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Suggestion Type:
In-Game

Explain your suggestion, in detail:
I suggest that we improve the experience of being imprisoned by implementing things to do while in prison rather than to just AFK the time away.
Due to these changes, I believe that the time limits of sentences could be increased (as it would allow players to work off their time while in prison.) My suggestion would be time sentences of 5/15/30 instead of the current 2/5/10/15.

Things I believe could be fun to do in prison include, but are not limited to:

- Gambling
Play dice with your cell/prison mates and win (or lose) some money. (Assuming you've bought them in the market. Automatically smuggled with you if you go to prison.)

- Prison Break Attempt
Interactive event which allows you to use the shovel to dig your way out of the prison in X amount of time. Just make sure there aren't any cops nearby or they'll be sure to catch you, extending your sentence.

- Working Time off your Sentence
Allow players to cook food, create items or shovel dirt to work time off their sentence. The proceeds of the materials/items created would be given to the government (see: President) and in exchange the prisoner would get a reduced time off their sentence. (Say 1/2 the sentence off for every X amount of items, depending on how long/hard difficult it is to create that item.)

Explain why the suggestion should be implemented:
As it stands, being sent to prison is essentially a short-time ban from playing the game. Unless you have friends who bail you out (which you would most likely only get in contact with by meta-gaming), there is little you can do while in prison.
I believe that the prison experience should be part of the game, a part of the RP. The major reason why people rather die than go to prison is because it literally makes you unable to play the game. This is simply a boring concept and I see no reason to punish players who break in-game, in-character laws with what is essentially an OOC punishment.

TL;DR: It's part of the game and a part of RP, why shouldn't it be fun for players to play the game?

-support

+Support.

(Sep 1, 2017, 09:32 AM)ExoticHoe Wrote: [ -> ]-support

Would you care to specify what you dislike about the suggestion if I may ask?

In the map we have it's not going to work. Shovelling your way out of an underground jail is pretty much impossible.

(Sep 1, 2017, 11:58 AM)ExoticHoe Wrote: [ -> ]In the map we have it's not going to work. Shovelling your way out of an underground jail is pretty much impossible.

How so?

Shoveling would work in a similar way to lockpicking as I imagined it, and being underground means you could use the sewers, dig into a canal, or whatever else you can think of.
But I digress, this idea was mostly about allowing people in prison to do something, not specifically dig their way out with a shovel. I just took that as an example as I have yet to see any other use for the shovel than as a weapon.

-Support

(Sep 1, 2017, 12:04 PM)The best goat Wrote: [ -> ]-Support

Your first ever post and you decide to -support my suggestion...
That hurts man .

+Support

Small room or not, it can still be done.

If we didn't have people teleported to a holding facility we could make our own jails.

+support for more to do in prisons (Still keep it boring as otherwise it's not a punishment

-support for extending times (Only until/if we get a whitelisted PD, cops are too mingey atm)

(Sep 2, 2017, 04:53 PM)Klinex Wrote: [ -> ]+support for more to do in prisons (Still keep it boring as otherwise it's not a punishment

-support for extending times (Only until/if we get a whitelisted PD, cops are too mingey atm)

Well, the punishment should, IMO, be related to the in-game characters behaviour. As it stands, arrests are essentially just timeouts for players. There is no reason why it shouldn't be fun for the player to play just because their characters has been arrested. The punishment lies in not being able to move around freely or whatever you want, not in boring the player to death.
EDIT: The sentence also going on the characters permanent record is also a part of the punishment.

The extended times would be implemented to counter-act the reduced time job so that they somewhat even out, otherwise a 15 minutes punishment, which is 8 for members, would be reduced to roughly 4 minutes. That's a bit too short for the highest level offence IMO.

+support

rp = rp

*bump*

+Support

Due to a high level of community support, this suggestion has been moved to the Popular section.