Hey Facepunch,
I'm beginning development on a DarkRP server [as many times as that statement is said], but as I was jotting down notes for rules on the server, I began to think of people fucking up the roleplay based on metagaming.
For example, let's say a thief invites you into a empty room for some "free weapons", but, because you've seen his player tag, the scoreboard, his default Counter-Strike Terrorist playermodel or ANYTHING indicating he is a thief, you avoid entering the room with him. If it were a gundealer, however, you would not think twice about it.
My question: should I have varying playermodels based on the player's job? To elaborate, should a thief have the same models as a citizen? Think about this realistically, if you were a thief or a gang member, would you walk around town with a bullet-proof vest on and a ski mask? People are clearly not going to trust you, and no thief with an IQ > 10 is going to do that. People are very similar in fashion, for the most part.
How i think about it is some "jobs" in most darkrp shouldnt even be labeled a job in the first place. Thief isn't a job you sign up for, its what you do, and anyone including shop owners can be a thief. But that is how i would run a darkrp server if for whatever reason i wanted to.
A varying model set for a job such a theif would still leave the thief job tag in the scoreboard anyway.
if one can't recognize a threatening individual, then, suddenly, everyone becomes a possible threat, and so the civilians become wolves of themselves; thats what happened in Santos's roleplay server, a drug dealer looks just like any citizen, and that forces cops to only trust themselves, thats basically creating unnecessary tension in exchange of realism
Yeah i guess i should take into account that most players do like playing as the thief "job"
You need to realize what your target audience is. It sounds like you may want to use something more roleplay-ish like Nutscript.
This helps a lot, thank you, I appreciate it.
Yeah, I've considered it, it's just hard to buildup a community that way as well. I might just stick with the general rules, for now.
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