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What are your thoughts on these concepts? Personally I'm a fan of lenghty prison sentences and forced CKs, it forces the illegal roleplayers to be smarter and I would love to see that in LS-RP.

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Nakolki (наколки in russian) meaning tattoos Background and tradition During the 20th century in the Soviet Union, criminals maintained a culture of tattoos to indicate their criminal lifestyle, their career and ranking amongst other criminals. This was well-spread among the prisoners in Gulag camps and spread out to other prison entities. This is soon to be a tradition with almost a hundread years long history, the practice of criminal tattoos first started to appear in the 1930s, reaching the peak point in the 1950s after which it slowly started to decline, due to Nikita Khruschev's new policies. Krushcov tried to eradicate the criminals from the society, thus he introduced extended prison sentences for known criminals, those that identified themselves with the tattoos. In the same time, the traditional criminals that formed the Thieves in Law aka Vory (Воры́ в зако́не) as a response to the Khruschevs new policies started to enforce their criminal code, making sure that the ones that were unworthy of the tattoos got them forcefully removed. In the 1970s the tensions had risen to the boiling point, due to Vory enforcing their code and rules too much. At this time, prison authorities often threw Vory and legitimate criminals who enforced the code in the same cells, most of the time alone with multiple convicts from whom they removed the tattoos or had beaten up, or in some instances had raped. After the mid 1970s, tattoos started to come in fashion in the juvenile facilities and that flooded the ''Prison community'' with people who wore the ''unearned tattoos'', combined with the extreme punishments the Vory received for enforcing their code, Vory outlawed rape as a method of punishment and stopped enforcing the code of tattoo as strict as they had previously. After the perestroika in 1985 tattoos had spread outside of the prisons and made their way in the general fashion and reduced the value of tattoos being associated with criminal lifestyle. Modern days In the modern world, tattoos are rarely associated with criminal lifestyle, as they for most of the society are acceptable way of self-expression and in some instances just an attribute to enhance the looks. Altho, criminal tattoos are still a thing in most societies and post-soviet states are no exception. They are not enforced as harsh as they were, but surely wearing some of them are strong indications and the wearer knows the price of it. Most of the criminals chose not to get them, because they are like a sign that says ''I am a convicted felon and a criminal'' ultimately reducing their chances of living a casual civilian life. But for those who chose to get them, they often hold more of a personal meaning,a reminder, rather than displaying their criminal career. Of course, that goes both ways, some get them to display their ranking among the criminals in the prison community. Here I have compiled a rather long list with the most common and some more rare tattoos. S/O to Kiril_Ustinov for helping me find the websites. Virgin Mary - Wearer has been a thief/criminal from their early days or protection from some misfortune. (spoiler for a few variants I found) Casual stars Vory stars See spoiler for alternative variants and analogs I've found so far. Beetle is a symbol of a pickpocketer. There is also an analog for this, letters reading ''ZHUK'', that literally means a beetle in russian. That is also an acronym, reading ''Zhelayu Udachnykh Krazh '' meaning ''May your theft be a success'' Spoiler for more variants and pictures Churches, can be seen on hands, chest and back The number of dome towers (cupolas) indicates either number of prison terms or number of years of the sentence. Tiger - Just a symbol that that the wearer is hostile towards the law enforcement. Sailing ship, the wearer is a traveling thieft, sometimes known as brodyaga. Spider in a web, can be seen on any place of the body. In the web, it can indicate that the wearer is a drug addict or if moving upwards, a criminal who is active, if moving downwards, a criminal that seeks to exit the life of crime. Sunset, especially with birds represents freedom. The reading ''svoboda'' also means freedom, literally. A cat, often with a hat, symbolizes luck. It can also mean that the wearer is a thieft. It used to be that, the added bowtie represents that the thief snitched to get a reduced sentence, but in the modern days there is no such stigma around adding bowties, it's seen as a decoration mostly. Also an acronym KOT (meaning cat) stands for ''Korennoy Obitatel Turmi'' meaning Native Prison Inhabitant, a guy who lands in the jail all the time. English word would be a jailbird. Crucifixes, they are worn by the criminal ahtority figures. Career criminals with significant respect. Eyes on shoulders, means that the wearer oversees his surroundings and is always alert. Can also be linked to schitzophrenic origins, because eyes are often seen by schitzophrenic people causing them panic and making them check their surroundings all the time. Bells, ringing bells symbolize that the wearer will serve full sentence, ''From bell to bell''. Swastikas / Nazi related insignia are a sign of rebellion against Russian prison authority. Doesn’t literally mean that the wearer is a nazi sympathiser. SER - Svoboda Eto Ray - Freedom Is Paradise. Mix of women, money, cards or gambling related stuff and weapons / drugs just symbolizes the things that are killing ''us'' or the wearer. This is sometimes tailored for each person due to what's ruining his life. A bat, also a symbol of a thieft. A bull, basically the wearer is easely aggrevated and really aggresive. They are used as the hitsquad in prisons. Knife in shackles, wearer has commited a crime in prison. Roses, often with barbed wire just means ''Ruined childhood''. These are worn by criminals who started the career very early in life or had landed in juvenile facility. Knife in the neck, the wearer is skillfull with melees and has either killed somebody with a sharp object or has caused severe harm with the object. The joker, wearer likes to gamble. Pirate, wearer is a robber. Sight, the wearer says that if you shoot, you better kill him, because he won't miss when he retaliates. Scorpion, many meanings LHVS - Legavim Huy Voram Soboda - To trashcops the dick, to thieves freedom. Another meaning of LHVS it's just joke - Lublu Halvu Varenie Sahar - I like halva, marmalade, sugar. --+# Searched, searched, caught, condemned. Ring tattoos, these are tattooed on fingers like rings. For the meanings, check the quote under this. Used literature and websites in the spoiler

You can't really force people to stay imprisoned for a longer period. They lose motivation and it gets boring after a while. Maybe it would be dependent on their previous criminal history and the duration of the imprisonment. I'm on the fence, not really for it, but also not against. Forced character kills I agree on. Now, I don't know how and when would that apply. But it would definitely make people more aware of their surroundings and make certain aspects adrenaline pumping because they don't want to lose their character. A great example was me playing LSPDFR and installing a mod that makes it so that when you get shot once, depending on the area, you get killed. Literally makes everything more intense and enjoyable because of the little adrenaline kick you get during shootouts, etcetera.

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As long as these mods don't impact performance heavily, I'm all for them. Would be nice to see some more residential areas added in. If possible, areas like El Burro are really small and it'd be cool to see some more houses and streets in the area. Or even just turn some of the areas that are unusable into something more usable

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Option to hide online status/activity on your profile, I've been using this everywhere so it would be nice to see it here as well

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