Rayne

1) What other numerous problems and issues does it create? 2) The bank transactions won't stop robberies. It may slow for a while, but it won't stop them. People still carry cash + robbers are greedy. Regardless, this is a major shipping port. Realistically it has gate access that controls the flow of people going in and out. It's plain stupid that people are allowed to drive on there the way it is now. 3) Again, it's a major shipping port. It would realistically have it's own Port Police. Private security companies wouldn't be contracting their own security to drive onto the port to act as security. It falls under the same reasoning as to why a police station or a government building is a crime-free zone. Robberies as they currently are played out just wouldn't happen there. 4) If it were me, I'd say to simply disallow robberies at the port. If it's something like a weapon or drug supplier RP'ing bringing product in through the port or bribing port officials for their back story and such, fine. Robberies? It's a no go from me chief. EDIT: We are by no means supposed to be a 1:1 of Los Angeles, but as an example of what Port Police would be: https://www.portoflosangeles.org/about/employment/join-the-los-angeles-port-police It's a 24/7 police authority that's sole purpose is the security of the port. Sure, we don't have that in-game, but the very reason that we have a similar shipping port would be an argument for at least not allowing small-time robberies. As I said, it's the same reason that PD and government buildings are safe zones. So, let's compromise and just disallow petty crime and robberies on the port grounds.

They aren't spamming it. It's a fact. This is a heavy text, English based RP server. If you want to get together with people who speak the same language, make a discord and do it there. Not needed for the forums, as it would take a huge amount of trust in people who speak that language and then finding people who speak those languages to moderate between them and the rest of the team. A logistical nightmare. Keep it English on the forums. This can be done elsewhere.

Can't you also steal the crates? Doesn't solve that driver. Robberies shouldn't be allowed at the docks. It's plain unrealistic. Period. If you want to rob a truck, do it during their delivery, not at what would be a major shipping port.

Short description: Raise the personal timer for every player with a donation package (Bronze, Gold, Platinum) to 15 minutes. Gold & Platinum still retain the ability to post a business ad and use /blip, but the cool downs should be longer. A global cool down of 5 minutes should also be more than sufficient. Detailed description: For Gold & Platinum packages, remove the additional personal timer cool down on advertisements. Keep them at 15 minutes (made available at Bronze) instead of 5 and 3 minutes respectively. Without donating advertisement cool downs are still on 20 minutes, so there is still an incentive to donate. Raise the global cool down to 5 minutes. There is plenty else on the packages to justify donating, this would just be a small change to reduce the amount of spam that we see on a daily basis. Commands to add: N/A Items to add: N/A How would your suggestion improve the server? This is not a total end-all-be-all solution, but this will at least help curb the amount of ad spam with businesses posting every 3-5 minutes. I understand that it's already against the rules to spam and advised to report, but sometimes the reports are never answered during peak times and even trashed. I've gotten reports trashed with a "report it if you see it again" for reporting people for spamming the same ad every 3 minutes. When blips are placed through /bad, they are on the map for 30 minutes. It's reasonable to say that a timer of 15 minutes should be more than sufficient to remind people that your business is open. Company ads are only supposed to be used to advertise when a business is going to open, promotions, hiring, etc. There's also no reason this needs to be less than a 15 minute cool down. The packages should be reworked so that advertisement cool downs do not go down the higher package you have. There is plenty offered between /bad and /blip for gold and platinum, among other things. The person and global ad timers should be 15 minutes and 5 minutes, respectively. Until a completely reworked solution comes out for advertising, I believe this will at least help. Additional information: N/A

Supported.

Honestly the best way to do this for the time being is to take away the cool downs from /bad and /cad. Gold + Plat still have access to /bad but.... Everyone should have a 15 minute personal timer on /bad and /cad Keep the global timer at 3 minutes. It will make things less spammy than they are now. It's not a total solution, but it's a bandaid until something more permanent comes along.

Not supported. There are plenty of ways to get people to your business without the use of a blip. The business ad is considered a luxury and probably remains one of the main reasons people donate Gold or higher. It's only considered pay to win when there are no other alternatives, where in this instance that's not the case. 1) Use GPS and promote the use of GPS in your company ads to find your business location. The GPS works especially well with businesses. I haven't experience any issues with it. As from the server rules: "Company ads (/cad) are used by companies to advertise recruitment, events, when the companies are opening their businesses and other things associated with companies." 2) Get a second phone that you use as a dedicated company phone for these company ads. Offer to send a location ping to anyone wanting to find the business, if they don't have a GPS built into their vehicle. Does it take more time this way and more effort? I'm not denying that at all. However it remains that it's possible to run a business without the use of the business ad command and thus makes /bad a luxury item, not a pay to win item. It's a convenience item that encourages people to donate for the ease of use, but by no means does it mean you can't run a business without it. The server has expenses and as I said before, I'm sure this is one of the top ticket items that people donate for. I'd be against taking that away. Sorry.

I mean it can always have oversight from the RP quality management team or similar. A list will be established with reasoning behind it and it can have a final look over before actually being released. Always have a system of checks and balances but at least have the prices FIRST determined by people who have real life experience in the car scene, etc.

Not that I'd ever buy these cars, but just to show an example of how pricing is messed up in more than one area and warrants a dedicated team to be assigned for a price revamp: https://gta.fandom.com/wiki/Premier This costs the same as a Declasse Vigero / Declasse Stallion / Albany Buccaneer (classic vintage/muscle cars) ????? This costs more than countless cars it should definitely be priced UNDER. It's a freaking 4 door sedan (Basically an Asea - http://gta.wikia.com/wiki/Asea) https://gta.fandom.com/wiki/Stratum This car costs more than all the ones I listed above LOL 🤣 ?????? ??????????? Want to RP rebuilding a junkyard Imponte Ruiner? LOL BETTER PAY MORE FOR IT THAN A BRAND NEW SHINY PAINTED ONE. In all seriousness though, I wish they'd establish a vehicle pricing team with people who actually know things about cars and price them accordingly. It's a complete mess.

I personally think mods need to be repriced (to fix discrepancies like plate resprays costing more than an entire car paint job), and then cost more than they do now all across the board. This is why I'm not against a price hike. Different discussion for a different day 🙂 lol

I vote for both the suggestion and reporting the players. You can report players for paint jobs until you're blue in the face, but it's not going to fix the issue on its own.

Good luck. There are some very clear pricing issues but they won’t even look at them. Promise you that.

With this, I completely support the suggestion. If Admins can see who can created it anyways, there's no sense in leaving it for everyone else to see.

If it can be supported by the server, I don't see why not. I don't see this as something that's necessary with the existing commands, but it doesn't hurt either ?