Revisit PF issuing rules

[Kiks.]

As someone who joined the server just two months ago and has no bans, I find the PF regulation rules to be absurd. Illegal roleplay grants easier access to guns, while civilians face stricter requirements, such as having no bans for a full year and at least three months of server activity. It’s easier to join law enforcement than to work for a small security company, which makes no sense to me. Civilians should have better access to firearms instead of only arming illegal factions. I believe the system should be more balanced and fair.

[Dano]

Everyone faces the same regulations surrounding legal firearms. The only exception is being an LEO, which has its own set of rules and procedures to join that faction. Illegal role-players can obtain firearms, but if they get caught they face jail time. I'm not really sure what could be different about the current format, as it's quite straightforward already.

[Galloway]

The reason it's the way it's constructed is because people get licenses just to abuse the system and drip the guns into the illegal scene via illegal transfers or other unauthorized methods. It's easy to say it should be easier for the civilian population to have access to firearms but then you also have mass abusers abusing the same system.

Edited January 9 by Galloway

[CowboyYoda22]

8 minutes ago, Galloway said:

The reason it's the way it's constructed is because people get licenses just to abuse the system and drip the guns into the illegal scene via illegal transfers or other unauthorized methods. It's easy to say it should be easier for the civilian population to have access to firearms but then you also have mass abusers abusing the same system.

This, it's also why you can't really get ARs or things like that because the potential abuse is there.

[Kiks.]

On 1/9/2025 at 3:39 PM, Galloway said:

The reason it's the way it's constructed is because people get licenses just to abuse the system and drip the guns into the illegal scene via illegal transfers or other unauthorized methods. It's easy to say it should be easier for the civilian population to have access to firearms but then you also have mass abusers abusing the same system.

I'm new to this server and still getting familiar with how things work. However, it seems like some measures aimed at preventing abuse by illegal roleplayers might be limiting certain aspects that legal roleplayers need. Did their actions really lead to cutting down on improvements for legal roleplayers?

[DLimit]

I've never had any issues with owning a PF license. I usually attain them in a span of 3 days. It's a thousand times easier to earn a firearm, via a PF, than through the illegal scene. CCW? Understandable.

[Dano]

21 hours ago, DLimit said:

I've never had any issues with owning a PF license. I usually attain them in a span of 3 days. It's a thousand times easier to earn a firearm, via a PF, than through the illegal scene. CCW? Understandable.

 

I'd agree with this as well, personally. I haven't had trouble obtaining a PF on a legal character, or a normal character for that matter. Obviously, as an LEO you're able to get one quite easily as well.

[pazzz]

I've never had issues with getting myself a PF license, however, the rules were changed most recently after a decision was made to completely close the PF applications to assess and re-evaluate ideas to combat PF abuse. Their solution was the following, and because nothing has reverted or has changed, I think it's fair to assume their new rules have decreased PF abuse dramatically

[Pengu]

It should stay as it is. I understand your concern, but you need to realize that it takes some time to get fully accustomed to the server. People often abuse the PF system to commit crimes with their characters or to have their guns robbed by illegal faction members. It's fine the way it is

[Adv]

The reason these rules are so stringent (although the ban ones have been relaxed slightly) is due to players with bad records who have openly exploited the systems, and come back and sold PF guns in a poor way in the past. 

 

The standards are this way for a reason, we regularly review them when necessary, but for now, they'll stay the way they are.