please do something ANYTHING to regulate cops bro

[lordsicarus]

A lot of people probably won’t agree with me on this but god damn, the average amount of cops online at a time always seems to be around 15-25. It’s honestly insane. The whole purpose of having a cop faction in the first place should be to add to mafia RP, not constantly interfere with it. Obviously having cops is necessary for mafia RP but there are just so many of them and they almost always move around in groups of 5+ which is just fucking wild.

It would be a little more understandable if things worked somewhat realistically. In real life you can say something quietly to someone without the entire street hearing you and it wouldn’t magically reach a cop sitting on top of a building. I know someone will probably say "that’s why /w exists" but why do we have to limit RP to typing out a /w because cops are such a constant concern?

This brings me to my second point, voice chat. I don’t know exactly how the current system works or if something like this is already in place but I feel like it could be made a lot more realistic. Imagine a bubble around someone where the louder their microphone input is the farther away people can hear them. The same thing would work for someone speaking quietly. If their mic isn’t detecting much volume then their voice wouldn’t carry nearly as far.

This would make RP so much more technical and immersive. It would allow people to have quieter and more discreet conversations without every interaction having to be "/itaw" or people constantly worrying that the wrong person might happen to walk by and hear them.

Now my third point is about cops being able to basically position themselves anywhere and record people from across the street committing crimes. This is especially important considering this is set in the 1990s. Technology was obviously not anywhere close to what it is today.

For example, imagine a cop sitting on the roof in Little Italy above the ATM and recording someone who is almost at the edge of their render distance pistol whipping someone. That recording should not realistically be usable as solid evidence against someone for battery, attempted murder or anything similar. Go look at the quality of surveillance cameras and recording equipment available to police in 1990. You simply would not be able to clearly identify someone from across the street with some shitty camera and limited zoom.

I understand this is a game and some things are obviously going to be exaggerated but there still needs to be some level of realism. A huge part of mafia RP, even if it is exaggerated, is being able to pistol whip an associate for insulting you or saying something disrespectful without having to worry that some cop sitting on a rooftop half a block away is going to magically witness it, zoom in, identify you and come arrest you.

I genuinely don’t understand how that is supposed to be realistic. I know damn well cops in the 1990s weren’t carrying professional movie set equipment onto rooftops and recording random streets just hoping to catch someone committing a crime. If they were conducting surveillance there would usually be a specific person, location or investigation involved.

I’m not saying cops shouldn’t be able to observe or investigate crimes. They obviously should. But there needs to be some reasonable limitation on how many cops are online, how they move around, how voice chat works and what can realistically be considered evidence. Otherwise it starts feeling less like mafia RP with a police faction and more like mafia RP where the entire point is just trying to avoid an army of cops who can somehow see and hear everything.

[SuleG2]

"man i sure wonder why there's heavily armed cops in a city that for some reason has 12+ separate criminal factions in which muggings, murders, and several other violent crimes occur on a daily basis. Topping off the fact that the drug trade in this city is literally probably in the lower millions on a weekly basis"

[KingJewMonaclu]

im not reading that

get ur ass pounded kid we finna ramp shit up just cause you posted some shit complaining

[Mateo G]

30 minutes ago, lordsicarus said:

A lot of people probably won’t agree with me on this but god damn, the average amount of cops online at a time always seems to be around 15-25. It’s honestly insane. The whole purpose of having a cop faction in the first place should be to add to mafia RP, not constantly interfere with it. Obviously having cops is necessary for mafia RP but there are just so many of them and they almost always move around in groups of 5+ which is just fucking wild.

It would be a little more understandable if things worked somewhat realistically. In real life you can say something quietly to someone without the entire street hearing you and it wouldn’t magically reach a cop sitting on top of a building. I know someone will probably say "that’s why /w exists" but why do we have to limit RP to typing out a /w because cops are such a constant concern?

This brings me to my second point, voice chat. I don’t know exactly how the current system works or if something like this is already in place but I feel like it could be made a lot more realistic. Imagine a bubble around someone where the louder their microphone input is the farther away people can hear them. The same thing would work for someone speaking quietly. If their mic isn’t detecting much volume then their voice wouldn’t carry nearly as far.

This would make RP so much more technical and immersive. It would allow people to have quieter and more discreet conversations without every interaction having to be "/itaw" or people constantly worrying that the wrong person might happen to walk by and hear them.

Now my third point is about cops being able to basically position themselves anywhere and record people from across the street committing crimes. This is especially important considering this is set in the 1990s. Technology was obviously not anywhere close to what it is today.

For example, imagine a cop sitting on the roof in Little Italy above the ATM and recording someone who is almost at the edge of their render distance pistol whipping someone. That recording should not realistically be usable as solid evidence against someone for battery, attempted murder or anything similar. Go look at the quality of surveillance cameras and recording equipment available to police in 1990. You simply would not be able to clearly identify someone from across the street with some shitty camera and limited zoom.

I understand this is a game and some things are obviously going to be exaggerated but there still needs to be some level of realism. A huge part of mafia RP, even if it is exaggerated, is being able to pistol whip an associate for insulting you or saying something disrespectful without having to worry that some cop sitting on a rooftop half a block away is going to magically witness it, zoom in, identify you and come arrest you.

I genuinely don’t understand how that is supposed to be realistic. I know damn well cops in the 1990s weren’t carrying professional movie set equipment onto rooftops and recording random streets just hoping to catch someone committing a crime. If they were conducting surveillance there would usually be a specific person, location or investigation involved.

I’m not saying cops shouldn’t be able to observe or investigate crimes. They obviously should. But there needs to be some reasonable limitation on how many cops are online, how they move around, how voice chat works and what can realistically be considered evidence. Otherwise it starts feeling less like mafia RP with a police faction and more like mafia RP where the entire point is just trying to avoid an army of cops who can somehow see and hear everything.

just for that im gonna be sitting on roof tops every day for the next three weeks for warrants and bank warrants fuck you

 

[calink]

I'd say a little over 10% of the server at any given time being cops seems completely reasonable, to me.