Firestone at the moment is really going through a boring phase. There is little gun crime and most of the servers have at least 1/5th of the players sitting inside of CD afk, wasting spots in the servers and leading to less activity in the county. Criminals are a vital part of the community, yes they can be toxic and can be hated, but without the criminals, there is nothing for any LEOs to do. Due to the price of weapons and vehicles, it is really hard to see any major criminal activity and it then leads to criminals choosing to either exploit or go legal.
Images of a recent server:
(Creds to Cuxle
) I won’t post them all but there was 15 people sitting AFK. Is that seriously how Firestone is now?
To put it into perspective, knives cost around 550 dollars. On average a citizen makes 10 dollars every 2 minutes so that is 300 dollars an hour (excluding the fact that when the servers lag, the timer doesn’t work properly and you get paid less). It would take just under 2 hours in V2 just to even get a knife. Then comes to actually using the knife. Knifes aren’t really effective, especially when against an LEO. Chances are you’ll be tap tased and arrested, leading to your 2 hour money spree pointless.
You could instead choose to spend up to 4 hours of your time saving up your money to buy the cheapest weapon a criminal can get which is a CZ-75 for $995. That could, using the element of surprise, kill 1 or maybe 2 people but once done, the chances are you’ll be shot on sight and your weapon will be lost.
ROBBERIES
Instead of sitting around doing fuck all, why not go and get money the illegal way utilising robberies?
ATM robberies in Prominence are normally a safe way to get money assuming that SCSO/FSP are all huddled around Redwood as they normally do for some reason. However, the likelihood of you actually getting a decent amount of money is not worth your time.
Store and Bank Robberies. It is almost impossible to win these robberies unless you have a lot of people willing to ambush or confuse the LEOs on scene. However then goes the issue of, if you do win the bank robbery, now you must give the others their share of the winnings and that just ruins your earnings. LEOs are overpowered in terms of what areas they can block off, clearing out normal ambush areas, preventing getaway drivers from even getting into the corner of the city. I admit I have been apart of the problem and so has FNG with their callouts but now that’s fixed hopefully there will be an improvement.
CONCLUSION
Criminals find it much more easier to spend their life AFKing and doing fuck all instead of doing something which takes a lot of time and people to set up, can be foiled before it even starts and has a extremely low likelihood of success. Honestly I don’t blame the criminals for preferring that option. Theres no safe way of making money apart from AFKing, whereas a simple transport job would fix that. There are so many options from past things such as:
- [V2] Legal & illegal civilian jobs using the 5th year anniversary quest system!
- Using DPW’s trash collector thing where if you collect a certain amount of bins and take it back to DPW, you get money.
Another way of fixing the problem? Lower the gun prices and weapon prices. Yes there will be more crime but it’s far easier than scripting a simple transportation job.
Criminals, this is more of a problem relating to yourselves, you know more details than I do and I would much appreciate you guys putting what you have to say here with your perspective of things and other ways to imrpove.
Founders and Developers, we know V3 is your priority and we want it as much as you do, however if the activity in V2 does not get fixed, Firestone will start dying out before we even get to that point. Please add a method of getting money legitimately or at least lower the gun prices.
