Red Reika

I do feel that a lot of legal factions have taken more of an inward stance lately. Rather than being open and wide in the server and showing off in-game, a lot of factions have been doing more activities within their closed circles and directly involving people, which is why the server as a whole doesn't get to see it and get that perspective the OP mentioned. And I don't mean out-of-game show off, because faction threads should always be just a flavor thing, not a metric. I mean in in-game open presence. Like the news script that hasn't been updated since October, I think with any new article, but at the same time, Insider is still active. So in that example, it ends up being more "the people who know the group, know them," but in the bigger picture, the common person just being around ends up not seeing them all that much. Same with Aurum, doing more internal RP and WE, working more on event organization. There's nothing wrong with that, though, it's just a shift in mood and method where a lot of legal factions have been drifting more and more towards internal roleplay rather than open and wide, for a lot of reasons that are individual to each.

Everybody just pretending the real use of masks in GTAW isn't to mask your name tag but some fashion excuse will never not be funny to me. But on topic: Another peeve of mina is people thinking anything under 20c in temperature isn't cold by west coast standards because they're europeans irl.

It really isn't

This is a problem I keep talking about a lot, the problem with "labels". I am an illegal character, therefore, I must, commit crimes to validate my own existence otherwise I'm roleplaying wrongly. And that's further pressed and forced by the community too.

To be fair, the way things are structured, it's pretty much impossible to join a faction through 100% IC means and only in-game. You will get asked to join their discord, at the bare very minimum, and you'll be "vetted" on an OOC basis over what other characters you play and to give the faction a general idea of who they're bringing in, because nobody wants to get faction strikes by recruiting some prolematic person. You can however get closer to people IC but inevitably it will go into OOC for the actual joining process.

Something not necessarily disaster / bad oriented. World events doesn't need to be bad things happening, do they? We could have some international celebrity performing live at Vinewood Bowl, involving PD/SD for security but also the general public for attendance to the event, maybe some admin could be roleplaying them, and just play their music over a station for the day. We could have the equivalent of some San Diego Comic Con happening at the Maze Bank Arena, just a major con or similar, involving some kind of stalls for small stores, with stages and stuff. We could have major national sports team performing in Los Santos and tickets being sold, and the game is roleplayed as being watched live through the TV screen script in the interior. These are just some examples, but I don't think world events should all be just disasters aimed at emergency services, and for people to roleplay the damages. It can be just admins providing some big things happening in Los Santos in general terms, so everybody can enjoy said things.

I believe this happens be because as someone said on another post, its the rules fault and the way they are enforced. This report culture is a symptom of the problem with the server rules and their enforcement, because the way the rules are currently written and the way the admins enforce them leave too much room for interpretation and personal opinions on what was an actual violation and what wasn't. The same situation can be reviewed by five independent admins and more than likely you'll have at least three different views on the rules at play at said situation. And that's not the staff's fault either, it's just the way the rules are written, because one admin can read them, review the context of the situation and give one rulling, while a different admin can go a completely different direction. With that in mind, the players also have their own opinions and views on what the rule break was, so they throw in reports in the hopes that an admin that agrees with them will pick it up and rule it favorably. Some might even throw in a report just on the maybe chance to have it voided, since it's usually a bit of a coin toss. I think if the rules were more objective, black and white, and leaving as little room for different interpretations as possible, people would stop using reports as weapons and shields, and only report when a rule was broken for real.

I don't say this with any insult intending but this only shows how much you have no idea how LEO roleplay and reach works in this server.

-1 Sounds like a cool novelty system for the sake of being a novelty thing, but not really necessary, might even discourage people from actually typing their roleplay lines.

The problem is that we had already done that, it was exactly like this before, and the "reasonable belief" was a blanket term. People who carrying guns and drugs on them, gets pulled over for whatever reason such as driving recklessly, and smoke the cop just because they had guns on them. Why did they do that? To skip the "boring roleplay" and just "shoot the guns." And under these rule changes, that will be 100% plausible, valid and within the rules, because if you are carrying a gun you can very easily argue that you are protecting your gun and avoiding arrest time, when the situation wouldn't even result in a ticket at all. And the rule was put in place exactly because people were doing that, we don't want to go back to that situation.

What you're asking for is literal free Deathmatching. Nobody should be on a "free for shooting" kill on sight just on the basis they are standing or parked up anywhere, LEO, civilian, illegal, nobody. This isn't a DM server and that's exactly what it would become. Cop pulled you over? Just DM them. Civilian honked at you? Just DM them. Someone saw you selling drugs? Just DM them.

I think this is a very problematic misconception and out-of-tune thinking, to be honest. Nobody's scared of "dying" since you PK and wake up again and go RP something else. The problem is just the actual roleplay that followed and preceded said act. Everybody is here to roleplay, not really just jump into the first chance to shoot or be shot. There is no enjoyment in just coming across someone who is very clearly taking every single detour to have a chance to pull their gun and start shooting, the clear "escalators" who keep throwing insults for no reason at all to provoke a reaction and have a "justified" shootout. The mentality of people who log in exclusively to try and escalate whatever situation they're in into conflict is genuinely strange. You don't need to be in the arguing number 19th of the evening to have the play session validated or to actually roleplay around. The same goes for LEO too. Police work isn't just chasing and getting shot at. There's single players game that just skip the "boring parts" and get into the action if that's what people want.

The problem here is that this isn't what's going to happen, and I can guarantee you it. Once the shootings pick up again, you will not be pulled over by a single cop who has no suspicion that you have a gun on you. You will be pulled over by 4 cops at minimum and instantly be sniffed by K9 because, due to the shootings amping up, every cop in the city will already suspect you have a gun and take all of the preemptive actions. And that will be fair and reasonable because it will be the realistic response to the situation. So right now, you have a single cop who is just wanting to give you a ticket because you speed too much. Then, you will have 4 cops and a K9 and a helicopter on stand by, will 100% be searched, and your car too. Is that really what illegals want?

+1 still, this is much needed. It's weird to tie my hair and it suddenly changing colors.

The point being made here is very simple: The vast majority of traffic stops are not related to guns in any way at all, and they do not result in guns being found either, given the layers of needs and checkboxes necessary for it to result in a search or even just a terry frisk. People are only searched when they give the police every reason in the book to search them, by very obviously wanting to hide something. However, if this rule pass, none of that will matter. Almost all traffic stops are result people recklessly driving, busting through intersections or driving around with tinted windows and headlights off. But then, if anyone is pulled over for these reasons, they will say "I thought I was going to lose my gun" and escalate that into a shootout exclusively because they can now. People will constantly "feel like they would lose their guns" over every single traffic stop that is a simple ticket, which will create a very unrealistic scenario where shootouts are going to happen over absolutely minimal things, and as said before, the response to that will be to double every effort under the sun to make sure it stops happening, namely, making the criminal's life even worse by bringing five cars into every traffic stop. Overall, people don't need to fear their gun is going to be taken during a traffic stop, because they won't. You just speed through three intersections, there is no way the officer who saw that will read your mind and search you. You'll get a ticket and go on with your day.