Author – Anthony (Monte)/ Vincent Plazio/ Sir_Sunk_Alot
Creds – Anthony (Monte)/ Vincent Plazio/ Sir_Sunk_Alot
If you’re here I’m guessing, you came to find out what’s going to be the future at CookoutV3. Well, I’m here to help you out and explain some things. The information I’m providing is from the development team and as you know certain details may change. A slight recap of community meeting.
So, lets start off with talking about the staff and administration of the city. The main owner batdad has expressed during the community meeting that, “I’m over the bickering, the arguing and the back and forth on both the staff-staff and staff-community conversations.” With that statement, he means that the issues have been heard from both staff and community and a restructuring has happened, with possibly more changes to happen in the future. What do you mean restructure? Well, that means some staff have moved on and new staff have been brought in and current staff have been moved around to better support the overall goals of the server and to ensure that we collectively as a team are doing what is best for the community. For those who have moved on, CookoutRP community and staff thank you for your involvement and commitment.
A new ticket system was implemented on the CookoutRP Discord server. With this new ticketing system, your tickets can be read and responded to in a much more efficient way. Also, with this ticket system you can send a ticket to the Director’s in the form of a Director’s Ticket; Developer in the form of a Developer’s ticket and so on. Meaning now you can direct the ticket you need help with to the staff members in charge of that area. Also, you will have contact with a single staff member with your ticket concerns. Placing onus on that staff member to provide the correct details.
Let’s talk about the website, the website has been under development for a while and has many features. The website will be the main source of information for the city and will house everything a citizen needs to know about the CookoutRP experience. The site is constantly updated to reflect changes and updates.
By now your asking, what’s new for the CookoutRP V3? Well, here’s what was released at the community meeting.
⦁ Law Enforcement – The big news here is that at the launch of CookoutRP V3 there will be three departments. The departments likely are:
- San Andras State Police (SASP)
- Blaine County Sherrif’s Office (BCSO)
- Los Santos Police Department (LSPD)
With each of the three police departments you can choose which you want to apply to concerning, what style of cars, uniform, style of command, etc you want to work for. Having three departments will also allow the player base more high levels of command are available. However, with that being said no one department will outshine another. All departments will enforce the same state laws and in event of a disagreement the Department of Justice will act as the third-party negotiator with staff oversite (if required in extreme cases)
The MDT system has been completely changed, with some features remaining and new features added. At the community meeting batdad said, “I have a ton of assets for policing, and I want to give them to you, but I also want to lookout for criminals and civilians. Policing cannot be to overpowered so certain things will need to be on a trial basis.
⦁ Criminals – The biggest new feature to the city will be the addition of a gang script.
⦁ The gang script will allow players to create a gang in the city without developer intervention. Now adding an MLO, tags and clothing rules remain the same. Meaning the gang leader (member) will need to be in the city for 30 days and everything needs to be approved by the development team.
⦁ Gangs will have the ability to control an area (turfs).
⦁ Specific gang areas will have a single item to run, creating a sense of forced roleplay.
⦁ Civilians will be required for gangs. Tables and items that a civilian can access without needing to be friendly with a gang. These items will include interactions where gangs need civilians help to obtain certain items and in return gangs can offer items back to civilians.
Special Robberies will be added and available every so often. CookoutRP has completely strayed away from PVP-styled heists and leaned more on the RP route while still allowing you to play a game by integrating our own minigame systems to get you in and out of situations – giving police time to setup and make sure the RP is enhanced and prolonged.
⦁ Civilians – We heard you loud and clear that you want more jobs to do to earn a decent living wage. Players will be given more job opportunities, and we’d like to hear from you about others. We’re interested in adding more of what you’d like to do.
⦁ Everyone – First and foremost, there will be many quality of life upgrades and this will remain at the top of batdad’s agenda. He explained, “I mainly look at streams in a developer standpoint for idea’s of options to make things more easily accessible for players or give more options to the player base.”
⦁ Housing – a new improved housing script will be used. In the words of batdad, “This will be over the top!” The job of being a realtor is going to be next level. They’ll have the ability to create houses (in-world or shells), flats, apartments, condo’s, office’s and warehouses. Players will have the ability to purchase, sell, rent, lease. Want to be a landlord – check. Want to be a slumlord – check. You can do all that! Do you need a realtor to sell your house? Nope, you’ll have the ability to place that for sale sign on the front lawn with details of the sale. Furniture for the new housing script? Yes, we have that also. You’ll have the ability to add furniture inside and outside.
⦁ Emergency Medical Services – Where do we start? Oh, how’s about a new hospital? That’s right a new PillBox is coming to the city. With a new hospital, there will be a new script with an extensive list of improvements. The development team acknowledges that the last script was lacking when a member experienced their first RP hospital trip. For that they do apologize! For that reason be prepared for new vehicles, new aircraft the ability to use a stretcher in ambulance, vans and aircraft. Players will also have the ability to use prescriptions, wheelchairs, crutches, canes and more!
⦁ Businesses – For those who own current businesses, they’ll have the ability to keep them. Starting over of course. Also pending applications that were approved but not implemented are slowing being incorporated into CookoutV3. For those who want to own a business, Cookout RP will remain a free city to obtain a business. No VIP or money IRL is required for it. If you want a business, you’ll need to create a business plan / application and provide the development team with the details. That proposal will be reviewed and see if it fits (MLO and RP) and if approved you’ll be handed the keys. Plans are for new food-based businesses to start off at a kiosk before moving to a full-fledged storefront. This will provide players with more RP and goals!
⦁ Mechanics – With such an important job for the city we want to avoid anyone having a monopoly. With that said we’d like to have more shops in the city and county. We plan to divide up the city and have a shop in each section. Each shop will be provided a special unique ability that no other shop will be able to perform. Each unique ability will be of equal value to the others and monitored to make sure it works. This should also spread the wealth and promote business to business RP.
⦁ Dealerships / Vehicles – This will remain unchanged except for major vehicle changes. There’s been talk about interest in other dealerships, just like mechanic shops. We agree, with that the plan is allow more dealers to open but need to be evenly split so no one has more of an upper hand than another. When it comes to vehicles, batdad is quoted as saying, “As a server owner, I’ve decided to take the risk of mixing TOS-friendly and non-TOS-friendly vehicle to CookoutRP for a better look and feel for the player base. So, prepare yourself for more options!
Now this is just the beginning of what there is to see and do within CookoutRP V3. More information will be forthcoming and watch for the announcements on the website and discord! Along with this when the word pineapple is used in general chat a teaser channel will open tomorrow.
