I don't know if you can save stats through scripts, and load them after. But here's my suggestion about rank progression. Players will start from the lowest rank there is, the more work they done the closer they are getting promoted and unlock new features.

 

Some people may not like slow progression, sometime they just want to screw around. So I thought the rank progression is only available at hardcore mode.

 

How to get promoted? Once a player reaches their goals and ready to advance to next rank they can go to any station and walk into the chief's office and stand on a red marker in front of his desk. Player will then receive their new abilities and unlocks, if player has a partner it will not disappear or go away it will still stick with you until you get a new one.

 

Rank 1 : Recruit Officer (Start Rank)

 

Weapons/Armors:

• Taser Gun
• Police Batton (Bat)

 

Vehicles:

• Police Bike

Abilities:

• Arrest
• Fine pedestrians ($10 - $40)
• Call on foot backup (one Police Officer I will arrive on foot)
• Call for Prisoner Pickup (Since the police bike isn't 2 seated, they will have to use the pickup call to get them to station)

Goals to get promoted:

• Arrests 5 criminals
• Fine 2 citizens
• Call a backup

 

 

Rank 2 : Police Officer I

 

Weapons/Armors:

• Taser Gun
• Police Batton (Bat)
• Glock Pistol
• Chest Armor

 

Vehicles:

• Police Cruiser
• Police Bike

Abilities:

• Arrest
• Fine pedestrians ($50 - $100)
• Call Backup (Two Police Officer II will arrive in Police Patrol)
• Call for Prisoner Pickup 
• Partner

 

 

Goals to get promoted:

• Arrests 15 criminals
• Fine 5 citizens
• Call a backup
• Get a partner

 

 

Rank 3 : Police Officer II

 

 

(No new skin is unlocked in POII)

 

Weapons/Armors:

• Taser Gun
• Police Batton (Bat)
• Glock Pistol
• Chest Armor

Vehicles:

• Police Cruiser
• Police Patrol
• Police Bike

Abilities:

• Arrest
• Fine pedestrians ($100 - $250)
• Call Backup (Two Police Officer III will arrive in Police Patrol/Buffalo)
• Call for Prisoner Pickup 
• Get a partner
• Request an Ambulance
• Request an FDLC support

 

Goals to get promoted:

• Arrests 25 criminals
• Fine 15 citizens
• Call a backup
• Get a new partner
• Request an ambulance support
• Request an FDLC support

 

 

Rank 4 : Police Officer III

 

Weapons/Armors:

• Taser Gun
• Police Batton (Bat)
• Glock Pistol
• Pump Shotgun (Vehicle Trunk)
• Chest Armor

Vehicles:

• Police Cruiser
• Police Patrol
• Police Buffalo
• Police Stinger
• Police Bike

Abilities:

• Arrest
• Fine pedestrians ($250 - $500)
• Call Backup (Two Police Officer III will arrive in Police Patrol/Buffalo)
• Call Additional Backup (Four Police Officer III will arrive in a NOOSE Patriot, 2 of them armed with Glock and the last 2 with pump shotgun)
• Call an aerial backup (One LCPD Maverick)
• Call for Prisoner Pickup 
• Get a partner
• Request an Ambulance
• Request an FDLC support

 

Goals to get promoted:

• Arrests 35 criminals
• Fine 20 citizens
• Call a backup
• Call an Additional Backup
• Get a new partner
• Request an ambulance support
• Request an FDLC support

 

 

Rank 5 : Detective

 

Weapons/Armors:

• Taser Gun
• Police Batton (Bat)
• Desert Eagle
• Combat Shotgun (Vehicle Trunk)
• SMG MP-10 (Vehicle Trunk)
• Chest Armor

Vehicles:

• Police Cruiser
• Police Patrol
• Police Buffalo
• Police Stinger
• Police Bike
• FIB Buffalo
• NOOSE Patriot

Abilities:

• Arrest
• Fine pedestrians ($500 - $1000)
• Call Backup (Two Police Officer III will arrive in Police Patrol/Buffalo)
• Call Additional Backup (Four Police Officer III will arrive in a NOOSE Patriot, 2 of them armed with Glock and the last 2 with pump shotgun)
• Call Armed Backup (Four Detective will arrive in a FIB Buffalo, armed with SMG MP-10)
• Call an aerial backup (One LCPD Maverick)
• Call for Prisoner Pickup 
• Get a new partner
• Request an Ambulance
• Request an FDLC support

 

Goals to get promoted:

• Arrests 65 criminals
• Kill 45 Armed Criminals (shootouts)
• Fine 30 citizens
• Get a new partner
• Call all kinds of aerial support
• Call all kinds of ground support

 

 

 

Rank 6 : Captain

 

Weapons/Armors:

• Taser Gun
• Police Batton (Bat)
• Desert Eagle
• Combat Shotgun (Vehicle Trunk)
• SMG MP-10 (Vehicle Trunk)
• Carbine Rifle M4A1 (Vehicle Trunk)
• Chest Armor

Vehicles:

• Police Cruiser
• Police Patrol
• Police Buffalo
• Police Stinger
• Police Bike
• FIB Buffalo
• NOOSE Cruiser
• NOOSE Patriot

Abilities:

• Arrest
• Fine pedestrians ($1000 - $2500)
• Call Backup (Two Police Officer III will arrive in Police Patrol/Buffalo)
• Call Additional Backup (Four Police Officer III will arrive in a NOOSE Patriot, armed with Glock)
• Call Armed Backup (Four Detective will arrive in a FIB Buffalo, armed with SMG MP-10)
• Call an aerial backup (One LCPD Maverick)
• Call a NOOSE air support (One Noose helicopter)
• Call a NOOSE ground unit (Four Noose units will arrive in a NOOSE Stockade/Patriot, armed with Carbine Rifle M4A1)
• Call for Prisoner Pickup 
• Get a partner
• Request an Ambulance
• Request an FDLC support

 

Goals to get promoted:

• Arrests 75 criminals
• Kill 50 Armed Criminals (shootouts)
• Fine 45 citizens
• Get a new partner
• Call all kinds of aerial support
• Call all kinds of ground support

 

Rank 7 : Chief

 

Weapons/Armors:

• Taser Gun
• Police Batton (Bat)
• Desert Eagle
• Combat Shotgun (Vehicle Trunk)
• SMG MP-10 (Vehicle Trunk)
• Carbine Rifle M4A1 (Vehicle Trunk)
• Chest Armor

Vehicles:

• Police Cruiser
• Police Patrol
• Police Buffalo
• Police Stinger
• Police Bike
• FIB Buffalo
• Police Stockade
• NOOSE Cruiser
• NOOSE Patriot
• NOOSE Stockade
• APC

Abilities:

• Arrest
• Fine pedestrians ($2500 - $5000)
• Call Backup (Two Police Officer III will arrive in Police Patrol/Buffalo)
• Call Additional Backup (Four Police Officer III will arrive in a NOOSE Patriot, armed with Glock)
• Call Armed Backup (Four Detective will arrive in a FIB Buffalo, armed with SMG MP-10)
• Call an aerial backup (One LCPD Maverick)
• Call a NOOSE air support (One Noose helicopter)
• Call a NOOSE ground unit (Four Noose units will arrive in a NOOSE Stockade/Patriot, armed with Carbine Rifle M4A1)
• Call for Prisoner Pickup 
• Get an Assitant Chief
• Request an Ambulance
• Request an FDLC support

 

*I may have missed a few things, made some mistakes. It's a lot of reading, I'll fix it if I find any problems.

*There are different skins for every ranks, unfortunately the forum doesn't support puush.me images, so I'll upload them again whenever I can.

 

 

Seems like a lot of scripting for not much reward. It would be different if there were missions specific to each grade. Plus this isn't really implementing anything new to the game, just a rank system. Don't get me wrong, it obviously took you a long time to type that and this is just my opinion. I play hardcore mode and I wouldn't want to have to run through ranks just so I can call for a certain kind of backup. Plus at "Rank 1" you have only the police bike being available to players. Not everyone has EFLC so that would be a problem right there. You could already sort of do this whole system without a script. Just add or delete guns, cars, player models with SNT. Overall its not a bad idea, it would just need a lot more features added along with this stuff to make it worthwhile. Stuff that we probably won't see.

Well theres a lot of things to be modified, but this is the general idea of rank progression. Doesn't have to be exactly the same.

LCPDFR is generally designed to be sort of realistic, not arcade-style. This is sort of an arcade-style idea (not that those are bad, just that they don't really fit so well with LCPDFR). Also, about the backup: Calling for FDLC or medical backup is actually essential to certain playstyles (such as if you're using Braveheart's mod). The idea that you'd have to get to a pretty high rank to call SWAT if you're in a shootout (which isn't just a result of LCPDFR missions; it also happens if you fire a single shot in Hove Beach) is sort of ridiculous. Again, pretty arcade-style. There is a mod (PPM) that focuses on the arcade side of things, but that's not really what LCPDFR is about.

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AWESOME!!!

Its a nice idea but Police Bike, Police Buffalo, Police Stringer & APC arent available in GTA IV.. So you couldnt use those :( But other than that I like this idea.

LCPDFR is generally designed to be sort of realistic, not arcade-style. This is sort of an arcade-style idea (not that those are bad, just that they don't really fit so well with LCPDFR). Also, about the backup: Calling for FDLC or medical backup is actually essential to certain playstyles (such as if you're using Braveheart's mod). The idea that you'd have to get to a pretty high rank to call SWAT if you're in a shootout (which isn't just a result of LCPDFR missions; it also happens if you fire a single shot in Hove Beach) is sort of ridiculous. Again, pretty arcade-style. There is a mod (PPM) that focuses on the arcade side of things, but that's not really what LCPDFR is about.

 

 

The idea with ranking system is more of PPM thing as above said. In real life, every police officers has equal resources available  to do his job and equal powers except using some heavy weaponry if (s)he isn't in special response team. Idea of having ability to make higher fines or so and to get cars is unrealistic.

Maybe if the ranking system only allowed you to patrol certain areas of the city to start with (if possible). As said above, imagine your horror if you had to taser a suspect in Hove Beach, and suddenly you have ten gang members fire at you with sub machine guns. You dive for cover and yell for backup, only to see a single fat policeman waddle around the corner on foot XD

Maybe if the ranking system only allowed you to patrol certain areas of the city to start with (if possible). As said above, imagine your horror if you had to taser a suspect in Hove Beach, and suddenly you have ten gang members fire at you with sub machine guns. You dive for cover and yell for backup, only to see a single fat policeman waddle around the corner on foot XD

 

True LOL

 

 

The idea is good... but I think it would annoy people more than entertain them... l for one would fine it annoying, as i would have to wait to use normal backup and cars. 

The idea with ranking system is more of PPM thing as above said. In real life, every police officers has equal resources available  to do his job and equal powers except using some heavy weaponry if (s)he isn't in special response team. Idea of having ability to make higher fines or so and to get cars is unrealistic.

Yep. It doesn't matter what rank a cop is, or how senior or junior he is; if he calls for help, EVERYONE comes (seriously, I'm pretty sure that NYPD protocol for an "officer in trouble" response consists of at least an entire precinct responding, if not more).

I feel like this is something more towards console gtaiv role-play(where I came from) rather than the gtaiv lcpdfr version of roleplay...

i reckon if you join or started your own clan and made that suggestion to them they may want to take the time to script that because that is more roleplay than a mod, there may be some people that might want it so you could talk to them, make new friends and have fun with the scripting. And you could then start recruiting for your clan. 

I don't like this, what if a Police Officer I responds to a call and is greeted with exploding vehicles. What is he going to do, dial 911?

when i start the mod , everything is open to me and i am in the highest rank ////// so how i get from the lowest rank agine ????

 

The rank progression system is not and probably never will be implemented. You can't have a lower rank as there are none!

Sounds like Battlefield's or Call of Duty's needlessly complicated unlock systems. FYI: They don't let cops with arrest powers in the U.S. go without carrying a gun. Not in these parts anyway. Good luck telling a guy with a .44 revolver he's under arrest if all you have is a baton.

so lcpdfr is all about get call outs and pull over vehicles //// so is there any mod i can download to have somethings to play for ////// i thought that there ranks so i can be police officer then swat then captain ....... like that .

As fare as I'm aware, no. Police Pursuit Mod has some sort of a "ranking" system, if you would, but it doesn't directly affect the mod I think.

Please make this, it's just simple to make, please feature this on LCPDFR 1.0

Please make this, it's just simple to make, please feature this on LCPDFR 1.0

 

I'm pretty sure this is not so simple to make. He has to make and code several scripts for an idea like this to exist.