NPCs updating you on Prices via Phone suggestion

[El Chapo]

By adding the new update where you have to constantly run from one NPC to another to check prices, or you have to wait for someone to take pity on you and tell you through rumour. So I've come up with an Idea of adding a new Phone System where the NPCs are in your contacts and they can constantly update you on prices, so let's say you want to see how much is the Cocaine you just do (F1 > Inventory > Phone > Contacts > Cocaine Buyer > Ask for the Price) or let's say you want to ask the Rockefeller NPC John S. Rockefeller you do it via the Phone. People will not be able to spam the NPCs asking them what's the price every second you will be able to send the message to each NPC every 5 minutes or so. It doesn't have to be the thing I want but make something so we don't have to run from one NPC to another and waste time. 

[SolidSnakeDrive]

5 minutes ago, El Chapo said:

By adding the new update where you have to constantly run from one NPC to another to check prices, or you have to wait for someone to take pity on you and tell you through rumour. So I've come up with an Idea of adding a new Phone System where the NPCs are in your contacts and they can constantly update you on prices, so let's say you want to see how much is the Cocaine you just do (F1 > Inventory > Phone > Contacts > Cocaine Buyer > Ask for the Price) or let's say you want to ask the Rockefeller NPC John S. Rockefeller you do it via the Phone. People will not be able to spam the NPCs asking them what's the price every second you will be able to send the message to each NPC every 5 minutes or so. It doesn't have to be the thing I want but make something so we don't have to run from one NPC to another and waste time. 

Where is the police or illegal aspect to this at all? a wiretapped phone? that's rare.           

With baggies you risk getting caught with at the very least or something. Just dialing a guy for a price with no consequences is so boring. You may as well literally be selling bags of cookies to the NPC at this point.

[El Chapo]

48 minutes ago, SolidSnakeDrive said:

Where is the police or illegal aspect to this at all? a wiretapped phone? that's rare.           

With baggies you risk getting caught with at the very least or something. Just dialing a guy for a price with no consequences is so boring. You may as well literally be selling bags of cookies to the NPC at this point.

You are right, but when they can add Radio Frequency Encryption they should make that you can encrypt your phone too?

[Geo_Zeus]

Or you can use the payphones for something like that

[El Chapo]

6 hours ago, Geo_Zeus said:

Or you can use the payphones for something like that

Sure even that, now about what the guy said about Wiretapped Phones you will just ask a Simple Question "What's the Price of Lasagna" and the LSD Buyer will respond immediately you will not ask him "What's the price of LSD" logically.

[bingus]

NPC: *whispers* hey... it's time to sell...

NPC: *whispers* hey... maybe don't sell...

Edited 5 hours ago by bingus

[Omerta]

2 hours ago, bingus said:

NPC: *whispers* hey... it's time to sell...

NPC: *whispers* hey... maybe don't sell...

Something like this isn’t bad.

 

but, honestly, you guys are just getting lazy as fuck with these “QoL” asks.

[Geo_Zeus]

4 hours ago, El Chapo said:

Sure even that, now about what the guy said about Wiretapped Phones you will just ask a Simple Question "What's the Price of Lasagna" and the LSD Buyer will respond immediately you will not ask him "What's the price of LSD" logically.

Wiretapping payphones is useless with the amount of people that use them, that's why payphones were used by criminals so much back when they were around. Maybe wear gloves or wipe them down after use and you're good

[Geo_Zeus]

48 minutes ago, Omerta said:

Something like this isn’t bad.

 

but, honestly, you guys are just getting lazy as fuck with these “QoL” asks.

Honestly, it makes sense. The NPC price update is just RNG shit at the end of the day. It didn't introduce any new RP, it's more of a gimmick in my eyes than a cool new feature, hence why it's normal for people to try and enhance it.

Side note, this post inspired me to make a suggestion about the NPC prices that'll probably get looked at so thanks @El Chapo

[xDutchCat]

I'd rather suggest then to implemnt this via the new payphone system, you beep and it gives a hint its a high risk or low risk to sell, or just walk to the npc with product cause honestly what risk does it take when you're in the line of sight of the npc? absolutely nothing cause you can't get arrested for 'speaking with the npc'