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I feel like you'll never ever have anything resembling a realistic economy, anyway, so I just don't think there's a need for this. Hunger and thirst would be an annoyance, and I say that as someone who regularly buys food at 24/7s just for the roleplay and has a bunch of burgers and tacos in her character properties. As someone who has worked and owned a restaurant, I don't think I'd want people coming there just to get their hunger meter fix, either. Plus, it's not a money sink for the game in general, because you're just circulating money to other players. And I don't think forcing specific higher prices for clothes, or making them only available in certain stores is a great idea either. First, you'd need to completely overhaul the outfit system, which is just too rudimentary for that right now. Second, you don't know if I'm wearing a genuine item I just got in a store in Rockford Hills or a fake I bought for cheap in Chinatown, or a worn-out thrift store find from a decade ago or what. Sure, raise taxes or lower income overall or something, but gamey systems like this are just an annoyance and force a lot of non-IC behavior and results.

Maybe if you can demonstrate with logs and screenshots that your victim was flashing wealth obviously in front of you (and you weren't just scouting around in a car /examining everyone at random in the middle of the night), you could be allowed to target them within some limits in terms of location and MO. Like if you're in a risky location, you go in, you snatch the specific item or demand their cash and leave, you don't stand there with guns out patting them down thoroughly in the middle of the street in Rockford Hills. Instead of needing pre-approval by an admin, the screenshots would serve as a defense after the fact if you were accused of breaking the robbery rules.

I do think the rule may be a bit excessive, and I wish admins were more responsive to allow things like targeted robberies, but I don't know why people are talking about wealthy characters. Do you think people were only robbing wealthy characters? They were pulling up in cars robbing everyone. My experience is things like members of official illegal factions pulling up three-deep in cars to kidnap at gunpoint and rob teenage characters looking like skateboarders for their phone and $200. I've had cars pull up to rob a girl jogging in sweats and a t-shirt. I've had a car literally drive up and down the beach chasing after a girl on a bicycle. There were no Rolexes, no expensive designer fits, nothing. One character robbed like that was a crusty homeless punk. The skateboarding-looking teenager mentioned above was robbed twice in a week. None of these characters were even remotely rich or flashy. At all.

Having had drug-addicted characters just because, without caring for any script benefits, the script as it currently exists makes me want to use drugs less, not more. It just gets in the way.

On the other hand, some characters aren't really that unique in the real world, they're just unique in LS because most LS players choose to portray a limited number of things repetitively and/or need to go outside more, so anything that deviates from their favorite flavor of local stereotype is weird and unique.

Username: methany Comment: as a native, born and raised, they're not wrong about Sandy's cancerous vibes, but I think they just made up half this stuff or interviewed some guy tripping balls in the desert as a source

Wait for the summer and be grossed out by their sweaty faces.

Only if there are zoot suit mods.

+1 One issue is that money, in game, is worth a lot less than IRL. When people are using $100 bills to buy a beer, the Fed should be printing $1000 bills in the GTAW reality.

I'm really not in this to make money (I already have too much on that character slot), so I try to go for open businesses. Some business employees enjoy the RP, but some clearly would really rather I just spam deliveries because RPing with me cuts into their earnings. Oh well!

-1 Even when it's not desync, there's also terrible physics, spawning problems, a ton of random glitches and goofy amounts of car theft. Just RP it if it makes sense and go to a garage. I know I have, even though I hate 90% of garage RP.

-1 This would be a boring annoying chore 99% of the time to prevent you from jumping out the car 1% of the time, the worst consequence of which is usually /b oops, misclick! and getting back in the car.

Right now the ads are kinda huge and intrusive. I could and did ignore them before and just used /ads, but right now they take up too much screen real estate and it's a bit of a nuisance. It's especially bad for screenshots, but even just RPing, I don't need big, bright and colorful alerts about the latest club opening or someone selling their Pariah.

Members of any faction that evokes words like "We own <whole neighborhood or town>." as a justification to extort random businesses just for existing in a geographical area in the year of our lord of 2023, have exactly zero grounds to scoff at catgirl bartenders in sports cars.

Oh no, my $3000, ACAB.

Sure, the income should make sense and they should be able to explain it, though you'll find that some people IRL lease very expensive cars that they couldn't afford buying. I think some leeway should be given there, but I agree that people often don't portray their wealth properly! I just don't think "has an expensive PM house" should be a deciding factor.

No. The most expensive car I've had on the server was $78k, I think, but very very very rich people sometimes live in apartments, IRL, so this is a weird criteria.

It doesn't help that some RP out here is historical reenactment multiple decades out of date and has exactly zero to do with LA in this Year of Our Lord of 2023, but it is what it is.

Or you deny them service, they vandalize your business, you report it, you're now a snitch, etc. And since police investigations and the court system are extremely favorable towards criminals, there aren't even meaningful legal IC consequences.

Very honestly? Because people don't want to do deal with the stupid escalation that usually follows.

+1 No reason not to have it!

I'm afraid this would make me want to use drugs and drink less, not more.

I give it a week, and that's being generous, before ANTIFA in LS has a bigger death count than actual ANTIFA have had in decades.

Vigilantism is a crime, so people who do it are illegal RPers. Stop trying to stifle illegal RP.

I get robbed a lot. And, honestly, I think the rules currently are mostly okay and have prevented a lot of the worst nonsense, there's no major need for further broad restrictions, just maybe some fine-tuning here and there. If there were more admins to handle requests, you could restrict things further, but there aren't, so it's a bit unreasonable.