The game needs significant improvement on the criminal side. The legal side is completely fine, but criminal is absolutely lacking. Below are a list of things I believe that everyone can agree will make being a criminal, and in some cases legal, much easier and WAY more fun
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Criminal version of the post office. They transfer illegal packages between places, however we make the packages they have illegal to possess, which then we can make the payout higher since it is more risky. You can also make it more difficult, but it shouldnt alert every LEO while you are operating it.
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Add buyable houses. When you purchase a house, when you load into the game your saved house will also load. We can add ways to buy furniture and other items to decorate your house, which would be nice for legal citizens as well as criminals. You should also be able to store items in your house. LEOs can therefore request search warrants on peoples house, and if you are in the game it can get raided.
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Add vehicle inventories, to stash items and such. Storage capacity will be based on vehicle type and size; see section on combat logging
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Save your inventory when you leave the game; see section on combat logging
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If inventories for people and vehicles are added, add combat logging system. You must wait 5-10 minutes after engaging in combat to leave the game, otherwise your personal and spawned vehicle inventory is wiped. This can be adapted to the house system, but as a “raid logging” system, so if the LEOs bust down your door, you also cannot leave or all your stored items in your house are wiped unless you wait a certain amount of time.
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Add illegal item production. If you own a property, you can place items to produce and create illegal items which you can then transport to a dealer to sell. Different dealers will take different percentages, for example skull island can be less cut taken out due to difficulty. Prices for sold items should also fluctuate. Transporting these items would also be dangerous, as you can only store so much in a car so your fast cars would be very inefficient, and you would have to use a van or box truck if you wanted to sell efficiently, balancing the selling aspect. You should only be able to hold a couple in your personal inventory.
Some examples that you can sell are like bloxy colas, doughnuts, pizzas, weird looking statues, you name it. As long as it isnt drug related, it isnt TOS.
Purchasing items necessary for production can also be another avenue of conflict, holding the ingredients shouldnt be illegal except for some, however if you purchase a large amount of ingredients from one place, it can send an alert in the 911 for a police investigation, from which FBI can use the detective kit to determine who purchased it. This isnt exactly grounds for arrest, but can be used to build a case and provide reasonable suspicion. It would incentivize driving around the map to not arouse suspicion as you have to buy from different stores
Additionally, due to the relative secret nature of this, legal citizens might be inclined to have a side operation as its not immediately gonna bring police to your door… yet again opening more opportunity for RP and action.
Sold items would produce dirty money, of course
- Business economy. Owning a business generates legal money while it is operating, basically a legal version of the “Turf” system, which you can use to pay employees, therefore increasing legal jobs. You would have to open a business bank account to do this. We can create laws on embezzlement and such, with yet again FBI being able to see legal bank records from businesses. Commerce can act as a sort of IRS as well and see bank business account records. Income can be supplemented with sales, or be entirely based on it.
Stock market that we set up can actually function, where you can invest in business for either a return or a loss
Additionally, you can wash dirty money through a legal business, but be careful, because large outliers in income might result in investigation… Owner obviously has to be in on it, randoms cant do it to an innocent business
I believe with these changes added, v2 would be absolutely golden for all sides. Feel free to suggest more in the replies!
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