Server Suggestion Vehicle maintenance additions

Tyler Joelsky · Dec 2, 2021

Suggestion Title: Vehicle maintenance additions
Suggestion Description: Adding more options for vehicle maintenance.

Additions

- Oil Change. After a while your vehicle will slow down in performance like 3 to 5 MPH, then if you goto Roadcrew Station you can get it changed and It will give your car a boost.

How boosts should work. After getting the oil change your vehicle speed will go back to normal and then an additional 3 to 5 MPH for 15 mins.

- Wheel Change. After every week your tires will need to be changed as you have over used it, to get them fixed goto RC

Why should this be added?:
- No real reason but to add more roleplay to vehicles as there is basically no RP when it comes to it.

What negatives could this have?:
- May get a little annoying (Fix to that is make it a thing that happens every week or a couple of days)

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Exnem · Dec 7, 2021

I'm not sure why people are downvoting this. If anything this would fix the on-going issue with roadcrew being largely useless. Currently they can only flat out repair cars. It'd be nice if they had an additional semi-in-depth system to fix a car that might be stalling from severe engine damage, or has its own wear & tear system.

This could work in conjunction with:

Server Suggestion - Change the way wrenches work.

Suggestion Title: Change the way wrenches work. Suggestion Description: Make it so wrenches are useless if there's a roadcrew on duty. I've been on duty this evening and rarely get anything to do, because everyone just has wrenches on them and they fix their own cars. It's more expensive but a...

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Which can give RC a better purpose than simply nerfing wrenches completely. Instead, make wrenches give a temporary fix that can get you from A to B, but remain unreliable unless you fix it at the RC NPC or a RC worker.

I wouldn't mind a system for RC that expands their role, and makes placing the car on the lift actually serve a purpose.

Maia · Dec 7, 2021

I down voted this for the simple reason that perp is a fast paced game so this is just too much of a hassle.

I like the idea but I have 7 cars (far away from ppl that actually have tons of them) and it would just be cancer to need to do this over and over again

lenndrik · Dec 7, 2021

I think this is very unrealistic since in real life you change tires like twice a year

curak · Dec 7, 2021

lenndrik said:
I think this is very unrealistic since in real life you change tires like twice a year

This reply makes no sense, irl you wouldn’t earn 100k an hour on average. It’s not like this game’s time = irl time.

curak · Dec 7, 2021

I like the idea, however many people will disagree, as this takes up some of their playtime. We all know most people are here for raiding and growing. Although with the christmasstuff I’ve seen more RP. This forces people to have more interaction, rather than having the option to do it. That’s why people downvote, don’t get me wrong if this idea is balanced well, it will be a great addition, as my suggestion about the wrenches mentions, being RC isn’t as usefull anymore!

Clarky · Dec 7, 2021

Maia said:
I down voted this for the simple reason that perp is a fast paced game so this is just too much of a hassle.

I like the idea but I have 7 cars (far away from ppl that actually have tons of them) and it would just be cancer to need to do this over and over again

It’s still a serious roleplay gamemode regardless, if you don’t want that much maintenance then you shouldn’t own so many cars

Not a bad idea at all, it’s a nice touch to the vehicle system and if you have the time to powergrow then you have the time to sort out your vehicle plain and simple

Momo · Dec 7, 2021

Tyler Joelsky said:
- Oil Change. After a while your vehicle will slow down in performance like 3 to 5 MPH, then if you goto Roadcrew Station you can get it changed and It will give your car a boost.

Maybe give your speedo a service light, if you keep driving long past the light has come one your engine will slowly start to gain damage (like it would IRL if you were stubborn enough not to change your oil)

Maia · Dec 7, 2021

Clarky said:
It’s still a serious roleplay gamemode regardless

I agree, that does not mean it must be exctly like reality, because it is not

Clarky said:
if you don’t want that much maintenance then you shouldn’t own so many cars

Cars are pretty much the only "progression" you have in the game, some people grinded for them, and now letsjust tell them to throw away hours of playtime just because we want to introduce maintenance and if you dont want to pay thats your problem, sell your cars? I just think this is a game after all and the goal is to have fun, I do not want to spend 20min just doing car maintenance

Clarky said:
Not a bad idea at all, it’s a nice touch to the vehicle system and if you have the time to powergrow then you have the time to sort out your vehicle plain and simple

I agree, thats why I dont powergrow anymore, because I have no time, therefore have no time to sort my vehicle aswell

curak · Dec 7, 2021

Maia said:
I agree, that does not mean it must be exctly like reality, because it is not

Cars are pretty much the only "progression" you have in the game, some people grinded for them, and now letsjust tell them to throw away hours of playtime just because we want to introduce maintenance and if you dont want to pay thats your problem, sell your cars? I just think this is a game after all and the goal is to have fun, I do not want to spend 20min just doing car maintenance

I agree, thats why I dont powergrow anymore, because I have no time, therefore have no time to sort my vehicle aswell

Some people do indeed have more time than others, however this idea is great overall, it needs some tweaking. The time between an oil change etc should be based on playertime and how long you've driven the car, if that's a possibility. We can't stick a fixed time period on these kind of things.

Maia · Dec 7, 2021

curak said:
Some people do indeed have more time than others, however this idea is great overall, it needs some tweaking. The time between an oil change etc should be based on playertime and how long you've driven the car, if that's a possibility. We can't stick a fixed time period on these kind of things.

I think its an awesome idea, but needs tweaking yes, need to take in consideration people that have 10+ cars and the maintenance cannot be too much of an hassle, needs to be accessible and simple, at least thats how I see it

Exnem · Dec 7, 2021

Maia said:
I down voted this for the simple reason that perp is a fast paced game so this is just too much of a hassle.

I like the idea but I have 7 cars (far away from ppl that actually have tons of them) and it would just be cancer to need to do this over and over again

I'm guessing you're assuming you'll have to do this every 5 minutes. I would recommend vehicles to require service after 24-48 hours of real time use, or leaving the engine on for that amount of time. It's not short enough to make you rip your hair out, but it's fast enough to give RC more than enough to do if the server had 40+ players. It'd theoretically be 1-2 vehicles an hour for them to service in addition to their other duties towing cars.

Edit: plus, vehicles don't necessarily need to be forced to do a service every time they're wrecked. perhaps a 5-10% chance every time you wreck it?

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