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11-25-2016, 10:46 AM
(This post was last modified: 09-01-2022, 01:05 AM by Fearless Community. Edited 1 time in total.
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I do agree that there are several aspects of the rules that need to be tweaked and it's something that has been in the making for a while now. In regards to the Fail RP rule; yes, it's very vague. However, one of the reasons it's there is because people love to find any excuse to do whatever they want and if that rule wasn't there, what would stop people from acting like complete retards just for the fun of it?
Yes, this is meant to emulate real life to an extent, but people act way differently on a screen than they do in real life. If the Fail RP rule wasn't there, what would stop:
- A chef from stealing a car?
- A gun dealer from only selling to his close friends and refusing to sell to other people?
- A Taxi driver that drives his Taxi and refusing to take customers?
- A Black market dealer working in a food stall?
- SRU from issuing traffic fines?
- Police from shooting into the air randomly when they want?
- A fireman refusing to put fires out?
There are way too many rules at the moment. The rules could be simplified greatly because most people can't be bothered reading them. However when you're in the staff team you realize that many people like to pretend they're lawyers and start finding flaws/loopholes in every rule, therefore more rules were added over time to prevent these "Loopholes", though it has gotten pretty ridiculous. Because it is impossible to write out all possible scenarios sometimes generic rules have to be applied, such as the "Fail RP" rule, which basically means "Roleplay in a realistic way that fits your character".
As much as I'd love to remove most of the rules, including the Fail RP one, and trust that people will do things in a way that's realistic even if it doesn't seem so, I know that unfortunately only 10% of the server can be trusted to do so. If we took the Fail RP rule away, the minging would be unbearable.
Yes, this is meant to emulate real life to an extent, but people act way differently on a screen than they do in real life. If the Fail RP rule wasn't there, what would stop:
- A chef from stealing a car?
- A gun dealer from only selling to his close friends and refusing to sell to other people?
- A Taxi driver that drives his Taxi and refusing to take customers?
- A Black market dealer working in a food stall?
- SRU from issuing traffic fines?
- Police from shooting into the air randomly when they want?
- A fireman refusing to put fires out?
There are way too many rules at the moment. The rules could be simplified greatly because most people can't be bothered reading them. However when you're in the staff team you realize that many people like to pretend they're lawyers and start finding flaws/loopholes in every rule, therefore more rules were added over time to prevent these "Loopholes", though it has gotten pretty ridiculous. Because it is impossible to write out all possible scenarios sometimes generic rules have to be applied, such as the "Fail RP" rule, which basically means "Roleplay in a realistic way that fits your character".
As much as I'd love to remove most of the rules, including the Fail RP one, and trust that people will do things in a way that's realistic even if it doesn't seem so, I know that unfortunately only 10% of the server can be trusted to do so. If we took the Fail RP rule away, the minging would be unbearable.
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