Honton
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4 years ago This is actually something that I would LOVE to be implemented into the city, as I am very fond of Smoke on the Water. I use it's product to help build connections with people as well as break the ice, and promote the store. I think owning the business and even being able to sponsor player driven events such VU, Brawlers Club, City allowed races, etc, would be awesome. Gaining access to Smoke on the water Livery's for the Runpo, or even as being owner, having keys to the one's that are parked around the city and being able to fill them up and drive them to events would be an awesome RP experience.
TheHairyPenguin
Zopfco
tekkysuicide
RayMond-1
Allowing players with enough time on server to open one of the plethora of businesses available around the City [There are lots of businesses and opportunities for players and groups to start companies and run them as an alternative to grind jobs or white list jobs. This is the first city I have played in that does not allow groups and players to open their own industries. From brewing, bars/clubs, mechanic shops, restaurants, small shops, pawn shops and the list goes on. There are so many businesses in Los Santos and I feel we really could use those to help players and groups find themselves more in this universe. AT THE BARE MINIMUM it would be nice to see players be able to pick up a “bartender skill” to work at one of the many bars not owned by a whitelist to be able to sell drinks that aren’t beer or vodka and make some decent role play for themselves.]
Applying for a business [Allow players with a minimum of I’d say 200 hours to apply for a business in the city. Have them get charged every week for rent of the property, giving them a reason to invest time into it and run it. I would allow players to go through a D8 agent to give them another set of property to be showing around and more work they could be used for. Players would have to pitch their business idea and wait for acceptance after working with the D8 agent. There’s groups that could use businesses as legal fronts or hang outs. They probably will have competition but that allows for much more Roleplay. It would be nice to get away from focusing on a script grind and building something as a team you can be proud of. That team can be anything from Gangs, groups of friends, to a solo individual who hires employees and gets roleplay as a business owner.]
Bartender [While not an amazing alternative to having player owned businesses, this would provide the ability to go into one of the many scripted bars and work. Allowing players to offer different drinks and actually make some money off tending a bar. It would also give the ability to venture around the map to different clubs as long as a bartender is there. It doesn’t need to be an announced job as someone can simply use Twitter and word of mouth to get players there, or the new event system.]
This is a very possible common feature among other cities [Player Owned Businesses are amazing and adds great RP to so many servers. It gives characters something to think about beyond grinding the highest paying job, or loitering in Legion Square when there is nothing going on. It can very much open the map up to having more things to do and places to go. I have been in the city for a while now and each week I see this as something that would benefit the server more and more.]