Vehicles

[Peter]

The different categories could be used to dynamically spawn better cars when LV gets richer (check the economy topic).

Wow.. do you have any idea how incredibly complicated that would become? We would have to make richness part of a per-zone region, that the economics of a specific area of Las Venturas is controlled by the people who have bought a house in there (e.g. donators) and random cars being spawned based on that.. It would become really hard though, and it would certainly need its own resource.

Firstly we would need to create an overview table which includes all the vehicles, and catagorize them based on their wealthyness as ooshie already said. Next to that the overall wealth in Las Venturas would have to be calculated as the sum of all zone-specific wealths, and based on that we would have to classify the zones (from range 1-10 for example, and control the vehicles using a simple .xml file) and dynamically spawn appropriate vehicles around there.

There are a number of points that you would have to keep in mind. Firstly the amount of spawned vehicles and static and/or dynamic spawn places. And when a player takes a vehicle and drives with it another part of the city, when are we going to respawn it? Driving around and seeing loads of cool vehicles respawn randomly isn't something enjoyable, there would have to be calculations for that as well. I do like the idea, alot, but zone-based economics mirroring the total situation of Las Venturas would certainly mean that we need some more professional opinions and idea's and the system: it might actually grow too complicated for us (care to respond theHolyCow?)

On the matter of allowing access to specific vehicles based on the online time.. I'm not such a big fan of that. You have to keep in mind that new players need to get a positive impression of the server in order to stick around, immediatly being disallowed access from your favorite vehicles certainly is a reason for me to leave the server. What I do like however is the addition of getting your driving license: we limit the faster vehicles in speed (e.g. not faster then 50 mph) and unless you get your license you can't go any faster. Getting your license unlocks the normal speeds. This way, we could have limits for specific vehicles as well, e.g.



Which could be intergrated with the new website as well, in more extensive user profiles. Opinions?