hello great developers of firestone! id like to talk to you about 2 problems with the v2 criminal record
[1]
It appears that in v2, how the arrest date is handled doesn’t really make sense.
Back in the day the date&time was user-inserted, which was bad, so then they made the field autofilled, which is much better. Problem is the field is STILL EDITABLE, I don’t know why people would even want to change that field but for some reason some people do.
Also none of this explains why there’s not even a simple os.time() saved in the arrest record, so the only indication of the time of arrest is whatever the officer writes there (and spoiler: sometimes they put a wrong date there).
[2]
The in-game criminal record GUI has a problem too: you can’t see the date and time for the arrest (even when that is inserted correctly) if there are a few charges. The entire record is printed out in a single text box, which is limited in size (and not big enough).
Now why are these a big problem?
Well you don’t wanna arrest a suspect twice, so when you detain someone and they say they were already arrested, you want to VERIFY that by checking their criminal record. But because of issue n.2, you often can’t. So you use the Firestone Database website made by the great @Samtella but because of issue n.1 (aswell as problems with the old system) the date ordering doesn’t work well… and even if it does, the date & time could be wrong, or it could have only the date, stuff like that.
In short, you cannot VERIFY the last time of arrest.
thank u for ur time.