Team Balance

Mike wrote:
Wow this is quite a hot topic and I understand why. I haven’t been ignoring this I’ve been watching this topic regularly to see what everyone thinks. Here’s my two cents.

Some of these are just ideas I want to float and others are things I’m set on doing:
1. At some point the Hydra, Hunter and Rhino will be completely removed. The Rustler and Seasparrow will remain.
2. Cop XP and payday will be made to reflect the cop vs criminal ratio. If there are lots more cops than civilians/criminals cops will be paid less and get less XP.
3. Cops ‘camping’ at the bank needs dealing with. Cops that stay in the area should be directed to leave or lose XP or something unless there is already a criminal either nearby or inside the bank.
4. When there are not enough cops on the server all players should be offered a recruitment bonus if they become a cop to balance the teams. The bonus should come after a few minutes and some work done.
5. If there are too many cops some should be offered ‘paid absense’ to go off duty as they are ‘over-staffed’.
6. If a player joins and they are a cop they will spawn off duty if there are over 60% cops or so.
7. Players cannot go on duty as a cop if there are over 60% cops active.

Thoughts?

3: Simply surround the bank with invisible per-cop airstrips like MTA servers did back in days XD
5: We'll have to think on the way of forcing their resignation, since they may simply ignore the offer.
[6; 7]: I think 60% is too much. Apart from law enforcement and criminality, there are many more activities players do.

zeMantras wrote:
every single night i join (wen its a small player base playing of 12 14) and everyone is a criminal.
the issue is really people like i said before, they dont press tab or simply dont care about a balanced game, i dont understand whats the fun of robbing the bank with no cops around, whats the point of playing like this? i dnt understand whats the point rly, for sure its  a generational thing.

They do it to farm more money, and i guess some get a lot of satisfaction out of it as well for some strange reason, despite the fact there is not anybody to fight against them.

If I'm cop late in the evening they usually get pissed when i interfere with their money farming. Occasionally they get someoneto go cop then AFK so they can get more money out of the bank.