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I'd like to start off by explaining my reasoning behind creating a guide. This isn't really a how-to, or what you'd expect of a guide. This is simply to explain the reality in the environment I frequently roleplay around. I feel the need that people who roleplay in Bone County and the LV Metropolitan Area should have a better idea of what things are like and how they should roleplay around it. I'll start with Las Venturas itself. Not really anybody roleplays there frequently, but it's the center of Bone County, it's the only city, and it holds influence over the rest of the desert.
Las Venturas
Las Venturas (Las Vegas in real life) to common knowledge is the gambling mecca of the western world. A tourist hot spot. The place to be if you have money to piss away. One of the few places in the United States where you can still smoke in some restaurants (usually high end and always 21+ only), smoke in most bars, and not have to be told to put it out. Of course that's different for government buildings and most businesses. Las Venturas, in real life, is also home to the Mob Museum due to it's gangster past, and future. Venturas also happens to be home to some of the most expensive strip clubs in the nation, nastiest strippers (don't fuck with their money), and is one of the top places in the United States right now where porn is being filmed. If anything, Silicon Valley was traded for Las Venturas (Vegas) when it comes to the porn business. On the topic of the bar business, there are legal sports books (sports gambling) in Venturas, but that doesn't stop anybody from being a natural capitalist. It's common knowledge in Las Venturas that most bartenders are likely to be bookmakers (they take bets on sports gambling) or drug dealers. A lot of bellmen in hotels are drug dealers and card dealers could be thieves. From what I know from personal, real life experience, jobs, specifically in casinos in Venturas, don't pay very well. It also happens to be common knowledge that a lot, not all, but a lot of people in Las Venturas are crooks.
Bone County
I summed up most of what Bone County is worth in the paragraph above. However, I'd like to clarify on things that have to do with the county. Bone County is based on Clark County, Nevada. The county where Las Vegas is located. The towns in Bone County, the suburbs, are also often confused for being standalone. Fort Carson is not a city, Rockshore is not a city, El Quebrados is not a city, and so on. They're all townships of Las Venturas, or, simply, suburbs. They're not the inner city, so not everything's the same. I'll start explaining each suburb below and how their environments effect our roleplay.
Rockshore
Rockshore was a nice neighborhood. Rockshore is split into two sections to those who frequent it. Rockshore West, and Rockshore East. Rockshore West used to be thought of as a nice neighborhood; back in the day. Now, it's fallen to the South Venturas stereotype: a shit hole. The "nice" homes are now surrounded by a dumpy apartment complex, a community center, and a neighborhood filled with smaller, cookie-cutter homes. Shore Street, which once had a reputation for being hip and upscale, now barely holds onto an XXX videos store, a once decent strip club, several closed businesses, a gym, a decent cafe, a dodgey deli, a handful of stores, and a pharmacy. The docks in Rockshore, not far from Shore Street, happens to be one of the few things keeping industry in Rockshore. Among the imports that come in through Rockshore range anywhere from food to clothes to cars. Exports range from vehicles to oil. Rockshore East holds about what's still half decent in Rockshore. Empty land for sale with no interest from developers surrounds Stiffman Gardens, a small, gated community of upscale apartments that's home to the few that thrive in Rockshore. A carryout, an abandoned construction project, and across the tracks lays an high end car repair shop.
Fort Carson
Fort Carson, from what's been built in character, and how it's currently being portrayed, I would say is a mostly middle class suburb outside of Las Venturas. Closer to the city, you have upscale neighborhoods in the west and the north, but Fort Carson is as close as you can get, but far away enough to be comfortable. It is where the successful businessmen who work in the inner city daily, come home to every night. Specifically, the center of Fort Carson, Main Street, and what's west of it, is where the successful residents would be. Main Street's home to a casino, a hip gym, numerous bars, a fine dining establishment, and prospering shops. Main Street, least to say, is the place to be. When heading southwest, I would say the neighborhood begins to deteriorate. You're greeted with poor housing, a trailer park, and a courthouse. Not necessarily a bright sight. Northeast of the trailer park, and east of the turn onto Home Street from Main Street, you're greeted with a satellite office for SAN, a vehicle repair shop, and lower income houses. Once again, not the nicest part of Fort Carson. When moving north on Main Street and taking a right, you're greeted with several casual dining establishments along the strip, followed by dumpy motels. Once you're at the end, you're introduced to the Fort Carson Mall. Certainly one of the upscale attractions Fort Carson has to offer. Covered in stores, restaurants, a nightclub, and even a casino, it's certainly a strange, but Venturas-only kind of mall. It surely gives Fort Carson meaning, besides Main Street, and it's bustling middle class section.
Las Barrancas
Las Barrancas is home to trailer parks and falling apart houses. In between is a loosely frequented tourist area. With a sightseeing attraction, a chapel, a dodgey casino, and a small handfull of businesses that rely on the people who live and drive through Las Barrancas. Not to mention, a no-tell motel styled as Indian tee-pees. It's the epitome of a Venturas rest stop "tourist" town.
El Quebrados
El Quebrados is certainly low income. I'd say it's a blue-collar, lower class neighborhood. It's not necessarily a shit-hole, but it's poor. It's a simple town. A few shops on Main Street hold industry, as does the hospital. Trailer parks surround the town along with closed warehouses. Least to say, nothing brings anybody to El Quebrados. It's a poor, blue-collar suburb.
Las Payasdas
Certainly another sightseeing attraction designed for tourism. Similar to Las Barrancas, it has a poor tourist attraction that's really just a rest stop. Surrounded in shanty homes, a chicken feed factory, and enough "industry" to only support half of the bums who live there. The industry in Las Payasdas is limited to a diner with an out-of-service payphone next to the door, a bank, and a few, poor necessity stores. And finally, a strange office complex that overlooks the below the cliff whose employees certainly aren't from Las Payasdas. If anything, Las Payasdas is another tourism failure on the outskirts of Venturas that's drowning in bums. Incredibly similar to Las Barrancas.
If you happen to be roleplaying in Bone County, I'm happy I could enlighten you on how things would be looked at, and are looked at. What I sent here would be virtually common knowledge if this is where you frequent your roleplay. Not everybody really understands the environment they're roleplaying in and I'm happy to shed light on the economic part of it. If things happen to change in these environments I'll be sure to come back and tweak this a little. Thanks for reading.
Las Venturas
Las Venturas (Las Vegas in real life) to common knowledge is the gambling mecca of the western world. A tourist hot spot. The place to be if you have money to piss away. One of the few places in the United States where you can still smoke in some restaurants (usually high end and always 21+ only), smoke in most bars, and not have to be told to put it out. Of course that's different for government buildings and most businesses. Las Venturas, in real life, is also home to the Mob Museum due to it's gangster past, and future. Venturas also happens to be home to some of the most expensive strip clubs in the nation, nastiest strippers (don't fuck with their money), and is one of the top places in the United States right now where porn is being filmed. If anything, Silicon Valley was traded for Las Venturas (Vegas) when it comes to the porn business. On the topic of the bar business, there are legal sports books (sports gambling) in Venturas, but that doesn't stop anybody from being a natural capitalist. It's common knowledge in Las Venturas that most bartenders are likely to be bookmakers (they take bets on sports gambling) or drug dealers. A lot of bellmen in hotels are drug dealers and card dealers could be thieves. From what I know from personal, real life experience, jobs, specifically in casinos in Venturas, don't pay very well. It also happens to be common knowledge that a lot, not all, but a lot of people in Las Venturas are crooks.
Bone County
I summed up most of what Bone County is worth in the paragraph above. However, I'd like to clarify on things that have to do with the county. Bone County is based on Clark County, Nevada. The county where Las Vegas is located. The towns in Bone County, the suburbs, are also often confused for being standalone. Fort Carson is not a city, Rockshore is not a city, El Quebrados is not a city, and so on. They're all townships of Las Venturas, or, simply, suburbs. They're not the inner city, so not everything's the same. I'll start explaining each suburb below and how their environments effect our roleplay.
Rockshore
Rockshore was a nice neighborhood. Rockshore is split into two sections to those who frequent it. Rockshore West, and Rockshore East. Rockshore West used to be thought of as a nice neighborhood; back in the day. Now, it's fallen to the South Venturas stereotype: a shit hole. The "nice" homes are now surrounded by a dumpy apartment complex, a community center, and a neighborhood filled with smaller, cookie-cutter homes. Shore Street, which once had a reputation for being hip and upscale, now barely holds onto an XXX videos store, a once decent strip club, several closed businesses, a gym, a decent cafe, a dodgey deli, a handful of stores, and a pharmacy. The docks in Rockshore, not far from Shore Street, happens to be one of the few things keeping industry in Rockshore. Among the imports that come in through Rockshore range anywhere from food to clothes to cars. Exports range from vehicles to oil. Rockshore East holds about what's still half decent in Rockshore. Empty land for sale with no interest from developers surrounds Stiffman Gardens, a small, gated community of upscale apartments that's home to the few that thrive in Rockshore. A carryout, an abandoned construction project, and across the tracks lays an high end car repair shop.
Fort Carson
Fort Carson, from what's been built in character, and how it's currently being portrayed, I would say is a mostly middle class suburb outside of Las Venturas. Closer to the city, you have upscale neighborhoods in the west and the north, but Fort Carson is as close as you can get, but far away enough to be comfortable. It is where the successful businessmen who work in the inner city daily, come home to every night. Specifically, the center of Fort Carson, Main Street, and what's west of it, is where the successful residents would be. Main Street's home to a casino, a hip gym, numerous bars, a fine dining establishment, and prospering shops. Main Street, least to say, is the place to be. When heading southwest, I would say the neighborhood begins to deteriorate. You're greeted with poor housing, a trailer park, and a courthouse. Not necessarily a bright sight. Northeast of the trailer park, and east of the turn onto Home Street from Main Street, you're greeted with a satellite office for SAN, a vehicle repair shop, and lower income houses. Once again, not the nicest part of Fort Carson. When moving north on Main Street and taking a right, you're greeted with several casual dining establishments along the strip, followed by dumpy motels. Once you're at the end, you're introduced to the Fort Carson Mall. Certainly one of the upscale attractions Fort Carson has to offer. Covered in stores, restaurants, a nightclub, and even a casino, it's certainly a strange, but Venturas-only kind of mall. It surely gives Fort Carson meaning, besides Main Street, and it's bustling middle class section.
Las Barrancas
Las Barrancas is home to trailer parks and falling apart houses. In between is a loosely frequented tourist area. With a sightseeing attraction, a chapel, a dodgey casino, and a small handfull of businesses that rely on the people who live and drive through Las Barrancas. Not to mention, a no-tell motel styled as Indian tee-pees. It's the epitome of a Venturas rest stop "tourist" town.
El Quebrados
El Quebrados is certainly low income. I'd say it's a blue-collar, lower class neighborhood. It's not necessarily a shit-hole, but it's poor. It's a simple town. A few shops on Main Street hold industry, as does the hospital. Trailer parks surround the town along with closed warehouses. Least to say, nothing brings anybody to El Quebrados. It's a poor, blue-collar suburb.
Las Payasdas
Certainly another sightseeing attraction designed for tourism. Similar to Las Barrancas, it has a poor tourist attraction that's really just a rest stop. Surrounded in shanty homes, a chicken feed factory, and enough "industry" to only support half of the bums who live there. The industry in Las Payasdas is limited to a diner with an out-of-service payphone next to the door, a bank, and a few, poor necessity stores. And finally, a strange office complex that overlooks the below the cliff whose employees certainly aren't from Las Payasdas. If anything, Las Payasdas is another tourism failure on the outskirts of Venturas that's drowning in bums. Incredibly similar to Las Barrancas.
If you happen to be roleplaying in Bone County, I'm happy I could enlighten you on how things would be looked at, and are looked at. What I sent here would be virtually common knowledge if this is where you frequent your roleplay. Not everybody really understands the environment they're roleplaying in and I'm happy to shed light on the economic part of it. If things happen to change in these environments I'll be sure to come back and tweak this a little. Thanks for reading.
