dominic5134

Username: SamPoehlingIsFire Comment: FREE SAM FUCKING POHELING! HE DIDN'T DO NOTHING!

RIP fly high Matt

+1 Even if it is a hassle, the quality of life that would come out of this is too good to pass up. If not, then at least add a feature to allow for more than one accessory to be worn at once.

While immersion on the server is a big thing, some corners have to be cut. If you're roleplaying as a police officer, and put somebody away for two years, then in a months time, your character has only aged slightly, yet the person you arrested has aged two years, and is now suddenly out of prison, isn't that immersion breaking? It's immersion breaking when you kill someone, then the next day you see them casually standing next to you at a bar, ordering a drink, that's immersion breaking, not a group of Italian-Americans running around earning money in an illegal way. Things like LCN on the west coast, is just the tip of the iceberg. If you're arguing that that's unrelated, and what you're talking about is faction related roleplay being unrealistic, then what about the LEO factions? The majority of LEO's call for backup when they're pulling someone over for a small traffic infraction, and when there's a shooting, it usually takes three to five minutes for only three or four LEO's to even arrive. However, these are just the experiences I personally had with LEO's. Things may be different for other people, and I have never been part of an LEO faction.

The point of LCN roleplay is not to gain as much power as possible. It's a more chilled out alternative, to the more common illegal roleplay, which involves action often. The reason LCN roleplay was so good while it was around, was because it was centered around making money, with action being done very rarely. The main focus is not power, or running around dressed up like Tony Soprano, but thinking of schemes, and developing your character through those schemes. I don't have much experience with other factions, so I cannot make the assumption that LCN roleplay is the only faction that involves chilled out roleplay. Now, the point of this thread is not arguing that we should be able to have LCN crime families at the snap of a finger, because that's just bad development, but of how restricted LCN roleplay on this server is. If people have the freedom to run around as thirteen year old kids driving around cars, what's wrong with LCN? People's main arguments behind why LCN shouldn't exist on the server are, it's too unrealistic for LA, and these LCN characters are steorotypes. People who run around, pretending they're Tony Soprano are bad at portrayal of an LCN character, and shouldn't be allowed into factions, but that's a faction problem, not a server problem. While, there shouldn't be ten LCN families/crews running around at the same time, there should be the freedom to have at least one, or two. There were already two prominent LCN families in the server's continuity, you can't make the argument that LCN would be unrealistic, because there already has been LCN, and it's part of the server's history. You've already got the freedom to have fourteen year old kids running around with a gun, fearlessly gunning people down, a civillian who has been an upstanding citizen their entire life calling hits on people, because they flirted with their partner. A new LCN faction to emerge, would not be out of the question either, when it comes to realism. If a crew, in a distant city, comes together, and decides to move their operations to LA, or LS, due to a lack of freedom in their home town. Perhaps there are more business opportunities in LS, such as a movie company, maybe something that caters to the rich. A whole crime family moving though? That's out of the question, and I understand that. Another thing, a group of Italian-Americans in Los Santos coming together, to form a crew. It's not out of the question, as there are Italian-Americans in LA. When it comes to the portrayal of a proper Italian-American character, I do agree that it is a problem. People focus on portraying an "Italian-American kid" not an American kid. At this point in time, there would be Italian-American culture in the lives of these characters, yes, but the way they dress is steorotypical, but again, that's a faction problem. It's the faction's responsibility to teach their newer members to dress like a normal kid, and not have a twenty year old running around in a bowling shirt and leather jacket.