Aug 23, 2015, 08:12 AM
Higher Job Payout
It should be less. We have way to much reliance on three factors: Taxes, paychecks, and contraband. We need to of course deal with the last one realistically, but the first two still create economic issues with the fact it's feeding money for nothing. No effort, no work, nothing. The server needs things where when you start out, you only start out with $1000 and have to work your way up.
Methods of how this could be done? All though I'm usually against this type of thing, the devs could introduce a "Quarry Owner" NPC which effectively will pay people to mine rocks. Is it a slow process? Yes. But it'd allow people to make money no matter what. They would not have to rely on money printers and paychecks to give them money, and they would be always active.
Please note that this would only be a matter of allowing people to get their money up to the point where they can start investing into an actual business, but the fact of the matter still stands, we need to stipulate the current economy with actual hard labor and work.
Meth Production
As someone who has made these things while going through a curiosity phase(never used anything), I believe that the server should add different methods of producing methamphetamine. For those of you that are not aware of meth production, their is several ways you can go about it. Not just giant chem vats. One method is simply known as "Shake and Bake" it doesn't produce a whole lot of meth, and the meth is pretty shit usually, but it should be a method that is added to the server in order to give ways to make money in the lower income brackets.
As for the industrial methscale, the price should be increased for the production of high quality meth. Note I said, high quality. I still believe that other methods need to be looked into for the production of low quality meth like shake n' baking, oven top cooking, and fermentation + balloon cooking.
Opinion on moneypacks?
Moneypacks are not a good idea. At least in single payouts anyway. I'm still in the firm belief that the current donation system needs to be reworked so that the $50,000 isn't given immediately but instead given in small segments over the donation period. For example $5000 every week or how ever it could be implemented. Ideally this system would prevent the economy from being flooded with tons of cash.
Another thing which needs to be added in a system in which every money printer destroyed sends 10% to a server money pool. This money pool will exist for the prime reasons of being a "money pack" and players will be able to donate to it, to get some money. Of course a limit will exist on this, namely being the money pool being financed by destroyed contra, but it'll deal with the money pack issue and still keep the economy cycled.
More legal ways to make money?
Refer to my suggestion about having a basic "everyone can do this" mining NPC. Other methods which can be added are things like farming, mining, small game trapping, fishing(expanded), and otherwise just adding stuff which would nice to have for the server. I have made numerous suggestions regarding having farming act like the fish market where all food has no setprice, and I still firmly believe that's how the system should be handled.
For example: A player goes to the woods and finds a small mound of dirt on the ground. This mound of dirt can be scavenged from by clicking E, and by doing so the player will get seeds for farming. All seeds are completely random, but some will be more valuable simply by rarity. The player can now find a nice area with a grass or dirt plot, can put down a house dupe, and then plant their seeds.
The seeds will need to be watered with a watering can which can be purchased from a Chef, and occasionally the player will have to get rid of weed patches that spawn around their plants. Maybe we could have a system where crows will destroy food crops or something.
Either way, after about twenty to forty minutes(depending on the plant) the players will have a fully grown plant which will sprout either fruit, vegetables, medical herbs, berries, or hops. The items you harvest can be consumed directly and they will replenish health and give you minor stat boosts for five to ten minutes, or you could go about purchasing a moonshine still from a Chef, and go about making moonshine. The moonshine will take the effects of the items you put in, and will brew something which combines all the effects of the items you put in.
Once the moonshine distillery is finished cooking, it will spawn a wooden barrel which the player goes up to and clicks their use key, and then they get a menu asking them what they wish to name the brew. After they name it, the barrel will goto their inventory and the player from this point onwards the player can choose when they wish to spawn it down and begin serving it. Each barrel will contain five to ten drinks of moonshine.
When you spawn a "whiskey bottle" (glass bottles from HL2?) it'll show the name of the moonshine, date of production, and maybe it'll tell you the smell(hints at ingredients). This moonshine can be put into your inventory, and you'll be able to use it during raids or whenever you wish to drink it for fun.
The key aspect of this system is that the players will NEVER be told what attributes each fruit gives, and likewise they'll never be told what the moonshine they produce gives. This means that each player can make their own unique recipes, and sell products that can be used for increasing certain aspects of another player's attributes and skills. Eventually players will work things out by simply calculating differences in health, stamina, weapon stats, ect, but for a time it'll all be research and development.
If this system were added by the way, it'd also mean that all the food the chef produces cannot give attributes, but only decreases hunger. The reasoning for this is that the Chef job will directly counteract the ability of someone being able to make money if the chef can just make their own moonshine by manufacturing fruit.
And finally I have one more suggestion for fixing the economy which everyone will probably hate me for...
Food must rot, guns must degrade, and medical supplies must go bad. If something like this is never added, players will simply be able to stockpile and stockpile without lossing anything unless they die. We need some sort of system which stops people from doing this. I believe a system which can be introduced is having it so for every hour a player plays on the server some of their items will "go bad" and the player will have to delete them. This will be random, and it could mean that someone could just lose one thing of food or they could lose ten food and three guns.
I know you all probably do not like that idea, but it needs to be done. The economy needs to be cycled occasionally and moneysinks need to exist.
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