PassiveRP Overprotected

[Baskingner]

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I disagree I think that passiveRP can be protected by the player and most situations can be dealt with IC. If someone comes in to rob you and you are in the Main Street then your chances greatly improve of survival etc however there's nothing to stop you from playing it out. /me presses silent alarm etc act out before giving the player the money. By which point the police will have been there hopefully etc,

In a city were there are guns the level of violent crime is going to be higher.

In theory sure, but in reality that is wishful thinking at best. I think we all know that police response time is highly inconsistant. Raids are often over within 1 minute and even faster when the aggresor knows that police is on the way. the "/me pressing silent alarm" can be read by the aggressor and very often he will metagame and tell the storeowner to hurry up. Officially its metagaming but its impossible to prove and very easy to get away with.

Furthermore, the policeforce is often horribly underequipped to deal with 4 corleones armed with Galils. Policeforces showing up midraid usually gets the storeowner hostaged and the shop being shot to pieces as a gunfight of 5 minutes isnt rare in these situatuons. In the rare situation that the cops actually win the storeowner is often shot or taken away in a hostagecar to enforce demands on.

Like it or not, but this is reality and it happens way too often.