jacknoble1984

the majority of people i know live in one of the safest country's globally with an annual murder rate of about 20 people (20 entire people) but write in thick, forced, drill rap style ebonics and say nigga or similar words despite being as pale as the forums are on light mode

Relogging resets your character's sobriety, or crashing. Which happens quite often at times.

Drugs are completely useless. Running into situations where I need to /changechar due to a horrible, game-breaking bug is such a recurring theme and it resets my ingame entirely.

getting into a police chase with multiple officers, helicopters spotlighting and tracking me is a total nonissue

i have driven after i had a couple of shots, although not at a particularly high speed (i am a retired booze cruiser) and i have never been caught and a majority of fellow booze cruisers i know have not been caught. also, people in LA and many big cities in the real world do drive like absolute cock-gobblers and basic traffic laws are broken consistently because it is not actually a criminal offense to be an asshole - it is a civil offense and it is heavily underreported and under-enforced in many jurisdictions in the usa and worldwide. also a consistent complaint here on the forums and elsewhere seems to be complaining about people failing to fully roleplay incredibly menial, tedious things or lack of total realism. look man. i dont really want to roleplay out perfectly following traffic laws like i would in real life. a good chunk of the city ingame is absolutely fucking vacant of other ingame drivers and statistically speaking 90% of them are liable to start trying to mug or escalate on you ICly if you drive like youre around to sniff the flowers. i would rather be told to slow down and face assloads of fines from the cops ICly than risk driving slow through Los Santos which has a crime rate more comparable to a brazilian favela rather than la. plus LSSPD thankfully isn't typically enforcing minor traffic laws because they're too busy handling the shot-coppers and gang rpers. like dude its the exact same reason i dont enjoy the trucking roleplay grind along with many others or RPing as a gas station clerk or see the point in joining the university faction. there does not appear to be any real incentive to engage in thought-out and deep intrinsic roleplay in most of the legal jobs other than to avoid facing trouble with the staff team (I personally have no record with the staff team). i could literally just go outside and apply for these jobs and get the same output out of it, plus an actual paycheck. i think there should be a real ingame incentive to engage in thoughtful and well-written roleplay on these jobs ingame like extra $. rewarding good roleplayers encourages good roleplay.

bar and club roleplay is incredibly fucking boring almost regardless of what's actually inside the venue. also restaurants are pretty boring too. i cannot see anyone over the drinking age, actually capable of going outside to clubs, bars and music venues in real life actually enjoying going inside somewhere IG with at least 90% teenage white british boys attempting to portray African American gangster, dj, hiphop artist, etc. with an accent so tisctically exaggerated it gives me a constant OOC aneurysm reading it: please just stop trying to type out ebonics in general. source: i live close to atlanta or the other cliche which is the Second Life ERP-baity, possible Mary Sue, probable prostitute -- sorry, sex worker characters. i see a lot of debate in this thread about how we shouldn't kowtow to the players who are minors in real life and while i agree with that, there's a harsh reality that the majority of mature, normal adults are not interested in erotic roleplay, excessive gore, or especially writing out a scene in grave detail about rape in a video game series named after motor vehicle theft. that is to say, possibly a majority of ERPers are underage and usually outright lying about their age and the other half are doing it for ingame currency, lack of access to sex in real life, to garner status with players/characters who hold power in some form in-game. this is why i think erp should be banned completely lol. there is literally no benefit to allowing erotic roleplay in any form on the server. seeing the /ad escorts for hire spam is really cringeworthy.