Server Suggestion Forest Hunting & Wildlife Mechanics Expansion

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Suggestion Title: Forest Hunting & Wildlife Mechanics Expansion
Suggestion Description: since the new bird were added, we need to make good use of them, i suggest that there should be a new hunting system of birds,
How it works?
Birds spawn more in the forest area, more than other areas.

Players can hunt the birds down, when the birds are down players can press E on them and carry them in their inventory store them in storage or put them in trunk of their cars.

Map suggestion part that we add a new Shack "Hunting Shake" either next to hotel in forest or rest stop or in middle of forest like next to the bridge that has an NPC that buys the birds from you the NPC also sells basic items to the player medical item or simple bean and water,

Economy wise, we can make it into passive job where selling birds pays low amount of money,
OR we can make it into a good paying job ( which i recommend ) where each birds sells for good amount of money but birds are heavier, i recommend this because the risk of the player if they hunt in forest the risk of loosing their weapon, risk of getting mugged ect.

We can also add more types of birds ( more skins ) to make them more rare, this should also include some type of achievement.

also in a way this well remove the birds ragdoll from the server and put them in our inventory so in a way it is better for the server

Why should this be added?:
- More passive rp
- New passive way of making money
- Use of the new birds
- Optimizing the server
- Make the forest part of the map active
- More active Rp between players
- Logistics & Risk vs Reward
- Living World ( fuller world )

What negatives could this have?:
- Players breaking law 7.3 7.4 7.5
- Since spawning more in forest maybe lag
- rulebreak 3.4 and 2.5
- since the main hunting area is the forest that means more mugging maybe ( but again hunters have guns )
- dev time

What problem would this suggestion solve?: this well make the birds more useful to us and adds a new way of making money, and also adds a passive job, it also adding new achievements for hunting different rarity of birds, it well also bring life to the forest by both birds and players, it well also increase the interactions of players in that area, cops may have to patrol more in that area.
 
Don't know if this is within the scope of Gmod development but I think implementing bows and bow hunting would be awesome. It negates the downsides of drawing attention to yourself and would just add really cool variety to the weapons on this server.
 
I want birds to absolutely stay as random npc's you can shoot on the map. Although maybe half as many to help with fps. It'd be amazing. The calls of people shooting birds because they're bored or making it a small competition is bringing back some passive RP we lost years ago.
 
As the #1 duck hunter on the server, I approve of this post. However, PLPD DO NOT. They have arrested and confiscated my weapon multiple times for shooting birds, despite many attempts to make it clear that forest is a hunting zone and be aware of duck hunters
 
yoo hoo developers I want another thing to do on the server that will cause more lag and nobody will do a week later
 
yoo hoo developers I want another thing to do on the server that will cause more lag and nobody will do a week later

People still actively dig and fish, especially paired with missions/daily.
Dig spots has not had any noticeable impact on performance and fishing has existed for at least a decade.
Your point makes little sense in this context, so what's the purpose in saying this?
 
This is something I was talking about with a friend just yesterday- It would need changes to the law that would define "Hunting zones" or something of the like within the Forest alongside an explanation of what weaponry would be acceptable to use within said hunting zones, likely limited to double barrel or pump action shotguns so that players won't get away with raiding bunker, comms outpost or farm with the excuse of "oh we have AKs on our backs because we're bird hunting".

Realistically even though it's something I'd like to see I'm not sure it's very compatible with the gamemode as it heavily revolves around the fast paced raiding/defending/police response loop that would be complicated by having hunting-related gunfire coming from the Forest. Personally, I'd love to see game hunting in the server and I've upvoted this suggestion however I can absolutely see this being a point of friction especially for PD players, and I don't know what could be done to resolve this point of friction besides telling PD players to just deal with it and adapt to the changes.

Bird shooting with shotguns is a lot of fun though and I'd love to see some legal exemptions added for it so that we can make use of the bird spawns across the city other than them just being a pretty sight in the background.

Unrelated and I don't imagine it'll happen but I'd also love to see deer or some other form of big game as an occasional spawn in the Forest. Would be fucking hilarious to see some shitlord tier his $3m supercar hitting a moose that just happened to be crossing the road as they passed comms outpost.

EDIT: Signage could also be introduced to mark the beginning/end of a hunting area along roadways to make road users, police, and hunters aware of the limits of the zoning. I'm not sure if there's any real life examples of official signage marking areas where people are allowed to hunt, but I found this example while searching that could be something to go off of:

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Cant think of any places in the forest to hunt properly because of the traffic, and the sweaters roaming one of the general safety rules of a firearm is legit «Know your target and what's beyond it»
 
If this was to be added, Forest would have to be made bigger cuz of just the lack of space without cabins/the motel/the bunker/Comms Outpost nearby
 
Cant think of any places in the forest to hunt properly because of the traffic, and the sweaters roaming one of the general safety rules of a firearm is legit «Know your target and what's beyond it»
I don't think it would be the worst thing in the world if people were able to hunt roughly within the circled areas, in most of the areas no major roadways are within potential firing lines- Especially since bird hunters would likely be aiming upwards away from the roadways. Dirt roads being within the firing line is totally fine and, if you've ever been on or near a game shoot IRL, you'll find a lot of those rural roads do become places where shooters set up their gear and shoot on or over. If the main roadways are an issue then shooting could be restricted to the areas downhill, i.e the foundry, hicktown and traveller's motel areas, as it's unlikely for any shot to hit or gleam passing vehicles if hunters are shooting from down there.
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If this was to be added, Forest would have to be made bigger cuz of just the lack of space without cabins/the motel/the bunker/Comms Outpost nearby
Not necessarily tbf. There's plenty of room for shooting despite those properties, and it might bother the property owners but at the end of the day that's rural living. As someone who's been woken up in the early hours of the morning by gunfire outside my bedroom window, had birdshot ping off of the tiles on my roof and seen pheasants land in the trees in my garden and end up being partially beheaded by the branches, that's just what it's like in the countryside. If you can't handle hunters in your area then it's not the lifestyle for you.
 
I don't think it would be the worst thing in the world if people were able to hunt roughly within the circled areas, in most of the areas no major roadways are within potential firing lines- Especially since bird hunters would likely be aiming upwards away from the roadways. Dirt roads being within the firing line is totally fine and, if you've ever been on or near a game shoot IRL, you'll find a lot of those rural roads do become places where shooters set up their gear and shoot on or over. If the main roadways are an issue then shooting could be restricted to the areas downhill, i.e the foundry, hicktown and traveller's motel areas, as it's unlikely for any shot to hit or gleam passing vehicles if hunters are shooting from down there.
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bat mugging in the hunting zone (I got hungy)
 
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