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I love IV and V as separate entities that focus on different features. V feels like a series of hiest movies with the story, and that mission set up carries over to the online. Huge range of vehicles, guns, large map with little filler. IV just hits different, focuses on the oppressive atmosphere and story, and the concept art design and overall "feel" enforce this. While I dabble between the driving mechanics of each, I do like the more weighty feel of the IV engine's handling. And even without the abundant traffic AI, Liberty City would still feel like a huge-yet-interwoven claustrophobic concrete jungle (brb gonna go emulate the Predator game of the same name...) I would have loved to have the consequences of the IV mechanics in GTAW; I'm not THE best driver but I usually always tilt my camera at junctions to simulate checking for oncoming traffic. Seem my share of collisions of players driving sports and muscles at 120ish/+ and them the vehicles spinning in the air like a star collect animation from a 3D Super Mario game. The emphasis on the lower acceleration and build to top speed, combined with the longer braking physics based on your speed give more of a "only so many close calls exist" to anyone driving on the map, be it taxi driver, underground racer or a civ going to the beach etc etc. That being said, I take V for what it is and it IS stills great piece of sand box fun time tech. With the Arcady handling of the vehicles in V's engine over IV, it's down to us RPers to simulate our character's driving skills and the real-life physics of those vehicles. Still, IV just, broken record here.... "feels" good.

Just me personally, but I reckon spreading the recourses over Blaine county would be a good idea. (Grapeseed/Paleto/Harmony etc). For me it wouldn't be an issue to drive a few miles as I can still keep my Blaine characters in Blaine, as opposed to taking my rusty junker to the city 😉

Hold my hands up; since this was my first RP experience ever when I signed up in March, I used a character that was a template of myself (Brit come to LS for fresh start blah blah). It was a starting point but I got bored of essentially lending IRL elements. Nowadays I RP as an American and use tastes and attributes completely different from myself. I even set radio stations of specific music genres to match those characters, as it adds to that character's interests and not my own IRL (if someone is riding in my vehicle it's kinda nice not having a full blown convo about Mass Effect all the time and explore something fresh for the sake of IC elements. Though that last bit went off topic, I think it's important to find a good organic ethnic background that isn't your own, as well as the other stuff on top. My IC landlord has never used a computer much in their life bit obviously they have some knowledge IRL getting RAGEMP set up XD

Even something like /me nestled awkwardly into the chair, or /me maintains a stone-cold stare to John Doe as he places his right hand over the blood-stained switchblade, these tell the story of our character and how they interact with the world. Who are they? How do they see the world and people? How do they greet others? The way they hold a cigarette, butt it out or toss it? All of these /me's are a means to define the interaction of different characters. I admit that animations do compliment scenes and one where my character threw their hands in the air when they got excited and thought a friend was arresting them when they weren't would have been as funny if I hadn't used "said anim". But I don't think they're mandatory to the /me's for story telling. I've RPed with quite a few people that didn't use a single anim while interacting but they had the right length of /me, not too short or overly complicated.

/me wakes up in the city and does /contacts to see which of my buddies are "awake".

It's mad to think that nearly 8 months ago, I walked I to a bar to order a drink with the torso texture set popping out of my sleeves, got myself flustered because I was messing up my /pay command, and then my inv was full so I had to drop all the fish I got earlier in the day right on the dancefloor XD Most people here have the right idea factions. I was part of an unofficial civilian group living in a national trailer park and for a good while, everyday of my RP was spent with them. So they'd take my character to new dives, locations I'd forgotten about from the vanilla GTAV map, other players and ofcourse, being kind enough to /b or /pm me advice on commands or just how to be. One thing I will say; property. Figure out what you want to do in terms of a property first. Are you typically bothered about having your own place straight away, or would you just want to rent a motel room for now. This was my biggest puzzler to start out because I had no idea about the MAP page on the UCP main site. Familiarise yourself with that MAP because it shows you the location of every rentable form of motel room from LS to Paleto (acts as a spawn point for when your character "wakes" up and will help as a temporary residence for the location you desire to RP the most. And ofcourse there is a separate page for houses you can buy, while a little more limited to some city limits it's the easiest way to grab a smart property. Otherwise, hit the property page here on the forums after you've collected some IC cash. If you're in a scenario where someone is rushing you in b/ (or out of character chat), don't be afraid to ask for some advice from players around you. Say you're being robbed, there's a difference between someone playing a good role as a robber for their character development, and then someone who is just chain robbing and griefing for a play to win mentality. RP isn't about winning, the good scenarios are the true win. And welcome btw XD

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Some form of regulation or safe so e would be appreciated. Mainly, I picked up a tug a month back for a character as a means for them to RP living in it. I tend to keep it docked in game just as a port of call for sleep and interior recreation. I don't tend to VPARK as a means to avoid good illegal RP, but this whole thing has got my paranoia on the gauge XD

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Username; Brooklynn99 Comment; I hope that you're well and safe, Mercia. Wherever you are.

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Offering the 40k buyout.

Name: Rocky Nelson Phone: 2114096 Offer: I'm more than happy to pay the buyout amount. It's just a case of I've literally gotten off the plane back to LS and waiting for some benefit package to clear. Can more than likely pay this off this weekend but, if someone else beats me to it, fair is fair. Just a courtesy message 🙂

Username: Brooklynn99 Comment: We spoke briefly at The Bay Bar in Paleto. I don't know if it's connected, but, there is an old wooden fort located in the West region of Mount Chiliad, overlooking the fishing pier. I took my bike up there a few days ago and it was derelict, but someone mentioned that a group of people may have been sighted there at night. Maybe just a camping trip, but there's been several sighting at a distance, and thought it "might" be connected to your case about the "totems".