Jobs Vol.2
After receiving positive feedback on my last suggestion post I thought I'd ask people around me what does RPUK lack Job / Activities wise? And majority came back with "RP" I had a few examples that caught my attention and I put them in here with more ideas hopefully helping them to be more in-depth.
I believe there aren't many jobs that people can do that involve /me or genuine RP with emotes.
The server at the moment is full of people just robbing, dumping, repeat.
I had some ideas that would probably help out the servers RP balance in Jobs and hopefully gets more RP involved instead of everything being involving guns and shootouts, so here are some ideas I have written up and looked at from every perspective I could possibly think of.
1. Waiter/Bartender Jobs
Quite simple really to grasp, I feel like when in city sometimes I want to go out and RP with friends and family, imagine the possibilities of events like birthdays and weddings, I think some NPC restaurants should be good for a job to serve people, maybe get a skill involving waitering or bartending.
I think this should be decent wage not too much but I think this could help bring some RP back to restaurants/clubs/bars, instead of going to a bar and looking at the counter you could ask for a drink where they make it in front of you, or heat up some food for you in front of you. Take G6 Key Cutting for an example, imagine a cooking animation or a cash register animation, the /me possibilities, I think this feature would help decrease crime and actually incorporate some more RP into the server.
I have witnessed a lot of bad talk about people who want to RP out a bartender job to get somewhere in city even though this is an RP server people genuinely only care about shooting/robbing I've seen many people go up to a club and say "Hey can I apply to be a bartender here" and they laugh and call them weirdos for wanting some RP, I hope this bit of the suggestion supresses that.
2. Piloting/Airlines Jobs
Want to fly up to Sandy? Paleto? or come back down to the main airport? Airline companies have now invested their planes into RPUK!
I would like to see some piloting jobs, air traffic control, runway guiders, imagine the RP of taxiing a plane to a station to let passengers off, this could be just NPC or can be both NPC and actual players. Let me list some piloting jobs:
1. Cargo delivery flights
2. Commercial flights
3. Military flights (Cops)
4. VIP Helicopter Rides
I can see some scenarios with the cargo, it could introduce some criminal activities, ordering in contraband, you need to RP out a way to get that contraband into your hands and police have to either talk it out in questioning or take it to court if it's that big of deal, if you RP successfully and convince the police that what you're ordering isn't contraband and is used for legal activities then you will get the contraband.
Or if you want to take a break from RPUK for let's say a week or a day, take a flight out, RP it out to the point of actually leaving city and coming back through the airport/plane. I think this should be a high paying job - it should also include some new piloting licenses that you get tested for, have some people be higher ups and teach the ropes on how to fly and however they do, they either fail or pass their flight exam!
3. Garbage Collection
Los Santos has been collecting more and more garbage over the months with the population of the city rising and more and more waste being produced!
This could be just an NPC job however with a lot of RP capabilities, going up to houses with a garbage truck and collecting rubbish from bins, I can see the frustration of not being able to get into your house because the garbage truck is in the way collecting rubbish from other houses thus creating a traffic jam.
This adds a lot more realism, I think clubs should have a garbage meter to which it needs to be kept down so after sales, the garbage meter goes up making it so people who collect garbage have something to do, going to businesses and clearing out their garbage, I say the more garbage in the meter, the more trash appears outside the club or shop, making it look repulsive, I think this job could help make the city look clean and fresh and also it can create RP with the owners of said businesses, on social media a business owner can say "Please may we have the garbage taken away from ____________ will pay more!" and someone can do the job as they clean the garbage out.
This can create connections and a lot of RP, that's what the city usually lacks in my opinion.
One more thing I would like to add is this could be a great addition to Prison RP, want to decrease your sentence and have a good deed on your PNC profile?
Prisoners can go around with G6 guiding them of course to pick up trash to help the city remain clean, however I can see why people wouldn't want this because what's stopping a gang coming along and taking G6 hostage and freeing the person who is in their gang, however I think with a good RP this could work out well, if it has bad RP then of course this can be taken out of city and to TeamSpeak and maybe the forums.
4. Bus / Coach Jobs
Now I know in the taxi depot you can now rent a vehicle with multiple seats of use, however I do feel like a Bus job would be amazing, imagine waiting at Bus depots around the city for a lift, this could be a NPC job as well, and I think it should be an upgrade from taxiing, say you've been a taxi driver for a few weeks maybe a month, your skill with driving and knowledge of the city grows, you want to ambitiously move up a level, with experience and the money you can earn from taxiing you can buy a license that lets you access a bus or coach, now I think to prevent random bus/coaches everywhere this needs to be a some sort of whitelisted job.
Reason being is that I think the city needs to have ranks you can reach within a time period, just like Mechanics you go from the start to the finish and you earn perks, I really do feel like if this was to become a job this could be really interesting to see what scenarios can happen, a coach breaking down in the middle of nowhere (Mechanic RP)? People fighting on the bus over a stupid thing (Police RP)? Everything is possible with one new addition to the city and I think this is one of them additions.
Now I do feel like Bus / Coaches should earn more than Taxi Jobs, reason being is they are a bigger responsibility and a big job to take on, let's say if you take a bus out you have an assigned route when clocked in but everyone has different routes, this can make so much fun interactions.
5. Receptionist (Ties in with a suggestion agreed upon)
Hotels was suggested and accepted with a lot of good feedback, a receptionist job would be amazing, imagine helping a NPC to get their room or an actual person get their room, you can give keys to people and have a receptionist phone when they order room service you can give them food or drinks, sanitary products, whatever meets the eye of the role-player, this will be charged to their room.
Whatever the receptionist earns a certain percentage goes to the hotel to keep it up and running and the rest goes to the receptionist, depending if the hotel is owned by someone or just server owned.
As touched upon earlier this can create a lot of good RP scenarios, noise complaints, room service, parties... Just so much potential and honestly I would invest money into staying at a hotel as a holiday away for a bit.
These are just some of the ideas I have thought of and had input on.
I want to hear how you guys feel about these suggestions, quote the ones you would like to see.
If you disagree on any of them then say that as well, this post is just to see what people want and don't want.
I want to hear how you guys feel about these suggestions, quote the ones you would like to see.
If you disagree on any of them then say that as well, this post is just to see what people want and don't want.
Please keep everything civil below and thank you for reading!
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