TOPIC: First Suggestion

Server Name: ZARP Custom RP 1+2
Suggestion Title: Tarot
How would it benefit the server: Increase player traffic, maybe get more people into buying BPs/VIP.
Potential Issues/Exploits: May cause slight economic issues/there might be potential exploits.
Additional notes: None

Hey, all.

Was just tossing around a few ideas, and hoping one or two of you might be able to get on board with one of them.

Tarot Cards

Similar to a "Daily Awards" system, the Tarot Card event could run for however long is necessary and could simply be a matter of taking the Major Arcana having the player select from a group of three face-down cards. (Or the more traditional five for a realistic tarot-like feel.)

Basically, it would be a selection of 22 different outcomes. (Of which I could help entail the different kinds of effects.) There might also be a buy-in.

This is just a very rough idea, at the minute.
(This also might be more appropriate for Halloween. However you wanna play it.)

The actual list of cards and their potential effects is just below, have a look and see if you like.

EDIT

Just had some more ideas for tarot cards to include, and was thinking for a couple of them, if this was a daily, and permanent event, potential new items could be placed into the fold.

Number 0 - The Fool: Posts a message to the entire server saying something extremely stupid/silly.

Number 1 - The Magician: Gives the player a magic or wand swep for a single hour or however long the owners deem fair. Perhaps the magic/wand could have potentially interesting raid capabilities.

Number 2 - The High Priestess: Grants a bonus to the priest class in salary for a day, and perhaps gives a certain percentage extra to all donations the priest receives.

Number 3 - The Empress: The player is given an Empress token, and if three of them are gotten, it can be exchanged for an "Empress" item.

Number 4 - The Emperor: The next time the player becomes mayor, salary is doubled, bail paid is doubled, term served is doubled and the mayor gets a token which can be used to boost the power of all police/SWAT/SAS for a limited period and make the mayor briefly invulnerable. (Some of this can be taken away if it's too much.)

Number 5 - The Hierophant: The player is given "God's Fury", another raid-like item (perhaps a thunderbolt if we're going traditional for this. Or "God's Blessing", boosting HP and Armour to above and beyond max levels for a short time.

Number 6 - The Lovers: The player can choose any person in the server and both the player and their chosen partner will receive a one-time use healing item which will heal both them and their partner to full health.

Number 7 - The Chariot: The player's vehicle will double in durability and get fuel refilled. The player will also receive a token which, after a certain amount are collected, the player can trade them in for a special vehicle.

Number 8 - Strength: For a limited time, the player's weapon will become a one-hit. Alternatively, to avoid exploits, you could make it so they are given a token which, when used, will very briefly give them "Juggaurnaut" status, and equip them with their fists which will be capable of destroying props and one-hitting anyone unarmoured. They are not invincible, but their HP and armour will be significantly boosted.

Number 9 - The Hermit: The player will be unable to speak or hear from anyone for approximately 5 minutes. (Admins/Mods can lift this if the player breaks a rule. There may be a message sent out to point out that the player will be essentially deaf/mute for those five minutes.)

Number 10 - Wheel of Fortune: The player is allowed to choose a card a second time.

Number 11 - Justice: The player gets a Justice token, which is immediately consumed if the player is murdered by another. The murderer is then immediately killed themselves.

Number 12 - The Hanged Man: The player is suspended at a certain height for a limited period, unable to move and a post will be made on the chat that the player is "being hung at dawn... though they might have made a mistake about what kind of hanging."

Number 13 - Death: The player immediately dies.

Number 14 - Temperance: The player is subdued, meaning they are stripped of their weapons for a brief period. But no-one will be able to shoot at the player, either.

Number 15 - The Devil: The entire server is notified of the player drawing the Devil card, alongside a message stating "I'M FREE". Similar to a nuke launch, the entire server is given a time limit before they all perish from the rise of the devil. The only way to stop the rise is to murder the player who drew the card. The player who drew the card is "rewarded" with a devil token if the rise is successful, and there can be different rewards that can be paid for with different amounts of these tokens.

Number 16 - The Tower: For 2 hours, the player is given an increased prop-limit, however much is entirely up to the owner.

Number 17 - The Star: The player is given a star cannon, an area-based weapon that acts similar to an air/orbital strike. While a one-time use weapon, the area of effect will be devastated.

Number 18 - The Moon: For five minutes, all police jobs will be blinded, and all "Bad" jobs will receive a higher salary + a higher vault payout if they raid before the five minutes is up and they can survive the period when the police get their sight back.

Number 19 - The Sun: For five minutes, all "Bad" jobs will be subdued, meaning they can't draw a weapon. However, all good classes will not be able to kill them, only arrest them if they were already wanted. The good classes will also receive a bail bonus, a higher salary and will be healed completely and have their armour put up to above max for a short time.

Number 20 - Judgement: The player may select a single other player in the map. That player will be frozen for a single minute, and a huge bounty will be put on them for everyone (not just hitmen) to get if they kill the person. If the person is killed before the bounty expires on them (which may last about five-fifteen minutes), the player who drew judgement will receive a small part of the bounty (Unless they were the one who killed them), and a judgement token, which may be traded for other items dependent upon how many you have.

Number 21 - The World: The player will receive a single, highly valuable tarot card which can be sold to the tarot NPC for a huge amount, or traded for a "World" token. Three of these tokens will give the player a one-of-a-kind, extremely valuable item. (This one is more a "first come, first serve" thing.)

Bumpage.

good idea
But should only be on with uptades like easter or summer winter etc
because could bring the prices of stuff down too much

Created a list of tarot cards; have a look!

These look very interesting! I see some great non-op ones that will bring interesting raiding options with them like "Number 14 - Temperance: The player is subdued, meaning they are stripped of their weapons for a brief period. But no-one will be able to shoot at the player, either." where the player could use this thenrun into a base and sit in a corner/safe spot and wait for the effect to run out then start shooting at the people basing. Some of these look a bit too op though for example the "invincibility/blind/etc." ones but this could be fixed by making them ULTRA rare. Overall sounds really cool!!!

I think some of your cards need a little tweaking/changing, this is because they would ruin the rp of a lot of players who are new to the server or trying to have fun. An example of this would be blind police for 5 minutes, if the police are completely blinded for 5 minutes then what are they meant to do? If people join the server to rp they shouldn't be restricted by cards everyone can gain. Or anyone from the bad jobs not being able to do anything for 5 minutes.

You have suggested some good ideas I just feel that some of them are too extreme due to how easily accessible they are.

Thank you for the positive and constructive responses, thus far.

I realise some of these might be in need of tweaking. But hey, it's a work in progress!

If this is ever made, I'm sure the owners will respec it to something a little less OP.

Anyone else wanna drop any support/opinions?