A soft hand swirled, almost absentmindedly, the spoon that had been resting in her coffee cup, staring down into the contents with the blankest of gazes. A small frown at the corner of her lips arose, before they parted to speak.
“Some people were born here, like me. Others, like you… they were brought here. What is this place? Some sick government experiment, as far as I can tell. We have… all the stuff you would find in the outside world, but contacting the outside world isn’t possible. Yeah, I have heard of people trying to take planes… boats… rafts… swim… anything to get away, but we always hear explosions shortly after they are out of sight, and they never return.”
She sighed lightly and tucked a loose strand of fiery red hair behind her ear before releasing the spoon, it clanked against the cup, and leaned back in her chair… arms folded.
“They say that we can ‘earn’ our way out of here. I keep thinking to myself… surely the rest of the world knows what is going on here, and someone will come save us. But they never come.” She shifts a bit in her seat, “So, we just… live our lives as best as we can. Honestly, if it were not for those brought here, I wouldn’t even know the difference. But I know, now… and me and you… we are getting out of here, one way or another…”
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Who/What Is DSRPC?
Dreamstate Roleplay Community was started in mid 2021, after three friends decided that they were tired of participating in and watching GTA servers that seemed to have an abundance of toxicity and corruption and excessive gatekeeping for server administration and thier friends, so we decided to try to form something better, to us. We started out knowing nothing about how to mod for GTA, and opened our doors in May of 2022. It had always been a modest community, but after a brief shutdown for a few months due to family and real life obligations, it has recently reopened after ongoing a complete overhaul, from the ground up, related to the server build, the scripts, the methods, and the base framework. It is highly optimized, thiccccc with scripts, and ready for you. 
Our aim is to return roleplay to being more story oriented than it has ever been. We feel that RP, at times, has deviated away from what it is meant to be. A way to create something that is not yourself (elements of your self is fine, but we dont accept avatars), and to express yourself in ways that you normally couldn’t. RP is about stories, creativity, and expression. Living a life that is not your own, while keeping the boundary between OOC and IC very, very, very clear. We aim to make things that matter, take time and work, so that everything feels all that more rewarding. And most of all, we respect the art of RP, and as long as what you want to do is OOC morally alright, we want you to do it. We are and aim to be inclusive, as our community is what matters most.
----We recently fully rebuilt the city, and to celebrate and generate new traction…We are TEMPORARILY opening our doors to the public. All you need to play is to join the discord with the link provided below, read and acknowledge the rules posted by clicking the emoji, then nudge a server staff member that you have done so. This is still a form of soft whitelisting, but you dont need to fill out an application as you normally would need to do. PUBLIC ACCESS WILL ONLY LAST A MAX OF 2 MONTHS. For the first week, all new players will receive an additional 250k bonus for their first character and returning players will receive the same. Once January first rolls around OR the server reaches a full state during prime time hours, public access will be closed. Get in while you can. 
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We Heard You Like Racing and Car Things
We utilize RAHE racing/drifting/boosting systems, and have for years. What that means, is a uniform method, highly detailed, modern looking, immersive system, with leaderboards, randomized racing events, car speed categories and much more.
We are up to date with our server build, at all times and have fully custom handling for all cars. That means, the newest cars found on GTA Online. Our custom handling mirrors realistic top speeds BUT not realistic handling or acceleration. We fine tune cars constantly for balance.
We have over 550 custom vehicles that we have purchased/downloaded/and then hand tuned the handling to match our custom handling for all GTA cars. Not just custom racing cars, but luxury cars of all categories, go-karts, 18 wheelers, bikes, and even water based vehicles. Most things are purchasable in game, but racing cars are EARNED.
Barnfind system, car wax, improved drift smoke, the ability to roll coal (large exhaust smoke), custom plates, and much much more.
We Heard You Like Crime of All Types
We have custom hand made robberies, and some of the most immersive robberies from various creators. From hand made bank robberies, multiple armored truck robberies, vehicle robberies, reputation controlled house robberies, and most of it with AI opposition to help with feel. Our store robbery is a fun system that is more rewarding the longer you stay, with a gambling element built into it. AI interactions are at an all time high with the ability to hold them at gunpoint, rob them, restrain them, force them to move where you want, and use them as hostages for those robberies and their lives be respected by cops. You can loot them, when they are dead. You can try to be sneaky and pickpocket them, at a risk. If you mess around in gang areas, they will attack you in waves. Some AI gangs will attack you on sight, just for existing. Interactive gang turf systems and jail systems. With jail having many activities, a defense system against intruders, and a jailbreak system, the interactions will go a long way to keep things fresh and fun. The gang turf system allows for ped interactions, and help with income generation… if you figure out what they want. Rival gangs can come for your sprays if enough of you are around, and its a lengthy and costly process. Similar to what you have seen in “the big city”.
Multiple illegal missions hidden around the map, as well as RANDOM spawns in random locations. From drug runs of all sorts, to interactive mini heists, weapon events, money wash events, random traders. Multiple forms of chopping, including advanced forms. Much, much, much more stuff to uncover and unlock. We use AI police, as well, for when there happens to be no cops around. Banks and major robberies require police still, but stores, street selling, shooting guns, running over locals… all this stuff triggers cops… and they arent showing up to arrest you XD When cops are around, AI cops go away.
We Hear You Like Business and Jobs
Want to own your own business? We have 40+ premade/setup/ready to go player ownable businesses. The majority of our player owned businesses come from Jimathy of JixelPatterns, and all of his work is top notch. Player businesses range from many different restaurants, to workshops of varying sorts, to player ownable and manageable vehicle shops, weed shops, barber shop, news jobs, and taxi work, pharmacy work, oil rigs, and much more including custom job scripts.
Our public job system ranges from many delivery jobs, dock works, multiple trucking jobs, aquatic work, repo work, Post-Op work, and much much more. We are working constantly on balancing pay and effort between jobs, so that it’s not about what pays the most, but what you are most interested in doing, but with that said… our jobs that are reputation based start out paying the least and over time, pay the most of the public jobs. Oh… and you can do jobs with friends, and they earn as well. Hell, you can be a street beggar, if you want.
Gas stations are ownable, dealerships are ownable, convenience stores are ownable, there are factories… and so much more.
Our jobs systems are interwoven. That means that many of them provide you with things that are usable by other businesses. Much of this is related to the farming and materials economy, but there are things such as oil, computer items, and various tools that can be obtained/crafted and are required by others.
We strive to provide as many options as a person can conceive for jobs to do, tasks to accomplish, and having work that feels like it matters… to give players as much agency as they can possibly find.
We Hear You Want To Be Emergency Services
Police and EMS are important to us. Without these services, a city does not exist. We have gone out of our way to provide as much immersion and options for these services, with the ability for multiple stations to spring up and become active all over the map. Our emergency services are the highest paid civilian job, per hour because having the funds to RP a life outside of the job is important to us. Both have their own MDW systems, which are highly detailed.
Sometimes things are slow for police, and in these moments, there are options for police to stay active. We have a system in place for police to go out and train the basics of traffic stops and arrest interactions. We have a system in place that allows police to intract with AI as if they are players in traffic. The AI can comply, can run, and can fight back if they choose to, which is just even more training for day to day traffic SOPs. Police officers can earn extra income by doing this side activity.
EMS have a similar system, with when things are slow, having the ability to receive calls to go out to AI in distress. EMS must arrive, observe, interact by looking over the AI and concluding what the issue is, treat the AI properly and then shuttling them to random hospitals, around the whole map. If the EMS makes an incorrect treatment or mistake, the patient can expire. If done right, extra income can be earned per patient.
Emergency services have a host of special tools that are required for their jobs. Our police tools, for example, come from R14-evidence, which is by far the most immersive system available for police. There is genuinely just too much that is a part of it to list in this post. XD
We Hear You Like Fun Activities and Being In Control
Sometimes you like to unwind, goof around, or just do fun activities with your mates. Well, we got you covered.
We have an airsoft system, with currently 3 maps (more able to be made rather easily), including very small closer quarters map, a much larger battleship map, and a custom in house made speedball style map in Sandy. Able to choose your death count allowance, the time of the game, pick which side you wish to be on, requiring you to return to base when shot to be able to go again, and much more.
We utilize many of Patoche and Patamods scripts, including lazer tag, minigolf, bumper cars (soonTM), indoor go kart racing with the ability for battle modes. We create events around these activities, with prizes often.
We have even more activities. Boxing rings (yes multiple), pool tables, frisbee golf, bowling, a gym, fully functioning casino with wheel, functioning hot tubs, arcades, TCG, detailed camera system with filters, claw machines, usable footballs, usable soccer balls, beach activities, fishing tournaments, and a whole lot more to discover with plans for much more, which will be voted on by the community.
We have a daily activities, where you can do missions all over the map to earn money, but also earn place on activities weekly leaderboard, where if you have the most done, you get payed out money based on first, second, and third place.
We Hear You Like Customizing Your Experience
Detailed and highly customizable housing system, able to take ownership of IPLs and MLOs that already exist, as well as create housing that are shells and furnished, but also able to decorate the outside of your housing or business, purchased from a real estate agent.
We use LB-Phone, which is … almost too good. There is too much to mention, related to it. Deep, rich, detailed, responsive, customizable.
Speaking of customizable, you have the ability to take full control of your HUD, making it uniquely your own. Not just the standard HUD, but the vehicle HUD is highly configurable, too.
We have a lot of Gabz mapping (who doesn’t?), but also beautiful MLOs from top creators, ymap edits, and even in house custom made interiors and locations. All of it is as optimized as it can possibly be, with painstaking attention to detail. From our original version of the server, to now, we have doubled the mapping that the city has, with little impact on system performance.
Oh… btw, do you like clothing? We have about a thousand custom items, in total. Probably more, but it is way too much to count. All of it has been individually optimized by hand, and tested before entering into the city. We plan to bring in more new clothing, every 2 months, to keep things fresh.
Favoritism
Hate favoritism? We do, as well. The owners, players and developers have been a part of cities where it felt very corrupted, behind the scenes. Where all that mattered was money and who was in good with staff. We have seen community after community destroyed by greed, power lust, and stupidity… Mainly from administration and staff.
We don’t tolerate that stuff.
Favoritism will always exist in some form in life, but we go out of our way to keep each other in check without mindsets, as staff and owners. Our goal is create a community that respects each other out of city, even if they dont while in city. To push the constant standard that what is in the city stays in the city. People that push roleplay and act as positive community members tend to find themselves with more opportunities, but those opportunities have nothing to do with their interpersonal OOC status. We have banned people that were friends, for toxicity, without hesitation. We have gone to bat for players that have good roleplay, that other members do not understand or struggle with.
We have an in-game report system that takes a screenshot of whatever you are looking at (your screen) that sends the report directly to discord, and tons of logs that help monitor … everything. We review reports constantly, and get to them not just based on the order they are received, but by importance as well. Reports are taken seriously, and noone is above the rules, not even staff or owners. We take it very seriously.
This project is not a cash grab for us. Every server requires some source of income or monetization in order to exist, grow, succeed. We have been lucky enough to have investors, donations, and “package purchases”, and 95% or more of the income has gone right back into the server (other than 1 month where devs were having computer issues and we let the community know, with their approval). Speaking of monetization, we utilize tebex. We have subscription services, and other items/services/vehicles/bank loans and offer new packages every month. But these are not pay to win, they are pay to expedite. What that means, is nothing comes with tebex packages that cannot be purchased with in-game money, other than bank loans (but it can be, if your in-game credit score is high enough… Yes… we have that). We don’t wish to exclude anyone from goodies, even if it just means they have to farm up the money to get it, in game. We keep track and record of every purchase made by the city and players, as well as every income received, meticulously, and do our best to ensure that we are always in the legal clear, for both ourselves and the community.
We are currently looking for Police & EMS to join the city, all positions and experience welcome, let us know in the discord if you are interested in any of these roles.
And with ALLLL this information, this is literally not even the tip of the iceberg. We have so much in store for our players, and are always looking for interesting character concepts, and solid groups. We value all sorts and styles of players, and consider ourselves a friendly but serious roleplaying community. We hope after reading this, you will be interested and just as excited to get involved as we are to provide it. Feel free to ask any questions you have, in our discord, after joining it. We look forward to seeing you.
