Short description: Implement a way to get metal parts legally from things other than car parts.
Detailed description:
When it comes to the server, many people know that everyone and their mother are looking for lock-picks and weapons such as knives and knuckle dusters. As a pawn shop owner, these items are by far the most requested and I find the lack of ability to get these items without doing so illegally rather annoying and honestly unrealistic.
When it comes to things such as the items mentioned above, in the United States you can order all of these on Amazon and have them shipped to your door. In addition, buying metal scrap is easy to find a legitimate scrap yard and go in and buy metal by the boatload. Although not everyone knows how to melt metal, there are various youtube videos online showing how you can melt things down with homemade forges and smelt things.
What I suggest is one of the following
1. Implement a way to get metal parts legally with the metallurgist job or a new script job such as harvester or scrapper. These jobs would go to places like the large scrap yard in Sandy and do a script command similar to fishing, where they get scrap metal at an appropriate rate such as maybe one scrap per minute. They could then take this metal to the factory and melt this down into a metal part. This would provide a legal way for people to get metal, as well as not flooding the server with things such as lockpicks or knives or knuckles as it would take twenty minutes of script harvesting to get one lockpick, forty minutes per knuckle, and fifty minutes per knife.
This would not only allow players to make money in a way that could provide RP, such as having a company that goes around and cleans up scrap around the state, but provide legal players with a way to craft and sell these items.
2. Implement a type of legal supplier that would allow legal characters to apply and get shipments of metal parts, picks, knives, and knuckles, that would be similar to how the illegal suppliers work but would instead represent the shop owners ordering the items from various bulk order stores and scrap yards from around the country.
This would, yet again, provide players a legal way to get these items, while allowing the admins to not flood the market too badly. It would allow people like me that own Pawn Shops to have access to the items most requested by players, while not having to have illegal connections that steal and scrap cars for parts.
Commands to add:
Similar to the fishing script, but for harvesting scrap metal in the scrap yard or various scrap piles around the map
Items to add: Scrap metal (Only if it is added as a script job)
How would your suggestion improve the server?
This would provide players with the ability to craft things to defend themselves if they put enough dedication into it. As well as allowing people to run legit and fully legal shops like Pawn Shops. This would also allow people to get metal without having access to someone with a garage and would reward people for dedication to protect themselves.
Additional notes:
In the end, I am just wanting the ability to provide more options for people to make money through legal RP. Although my pawn shop in specific may not be completely legal, the ability to not get metal parts without some amount of illegal interaction is a shame. I feel that adding more legal options for making money is a very legit one and being able to do so without opening a bar or club sounds like a win to me. I would be interested to see what everyone else thinks.