Just an Alternative thought. we could rebalance the community quite heavily.
For example if we take a random number say there is 100x too much money than we /100 everything bring all the prices and money making methods in line with a more realistic economy.
Realistically though the problem is really long term players who have everything, this has an effect on them yes. But it also heavily effects your new players who have 100k they’ve worked hard for, to log on and find out it’s now 1k.
I think if you want to rebalance without a wipe it can be done, but would require considerable work. The container tax already took a big step in this direction. To make it fun, I’d like to see;
- Rule changes to make it more fun for smaller groups. My suggestion would be a ‘rule of 6’ applied across the board but remove the teaming rules that stop gangs teaming up with each other. For example, very rough -
A maximum of 6 people can be involved in any hostile activity at any time. You can gather with as many people as you want however you must pick 6 people to deal with any hostile actions, including both offensive and defensive. If you are travelling in a larger group and another group decides to attack you, you are expected to try defend yourself within suitable means in this situation but doesn’t allow you’re entire group to go offensive, only more than 6 can be involved defensively. Once you have defended yourself, your group should decide which 6 can continue the Roleplay offensively (ie taking people to a dodgy doctor). This would also apply to Police, only 6 units (or officers) can attend any one dispatch or scene, leaving it to Police to decide which 6 are best suited to be there. For example, a major firearms incident may be 6 firearms units. A hostage scene may be 2 CID, 2 Firearms, no traffic etc…
This would allow to gangs and factions etc… alike but with this you could remove the teaming rules, allowing gangs to team up together but still only to a maximum of 6. Like 3 people one gang, 3 people from another. It also means that large gangs of 25 can’t zerg smaller gangs and gives them a better chance to actually grow, making it fairer for everyone.
- Reduce the gang cap to 15, this would be feasible and actually would work without people complaining Police are more powerful since only 6 could ever be against them. However this would then mean less people per gang, therefore more gangs, increasing gang to gang Roleplay and should see an increase in RP, as well as quality.
- Cap profits of businesses via a tax, for example car dealerships can only make x amount of profit per sale. This stops silly auctions where super car dealerships make 12m profit on a single sale.
- Change sentences to be 10% of their current amount, but make it so you must be online to serve the sentence. Don’t allow crazy sentences like 10k, 15k etc… but like you said would require more activities in prison. Being part of the Lost, I recently spent a lot of time in prison and it was fun tbh, but that was only because we had a load of people in at the same time, we have interviews, we had visitors, we had people smuggling things in etc… there was actually roleplay instead of just cleaning tables.
- I still believe inactive businesses should be removed from people, instead of criminals being targeted. If someone isn’t putting effort into their business and using it for passive income instead, they shouldn’t have it. Simple as that. Don’t charge people millions, but give the CoC the full ability to audit and remove from inactive owners. Make bars useful, make restaurants unique in what they sell.
- Add more ways to make money (I know, easier said than done) like car scrapping (I’d scrap 90% of what I own
), vin scratching, the legal jobs we heard about a while ago. By all means axe everyone’s money if you feel it’s the right move, but it’s pointless if you leave the same money making ways that people have been doing for a long time already.
I don’t fully believe the issues with RPUK right now are solely based on the economy being a mess, I think a big part of it is that new groups struggle to thrive and older players can walk all over them. Instead of nuking the server and starting over, maybe some rule changes to make things fairer is a better way to handle it. Like Isak said, he has everything and there is nothing left to accomplish, but if he had a chance to actually compete within the city’s dynamic on a fair level, it would be a hell of a lot more fun in my opinion.
I may be way off here from what others are thinking, but that’s why opinion anyway. All conflict these days is pretty much a numbers game. Roleplay is stale, gangs set ‘push times’ now when at war and don’t log on outside of this because they don’t have numbers. Nobody is trying to run businesses, it’s all about how much money it can make. Nobody is willing to lose a situation or items so push for the win instead of having fun. Things have become very rinse and repeat now for a lot of people and that’s why a lot have stopped playing. Without a reset, a shake up is needed. Reading discord and the forums there’s a lot of complaining, maybe it’s time to try something else…
