Public transport support

[house-max]

Short description:

Public transportation only ( bus, train, plane, coach) support.

 

Detailed Description:

We can make scripted premade routes to be done with public transport vehicles.

This time we should limit only to this type of vehicles and no taxi's.

With exact routes, players can know where they can take the bus.

The players that takes the Bus pay a small fee like 10-50$ and the money goes 100% to the company.

This will provide a good reason to invest by bussines, and the shift income should be enough to keep the drivers on. If you compare with the Taxi, here you have to drive and not be static between orders.

 

Commands to add:

Start/end shift. I think they can be reused from another job.

 

How would this suggestion improve the server:

It will be a scripted with limited spots that request 100% RP.

And with 2-5 bus working on different lines the server image become more real.

 

Additional info.

I know that the request for this part is almost 0, and the old attempts have been complete fails, but with some incentive it might have a chance to exist's. now we have 300-700 players.. then we had 30-150 ? so we have a different status now, and you may notice the taxi is now working quite ok.

This should be one 100% RP job even if it is scripted... it can be different than other scripted jobs, for example if we put a time to wait in the station like we had on courier job a while ago players cannot rush this.

We can also rent to companies some specific routes ( ex from airport to license center/jail to the center of LS or between big areas ) this would leave a place for companies to exists (but this in future)

Edited April 21, 2020 by house-max

[DLimit]

I'd support this idea. However, please use the correct template for submitting suggestions.

[house-max]

33 minutes ago, DLimit said:

I'd support this idea. However, please use the correct template for submitting suggestions.

Thank you, I edited it. hope now it is much better ?

For more details I am here to help and brain storm this.

[Fernando]

I fully support bus routes across the city!

[Zach..]

I know that there are some player made companies that do this @Griz

[Griz]

We did, indeed, try this. We started the company in October of 2019. We went through the process of procuring the city contract, and it wasn't until January that our first meeting occurred. After said meeting, we were unable to continue forward. For a plethora of reasons, it just was not possible. The main reason was our inability to keep players interested while we waited on the city to move forward. We tried our very best, but it simply took too much time and everything went into a lull. There was no point in trying to keep it alive since we weren't given the time of day. 

Edited April 22, 2020 by Griz

[Tseard]

I think it would be pretty cool to see buses on the road but I don't think there are enough people interested to either drive the bus or to ride it as a passenger. No bus driver wants to do routes through LS without any passengers.

[ibbi]

This can be a good alternative to the super cheap rentals that are unrealistic.

Rentals can be made expensive and bus stops can be made interactive, so the players (specially new ones) can choose the bus (if active) or else use the rentals. Businesses can then be setup to run such buses, that will increase the number of buses on the road.

Since buses are expensive in real life, players can join the businesses to drive them rather than purchasing their own personal bus.

[house-max]

4 hours ago, ibbi said:

This can be a good alternative to the super cheap rentals that are unrealistic.

Rentals can be made expensive and bus stops can be made interactive, so the players (specially new ones) can choose the bus (if active) or else use the rentals. Businesses can then be setup to run such buses, that will increase the number of buses on the road.

Since buses are expensive in real life, players can join the businesses to drive them rather than purchasing their own personal bus.

Yes indeed, my idea is to make it quite free at start, like taxi to have the opportunity to get many of them on the street. (so if people have a personal bus to use it/to be honest I don't think that there are so many to have a personal bus)

The stops will be interactive, they should pay for the ticket, and the ticket is on getting in the bus, not for the station.. or distance... like in real life, this part request real RP, and cannot be done without one. ?

And the need is not just for airport/job point, it can be really helpful for prison/medical centers and why not commute between big areas... like paleto bay/blaine county/sandy shores/LS etc.

 

Edited April 22, 2020 by house-max

[Morgan]

8 hours ago, Tseard said:

I think it would be pretty cool to see buses on the road but I don't think there are enough people interested to either drive the bus or to ride it as a passenger. No bus driver wants to do routes through LS without any passengers.

 

5 hours ago, ibbi said:

This can be a good alternative to the super cheap rentals that are unrealistic.

Rentals can be made expensive and bus stops can be made interactive, so the players (specially new ones) can choose the bus (if active) or else use the rentals. Businesses can then be setup to run such buses, that will increase the number of buses on the road.

Since buses are expensive in real life, players can join the businesses to drive them rather than purchasing their own personal bus.

If they get a weekly paycheck, they would want to RP it. But obviously we have to push people to use buses, and this is where expensive rentals come into play. But the thing is, we also have taxis which only has increased after the restriction on rentals was set up. Having two different parties competing over the same customers will harm them both. This idea would work better with more players.