Alright so here are gonna be a bunch of bulk suggestions that i personally think will make the quality of life of the server better
1. Turn off vehicle damage or lower the amount of damage it does. The amount of times ive been driven into while in a shoot out or tapped someone with my car going 5km is extremely annoying at this point ( will also stop people deliberately running people over to minge)
2. Add Lawyers and judges to the server. Personally theres nothing more annoying than being charged with something you shouldnt have been charged with, especially with some cops stacking charges and resfusing superiors.
3.Make cops have to read you your rights, pretty simple but would add to the lawyer Rp above ^
4. Keep certain items on death. Personally i think certain items such as Pickaxes, axes, crafting tables and food shouldnt be lost when you die none of these items are illegal and should be kept in inventory when you die, i personally hate having to go to woolworths for the 80th time in one day because i died, instead of running out of food because i havent bought any recently.
5. Auto eat, self explantory could even be a donator perk.
6. Certain items not being confiscated when being arrested. Items like above or crafting items should be exempt from being confiscated and items that are illegal should be the only ones being confiscated. To help PD in this situation you could highlight illegal items in red in the player inventory.
7.Chop shop, another criminal opportunity that isnt robbing the gas station or making drugs, can be placed down at the docks area.
8. More robberies, Allow other stores such as the one in woogong or the ones in the westfields to be robbed. Turn the old bank area that is currently not in use into a bank robbery for gold bars, make them heavy so that they need to be placed into CCUs and transported to an NPC to be sold
9.Tone down the amount of crafting materials needed for certain things, or make it that you get crafting items a little bit quicker, Currently the game play loop is quite boring ( i know its beta) Get car > Go buy table and pickaxe / axe > Drive to location > Spend 20-30 minutes to make 1 plus 2 boxes of ammo
really great ideas in my opinion however on the lawyer suggestion '2' ,
2. Quite often the carry on and hassle of lawyer RP is not worth the time and pain it takes. Its much easier to just eat the full sentence you get and take it on the chin.
If you do feel like you are innocent, have been given an incorrect jail sentence or have been refused a superior then im pretty sure you can gather evidence and contact the commissioner or whatever to try and get that officer demoted or in trouble.
and just putting in my 2 cents in on the chop shop idea...
Instead of like ugh..., previous servers... where you could pay to make your car un-choppable, what about if someone was to chop your car (they get $$$ for it obviously) and instead of that car getting deleted completely, you just have to pay like 4x the amount you would usually have to pay when your car gets destroyed or impounded?
and i completely agree, realism does not = fun
i (we) play this game to wind down from real life, not keep living it :P
Question for suggestion number 2. Let's say your sentence at most is only to be 20 month (20 minutes), But the lawyer and court RP is to take much longer than that due to having to get your lawyer to come or have one appointed to you, police interviews, potential eye witness reports, court cases ahead of yours meaning you have to wait, etc. While I would love to interact with this roleplay as I think it would be a bunch of fun, it is a enormous time consumption that must be contributed by multiple players. Love the idea, just think it isn't practical. If you have a suggestion for how this could work in a practical sense please let me know :)
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10. Realism doesnt = fun