I honestly think I may be done with this game for a while. R* giving us those gold bars and money really highlighted how little there is to actually do in this currently.
There is little point in doing the same handful of tired missions over and over to rank up because you can still buy whatever you want, whenever you want, with gold. And there isn't any real status in hitting higher levels since you can't tell what level someone is by looking at them or highlighting them.
And there is no real point in grinding for money, because R* basically gave us enough to buy whatever we wanted. I now have more money than I need to spend on anything. There needs to be some kind of large money sink like housing, or epic gun options, or carriages for our horses, etc..
My final recommendations for this game in its current state are as follows:
-Significantly more queue-able content with other players. Give us bounties that we can queue up for in every jail. Give us large scale missions we can queue up for with others that are repeatable (like MMO dungeons if you will). Just more group content instead of solo retrieving wagons and horses.
-Give us some level and morality status. You should be able to tell if someone is high level and if they're good or bad. Give us loot that is ONLY attainable at higher levels. Make it so you can see someone's rank next to their name when highlighting them. If someone is a high level moral player, allow them to become deputised and get to wear the sheriff star on their vest - and something similar for high level evil players.
-There needs to be serious money sinks in this. Player housing, wagons you can pimp out and attach to our horses to carry more stuff, etc..
-Have vendors give quest. For example, have the butcher need you to collect 5 rabbit pelts or fish 10 salmon.
-Some kind of in-world event that happens randomly that players can all join together and help. Like outlaws invading a Valentine and all players near by can help defend and get xp when the scenario is complete.
-Finally, and I've mentioned it before, there needs to be a bounty system where if a player kills another player, and they started it, they get a bounty on their head that stays there until they are downed. And server hopping doesn't make it go away.
