"Make it make sense"

[Girth Control]

I don't see the game surviving in this current state, and I'm not saying that to be a hater or contrarian. There is just so much that doesn't make sense.

Cortex can search you instantly and limitation results in instant death, so there's no reason to ever have contraband, especially since it's rarely worth anything. 90% of weapons are utterly useless so you can't even fight back against cortex when they search you.

Roles like banker or corpsman make you incredibly wealthy and popular, while roles like liquidator have you wandering around for hours at a time doing literally nothing.

Players who steal your rations face no repercussions, and they can legally beat you to death if you shove them.

Working at the ration factory and disposing of corpses often result in instant death because another player can push you into the machine, resulting in all your items being destroyed and the other player receiving no punishment.

There needs to be more synergy between the roles, more reasons for players to interact with each other. That's the entire point of a roleplay game. But recently I've found myself more often than not doing jobs completely alone, not engaging with anyone, with no interesting or memorable situations happening.

The heart of the issue is crime and the fact that nobody is really allowed to commit it, resulting in everybody walking around with no agency.

[Kota]

Yeah there's definitely some amount of that lacking right now; though in regards to Cortex searching you - they don't get a limitation order put on you for failing to comply, so if you just run and manage to get away then you'll be fine.

I usually only end up switching to liquidator if I see the town is a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ mess tbh. If the town is *not* a mess then I switch to Scumbag and make it a mess.

But I digress; it would be nice if jobs depended on each other more.

[big knee]

i kinda get this, but from what i've seen it's pretty solid at the moment, a lot of the "synergy between roles" and creating "memorable situations" is kinda just up to you, if you go out of your way to play a role and make a name for yourself in a server then you get plenty of fun and interesting interactions. also, remember you can commit crime, it's just not a great idea, kinda the whole point of law no? if you break it, you can make big bucks but you can also lose a lot, including your life.
as for contraband, it is HIGHLY lucrative and very easy to make a lot of money off of, though as it should be, it is dangerous, also as for not being able to defend yourself from the cortex, yeah, that's kinda the point also, if a highly armed soldier finds contraband on you and has orders to execute anyone with said contraband on sight then you need to stay out of his sight, if you don't you die, stick to the shadows, run away if they come after you, if they chase try to shake them, you're a smuggler, being anti-social is how you stay safe.

[Cait_Blackcat]

There should be a Mayor job that can change laws like in darkrp, who also uses taxes to "Upgrade the city" like a special food vendor or something