*Writes in police notebook* "Lookout for lazy, foul smelling depressed individual who can't see."

So after reading the FAQ a bit more in dept I saw this sentence in one of the questions: "Players cannot access another players home without an invitation." This makes me a bit concerned since that means no robbing of players houses will be possible. Robbing houses is one of the most fun and thrilling things to do in Gmod DarkRP, and if the developers think that robbing peoples houses will have a negative impact on the housing aspect, here are my suggestions: * Give players the ability to buy alarms for their houses (Locks come with the house). * Nerby cops and the player owning the house gets alerted immediately when a house alarm has gone off. * Robbers have to buy a crowbar/lockpick to be able to get inside of the house if the door is locked. * Crowbars/lockpicks will be very limited in stores. * Robbers are only able to slowly carry one object/furniture at a time making the robbing process take loads of time. * Players can buy cameras which can be accessed via your phone (this will probably take loads of time to implement and I don't think it's really that necessary). * To keep certain things safe in the house, players can buy safes. * Robbers are only able to rob a house if it's empty of players (Just to keep the houses safe places to chill and hang out with firends) With only a few of these suggestions implemented, robbing houses would become very hard, which is a good thing since you wouldn't want players houses to constantly get robbed. Also one thing to keep in mind is that the houses in DarkRP are often empty which means that you can easily find the valuable stuff fast, while in Identity, the houses will be filled with loads of furniture making the search harder for robbers. I really hope that the developers will consider these suggestions since I think it would add to the immersion of a game like Identity. EDIT: After some discussion I feel like I need to clearify a few things. Since the developers have said that the only way to enter a house is through an invitation, because the performance will be an issue, I will try to explain my ideas how this could be fixed. So since houses will feature an instanced loadingscreen, the robber could be transfered into the house with a loadingscreen, exactly the same as when a player gets invited. The only difference is that the robber didn't get an invitation. And for example if a player could only invite 10 people to a house, then only 5 robbers and 5 cops should be able to enter the house and there wouldn't be any noticeable differences in the performance. The only problem with this is that if the loading times are long, there could be situations where the cops and robbers could be in a loadingscreen at the same time, which would result in them passing by eachother without the cops or the robbers noticing eachother. The solution to this problem could be to have a display on the door indicating if a player is about the get in/out of the house, or have a blurred verson of the avatar remain standing outside the door while loading. Another thing with the houses is that they are places where you are able to just chill out with friends and such, without any action or robbers. How to fix this problem is to only make robbers able to rob the house if there are no players inside (which includes the owner and the players invited).

Welcome to this great community @Portal! Thanks for supporting the game. Hope to see you around! If you have any questions feel free to message me!

@Valtorix. I appreciate the kind words, I look forward to your customs

So you walk through a room into a thick cloud of virtual smoke, and are presented by a group of sharp dressed gentlemen with cigars in one hand, and a glass of whiskey in the other hand. Half of them are sat in the lounge area, the other half with cards in hand halfway through a game of Texas Hold'em. Don't you guys think it would be great having something like this in game? No pre game lobbies or nonsense, just the ability to walk in, have a virtual toke and play a few rounds. That would be sick I think

You either must be terribly uninformed or don't smoke it yourself, because I couldn't disagree with you more. The majority of people don't suffer from Marijuana withdrawal whatsoever and any psychological damage only comes from a strain with particularly high levels of THC in it.

Having done Bank heists in altis life in arma 3 I can agree with you but a bank heist should be almost impossible. its meant to be a real achievement and it would give something for the player run radio stations to talk about.

*Kevin finishes pushing the Soarer inside before responding* "That's a tricky one, I am going to have to take a look under the hood, but I think I'm just going to try and get that Supra out the door as soon as I can. I mean it's running, so I'll probably repaint it, throw on some decals, new body kit, lower the suspension" *Kevin begins walking around the car forming a vision for it* "A custom exhaust system couldn't hurt, get it to sound real good, and maybe a custom interior. Oh, and underglow lighting of course. Probably give the engine bay a good scrubbing, get it shining"

Millions would disagree

There you go again, blabbing on and on about how the population will take up arms if a government is created in your imaginary world. In reality it would only be a select few insane rednecks including you. Voids get filled, and by creating a void, with the elimination of government, you shouldn't be surprised that it too will fill. Have you even stepped a foot into the world of economics? sounds like you haven't. Patents, copyrights, and trademarks have nothing to do with welfare. Patents have fueled innovation. Sure I'm not against the right to bear arms, but you must understand that not everyone can use a gun. Not everyone can defend themselves. It is indeed an arguments, either a foreign government will take the land, or a new government will form in that land. That is it. Just because you have guns doesn't mean you are going to defend yourself against something like that. It would be like the U.S military vs Somalian pirates. good luck with that.

I see your point

No AI will be implemented I belive

If you have alarms cameras safe boxes, your house will be safe. i don't mind about this being added

Yesterday afternoon, for another Identity Insider, we've released a video detailing the workings of player housing in Identity and what it has to offer at our present point in development. This gives you a good idea of the level of fidelity we're going for in all of our key systems, and more videos will follow as we continue. Housing was chosen for our first video as our initial focus in development is for features present in the upcoming Town Square module. If you haven't already seen the video, check it out above. Housing as you've seen in the video is an excellent place to hang out with friends, but it has a lot of good practical uses, too! First, housing is the primary storage location for items you've collected. Whether it's a bookshelf full of books, a gun-rack with wall-mounted guns, or a crate full of junk, it's sort of like a bank for tangible stuff. Housing is also valuable for moderate crafting, too. Some advanced recipes might require a factory, but a lot of stuff can be created at your home using special crafting tables. A hydroponics table can even be used to grow small-scale plants, legal or otherwise!

All very good questions. We continuously plot our budget to hire as many people as we can (accounting for up to a years pay in most cases) in all essential areas. This essentially means that in order to make more room for more artists or programmers, some of us have to do multiple jobs at once. For instance, I'm both the Community Manager and a 3D artist. Paratus, besides just being our project manager, is also a full time programmer and technical artist for Identity. He's always busy with one thing or another and It's not that he's taking 6 months to do one thing. it's more like that he's actually moving from one priority to another with the video never being at the top of that list. The longer it takes him of course, the higher priority it becomes, and it's certainly far past due now. He knows that and isn't intentionally avoiding it. We've had a lot of people offer to help us for free, but we've also had a few offer to help for a price. We have hired a couple freelancers in the past from our community on Twitter, but we do have incredibly high standards for our artists, and not everyone is capable of meeting those standards, and that kind of talent doesn't come free. The other issue is that, perhaps hypocritically on my part being the exception, we feel very strongly against accepting free work. With our budget in check, we can't afford to pay these people if they were looking for a paid job, and don't feel comfortable exploiting their services for free. There are a lot of moral and ethical concerns regarding that, even if the person providing thinks they are ok with it. From our experience, eventually they are going to want compensation, which leaves the door open for potential legal issues. I think this post particularly is a wake up call for our entire team. As a result of our lack of communication, we can observe how damaging false accusations, like that posted on Reddit can be, especially when noone from the community has been provided anything in support of countering these claims. Worse still, this burden is my responsibility specifically, and I absolutely do feel like I am underachieving by not being able to provide new information to our community with any kind of frequency. I will work with Paratus to see what we can move around to develop a new strategy for dealing with our PR issues.

Hello everyone, Just pre ordered the game and I'm new here, can't wait to play it on release but in the meantime hopefully I can get to know the community a bit better! Portal

Could it be possible to have a custom radio station that we could upload songs to and listen to privately? Something like the Self Radio in GTA V

Here are the 6 different tie/collar variants

Will you do hats?

Well you can stream music from Youtube and such, I wouldn't be surprised if you could just create a playlist of Youtube songs and listen to it in the car or wherever

Or possibly the ability to add our own shoutcast/icecast server address into the player for people inside the apartment to listen to?

I think you would make an excellent addition to the company. Glad to have someone who can help with shoe design as that isnt my strong side. Welcome to the team.

I don't mind that they can't do criminal actions the point is we should be able to frame them so they can be seen as being corrupt. They get jail time but are let out on new information instead of serving a full term. I am only looking for less extreme options then killing them.

Could be, but it won't include the titles "FBI or IA" most likely.

I'm impressed and excited, I imagine myself becoming a frequent admirer of yours; keep up the good work!

true, and I based mine on real life. So my prices (rough ideas) are all based from how its done in real life, and "the drive could go a long route" instead of a short cut to just earn more money for that trip. Therefore both ideas are sufficient and can be manipulated in different ways. With my taxi's it is $4 up to a mile in towns/ out of a city, also meaning if travelling under a mile it will cost $4 and well its set but my bus prices are cheaper because they are practically $4 per 10 miles but they are for certain routes which will take longer.

Africa represent!!

Hey there @looper1235, there will not be a "Purge" in Identity.

@Shadow765 I think that official servers won't have moderators/ staff doing that because it will be more lax than strict e.g. official servers usually are casual rp. @JAWZ has the right idea, the system which will be in place will stop excessive killing. So if you did want to have a serial killer character, you would need to kill your victims in a pattern like 1 every hour or something like 3 a day. Official servers will not be super serious but there will be systems in place to regulate things so people don't come on just to troll and ruin the game play for others. Also @JAWZ you might not want to stay in character all the time and now and then rdm someone, but you killing that someone may not like you breaking the rules for your own benefit and so how would you like it if you worked so hard for something and I just came up to you and rdm'ed you. You will not like that" so don't think its ok every now and then.

Agreed that there should possibly be an upper-class area in the map with some big houses and a hand full of mansions. Possibly some nice villas down at the beach side that's intended on being in the map?? Obviously these should be really expensive and out of reach for everyone starting out.

@JoelKeys I am interested in joining as the Chief of Finance, but I have a few questions. 1. How do you plan to differentiate this company from the other fashion houses? 2. How much would the CFO get paid? 3. What direction do you want to take this company?

I think in the official servers, there will be admins/mod patrolling the game

99% of the purchasable items within the game involves utilizing in-game currency considering that "Identity" is not a "Play-to-Win" game.

Oh I see so if I make a bunch of subjective slander non-arguments and defensive assumptions that "millions of people" would agree upon then it'll automatically become objective arguments. No it´s not an argument. I appreciate the discussion while it lasted but when you start throwing snarky tantrums like " insane redneck", or assumptions that I have never stepped a foot into the economics world, then you're not making an argument anymore. I don't think you're quite aware how defensive and stupid you look when you make these non-arguments to intelligent people that genuinely want to understand what we're all about., and I don't mean only you but also all the other people who post emotionally reactive non-sense here. If you have an argument I'm open to discuss but if you're gonna spew non-arguments then stop wasting our time, we don't need your empty emotional reactiveness here because they're not arguments.

Only being able to enter a home with an invitation is limiting to the entire concept of this game.... So criminals, when wanted can go to their homes and wait for police attention to be directed else where. Police have no true way to execute a warrant to enter, because if the criminal refuses to invite them, they have no way to enter a premise. People can bitch about not RPing properly, but welcome to the public server of safe spaces..... The base intent of this game is cops Vs criminals. Criminals being able to enter homes without Consent and cops being able to enter a location with a warrant, even if they are not invited in should be part of the foundation of the game.

*writes in notepad* "Note to self: Bring warrant. Also, if all else fails make SWAT bring the walls down."

I think a taxation system will be implemented I dont think a global economic system will exist because I believe its based of one place they may change it later though

Could we get the 200 Views by tomorrow?!

real traffic possible but no AI

maybe like badge number?

False again, IT CAN be based on mutual consent, even if there are taxes! Simply because at this state of chaos that you want to have, people are WILLING to pay for protection, and services! Secondly, In your scenario, you are being irrational with the human condition! Who said it had to be 10? It could be 30, 60, 100 followers who want a country, and just by wanting a country, we would easily be able to start one! Thirdly I find it ironic that you call yourself a capitalist, because corporations would FAIL without any form of government! There would be no real currency, so you would completely rely on the coincidence of wants like the cavemen did, there would be NO reason for innovation, because no one is going to protect my patents, or copyrights, so research and development is a waste of time and money, Infrastructure would collapse, say goodbye to your roads, radios, televisions, water, and phones. At such a point where you have completely ruined a country, yes, people would be absolutely willing to pay me or someone else to help fund a new government that can actually keep them safe, and have an infrastructure! Also, If this were to happen in the USA, and I am the Prime Minister of Canada, or the president of Mexico, what do I see right next to me? FREE LAND, all I have to do it take it, and now you belong to a country that is probably a lot worse than the one you just destroyed. Again, Anarchy is impossible, it can not last more than a few minutes before groups of people start banding up for common necessities.

Im in parking enforcement and that would be funny cuz its a high cost to remove the boot aka clamp as you called it $100 or if you damage the boot its $500 and criminal charges can be used as well:)

You SHOULD be allowed to be corrupt, this is trying simulate real life so let it simulate real life. If the cop gets caught he gets kicked off the force forever thats fair but it SHOULDNT be against the rules or bannable

Yeah most of those things depend on the player and how creative their are handling and planning the bankheist

I prefer the heist on the bank truck where they ran it off the road using a tow truck. Can be seen in payday 2. Such a good scene with the famous hockey masks.

True, I can tolerate minarchists every now and then. But to be tolerant to somebody that is intolerant is self-detonating. National-Socialists and Communists are the worst statist scum out there,.

Doubtful as its there dream game and so they won't release it unfinished. No Mans Sky was a cash grab, and everybody knows it. Also they had the community pressure them to release it early, it happened and was shit. Also other companies said they wouldn't release a game unfinished and did because they had publishers forcing them to rush it out and get the money. They don't have the developers making their own dream game, they just do it for business, Asylum Entertainment are making their dream game and so thats their passion with creating it. (obviously it could go horribly wrong) but I don't like to see the negatives taking over.

Brass Knuckles Baseball Bat Knife Butterfly Bottle Hammers Crossbars Baton Pool Cue Golf Club Screw Driver Kitchen Knife Garotte Tomahawk Chloroform Melee Weapons like that are not too obvious to use in a Social environment.

Cant wait to see this out on the street i see you guy put allot of work in it and try to make something out of it best logistics company so far

No, this is a real life sim and so don't be stupid.