12 minutes ago, Mr Majestic said:

I think it would be more accurate to say we want balance between the factions and different play styles. I think once Vigilantes are in line as far as their monetary gains go, we'll find it easier to suggest obvious quality of life changes that they could benefit from. We're mostly waiting to see what happens with the taze script right now, we might be fucking them quite hard with that.

I did, and I'll try and explain why myself, and apparently other civ council members and staff thought it was a good idea. Right now houses are basically being taken hostage by a portion of the older player base that have already made their money with the houses. A lot of the houses currently owned by these players don't even get used anymore, they are simply refreshed and left to rot. I'm guilty of this too.

A good example is players that are currently inactive, perm banned or simply don't have the game installed anymore can have their buddies with permanent keys keep their houses active and off the market. Stopping this behaviour is beneficial to new players that are currently the life blood of the servers.

We're not even talking about a lot of money here, 10% of a 4 crater is 220k/month. I think if you're sitting on a 4 crater like that, you purchased, upgraded and put gear into - you can probably afford that upkeep and the tax is more than reasonable. Of course if the owner isn't around at all to pay the fee, or can't afford to pay the fee then the house goes up on the market for anyone to purchase.

I haven't even touched on the advantages having a passive money sink has on the server economy and inflation.

Ahh yeah I didn’t know your friends could upkeep your house for you. Fair enough then I can definitely see why this would be beneficial.

Civ can check registration of vehicles..... why? Lite rp is lite rp but cmon... this is a no brainer for many reasons.  I feel this needs to be removed for multiple reasons. I'll list 3 then would love a counter or a reason why this is even a option. 

1. Player a kills player b. Player b respawns and decides to be a prick and find any vehicle with player a name or gang to destroy, chop, etc.

2. Vigi parks vehicle in kavala and begins chasing random bounty.  Random civ checks registration, recognizes vigi name, disables car. Now vigi and possible bounty at more risk. 

3. "I hate this person" .......so civ interacts with car belonging to said hated person (cop, medic, etc)  even though new life, etc etc. 

I don't find any value in this addition outside of knowing if it's your car and even then spamming unlock has never been a issue. Please feel free to explain it. 

Civ can check registration of vehicles is bull shit and we all hate that remove it

21 hours ago, Lincoln Williams said:

Civ can check registration of vehicles..... why? Lite rp is lite rp but cmon... this is a no brainer for many reasons.  I feel this needs to be removed for multiple reasons. I'll list 3 then would love a counter or a reason why this is even a option. 

1. Player a kills player b. Player b respawns and decides to be a prick and find any vehicle with player a name or gang to destroy, chop, etc.

2. Vigi parks vehicle in kavala and begins chasing random bounty.  Random civ checks registration, recognizes vigi name, disables car. Now vigi and possible bounty at more risk. 

3. "I hate this person" .......so civ interacts with car belonging to said hated person (cop, medic, etc)  even though new life, etc etc. 

 

I don't find any value in this addition outside of knowing if it's your car and even then spamming unlock has never been a issue. Please feel free to explain it. 

Here's a thought:

Vigi sees random tree shitter with 1mil bounty, surrounded by other tree members in Kavala. Vigi checks cars nearby, and finds the bounties car, places a GPS tracker, and waits for him to be alone or off guard.

There's plenty of pros to outweigh the cons brother.

6 hours ago, |REAL| Boing said:

 

Here's a thought:

Vigi sees random tree shitter with 1mil bounty, surrounded by other tree members in Kavala. Vigi checks cars nearby, and finds the bounties car, places a GPS tracker, and waits for him to be alone or off guard.

There's plenty of pros to outweigh the cons brother.

That's one pro. But not enough to make me a fan of the entire project. Sorry