My post, as mentioned in the title, is asking for opinions about why some people choose to use certain light configurations. I wanted to start a discussion. Which is evident in both paragraphs 1 and 3.

In paragraph 2 I just wanted to remind others who don't like those configurations and or want to fix a bug, it can be done by checking each vehicle's carcols, should they have a custom one.

I didn't say anything about "how to". I considered making a tutorial but there are a few issues:

a) some mod authors will get angry that you're making "QOL" or bug changes or fixes
b) it's a mod by mod basis and there are a lot of different siren carcols across hundreds of mods
c) depending on each individual car and carcols the process is slightly different
d) there are way too many trial and error things you need to do to find the right light and corresponding line
e) this community is very elite and secretive so "they can figure it out easily" or have someone pay their patreon to do it

Out of seriousness though- You'd have to make a million tutorials relating to each specific mod>vehicle>carcols. It won't help everyone anyway.

Maybe a mod author, who knows how to set up carcols, specifically "steady-burn-bug-like-broken-lights" can simply post how they make their light not flash and people can simply reverse it, hint hint... Much quicker and easier than an essay long slab of text or 20min video!

Like why? They're so out of place in this game and just look like broken carcol lines, begging to be fixed. Which of course, sas994 to name one, makes excellent lore friendly mods but my god it's gross and immersion breaking having just a select few cars having a broken carcol-like light. But my goodness is it a relief editing the carcol lines and making that one ugly light flash again...

Just a PSA, if you like sas994 or anyone else's vehicles, you can edit the lines in carcols and make the ugly steady burn lights operate like the rest of the cop mods and vanilla cars.

And before anyone brings up the "realism" argument. No. This is GTA. In GTA it is realistic for the lightbars to have ZERO steady burn lights. This ain't IRL LA or United States.

Cannot search by tag. Or at least most tags aren't even there. I want to search by "vanilla edits" tag but I only get like 8-10 random tags to choose from and that's it.

Good luck with that. I've been waiting forever and have never got a response to this day.

I don't like them. They may be in LA but this is LS. It's weird having only 2-3 vehicles with it and the other 99 without it. And it looks more like a carcol error as broken setups result in an "unintentional steady burn light or lights". Yes, I really hate steady burns.

Never mind I did it. Byeeeee ugly steady burns!

Do you think anyone knows or can PM the ones used in (but not limited to) this mod?

https://www.gta5-mods.com/vehicles/liberty-city-vehicle-ped-pack-fdlc-lcpd-and-more-add-on-liveries

I get it's most likely an ego thing or money making scam but ca'mon. There's so many floating around now and not a single person has the gonads to upload it somewhere or keep it on the DL.

Jeez...

So I've noticed something odd...

There's been a few "Liberty City" themed mods uploaded here, for instance emergency service packs, with screencaps/videos of populated Liberty City maps showcasing the mods.

Problem is, Liberty City is nowhere to be found and when asked about it you'll be met with either silence or "oh yeah there's several populated Liberty City mods out there, but I'm not telling you where."

Why though? Like why is this such a secret?

I don't know why people do that. It's technically illegal to gain money from modding a company's intellectual property. It's literally plastered on R* terms of use and when the game is booting up. It's also literally mentioned in every other game out there.

It's quite pathetic in my opinion. And I see GTA communities all seem to suffer from this as compared to other modding communities. Anyway, once again thanks so much dude!