COPS ABLE TO CLOSE ROADS FOR ACCIDENTS

[Quattro10V]

(2016-12-28 18:16)Sonic Wrote:  

(2016-12-28 17:58)Quattro10V Wrote:  

(2016-12-28 00:00)Sonic Wrote:  There's already measures in place for such accidents and so it's not needed.

Eventhough closing a road on the face of things seems simple, I think in practice it would be impractical and actually cause more disturbances than a simple hazard/caution warning.

When I've seen HwA closing roads off, more often than not I've seen them having to warn people to not drive onto the roads (and to not hang around the closed off area), and of course this is a lot easier to enforce when they've got admin abilities - If cops were to be the one's closing the roads, I could just see a bunch of reports being made. Another point, when roads have been closed, there's usually alternative routes made available (as otherwise the flow of the server will become disrupted) by placing objects, which is again, something only enforceable by admins.

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Leave it how it is.

You make a good point. It's a difficult one that would have its advantages, but I think you're right. People need to respect HAZARDs and CAUTIONS a lot more. Perhaps a feature where if people pass through a HAZARD above a certain speed, they are given an automatic and hefty fine. They can appeal this on the forums if they believe it is not fair.

I like this idea, however, I'd instead make it so an automatic !complain is sent to the admins. If fines were given out, it may lead to some confusion as to whether or not they are actually breaking a rule due to the similar nature of speed traps whereby fines for speeding is just part of the game. You don't want to be mixing that mentality with what the actual rules are, an offence and a rule should be clearly distinguishable IMO.

Yes, that's a better way to look at it. That, or on the player's screen it pops up with a message stating that they MUST slow down to below (said) speed or they could be subject to disciplinary action.