And your proposed solutions are?
Really civilian jobs are just a waste of time and we should focus on improving the CnR.
Civilian jobs will always be 'boring' and like you said "58% criminals, 18% Civilian" so why waste time improving civilian when we could improve criminal?
Why having to "work" ingame, spending hours and hours of gameplay to be able to actually play the game? And with that I mean CnR or MW (Mafia Wars). I have tought of many solutions but all have their flaws:
For example there's a suggestion to allow you to cancel making drugs with a drug lab and the suggestion makes sense but what if all it does is cover over a bigger problem? What if what we really need is a whole new drug creation system? Why does nobody ever suggest that? Why does nobody ever suggest actual changes to the server?
I feel like if the grouping system were to be reworked, in favor of helping newer players easily join groups this would encourage more larger scaled group activities would happen more often. Hopefully that will help newer players feel more welcome.
Perhaps add open groups allowing everyone to join. Also try removing the stats most groups seem to only care about numbers and not the actually skill of the player. (Even if change is't permanent, I'm kind of wounding how the community would adapt to such changes) I post more if any other ideas come to mind.
Any ideas on how? If groups have high joining standards I can't change that. You're best making a group with basic joining standards.