GTA Online is a pretty round and complete player experience. It gives you more or less enough control over the way you play to facilitate most needs that arise, but is simple enough for players to just jump in and play without any bother. The game either drops you into a session seemingly at random, or if you're keen on playing with people you know, you can get invites or join friends who are online.
However, this simplicity and ease of access does come at a price. There isn't a whole lot of game mechanic customization going on for invite-only lobbies. It is pretty understandable for public sessions to be default, stock versions, however when players want to tweak things a bit for their closed session with friends, they're left wanting.
Several multiplayer games allow for the hosts of a given session to alter options to a varying degree of freedom. While some of these games limit these options to player limit, game-mode or banned weapons and abilities, other allow hosts to go nuts with altering gravity stats, damage ratios, drop rates, melee damage and so on.
Of course, some of these wouldn't be applicable for GTA Online, since it is a pretty unique game experience, however Rockstar could have provided players with some additional options.
The following list includes often requested features as well as some ideas we've come up with ourselves.
Turn off Police
Let's face it — there is a lot to love about GTA 5, however cops aren't among those. The LSPD is seemingly staffed by omniscient demigods with infallible aim and teleportation technology built into their vehicles. Wanted levels are easy to gain, tough to get rid of and the blues often muck up your run of the mill friendly downtown shootout. Allowing hosts to disable the wanted system and remove police from sessions would grant Rockstar some serious good karma points.
