largehazard

Cool guide. I think attention needs to be drawn especially to the part about shunning violence in favor of business. Cartel factions always used to roleplay like they were in Mexico, or like they were the Mexican Mafia with Mexican passports and it was a big part of what made them poor factions. Cartel roleplay should be about strictly business, which means you need to have a certain mindset to do it and you should be prepared to not have the opportunity to engage in wars and shootouts (although there is a good opportunity for violent rp in prison, where the paisas definitely engage in it). If cartel rp can start off on that footing here, it could be very good for the server. Although there remains the issue of faction distribution schemes wiping out much of a cartel faction's reason for existing.

yeah that'd work too

I hadn't clocked that part of the suggestion. Yes, I disagree with a script restriction. Poker games should be accessible to everyone, and gambling beyond a certain dollar amount should be illegal. There's no need to restrict poker to 'tables' at all either, whether we're talking about legal or illegal gambling. A deck of cards should suffice.

Disallowing private civilian games would be a script restriction. I disagree with that. Disallowing casinos is an IC legal restriction. It's not an 'admin system'. Technically anybody could run their own little casino, they'd only be breaking the law, which is exactly what illicit gambling is. It isn't all backrooms and cigar smoke. I should've corrected myself, if somebody wants to gamble they should have to set up a private game or seek out an unregistered (illegal) game where everything is done for them. Which is, y'know, how physical (not online) gambling works in states where casinos aren't legal.

I wrote a list of prison facilities for use on GTAW, which might be useful for factions here. Don't know if this is the thread for it though?

My problem with this is that it's exactly how it was on SAMP. The claim was "they're highly regulated and scrutinised" and we all know how that turned out. I don't see any benefit whatsoever for legal gambling. It's just a business for someone to run, like any other. Illegal gambling, on the other hand, provides massive opportunities for illegal factions. Opportunities that do not exist when gambling is legal. Even if you have just one casino, why would you go to gamble illegally if you can just gamble there? It kills the industry for factions. I'd like to see the opportunity for a tribal casino maybe, because at least that would be different and provide something to the server. It'd also reflect California's real gambling laws. Other than that, I don't see any reason why it shouldn't be illegal. In future it'd be cool to have online gambling too, to balance out illegal gambling, considering that's where it's mostly done these days. I don't imagine developing an app like that is particularly high on the list of priorities at this early stage though.

It is an IC issue but the suggestion being raised here is a suggestion for the baseline IC laws. Not a script restriction.

Agreed. Casinos were always awful and contributed nothing, in my opinion. On top of all this, gambling is criminalized in California, with the exception of OTB and tribal casinos. In lieu of having online gambling, you should have to engage in illegal gambling if you're trying to gamble. There's a reason illegal gambling still exists - because there's still a major market for it where states do not provide it legally.

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