[The Duke II]

I understand it could be hard to implement but it’s worth a try? This has the potential to improve rp and bring back a large player base

[sneadera]

I understand it could be hard to implement but it’s worth a try? This has the potential to improve rp and bring back a large player base

agreed

[DriftyEel]

+1
I feel like police applications should be reviewed by other police (preferably ranked police like deputies). It would make more sense.

[Mushy]

My opinion on this follows what a few of you guys have pointed out - it would drive away new players, and could lead to a disproportionate amount of bandits compared to police on the server at any given time. This would skew gameplay balance quite a lot, IMO.

Another important reminder is that we already have a playtime counter in place. You can only select Bandit and Police roles after X amount of playtime on Pandahut RP. This "cooldown" is currently set to 2 hours for bandit and (all) police roles. However, this value is configurable and we could bump it up a notch in case we're getting a lot of new players KOS'ing under these roles.

[Classified_]

My opinion on this follows what a few of you guys have pointed out - it would drive away new players, and could lead to a disproportionate amount of bandits compared to police on the server at any given time. This would skew gameplay balance quite a lot, IMO.

Another important reminder is that we already have a playtime counter in place. You can only select Bandit and Police roles after X amount of playtime on Pandahut RP. This "cooldown" is currently set to 2 hours for bandit and (all) police roles. However, this value is configurable and we could bump it up a notch in case we're getting a lot of new players KOS'ing under these roles.

Police is cooldown after they are new, they choose a role = auto 24hr till next /role

So if they are new and do /role builder, they have to wait 24h till they can change to Police

[The Duke II]

My opinion on this follows what a few of you guys have pointed out - it would drive away new players, and could lead to a disproportionate amount of bandits compared to police on the server at any given time. This would skew gameplay balance quite a lot, IMO.

Another important reminder is that we already have a playtime counter in place. You can only select Bandit and Police roles after X amount of playtime on Pandahut RP. This "cooldown" is currently set to 2 hours for bandit and (all) police roles. However, this value is configurable and we could bump it up a notch in case we're getting a lot of new players KOS'ing under these roles.

Very valid counter argument but on the other hand a lot of the police on the servers are trolly and don’t know basic commands like arrest etc.. also you mentioned the fact that the whitelist could drive new players away..I completely disagree on that and I think the whitelist would attract even more new players to pandahut as there would be a higher standard of rp as well as older and veteran players like myself who would come back to pandahut in droves if this was implemented.. I think you guys should test it out at least it has a very good potential for this community. I reject the notion there would be more bandits than police; a couple trained and whitelisted police are better then 5 or 6 trolly police who don’t have a clue what they’re doing and are ineffective.

[ACerealBowl]

No

This has been brought up many times in the past.

No

-1

[ZorbaTheGreek]

+1
Most police players don't even bother reading the rules. Failed arrests are really common and it's annoying for the staff too.

The same thing can be said about bandits. I think they should be revamped too.

[Aren]

-1

[iMC]

I'm going to be honest, I have been false arrested (and subsequently KOSed) so many times by newbie police officers that don't know how to do their jobs. I have also been asked so many times by other newbie police officers to sell them police vehicles (even though I have repeatedly told them that it's out of my jurisdiction). Finally, I have been asked repeatedly for the command to buy the Sheriff's police sedan (so many times, I practically memorized it. /buy v.5717), then subsequently blamed when they mistype the command. Because of this, +1.

That being said, if the police role doesn't become whitelisted, at least set up a "Police Boot Camp" training program (where new police officers must be taught their role a la military RP servers in order to become a full officer) or an internship program (new police officers must shadow or be partnered with more experienced police officers for a certain amount of time), so that new players don't end up fucking other people over just because the newbie thought picking "police" gave them a free ticket to stick up other people.

Yeah, sure, both systems might be hard to implement, but at least other people on the servers would definitely benefit from any of these changes.

TL;DR: Been fucked over by newbie police too many times. +1. If this does not get implemented, set up a training/internship program.