards looking for work daily but 90% of businesses do not hire any. Surprise surprise, things happen. If things like these happened at places where people do their best to maintain peace but still unfairly fail miserably at it, I'd be on board with this suggestion. However given that IC methods of prevention aren't used at all, I'm against jumping straight onto OOC ones. Perhaps if those same businesses couldn't continue serving cocktails mere ten minutes after a shootout as if nothing had happened; owners of said businesses would care to try and prevent that from happening.

There are already items in stores with actual police badges and "POLICE" letters stamped all over them. Police jackets and hats, belt with badges and nightsticks as well as the entirety of SWAT gear, to name a few. This really shouldn't be a worry when considering this suggestion unless it's an actual problem already.

All the same things that stop players from walking into a clothing store and dressing as a police officer, soldier or a man-sized monkey. Suggestion is to add to what already does exists in stores, but is very limited. +1 I'd definitely like to improve my security guard appearance.