Lack of unique businesses in the server

[fruit]

There seems to be a distinct lack of uniqueness in businesses nowadays. Every night you'll see the same club, bar, restaurant or maybe the occasional casino being opened. Personally, it gets boring after a while.

 

Where did the gyms go where championship fights used to happen?

Where is Los Santos Aquapark?

When will we see a cinema, clothing stores, art galleries, betting shops, comedy clubs, and arcades?

[TheCed]

Personally, it's been tough for me to find a proper interior designer.

[Aberdeen]

20 hours ago, fruit said:

Where did the gyms go where championship fights used to happen?

Where is Los Santos Aquapark?

When will we see a cinema, clothing stores, art galleries, betting shops, comedy clubs, and arcades?

Why are championship fights happening in some slum gym in the middle of South Central when there are active casinos?

 

The problem isn't the lack of active or unique businesses but that most business owners have no idea as to what they're trying to portray. Travelling to Las Venturas a few nights per week to pay $5k on the door, have some level 2 spam /dice, and then leave 10 minutes later is not conducive to maintaining a good standard of roleplay in 2024.

 

When Talarum, Burger, et al. started up The Visage it was an event to go to the casino, not just because there was more to do than /dice blackjack but because they deliberately set out to establish a particular standard of roleplay from end to end. Restaurant. Hotel. Spa. All fully staffed by capable roleplayers that had been trained IC prior to the opening and meticulously organised. It was a monumental effort whose own lofty goals contributed to its sporadic openings and the logistical nightmare that comes with trying to arrange anything on SA-MP a week ahead of time but that made each opening all the more special.

 

I just don't bother going to 90% of /cad openings anymore. The same stale bartender roleplay. The same brick shithouse robocop bouncers. Some completely out of place garbage blaring over XM radio. 

 

When business owners stop using businesses as a way to make easy cash through the stupid and archaic entry fee script and actually start caring about what it is they're trying to do, I will bless them with my custom.

 

[fruit]

I fully agree. Visage was truly one of a kind business and it really encapsulated the Vegas experience. It always felt like going to another city for a mini holiday and there was so much more you could do than just play poker. Also, the fact that the Visage Casino opened quite rarely, it added to the allure of going to Visage and made it stand out from other businesses. Nowadays casinos in Venturas are opened every night, and I believe it will eventually lose the exclusiveness of going to Venturas.

 

I also find it a bit disappointing that many enterprises/groups/holdings have vast number of completely unrrelated businesses owned by a single person. Like why does John_Doe own a trucking company, a bar, and a casino? What do these business even have in common? It just shows that you don't quite know what you're actually trying to roleplay. It makes much more sense to target a specific niche, and start building companies that benefit off of each other. For example, if someone runs a news agency, it would make much more sense for them to also run an advertising agency, not a trucking company.