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I'm all for it if the majority also likes it.

I don't care about the tits too but the fact that this server cators towards minors at all is dumb. I don't think this is an upopular opinion, just nobody really talks about it since it probably won't be changed.

At this point we're missing high tech implants, megacorporations with their own military divisions and overly bright lights. You add that, and boom! You get Cyberpunk 2077 roleplay. Glad we got a TV script, I can't wait to see this kinda shit on the news... Good morning, Los Santos! Yesterday's body count lottery rounded up to a solid and sturdy thirty! Ten outta Davis, thanks to unabated OOC beef. One officer down, so I guess you're all screwed, 'cause the LSPD will not let THAT go. Got another shootout in East Vespucci. Gangbangers at it again, poking holes in robbery victims! While over in Downtown, the Admin Team is scraping VDM victims off the pavement. Aaaand in Murrieta Heights... Well, Murrieta Heights is still Murrieta Heights. Jokes aside, this is worrying. It's worrying how an intro to a game set in a dystopian shithole is the perfect base to soon be the intro for our roleplay server, supposedly set in a place inspired by modern day California. Is California this bad in real life? Yes, Los Angeles is riddled with crime, including violence, with guns too. Does it happen on the rate that it does on this server? Fuck no. We are not simulating LA by any chance, we're just a roleplay server, let me get this straight. But, you have to remember that lowering the bars down for this much violence to be allowed on a massive scale has a significant impact on the players from all sectors. LEOs will naturally start rolling around in SUVs with 3 different armored vests, civilians will buy more and more guns. Most civilians on this server are already on such high alert, constantly, that roleplaying becomes a chore. You get mentally drained of all the will to play on the server, in public, because you're living in a constant fear of being pulled up on by some gangbangers. Does this shit happen in real life? No, it doesn't. There are always civilians in the streets, there's always a cop or two on patrol, there's CCTV and open businesses that will witness crime, report it and get the criminal into some shit. In my opinion, as someone who has played here since October 2018, I think that the biggest issue is player density. This is mainly due to the fact that business blips are gatekept behind a paywall. This causes a complete and utter lack of open businesses, competition and therefore a lack of player activity in any area. We do not need businesses to roleplay, right, but we need the streets to look and feel like they're alive. We need tighter groups of players roleplaying in a predominant area, rather than having a group of friends who will drive someplace else every day for drinks, food et cetera. The hood looks and feels alive and surprisingly safe because their players have the proper mentality, they sit outside, have fun and do activities together. Most people will call me mentally retarded right now because I stated a fact. Nobody shits where they eat, the ghetto areas on this server are alive, fun and occasionally dangerous for someone who is a local civilian. There are exceptions of course but for the most part, it's like that. Meanwhile, the rest of the city has civilians on high alert 24/7. Always walking with a hand on your waistband, just in case four (M)asks pull up in a sedan to fuck with you. I think most of you will see where I'm going with this - the ghetto doesn't need businesses as much as we do, they can do hood shit and make the streets their own. Other people, so LEOs and civilians, we can't really tag up walls for fun or play turf control like that. We need communities to make roleplaying outside fun. The more of us roleplay outside, the safer the streets will naturally become without the need to impose any OOC control and such. Of course you will not cover the whole city with 800 players, but that is not needed. Back in the day when we had 200 peak players, we had Mirror Park as our main hub for roleplaying. I am not saying go back to Mirror Park, because fuck Mirror Park, but look at Textile City. Textile City has so much potential, there are people randomly walking around there every day. I don't ever get harassed there. It is also in the heart of the city, close to South LS. Also look at Little Seoul, it has a massive civilian population, gang shit happens there all the time too, but it's under control to the point where you don't actually get caught in the cross fire when group A is screwing with group B. How to solve this? I don't fucking know, to be honest. We can start with roleplaying outside more and creating those roleplay hubs, I think that we desperately need active streets because that is the best way to naturally lower crime levels. People will not be so eager to go on hits in broad daylight when there's a civilian around the corner, with a phone, and ready to potentially inform the law about what you just did. I also think that people should roleplay the repercussions of hurting other people more than they do now. It is okay to roleplay being tough, but most of you are not crazy sociopaths. You're not that guy, pal. You will be haunted by the shit you do, it will be discouraging. Not everything needs to escalate to those levels of violence.

idk how they do it nowadays but back in the day we'd roll or flipcoin our attacks and whoever landed like 5-10 attacks wins, then you can do roundhouse kicks and be bruce lee all you want, you might not hit it lol the mechanical fighting in 5 is also just dodging constantly, if you swing first you're fucked, fucked and fucked again, i hate it

If I feel burnt out, which is literally every time I play on this server for more than two days straight, I just take a week long break and then come back. Rinse and repeat. I don't try to battle the feeling, it is normal and comes with being an adult, having a job, things to take care of. Sometimes you feel like you could be doing something better and more worthwhile than having virtual sex with people on GTAW. Most of the time I go do something totally not worth my time anyways, but I think that just proves that GTAW can naturally burn you out like any other hobby. I have a hard time staying motivated on this server simply due to the fact that some core issues aren't addressed. They do not hinder my player experience to the point where I'm unable to play, but the fact that they exist and that they could be replaced by more efficient, less pain-in-the-ass inducing mechanics and so on really fucks with my brain.

I also have a character that has over $600,000 in the bank account and a total of $1,000,000 in assets - due to the idiocy of namechanging, but also the blessing of it. I think money should be taken with a grain of salt, I dunno how else to say it. The problem here is the mentality, like stated above, because certain people have an issue with looking at it differently than "lol ur right top corner many money fucking mallrat", but... this is also a problem connected to a lack of jobs. Have we had more businesses open, ones that provided services, corporations, background check companies - there are thousands of different ideas - we'd have over all more jobs. You'd actually have people IC saying "Yeah I'm an HR Director at FuckMeSideways, we are a company specializing in the development of sex toys." or someone saying "Yeah I slave off at this corporation but at least they pay well, my boss is a dickhead though". Imagine, for a moment, everyone, listen up to me, right? IMAGINE HOW REFRESHING IT WOULD BE. TO FINALLY HEAR THAT SOMEONE ISN'T A FUCKING BARTENDER PART TIME AT THREE DIFFERENT BARS. Or a supervisor. For now, having a roleplay job relies on the owner of the business being active, mainly. There might be more head staff, like directors, managers or whatever but they will probably not be allowed to open by themselves for like weeks straight due to the owner being away on an IRL vacation or some stuff. This does not apply to faction owned businesses because I know from experience that they kind of run themselves, but hear me out, right? Not everyone wants to be part of a faction. You can be part of a faction as a legal character, there is usually no reason to not be, but it should not be a necessity to have an active group to play with. Businesses should attract clientele by themselves, there shouldn't be a prerequisite in the form of knowing people who you work with, interact with and who you know will always come to support it. This is once again the result of blips being gatekept by Management due to the completely idiotic reason of "there would be too many of them", who cares? I don't care, I want to see that map riddled with blips if I'm gonna roleplay in a developed modern American city. Maybe if we had more blips and over all open businesses, there would be no need to create all of those micromanagement type of rules around crimes? Because you know, the streets would actually be littered with people, due to businesses booming? I don't know. Wake the fuck up, Management, you have a city to put out of a fire. Think about how many opportunities this would finally open up. Think about how many more roleplay jobs, roles, and reasons to take wealth more seriously rather than "ah yeah the number on top of the screen is just... yeah you know I namechanged twenty times on this character lol" it would create. Having an actual high position at a job due to development, one that isn't "Manager" or "Supervisor" but perhaps "Software engineer" or "x Lead" would sound so much better in the context of possessed wealth would be so cool. Instead talking about money is awkward because it is so stupid to hear that everyone has to work three jobs as a bartender due to two of their workplaces barely being open. It is almost immersion breaking. Sure, some people need to work two jobs to maintain a living, especially in cities like Los Angeles and most other major cities with a ridiculously fucked up property market but this is just ridiculous.

The main problem with this are businesses, menyoo and mapping are problems as well since it's mostly for privileged people who have decent enough hardware to run GTA V on Ultra with some kinda mod to make them banger pictures. You could arguably map on a shitty computer, but it isn't as comfortable, especially when you have to map a business for someone, in which case - look back at the first sentence. This is the one thing I will agree with regarding OOC money - blips. To anyone who thinks blips being locked behind a paywall is a great idea because it prevents fifty different places being opened at the same time - get your head out of your butthole. We need competition on this server now that the economy is somehow good more than ever. I am sick and tired of seeing the same shit open. If we want more populated streets and less incentive to grind menyoo and mapping, but more roleplay, we need to have a lot of places to roleplay in and around. If we see three different bars open next to each other on a street, one's a punk one and the two others are more generic, everyone will find something that will suit their character. People will finally socialize together instead of being forced to drive across the city to the next blip once something closes down. I have played on servers where ten different businesses were open next to each other, it doesn't cause unfair advantages, bad competition or anything of the sort. It boosts people's creativity because they might get drunk and leave and go to the taco truck that opened up next to them. Or they might get their nails done and go to the bar next door to ramble to the bartender and show them off. Think about it, Management. Because I know it is you who keep pushing this whole agenda that many blips are a bad idea. They're not a bad idea, let people run their businesses how they want to run them, with free blips. Let people get paid for menyoo and mapping too since it takes effort, this is not as big of a problem as people make it out to be. I understand that the server needs to be paid off somehow, I really do. You already have namechanges, plates, phone numbers, even furniture slots locked behind a paywall. If we need some sort of mechanic to keep the server running, we should definitely keep the aforementioned things behind a paywall because at the end of the day, you do not need them to roleplay. You do not need a different phone number or plate than the one that the server assigns you. You DO however need that blip if you want your business to be successful, so once again - this is the only thing that I will fully agree on from this post. Menyoo and mapping can stay, I don't care. It's sad that only the people with high end gear can do menyoo but that's life and life isn't always fair. This comes back to what I said about driving culture on this server. Sure this is America but we're a RP server, we could do with some more pedestrian population and roleplay and not just driving from blip A to blip B because that's the only businesses that pop up on the map. Sorry for going a little bit off topic here and there but this isn't as simple of a topic and it does connect with what I said.

How has this not passed yet? +1

As a trucker I would love to prioritize the county therefore all business owners, please double check your business delivery markers to make them Pounder-friendly and convenient. I have a friend who is starting a trucking company that will prioritize the county too, so logistics should be sorted for the most part. We can do this, people. As far as the discussed issues go, like said above - just report any BS and we can definitely bring that place to life. Me personally - I haven't really roleplayed in the county before outside of a small RP server so this is definitely gonna bring back a lot of nostalgia for me and it might finally be something that won't burn me out like the shithole that Los Santos currently is. No hate on the city roleplayers, I just think that the county is a very underrated spot and that come to think of it, I enjoyed it much more on that smaller server I've played on than current LS on GTAW. We definitely need to get rid of property hoarders, or alternatively we can just add more houses like we did in Mirror Park. Trailers are cool and all but we're not all hillbillies and rednecks. That shouldn't be what fuels the roleplay or what we should rely on for housing. We need normal, perhaps even generic folk populating the county as well. As someone who has driven thousands of miles through the county I can tell you, I rarely see these county housing areas such as Paleto or Chumash populated and they could be much better utilized by other people. Same goes for Sandy Shores - straight empty. Also regarding trucking, for fuck's sake can we please get more suppliers in the county? Tools are only in the city, same with Alcohol. This might contribute to the business struggles.

Detailed Description Like discussed in the discussion thread - we should remove the rentals and starter cars to promote more local roleplay instead of allowing, and even forcing people to pointlessly drive around for interactions in open businesses or other areas of the map. The 200k paycheck will allow new people to get cars eventually. This will also revive the taxi job. Relevant Commands/Items N/A How will it benefit the server? Increased pedestrian population in areas, more socialization Taxi job gets revived and taxis actually have a purpose again People do not need to drive around for roleplay because new characters will most likely roleplay around a single area for some period of time Trolls and newbies don't get vehicles immediately, that will prevent some issues Potential growth of new player owned rental companies it'll make the playerbase happy, just see the poll below in the thread These are the results of the poll as of 11:04PM (GMT+1) 3/20/2022

Yeah I agree, this server burns me out rather fast and I usually end up playing for like a week or two before going for a week long break.

yeah sorry my schizophrenia is acting up i know

ye i need to get in the corner cause it's got angles and curves and shit, fuck the straights on god on crip on the dead homies

Yes people, we can complain and all but it often ruins the mood for everyone involved. It's a fucking game, don't be like me and don't be the retard who is always on some. Like the title says, be kind. And remember that the players behind characters are human as well and that their character more often than not does not depict the player themselves.

Nah leave it like I said we should with over sexualized characters, let them people be isolated and have fun on their own. They bring money to the server and money is what's needed to keep this shit running. If you don't want to use it, don't. It's not a forced requirement. If someone's a minor on that site and posts weird shit, depending on how severe it is, either take it IC or report it to the admins. How many 16 year old whores are there on Instagram and Facebook? Millions, especially in a generation that's so addicted and even dependent on tech. I think they purposefully made the service so expensive just to see who's the biggest loser willing to spend that much money on it lol

Only unpopular because nobody gives a shit, but agreed.

Nah, don't even bother. There are people in the LGBT+ community who overly sexualize everything and they make their sexuality their whole personality. They are a loud minority in the community and everyone hates them, even fellow members. It's the same on this server - there are normal LGBT+ characters who are developed and happen to be trans, gay or whatever, and then there are overly fetishized/sexualized characters roleplayed by losers who can barely type with one hand as the other one strokes their dick. Leave them be, ignore those people. They skidaddle around server rules already, if I remember correctly you are not allowed to make a character purely for ERP, yet they still do. They would skidaddle around the application as well (and yeah I know the application part is somewhat of a joke). They still live and play with other people, probably because they're like I said - losers with no life - who milk donator money out of their parents each month. Jokes aside, like I said - leave them to fuck each other like they do right now. Most people avoid them, I avoid them as well. I have a trans character and could pass an application to roleplay as one if there was one, but there is no need. I'm doing fine having fun on my normal character, let them people have fun on their overly fetishized characters. We could argue about trans characters more but like I said - who cares? I don't care if they roleplay being a MtF who's been on pills for 10 years and yet their genitals didn't shrink or infertility didn't get to them. People will not roleplay the "disadvantages" of that life because they're here to "have fun", meaning they want to specifically roleplay ejaculating all over someone even though they've been on pills which prevent them from doing that for 10 years. That's FUN to those people, to me and you FUN might be roleplaying a character who contributes to the server in any way. For exampke, people will argue that not every trans woman gets the aforementioned disadvantages or whatever but we just go back to the start - who, cares? I, as a Player, fall under the trans umbrella, and am I offended by it or something? No, I don't care, there are better things to worry about than someone being retarded and lacking research to roleplay an overly fetishized character with some other overly fetishized character. Just two people having fun with each other, as long as they mind their own business. I do not think anyone is genuinely overly mad about this issue or like, offended by it. Because if anyone is, they need to really go touch grass. Personally if someone's story doesn't really click in character, I call them out on it. If it is borderline unrealistic and/or stupid, I totally ignore them. If it's that plus it hinders my roleplay, I report it.

Because this server has a certain percentage of people playing it who have serious issues with mixing. Or they play to win because they're ashamed to take a L, but oh wait those are just mixing issues since you shouldn't be OOC ashamed of shit that happened IC. But try to tell most people that, they don't give a shit.

I think that barriers on the road and stuff like that are completely idiotic and that this is not the way to prevent people from driving like idiots. SOME PROPS can stay. MOST PROPS have to GO as they do not add anything into the world besides being pointless obstacles.

It has it's place and uses and if people would be down to do it, it could work. But there's not enough players interested in it therefore I think that current factions should take care of it all. The reason why I didn't mention a Fed Gov existing is simply because most Players couldn't be arsed to roleplay this kind of thing.

Honestly the people who have it coming for them for simply being dumb as management of an illegal faction should get it. If you constantly kill cops, harass business owners for a few grand a week and set their businesses on fire if they refuse, you should get shit on after an investigation. This server has stooped down so low when it comes to not just realism but immersion that it's sickening sometimes. You can't go one day without some idiot being chased, without someone being murdered, without some other worrying shit happening. Last time I evaded a robbery, I called the cops and I wanted to press charges but they told me that the mugger is deceased following shooting at the police for no reason. That last example isn't comparable to factions but you get the point. I have no doubt that there are good, smart factions which can handle themselves and which have management that does not condone doing any of this, but there are also people who are on the edge of being blatant DM-ers or adrenaline junkies who get a hard on from doing all of this risky stuff. Doing all of this risky stuff for your OOC satisfaction might give you as the player the serotonin kick you needed but the rest of the server will be rolling their eyes at another street covered in dead bodies. And yes, people do it for their OOC satisfaction of dropping a cop or two or evading a chase. Their characters are usually portrayed as smart, carefully moving criminals with good plans ahead and their head in the right place. But then suddenly when the occasion comes to drop a few cops or burn down a business they will run out of their car with a molotov and yeet it all carelessly. And then they'll get away with it, post screenshots and go back to their usual stuff, roleplaying a character that is so smart and careful, a character that would never get themselves and their associates into this kind of shit. This isn't about balance, shutting down factions or providing people with overpowered solutions to crime. This is to crack down on the most violent and immersion breaking crime that doesn't even have any effort put into it. Los Angeles is a shit hole, it surely is. You get asked where you from on every block you walk through but that doesn't mean that certain groups, not even official factions, usually, should have the right to wreak such bloodshed, havoc and over all stir up such heavy pots of fecal matter and dump them onto other characters. Killing a cop should be the last resort, if you get jailed then you get jailed. You come out and you go back to being a criminal because there's nothing else you can do. Just take the L and move on with your life, nobody's going to permanently jail you on this server (under a few conditions they might but probably not first offense) and if they do, you can probably sort it out with Management because that's unfair and limits your roleplay. This law exists in real life and yet still organizations such as the eMe or other mafias exist, do horrendous activities and nobody even sees it. The point here is to encourage smart and realistic scenarios, not bloodshed, wars in the streets, drive-bys and other primitive forms of solving conflict. These will still happen but they will leave severe consequences for both sides, as they should. Once you take it to the streets, you're asking for trouble and you deserve trouble because you've done something that doesn't only affect you and your opps, it affects civilians in the area et cetera. Of course the law is going to get involved, what the hell did you expect? I am not gonna go on a rant here about how dumb some rules and mechanics are on this server that provoke this kind of behavior, especially dying to avoid jail time because PKs are a thing, but you get the point. This law isn't going to allow LEOs to shut down a faction, it shouldn't. It should make people shit their pants after they do something outrageous and allow LEOs to catch them and bring them their deserved IC consequences. TL;DR - if someone deserves to get shit on, let LEO factions shit on them. Let them RICO them out of existence if they're so severe. Most people who are smart, into development and not into getting a serotonin kick out of a shootout will not suffer because they already move in ways that make them hard to catch. This law will affect the most severe, loud and havoc inducing factions which have no place on a heavy roleplay server anyways. This might be a shit hole we're living in but it's still America, not Iraq.

Following my recent suggestion to decrease the grind and give us a quality of life improvement, as well as the "Where are the truckers?" thread, I came to the conclusion that we might just need a massive think tank to think about how we can completely overhaul this system so that it's more realistic and more enjoyable. Personally I think that the component system we have right now is utterly retarded and needs to be completely yeeted from the server. I will go into my reasoning below. The amount of components that some businesses require sometimes is ridiculous. It promotes grinding by itself because some people genuinely like to see that number go down, and they get paid for it so why the hell not? The component system makes it so that truckers drive up to businesses way too often when compared to how it is in real life. Truckers also deliver and drive through the city at hours which do not make sense in real life. Many major cities straight up prohibit semis and other large trucks from driving in the center and such. Since we're a roleplay server where many of us play in different timezones, we simply have to cope with the fact that the hours of deliveries will be unrealistic. You'll be getting deliveries at times when you least expect it, during peak hours and when your business happens to be booming, et cetera. To promote roleplay between truckers, trucking companies and the businesses, in particular their owners and managers themselves, we need to think about ways to actually create that roleplay in the first place. Since for now, we rarely bump into anyone when we're trucking. Most businesses are closed for literally weeks before they open again. You put up a request for x crates and the truckers go broom while you don't do jack shit. One way to promote roleplaying over grinding is to put trucking behind a paycheck and provide the drivers with the option to buy and drive the trucks they want. Yeah, doesn't matter if they're gonna be vans or semis, just let people drive what they want in the first place. Let people be independent if they want to, not everyone enjoys or wants to be part of a trucking company. I will not even get into the uniforms most companies make you wear, shit looks ridiculous, the clothing itself discourages me personally from joining companies. Jokes aside, this might prove to be a good idea to eliminate the grinders. People who genuinely want to network and develop their characters around trucks and trucking will be more passionate about networking, making good deals and contacts with people to even get delivery jobs in the first place. Furthermore, truckers should only be allowed to deliver to businesses that are active or have been active in the past days. Preferably ONLY when there is someone on the shift to roleplay signing documents or taking care of the shipment. This is the ONLY WAY to get truckers to actually roleplay. Eliminating the components and encouraging the creation of bonds between you as a trucker or company and the businesses. Here is the reason to give truckers fixed paychecks instead of giving them pay per delivery. If we eliminate components, we will need a percentage system to replace it. To make this realistic and profitable for people we need to make the percentage do down in a realistic manner. This will require a complete overhaul of the businesses as well. How will the percentage system work? Simple, you get the delivery, your percentage of stock is at one 50-100% depending on what kind of vehicle shows up. You open your business and sell items, the percentage goes down with every item you sell. You sell a bottle of beer, it goes down by 0.4%, you sell a shot of vodka it goes down by 0.2%. You get 50 customers a day, you lose realistically 5-20% of your stock. A week passes and you need a trucker to bring you some stuff again. Similar idea with the goods. Since goods are realistically items that need to be stored and restocked and alcohol is bottled and a bottle can serve 15 people, it is reasonable to up the percentage of stock that selling custom items will cost you. For example 0.5%. You get 50 customers, your stock goes down 25%. This will keep truckers and yourself in the business. The exact percentages that certain items will take up can be tweaked as we deem necessary of course, this is just my idea for now. Same thing goes for mechanic garages et cetera. Obviously a garage will require more deliveries but a garage also has the space to let a truck come by and do the job. This is once again why truckers will need a fixed paycheck. You as the business owner will be charged a fixed price set by the server to avoid the ridiculous shit we have going on with component crate costs right now, where people willingly pay more to get their businesses prioritized which creates those cannibalistic scenarios where a business that's 2 miles away from the docks is doing way better than the one that's in butt fuck nowhere. A trucker who takes on a job but does not finish it will be heavily penalized by the system to avoid people who grind paychecks by sitting on their ass all day doing nothing. Yes, the system. I can not imagine the amount of court cases that would emerge if this wasn't somehow protected this way. A system designed this way will weed out the retards who are only in this job to drive over curbs and get money from spamming commands at the yellow triangle. To ensure that the roleplay has actually happened, there can be commands in place that will let the trucker and the staff that is currently on shift confirm if the delivery has been actually delivered. For example you could roleplay with the clerk and ask them to /confirmdelivery after you have finished roleplaying. To penalize truckers who do not do their job, simply give them a realistic time limit to complete a task. Let's say a trucker takes on a job and they have to drive from Paleto Bay to Los Santos, hauling fish. To drive there safely and account for: - the time that both parties have, both IC and OOC, we don't have all day - any traffic stops or other scenes the trucker might have to avoid or partake in - robberies and what not the time to complete such a delivery should be 20 minutes. You take longer, no issue. You type in a command that confirms that you will just be late, shit happens. You don't get penalized on your paycheck as to not make you rush your delivery and potentially drive unrealistically. People who care will do their job and make contacts, people who do not care will waste time. You abandon the job, you get a monetary penalty of 75% of what the cargo is worth. Finally, why will this work? This will work because the server is currently, in my opinion saturated with businesses that open whenever there's a chance. If one businesses doesn't open for two weeks, there are going to be 20 other ones in their place that you can still deliver to. The safe guard against situations when there are literally zero businesses open or when there is too many truckers on shift: I have very minimal ideas regarding this, but the server does still have NPC owned businesses. In situations where Player-owned businesses are down, temporary solutions will be needed to still let truckers do their thing and earn their wage. A temporary solution can be to allow truckers to deliver to those businesses because they also need to be refilled with stock so that people can go buy items from there. With that said, those businesses should be the last resort unless they are running below 10% of stock or there are no current Player owned businesses open. In conclusion, by giving truckers the option to drive what they want we eliminate the grind to get to new vehicles. We eliminate shitty driving and allow more people to be independent, do their own thing and be responsible for their own networking et cetera. This is not going to harm trucking companies, it will promote fair competition and turf control over which areas they deliver in because let's say IMEX might be better for the city whilst a company based in Paleto Bay might be better for the businesses that operate there. By eliminating the components and replacing them with a percentage of stock we give people more realistic deliveries, more fun and we encourage roleplay. We set safeguards in place for when shit goes south and there are no businesses open, we also avoid rushing deliveries and truck pileups at different businesses because Fukaru Automotive is paying $400 per crate and they have a beautiful stretch of road to speed down to get there quickly and earn that sweet moolah. My final ideas to make the system realistic... Semi-only zones and van-only zones. Or businesses. Whichever will work better. Point is to not have Pounders take up entire streets in the middle of the city. Bensons and Pounders are kings of the highways, designed to haul ass across states because that is what makes them profitable. Speedos and Mules on the other hand are better for the city due to their smaller size and better maneuverability. The city government can regulate this, or the script can regulate this. Mechanic garages will most certainly be getting a lot of bulky stuff brought in by Pounders and Bensons. 24/7s will probably get Mules and Speedos with their cargo because everything is more tightly packed together into boxes for the most part. You get the idea. Each vehicle will have it's purpose on the map for a different business, scenario or need depending on how much % the owner wishes to have filled up. To keep people doing the job I suggest that a van doesn't automatically refill 100% stock for a 24/7 that's running on 10% stock for example. We still need to provide truckers with things to do, but the rate at which deliveries occur currently is really unrealistic and causes pile-ups and other weird scenarios. The point of this last part is not to ban or discourage people from using certain vehicles, it's to provide more realism to a city and to provide ALL THE TRUCKS with a meaningful purpose for each and every business we have on the server. Since mechanic garages for example are constantly busy when they're open, one Pounder delivery, maybe two is going to cut it for them. They have ten customers in the parking lot, they need to serve them and they need space for their vehicles. 24/7s have more space around them, they have parking lots which can easily fit a Mule or a van for a delivery whilst a Pounder will take up the entire entrance, two streets and piss people off. Realistically will be fined and yelled at by Karens too. Paycheck-wise, I think that considering the fact that Pounders and Bensons will have a harder time and more mileage to cover, we should up their paychecks compared to people who will drive Speedos and Mules. I'm not including the Boxville on this list because nobody wants to drive a Boxville, it's a piece of shit. But let's say for example van drivers will get $4000 hourly, Bensons and Pounders will get $4500. That's the start and we observe the change take place. If we have an oversaturation in a certain vehicle class, we adjust it to be even, lower et cetera. I know that some people are braindead on this server and will splurge money on a Benson or Pounder for that extra $500 an hour so I'm fully aware that setting the paycheck to a strict, crispy $4000 an hour could be the ultimate solution for everyone. Besides, trucking companies exist. You can join one and literally pick what you want to drive depending on if you're feeling like going out into the county or if you wanna go skrt skrt around Los Santos in a van. Jobs themselves wise, we can have a system that allows a business owner to directly ask a company or trucker to do a job. This will once again promote actual roleplay and creating connections. If the delivery isn't urgent or you lack contacts then /startshipment will still be there to offer you as a business owner or trucker to get work done. All the percentages, prices and other variables in this thread have been made up for the purpose of giving an example of how this could work. Do not quote me on any of these numbers to stir up a shitstorm. Finally, the cherry on the cake. By getting large refills of cargo every time you open or request it while you're online - this goes back to eliminating the idiocy of the component system. You will no longer need components for survival, a trucker will have your back the moment you need your stuff delivered and you will hopefully have a successful few openings for the next few days right away. Overall please keep this civil and give me constructive feedback. We need to do something about this so if I've overlooked or skipped something, point it out and say why. The goal of this thread is to kick your brains into fifth gear and come up with a solution so that we can perhaps work together on a megathread in Game Suggestions to find the ultimate, balanced fix. Since there aren't a lot of truckers out and about right now, I think that this system is going to be decent. The need to roleplay deliveries and make contacts will also make sure that players do not rush delivery after delivery and that will in turn allow everyone to do something as a trucker, even with many online.

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After some rambling here and there and taking the stick out of my ass, I wrote this. Please go give feedback, it's the first step to removing the grind and increasing efficiency and pleasure that comes from roleplaying instead of spamming commands. Thank you!