Considering all the pictures we have seen of the faces, it looks like they have already begun with the "face-preset" approach. And as a person who have done some modelling/animating myself, making 40 different face presets would still be faster than making a customizable face. Don't get me wrong, I would love it if they added face customization, but considering they are a very small team working on the game I doubt we will get one.

I'm not really sure why you did that assumption. I just thought it would be a good idea to balance the cop-criminal ratio and this was my solution, but if you can think of a better one feel free to share your thoughts

This is a crappy thing to say since I think we all want Identity to be the best present-day MMORPG, and leaving such a great feature out would be disappointing. If you read my post I didn't say "but what if there's a cooldown?". My suggestions was: With only some of these suggestions added, it would still be very hard to rob people. And if you had an alarm, both you and the police would get notified instantly. And I'm sure certain servers would be able to disable robbing all together if some people wouldn't want it.

Being a swede myself, I think with the swedish word "mobbing", you actually mean the english word "bullying".

@Cornholio What would be even more realistic is to make robbers able to rob houses even without masks, but still I like the idea of having masks, and robbing a house with a mask would make your identity stay hidden, if you manage to succeed with the robbing. And if you rob a house without a mask you would risk your identity to be exposed making cops search easier.

@JamesLuck01 What they could do to still make people able to chill in their apartments is to make it so that robbers can only rob the house if it's empty of players (The owner including players invited). And personally, instanced or not, I'd still love if robbing was possible since the issues with instanced houses are not very big and could easily be fixed with various solutions (such as having a display on the door indicating if a player is about the get in/out of the house, or having a blurred verson of the avatar remain standing outside the door while loading).

@ThatGuyJoe I completely agree that switching jobs shouldn't be very easy. But even if it takes one or two days to be able to switch jobs, that means that it will take one or two days before more cops start to roll in. And having more cops will make it harder for criminals. Yes, many people might not want to switch just because the money for cops is incresed, but there will be a handful of people who will. I know that this isn't the only solution but I do think that it would be a nice feature just to make sure that that there are some balancing between the criminals and cops. Even tho I perfer realism over most things, I still think some things could be done to improve the gameplay, as in cops money balancing.

I do understand why it would be a bad idea to have every house to be always loaded into the world without any kind of loading-screens, it would make the performance in urban areas extreamly slow. But even if there is a loading screen, players with crowbars/lockpicks could just get loaded into the house, if the breaching would be successful. Also, to answer your concerns @Cornholio, @Vyndictus, one solution could be to let any player enter the house as long as the door stay breached/broken. The other solution could be to only let cops and the player owning the house load into it (like in Skyrim where enemies can walk into the building even tho there are loading screens in between). The only problem with this is that if the loading times are long, there could be situations where the robber ran out of the building waiting in the loading screen while cops comes from the outside, also waiting in the loading screen. So when the loading screens are gone, the cops wont be able to find the robber and the robber wont even see the cops pass by since everyone was in a loadingscreen at the same time. A solution to this problem could be to display on the door if a player is about to come out/get into the house. Another solution could be to have the player avatar remain outside the door so that when the cops arrive inside of the house, they will see that the robber is loading at the door and they can then turn around. The implementation of a system like this wouldn't actually make a performance difference because, if say a player can invite 10 people into the house, then only 5 robbers/5 cops should be able to enter the house and there wouldn't be any performance differences to what they currently have.

I can't see why that wouldn't be the case

As @JamesLuck01 said, there will be affects which could be a reason to try. Also, what are the biggest reasons to start doing drugs in real life? I'd say boredom and group pressure, which probably also will occur when playing the game

@ThatGuyJoe Not at all, it's a good that you are clearing up the forum.

@ThatGuyJoe True, but now I know

@Shimozukachi Not really, I'm gonna quote myself here

Or just give the cops more money depending on how much crime there is.

@ThatGuyJoe While the post title is a question, the post actually features some suggestions.

You just go to Settings > Voice > Input Mode Discord is amazing in multiple ways. The quality is amazing, the invites are simple, it works both as an application and in browser, It's easy to manage and add certain voice/text chats for different things, and it looks great EDIT: @xIconikkx The invite link has expired, remember to make the link infinite time. Also edit your post with the new link.

I do think that faces will only be presets tho, since making a detailed face customization requires loads of time.

I doubt it will become as bad as a "cops and robbers shooter", but if it would it wouldn't really affect the gameplay of the civilans on the server, apart from multiple stores and civilans getting robbed. That's the beauti of a game like this, civilians can do whatever they want while criminals and cops can do their thing. I also think that the amount of criminals will decrese a few months after release once all the killing machine players gets bored by getting banned (since I guess RDM is not allowed even as criminals).

@Bigboy I like the idea of your new character starting off looking like your old one, but I would want all of your property to get wiped when dying. Atleast I hope there will be some servers with settings like this.

Didn't know there were going to be pets in the game. I like the idea with pets staying in the house, but it would still be cool to walk your dog around the block. Also having police dogs would be amazing.

Custom postures would allow for people to make inappropriate postures, or postures that are physically impossible, with arms going through the body while being upside down etc. (This depends of course about how much freedome you get when posturing).

My solution for the problem would be to give cops more money depending on how much criminal activity is going on, which could be calculated by the server and not by players (since many crimes will go un-noticed by the players). So if there are much criminal activity, more people will want to play as cops since it gives them more money.

But that doesn't look like nearly enough space for a ski-resort or even a mountain.

@DJ_ROSWELL I love your avatar of Charlie Frost. There has to be pickles to eat creepingly in the woods.

I'm not too sure about the athletic careers but as of now, they haven't said anything about it (only sports to play as fun). If you really want to do them they can always be roleplayed, but that will also require people wanting to pay for tournaments etc. About the ability to create custom landscapes, I doubt they will add any kind of map editor because of all the things they have to get done first (even tho I would love one). The AI in the game will be very limited and will only be in certain shops. The only people you will see cruising the streets are players, which is a good thing imo. The servers being different countries seems possible but there is no need for it since different parties and presidents will be able to choose the laws of the server, and I doubt you will be able to switch server with all your earnings/things. And I would love to see Steroids in the game.