Hello people!
Recently I've conducted a bit of research into this. Asked a few people around, stated my opinion. I am still in the process of working things out but this is what it is.
This "dying thing" started I believe around the time after the PD update. Now before I got yelled at... I wasn't there so I don't know what happened as I went inactive when the PD got whitelisted.
Why did I go inactive though? Mostly because of the PD whitelist although being a senior officer myself. It limited my friends to have the ability to participate in a virtual job in a game (definition of game:
a game played by electronically manipulating images produced by a computer program on a monitor or other display).
I came back for the simple reason that I wanted to do PD work again. So I did.
Now the first time I joined the most appealing part was the not having to register anywhere for anything part. All you needed was to sort out a form (Which I failed 8 times) and then you were in the club. There was no complications. PD structure was pretty simple.
People were happier and more relaxed whilst on duty.
You had 3 branches inside the PD (excluding dispatch): Traffic officer (Premium), SWAT (Premium) and officer. Back then when you got bored of being a traffic cop you switched to SWAT and actually got to shoot and have fun.
Before ya'll start yelling at me: "But TFU is organised, trained hurr durr durr", I'll tell you this. Yes, they're more organised. Yes, they're more trained and yes they're better than SWAT. SWAT was a bunch of participants that wanted to have fun.
TFU will constantly win raids and still cry after losing one (Random TFU Officer: And people say TFU is OP).
I actually wanted to make a meme, but ended up being a bit serious about it here:
https://www.change.org/p/fredy-brin...u-system-b3264d84-9feb-4333-b8b1-5d686e050da0
I bring up some points not only pointed out by me but also by other players.
Example from today why this is still the same. Mr. Petty AR maker aka
@{IG} attacker1983 joined me today and we went around a bit as he's quite a good friend OOC. I saw one of my points that I have about PERP brought up by him although never speaking about this to him directly.
"PD Doesn't want to RP anymore". And to be honest... It's kinda right. When I try to roleplay to "stall" a bit, other officers get nervous as they feel they'll miss a shootout. The feeling of wanting to get relieved off that stress etc as they usually die in most raids as normal officers so they have anticipation to actually get kills. Again SWAT allowed you to relax and feel like a SWAT member.
For those whose excuse will be: "Well become a TFU". Trust me. I am trying. And me saying this kind of stuff will probably get me denied. But I, for one would like to point out some faults that I and other players have noticed. It's taking me 3 months from my stage 1 to stage 3 to be even announced. And who in the right mind is going to join a server where they need 1-2 months for cpl, 3+ months for TFU.
Don't get me wrong though. I don't think grinding is bad, it's just that 3 months?
Now next topic is the construction booklet and 2.5. Construction booklet = lowers creativity. I just think that TFU + construction booklet is the worst thing combined. Now for one you start a raid. It gives you 20s before heavily armed and armored people show up. (Before it used to take a few minutes as officers arrived on scene and then afterwards SWAT was called if needed or SWAT responded to life alerts or panics (which also allowed normal officers to shoot a bit more). The players had a bit of time before they killed the first wave of defenders before going to the last rooms. Now it's just put in such a way that raiders must get in very quickly to protect themselves against TFU.
Next topic: Code of Ethics - Professionalism. This one is a handy one. It can be used by any triggered person. I just think that nobody on PERP is acting professional as a civilian. Realistically speaking if there were a city like PERP, police officers would not be as professional as in a peaceful city as it's required for their duties.
Having fun is most of the time seen as unprofessional.
Next topic: Stress. Due to confidential reasons I will not state the exact names of the individuals. I've received information of people having panic attacks, major stress and other issues with PLPD and perp itself. Keeping up with the rules and everything is stress. Getting banned is stress. Being reported (even false) in IAs is stress.
I speak to people usually when they tell me that they have an IA on them and they're always very stressed whilst the investigation goes on. Yes it's a game, but you making them do 2 months of hard work just for it to be taken away is stupidity pure. And if you think it's their fault for taking it not too serious is just bad.
As long as you don't realize that limiting players more by either rules or physical restrictions lowers their will to do anything and their will to play, you won't get a higher player count. Garry's mod is down by the player count by 2000 players from last year. That being quite a huge number... It's still not an excuse to keep new players.
p.s. You ain't getting no TL;DR. The least you get to read is in the change.org link. That one is specifically for SWAT.
These are mine and other player's thoughts.
If PERP is dying at least let it die in such a way that people can have fun whilst it lasts. Besides why not giving it a trial period to see if it works. If it works, point proven, back on the track. If it doesn't work it'll die either way like any game did.
People leaving dumb ratings, please leave a constructive reply as I and others I suppose are willing to discuss this topic. Discussing something isn't bad and it shouldn't be seen as stupid. Maybe you can change my mind and other's and this "stupidity" can stop.
Have a wonderful day!
