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  1. The rules are partly to blame. The rules are written in a way that mandate admin involvement oppose to player led solutions. I've been on servers that encourage player led resolutions to conflicts and find they have a much better culture around these things. Take things like car accidents. If everyone involves agrees to void them why not allow that to happen without admin involvement? Admins will complain about being overwork but leaderships writes rules that requirement admin involvement into everything on a server so large. I've seen companies publicly traded on the stock market with less bureaucracy than this server.
  2. I think characterizing that as greed is unfair. Let the server make their money. And to be honest their monetization is pretty tame compared to the other Rage/FiveM and past SAMP servers I've seen. Also since we are going to throw around the word greed it works both ways. Greed is also wanting something for nothing. The way I think about it how much am I willing to pay for a brand new video game in exchange for the hours of entertainment I would get from it. I've gotten thousands of hours of entertainment from this server and to me its worth contributing financial to that. Walkstyles I get, /bad I understand the complaint but running a business isn't part of everyone's RP experience and nothing stops you from running a business without it. I understand the icon is incredibly helpful but I am fine with there being a carrot to incentivize donating.
  3. I was Co-Leader for JSA for a good period and have been in JSA since about September 2020. I've worked with the current leader for years and Leaders going inactive is nothing new (not saying the current one is), they get pushed out not too long after if they are truly neglectful. The issue is JSA is perpetually understaffed and will probably always be. It won't change with new leadership. This server population is massive and the influx of cases is never ending. Active Judges are hard to find and the ones we can find often get burnt out over the massive influx of cases and warrants that come in, same with District Attorney's. I am currently an appellate Judge and for me to do an in-depth appellate decision I've spent 4+ hours on decisions multiple times diving into court precedent and doing research. You can't expect systemic problems that exist in real life to be fixed when we are roleplaying that system. Court is slow in real life, trials can often take years. People are in and out of inactivity and you might have to wait days to get a response from someone. Say if we pushed out every lawyer, judge or prosecutor who took a few days to respond we would have no one in this system. I've played long enough to understand peoples playing habits are rarely sustained. They will have spurts of activity and them maybe after a few months become inactive or move on all together. Are you willing to dedicate a character slot to join JSA and help us with the load?
  4. Yeah that was my reply because street racing is just as valid roleplay as any other illegal roleplay on this server. You don't get to decide what other people can roleplay if they are operating within the rules. If you get lag slammed and the other person doesn't realize, who cares? Yeah it sucks we have sync issue but that is what you get on multiplayer mods that push the limits of vanilla games, sync isn't perfect. You spend 3 seconds respawning your vehicle and move on. If it elevates to rulebreaking, report them or forum complaint them. If the complaint is the lax enforcement of OOC rules that is a whole different discussion. I'll leave it there.
  5. What does forcing people into indoor tracks have to do with Roleplaying crashes? If this is just about people not roleplaying crashes that is an OOC rule enforcement issue yet people are bringing up IC things like stricter laws, capping car speeds and limiting people to race tracks. That is my point. Then what is the point of bringing up indoor race tracks if its just about RP crashes? You already made your point. I don't agree with it, I don't need to be reminded of anything, because people are bringing up "solutions" that have nothing to do with what you claim is the focus of people complaints. If it was just an issue of people not Roleplaying then what does stricter IC laws have to do with that when its an OOC rule breaking issue according to you? You guys need to make up your mind is this about OOC rulebreaking and ignoring Roleplay or IC driving, street racers and traffic laws. Anyways have a good one.
  6. Is your argument there should be no room on the server for street racers and it should all be contained to a race track? Lets get rid of all criminal roleplay then by that logic since it has the potential to be a nuisance. And this is coming from someone like me who has stuck to legal Government roleplay for 90 percent of my time on this server. People don't roleplay to just drive like someone going to a 9-5 job. They want to emulate the things that are done in real life that they can't do like criminal roleplay and car culture of America that often has drivers weaving through traffic on a highway with a BMW 3 series or Infinite G37 or Scatpack. I see it all the time, people IRL driving like idiots in the States. Don't get me wrong can things be improved on? Yes, but the argument since there are racing tracks people shouldn't be allowed to engage in criminal driving roleplay like streetracing and street take overs is insane.
  7. Been in JSA for several years now and remember when the decision was made for Auto-bail. The issue we were trying to address with autobail is that JSA for essentially all of its existence has been understaffed not to dissimilar from IRL. We don't have nearly the Judges you would hope for on a server this big and the case load of the server its hard to retain Judges. So what happens is the system gets overwhelmed and people start sitting in jail for days awaiting bail hearing from Judges because the District Attorney's Office can't keep up with the influx of new bail petitions and people end up getting stuck in jail for days on offenses that had only a few IRL hours of jail time.
  8. I think they are a needed tool in roleplay. I feel bad for LEOs who have to deal with a disproportionate amount of voids. I've had LEOs come to me to get a warrant signed for them on my Judge account for them to prepare and be on standby to execute the warrant for the situation to end up be voided. It sucks its just one of those things you have to live with on a RP server.
  9. You don't have to be going 100mph to crash into someone at an intersection.
  10. So this is more an OOC problem we are talking about then an IC one of stricter enforcement. I 100 percent agree this is a problem. Just yesterday I had a dude crash into me while I was parked claiming I didn't render. So now my choice is now either say its all good and let him on his way or make a fuss of it and either force him to RP it and likely get admins involved. I've had guys not even have the courtesy to even say it was lag or even try to lie they just drive away. So my only recourse is would be to forum report them for them to say more than likely they were lagging and get leniency from the admin. IDK how you fix that because the other day I was playing on Hotel Wifi which was really crappy and I could of easily crashed into someone so you don't want to be punitive to people with legitimate lag because of the AH who crash into people and either lie or just refuse to RP car crashes.
  11. I was pretty clear on what I said. And even offered actually solutions I think might work. What I am trying to avoid is what I see happen on so many servers which people constantly complain about things and then start making these suggestions that actually haven't been thought through. Then a ton of works get done to implement these changes for them to either not work or create new issues. Harsher enforcement all it does is continue to overwhelm and already overwhelmed court system. Because now a Deputy District Attorney is going to get a prosecution for someone being charged with a Felony Vehicular charge like you guys are suggesting. Now they have to decide do I spend weeks in a trial trying to prosecute this when I got people with way more serious charges being charged with homicides and evading or do I just do a plea deal to a misdemeanor so I can keep my caseload manageable because as a defense lawyer on this server that is exactly what I'm going to suggest when I get a client either privately or as a public defender. The only suggestion I've seen that has any chance of mitigating is speed camera but I even question that because with the server economy I don't know if fines would be enough to deter anyone.
  12. Like I said it won't work. I'm sure you have to know that it isn't going to stop people. Guess what you take away their license, what happens next? They just drive on their suspended license and nothing changes because driving on a license is just a misdemeanor. And even if you change Driving without a license to a felony which IMO would be excessive but say you do that, they probably still will do it. Felony charges don't stop people from evading, everyday I see someone running from the cops. Says lets go even harsher how about impounding or even confiscating vehicles? People will just buy another vehicle with the way the economy on this server people will just by a cheap car like a Vapid Torrence or what ever the budget fast car of the day is and then do what they were doing before still without a license. People just need to accept you aren't going to get people to behave the way you want all the time on RP servers because the consequences don't exist like they do IRL its a game where people can just create a new character or name change and erase all the consequences of their actions. It is what it is at this point, its the nature of RP servers you will never get rid of. Just enjoy the RP the best you can and don't let the perfect me the enemy of the good.
  13. Saying that it happens IRL isn't defending it. My main point was stricter punishment isn't going to fix the issue and just create new problems. The court system can't handle what you are suggesting assuming LEOs on this server can or even have the will to enforce them. Even with Cops using charges like Vehicular Endangerment including in situations where they are overcharging someone it hasn't worked as a deterrent. What you are suggesting just isn't going to work. People are going to speed and drive crazy because people don't come on RP servers and max out their vehicles to drive the speed limit.
  14. Vehicular Endangerment often gets overused on this server and there has been debate in the legal community of this server as whether theoretical danger constitutes the charge. Meaning say you are driving and accidently drive up on the sidewalk does a pedestrian actually need to be on the sidewalk and actually in endangered for the charge to be valid. And your argument here doesn't really make sense because if this charge was applicable to what the complaint of this post was there would be no need for this thread people who be getting charged with this and problem solved right? Glad you saw the issue of using California as an example then reference a law that does not exist in California. Being from the U.S does really mean anything if you you don't drive, or have dealt with the traffic courts in this country. Are you saying that you have that perspective? A lot of people on this server that don't even have a license saying how things should be (Not saying that is you.) I've gotten several speeding tickets for going as much as 25 above the speed limit and with a traffic lawyer all it ended up was with a fine and no permanent repercussions. "I lived in the U.S... people don't drive 100mph-120mph in urban megacities," I think you need to do a little research. Happens all the time especially in big cities. Mostly at night its a huge problem especially with stolen cars. The penal codes allows for permanent seizure of vehicles, impoundings, the issue is people cycle through characters so much there traffic/criminal record never gets to a point where that happens.
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