Kalevius

Suggestion for (MTA, Forum, website): MTA Suggestion: As of now, we are encouraging players to kill the street brawlers by giving them exp. And to counter that we have made a rule against it, I'm sorry but what? Instead we should give negative effects for people who kill street brawlers. -15exp should be sufficent enough to stop people from killing everyone in their sight during brawls. Why should this be added?: Less to administer. Proper player encouragement to the right path without additional rules. Anything else you'd like to add?: If this gets implemented, the rule regarding to street brawls should be removed. (Less to follow, general understanding of more freedom and less restrictions.)

Fair enough, makes sense to keep country agencies smaller than municpal departments. However why do Sheriff's departments have access to the same equipment if the focus is to keep them smaller than municipal agencies? I mean the only difference right now is that municipal departments have more titles to grind for, yet you can get the highest title and all of the benefits that come with it with a lower cost in a county agency. Shouldn't we reward those more who grind and put effort in to ranking up? I mean we have 3 ranks that literally serve no purpose in the means of achieving something other than a title. No unlockables, nothing. My initial suggestion was to even out the ranks but now it seems to me that changing unlockables would be a reasonable thing to do as well. Perhaps we could move some of the city focused vehicles to municipal police departments and give county agencies more off-road focused vehicles? Yet another idea to throw out there. Mix the unlockables and make departments unique in their own way. This would encourage players to play in multiple departments which would increase their playtime.

Updated - 21.12.2017 Added rank structure for medical services Added unlockables for medical services Added a visualized image for law enforcement rank structure Added a visualized image for medical services rank structure

Then simply compensate everyone who is above cadet? Why leave the rest out? You got one option right here. Or you could simply not overthink about the opinion of the public as with this kind of thinking you could leave out a lot of improvements that could even out the negative opinion and perhaps even improve general opinion on the game and its quality in the long run. This should be your last concern really, the fact that people are merely going to lose a title, no unlockables, nothing, only their title. You have to realize that you're giving them more to work around with, more gameplay if anything, more to brag about in the future as everyone will be bumped down title wise. From what I see, we are barely even discussing the suggestion itself, but are rather talking about aspects that are not directly related to the suggestion. Forget the implementation for a minute and tell me if this suggestion is worthwhile by its additions and what it will improve gamewise. First we should agree on what should be added and what is worthwhile adding and then worry about implementation. I see that you're looking over things and care for the general opinion of the public but yet again I'm not asking that you should add this in the next update. You can even take a year or two to put this in. Priority is all up for the development team, and personally I don't even see this as a high-priority update. Eventually you're going to have to touch the ranks anyway, so it would be nice to have all suggestions regarding to ranks there in the first place as it would fasten up the whole process.

Usage of DSI and DSG depends on the department. I agree on that however what about DSIII? Why is that missing from county departments? Assistant Sheriff is not the same as deputy chief or undersheriff. It's an entirely different rank. In most cases it does have similiriar duties and responsibilites but is far off from being same. With that logic I could be making another suggestion to remove the rank "Commander" from municipal departments, with the same claim "too similiar." By no means I'm suggesting a bump down for people who have ranks higher than suggested. Their exp count should remain the same, alongside with their unlockables, so I don't see a problem with adding ranks to even out the cap between county and municipal law enforcement agencies. It's a game, sure but yet again county departments just feel like they are lacking content and are not even finished when compared to municipal police departments that seem to be more polished. Of course it's going to demand work, however don't base your opinion on a suggestion depending on how much work or time it is going to take. If it improves the game even a little I believe it's wortwhile handling.

Suggestion for (MTA, Forum, website): MTA Suggestion: Add the following rank(s) for Sheriff's Departments. Deputy Sheriff Generalist Deputy Sheriff III Staff Sergeant Assistant Sheriff Modify the following rank(s) for Sheriff's Departments. Cadet > Trainee or Academy Student Add the following rank(s) for Police Departments. Probationary Officer Modify the following rank(s) for Police Departments. Cadet > Trainee or Academy Student Why should this be added?: Would help to even out the missing ranks between Sheriff's Departments and Police Departments. Anything else you'd like to add?: Cadets are usually defined as members of a youth organisation in which young people learn about and/or participate in law enforcement and police work. Hence the suggestion for change, to clarify the rank and its meaning.

[align=center]https://i.imgur.com/tOsqGsP.png' alt='IMGUR>'>[/align] [align=center]Rank Structures & Unlockables[/align] Introduction Down below you will find all of the information in regards to ranks within departments that exist in SAPDFR. This topic will include the rank hierarchy as well as the privileges and unlockables gained from ranking up. [align=center]LAW ENFORCEMENT[/align] Rank Structure [align=center]https://i.imgur.com/DVWdHig.png' alt='IMGUR>'>[/align] Unlockables RANK-1 SKIN "Cadet 1" (71) SKIN "Female Officer" (211) VEHICLE "Police Bike" VEHICLE "Police Caddy" [PD EXCLUSIVE] [*]RANK-2 SKIN "Police Officer I" (265) [PD EXCLUSIVE] SKIN "Police Officer I" (266) [PD EXCLUSIVE] SKIN "Police Officer I" (267) [PD EXCLUSIVE] SKIN "Police Officer I" (280) [PD EXCLUSIVE] SKIN "Police Officer I" (281) [PD EXCLUSIVE] SKIN "Police Officer I / Deputy Sheriff I" (282) SKIN "Deputy Sheriff I" (93) [sD EXCLUSIVE] SKIN "Deputy Sheriff I" (288) [sD EXCLUSIVE] VEHICLE "Patrol Car LS" VEHICLE "Patrol Car SF" VEHICLE "Patrol Car LV" VEHICLE "Towtruck" [*]RANK-3 VEHICLE "Transport" [*]RANK-4 VEHICLE "Motorcycle" [*]RANK-5 VEHICLE "Police Ranger" [*]RANK-6 SKIN "High Command" (283) VEHICLE "Unmarked Patrol" VEHICLE "Unmarked Patrol 2" VEHICLE "FBI Rancher" [*]RANK-7 VEHICLE "Cheetah" [*]RANK-8 SKIN "Commander" / "Undersheriff" (286) VEHICLE "Unmarked Yosemite" VEHICLE "Police Maverick" [*]RANK-9 SKIN "Chief of Police" / "Sheriff" (240) VEHICLE "Unmarked Merit" [align=center]MEDICAL SERVICES[/align] Rank Structure [align=center]https://i.imgur.com/pSkippp.png' alt='IMGUR>'>[/align] Unlockables RANK-1 SKIN "First Responder" (274) SKIN "First Responder" (275) SKIN "First Responder" (276) VEHICLE "Ambulance" [*]RANK-2 N/A [*]RANK-3 N/A [*]RANK-4 N/A [*]RANK-5 N/A [*]RANK-6 SKIN "Medical Lieutenant" (70) VEHICLE "Burrito Ambulance" [*]RANK-7 N/A [*]RANK-8 N/A [align=center]Credits: Kalevius (Joint structure hierarchy, unlockables to ranks), Dandr3 (exp levels) & OfficerJacob (General help with level measurments & unlockables). Disclaimer: I acknowledge the fact that there are several topics on this section that already cover some and most of what was mentioned above. This is a merged topic with additions to help newcomers easily learn the game mechanics without jumping from one topic to another.[/align]