tbagg1597
Clint Villa
Hello MTARP community!
I, as I hope all of you are, am excited that MTARP is back up and running again. I consider this community a home, as i have spent a lot of time here in the past few years. MTARP has had its ups and downs, but it always manages to come back. Lately, many members of this community have been frustrated, and I have also. Many people have left, or are planning on leaving the server because of this major issue. I ask why they leave, and they tell me they are leaving because this server has turned into a free for all. Years ago, when I first joined MTARP the police were favored, and it seemed unfair the way criminals were always at a disadvantage. Now, I see why those rules were implemented favoring police. Since the server opened to the public again, many rules were changed, and I feel they were changed with good intentions in mind. Although this may be true, there hasn't been a good outcome. Police are put at a severe disadvantage, and this isn't right. The police are short staffed, because every situation the police get into becomes a shootout, and CKs are handed out like candy. Everyone is walking around with assault rifles and shot guns, snipers, silenced pistols, etc. Weaponry that was once nearly impossible to come by, and now a single person has a different weapon for each cop on the server. RP was fun when you pulled someone over for speeding, just so you can give them a ticket or a verbal warning. Nowadays, that's hard to do since the speedcams are ticketing people automatically, which is yet another issue that is bothering me, and possibly some of you, but we won't get into that right now. As of now, the main issue in the server is Deathmatching and First Resort. Pullovers are rare these days, as everyone instantly goes into evade mode, and decides its time to shoot the pursuing officer when they get too close to catching them. All this, for a 6MPH over the limit speeding ticket, or running a stop sign. Something that you probably won't even be ticketed for. As some of you might know, I lead SAES on my main character, Phil Rockford. Phil was patrolling Los Santos, looking for possible fires, or the need for medical assistance. He drove past the All Saints General Hospital, where he was sniped by a man on the roof of a building next to the hospital. All because he was trying to do his job. The shooter, is guilty of Deathmatching and First Resort in my eyes. And unfortunately, this has been happening a lot with no effort to stop this madness. We need to stop this, and we need to revert back to the old rules regarding police and criminal interactions. Back then, I always pulled over for police. I took my charge for the possession of marijuana because I knew if I ran, I would get caught. That is how life works, so that's how MTARP should work. Now, I even find myself not stopping for an officer because I know I can get away, because the police are at such a disadvantage. These new rules are affecting the growth of law enforcement factions, and are favoring the growth of illegal factions. I hate to see the lack of police RP because of this, and I hate even more to see good friends and acquaintances leave the server over something that could be so easily fixed by tweaking some rules, and enforcing them. The old rules were good, so why make such a drastic change?
Thank you for listening, and if anyone has anything to add to this, please feel free to reply to this thread. If anyone agrees, or doesn't agree, please let us all know. I would love to hear everybody's feedback, and hopefully this will get some attention and we can make some changes.
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