05-11-2013, 12:20 AM
(05-10-2013, 09:41 PM)Sophia link Wrote: What a waste of time and effort.
The fact that you fail to understand how an online game works does not mean you should, without proper argumentation, characterize our development efforts as being "a waste of time". Instead of making empty statements about how giving people an hour of jail time is an effective way of punishment, please present on what grounds you are presenting such a statement.
Giving people the ability to not just visit others in jail, but also shoot and kill them, is a subtle form of humiliation. Someone could trick another player in doing something that gets them jailed, and then visit them in jail to bully them. That creates a bad experience by any standards. People have a flow they're playing with, and being put in jail interrupts that, which is annoying enough by itself. So what if they minimize their window and do other things? They're not playing, and that's the very purpose of the punishment. I'm all for adding things to do in jail to actually keep them in the game by choice.
I believe the jail island to be a really nice addition to Las Venturas Playground, and it provided us with a good chance to replace the old jail system with a new one.