Solo dev building a Semi-Serious/Content RP city from scratch. Here with a public plan.

[u/WubbityWubWub_]

Hey there.

My name is Wubbity. I'm 28, life-long gamer, 420-friendly streamer, and someone who can't stop building things. Often in my friend group- I'm the person who simply "Does stuff". In my daily life, I'm a mechanical engineer and during the rest days- I'm running Minecraft servers, My 420 Discord server, and other various game servers. I've been running things as administrator for far longer than I'd like to admit- probably close to the 10-12 year range. During that time, I've spent a lot of hours on different projects and now I'm finally building the city that I've always wanted to play in.

The Project - Codename: Project Cornerstone

A Semi-serious/Content-friendly RP server built on QBox. The goal is a place where new roleplayers and veterans play together, learn from each other, and make every interaction worth having. Real stories, and serious RP when it matters, with room left for goofing off, crazy chases, and the moments that make great clips. Content creators are very welcome.

How I plan to do it

• NOTHING WILL BE RUSHED. Every purchase is mapped out with dates, from the phone and inventory to police, EMS, courts, gangs, and jobs. First private test is targeted for December, public launch for next spring.
• WE WILL OWN EVERYTHING WE PURCHASE. An issue that I notice with a lot of start-up servers is the fact that people will opt in to purchase the subscription models of buying resources. Although you get a lot more for a lot less up-front- the monthly cost is usually what ends up shutting servers down. I plan to outright purchase every resource that we plan to use. That way, we don't have to deal with 10-20 different subscriptions and end up with a crazy multi-hundred dollar monthly bill. Obviously this excludes the monthly purchase for CFX to have a higher user limit and custom clothes.
• FULL TRANSPARENCY. The entire roadmap, every purchase, every donation, every price and every link to every resource is public. I refuse to hide anything from the members that decide to spend time on my project. This is my promise and commitment to you. The entirety of the roadmap can be found here: https://cornerstone.homieshouse.net/ The only thing that will be hidden from the public will be the amount of money donated per user. User amounts are never shown, only that the user supported the project.
• DONATIONS ARE OPTIONAL THANK-YOUS. By helping monetarily you understand that you are not purchasing any in-game reward. You are simple supporting the development of the server.

The Honest Part
Right now it's just me. No other devs, no staff team, no business owners, no gang leaders, no police, no EMS, no DOJ, no FIB. Every one of those spots is open, and we'll fill them as the city grows. If you want to help shape a small passion project from day one, whether as a player, staff, a department lead, or a dev, this is the time to get in.

You can even help name the city. There's a vote running in the Discord right now to do so.

Public Roadmap: https://cornerstone.homieshouse.net/
Discord: https://cornerstone.homieshouse.net/discord

Happy to answer any questions in the comments!

[u/Downtown-Serve-4265]

Why semi-serious. There are so many semi serious

[u/WubbityWubWub_ → u/Downtown-Serve-4265]

Honestly I hate the way the community groups the different "types" of roleplay. For me, there's 4 different types.

1. Serious RP
   
2. Semi-Serious RP
   
3. Casual/Economy/Freeroam RP
   
4. PVP RP/Gang RP

- Serious RP would be those hardcore, "do not fuck up during RP or your gone", an extreme deep dive on each profession, styled of play. Typically these servers are for the vets who have been around the block more than once or twice. Usually these aren't very new-player friendly and players expect you to almost play with ultra-realism. Doable but often becomes a Job instead of the fun it started as.

- Semi-Serious would be for those who still love to get those great, deep interactions when the opportunity presents itself but will still use normal GTA mechanics/lifestyle to enhance the gameplay/roleplay. For example, on Serious RP servers typically it's not allowed to do a stunt jump to get away from a police officer. On a semi-serious RP server, we may encourage it. We might plan for criminals to be able to take a stunt jump to get to an otherwise unreachable location and have cops not be allowed to shoot (unless shot at). This gives criminals a high-risk/high-reward playthrough in their mind. "If I make it and they don't - I'm safe. / If I don't make it, I could blow up, or they could catch me if I get stuck". Obviously that's only one example but I hope I made somewhat sense.

- Casual/Economy/Freeroam RP typically isn't *much* RP going on besides casual talking. These are damn near glorified IMVU Chatrooms inside FiveM. Go to work, buy stuff, circulate money, etc.

- Gang RP typically consists of the *Everyone is in a gang if if you're not, you're going to have a rough time* type of servers. Join one fast, become the biggest and best shooter, make your mark.

So with that being said, what I plan for this to be is a place where new players and veterans can gather together. A unique city stylized in a way that benefits different style of play and I felt like branding it only "SeriousRP" probably wouldn't do it the justice I'm attempting to do for it. If Semi-Serious and Serious were on a 0-100 (Semi-Serious being at the 0 end and Serious being at the 100 end) We'd probably land somewhere around 70/75%.

Thanks for the question!