So, if you've been playing MCNR in the last months, you surely noticed the Cop population drastically dropped. When I joined MCNR, the cop/civ ratio was usually 1/2, and it wasnt rare for it to be bigger. But now its very rare for the number of cops to surpass that (today there were 4 cops (including me) for 27 civs). I'm not the best cop ever, but I have an idea why:
1- The tazer is shit.
I've seen people crying that the tazer is OP, and blah blah blah, but it not. The tazers range (it isnt as bad as it used to be thoguht) is laughable at best. Anybody a bit further is completely safe. Also, since its a single shot weapon, and you got to wait for the reload. Its extremely hard to catch unarmed crims that are running, cuz even if you get close enoguth by jumping faster, you only got one shot, if you fail, you got to reload, and get close to them again. No wonder many cops just shoot everybody. And against crims with weaponds, 99% of the time you'll just have to use your weaponds against them, because they will just shoot you. Its extremly hard to hit criminals that keep jumping and sprinting. Almost all hits are just luck.
Maybe add a 2nd shot before reloading.
2- The cars are shit.
So, this will be a bit controversial, but the cars are shit. Police cruisers never catch most crims, as nearly everybody is on high-end supercars/superbikes. Pursuit vehicles solve this but only partially. Having to go into the PD garage just to get one is a bit boring, but the main issue is, since on nearly every car chase, the car gets beaten very hard, you end up having to pay to fix it (or go to the PD garage to get it again) and you cant respawn them. Personal cars can fix this, but since when do you like to use a 70k vehicle (that costs 3600$ to recover if destroyed) to catch a MW suspect that (will put a fight and shoot back and) pay a measly 600$?
3- The helis are shit.
There is no point in using a heli unless you plan one having a cop team. Most cops wont bother with going after the suspect you are chasing, and you cant do anything usefull either (cant shoot, if you land they just drive away, you are just stuck chasing them unyil your choppo is destroyed or you get bored)
Make possible to driveby from a chopper or add guns to one, since besides the aqua chopper which name i dont remenber, every one is useless.
4- Bribing is anoying both for the criminals and cops
So, bribing jailed crims is unrealiable as fuck. You go to a jail, you see a guy with a high bail, you click on them, type the bribe: "Player is too far away to bribe". He is on the jail next to the one im looking at. The I have to figure out who is him, since you cant see name tags. This also happends with the crims.
Make it so the only names that apear to bribe/offer a bribe are the ones you are in range to do so (or you can bribe everyone once you are in the jail room).
5- Its literally a high risk - low reward job
So, I'm quite noob at PvP, and I dont hide that. Since 80-90% of crims are armed, you just expect a firefight, But when you die, you have to pay 500$+400$ counting armor so 900$ to get back where you were. If you caught 2 MWs (alone) before you died, you would only gain 300$. And if you only got 1 (assuming you even get one, since they like to be in groups) you get a 300$ bill. Seriously.
Make it so at least you get a discount in medical bills when you get killed.
6- Next to no cops to team up + lots of hostile crims in groups + all the disadvantages = Mikes Robbers
Either by agreeing or disagreeing (with constructive criticism), thanks for reading this.