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7
Years of Mono
Community Management is failing here and need to define this, it is stupid that staff and players have been in conflict about this for many weeks now.
IMO no minimum exists, the dev team implemented the threshold of $500 or less to allow for the use of personal money to purchase equipment, staff should not be intervening and making stuff up at their discretion, word gets around and players start complaining to other staff who are not saying the same things as other staff have told them previously.
As a word of advise to everyone, if the Mayor sets a max budget for PD at $1,000... Just purchase a firearm worth more than $500 which will draw from the mayors provided fund and then use your own money to get the gun you want when you see the budget fall below $500, if you can afford it yourself of course...
Or just suck it up and don't complain.
There is no defined rule about budget minimums, staff can't enforce what doesn't exist...
I am not saying that the budget should be 30k+ at all times or anything of that nature. However, it is the Mayor's job to be aware of the needs of the city, communicating with the Police Department in the process, and issue budget appropriately. Giving the Police Department next to 0 budget when they need more and you have the capability of providing more is just a jerk move and in some cases can be considered corruption and will be punished accordingly.
There is no defined rule regarding this which is my entire point.failing to provide budget can be considered corruption, and thus can be enforced.
Didn't ask if you did tbh...Ummm I never do this
7
Years of Mono
Truthfully I'm kind of stuck here. There are so many things that people say "we need to add a rule for this," and while they are all good natured, I think CM should stay away from overpopulation of the rules.Like I've said CM needs to step in to define this officially, not a bunch of different ranking staff giving their input, it confuses the masses and still leaves room for conflict.
If that's the case then like @DystopianRaven said. Staff shouldn't get involved at all. Unless the mayor is simply not giving budget without corruption perms. There are many things that sit in the gray area and a lot of them are actual written rules.Truthfully I'm kind of stuck here. There are so many things that people say "we need to add a rule for this," and while they are all good natured, I think CM should stay away from overpopulation of the rules.
There are lots of things that to me seem like common sense, but based on how other community members perceive things, it's not.
I want to say that there should be clearly defined rules in regards to budget, but what exactly would they look like? If you put my criteria in the rules, it still very open to interpretation. If you put hard limits in the rules then you run into real trouble because you have to account for any possible size of the PD, any ongoing situations, and the city's current total budget. When you do that you are going to end up having 5 paragraphs of rules, which are a headache to write, but also a headache to read and practice.
However, if nothing is changed, the same problems will continue to persist. Different staff with diffent interpretations, confused players, and bad RP.
Each option has it's ups and downs to it that need to be considered.
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