How should we roleplay the distance?

[Ese Reaper]

As long a Paleto Bay & the other cities outside of Los Santos are not treated like Redneck county, I'm happy. Me and the few are going to roleplay that the area's influenced by the Bay Area so we'll see how that's going to play out.

[Spades]

It’ll buff!

[IdleStacks]

On 10/16/2021 at 11:53 PM, ImpossibleProphet said:

this is a gray area thats best left gray tbh.

This. It should be as the countryside, LV and SF were in LS:RP - according to convenience and what the people involved in the roleplay find it appropriate to be. If at all possible, avoid talking about it at all.

[Rancor]

Don't overthink it just go with the flow.

[chrillzen]

I am dumbfounded as to why they would try to depict it in such a manner. It doesn't work. Ignore what the story says. Travel times should be travel times, nothing else makes sense. Whether or not the map is a realistic layout we cannot change and should just be accepted as it is.

[EYECE]

4 hours ago, chrillzen said:

I am dumbfounded as to why they would try to depict it in such a manner. It doesn't work. Ignore what the story says. Travel times should be travel times, nothing else makes sense. Whether or not the map is a realistic layout we cannot change and should just be accepted as it is.

 

You right fam. Fuck all this interpretation bullshit. It is what it is. 

[Garndor]

I think it should be one of those things that can be interpreted in different ways to enhance role play. If you want to RP a road trip then there is nothing stopping you but by enforcing a rule where you must RP the distance it will be impossible for law enforcement to work unless they had a stupid amount of officers split across different departments on the map.

[ROZE]

The clock in GTA V is diferent than the clock in LSRP.

 

An IC drive in GTA V may take 4 hours, but in LSRP that will ICly be what it really is to us OOCly, as we use OOC time formats in game.

[joxii]

Role playing different times and sticking to that is impossible. It'll create an awkward divide between people who already are understanding of the concept, and people who have never heard of this approach before. There's absolutely no reason why we should role play set times for distances, just role play between whoever you're with or role play it what it is. 

 

Creating this awkward paradigm will make things convoluted and unnecessary. 

Edited December 22, 2021 by owen

[Florida]

It's really not necessary. My normal drive from East LA to Santa Monica and Burbank to Santa Monica was like 30 minutes IRL.

[RamiTR]

Option C would work best. Although the map may not feel as huge when flying around in a jet or speeding in a super car, most of the time you're roleplaying you're on foot. It would take about 2 and a half hours to walk from one side of the GTA V map to the other, so roleplaying it as being a couple hours away would make for great roleplay & it would give the world a much more realistic feeling.

[Xanakin]

I personally am more a fan of B, but for the bigger picture I'd go with A as it is still a game despite trying to portray a realistic scenario.

[Cronic]

This is unnecessary. We're just complicating things at this point for the sake of being complicated. The time it takes to drive from LSIA to Paleto Bay is really just the time it took you to drive there. Nothing less, nothing more. You're probably taking a different route to another player, so that's going to be a different drive time. I understand the realistic aspect of it, but some things are never gonna work here, because after all, this is just a game.

 

Imagine the fuss when a bigger roleplaying scenario happens and everyone has to travel the entire map. It's gonna get confusing, don't you think?

[True Neutral]

I've always been of the opinion that San Andreas is its own universe and should be treated as such. If it takes you five minutes to get to Sandy Shores from Los Santos, then five minutes is what it took. Why? Becouse if you roleplay that it takes two days to get back from Paleto, the other players around you will still roleplay that you've only been gone an hour because their characters haven't left town. It's just like prison time, X is arrested and comes back after 2 days as if he's been in prison for I don't know how many years, but for the other players it's only been 2 days in character and it creates too much of a continuity gap.

[MissGTA]

30 minutes ago, Cronic said:

This is unnecessary. We're just complicating things at this point for the sake of being complicated. The time it takes to drive from LSIA to Paleto Bay is really just the time it took you to drive there. Nothing less, nothing more. You're probably taking a different route to another player, so that's going to be a different drive time. I understand the realistic aspect of it, but some things are never gonna work here, because after all, this is just a game.

 

Imagine the fuss when a bigger roleplaying scenario happens and everyone has to travel the entire map. It's gonna get confusing, don't you think?

I agree with everything said here.