I love when we get a new member that makes organized posts with good GTA suggestions. We get way too much caps lock gibberish, and too much of this emoticon: I fucking hate that thing. Not so much around these forums, but we got it constantly on the old forums.
Good suggestions though, Dredetox. The only thing I disagree with is the thing about the friends. I think instead of removing it, it should just be expanded upon. Like, instead of going to a bar and getting drunk, then dropping your friend off at his place, you come out of the bar just as a group of thugs you attacked in a previous mission show up, and a shootout ensues and you have to struggle to steady your shots and hit your target while drunk, or you go to see a show in a club owned by someone you've been going after in missions, and security tries to take you out and you never make it inside to see the show. The friend activities as they are now are worthless, but instead of dropping them, they should just tack some real substance onto them.