TinyBigJacko
Management
Management
Dev Team
Los Santos Police Command
Los Santos NHS
Los Santos Firefighter
Gruppe 6
Judge
- Location
- Vinewood Casino Management Office
A complaint lodged by some early starters on Tanoa, first night, was that they'd (rather stupidly, imho) withdrawn every red cent of their £5000 starting money, and went bombing off on a quadbike and died, losing their entire life-savings in the process (and usually making some other casual passing hobo extremely happy and doubly rich only a few moments later).
We feel sorry for these fucktards. Really we do. We had no idea that some people would shit the gig quite so quickly, and ultimately ruin all chance of reasonably or realistically participating in the Tanoan economic process. It is our fault. We forgot to bubblewrap the island, and we didn't give them any sort of PPI scheme to safeguard their cash or stop them risking their family's whole bank on the wicked roads of this jungle paradise. We feel sad for them, and a tiny bit ashamed.
But we want them to come back, and try their luck again. Life has been made considerably easier for new hobos, and although we still expect them to work, there is nothing like the level of slavery that first existed in this glorious island. The government of Tanoa is embarking on a number of new schemes to boost immigration, and assist those who tried and failed, or tried and died, to make a start in Tanoa once before.
Now, there are two ways we can give these poor, broken, penniless individuals another chance at the golden life. One is rather cold, remote and devoid of opportunity for fun, banter, RP and shizzles; the other has all the makings of a whole new schema of RP, and a madcap level of insanity that would put Altis mayoral voting comment-booths to shame. Neither (luckily for me) would necessarily involve much coding - unless one took off as a really neat thing to expand upon, but I'll leave that for another day...
SO....
Should we simply give players who want a restart on Tanoa, a jolly good wipe and/or a boost of their funds back to their original starting bank of £5000 (and do this as many times as they need in order to stop falling flat on their poor, deluded arses...
OR...
Should we create an 'emergent gameplay' scenario in which members of the Tanoan townspeople, high-ranking cops, and/or the Mayor of Georgetown all sit down in a room (for example, the Town Hall, or even the waiting room at the airport), and INTERVIEW these poor saps, in order to hear their tales of woe, their stories of death and destruction, destitution and pain, and then decide - jury style, or by edict from the highest-ranking person present (which ever makes for more arguing and fighting the better, imho) - whether or not to give said poor sap applicant his money back. Or perhaps more. Or less. And perhaps with strings attached - like 'you must clean the airport windows for 15 minutes before we pay you', or 'Roadsweeping for you, buddy, till sunset', or, 'the mayor needs a hand-job and there are no prozzies on the island; get to it'. You know the sort of thing. We are limited here only by our imagination, RP skill, and ability to coordinate such gatherings either by side-chat, forum posts, or whatever... All it will need is one (forewarned) admin to be present for the final awarding of whatever cash figure is decided.
OR, OR...
Do we do a combination of both, to allow room for the ickle pwetty people who might be too scared to roleplay such an activity in order to beg... I mean, apply respectfully to the State and await due process, of course - for the their money back after losing the lot like the true gipper that they evidently were.
What do you think?
PS I would've added a poll, but this blood forum engine hates me. Perhaps someone smarter than me can add it? (Thank you Wasted... poll below
http://www.strawpoll.me/10882722/r
We feel sorry for these fucktards. Really we do. We had no idea that some people would shit the gig quite so quickly, and ultimately ruin all chance of reasonably or realistically participating in the Tanoan economic process. It is our fault. We forgot to bubblewrap the island, and we didn't give them any sort of PPI scheme to safeguard their cash or stop them risking their family's whole bank on the wicked roads of this jungle paradise. We feel sad for them, and a tiny bit ashamed.
But we want them to come back, and try their luck again. Life has been made considerably easier for new hobos, and although we still expect them to work, there is nothing like the level of slavery that first existed in this glorious island. The government of Tanoa is embarking on a number of new schemes to boost immigration, and assist those who tried and failed, or tried and died, to make a start in Tanoa once before.
Now, there are two ways we can give these poor, broken, penniless individuals another chance at the golden life. One is rather cold, remote and devoid of opportunity for fun, banter, RP and shizzles; the other has all the makings of a whole new schema of RP, and a madcap level of insanity that would put Altis mayoral voting comment-booths to shame. Neither (luckily for me) would necessarily involve much coding - unless one took off as a really neat thing to expand upon, but I'll leave that for another day...
SO....
Should we simply give players who want a restart on Tanoa, a jolly good wipe and/or a boost of their funds back to their original starting bank of £5000 (and do this as many times as they need in order to stop falling flat on their poor, deluded arses...
OR...
Should we create an 'emergent gameplay' scenario in which members of the Tanoan townspeople, high-ranking cops, and/or the Mayor of Georgetown all sit down in a room (for example, the Town Hall, or even the waiting room at the airport), and INTERVIEW these poor saps, in order to hear their tales of woe, their stories of death and destruction, destitution and pain, and then decide - jury style, or by edict from the highest-ranking person present (which ever makes for more arguing and fighting the better, imho) - whether or not to give said poor sap applicant his money back. Or perhaps more. Or less. And perhaps with strings attached - like 'you must clean the airport windows for 15 minutes before we pay you', or 'Roadsweeping for you, buddy, till sunset', or, 'the mayor needs a hand-job and there are no prozzies on the island; get to it'. You know the sort of thing. We are limited here only by our imagination, RP skill, and ability to coordinate such gatherings either by side-chat, forum posts, or whatever... All it will need is one (forewarned) admin to be present for the final awarding of whatever cash figure is decided.
OR, OR...
Do we do a combination of both, to allow room for the ickle pwetty people who might be too scared to roleplay such an activity in order to beg... I mean, apply respectfully to the State and await due process, of course - for the their money back after losing the lot like the true gipper that they evidently were.
What do you think?
PS I would've added a poll, but this blood forum engine hates me. Perhaps someone smarter than me can add it? (Thank you Wasted... poll below
http://www.strawpoll.me/10882722/r
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