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Some interesting stuff, looking forward to how they play out on live server.

Vehicle sold.

You get what you ask for. Between... a quantity > quality approach (UCP invites, development steered more towards action scripts and instant gratification), lack of rule enforcements (soft warnings for mass hacking on a roleplay server, history of warnings instead of punishments, "permanent" bans...), new generation players inspired by FiveM NoPixel et al, Discord making the game and community ever-present (24/7 availability, toxic echo chambers, OOC clout chasing), and the general nature of the game... ...it is easy breeding ground to a deeply divided and toxic community. Where people once cared about collaborative story writing, character development and player interaction, they were since pushed back by the bottom barrel scrapers that have been failed to be removed from the server when it mattered in lieu for raw player numbers. Instead, they were made the standard to look up (or down) to since, whether it be in server rules, countless forum discussions, or your average random encounter on the server. Sure, you can blame a good chunk on just general societal issues or changes over those past years, especially when it comes to discussion culture and radicalization, anti-police sentiments or the very nature of the game rooting conflict due to the platform providing a PvP Protag-Antag relationship of two factions (Police - Criminal), but at the same time you can look into any other roleplay platform and chances are you find a way better community there. To get back on topic here, a lot of things could be handled in-character, but too many control instruments on an out of character level were introduced to migitate bottom barrel roleplay over the past years. So situations that in 2020/21 were completely fine and acceptable to be played out or dealt with on an in-character level? There has probably since been someone messing up big time or abusing the freedom for whack-em-all regulations to take it all OOC...muggings, corruption, court cases, real estate, ROE - just to name a few. Heck, even the question of general legality courts used to decide over since turned OOC admin/LFM court 9/10 times. I am generally a fan to keep things in-character as much as possible. It keeps things interesting, it creates a clearer divide between player and character, and usually leads to more interesting roleplay scenes. Something simple as seeking advise from a senior at your job by approaching that person or taking out your phone is way better than "/pm hey" or a Discord message. OOC cannot be avoided entirely, but it should be kept at a minimum in an ideal scenario, and incentivized by even something as small as seeing all the in-character matters first before scrolling down to the player report section. The issue is that it will not change, no matter how much we preach on the forums. When the core issue is the individual players mentality and reason as to why, or what for they play on GTA:W.

From an outside perspective, most just play the META - which right now is dusters + pistol. Make knuckle dusters a lethal weapon, you might hope to see some variety (e.g. knives, baseball bats and other melee weapons) but the reality will probably be straight gun play because, y'know, can't let your homies catch you slipping and clown you on discord with shadowplay recordings of you "taking an L". Maybe instead of only two escalation levels of fists (+ currently knuckle dusters) and shootin' tootin', it could be more of a spectrum, or a middle ground level of "melee weapons only" to keep a certain variety? Sure you could speak of gentlemen agreement and common sense, but we all know there is none to be found on this server.

Sale finalized.

Last buyer did not provide any contact details. Still for sale.

Let me know your contact details to finalize the sale.

(( Hasn't been sold yet. ))

Yes, it has capacity for 4 passengers total uncluding the pilot.

Let me know your contact details to finalize the sale.

Still for sale.

Still for sale.

Still for sale.

Still for sale.

Current phone logs on the MDC show sender and receipant similar to SMS messages - except you can not identify who is speaking on the phone at all. You have to guess work who is currently talking as the logs only show [SENDER] [RECEIPANT] [MESSAGE] based off of which number called the other regardless of who is currently speaking on that phone. Add some sort of identifier between person X and Y.