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Package transporting system to make money

Summary

Packages appear at random times and places around LV. U can pick them up with a vehicle by driving over them and pressing Left Shift (or whatever) But before u accept, there is a message showing properties of the transport mission.

Cargo Name: Drugs
Cargo Weight: 10 kg
Trzansport To: Caligulas
Time Limit: 1 minute
Value: 50 000 $
Penalty: 10 000 $

The weight is important for the car u have. Some packages can be like 1kg and will usually have a short time limit so its best u use NRG for example. Others can be like 10 000 kg and u need a truck with trailer to transport it, with bigger time limit and also off course more money.(yet there is a higher risk of failing the mission)
Up until now,  its all for non DMers. However, when u manage to carjack a car holding a package u can bring that car to a central depot wich buys every package, but off course for a smaller amount then the original value, usually around the penalty value (ill explain later why this is important to avoid abuse)

So as a transporter, when u get the package to the place at time u recieve ur award. Simple, easy everybody happy. But as i said u can carjack the transporter. FOllowing situation can occur:

The transporter or another player destroys the vehicle: Transporter has to pay the penalty and the destroyer gets nothing. (just some flaming from the transporter :p)

A player carjacks the vehicle and manages to get the car to the Guy Who Buys All and gets some money for it. There is no time limit anymore now, so the carjacker can now just chill and try to get to the depot to get his money. The transporter has to pay the penalty.

If the transporter does not die while getting carjacked, he still has a change to re carjack the vehicle with the package and deliver the package. if however  the transporter dies, he can never get the cargo back, not even after respanwing and has to pay the penalty.

Note: For trucks with trailers: The trailer holds the cargo, not the truck (truck can die as long as trailer is alive u can still deliver)

Abuse 1 : It is possible for 2 players to team up and just like get into transport missions and then just carjack his mate and get it to the central depot to make easy money. However, if the value of the carjacked cargo is equal to or lower then the penalty the other player has to pay when the cargo is lost, there is no gain of money possible with this method. Leaving abusers crying XD

Abuse 2: If you would do a transporting mission and loose the cargo to a carjacker, but u cant pay for the penalty, this would result into a net gain of money towards the carjacker, and again if ppl would team up this would result into abuse. Therefor, it would not be possible to do a transport mission, if you can not pay the penalty from your bank money. To avoid abuse by removing cash from ur bank after accepting transport mission, the amount is dedcuted from the bank, when accepting the mission. So actually the penalty is returned when u can deliver the package instead of removed if failed :) leaving possible abuser, again crying :)

Advantages

* A new exciting and fun way to get money in LW for ppl who dont like to DM a lot and yet also for ppl who like to DM and carjack transporters. All people happy :)

Disadvantages

* It might be possible that some noob finds a way to abuse it to get money somehow, but then the script can be updated or admins can just BAN BAN BAN XD

Script

I have done some pwno scripting in the past, and i know that my idea is possible (when i think about script ideas, i think in script language so i know its possible). So if you would have questions about how to script this please ask in this topic then, before i type out all the script needed for this. I believe its fairly simple though.

Greetings Sjitty
« Last Edit: October 07, 2010, 07:48:36 PM by Alvar »

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Re: Transporter - A new way of making money for Non DMers AND DMers
« Reply #1 on: July 12, 2010, 07:39:08 PM »
I like this, would be interesting implemented in LW's. +1 sjitt ;P

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Re: Transporter - A new way of making money for Non DMers AND DMers
« Reply #2 on: July 12, 2010, 07:55:27 PM »
Freakin alsome! ;: )

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Re: Transporter - A new way of making money for Non DMers AND DMers
« Reply #3 on: July 12, 2010, 08:03:28 PM »
Umm yea , nice idea Sjotty , got my +1  ;)

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Re: Transporter - A new way of making money for Non DMers AND DMers
« Reply #4 on: July 12, 2010, 08:14:39 PM »
niceee

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Re: Transporter - A new way of making money for Non DMers AND DMers
« Reply #5 on: July 12, 2010, 08:37:11 PM »
Nice idea

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Re: Transporter - A new way of making money for Non DMers AND DMers
« Reply #6 on: July 12, 2010, 09:35:40 PM »




Yeah, +1
Everything that brings new features to the server, more variety and more activities to do (specially with vehicles) will have all my support!!! ;) ;) ;)

However, I had to read it 2 or 3 times because it's a bit complicated, why don't you just suggest it to have a time limit and a reward, without the penalty and no matter if the transporting vehicle is jacked or not? like the car exports, but with a time limit and with different package weights.
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Re: Transporter - A new way of making money for Non DMers AND DMers
« Reply #7 on: July 12, 2010, 09:37:36 PM »
Kewl one, +1 :P


why don't you just suggest it to have a time limit and a reward, without the penalty and no matter if the transporting vehicle is jacked or not? like the car exports, but with a time limit and with different package weights.

No risk, no fun.

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Re: Transporter - A new way of making money for Non DMers AND DMers
« Reply #8 on: July 12, 2010, 10:17:10 PM »
good idea but too compliacted. i dont get why you should PAY if you fail.. i mean you stole the drugs and the vehicles to transport it so what you have to pay for? i dont get it..

if the weight and the cargo is random then it would be awesome. 10.000 kg drugs ftw i guess :D

if 10.000 kg gets rewarded 1.000 times higher than 10 kilo this will be SUPER imba.....

but besides all that.. i think we need more things to spend cash on and not more ways to earn it. right now there is a shitload of cash out there and many ways to earn it and we haz spawn weapons so nobody rly needs cash ATM. great suggestion but posted at a bad time.

the cash haz to be balanced i guess. right now it only sucks because it is so imba... 3 hours with properties and you haz 10.000.000. a hour of gambling (if you rock) and you can have like 50.000.000 or much more..

maybe weapons should be made much more expensive. like 10 times... :D
« Last Edit: July 12, 2010, 10:27:53 PM by BikeDriver »
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Re: Transporter - A new way of making money for Non DMers AND DMers
« Reply #9 on: July 12, 2010, 11:21:54 PM »
Umm yea , nice idea Sjotty , got my +1  ;)

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Re: Transporter - A new way of making money for Non DMers AND DMers
« Reply #10 on: July 12, 2010, 11:29:14 PM »
why don't you just suggest it to have a time limit and a reward, without the penalty and no matter if the transporting vehicle is jacked or not? like the car exports, but with a time limit and with different package weights.

No risk, no fun.

Yeah robby I understand that, but the risk is in paying the penalty (which is ok), however, those other two things about removing the time limit for the carjacker and paying him less money than the original transporter, what are they for? what is the need for them, or what advantages would they bring, instead of keeping the same time limit and same reward also for the carjacker?

BikeDriver, I agree that currently it's too easy to earn money and there are few things to spend it on, so maybe it would be a good idea to implement the tax system that Miczi suggested: http://forum.littlewhiteys.co.uk/index.php/topic,13166.0.html
This would balance the cash flow, because the system would be giving much money to the players (with missions like this), but it would also be taking it away from them, forcing them to work to re-earn it again.

maybe weapons should be made much more expensive. like 10 times... :D

Maybe the price of the weapons should be proportional to the ammo that you already have, so if you have little ammo you can buy more easily, but when you have lots of bullets you have to pay a higher price to buy more.

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Re: Transporter - A new way of making money for Non DMers AND DMers
« Reply #11 on: July 13, 2010, 12:03:00 AM »
Umm yea , nice idea Sjotty , got my +1  ;)

cheetos if you got nothing to say why dont you just shut up?

gryphus the idea about taxes is stupid imo...
same goes to your other idea. most of the good players buy weaps with /buyweapon command and with this they will never know how many it will cost if they buy 50 x uzi with /buyweapon..
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Re: Transporter - A new way of making money for Non DMers AND DMers
« Reply #12 on: July 13, 2010, 12:25:14 AM »
Umm yea , nice idea Sjotty , got my +1  ;)

cheetos if you got nothing to say why dont you just shut up?

And why do you tell him to shut up?

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Re: Transporter - A new way of making money for Non DMers AND DMers
« Reply #13 on: July 13, 2010, 01:41:08 AM »
And why do you tell him to shut up?

because he posted a post without content?
it wasnt even a +1 or -1 post it was just some random quote. that is not constructive in any way so i told him if he got nothing to say then he should better shut up completly and stop filling the forum with more shit that nobody wants to read. whats wrong about it?
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Re: Transporter - A new way of making money for Non DMers AND DMers
« Reply #14 on: July 13, 2010, 04:54:35 AM »
mmm, would be a nice addon!