Weather

NOTE: This goes hand-in-hand with another suggestion regarding the Winter Season which can be found here :

While I strongly agree with the suggestion above, I believe the /THAT/ roleplay shouldn't be only limited to the winter season. I believe the different types of weather should be roleplayed accordingly accompanied with a set of unique RP rules. This should be like a type of an event, that happens from time to time. Maybe its a prolonged period of dangerous mist and fog, with exceptionally low visibility. Perhaps heavy thunderstorms, with danger of flash floods? Maybe a deadly heatwave during the summer months? Or how about a cold wave during winter with temperatures dipping below freezing? There are many possibilities.

This will allow bigger immersion, more realism, unique roleplay opportunities for the many factions! For example during the most extreme situations, the government can set up shelter for the homeless and issue warnings. The News Network will have plenty of opportunities for roleplay as well, like broadcasting about the incoming "danger" or updates as it happens. The Department of Utilities or whatever its called can be utilized after the events to clean up the roads, fix broken lamp posts, fallen trees. If we were to roleplay a flooding, the Coast Guard can be mobilized to help the citizens, and as I said many other possibilities. General feedback regarding this suggestion are highly appreciated.

Yes, I believe there's a lot of roleplay opportunities for everyone in regards to weather. For example, a drug faction which would probably rely on being outside to mostly hang out would take their operations inside for the time that the severe weather warning is issued.

fuck yes. I remember a few years back on another server we had a dramatic ass hail storm which then resorted in the county's towns being evacuated and everyone having to find refuge in the mall. The mall soon broke into chaos and the remaining citizens had to be relocated to a government facility where people continued to rp having to survive off of rationed food and the medical bay being overpopulated.

for some reason natural disasters were looked down upon after that but I'd love to see this ideal of roleplay in barp, even if it's rare and only happens once a year or so; simple Earthquakes, droughts, floods would be fucking amazing and I'm sure it'd bring community roleplay together; no matter If you're a mobster, gangbanger, police officer or mallrat lesbian who is /masked 24/7.

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simple weather seasons having a few days dramatized would be great; the local PD cruising into low income neighbourhoods and giving the youth free bottles of water in Summer and such. People could even run temporary business' and such for specific services, eg; leaf cleanup in Autumn.