Store alarm company should call police 1st, News 2nd

[Merr Khan]

Whoever runs the News feed, on all of our screens, is one OP F'ing wizard. 

This "News" knows the nano sec a store robbery starts. Either its Jesus running the show, or its OP. 

It makes no scenes that a store alarm company would call the News and not even bother to call the Police? I for one would fire them as the alarm company if I was the store owner. 

I think the system needs to be tweaked, I understand that the news alert is a mechanical feature to alert players that a store robbery is on going. With the intent of informing civs of an ongoing RP situation, so as to not waist time trying to rob another store, or to stay clear of the RP situation taking place at the current robbery.

Unfortunately too often other civilians show up before LEO's and interrupt or intervene in said robbery, only cause they saw it on the news, and where board.

2-3 of the last 5 robberies I have done, have either had civilians come to steal the get away car, then drive it around laughing at the robbers. Or showing up to try and help when you don't want it. When you the robber are trying to be none hostile and they start shooting, on and on. I'm sure anyone who has robbed a couple stores before has dealt with this. 

(and before I get the "just report them" comment, cant report if I can't see the #'s, i'm not no-ballzing the robbery, or interrupting my RP to run out and catch #'s just to report a kid).

 

 

Suggestion - I strongly feel it is time to have the alarm company call the cops 1st and quietly.  Then News should get alerted 1/2 way through the robbery. 

 

What this will accomplish? 

1st, Players robbing the store will have a better chance of dealing with players who follow rules, (police), the main reason for robbing a store. (interacting with police).

2nd, Civ Players who walk into a store being robbed before the alert goes out will bring an organic interaction instead of forced RP.

3rd, police will have a better chance of showing up to a neutral scene, and not one with chaos, or pissed off robbers cause they got their car stolen, or got shot by a random.  

 

 

 

Edited June 29, 2019 by Merr Khan

[[uDi]uncle_walter87]

I think this is a good idea and could be used to expand RP. For example, EVERYBODY likes to know what's going on with all the lights and sirens.

Having additional civilians on scene doesn't let the robbers be "outnumbered," as an officer (or officers) can be used for crowd control, asking civs what's happening, responding to the ubiquitous, "What's going on over there" questions, etc.

[luna]

love this idea and all the reasons it has been suggested, +1

[Porkinator]

100% agree with this, it's a change that I personally can only see pros, to. +1

[Randy Morris]

+1, good idea

[vDrop]

+1

[MrBigRed]

Personally, I'm curious as to why we are notified at all? I think if someone is clocked in at Weasel News, they could get notified. But what's the point of broadcasting it?  (If there's another reason than the cooldown)

[Reuben ~ Reckonity]

How about expanding this idea, give more stuff to Weasel News, take away the fact that civ's see the robberies and give them to Weasel News. I know a big thing is that people can easily clock in for it but how about limiting the amount of people kind of like when people clock in it'll say "Their's too many people clocked in" Also if people aren't actually reporting news then do what happened with Mechanic's and give it a new license.

[PeterMcKay]

11 hours ago, Reuben ~ Reckonity said:

How about expanding this idea, give more stuff to Weasel News, take away the fact that civ's see the robberies and give them to Weasel News. I know a big thing is that people can easily clock in for it but how about limiting the amount of people kind of like when people clock in it'll say "Their's too many people clocked in" Also if people aren't actually reporting news then do what happened with Mechanic's and give it a new license.

to be fair half the server population doesnt even know that you have to clock in at the weasel news station. nor where it is

[Reuben ~ Reckonity]

3 hours ago, PeterMcKay said:

to be fair half the server population doesnt even know that you have to clock in at the weasel news station. nor where it is

Which again could be a change, have a marker that's visible so people can figure out for themselves, quick and simple changes can make it work. Heck with the License say where it is, it then gives people an idea.

Edited July 14, 2019 by Reuben ~ Reckonity

[ikeino]

hi, been playing a while and wondered if it is possible to remove the notification for robberies. so that only cops can see it. more often then not, when people see the message they seem to be attracted to the store that is getting robbed. and earlier in game someone posting an ad saying "next time get the money" like how would they know a robbery was cancelled. this is just a suggestion but it would help RP for thieves and cops.

[Porkinator]

There is already a post about this if you search for it. 

[Porkinator]

 

 

[ikeino]

didn't find it when i wrote this.