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peasoup

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  1. People keep wanting to script things that will just make /reports skyrocket. Let's say you script that jumping now breaks your leg. Okay... except some ladders don't work half the time, now what? Report to get teleported down? Report to unbreak your leg? What if you're roleplaying slowly climbing down rather than jumping, like slowly lowering yourself, holding on to the edge and any footholds, etc? Are you going to code every possible interaction or restrict roleplay? And that's multiplied x100 for every other little quirk of the game. Scripts aren't the problem, the problem is a lack of medical staff and sometimes difficult access to said medical staff. Enforcing realism on this level is silly without fixing that part first. You'll have a ton of people resenting medical RP being forced into it, which means they'll be hostile or uninterested, and that will make medical RP less attractive to actual medical staff who have to deal with it.
  2. 80% of my damage is falling damage from bugs and getting it with /b mc. At least I always have random food items in my pockets, but I can carry ibuprofen instead, it's just OOC anyway.
  3. Weird simulationist scripts are almost always bad when they force RP on people. Just let people RP whatever they want to RP. The problem is that when people have problems now they already have trouble finding medical assistance, how is the addition of a disease script going to add anything at all? I roleplayed being sick and getting tested for illnesses and things when Hope Clinic (I think it was called) had openings. Because that was actual roleplay with actual people, not some script. And it was easy to access since they had opening times where you were guaranteed to have someone there to RP with.
  4. I always wanted to do this, but the factions I was in and the characters I was playing weren't quite right for it, but: Illegal exotic animal scheme. It could be so funny and awful at once.
  5. I generally play 1:1. Aging a little bit is fine to push past certain milestones, but I've seen characters age from being bright young men to being senior elders in their faction. To me, a person born in 2000 and a person born in 1970 aren't going to be the same person, since their life experiences growing up would be so different. That feels like it would be an entirely different character with the same name, so I've no idea how I'd even roleplay that, personally. You just accept it as you accept all the other weirdness in the game. Sometimes that means forgetting some interactions and relationships that no longer make sense, or rewriting past events for them, but that's something that should be discussed with characters you have a close relationship with so everyone is on the same page.
  6. I'd just prefer the rain came in bigger blocks, more spaced out, instead of what happens now, which is sudden rain for 30 minutes to an hour and that's it. The way it is, rain just spoils ongoing RP outside while not really allowing you to RP a rainy day in full.
  7. There's already bikers, neo-nazis, conservatives... it's missing, maybe, The Texan.
  8. A lot of them are accounted for on this chart, but it's missing some types.
  9. peasoup

    D/A please

    I have 3 million in the bank while roleplaying a poor character, now what?
  10. Allow lethal force in response to snowballs.
  11. I run when I'm crossing a street and I see a car with neons approaching in the distance.
  12. What's the difference between filler dialogue and non-filler dialogue?
  13. This existed, earlier this year, though? It just didn't last long.
  14. I've played characters from mildly conservative to hardcore progressive, leaning more towards progressive. It depends on the character. But even when my main character is slightly more on the conservative side, I'm voting Democratic for the sake of realism. I've even had a character who worked for the Senate, but I just can't suspend my disbelief enough to enjoy GTAW politics except as a comedy.
  15. -1 I've seen terrible, and I mean terrible, robberies performed by Official Faction members. I've had great roleplay being mugged by random factionless homeless people. I'm not opposed to some kind of restriction, but some people aren't in factions, not because they're poor roleplayers, but because the faction system has a number of issues that simply don't fit everyone's roleplay. Even criminal roleplay.
  16. Casino RP is very unrealistic, in many cases it barely feels IC at all, and these robberies are just a symptom of that.
  17. Wouldn't that have the negative effect of people being able to clean up your actual gang tags a bit too easily? Maybe making faction tags be harder/slower to clean could work...
  18. -1 Make it so the ability can be removed from individuals who abuse it, but the game doesn't need to revolve around criminal factions any more than it already does.
  19. I just compare like to like. If one bar is charging me $120 for a beer and one bar is charging me $225 for a beer, I am going to RP that the second bar is selling expensive beer. Not compared to RL prices, but compared to other prices IG. Unfortunately, this breaks down when it comes to food and most other items, because there are exactly zero guidelines.
  20. I've never really had a real problem with gangs on my characters that were actually supposed to be from neighborhoods with a gang presence. Or even characters that weren't but had relatives that were in their background, that sort of thing. Just sexual harassment, and random pressing that was quickly defused. However, gangs will pop up overnight in all kinds of places, and I'm not sure how people can be expected to keep up and incorporate that into their ongoing continuity. Even in gang areas, gangs come and go in a matter of weeks sometimes. I assume the gangs that supposedly claim Vespucci Canals and the areas around the Marina will press you for wearing the wrong color of boat shoes, but I'm not going to find out.
  21. I'll say the amount, but then ignore it in RP. The problem is, different prices are scaled differently, like the price of cars and homes doesn't suffer the same degree of inflation as the price of beers. And how does a weekly wage of $40,000 compared to an hourly wage of $4,000 working as a convenience store cashier? It doesn't. So what you do is mention the actual values just for reference so everyone is on the same OOC level, and then immediately ignore them, I guess.
  22. It's not about realism. It has never been about realism. It's about genre. And it's fine for things to be unrealistic as long as they feel like they could belong in a gritty (or not so gritty, tbh) crime drama or whatever genre the people involved feel like are cool to emulate. That's why people go Pikachu shocked face at catgirls and don't even bat an eye at OCGs having full-out battles with automatic weapons in the middle of downtown LS.
  23. /peephole and call the cops on anyone acting suspicious. Or even just call the cops on anyone acting suspicious while you're just driving about. Provide false information to the police. Say you feel threatened. Be the Karen your neighborhood needs.
  24. It's not a terrible suggestion if the rules clearly limit what counts as a reason to rob someone outside the bounds of petty muggings under rule 10. The burden of proof needs to be all on the criminal. They need to provide a reason to target someone specifically. "Was standing outside in a nice neighborhood" isn't it.And if their reason is 'this person was flashing a fancy chain' the robbery should be a chain snatch and go, for example. And if they can't supply evidence, they're assumed to have broken the rule, period. It'd have to be this way because people would take advantage of this to go back to their 3 people gunboat behavior and drive around robbing complete randoms for the flimsiest reasons because they're bored. The problem is how badly it'll clog the reports forum at least for a while.
  25. Fear RP is not defined as a actually roleplaying fear realistically with psychological depth or emotions, which are apparently corny. That's not what it means. That's not how it's interpreted. Fear RP means roleplaying in whatever way is most convenient for the person or persons inflicting fear. Fear means they get the W. That's all it means.
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