Content size

[Haarek]

Not the greatest in the development department. But wouldn't combining similar jobs be a route that you could take to minimize content? Like remove fire fighter and paramedic and combine them to first responders? Or remove all merchant jobs and have an underground dealer and a merchant? I don't know the maximum effect this would have but it would do at least something right? I feel like models are typically the biggest pain in the ass for loading in. Maybe remove the least used vehicles and weapons as well?

I will be carefull not to speak on the dev's account here, but usually what takes the most content is the materials and models. What you are suggesting would not do much as the names and job roles are simply written code only a few KB at most. 

However, the things that takes immense amount of content and should be addressed is VCmod and new vehicles. The newer vehicles have a very high model quality that also reduce the FPS. That is why performance was usually better a long time ago since the cars did not have such a high polygon count. (And the fact that FL was running v2d, which is by far the best map for performance)