Austin Rogers The Original

I didn't do nothin!

Aaah yes, let's give the non lethal ear deafening flashbangs to civilians. What could possibly go wrong? From the cop side of things, currently there aren't many cops who use flashbangs consistently. Most don't want to waste a talent point and mag space. Plus most cops don't know how to throw a flashbang to save their lives. As someone who does use flashbangs quite a bit and to good effect they can be quite powerful. If it becomes a common thing I could potentially see their price being increased a bit to discourage spam. Although this would make flashbang home entry even more expensive.

Totally agree! I also suggest that when an APD member is caught cheating everyone of the same rank gets demoted for 1 week. If a Cadet gets caught cheating all Cadet weeks get reset. Let's make all the cheaters feel the pain by punishing everyone. They will feel empathy and see the error of their ways.

I mean this event isn't really civ vs cop at all. Its 2 parts. Civ vs civ and Cop vs cop.

I agree that the stairs can be very buggy and infuriating. Though we should be careful of whatever changes may be made to it. If made too easy to peak effectively then it might be a bit too cop sided. The original reason for the stairs was to add an alternate route to the roof rather than just the center ladder. If there was a change I still think that it should be risky to push, and require teamwork and timing to pull off a rush onto the roof.

Totally agree with this. Had a shipping robbery yesterday with about 4 cops online and none of us noticed until the shipment was passing pyrgos. Maybe i would even suggest a sound notification similar to the way quests work?

This is a simple suggestion that would change the way officers are compensated when civilians pay tickets below a set threshold. Ever since the APD has been compensated for their efforts arresting and processing civilians, there has been various changes attempting to improve the roleplay and interaction between both factions. One such example of this was the parole system, while in principle it seemed like a good idea the parole system was heavily abused and provided both more lenient officers and "Robocop's" with a quick and easy way to deal with a civilians while taking advantage of a full payout. The change I propose would aim to do two things. First of all it would add more incentive for cops who are more "Money hungry" to issue tickets of a lower amount to civilians when they put good effort into roleplay and explaining their charges. On the other side it would reward police officers who are already more lenient and fair with their ticketing with additional monetary compensation. The suggested change is simple. If an officer pardons or issues a ticket below 50% of the suspects bounty then the officers would receive a minimum compensation of 50% of said bounty. For an example if a civilian has $100,000 worth of charges and an officer roleplays with them for 7 minutes and issues a ticket for $20,000 which the civilian then pays the officers would receive $50,000 (50%) of compensation instead of the current system which would be $20,000 (the ticket amount). Compensation for tickets at or above 50% and suspects who are sent to jail would remain unchanged. I feel like this change would be a great reward system that would improve the experience not only for the police but also for the civilians who would benefit from less interactions with the police where they feel that they are being treated unfairly or simple being ignored by certain police officers.

I agree with these concerns and have posted some added notes in my post as a response. I think it can be balanced and or made to be used during appropriate times.

APD Budget cuts unfortunately. They could always be added on if our budget increases in the future!

It would be interesting to have another addition to the drone selection in the APD. If balance is a concern you could potentially remove the thermal imaging capabilities so you would choose between the speed of the Greyhawk and the superior thermal imaging of the current AR-2 Darter. Added notes: I agree with Michael that both the Greyhawk and the current Darter if used properly are virtually unkillable. Along with the speed this could be a real concern to some civilians who feel it's too powerful of a tool. I feel however there are different restrictive parameters that could be added to keep it from being oppressive. As mentioned below by heater you could make it only for use at federal events and or chasing APB's/high value warrants/cartel raids etc... You could also along with potentially removing the thermal capability(Current jets have this), allow it to be used as the current darter is but have it only be usable once per restart and have the fuel limited to around 30 minutes or so. Such restrictions could be discussed among the developers, captains, and mitch to help find a good balance. Would be great to see these things as I love drones and they are pretty dope.

I initially though about putting it to the north west of Athira aswell. There isnt really an obvious place to put it there though. It would just be in a random spot. Of course you could build a base from scratch if needed. Imo the Lakka location is just as functional if not more so so the fact that its a bit closer to the pyrgos base isnt really a big deal. It helps serve bounties caught to the west of lakka aswell.

Ever since the bounty hunter base(Skiptracer) has been introduced and the previous bounty hunter shops were removed, there has been a significant gap in the ability for players to acquire BH gear. There is a skiptracer outside of every major city with the exception of Athira. On top of the lack of a place to buy BH gear and vehicles, any bounties caught in and around the Athira area need to be taken a significant distance before they can be arrested. To address this I am suggesting that a fourth Bounty Hunter Base be added to the server. I believe a suitable location for the base would be a small military outpost on a hill just north of Lakka Checkpoint. This would be close enough to the city of Athira to work as a more convenient location for the central area of the island. It is also far enough away from Athira that any bounties caught in the area would have to be moved a long enough distance that would give players a chance to be rescued by fellow gang members or taken by enemy bounty hunters before they can be arrested. Below I have added a couple of images overviewing the location aswell as potential placements of the shop and additional Bounty Hunter Base amenities.