Just sent a mail to Rock*

[Googz]

Hi Guys, I sent a mail to Rock* as per the below. I understand that it is my personal opinion and that not everyone will agree with my sentiments. However would be good to know who shares my views and who doesnt. Mail below:

 

"So congrats on producing a phenomenal piece of media, it’s an absolute masterpiece with regards to the single player and the work you have put in is testament to the quality. It was great to have the all the cool things back in this iteration, all the things that made San Andreas so much fun.

 

So to start off I have been one of the luckier ones when it comes to online, I haven’t had many issues and have been able to play from day one. I’m not hugely frustrated by the technical issues at the moment, I expected them and you expected them. In a month from now all will be well in the world of GTA online, the issues but a distant memory and people will be having fun playing. While I understand that your current priorities are to solve the technical issues I believe there are some gameplay mechanics that will have far reaching effects on your player base and I would like to detail these issues below and offer possible solutions.

 

· Hospital Fees – Far too expensive and as is the nature of GTA death is commonplace. This is really detracting from letting loose and having a bit of fun, the fact that you also incur these costs on missions, in death matches and races is just a kick in the face to be completely frank. Having gang fights in free-roam with a bunch of mates against another group of players is absolutely thrilling and just downright good fun, that is until you realise you just lost 50% of your money - It’s heart-breaking stuff J

 

My Solution/s:

 

1. Do away with hospital fees altogether.

2. Like insurance on your car maybe we could take out health insurance for say 1000 and this would cover us for say 10 deaths (once you have died 10 times you need to purchase health insurance again, if you don’t you get charged the high per death fees again)

 

· Player Blips in Free-Roam: - I was really hoping you wouldn’t be able to see where other players are on the map but alas you can….all the time J. Now I understand there is a perk from Lester that will hide your blip (don’t know all the details but that’s pretty neat, it does however makes it easy for higher level griefers to grief lower players without the perk). I think at the very least we should have an option on whether or not we want player blips in free-roam. Without blips it would just be so much more thrilling and natural when you spot another player (just have a player name above their head when you are in range), it would just make for much more dynamic gameplay, it would be great to tail another player without him knowing – Stealth is fun J Not to mention it would almost eliminate griefing.

 

My Idea’s to enhance the no blip in free-roam:

 

I am aware that taking blips off the map ins free-roam will have knock-on effects on gameplay elements like bounties and Lester’s blip perk will be irrelevant so let me address those:

 

For bounties you can use your phone and see the other players in the free-roam session, if a player has a bounty then that contact can just be highlighted in red.

 

Now for the Lester perk in a free-roam session without player blips – Instead of his perk making your blip invisible how about using his ability to make another player visible. This perk shouldn’t be too cheap and the highlighted player should only be visible for say 10 minutes so you have enough of a window to smoke em without being able to grief him constantly for the next hour. To avoid wealthy players spamming this perk you should only be able to use it say 3 times a day.

 

 

I genuinely believe that if the above issues are addressed it would make for a much better open-world experience and if the forums are anything to go by so would the majority of your player base"

[Jetpack5000]

I have sent email too

[Macca93]

tl;dr

[SeaJey]

get rid of blips in free roam in a map this scale and no one will be able to find each other?

[Googz]

tl;dr

Hope Rock* don't feel the same lol

[Googz]

get rid of blips in free roam in a map this scale and no one will be able to find each other?

"Now for the Lester perk in a free-roam session without player blips – Instead of his perk making your blip invisible how about using his ability to make another player visible. This perk shouldn’t be too cheap and the highlighted player should only be visible for say 10 minutes so you have enough of a window to smoke em without being able to grief him constantly for the next hour. To avoid wealthy players spamming this perk you should only be able to use it say 3 times a day."

[liammozz]

 

 

get rid of blips in free roam in a map this scale and no one will be able to find each other?

"Now for the Lester perk in a free-roam session without player blips Instead of his perk making your blip invisible how about using his ability to make another player visible. This perk shouldnt be too cheap and the highlighted player should only be visible for say 10 minutes so you have enough of a window to smoke em without being able to grief him constantly for the next hour. To avoid wealthy players spamming this perk you should only be able to use it say 3 times a day."

Because that takes all fun out of the game I can only find people on the map for 30min every 24h no thanks

[Googz]

 

 

get rid of blips in free roam in a map this scale and no one will be able to find each other?

"Now for the Lester perk in a free-roam session without player blips Instead of his perk making your blip invisible how about using his ability to make another player visible. This perk shouldnt be too cheap and the highlighted player should only be visible for say 10 minutes so you have enough of a window to smoke em without being able to grief him constantly for the next hour. To avoid wealthy players spamming this perk you should only be able to use it say 3 times a day."

Because that takes all fun out of the game I can only find people on the map for 30min every 24h no thanks

 

No that's not the only way you can find players. You can also use your eyes!!

[Born_Homicidal]

that is completely perfect I honestly cant see a reason as to why R* would disagree with you besides the fact that they have turned into a greedy company who makes billions but still they want more like the devs from WAR Z (if you don't know it look it up it was a terrible fail and money hungry).

 

love the death idea, and completely love the blip idea.

 

maybe it would have been a bit better for those who enjoy doing nothing but killing others, that instead of always being off the radar, maybe changed it to how RDR did it with the exception of cars not popping up unless they are in front of you or you look behind your vehicle thus making it a LOS kind of engagement..

 

would make free roam way more enjoyable, because atm I see no point in anything to be honest, I have tons of cash but why buy anything if I need to be level 99 to customize my car the way I completely want it to look like, my crew's leader has a house so why buy one?

 

anyway don't want to hop off track but +1

Edited October 4, 2013 by Born_Homicidal

[liammozz]

 

 

 

 

get rid of blips in free roam in a map this scale and no one will be able to find each other?

"Now for the Lester perk in a free-roam session without player blips Instead of his perk making your blip invisible how about using his ability to make another player visible. This perk shouldnt be too cheap and the highlighted player should only be visible for say 10 minutes so you have enough of a window to smoke em without being able to grief him constantly for the next hour. To avoid wealthy players spamming this perk you should only be able to use it say 3 times a day."

Because that takes all fun out of the game I can only find people on the map for 30min every 24h no thanks

 

No that's not the only way you can find players. You can also use your eyes!!

A map that big with only 16 players on it don't be stupid

[sheehy83]

I just sent an email about the medical bills as well but the blips should stay where they are in free roam. City is way too big for 16 players to find each other. I just kind of wish their names would appear over the blip on the map so I could easily find someone I'm looking for instead of using the feature to make a certain blip flash.

[midniteryu]

Let's just hope if we all send emails like this they'll make this option available.

[Googz]

 

 

 

 

get rid of blips in free roam in a map this scale and no one will be able to find each other?

"Now for the Lester perk in a free-roam session without player blips Instead of his perk making your blip invisible how about using his ability to make another player visible. This perk shouldnt be too cheap and the highlighted player should only be visible for say 10 minutes so you have enough of a window to smoke em without being able to grief him constantly for the next hour. To avoid wealthy players spamming this perk you should only be able to use it say 3 times a day."

Because that takes all fun out of the game I can only find people on the map for 30min every 24h no thanks

 

No that's not the only way you can find players. You can also use your eyes!!

A map that big with only 16 players on it don't be stupid

 

Look that's fine, it doesn't suit your play-style and that's all good. I'm only suggesting this as an option for players who prefer a more anonymous approach.

[Zone-Tan]

tl;dr

 

It is called having a high enough intelligence to skim through the subject and create a summary

[grovestreetOG93]

I sent an email too, don't usually do that sort of thing but im gonna be playing GTAO for a while so I'd like it to be perfect.

 

I mentioned about hospital bills being too expensive in free roam (can't mess about gta style without worrying about your bank)

 

I also suggested they change the friend icon to a colour other than blue and white, I'm sure im not the only one who finds it confusing with all the other blue icons.

 

Oh and for passive mode to be included in cars, dunno if they will change that though tbh.

[HANK3Y-PANK3Y]

Player blips I don't have a problem with, But the hospital bills i agree 1000000% Making us pay for a death in a mission and in deathmatches? That's just obsurd. Death is enevitable in deathmatch, and in harder missions. Take that away and i fall deeper in love with online.

[Dodger27]

get rid of blips in free roam in a map this scale and no one will be able to find each other?

Well i think it would be fun as in the real world If all of us wanted to meet up and we only had our mobiles we say meet me at the marina or some other land mark, Or like what our gang are working towards Is a safe house. your right about needing the mini map bleeps for locating the mission cars, but not each other. Just my opinion

[aR2k]

The whole medical bill discussion really have to stop. its a bug, when people pay money for dieing in deathmatch games, I dont do that, and tons of people dont either. so there has to be something wrong

[Googz]

The whole medical bill discussion really have to stop. its a bug, when people pay money for dieing in deathmatch games, I dont do that, and tons of people dont either. so there has to be something wrong

 

Well if as you say its a bug then we probably need to continue talking about it until it gets fixed!

[liammozz]

 

 

get rid of blips in free roam in a map this scale and no one will be able to find each other?

Well i think it would be fun as in the real world If all of us wanted to meet up and we only had our mobiles we say meet me at the marina or some other land mark, Or like what our gang are working towards Is a safe house. your right about needing the mini map bleeps for locating the mission cars, but not each other. Just my opinion

It's not the real world it's a game if no one can find each other because the area is to large to cover it will kill free roam you might as well get rid of it and just have lobby's for the different types of games

[Googz]

 

 

get rid of blips in free roam in a map this scale and no one will be able to find each other?

Well i think it would be fun as in the real world If all of us wanted to meet up and we only had our mobiles we say meet me at the marina or some other land mark, Or like what our gang are working towards Is a safe house. your right about needing the mini map bleeps for locating the mission cars, but not each other. Just my opinion

It's not the real world it's a game if no one can find each other because the area is to large to cover it will kill free roam you might as well get rid of it and just have lobby's for the different types of games

 

I think you are wrong. If you have every played Day-z you will know exactly how thrilling it is when you and a few friends come across other players in the world.(which despite the size of the map is more common than you may think)

[liammozz]

 

 

 

 

get rid of blips in free roam in a map this scale and no one will be able to find each other?

Well i think it would be fun as in the real world If all of us wanted to meet up and we only had our mobiles we say meet me at the marina or some other land mark, Or like what our gang are working towards Is a safe house. your right about needing the mini map bleeps for locating the mission cars, but not each other. Just my opinion

It's not the real world it's a game if no one can find each other because the area is to large to cover it will kill free roam you might as well get rid of it and just have lobby's for the different types of games

 

I think you are wrong. If you have every played Day-z you will know exactly how thrilling it is when you and a few friends come across other players in the world.(which despite the size of the map is more common than you may think)

Well if that's what you want go play day-z

[FallenAlien]

Thank you for sending them the email about the hospital bills. thank you thank you thank you THANK YOU

[Guest]

Suck up.

[Zone-Tan]

 

 

 

get rid of blips in free roam in a map this scale and no one will be able to find each other?

Well i think it would be fun as in the real world If all of us wanted to meet up and we only had our mobiles we say meet me at the marina or some other land mark, Or like what our gang are working towards Is a safe house. your right about needing the mini map bleeps for locating the mission cars, but not each other. Just my opinion

It's not the real world it's a game if no one can find each other because the area is to large to cover it will kill free roam you might as well get rid of it and just have lobby's for the different types of games

 

 

Big map = yes. Can't deal with it? Sorry, it is how it is for now, go back to GTA 4 and set it to Airport until Online let's you change settings. You want DM? Join a DM, do i somewhere, just not Free Roam, you don't get your fancy score to show off in Free Roam either

[Googz]

Suck up.

 

I'm a suck up now for praising a job well done in the SP?!?!?. Or is just that I'm not not 16 years old and don't feel the need to be a dickhead to get my point across!!

[liammozz]

 

 

 

 

 

 

get rid of blips in free roam in a map this scale and no one will be able to find each other?

Well i think it would be fun as in the real world If all of us wanted to meet up and we only had our mobiles we say meet me at the marina or some other land mark, Or like what our gang are working towards Is a safe house. your right about needing the mini map bleeps for locating the mission cars, but not each other. Just my opinion

It's not the real world it's a game if no one can find each other because the area is to large to cover it will kill free roam you might as well get rid of it and just have lobby's for the different types of games

 

Big map = yes. Can't deal with it? Sorry, it is how it is for now, go back to GTA 4 and set it to Airport until Online let's you change settings. You want DM? Join a DM, do i somewhere, just not Free Roam, you don't get your fancy score to show off in Free Roam either

Am not doing it for a score am doing it for sh*ts and giggles

 

Death matches end free roam does not if you don't want to die in free roam make a invite only it's that simple

[Zone-Tan]

 

Suck up.

 

I'm a suck up now for praising a job well done in the SP?!?!?. Or is just that I'm not not 16 years old and don't feel the need to be a dickhead to get my point across!!

 

Hey hey calm down it is okay, they just didn't get their morning jerk in because they woke up late for Middle School and now they are pissy

[Franklin Clinton]

Also sent an e-mail. This $2000 every time you die is making me hate online

[egoloss]

There going to keep the blips. Because like it or not, the majority of people are happy with this feature. It means if someone kills you, you can instantly seek revenge. Or in your cases, come on here and whine about it.