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I’ve been thinking about this for quite a while and I just felt that now’s the right time to share my thoughts. I think it would be useful to add a timer on how long you were on duty so that for the people who comes to do a specific amount of time can tell and makes it a lot easier on him/herself. Some people would say, “shift tab look how many minutes you played on the top left” yes that works but that’s if you directly clocked on as soon as you entered the city. Overall, it’s not something big but I see it beneficial and useful for keeping up with time. Please +1 if you think this is a good idea, thanks. - Matthew KingÂ

I'd like to start a discussion about the current state of how things are within the city right now, from all perspectives possible - so feel free to add in any thoughts as well. To start, I'd like to point out that the interaction between players lately has been incredibly low compared to that of the past, which can be attributed to a lot of factors that will be discussed. With the current economy, scuba diving is obviously the king of making money upfront, with the massive payouts and non-existent risk of jail time or hefty fines. While I am all for a well-paying legal job, this job in particular is incredibly anti-social and thwarts the concept of drugs for its "no risk - high reward" payout. In my opinion, scuba needs to be nerfed to be more in line with growing weed, or all the drugs need a buff in some way to make them the "huge risk - huge reward" they're supposed to be. With the recent change to how dirty money is cleaned, drugs have become all that much more nerfed in comparison to scuba diving. When the purchase to start cleaning money is initiated, there is a huge chance that the police will be at the store within minutes, sometimes only allowing us to clean around $6,000-$10,000 before they show up, which brings up another huge point. Currently, many police officers simply just stand in the store and look at the shelves during a raid, which, as Vagos, we will always defend our store in the event that the police attempt to raid it. Should we defend it successfully, we'll only be allowed the time to clean roughly another $30,000 before another raid is attempted with either more backup or more firepower, or both. If we were to unsuccessfully defend the store, we not only lose the money in the safe, but we are also going to lose all the money that was cleaned in fines/restitution. It also seems that there has been a huge lack of gang-police RP, which is unhealthy. Gangs and PD are always going to co-exist in some way and there's been a huge rift in that relationship as a result of the way many members of PD treat gangs through the use of full fines/time and sometimes excessive amount of force or stereotyping, which seriously kills the desire to RP as a gang. Obviously there are plenty of times where gang RP can get out of control, however the overall RP shouldn't be discouraged. If gangs were to disappear from the city, cops would be bored writing speeding tickets and conducting welfare checks and dealing with occasional drug calls, much like it is now with the majority of people scuba diving instead of interacting through illegal activities. Speaking with several PD members, I have heard that the thrill of dealing with a street gangs makes PD much more interesting and fun compared to chasing drug calls on the pier throughout a shift, because of the constant threat of being attacked or kidnapped, and many have told me they would like to see more gang RP taking place, such as Vagos vs. Ballas, etc. in order to change up the monotony of routine patrolling, and that includes myself as a police officer. From an EMS perspective, there hasn't been much to do as a result of the huge amount of scuba divers. There is rarely any calls for angry locals downing civs for bumping into them while selling drugs, or hardly any PD/Civ interactions that end in EMS being called after a shootout or a chase ending with someone not wearing a seat belt. A large majority of the calls are from people who want to get back on their feet and get back to making their wine or whatnot. So my suggestion is to rework some of the payouts for the drug system and to re-balance scuba diving in order to encourage more RP among players within the Civ-EMS-PD triangle. Reworking the dirty money system some more would also encourage more stores to be opened for cleaning and a rework to the steps PD would have to take in order to respond to a suspicious transaction (such as having to check the FIB building, having to actually see proof of a transaction, or even just temporarily closing down the store instead of closing it for that person for the storm) would also increase the value of stores/store raids.Â

Just a short and quick suggestion. Do the same thing with EMS channels as you do with police channels, hide the users in them until you actually connect to the channel. This helps prevent abuse / meta gaming. If I am missing the reason EMS channels are open I would love to be informed! I just don’t see the point of the channels showing users connected Â

So was wondering granted if this would work for FiveM.... could we go ahead and get rid of the morgue and replace it with the new more correct hospital interior. It has so much RP potential having proper exam rooms and all that. This adds a huge brand new interior to the hospital by city hall.  https://www.gta5-mods.com/maps/hospital

im scared of applying to a government job, im scared that the resultes will come negative and ill have to wait a month, but what i mostly scared of is people making fun of me , im at the age of 13 and ive been enjoying the city over 2 and a half weeks now. people never brought up my age or that im young and thats pretty nice and mostly because of rp... but lately im scared of people making fun of my age and maybe even bullying me, im really scared that ill stay lonely and that people will not talk to me,im actually really scared to even post this post right now. tell me what to do??(im talking about applying to ems)

Hey guys! My name is hunter! I just left a different server and am looking for a better RP experience. I was an EMS LT and love medical RP but looking for something different this time around, maybe FD abd then PD later. I have been RPing most of my life with table top games but 2-3 months with GTA. Hopefully I will see yall around!

LSFD vs LSPD   A friendly best 2 out of 3 competition and battle for bragging rights among the lost Santos Fire Department and Police Department.  It will be 3 events in total 1. The first event would be a flare relay torch race. - One member of PD and one member of EMS start with a flare and run to the checkpoint where 1 more of each faction will be standing. You drop your flare and the next person runs to the next checkpoint. Rinse and repeat until one faction has crossed the predetermined finish line. 2. The second event would be a 2 lap predator boat race. - EMS VS PD predators racing around the island first team to finish gets the point. (But watch out you may find your self some opposition along the way) 3. The final event would be Capture the Chief - Two factions and two faction leaders both captured in the opposing faction's base... Who will bring home their chief first and claim bragging rights as the best faction in the city? Rules are simple both the fire chief and the police chief are being held against their will on opposite sides of sandy airfield and need their faction to rescue them... You do that by running deep into enemy lines and avoid getting tackled grab your heroic leader and drag them back to your base... Best 2 out of 3 in this event wins. Â