Warning: I know every mod I'm about to talk about "isn't updated" anymore. I'm begging for alternatives!
I don't know where to go with this but all I want to do is patrol and traffic stops. Literally just write citations and occasionally mix it up lol! I installed just base LSPDFR and it was fine but there's nothing there. It was 0% policing and 95% a burglary or highs speed chase. Completely un-realistic policing. BUT FUN-ish! But it's basically just "steal a cop car" in vanilla GTAV with a little added element. Then I found the "Must use mods" that work with LSPDFR and I've spent days trying to get Ultimate backup, compulite, Stop the ped, and ALPR working all-together (all the most recent, popular, realistic facing, but 'unsupported' ones).
After trial and error I got them all to load and play nice without freezing my game, but in practice it was just half shy of being what you'd think the one thing this LSPDFR is supposed to be. pull up. light up, issue ticket or start arrest. It feels so close, until the rubber meets the road, then it's so far away. Anytime I'd go on a traffic stop nothing worked out. Cant write citations at all despite trying to work with the tablet (after working through all the citations it will never actually print one). no court dates. I can always arrest anyone all the time and there's no repercussions and no drawback to it. I'm at the point now where I can smoothly run through 2/3's of a traffic stop and then its like "pull the gun out and dome em' because why not?" I've worked endlessly through key bindings and ini files. but I also understand these mods everyone loved at one point aren't being updated. What a shame, because a few years ago I bet they were a blast! That's fine and I get it. But WHAT IS being updated??
I type all this rant to ask this: is there ANY CURRENT UPDATED mods that address this HUGE lack in replayability for LSPDFR? People MUST be having successful traffic stops and normal interactions (as far as criminals go) and no one is just driving around arresting people all day for expired tags, no citations, no follow up, and no career trajectory, rightr? I mean there's a goodman escalation protocol and anyone playing a cop MUST love that part of it?!?! If I wanted to go hog wild being insufferable I'd just play GTAV online!
Still, love you all for everyone that's working on this fun mod! I know it's thankless work