Inventory Suggestion / Self Supply

[!:.Capt Mango.:!]

Gun Dealers are really under used and i feel like with self supply aren't even part of RP itself. The way gun dealers work right now is someone changes to a gun dealer, gets all the shipments they need and then change back. I feel like that if there is a gun store open for example a Heavy Gun Shop. If there is an extra slot available, someone is going to take it so they can get the guns at the price they are originally at and not go to the gun store. 

The inventory suggestion also is a way to balance out the economy and make the Gun Dealer role more proactive in RP. I suggest adding a sort of "shelf life" to shipments and guns in your inventory. The moment you inventory something, it has a shelf life of around a month or something then disappears.

The removal of the self supply being allowed and the addition of this "shelf life" thing becoming a thing makes the Gun Dealer role a lot more useful and helpful. It would also aid in spreading and evening the economy more.

[BIG NIK]

+1 great idea

[DaBreadCrumbs]

yes and no. Because then whats the point of having a bank? A place where you can store your arsenal. Now while i do agree with the fact that gun dealers are so under used for their intended purpose, adding a shelf life could be a good and bad thing. Me i like to make a crap ton of money. Spend most of it on guns and then the rest i normally just give to people. However adding a shelf life would be a good idea but then people are gonna start getting mad about there hard earned guns just disappearing. I feel like honestly there should be a harsher penalty when it comes to switching to self supply and switching back. Maybe Mods could start paying attention better to that and punishing people who change just to self supply. However if that isnt going to happen, then yes i can agree to make that a thing. Me personally i would rather have Mods be on the look out for it first before adding a life to your guns. But then again, it would actually bring down the amount of money people have if they are having to repurchase weapons every so often. So im still neutral on this subject but im honestly leaning pretty heavy towards making shelf life a thing!

[greafer]

I don't think this would work for a couple reasons. The mods looking out for it would be very hard especially with as many people submitting tickets at once it is hard to catch a single person switching to gun dealer for a minute or so, buying a few guns and switching back. The idea of getting rid of self supply could also be easily bypassed by having a friend switch to it and buy the gun for the exact price and give it to you and then switch back so it isnt technically considered self supply. I dont really have any good ideas on how to make it a more "useful" job bc there is a workaround for about anything to still get guns and then go back to the job you want.

[Larry Newman]

I believe that the people that want to roleplay correctly will do so and the people that want to give themselves guns will do so also. Some players do indeed make gun shops and many do it very well. Self-supply isn't hurting anything until they are holding job slots which is easily a demotion for not selling to other players. 

Also, the shelf-life idea is a good one but will unfortunately not combat self-supply. It affects both people that bought legitimately and people that gave themselves weapons.