New Day RP Community Meeting Notes | 30/05/2021 (1pm-3pm ET)

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Meeting Notes

Attendants: (300 @ 1:22pm | 303 @ 2:04pm )

Intro (Section Lead By Remy Fitzgerald)

• Welcome to the second community meeting!
• Thank you for nearly 3 months of amazing RP!
  • 4500+ Discord members!
  • Lots of new Whitelisted members.
  • Amazing RP!
  • This is all thanks to you!

Management (Section Lead By Mac Moody)

• Finances
  • A Big thanks to anyone who contributes to keep us running and improving!
  • A lot of money has been spent improving the community, servers, services, and in-game features.
  • Around $350 per month goes to keeping our services up.
• We expected 64 slots to be all that were required.
  • We currently have 265 slots that do fill up.
    • Thank you all for playing!

Admin/Staff (Section Lead By Chris Solace)

• The staff is working very hard to help everyone as they throw in tickets and reports.
  • Thank you for helping to keep the community clean and get clarification.
  • We've had 4k tickets.
    • 45 tickets per day on average!
• Congrats to Remy to becoming a Community Lead!
• Player reports can sit for a while.
  • They take an absurb amount of time to review, depending on the evidence.
  • We make sure at least 2 people look at every report to make sure the decisions are correct.
• If you have problems or questions with things or players, toss in a ticket.
  • The best way to solve problems is to talk about them.
  • People won't get better if they don't know they did wrong!
  • You can also just DM them if you know who they are and address it directly.
• Whitelisting Applications
  • 500-600 apps are in the WL rounds.
  • We open them every 2-3 weeks at the current rate.
  • Apps take ~15min to review on average.
    • The staff puts in tonnes of work and time to do these!
  • We have too many applications to keep them open.
  • We will never charge for apps or prio.
    • This is not a business.
    • We don't give monetary execption.
    • Only staff gets priority.

Development Team (Section Lead By Mac Moody)

• New Developers Joined
  • Trip Anderson
  • Josh Zimmerman
  • Emile Chaton
• What are we working on?
  • We just came out of a Dev meeting chatting about stuff.
  • We don't give the list of what's being worked on and ETA as people will constantly ask when things are coming in.
    • Rushed Devs make mistakes.
    • Things happen that make projects slower to complete.
  • We do like giving hints in the Discord when we are near to releasing something (teasers).
• Business Update in the future
• Development has been working very hard with an insane pace for months as we were bugfixing and pushing out QOL.
  • Now we are focusing on improvements mainly and new features.
  • Patches are nearly weekly now with some small bugfixes here and there.
• There are a lot of suggestions.
  • They aren't ignored, but we do have a roadmap of our own that is working on.
  • When putting in a suggestion you do have to keep in mind that the actual development time for something you think might be "easy" might actually take tens of hours.

DOJ (Alexander McKinley [Attorney General])

• Filling new positions.
  • New DAs were hired.
  • New Paralegals were hired.
  • Still looking for prosecutors.

Law Enforcement (Section Lead By Mac Moody [Chief of LSPD])

• Threads have gone up discussing situations on the forums previously.
  • These likely would have been better addressed in tickets with staff.
    • These were mostly miscommunication.
• Giving good RP gets good RP, from both sides.
  • Respect your fellow players despite the characters being on opposite sides.
• Bodycam discussion.
  • There may be a community discussion and vote in the future.
• Don't forget to be creative and have fun in situations with cops.
  • Using police as mechanics isn't fun for everyone.
  • We don't want cops having to use helicopters because everyone uses strats involving boats and bikes.

Medical (Section Lead By Maggie Martindale [Surgeon General] and Nikaela Parker [EMS Lieutenant])

• If you attack the hospital, you can get banned from the hospital.
  • They will still treat, but then kick you out.
• They are hiring!
  • Including someone to work the pharmacy.
  • Doctors IC need medical degrees, but players don't have to.
• EMS and medical does their job based on the injuries you describe.
  • Make sure to respond with your /me describing your injuries to get some good medical rp!
• Don't forget to RP your injuries!

Judiciary (Section Lead By Drake Paxton [Chief Justice])

• Jury system coming soon.
• You can do the bar exam and become a lawyer.
• Cops offer bail so there is likely to be more trials coming up.
• Judge apps just closed so keep an eye out in the future if you are interested in that.

Chamber of Commerce (Section Lead By Josh Zimmerman)

• Lots of new businesses have popped up!
• Five new members have joined and are helping process everything.
• Business Licenses are mostly caught up.
• Premises are being worked on.

Public Works (Section Lead By Hudson Chesterfield)

• Lots of requests for business cards and businesses.
  • Super backed up currently.
  • Remember that these are volunteers helping enhance RP, not rights.
• Interior and Renovation requests are closed currently.
  • There are many in the queue.
  • If you have a request open, please be patient.
• "Public works is amazing." ~ Tye Flitwick

Spirited Solace Section (Chris Solace)

• RIP Gam Gam.
• RP Workshops coming.
  • Allows people to hear ideas and how others handle roleplay.
  • Helps new people get caught up with how roleplay works.
  • Gives new ideas for characters.
  • Makes people feel more comfortable.
  • Will be announced soon.
• Slow Burn RP.
  • Don't forget that evolving characters and stories mean more than constant shootouts.

Q/A Section

• Questions about AU/EU timezone missing LEO/Medical.
  • If you want more, you can sign up too!
  • LEO is in the middle of a hiring.
• Are there plans to open up more hotels/motels?
  • Hotels would have to be new, and would take off something we are working on currently.
    • Apartments handle this need.
• "Import Cars"?
  • We are open to vanillaworks, but it is a lot of work.
  • High-poly forza models won't be added.
  • Car dealerships are on the dev list so this may be addressed further then.
• For minor injuries that down you, can they be treated on scene.
  • That's not a thing right now, but before you "go down completely" the EMS can pick you up.
• Where is the NewDayRP economy heading and why has the value of so many jobs / items been reduced?
  • They haven't been reduced, but there have been rebalancing.
    • If people get better a doing a single job and start doing it, that job is less valuable as there's no demand for the product.
  • If something is bugged and paying out more than intended, it will get balanced as well.
  • Increasing others to match just causes massive inflation where you pay millions for a car.
• Where there be more non-whitelisted jobs?
  • Yes, but priorities in the Development Queue.
• Are there plans for a tactical/SWAT for LEO and Class 2s?
  • Class 2s aren't opening available and we don't plan for them to be currently.
  • A tactical team isn't really needed currently.
• Wheelchair/Crutches.
  • Not currently, maybe a wheelchair in the future but they are bug-city.
• Is corruption allowed in the PD?
  • We don't let people fake charges, but beyond that it's in character.
• Risk/Reward balance for crims.
  • Jewelery store was increased if you do the whole thing.
  • Weed is well worth it.
  • It's all about balance.
    • Increases to smaller crimes means chain robberies and other failRP that creates little RP in general.
• Crypto price change reduction?
  • It changes by percents.
  • We made it less volatile, but you can still get unlucky.
  • We don't explain how it works, so it can't be exploited.
• Will bank trucks be added?
  • They already exists.
  • Find out how to do them in character!
• Will you be possible to buy apartments instead of rent?
  • No, hosues are for buying.
  • Jin Youngjae is amazing for creating and selling houses!
• Underglow and Headlights?
  • In the dev pile under eventually.
• Fire Department?
  • It's a certifiction process within EMS that is being worked on.
• What do you do if businesses aren't used that are purchased/licensed for?
  • Reach out to the Chamber of Commerce IC.
• Abusing animal spawns to farm deer is not roleplay.
  • This is FailRP via Powergaming.
• Any more melee weapons coming.
  • Devs may do in the future.
• Cash as a physical items.
  • Not in the plans but transfer items like "suitcases of cash" may in the future.
• Multiple player job updates to allow 2 people to do Go postal?
  • Not planned currently, it would take a lot of time that could go into other new jobs that do.
• Change your last name?
  • Judiciary form on the forum for a legal name change.
• Firearm cleaning?
  • We have durability and repairs in gun stores.
• Are we going to have taxes?
  • Keep an eye out IC, there's nothing currently.
• Will the Jugular be rebalanced?
  • It aready was.
  • There was a bug that broke the handling and overwrote it.
  • It now handles closer to the price.
• Will we ever remove the locals and vehicles?
  • No
• How many slots do we have?
  • 265 currently.
• Any plans to add more liveries?
  • Maybe for imported/added vehciles.
  • Default vehicles are default with their default liveries.
• Should we referr to tickets and reports as "The Government".
  • No. The Government exists and "The Government Website" means forum information for the government.
• More expensive houses?
  • In the future, when it's done.
  • Spanning the state was the priority.
• Plans for DOC?
  • There are Future plans for more small departments like DOC and Park Rangers.
  • We need EU/AU numbers beefed up first.
• Why was the Pier Blockaded?
  • Constant people driving vehicles down the Pier's Boardwalk and fishing lead to the City putting up barriers.
• What language do we use?
  • LUA almost completely outside of NUI.
• Will there be any fix on falling light poles from nothing?
  • That's some FiveM jank with states updating from things knocked down earlier to desync.
• Are there future plans to allow players to call 911/311/211 on their phones instead of using slash codes?
  • It would always be busy, and nobody wants to answer phones 24/7.
    • We don't need Call Centre RP.
• Will the ladies gents makeup/hair issue be fixed soon?
  • There may be some colour issues with lipstick.
  • Make sure you delete your outfits and resave when changing your face/hair as loading them with overwrite them.
• Pets?
  • Not currently.
• Will there be a gang unit on LSPD/BCSO in the future?
  • The Major Crimes Division exists and is a Joint Task force between LSPD and BCSO.
• Any way to avoid local cars that we have lockpicked dissapearing after 20ish minutes?
  • If nobody is near a car it will disappear.