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  1. Love the use of primecrime.ru, good shit fellas! Best of luck!
  2. In New York City, a bodega is a small owner-operated convenience store. Its name is derived from the Spanish word for "storeroom" or "wine cellar". Usually located on New York's street corners, they are renowned for their convivial culture and colorful character. There are an estimated 13,000 bodegas across the city. Also, I an assure you that there WILL be roleplay with unions, port authorities and the docks in general.
  3. Hey LC:RP, I'm just a prick that likes most things invented before the beginning of the 21th century. RCRPers might know me as Misanthropist, Discord bots know me as Copa Cabana and others will probably not know me. I have solid LCN RP experience and will talk day and night about politics to a person who just asked "what's the ip to the server". Anyway, see y'all round.
  4. Did you take the $50.000 I had hidden in the bird feeder?
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    indra

    Welcome bro, one of the best admins on that server for sure. Yet I'm getting a weird feeling that half of RCRP is already here just under different forum names.
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    kjell

    Na, tokiu atveju sveikas atvykęs į Liberty City RP. Pasislėpęs po vardais visokiais nesuprasi net kad Lietuvis.
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    kjell

    What-- what-- what is your neim? Zirga Galva?
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    Sado

    SadMan? Shiiiet... didnthideyevelemout. Welcome to LC:RP chief.
  9. Stupid criminals exist and they get caught, that's why we mainly hear of the stupid ones the most. It's really in nobody's interest to have a guy around who has an IQ that you can count with the fingers of one hand. The crimes that this excuse is used for makes no sense. I've heard of plenty criminals who weren't the sharpest tools in the shed, but were somewhat street smart and knew the basics of what to do and what not to do. If you're part of an organization or a gang, it is in your superior's interest that you stay around for as long as possible and help the gang/organization by making money and being there for what needs to be done. This is why every wannabe with potential gets mentored in the basics. Of course, there's always the stupid criminals, however instead of mentoring them, the senior members will often manipulate and abuse them, use them to do crimes that they themselves wouldn't do. If he gets caught? Who cares, guy was stupid anyway. My point is, if you want to RP a guy with zero street smarts or a complete psychopath - at least RP spending most of your days RPing in the prison system because that's the only way for you.
  10. Well said. I have extorted business owners before in my RP career and when it's done right, they really don't mind paying the fee for the good RP. The only time it really pisses them off is when noobs try to do it or when they're asked to pay a way too large amount of money.
  11. What you're referring to is extortion, racketeering is a far broader term (definition: dishonest and fraudulent business dealings), but I assume the confusion is because of the language. In Lithuanian it is referred to as "reketas" which is racketeering, though most people use it to describe extortion (lit. turto prievartavimas). Returning back to the question - it is really up to the business owner what he does, obviously the preferred option for him is not to pay any fee to anyone, but it doesn't always go that way. It is really the criminal's job to get the business owner by the balls. If he fails to do so - he fails as an extortionist. If your character isn't fearful, he'll most likely report the extortionist to the police. If he is, he might be coerced into paying the fee. Obviously, the perfect situation for the extortionist is to have enough pull and leverage over the owner to make sure that he doesn't go to the authorities either way.
  12. To add to this, most stores nowadays have cameras. You already risk going to prison, but if you also murder the poor guy that's 25 to life for you my friend, and there's nothing you can do about it!
  13. I feel there is a commonly held miss-conception about extortion. It's actually super rare for criminals to go into a store and play the "hah, would be a shame if this place burned down" card. Extortions do happen often, so, naturally you ask - how do the criminals get the businessman to do their bidding? There are several options as to why the businessman is opting to pay the fee: 1. The businessman wants to be affiliated and have connections with local criminal figures, paying the protection fee is a good way in. 2. The businessman took a loan from the organized crime figures and now is tied to them. They ask him to pay extortion money to repay the debt (often times the fee continues to be paid even after the debt is paid in full). 3. The organized crime controls an important union/company that is tied to that business. A threat of economic sanctions like products arriving to the store late or not arriving at all is far more scary than two gorillas telling you they will burn down your meat shop. 4. The businessman is being blackmailed. Maybe the criminals have a video of him soliciting a prostitute and holds it against him in order for him to pay up. 5. The organized crime group has garnered a threatening reputation. If the group that terrorizes the businessman is known to be vicious, large and powerful, he will be far more inclined to pay them rather than go to the authorities. Why? The cops will arrest the guys that offered protection, maybe they'll even arrest the guys that come to wreck the shop - but what's next? Maybe the next few goons sent to your store will end up blowing it up and then you're back to having nothing at all. The point I am trying to make is that the store owner will most often go to the authorities if he isn't afraid of what happens after doing so, or if he has interest in paying off the criminals. If you are a no-name gang sending in a few hoods to extort money from a store - there's 99 percent chance you'll be all in cuffs within a week.
  14. Absolutely, if you get caught with enough heinous crimes - you're off to spend a very long time behind bars. Some stints are just too long to handle or to be RPed, even if they're not actually life sentences. In general though, I agree with most things pointed out in the last page!
  15. I've been RPing since 2012 and for most part I've done it in servers that have official factions. However over the years I've noticed, alongside the benefits of having it, also the negatives of having it around. First of all, while it does encourage more competition it also creates a somewhat toxic environment, I've seen entire factions quit a server simply because someone was given official status before them and "unjustly" in their eyes. It also means that people will be chasing the status OOC as well, trying to coerce any friends they have in faction management and such. Secondly, it really gathers a lot of power in just a few factions' hands and not always accountability is high. Official factions are trusted with introducing drugs and weapons into the server but what really ends up happening is the leadership of those factions raking up a bunch of scriptwise money and acting somewhat carefree with their duties. This is not to say that the alternatives are significantly better, but you get the gist of what I am saying.
  16. Bone jaw to you, bone head.
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