Shoutout to pure, seething rage and acute sleep depravation for the contents of this post.
Raid fatigue is incredibly common on cop. There used to be so many more things for cops to do, but whenever I've been on duty in the past few weeks it's just raid after raid against people equipped with far better weapons and superior communication. It is not fun to defend a PD raid only for another to happen immediately because you arrested people from the first. It is not fun to get blackscreened then immediately be confronted with two other raids upon respawning. It is demoralising to know that even if you win and arrest someone you have to then deal with a further PD raid because it is now impossible to prevent people from calling ten toes (they can do it from inside the jail cells.) The non-pvp aspects of PD have diminished to such an extent that to do anything else I am restricted to interacting with an incredibly small portion of the player base. Everyone who gets arrested threatens IAs, everyone who is arrested constantly wastes time and abuses supervisor policy. It is not fun to be a cop. The PD lockdown policies are ineffective and the PD hostage changes have actually made the PD raid problem worse. On a 64 population server it is not uncommon to see 1-4 cops online. For reference, this used to be the max population of the server and cop slots used to cap out at 12, which were usually pretty full. Few people bother to interact with cops when being arrested besides whining for a supervisor.
The core gameplay loop is not fun for anyone in the PD except the TFU officers who are actually well equipped to deal with the situations presented. Even then, entering an area where suspects could literally be anywhere is akin to being a squad of Americans trying to make their way through the Vietnamese jungle. 3.4 is no longer a real consideration in any meaningful way, and every time you respond to a firearms incident you just feel like you're going to be the next shmuck in some guys shitty frag montage. Very little has actually changed since my last post on the topic. As someone who has periodically been a member of the PD for nearly 10 years I can say that it's very bleak. I'm tired of the zergs, I'm tired of the extensive PD raids and quite frankly I'm tired of playing police. If it wasn't for the actually interesting and fun work I do in IA I would've resigned by now.
If I wanted to PvP constantly I'd play something that didn't pretend to be a roleplay server.
Raid fatigue is incredibly common on cop. There used to be so many more things for cops to do, but whenever I've been on duty in the past few weeks it's just raid after raid against people equipped with far better weapons and superior communication. It is not fun to defend a PD raid only for another to happen immediately because you arrested people from the first. It is not fun to get blackscreened then immediately be confronted with two other raids upon respawning. It is demoralising to know that even if you win and arrest someone you have to then deal with a further PD raid because it is now impossible to prevent people from calling ten toes (they can do it from inside the jail cells.) The non-pvp aspects of PD have diminished to such an extent that to do anything else I am restricted to interacting with an incredibly small portion of the player base. Everyone who gets arrested threatens IAs, everyone who is arrested constantly wastes time and abuses supervisor policy. It is not fun to be a cop. The PD lockdown policies are ineffective and the PD hostage changes have actually made the PD raid problem worse. On a 64 population server it is not uncommon to see 1-4 cops online. For reference, this used to be the max population of the server and cop slots used to cap out at 12, which were usually pretty full. Few people bother to interact with cops when being arrested besides whining for a supervisor.
The core gameplay loop is not fun for anyone in the PD except the TFU officers who are actually well equipped to deal with the situations presented. Even then, entering an area where suspects could literally be anywhere is akin to being a squad of Americans trying to make their way through the Vietnamese jungle. 3.4 is no longer a real consideration in any meaningful way, and every time you respond to a firearms incident you just feel like you're going to be the next shmuck in some guys shitty frag montage. Very little has actually changed since my last post on the topic. As someone who has periodically been a member of the PD for nearly 10 years I can say that it's very bleak. I'm tired of the zergs, I'm tired of the extensive PD raids and quite frankly I'm tired of playing police. If it wasn't for the actually interesting and fun work I do in IA I would've resigned by now.
If I wanted to PvP constantly I'd play something that didn't pretend to be a roleplay server.
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