Alyssa McCarthy

I'm only talking in the context of speeding since but as things stand your correct, which is why i'd update the penal code to specifically call out at what speeds over a given limit will no longer be considered an infraction and instead considered RD or VE. It is after all up to the legislative branch to decide what constitutes either of these crimes.

Didn't know that, then we're half way there. I just think rather than complain OOC about something, at least exhaust IC avenues of resolving such problems. If this is ICly perceived to be a big problem by government, let them make the crime far more punitive and have more IC consequences.

In many states, a reckless driving charge can be applied to someone driving 15-20mph above the speed limit. Run something IC to have our penal code changed. Once that's done, also change the penal code IC, so that reckless driving charges also mean vehicles are confiscated and sold back to the state when caught speeding by such a large amount. It won't take too many reckless driving charges before people stop wanting to lose their vehicles. This can be resolved entirely IC.

I've no idea how big of an issue this is. If this is becoming an out of control issue, then perhaps the idea has merit. If it's just a rarity and individual players returning to the scenes of crimes or returning to harass their victims again, then deal with the player rather than put in place a change that impacts the entire criminal community in a negative manner.

Don't self-insert, don't mix, stay consistent to your character (even when you know the outcome will be bad for them). These are far better and more important RP qualities than a large worded backstory.

Hi there! We have tried in the past to create a med school at ULSA, but recruiting physicians with the interest to setup and run the project was very difficult. If there are players willing to put in the time/effort to set such up, I'm more than happy to have a chat and work with you to help set either a small clinic, and/or med school, or even just manage our pharmacy. It just it requires a player(s) who are fairly active and has the knowledge to manage a project of this nature. As for residencies, with the multifaction script now working, we do have some players who do just this, so if you want to player who's got the best of two factions, then by all means, it's something ourselves and PHMC can probably help facilitate. Seminars - If you're playing a physician, and want to do something a little different than hands on medical RP, consider reaching out and asking to use one of our lecture halls to give a public seminar - we can maybe help out with security for your event and by making it public, you'll attract a more diverse group of people than just students! Overall, if we can help with medical RP, we're more than willing to ❤️

Also while i'm at it - as we have a pharmacy, currently we're stuck making pills that weigh a lot (we can't make pills that weigh mg), Also the containers they go in, are also oversized. It's also a complete pain to create 10x pills then move them into a container so we can sell branded legal drugs for players. Having an easy script where we can say, create a box of 10 x 400mg ibuprofen rather than all the manual work would make the process a lot less laborious!

Civilians seem fairly comfortable going to resturants and RPing meals out etc, without any 'stat' benefits from food/water. Moving healing benefits from food/water items to medical items you can buy from pharmacy's, like painkillers and the like, would make pharmacies more of a demand and I don't think you'd take away from resturants by doing such.

@Sharvit Their are two main reasons that medical RP is currently not as good as it could be. 1) It is not very interactive and very boring for the patient - currently, if someone gets injured, they get to lie there and wait for medical treatment. Once the medical treatment starts, it's almost entirely non-interactive and consists of someone typing out very long scripts of texts describing medical interactions with little for them to do in response besides be 'texted at'. This isn't much fun for the patient. Somehow, this needs to be made more interactive with the patient so it's more fun for them too. Also when it comes to medical detail, most players there needs to be a better mix of 'fun' vs 'long length medical posts' - while detail can be nice, it's worth asking ourselves if using length long paragraphs of RP is really fun for the patient, and maybe consider toning it down a little? 2) Very little reason to take part in medical RP. Getting PK'd or injured, has very little consequence, meaning a player can opt to skip medical RP. Without a reason to do medical RP, then many players will take the option to skip. There needs to be some incentive for doing it - maybe if you don't, then there is some kind of lasting debuff or injury that lasts quite a while, encouraging a player to seek out medical treatment. 3) A third idea that isn't really incorporated right now is to add more types of medical RP - i'm not sure how you'd had a disease/sickness script/injuries that require medical treatment for your character to remove/resolve.

Factions may not be your thing, but I'd consider active factions outside of LEOs who don't need you to be in uniform often. I can't speak for factions like Prestige, Pillbox, or Davis High (when it re-opens), or their active numbers, but I do know that ULSA sports ~25-35 players during primetime which makes finding people and friends to RP with very easy and their campus serves as a central point to meet new faces. They regularly hold faction-wide events for people to hang out, from Fraternity ragers, camping, beach hangouts, and of course classes whilst sporting many clubs and sports teams including Basketball, Football, Cheer, Boxing & Wrestling, which makes turning up and meeting people super easy. For those interested in more academic RP, work, or internships, they have an active faculty to RP around, have several businesses you can work in (Gym, Pharmacy, and a Diner), and have internship agreements with other factions like Lifeguards, Pillbox for students wanting to mix their RP across 2 factions. All of the above you can dip in and out of as you like and their only requirement is that you don't have violent felonies on your record & portray a character that is suitable for US College life - which means there are very few restrictions!

Agree, stop the rain. This has less to do with LA weather, and more to do with the fact, that every time it rains, it's a tragic heavy storm that forces RP off the streets and into Dims. It makes world RP almost impossible, and this is at a time when it's already hard to find world RP.

This should be entirely an IC decision and we should let our IC senate make IC decisions. SAGOV should be able to make decisions on laws that are ‘realistic’ in the USA today. This means things like weed, abortion rights, discrimination laws, and gun laws (all popular topics in the US today), should be on the table. by letting SAGOV work this way and reduce OOC veto’s to thing a which are unrealistic for the US, it gives them credibility and boosts people’s interest to get involved. When it comes to weed specifically, I don’t see any retraction from illegal RP - presumably, illegal RPers would be able to own a weed store, and just like some of the shady ones RL, would be able to sell far more than weed from behind the counter with the associated risks of being shut down if PD ever catch you.

The problem isn't the players, it's the rules. If you have game rules that facilitate almost no-consequence violent crime, and constant PK's, why is anyone surprised that players play by these rules?

PK's should be replaced with incapacitations that require medical assistance or an hour in NPC hospital, and CK's mean a complete wipe of assets. That way, not only does medical RP get a boost, but people won't be able to PK to avoid death. Deaths will become far less, and when deaths do happen, they'll be far more meaningful.

If you want people to react like they would RL if they saw a shooting and/or dead body...... Stop treating the game like Tarkov and reduce the amount of murders. The way people react ICly with complete indifference is entirely a product of the violence rate of the city. When something becomes so mundane, and your average character sees more dead bodies in a day than an undertaker, of course they're going to just shrug their shoulders and move on.

Most criminal players and most legal players don’t ever fall foul of the rules because they’re able to RP to server standards. You have this back to front. If we didn’t have such low tier robbing, we’d not need robbery rules, if we didn’t have people doing stupid cases of escalation, we’d not need rules around that or deathmatching. The rules have evolved into what they are today because of player actions and people having enough of ridiculous antics. If people struggle, then it’s not the rules that are at fault, it’s the players.

Don't be silly, As a criminal, if you are making a nuisance of yourself and harassing civilians for no other reason that 'bait RP', they're going to call the cops - that's entirely realistic. What isn't realistic, is criminals behaving this way in the first place. There are far too many sub-tier criminal RPers who just rock up and start baiting players because they are bored, trying to force an escalation and then get upset when someone calls the police. In RL, crime is done out of necessity. If you are a criminal and you are put yourself in a position where civilians are witnessing events and able to call the police, then you deserve the consequences. Smart criminals do not get caught, and criminals RL certainly don't go on murdering sprees because some civilian called the police because they were caught being stupid.

Good luck!

One of the things we’ve looked at in the past was whether it’s possible to stream video IG like we can music. We thought it would be pretty neat if we could stream our games to IC TV screens in peoples homes and bars across the server for them to watch the game etc. It would also open the way for all kind of IG content creation, ads, other businesses & provide a way characters who are RPing sports & media celebrities to become recognised etc. It was over a year ago, so idk if there is anyway to do that, but the concept would be pretty neat.

Precisely, and it really shows how few people are aware of the RL drug scene. When you're in a club or bar and see 2+ guys/girls go into a toilet stall together, there is a really good chance they're taking coke or some other recreational drug. Drug taking is huge in the party/clubbing scene and per head of population, clubbing is a big part of RP across the server.

I've always felt that stats on drugs on a heavy RP server are a bit cringe, as the effects they have IRL, are usually related to alertness, energy levels and social confidence, or in the case of downers, numbing the world. These are things which can't really be put into a 'stat'. No-one takes cocaine, heroine or ecstacy prior to going to a RL shootout because it will make them stronger, lol. Contrary to popular belief, they don't make you bullet proof, give you armor, extra hp. Sure, they may make you feel overconfident (we've all seen drunk people step up and get quickly knocked down), and some may make you a bit less sensitive to pain, but that usually comes with loss of motor co-ordination because the reason that your desensitised to pain is because your nervous system is getting wrecked. (read, most drugs, not all). Street drugs are usually taken for their mood effect, and how they change how people feel - removing stress, anxiety, or making people more social or in general boosting confidence (or on the flip side/downers, make the pain of life and responsibility, fade for a while). The effects of drugs are best roleplayed, some ideas: Ecstacy? the hug drug - If you take ecstacy, RP it's effects - hug everyone around you, love life and the world around you and party. It's a fun drug, unless you're not taking it, and then having everyone give you sweaty hugs could probably get annoying, but it's hard to get mad when everyone else is so darn happy. Cocaine? - Probably one of the most over-rated drugs on the market, but enjoys a high price because it doesn't have much of a 'downer'. RP the effects it has on cocaine users - they can't shut up, literally won't stop talking and become /alot/ more socially interactive. They grind their jaw while they're dying to speak, have a boost of energy and if they were feeling tired, they're going to feel a new lease of energy for the next half hour or so. Speed? Literally won't sit still for the next few hours, super awake, gotta stay active, gotta keep moving - watching people at glastonbury on speed doing cartwheels across a field at 4am in the morning, is a memory I hope i never forget - pricless. Weed? Just chill, that's all you gotta do, relax, vibe and.... munchies - order fastfood and have long philosophical conversations, put the world to rights, and pass that joint around.

It’s an IC problem that should allow an IC solution without admins stepping in limiting the response by LS/SAGOV and law enforcement. Also, only my opinion, but the use of masks shouldn’t hide names because there are a huge amount of ways to identify someone other than just their face and this is especially true when people aren’t wearing full face coverings.

I’d advise that you don’t try to make sense of the economy because it makes no sense, and there is no desire amongst the staff to do anything about it. If it’s something you care about, look at people in the real world doing what your character does and give yourself their level of wealth, though don’t be surprised when you see a (M), drive past you in a high performance sports car 🙄

Part of reducing work, is getting smarter with how you work and there are a whole bunch of reports which could be avoided by intelligent scripting. Admins could save themselves alot of time by asking devs to assist them on removing the ability for rule breaks where scriptly possible. A simple example of a current report - ‘name changed while awaiting trial’ - A report like this should never be a report because it should be made scriptly impossible to name change while awaiting trial.