Obviously everyone struggles with money or has heard about other peoples' money problems they have on the APD. We have also either experienced it for ourselves or heard of others dealing with Federal Events they don't want to deal with and either getting backlash for leaving after their 2 lives or complaining about losing money from going to it just to get smacked by rebels. I've thrown together some ideas that could help both of these problems.
Federal Events - So right now you MUST respond to every single Federal Event and put at least 2 lives into it.
Possible Solution - Make it so you aren't required to go to certain Federal Events, possibly make it limited to Bank/Altis Shipping, any event where the goal of the civs is to just kill the APD because they are bored (An Alamo Fed for example).
Money Problems - Me personally I don't struggle with money but 90% of the APD does, especially CPL+, whether it's them buying loadouts or vehicles, whatever it may be. Obviously you can just say "that's on them for buying crazy loadouts or modding/buying vehicles others can't or won't." I think that's a stupid take as APD is already at a heavy disadvantage(as they should be) when carrying out their duties and also flat out APD isn't about making money, but this doesn't mean they should be driven into the dirt. When it comes to processing people, you are required to give them a chance to explain their bounty and what not to get a lower ticket/pardon/wait for sui vest. Maybe just remove the explaining charges part because lets face it, the roleplay just isn't there like it's intended to be.
Possible Solution - Get rid of explaining, if they turn themselves in give them a flat out half. If they have a straight to jail offense then send them straight to jail regardless of how you got them in custody. If you catch them just do the normal processing procedure minus the "do you want to explain your charges". Obviously if the cop wants to still roleplay it out with the civ then great, let's do that and still give civs that genuinely want to roleplay have that chance, because it's about the only time the civ does get to roleplay(given it's not a troll with a soundboard or saying the same generic thing "oh self defense"). Bigger tickets means more money and civs really lose close to nothing when they go to jail. Bigger tickets means more money for cops. They pay no money to get sent and they can press plates for 5 minutes or try and win a Request Trial with other civs.
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