Community Updates - 20/06/20
Missions/Quests, Roleplay Props, and Recent Events Regarding the CM Vote.
Good evening guys,
The Development team has recently been looking into implementations to the server that would help new players learn the game mode easier, the ideas the devs have in mind include a tutorial type system (missions/quests) which would guide new players through their experience on the server.
What the quest system would look like.
New players would have simple tasks which they will be guided through to teach them new aspects of the game, such as crafting, drugs, legal jobs, and the player economy. The quests will be fairly easy and would reward the player with starter items such as planter boxes, workbenches, and a car. Players would be directed to the quest by an arrow, likely shown somewhere in the inventory wheel menu, so that there isn't constantly an annoying arrow on their screen if they choose not to carry out the quest. These quests can include Legal civilian tasks such as crafting or fishing, legal job tasks such as signing up as a medic, or criminal tasks like growing drugs. This is to introduce these new players to all aspects of the server so that they can see the best fit for them.
Quests for more seasoned players.
This implementation would be great to guide newer players, however, this would also be interesting to see for far more seasoned players too, it is with this that we hope the future contains a broader horizon of role-playing and tasks to keep all of our players entertained and hungry for what comes next. The tasks we create could also bring about new roleplay situations which players may not normally find them in if they weren't directed into them. These quests would of course provide rewards, however, instead of providing starter items, they would likely reward organization XP, money, drugs, or other higher-value items depending on the task.
We'd like to ask you all for feedback on these concepts, and to provide us ideas and suggestions for rewards, quest ideas, and also any other changes which would improve this system.
Introduction of more Roleplay Props
Recently we've had a lot of players and staff attempting to carry out more passive roleplay on the server, including passive roleplay events. A few days ago there was a situation where @JARRE created a passive roleplay Hookah shop in Bazaar, he attempted to decorate the shop nicely however used a basic planter box (with marijuana in it) to improvise a plant decoration, which looked pretty nice and was allowed by 3 staff members at the time, however this led to the ban of @Inchs who took the drugs which were only being used as passive roleplay decorations, after he was told not to take them by staff, therefore breaking 1.4. Now I'm not going to go into details about whether he was in the right or wrong, or attempt to justify either party, however, a solution to this issue would be to implement more roleplay props which could be crafted or bought from an NPC to avoid the need for improvisation. After a chat with @Samuel about the possibility of this going ahead, I'd like to get suggestions from you guys for what props/decorations you'd like to see which would benefit passive roleplay.
In regards to the Community Manager vote.
This is something I would like to discuss due to the number of threads and posts about this. As explained by @Madda on another thread:
@Madda's response.
This post explains how the only candidates for the role would have been me and @Inchs even if a vote had taken place, Inchs' seems to have different opinions to @Madda as to what went on, however, even if we would like to resolve this, due to recent events, Inchs' would no longer meet the requirement or be eligible for the role.
After a conversation with Inchs' last night, he wanted to provide a statement on the situation from his side, and I think it's only fair as I've included Madda's in this post.
Statement from @Inchs
I know that it's frustrating, and I do thank most of you for understanding the decisions made by Senior Administration in regards to this vote, but I do think that it is time to move past this and it is my responsibility that confusion such as this does not happen again, and for this reason, communication on similar events will be my priority.
Thank you.
Community Manager,
Dom_
