FiveM is getting boring because of rubbish scripts

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99% of scripts are repetitive, press E and wait for an animation. This isn’t fun for players. That’s why you can’t get players to grind low-end jobs naturally. They try, get bored, and end up joining gangs to mess around. It’s the same with gangs; they lack structure because no one wants to grind through those mind-numbing scripts. Let’s boycott these scripts and leave bad reviews so developers stop making them.

A good script example would be create a griddle in FiveM where players can place a patty, watch it brown over time, and interact with it. Be able to flip the patty, put the burger together, fry the chips, and if the food is undercooked, poison the customers. If it’s burnt, cause a fire.

The best RP Server I have seen is Lucid RP where most jobs are player run

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Just don’t buy them?

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Be the change you want - create scripts that you believe wouldn’t have these issues, simple.

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Sooo… press E and wait for animation… then wait a timer… then press E again and wait for another animation? That’s what most of GTA is outside driving and shooting, can’t really do much else.

Assuming we are talking about RP servers (because racing, freeroam or minigame servers tend to not have this problem anyway), the pacing and lack of care by the server owners (& players!) is what usually leads to boring gameplay.
I have no problem creating complex systems, that either engages the player enough to make the gameplay fun, or is optimized enough to make the grind not-exhausting (the latter is what most RPG games aim for, usually.)

Problem is… a lot of server owners and players will try to cheese the systems to gain a big economy advantage quickly, and then get bored when they realize that the RP experience is extremely sub-par in the community.

I think you underestimate the amount of players that skip the “try” part. I have seen “RP” communities that might as well just skip the roleplay part and start a TDM server, since most of the community is split between power-tripping cops, and edgy gangs.
Part of it is because the normal/legal/starter jobs and scripts are just after-thoughts, that the server owners don’t care about, and frankly neither most players. Another issue is that… well… there aren’t that many people that want to roleplay having meaningless jobs, after coming home from their meaningless jobs.

(I really dislike the current state of romanian rp servers, sorry about the vent)

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I agree with your sentiment, but as a dev and admin for a serious server, I’ve also seen people complaining about the scripts that the dev team and I put out where we try to make you do stuff and try to add some sort of scarcity by needing items from other jobs or activities. The biggest complain we have received is that it’s too hard - even the lockpicking and robbing houses people just want to go in and press E for instant gratification.

Kinda puzzles me, but I guess you have at least two type of players in serious rp servers - I need to do everything quick, complete the game and make sure cops don’t bother me when doing crime, and those that do enjoy the extra bits that we added to make them more realistic.

Unfortunately the second bit seems to be the minority but I guess it’s just fivem in general

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This isn’t a problem in fiveM.

In fact, it’s what makes fiveM so great. FiveM gives server admins the POWER to decide how they want to implement a playstyle with a robust api schema, documentation (from approved and unapproved sources hint, hint), and a community of freaking brilliant really kind minds that want to see you succeed.

If all you tend to see is repetitive roleplays, that’s through no-one’s doing but the server admins who run the repetitive servers.

Sometimes out of player feedback, sometimes out of laziness, sometimes out of an immediate urge to start a server with a longterm goal on growth and ambition.

But as @_4iY stated, you as a person in the same community have the power to become the change that you want to see, or if you’re ‘lazy’, you at LEAST have the power to cultivate influence around the stuff you want to see as a playerbase to encourage AND REWARD better quality servers.

E.g. You like servers that are less repetitive?
Support those servers, tell your friends and even strangers about those servers, make videos about those servers. Do what you can to reward those who take the extra steps to deliver that experience, because ultimately, they’re doing it for you.

Footnote:
There are examples of servers where they make actual games (such as iveneh, and battlefield’s server, (and many others) where it’s fully fledged games using fiveM as a skin).

In fact, whenever I’m telling my computer science friends about the capabilities of fiveM, I show them the battlefield X page because it shows fiveM in a light of not just another RP, but an extension of the imagination.

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The great thing about FiveM using lua scripting is that you can create scripts yourself and make them do whatever you want them to do in order to make them more interesting.

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Don’t mean to barge in and derail the conversation but I’m learning how to make fivem scripts right now that will be available to the public through GitHub and I’m looking for interesting ideas for scripts.

I like that idea of a burger/fry minigame do yall have any other fun ideas for more of the mundane jobs and possible minigames to go with them?

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welcome @ihasTacoFML , maybe start a discussion asking for that? Id like to hear it too, I have lots of my own but others input would be beneficial.

I think having great RP scripts immediately out shines the need for “we have all the latest REAL cars and clothes” , obviously people go for that, but that is not what the RP is about ultimately, oh and against the TOS but thats another debate :joy:

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