Hey Mike, yesterday I was finally able to join your good server, I had a good feel of what's to come on the opening server, and I quite like it, and it can be the source that will bring me back to this game
but one thing I wished was polished abit more, are the tutorial at the start.
I know there is a way to skip it, but then you get just a bunch of text when you do, and you can't do anything until that is completed.(I tried getting into a taxi and said I can't skip tutorial until the texts were over, I don't know if you can skip that too xD).
I was thinking, maybe before anything starts you begin at a virtual world where it's just the player and the Npcs, and you play through a tutorial of things you will encounter on the server for example;
You're at a petrol station as a mechanic, easy and simple job to understand. make a npc come to a petrol station, and you're there to fix his vehicle or whatever it may be, and do your job as a mechanic, earning money that can be transfered into the real world giving you a start on things maybe, doesn't have to be big money.
or another good option can also be where you introduce the player to finding hidden packages,or
finding vehicles to scrap them for money.
Doesn't have to show every tutorial, But I think something like this would be nice, might be abit hard to script, but a chunk of information being shoved down your throat, is kinda overwhelming.
So I was thinking maybe ease them into the server, keep them focused on one thing, then move onto better things on the server, keeping the players occupied with anything and everything. All with patience playing the game, and learning what's new on the server.
I feel this will also help players remember commands on the server, instead of constatly questions about commands, and where to go and whatnot.
P.s I barely edited this, I just had a idea in my head and just blabbered it here, so this idea can be confusing, so I apologise