After the MW rule was changed the crews basically lost their core meaning. However I believe it was a change for the good, when it comes to improving the experience for new players. But what if 1.15 includes some type of early version of the crew system, which includes an in-game crew menu for official crews.
The Menu
- Manage Members - For owners to add or remove members
- Crew Relations - For owners to request for peace or declare war on another official crew; for crew members to see the current relations with other crews.
- Participate in crew activities - Players can use this option to basically go on-duty as a crew member. Turning this option on would add the crew tag to your name and allow the enemies of that crew to kill you for money bonus and crew points, but only when you are wanted (2+stars). You can only use this option as a civilian. In the future that option could be improved to make it automatically switch to the crew skin, clothing, vehicle colors etc.
- Crew Status - displays information about your crew - the name of the crew, total members, active members; crew points and ranking; kills; deaths;
Commands
/crews - Displays the list of the official crews and rankings
/mycrew - Opens up the crew menu
/cc, /crewchat - A chatroom for active crew members
Crew Points
Crew points can only be earned when you're actively participating in a crew activity (wearing the tag).
+3 points for killing an enemy crew member
+1 points for robbing an enemy crew member
-2 points for getting killed by an enemy crew member
Also the points would then open up different opportunities for the crew members.
For example - Each city will have its own spot for only the official crew members to buy cheaper weapons. The size of the discount would depend on the ranking of your crew.
There is much more that I would love to add here, but I would rather have some type of early version of the crew system released with the next update and have it updated and improved over time. Right now it feels like crews have been abandoned and I am sure that would bring it all back to life.
Open to your opinions and suggestions