I will make a post as a new player here that i think it is more or less how most of the new guys experience the things around.
I joined LSRP and SAMP in general in July of this year. Yes 2024, at age of 25. Was my first experience in a RP oriented game, was never a fun of roleplaying. I found out and joined to make company to my irl friend that was a member back in the day and was excited that the server was back. I will admit that he helped me pass the test (please dont metagame and ban me 🤣). My roleplay was plain at begin, as i lacked basic RP knowledge. Eventually i got banned from a police admin because my roleplay to a chase was me doing stunts and all. But lets get back to the point:
The begin: At the begin around late July (server peaked around 280 if not mistaken) I was roaming randomly around and interacting with people. All good till i reach level 5. Got maybe two times taken hostage but thats normal if you enter a strangers car at the 02:00. I see an AD about a tavern searching personell and i immidietly call and apply for the job. Turns out the tavern was also a criminal organization too, which i did part after atleast 2 weeks of RPing the cook/waiter. (The Tavern was a buisness owned by the Faction called Socrates circle. The RP was very unique and mostly passive, at their angle in Blueburry where bikers and us coexisted and no crazy shootings happen. Sadly the faction got abandoned because we were waiting for a kind of scripted help to continue developing our roleplay. Remember its GTA, noone plays GTA to /exclusivly/ roleplay running a tavern or a club. Everyone wants a small illegal factor.) I used to pass most of my time to Blueburry, when i visited Los it gave me the feel of a big city, gangs everywhere. Shootings, police chases, corners with people offering drugs. Was everything so immersive. After the faction got disbanded, me and my friend were left alone with no real option of a faction to join with, since our characters didnt fit with current factions(Albanian character). We started doing a bit of solo rp, doing few roberies here and there and seeked a way to make money. Later on we joined roze and started doing trucking. Beverages and meal(After a bit gets too repetative. I would suggest if possible a small change of trade goods every month that would maybe be based of the the month we are currently in. For example at winter months maybe logs would give more money as the demand is higher, fuel too inconfront of the summer months. Or maybe fuel could even follow real life events that would get its price deep and rise, dont know if possible script wise to adjust those things as easy but would be a good idea. After the first ten hours, it gets too repetative.) Working for Roze was a very good experience with many activities post work like parties and all. Sadly our characters are thieves and we entered in Roze parking lot under their complex masked with helmets and tried to open their cars with screwdivers. (Got caught when we were only 13 seconds left from the 500 needed, really unlucky and PKed/kicked form roze but without a regret! Was great experience.) After that we been freeroaming around, joined few other companies and tried to join a faction that isnt not important to name, but nothing would come close to the first few months. Solo RP is good and all but has a lot of limits. Lately i been around and interacting with people. Helping them in pm. Actually new players. there are really a lot of them. The first question they make me is how to make money. The first thing i do is explain them about trucking. since to my knowldge there doesnt exist something more profitable, but my actual first action to talk them about the mechanic paycheck. Everyone when listens about it immidietly agrees to do the job, after all its free money without need to stop you from your normal RP or forcing you to actually spend hours and hours trucking.(Suggestion: add maybe also a paycheck of 500 or 250 to people who got no sidejob/mainjob. Maybe script wise could work as Unemployed job title. It might sound funny number but many new players find it very hard to make money. Its not hard but it is hard to figure out how. Maybe for them that 250 would do the diference. Maybe everyone starts with that job immidietly as they create their character and once you lose it once you cant get it again. I dont know the script limits but could be a good addition.)
That was the story i felt like i had to write somewhere, might not make much sense but my points want to be:
The community makes the game be good or bad, but also the community should be rewarded when they do things right. I have been DMed too many times, even more robbed. When i was a noob it was frustating, losing a gun or those 5000 that you had to do you yankee runs from blueburry to ship really hurted. The first thing i do when i interact with a person IC is to check their character ID and talk a bit with them to see if they actually new or not. Depending on the outcome i choose my RP too. Sadly not everyone does it. I have been robbed or killed as a new player from guys that were level 45 IC, at the time i didnt understand why. I still cant. I have also been taken hostage and then when police chased the car the people armed me to shoot the police telling me they will pay me for it. Was fun. But us,humans, that one time we will get DMed or robbed will always be harder to forget than the good RP we had with a stranger. My suggestion is to be more /flexable/ to our RP depending on the person we have infront. The faction system is good, but doesnt promote new players to join a faction because there is always the CK threat. Noone wants to lose their character they built all this time and got immersion with. Might not be case for most player but i personally wouldnt be able to keep playing if i somehow lost my only character Aslan Kelcyra. I have seen many CK from faction threads to happen to actually new players with little reason IC, just for the screenshot i suppose. Also the best screenshot edditor thing shouldnt be valued that much. I see screens from factions that InGame barely play thirty minutes that make you think they been doing crazy things meanwhile InGame i never seen them around. I got more than 500 hours on this server from July to now, which i value to be a lot with my vacations break and almost one month ban, but zero screenshots showcasing my roleplay. Lazy, not motivated to spend hours editing, you call it. I prefer spending those ten minutes more IG playing and interacting than editing things that didnt happen. Most of you i think will know my character and have seen him around. I soon will open a faction that will try to be welcoming to the new players, with a more passive roleplay aproach. Ofcourse there will be the illegal part involved but wont be the only thing. I took the courage to write here after i saw that a admin got banned. I knew right of the bat that would have been a cop admin. I think one of the bigger community killers are our Legal factions, sherrifs mostly but PD too. I have felt being chased many times, always when i have something on me. Never when i am clean. I have been chased many times, a day off i have killed/evaded a policeman, yet again for no real reason. I wont be throwing hate or something, but cant be a coincidence. Too many times. There should be bigger control on police giving out the punishments out, preferably a other faction should be created that would give the punishments out instead of directly the policemen. I feel like many times police is the one metagaming and maybe even using hack (after all when a admin does it doesnt seem impossible). I dont know but something should be done for it, till we havent found a way for jail time actually possible to rp. I liked the parole officers hitting me up from time to time. Till jail has actual ingame value, there should be done something else. Maybe people allowed to roleplay to the construction RP roze does for an hour or so that would result to their punishment get reduced of x hours. (I understand that might be hard script, but maybe possible, would also open room for jail breaking when they do transport you from the construction site back to jail).
Game is great, possibilities are there. We just need to help a bit more new players find the place they want to be. I have had a lot of fun till now, and plan to have for a long time. I have yet to experience the black roleplay, hispanic, slav, or why not even police prespective. We just need manpower and to respect game rules. All of us. Shooting is fun, but think about it, is it really worth it shooting three people today and risking to have only one to shoot at after a month? Wouldnt it be better to shoot one now hoping next month you will have more options? Same goes to jailing people.
Thats was my thoughts, a bit messy like the are in my head, without much filtering. Sorry if its hard to read. Wanted to give a word and few suggestions. Thanks to everyone who makes it till the end and i am waiting to see you more in game, all of you. Being a criminal doesnt mean being rude, its not a full time job. Try helping people have a start, to find their path. Its really hard to do trust me, you know most of commands by heart, but i still have to do /anim or /help to find the right command. Thanks to all the testers and admins who have helped and responded to my silly questions all this time. Atleast at that part the game doesnt lack. There are people willing to help ooc, but we should transfer that willing to help ic too.
Aslan Kelcyra
PS: Sorry for the typos, its late and i am sleepy.
