Almighty Weasel

Thank you kindly. As for new perks/talents for police, I ain't saying we have enough already because sure we could always use a couple more and so could all classes but it ain't exactly a walk in the park to create them. From my limited knowledge of software engineering you gotta first work out what you need it to do, you need to know what jobs/class tags it needs to affect, what jobs/class tags it should target if the perk gives an effect to a target (e.g the stun gun stunning a target for longer and slowing them more), then you have to verify the jobs that fall under the class tags to ensure there ain't anything falling through the cracks, then you also need to start actually coding it, while you're coding it you need to make sure you're using the right variables and the right lines and actions, you gotta make sure you ain't missing any important line ending symbols (most programs use ; as the line end) and then a few dozen other things you gotta check. After all that when you think it's good to go, you gotta check through it again to make sure you didn't screw anything up. Then you can either load it on a test server or on the actual server. Then when the server you loaded it onto bugs out and all the jobs revert to default darkrp jobs and you can't change your name or do anything and then the server crashes from an overload of script errors, you gotta restart the server on a backup file from two months ago because you weren't expecting it to happen then you gotta go back to see what the heck went wrong. Turns out you missed a semi colon on line 392 and you put it there and try loading it again. Same thing happens but this time you had a backup before you loaded it so everything is fine. You check again and one of the variables was misspelled. Out of frustration you spend the next twenty minutes slowly combing through the whole thing to make sure there are no more screw ups. You then gotta spend ten minutes trying to hype yourself up to loading it onto the server and you tell yourself over and over again "it'll work this time, you did everything right". You load it onto the server and finally everything works. Except it doesn't because the thing you created doesn't do anything. You get frustrated and give up. Two months later someone complains that it doesn't do anything and you let out a big long sigh in resignation and go back into the file. You struggle to remember everything you did so you comb through it for awhile. You then find what went wrong and think to yourself "How the heck did I miss this? It's so simple" you fix it, save it, restart the server, and finally the thing you started making almost three months ago finally works. But it ain't as good as you thought it would be and you start to drink yourself into a depression because you believe nothing you make will ever be as good as you want it to be. Some time goes by and you end up giving up on developing because nobody appreciates any of the work you do anymore because they always want better. You find yourself constantly drinking and before too long everyone you love slowly drifts away from you because you've become impossible to have an intelligent conversation with and you're an absolute misery to hang around. There's always one person that stuck with you though but out of frustration and self loathing you push them away 'before they leave you' even though they never would have. Well you get my point...perks and talents ain't exactly a high priority and it can get annoying and difficult to create.

A) If you read again, I added an edit line to law 4 suggesting that the starting money be increased from 30k to 60k. On top of that, if you join the steam group (which there is a pop up when you first join the server) you get 100k. [I haven't verified that myself yet but I asked a staff member and they said it is still a thing.] 160k is enough to get fined max fine eight times if the max fine is 20k. It's also way more than enough to set up a base for meth, weed, procs, miners, printers which in turn gets you lots more money. B) Which number is this concerning? 6? People elect the mayor but they can't accurately predict what will happen when they become mayor. C) Can you rephrase or elaborate on this? Ain't really sure what you're talking about here. D) Not sure what you're trying to say here. My suggestion for the K9 stun bite perk was to up it from 30% chance to 60% chance and to fix the perk so it actually works how it's supposed to because right now it shows as 30% but actually works 100% of the time. I completely agree that the talent is good for K9s and gives them a good thing to use. Afterthought: [Saiah: "I would like there to be more fines for doing certain stuff that usually isn't fine able, but I don't really agree with the price of it all."] Even if the fine numbers aren't accepted, hopefully we can still change the names of the fines. As for adding more fines, could easily do that with all the default illegal things and things that should be default illegal that could be added. I have a list.

Having a criminal record ain't really a cool thing, it's more of a hindrance in regular life

Can't do that with a criminal record but thanks for your input.

1. Not a voting system I'm suggesting, it's an NPC that basically gives you a test to see if you know and understand the rules and etiquette of PD. 2. I made that suggestion for Specialty and Lead, not regular. Originally I was suggested one hour and I was going to put one hour but while most new players would turn away if they knew they had to wait an hour, some might stick around for it just to get a chance to abuse it or they might just go afk until the hour is up. Five hours on the other hand... 4. If you cannot afford a fine, you could always just go to jail instead. But taking new players into consideration, I have edited number 4 to add in a suggestion to double the starting money. If I recall correctly, joining the steam group also awards you a lump sum of I believe 100k but I could be wrong about that, my memory ain't exactly what it used to be. 8. The SPAS doesn't need to be removed, the suggestion I received was that it needs to be a weapon sold by the supplier and not one given to police. Yes it is more efficient than the battering ram but more often than not it is misused as a 'ima go screw around' tool than to assist in police raids. As for your suggestion of for internal affairs, that's a whole other job just to go around watching CP instead of making the Lead jobs actually...y'know...lead their officers.

Brief summary of suggestion: Basically this suggestion is a large amount of changes mainly to the CP structure as a whole. Things like minimum hour barriers to prevent new players from hopping on SWAT and MRDMing or MRDAing as well as more power to SWAT Chief and PD Commander. Changes to the current fines and changing the unfun command. Just a small lore addition, nothing serious, just to put us somewhere on the map. Fixing a couple things involving gangs. Before you read the details, I am stating right now that this is not an attempt to make the server SeriousRP by any means, but currently there are no standards for CP and I'm sure y'all have more than noticed that. CPs ain't exactly the pillars of law and order lately and that's all I'm trying to fix here. Yes some of this seems like SeriousRP stuff, but it is just to make things a little better and less of a shit show when it comes to CP. How/why does this benefit the server: Most of the time when you get on the server and you watch the CPs, you will see that they have a tendency to go beyond police brutality and they will stun gun randomly, arrest/cuff falsely or randomly, or sometimes they will just outright gun people down for shits and giggles. Sometimes it's new players that just hop on to get some kicks by mass RDMing or mass RDAing. Sometimes it's veterans who just clearly do not understand that CPs actually have rules to follow or intentionally make CPs look bad. Now before you go and say "this is just your opinion from what you have seen", I did not make this suggestion alone. When I initially came back to this server about four or five months ago from a three year hiatus, I talked to people about the state of things and a lot of things I heard were complaints about CP. I ain't getting into the other stuff I heard complaints about because this is a Police Overhaul suggestion. When I started typing up a list of things to suggest in this post I consulted a few other people who are fairly devoted to CP and they hold the same views as I do. The police department right now is an absolute shit show of mingery, corruption, and 'do whatever the fuck you want'. They are not the police, they are just another gang that holds a little more power than the others. Literally as I was typing this suggestion up I alt tabbed back into game and there was a few CPs that were Mass NLR Breaking and RDMing. This suggestion and all it involves should greatly improve the police department. Details: Now for the details y'all have been waiting to hear. CP: Civil Protection, Detective, Security Specialist, Undercover Cop Specialty: Police K9, DEA Agent, Secret Service, SWAT, SWAT Enforcer, SWAT Medic, SWAT Commando, SWAT Sniper VIP: Judge Gabe, Fantasma, Smoke, Juggernaut Lead: SWAT Chief, PD Commander 1. First and foremost, create an application process/barrier for Specialty jobs. This can be done in two ways. Either by changing the mayoral campaign NPC in the PD lobby to a Police Academy NPC and creating a series of questions about the CP rules and etiquette. There would need to be a new tag created on the server and Specialty jobs would need you to have that tag in order to become them. Now the reason I say change the NPC inside the lobby is because running for mayor is something anybody can do so there is no reason for you to need to go inside the PD for it, especially when there is already an NPC for it outside the PD. There would also need to be another application for Lead jobs as there is some development I'm suggesting later on with them that would need much higher standards. Probably more rule related stuff and etiquette but also testing what you can or can't break into someone's base for or what you can fire CPs for and so on and so forth. 2. I think this one is pretty easy to agree with. Add a minimum playtime threshold for Specialty jobs and a higher threshold for Lead jobs. This will prevent new players from getting on the server and switching to a police job to mass RDM or mass RDA. It will also ensure that people who do become police are actually going to follow the rules and etiquette associated with police. I was thinking maybe five hours for Specialty jobs and fifteen for Lead jobs. By then, there will have been no excuse to not have read the rules. 3. This is is important. Currently the Mayor is the only one who can fire any police. How about we make it so that PD Commander can fire CPs and SWAT Chief can fire Specialty police. That way if there's some police that clearly are unfit to be police, the ones who actually want to play properly don't need to sit around and wait for a mayor while the unfit one(s) are going around RDAing or stunning at random or whatever they're doing. 4. Pretty simple, raise the maximum fines back up to 20k. 5k is nothing to anyone now. I fine someone 10k and they laugh it off because almost everyone on the server has at least 500k. Most people have at least 2 million. 20k is a reasonable maximum fine now that people can make money easier and do make large amounts of money quickly. With this I would say also raise the max bounty to 40k but ehhh that's up to y'all. Bounties can only be set up to the maximum fine so making the max bounty 40k would mean that they would gradually build up to it even if you set their bounty to maximum which would be 20k. EDIT: In order to account for new players with possible max fine crime breaking destroying their starting money of 30k, I also suggest that the starting money for new players be doubled to 60k. 5. Alright this one will be continued at the bottom but it is changing the default fines to be more accurate and to fit maximum fines of 20k. 6. Change the unfun command to an overthrow command and police only. Currently any time an unfun is used, it is never accepted because with 70-100 people on the server, only 20 ever vote on it. Changing it to an overthrow command and making it 75% of the police need to say yes to it give the police the ability to get rid of a corrupt or unfit mayor without the hassle of needing to switch jobs or being corrupt themselves and letting revolters in. 7. Make Judge Gaben VIP only. He has a minigun and he has the power to accept warrants for christ's sake. Who thought it would be a good idea to just give that power to literally anybody that wants it? 8. Remove the breaching SPAS from all police jobs. I didn't initially suggest this one but I agree with it sooooo much. If you're ever on the police and there's a SWAT Chief or apparently SWAT Commandos now too, you know how terrible it is. For starters, all police get a battering ram that does not allow a breach unless there's a warrant or a want. So why give SWAT the ability to just break into any base they want without a warrant or want? If you go in to the PD when there is SWAT with breaching SPAS, you'll also notice that there are no doors. Ever. If they are not police raiding a base, they are shooting the PD doors down for shits and giggles. 9. Just found out about this today but there's a gang talent that gives your K9 dog bite a 30% chance to stun your target. However it is currently broken and stuns 100% of the time. Coming from a logic standpoint, it should stun more than 30% of the time but not 100% of the time. So the suggestion is to change it to 60% of the time and fix it so it actually works properly. 10. I have no idea how this is not already added but add the ability for the gang leader to change the gang name for say 5 million. 11. Alright now before you say "ew serious rp!", this ain't about Serious RP. This is just to give police somethin to shout. For instance as the Sheriff, I shout "Sheriff's Department!" when I'm about to break into a place. Police would say "____ PD" but they don't have something for the blank. So to give them something, I worked with someone to come up with a little bit of lore and figure out where the heck we were. We ending up putting us in Orange County, California. So suggestion number 11 is, officially set Tits Downtown in Orange County. Lore wise. Nothing actually needs to be added or changed. 12. Okay I know I said nothing needs to be changed and yeah okay this might be a bit serious but I think it would be cool and would fit the Orange County better. This one is completely like eh 50/50 up to y'all but if 11 is accepted then for the sole purpose of lore and rp you could also change Civil Protection to State Trooper and maybe change the model. Now back up to number 5. I present to you, the new fines. ===== Minor Offenses ===== Disrupting The Peace - $100 Uttering Threats - $200 Defacing Property - $250 Unlawful Construction - $500 Tampering With Property - $750 Unauthorized Possession of a Firearm - $1000 ===== Mild Offenses ===== Criminally Insane Individual - $1000 Causing a Disturbance - $1250 Obstruction of Justice - $1500 Destruction of Property - $2000 Trespassing - $2000 Possession of Illegal Goods/Narcotics - $2500 Theft - $3000 Breaking and Entering - $4500 ===== Severe Offenses ===== Mugging - $5000 Assault - $5000 Sexual Assault - $5250 Destruction of Evidence - $5500 Manufacturing Illegal Goods/Narcotics - $6000 Distribution of Illegal Goods/Narcotics - $6500 Kidnapping - $6750 ===== Extreme Offenses ===== Attempted Murder - $8000 Murder - $10000 Lesser Crimes Against Law Enforcement - $12000 Attempted Kidnapping of an Officer - $13500 Attempted Murder of an Officer - $14000 Kidnapping an Officer - $14500 Murder of an Officer - $15000 Mass Kidnapping - $16500 Mass Assault - $16500 Mass Murder - $17500 ===== Terrorist Offenses ===== Assault of a Government Official - $18000 Attempted Kidnapping of a Government Official - $18500 Kidnapping a Government Official - $19000 Murder of a Government Official - $20000 Conducting Acts of Terrorism - $20000 Yeah it's a lot I know. I spent a good while combing through the default illegal acts and through the default fines to get some better numbers. I also spent a while looking through the US laws and compared them to the default fine names so I could make them more accurate. Obviously second degree murder and manslaughter aren't in here because it's all just different kinds of murder. I didn't include arson because well that's just destruction of property on a bigger level. Lesser crime against law enforcement is just crimes that ain't as bad as rape or attempted murder. Also yes, I did change it to Law Enforcement and Government Officials. Because police are not government officials. If you got any questions about any of this, feel free to ask. I'll be watching for them. And yes, trying to keep good grammar here killed me. The Gs are optional imo but eh, gotta make this presentable.