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Being in an official gang and having a business

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Context: You cannot be in an official gang and hold another whitelist job, which includes business ownership too, on the same character.

I honestly feel like this rule is meant to straight up make people that are in official gangs expose themselves as gang members. You basically can't be in an official gang and keep it lowkey. While I maybe understand not having a whitelist job, I don't understand why you can't own a business.

Businesses are great for gangs as they can be used for roleplay as fronts for "money laundering" , their legal front in general.

IRL gang members are not gang members as a full-time job. Most of them either own businesses, or work somewhere as their 9 to 5, based on the gang/mob that it is. 

https://people.howstuffworks.com/10-businesses-supposedly-controlled-by-the-mafia.htm

This is great for RP purposes and I really can't see why it is not allowed. People that currently own a business and are in an official gang will probably find a loophole of some kind and pass the ownership to one of their friends just to be on their name, then they will still act around as they are owners or co-owners in some way. But not only that;

From a money making point of view, being in an official gang right now grants you no gain other than maybe a gang house. You can't make any money through paychecks of any sort. Same with the businesses (other than strip clubs and dealerships). And I know this will change soon. But it feels way too early to apply this rule if right now none of them are happening. I'd postpone this rule until "official gangs with a whitelist job style system that includes pay and perks".

Maybe allow people that are in official gangs to own a business but without being able to clock in at that business and make money out of it through a paycheck system, leaving them only the official gang system that is supposed to come in the future? Just to have the MLO basically with no other benefits, if all this is about the monetary gain that they can have from both owning a business AND being in an official gang.

I honestly feel like all of this should happen in roleplay. You can own a business, you can do whatever you want, as long as you keep your record clean and stay out of trouble. You get caught by the cops doing something bad, the government steps in and revokes your licence. As easy as that. This just straight up limits the roleplay of the people as it is right now, and it makes people that are into crim RP / official gangs very limited, almost like punished.

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I suggest letting a gang have 1 business that is made on their turf. For example, giving Taco Libre to Vagos and having similar businesses for the other hoods.

There's not businesses in every hood/official gang territory and we don't make our own mapping so its not something the we can make. Also, this would be something that they would complain about too because they'd be forced into owning whatever it is we gave them based on location.

I suggest reverting the white list pay

This isn't going to happen. The pay was reduced for a reason and we cannot just revert those changes. I stated in other posts already and I'll say it again. WHITELIST JOB PAY IS BEING BUMPED BACK UP TODAY. But not reverted. Also see Dan Baldy's comment about who makes the most money... its outdated since we lowed the whitelist job pay, but he was right if we're speaking of how the pay was previous. Whitelist jobs made the most... second only to the crims that worked drugs with a good system.

encouraging them to go in on a business as groups.

We do not discourage this and we never ask or look where the money comes from... Businesses can be funded however it happens but the owner cannot be in an official gang.

The criminals have a lot of restrictions already regarding "the public side". We can't rob people, we barely can take hostages and because of that we can't have bank robberies as well for example, and more.

Criminals can do all of these activities anytime they want to make money:
Stores

Houses

Chop

Cars

Drugs

Garbage

Taxi

Uber Eats

Taco Libre

Trucking

and if you read the announcement you'd have seen that they're also getting a new activity

Non-crims have:
The choice of 1 whitelist job or 1 business
Garbage,

Taxi,

Trucking,

Uber Eats,

Taco Libre


How did I make the money myself that was put in there? By selling drugs, ALONG with garbage job. Was it risky selling drugs? Yes. It's supposed to be risky and pay MORE than doing any legal job. I got caught and fined plenty of times which slowed my progress.


Risky? Slowed your progress? Here are the dates you got charges from cops through the entire time you've played here. 3 of them were just speeding tickets. Yet you've been a criminal all the while and even ran a gang. Have they taken your sports cars and million dollar mansion? Have you paid a ton of fines? No, you haven't paid much and still have two unpaid actually...

Dates of all charges, 3 of which are speeding tickets.


Outstanding fines not paid

What's so different between someone who makes money doing illegal stuff like selling drugs then wanting to buy a business VS a whitelist job that gets his money by being clocked in? If that's their preffered type of roleplay and would rather spend their time making money by selling drugs to NPC and risk getting jumped by other gang members or arrested by cops and have more RP and interactions that way VS drive a garbage truck around from checkpoint to checkpoint why punish them? And who's to say that a person that works at LSC for example doesn't also sell drugs in their free time and make money that way as well? The person selling drugs gets involved into doing something RISKY that can get him an arrest on his record, then he won't be able to buy that business anyway. I thought that business owners are supposed to be people that don't get charges and if they do they will lose their licence.

This is a big one so I'm going to try to just make some points from it.

1. People can make money for their business however they want. I don't care if its from crime or whitelist jobs or trash.

2. The restriction isn't "You can't buy a business with drug money", the ONLY restriction here is you can't be in an OFFICIAL GANG, and own a business. Why is everyone blowing this out of proportion?

3. RP will play out how it plays out and yes, business owners might lose their business or whitelist job employee might lose their jobs should they decided to do crime. But again... not talking about that, just saying can't be in an official gang and own a business or work a whitelist job.

4. Context: You cannot be in an official gang and hold another whitelist job, which includes business ownership too, on the same character.

As the post above said, a limitations of 1 MLO business per official gang in total would be perfectly fine for everyone.. let them have their choice of what business they want to have / keep / get rid of, who will have it out of their members, then plenty will be available for civilians too... solutions can be found and ways to make criminal RPers and civilians "live together". This way the civilians still have an advantage, as a group of civilian friends can own as many businesses as they want meanwhile a group of criminals (a "gang") can only have one.

Did I say that you can't work with someone outside of your official gang to run a front for you? I don't see that I said that anywhere. Did I say you can't fund a business? Nope. 
So again... Context: You cannot be in an official gang and hold another whitelist job, which includes business ownership too, on the same character.

If a WL job player can't own a company, and criminal players can't own a company, who is going to buy them? Someone making the intended $5k/hour at a public job (iow anything but Libre) isn't buying a million dollar business at auction.

I kinda covered this one already but since I'm just going from the top here I'll just say it again. People can make money for their business however they want. I don't care if its from crime or whitelist jobs or trash.

Another thing that people might not fully understand is that we do have plans in the future to release certain businesses that are MUCH LESS REGULATED than the one's we have now. But for now, the attention is on adding more options for non-crims because the server is currently 10 things for crims to make money on vs 6 for non-crims. Or if you wanna eliminate the public jobs that everyone can use from the counts... then its 5 things for crims to do to make money, vs 1 for non-crims.

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Zopfco
Did I say that you can't work with someone outside of your official gang to run a front for you?

What will determine that they're not in the gang other than leaving their name off the official roster & changing clothes?

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New Chance
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Did I say that you can't work with someone outside of your official gang to run a front for you?

What will determine that they're not in the gang other than leaving their name off the official roster & changing clothes?

Official gangs will be a "job" and require updates to the database to set them up. Official gangs are going to basically be whitelist jobs.

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Zopfco
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Official gangs will be a "job" and require updates to the database to set them up. Official gangs are going to basically be whitelist jobs.

So they will earn a paycheck on top of the money for criminal activity?

1. How will that be balanced against criminals not in an official gang?

2. It sounds like they will still own businesses through people who are members in every sense but being on an official roster and wearing a flag.  I'm sure you've thought of that but can understand if you don't want to reveal whatever penalites/prevention might exist just yet.

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Him Who Robs
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Official gangs will be a "job" and require updates to the database to set them up. Official gangs are going to basically be whitelist jobs.

Does this mean people not in a whitelisted gang will not be able to do armed truck robberies or other stuff down the pipeline?!