Quote from: Ninja??d on April 25, 2013, 07:50:20 PM

IIRC you have to kill the person with a gun to be able to loot, so people don't just loot every dead body they find out there.

Not sure if this is your problem, but its a possibility.

If this is true, then that's quite dumb really. I thought OCRP2 was more serious, and realistically anyone can walk up to a dead body and loot it wether they were the one who shot/killed the person or not.

I thought it would at least expand to orgs or buddies

Your first orders of business go as follows:

• Have a microphone, managing everything with a poor or absent microphone is impossible — DON'T TRY IT.
• Have a computer with a desk, in an office — Then you can access the police computer and relay information, making you invaluable!
• Tell everyone there is a dispatcher on duty.
• Order the maintenance of radio silence unless it's an update of a situation, an event, emergency et cetera This will allow clear signals and orders to be sent, sowing the seeds of order in the bed of chaos. 
• Prompt every official to give you a call number i.e. Officer 1-11, EMS-01, Tow-01, Fire-03 et cetera.
• Give everyone a unit number if they haven't put one forwards themselves when prompted.
• If there is a call or a situation, who, how many, and where.
• Control how many people go to a location, don't send all officers to a man trespassing on a roof (same applies to EMS and Fire-fighters).
• Make sure at least one car is paroling at all times.

• Declare that there is now an active police chief.
• Be a knowledgeable and experienced cop, as a start.
• Know your laws — You fuck up and it makes the service look bad.
• You keep the cops in line, simple as.
• If there is a situation, you organise that shit — You say when the door goes, who goes in and when they go in.
• Continuing on the 'keeping in line' — Demote the slackers and those that make you look bad.
• Maybe get two SWAT team members to be on standby at all times, if the server is well populated and you know there are well armed drug runners.
• Only buy supplies that are NEEDED, low on pistol ammo and funds, but you can buy a shotgun and ammo? DON'T. Buy the pistol ammo as more people get use out of it.
  Wise spending can make or break the force. If you're supplies are ample and you have spare money, don't spend it, cars need fuel.
• Once again, I cannot stress your organisation, off radio organisation skills must be up to par. Where cars go in the roadblock and where the spikes go, dictate if the suspect gets away or detained.

• Be POLITE.
• You act out the law.
• As soon as you're an officer, announce it over radio (either voice or /radio) as well as declaring your numbers (e.g. 4-75, 1-11, 6-66).
• Double up your patrol. For the love of GOD — Don't spawn the charger and drive off alone into the sunset. Odds are, you can't tame the dodge because you're 12 and someone else is left at the nexus without a car. Declare you need a patrol partner and wait for someone to pick you up. They're all doubled up? Get a car and patrol. Give dispatch your car number (a number for two people, keeping the dispatch job easier).
• Load your weapon as soon as possible, don't get caught with your pants down!
• Don't take extra ammo straight away. Only take this ammo if you've ran out.
• Intercepting is not the same as chasing! If a cruiser is chasing a suspect, ask their location and direction, then set-up a tyre-trap and a roadblock. Declare this so no officer drives over it in the chase.
• Following the chase, if he goes into the subs and is dangerous — Block it off. Clear the area, no one in or out. Then he cannot leave unless he hops a fence, then he can be chased down in a car.
• Follow the law.
• Make sure you know the laws before running into a problem head long.
• Search warrants can be made based upon 911 information, visuals on illegal entities, extremely suspicious activity.
  Gun shots and blood on the window? Raid. Seen an illegal weapon from a window? Raid. Seen drugs? Search. And so on.
• Continuing off of that, you may storm a property without warrant if a wanted man/suspect storms into a house (be it his or another's), you may knock down the door and go in. e.g. A cuffed man is let into his friend's house as he runs away, so you kick down the door, shout everyone to the ground and detain the home-owner too.
• If someone speeds or drives recklessly press ALT to pull them over, don't use the whole shebang; if they pull off? By all means, light up the roof and get a road trap deployed.
• Don't pull over someone for no reason; if his vehicle is a black transit and that's a suspected car (and you don't have the license plate), by all means, pull him over and question and search (they have the right to decline the search).
• If someone turns a corner at 55mph, ticket them. Yes it's the road speed limit, but who the fuck turns a corner at 55mph and expects to stay on the road? That's just reckless driving.
• Set bail fitting to the crime — The amount of times someone has killed 3 people and stolen 2 cruisers only to have their bail be $100 is sickening.
• You can have breaks to eat, refuel, but supplies, but don't take the piss.
• Food patrols around the city centre are a welcome change: Win the hearts and minds of the people, talk to them, be polite ask about activities in the area or anything they want to report; Checkout local shops to see if they're legal (cash register/illegal goods); give warnings for littering, loitering, public disturbances, reckless endangerment, J-walking, noise pollution, et cetera; anything that doesn't require a car (but have it on standby).
• Keep your partner close to you at all times, you never know when you'll need 4 hands.
• Check license plates/properties and warrants via dispatch (if available), this will save you time in what could become a chase/heated situation.

If police would pull people over for speeding/simple traffic stops and fine them with the new system, the city can gain money. In a half hour I usually fine 3-4 people at $100-$150.

As for your suggestion, I agree.

I do, but this only works with good RPers; most other people loljump into their car, driving off. This leads to 5 police cars tailing him (because no 10 year old knows what 'Intercept' actually means). He's arrested by a 10 year-old eventually and bail is a pathetic $100.

You know what could cause taxes to be a bigger outcry?
If it came out of your pay.
A good economy with 10% tax? You get about $81.
A bad economy with 10% tax? You get $45.

Higher taxes would cause out-cry as items would be more expensive and you'd have your pay docked, but it would give the economy a well needed injection of money rather than purely relying on people buying from NPCs or the rare and illusive player-shops.

+ support IF there is a chance of it exploding when you cook it which would add risk and give more stuff for the fire department to do!

This, it adds more drugs, the chance to raid and the addition of fires would give the fire Dept more reason to be active, as well as the high risk/high reward drug. Where as shrooms or weed aren't very high-risk.

Those phones were examples, I don't mean just suggest random phones you want in game; I mean a technological tier-system of phones, leading up to the iPhone.

Just a second ago the mayor pick the wrong option in an event and forced the entirety of the government service to resign. That is a fucking travesty if you ask me.
There should be a message on the employee side, telling them that their pay is being docked and that they have the chance to resign, rather than forcing them ALL out of a job.

Following the event, the entire city burst into flames and all the trusted and well established officers were replaced with what are frankly, brain dead.

What I am putting forward, is that the worker is notified that they're not going to be paid and they can quit any time; as well as their pay returning to usual when the city actually has money.

The idea I'm putting forth is:

• More basic phones,
• A cheap variant to the 5k current one,
• An increase of features with each upgrade.

For instance: The first phone could be a Nokia 3310, which only allow /911 and emergency calls,
The following phone could be a Samsung E2600 which could additionally add buddies,
Following could be another phone, adding Organisations,
Then the iPhone could have all the current features and then some, none of the prior could edit theme and such, making it more desirable.

This, in my opinion a better alternate to a single, phone which 90% won't buy due to it's meaty (or if you prefer, hefty) price tag.