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Slamdance
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3 hours ago, Daquan Kingston said:
I wish people who roleplay having a Brittish accent would display it appropriately and understand how hard it is to understand for people who use American English as their main language. It adds flavor when properly done.
- There's no such thing as "Brittish" [sic] accent
- American English isn't a language, just a variant. What you're thinking of in regards to the UK is local dialects and slang
My issues is that a lot of British characters are simply players' idealised self-inserts. That and they're far too prevalent. Anybody from the Isles would be absolutely pissing with sweat on even the mildest Los Angeles summer day.
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@AVRO DANKASTER brought me here from LS-RP.
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Bad.
By definition "throwaway" means that it is used for a short period of time for a specific task. This obviously does not involve the sort of in-depth and drawn-out character development that creates interesting narratives and nuance in roleplay.
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7 hours ago, wheres the skante said:
I would rather have Compton X3 rather than Grove Street Surenos.
Ah yes, Compton. Definitely my favourite 'hood in Los Santos.
Any faction roleplay where the creators lean a little too heavily into emulating it to a tee without much in the way of interesting character development has more in common with homework than roleplay. I typically avoid any faction whose thread is copied verbatim from an FBI report, streetgangs, or some other common source without any personalisation or adaptation to the setting in which it's being portrayed. Using real-life inspiration is a given, just don't be a hack about it.
Great examples of how to do this right (in my most humble of opinions) are the Mizrahi crew and Hye Mafia. I promise I'll stop brown-nosing Bader, Samuel_Lora, et al. just as soon as they stop showing up the majority of criminal roleplayers.
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I don't know how long you've been gone but they require actual mechanics to repair and modify vehicles at auto shops now. They still exist, they just work a bit differently.
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Username: LuvMeAWh0re
Comment: In ENGLISH please??? We gettin Nevada style brothels or what?? tired of havin to cross state lines just to get my dangle yanked 🍆🍆
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This should have everything you need. For everything else, I recommend hitting up the Discord.
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2 hours ago, StutteringSavage said:
Holy shit man, where the fuck is Buster Jackson at?!
Still streaming, just not here.
https://www.twitch.tv/treefittygaming
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1 hour ago, ChickenOffSky said:
I just wish General Discussions would be used as a place for positive discussions rather than the place everyone goes to complain and shoot others down.
Theoretically, sure. Objectively, GTA World is a product and we are its customers - ones that have all put time and/or money into it with the aim of helping it to becoming a more populous and accessible medium for roleplay. As such, it's only natural to speak out about issues that individuals feel may jeopardise that goal. The issue lays in non-constructive critique, flaming, and (in my opinion) splitting hairs over details those individuals don't have the credentials to posit solutions for, the former of which I imagine is the toxicity Nervous' post refers to.
LSRP got around this (somewhat) with the creation of the Verified Discussion group where trusted community members could weigh in on issues and others could only read the discourse and benefit from the eventual outcomes. It was great in theory but for it to work there needs to be equal input from high-level administrators, management, and developers to prevent discussions from spiraling out of control or into the realm of feature creep.
Certainly more manageable than the current solution of everybody shit-flinging in open threads and seeing what sticks after 20 pages when it's inevitably locked.
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Greetings fellow old-timer. Welcome back.
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Down 2 Klown (abbr: DTK; D2K) were a Juggalo gang set operating in central Blaine County, San Andreas. The group formed in the mid-2010s as a loose-knit group of delinquents from high schools in the Sandy Shores and Grapeseed catchment areas. The economic pressure of the latter half of the decade forced some members into petty crime culminating in the arrest and imprisonment of 19 year-old Troy Sullivan for breaking and entering and grievous bodily harm in 2019. Activity waned soon after.
Out of character
This thread documents the criminal and social elements of Juggalo culture in the Blaine County region.
Juggalo sets are one of the newest and strangest phenomena to emerge from the American gang scene in recent years with the FBI officially declaring them as an organized crime threat in 2010. Typically Juggalo sets align themselves towards the dominant gang culture in their areas of operation with individual groups having taken influence from as far-removed organizations as the Ku Klux Klan, Folk Nation, and Piru Blood sets. Some more rural Juggalo sets remain unaligned.While the group follows an allegiance under the Dark Carnival "family" and mythology, the criminal activity carried out by the gang is typically not towards a shared cause with the FBI describing it as "sporadic" and "individualistic". This is largely due to the unstructured nature of Juggalo sets though law enforcement reporting shows this trend to be waning in favour of more gang-like hierarchies.
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8 hours ago, skate_board said:
armenians/characters from weird european countries hanging around davis, skinheads that go out of their way to start issues
Urban skins coming in as racist with no development and little knowledge of the scene is some of the laziest shit I've seen. Props to the SHARPs and punks out there keeping it real.
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Next to impossible without scripted support and/or a bunch of start-up capital for paying out profit on shares. I've been wanting to try something similar for a while but haven't yet reached a suitable compromise between faithfully emulating stock trading and what is achievable in-game.
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So McKay and friends were distributing firearms and drugs in Paleto Bay, came under the scrutiny of the Los Santos County Sheriff and so decided to move further into the county and the City of Los Santos proper to... what? Attract the ire of the LSPD too and compete directly with more readily armed and numerous distributors on their home turf?
This whole thing sounds suspiciously like an excuse to keep your supplier status... and not a particularly convincing one IMO. It just seems a bit half-assed. I hope that it's able to develop into something more interesting for the server.
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38 minutes ago, Paenymion said:
We should be encouraging people into player run jobs thesedays.
Definitely. We already have a few logistics companies in operation. Seeing the sort of trade those guys bring in and the reliance the components system has on them, relying on player-operated companies to run the job market could only be a positive move.
It would be great to see something like this implemented alongside the suggestions you posted on my Import/Export thread. It would make the legal faction scene a necessity rather than an afterthought.
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The majority of the server obviously cannot be trusted to roleplay anything of the sort without overly sexualising it or advertising such services in an unrealistic manner. As much as I hate advocating further regulation, this is an unrealistically prevalent issue that is just too prominent to be dealt with purely ICly through LEO intervention.
Either add a "Personals" section to the /ads system that doesn't show up on the preview or lock the portrayal of actual escorting agencies behind admin / RPQM permissions.
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Another thread where players that aren't qualified to posit their ideas suggest non-solutions. Sweet.
Changing the denominations or how you roleplay larger sums will not fix anything.
Wiping the economy or otherwise removing wealth from the server through administrative action will not fix anything.
Pretending that cash is a wholly OOC asset when it is a requirement to facilitate most types of roleplay will not fix anything.
The server currently has a surplus of cash but next to no cash flow due to a stagnant property market and next to nothing in terms of products, services, or taxation. Removing OOC caps and putting in place a system whereby property owners (yes, that includes businesses) are charged periodically based on property size and area will do some good towards fixing the real issues. Balanced price adjustment will follow soon enough.
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While I don't have a definitive answer for you, I've asked this in the past and received one of two answers:
- No, it's a bug (which developers are apparently aware of but hasn't been fixed.)
- No, only contract phones list contacts on the UCP (which is as weird and redundant as it sounds.)
Sorry.
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Bumping this with a better video (no awful ENB or cringe dialogue) and my two cents.
SpoilerIt's a resource that gives Downtown something other than the perpetual slideshow of FPS that is Legion Square / the police station.
Skyscraper penthouses, public plazas, and an entertainment complex? Sign me up.
On 3/30/2021 at 1:18 PM, mj2002 said:This is unnecessary. A building site is a pretty niche and unique area for roleplay that can occur. Another tall skyscraper will remain unused, because there are plenty of other skyscrapers that barely see any use. Keep it as is, and avoid a lot of headaches that come with adding this as a mod.
There's a construction site next door (two blocks west on the outskirts of Little Seoul) that is not only more accessible to construction traffic but also more explorable than the Mile High site. Much like the Mile High Club site though, literally nobody has decided to use it for roleplay since this suggestion was posted over 2 months ago.
If it's at all possible, this DLC pack should be given a shot.
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8 hours ago, PeopleKind said:
The amount of "Car enthusiast" RPers that only have expensive ass cars or riced out cars. I know a LOT of car enthusiasts IRL and am one myself, and most of us have a car worth nothing more than a couple thousand bucks lol. Me for example, I haven't spent over a grand on any of my vehicles.
When are you and @JustAnM43 getting married?
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9 hours ago, Dom. said:
My O'Neill character is total brand loyalist to Declasse. The only non-Declasse vehicle I have is an Outlaw - I drive a Tulip and a Rancher. It's not hard to roleplay vehicles properly!
Have you guys not met V-Dubsters (Volkswagen) or H.O.G. (Harley owners) members IRL? They're absolutely everywhere. Products as an extension of the self is something brands have been cultivating for decades and it's not unrealistic to have people roleplaying their vehicles as such.
Props to you for your character's brand loyalty. This sort of thing is massively prevalent IRL, especially among domestic markets/manufacturers.
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I didn't expect this thread to blow up as much as it did but thanks for communicating the shortcomings of the current market to a newbie in a mature manner.
55 minutes ago, Nervous said:We're planning to :
- Free more houses to the market very soon
- Add a reCAPTCHA on map.gta.world to prevent bots today
- Open house requests on a regular basis for the entire map
- Add property taxes (not 100% decided yet and exact amount still in discussions, I would like to base it based on the weekly activity to not punish active roleplayers and not force them to grind, but if you have multiple characters with multiple houses you need to be heavily taxed if you just hold them) : Like for example 5% of MP weekly, 1% if you're active more than 20 hours during the week on that character.
As somebody that's been involved in real estate as a consumer (buying and selling of property and all the fun it entailed) as well as holding a Master's degree in Business Admin (I promise this flex is relevant) I may as well weigh in with my proposal:
Edit: I get it seems steep but keep in mind that smaller houses and apartments actually have a negative multiplier to the market value to keep them competitive and keep them as viable options for purchasing for poorer characters.
Edit2: Also the millage is directly related to how many properties are in an area. I doubt South Central is gonna fit 1,000 properties so adjust the numbers to your liking. The equation is there.
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What faction would you like to see take place in GTAW?
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How about fixing the factions that are already extant on the server?
It's currently a watered down simulacrum of LS-RP where most illegal factions can be summed up as simply as "mafia but the characters are from X country." If you're going to make huge leaps in logic opening up some Bolivian Revolutionary Nationalist Movement faction on the west coast, at least put some effort into it beyond your character names.