So let me begin by saying that this post is NOT aimed at the general criminal playerbase of MCD. If you are one of those "Cops suck, Ban them all people" and are not willing to have an open mind, please don't waste your time in reading this.
My apologies in advance for the wall of text, I wanted to include all the points and information in the one post.
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Police...yes we all hate them, but they are normally a major part of most drug servers. Without them it takes away the challenge of growing/selling drugs and essentially turns a server into a MC version of Farmville.
Sadly since I have joined the server I have noticed that the current state of the Police Force is on the decline. The current amount of Police is slowly diminishing and I will outline this more in the following paragraphs.
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Why is this???
Most new players joining the Police realise it in the first week and the ones that do try and stick with the Police Force eventually give up and realise it too.
They realise that to join the Police Force in MCD pretty much throws away any chance of being able to compete with other players in other aspects of the server like Bases/Factions/Raiding/PvP due to the lack of funds.
In no way do I believe that Police should be able to compete with Criminals in the terms of money making(as nice as that would be). However I do believe that joining the Police should be somewhat viable as they are a major part of MCD.
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The Monetary side of things:
Speaking from the place of the majority of players who join the Police Force, the money is extremely low as they mostly stand around in one spot and don't pay attention for invisible players etc.
This is even worse for people that play mainly in timezones at or around AEST like me due to the fact there are so little people playing the server at that time that you can very normally go a full hour without seeing anyone to arrest.
In this situation the only other option for Police is to go mine, which I can tell you is barely worth the time.
I decided to test how much the mines really made for low ranked police, using a regular Efficiency 5 Pickaxe with no pots I went to Recruit Mine and mined until I got a full inventory of sellable blocks (No cobble)
It took me an average of 35 minutes of tediously holding down the left mouse button and walking through the mine all to make a small average amount of $52000.
If people wanted to mine for long periods of time for little profit they would have gone and joined a prison server
Really the only reasons I have achieved such a high rank is due to a decent amount of playtime, Maxed T6 Horse and paying increased attention to try and see invisible people (Crims call them hacks). Even then I have made 3/4 of my money during drug boosters and selling/trading shops with my sister and faction buddies.
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Suggestions:
If you have made it this far and hopefully agree with some of the points I have made, I have a few suggestions on how to make joining the Police Force somewhat viable and fun again.
My apologies in advance for the wall of text, I wanted to include all the points and information in the one post.
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Police...yes we all hate them, but they are normally a major part of most drug servers. Without them it takes away the challenge of growing/selling drugs and essentially turns a server into a MC version of Farmville.
Sadly since I have joined the server I have noticed that the current state of the Police Force is on the decline. The current amount of Police is slowly diminishing and I will outline this more in the following paragraphs.
Yes many players join the Police Force daily, always good to have new recruits but the thing is, how many of them actually stay? I have noticed that probably 80% of players joining the Police Force either get demoted or resign in the first week.
The amount of players that actually stick with the Police Force for a decent amount of time and take it even half seriously is extremely low, I can think of maybe 10 current players at the most. Even looking at /topcops in-game one will notice that a vast majority of the names in the first 5 pages are no longer in the Police Force.
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Why is this???
Most new players joining the Police realise it in the first week and the ones that do try and stick with the Police Force eventually give up and realise it too.
They realise that to join the Police Force in MCD pretty much throws away any chance of being able to compete with other players in other aspects of the server like Bases/Factions/Raiding/PvP due to the lack of funds.
In no way do I believe that Police should be able to compete with Criminals in the terms of money making(as nice as that would be). However I do believe that joining the Police should be somewhat viable as they are a major part of MCD.
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The Monetary side of things:
Speaking from the place of the majority of players who join the Police Force, the money is extremely low as they mostly stand around in one spot and don't pay attention for invisible players etc.
This is even worse for people that play mainly in timezones at or around AEST like me due to the fact there are so little people playing the server at that time that you can very normally go a full hour without seeing anyone to arrest.
In this situation the only other option for Police is to go mine, which I can tell you is barely worth the time.
I decided to test how much the mines really made for low ranked police, using a regular Efficiency 5 Pickaxe with no pots I went to Recruit Mine and mined until I got a full inventory of sellable blocks (No cobble)
It took me an average of 35 minutes of tediously holding down the left mouse button and walking through the mine all to make a small average amount of $52000.
If people wanted to mine for long periods of time for little profit they would have gone and joined a prison server
Really the only reasons I have achieved such a high rank is due to a decent amount of playtime, Maxed T6 Horse and paying increased attention to try and see invisible people (Crims call them hacks). Even then I have made 3/4 of my money during drug boosters and selling/trading shops with my sister and faction buddies.
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Suggestions:
If you have made it this far and hopefully agree with some of the points I have made, I have a few suggestions on how to make joining the Police Force somewhat viable and fun again.
- 1. A flat increase in the selling prices for blocks from the Police mines.
This would give Police another way to make money when the server is really quiet, and they actually have to put more work in to achieve it as opposed to standing in a doorway.
2. Change it so the Mining McMMO skills and effects apply whilst "Mining" in the mines.
Currently the Mining skill is useless in the mines aside from the extended Super Breaker length. Changing it so your mining skill effects the double drops of blocks in the mines would also benefit Police like the above suggestion.
3. Adding some kind of daily wage/payment.
Yes I said it, What police getting payed for sitting around and doing nothing?!? Could always make it so you only get payed if you are online for a certain period of time or only if you arrest a certain amount of people in a day.
Yes I said it, What police getting payed for sitting around and doing nothing?!? Could always make it so you only get payed if you are online for a certain period of time or only if you arrest a certain amount of people in a day.
4. If anyone has any other suggestions feel free to share.
Thank you for taking the time to read this if you did and hopefully you agree with some of my view points
Thank you for taking the time to read this if you did and hopefully you agree with some of my view points