Ways of earning money?
I had a really crude gambling script at one point which was disabled due to people exploiting it some how. People seemed to enjoy it. Should we even have a monetary system?
The question we need to really ask is. What is the point of money?
Well with all the death matching that was taking place the idea was to crate a gun shop, this would in general stop new players joining, killing and being a nuisance.
I’ve always been fond of having some roleplaying elements set up, like as above a Gun shop, maybe even food stalls for health and possibly a gas script.
Would you guys maybe be interested in some of the stuff mentioned?
There’s still a lot to be ironed out as is but just throwing some ideas in to the works
Flower lands needs completion also which everything would probably revolve around.
The money was used for the houses, but the house system broke when offy moved servers so we could no longer buy houses, I also think the house system should be wiped and all the houses are free to purchase.
I agree with adding the gambling script it would bring the server back to life and a nice little update for the server would be nice. It also gives the money a purpose.
The problem is with having a gun shop and food store is that it will kinder ruin the idea of the freeroam part and would also not be liked by some players.
With the gambling script, we would probably have to remove everyone money to be able to actively keep the script going because all the old players / active players Manley has over 4million or even more.
Would we have to pay for guns or will we still be able to get them out of the f1 menu?
Generally the f1 weapons menu would have to be disabled and a weapon store setup, the idea would be to purchase weapons which are then stored in a database. So when a player leaves and rejoins they retain their weapons, but if they die how ever, the database would have to be reset and the player repurchase their equipment. The database could also be used to store the players last position, interior, dimension, skin and stats where they last left off, or reset upon death.
The food stores would be more aimed towards using it as health regeneration rather than a hunger mod, this would require changes to the freeroam setskin side of things to prevent players using the command to regain full health which can easily be done by adding checks to the code, “getting players current health before changing skins and setting their HP on skin change”.
As for accounts and even databases Johns flowerlands script would come into play, he was working on accounts but we’re going to have to here from him. @JohnFlower
I’m aware some of these things may take away from the freeroam side of things that’s why it has to be subtle in a way. Freeroam is great but having something to do will make things a little more interesting.
With the gun shop, will the ban guns still be banned or will people be able to purchase these weapons from the shop? Don’t really want all the people running around with miniguns and rockets.
I mean I love the idea but we would have to have a different way of earning money other than playing on the server and waiting for the cash to go up by £500.
Miniguns probably not, heat seekers also, but they could be priced accordingly, so you don’t waste all your cash on guns. But at this stage its all just ideas and discussion.
Ideas for earning cash is a bit fickle, gambling is one idea but it would have to be nerfed. Need more ideas tbh
I also thought maybe we could add back the cinema and use the money we earn on that, such as if they want to play something on it they would first have to pay to get into the Cinema area, they would then have to request a video if one is not playing but to request a video you have to pay for the video to join the queue.
not sure if they will work or if it is possible but I would be a nice little feature to add on to the gambling system and also the way we use the money.
Not so sure about cinema at this stage, if anything flower would probably like to create his own script and custom cinema models etc. That cinema resource was pretty bad, it ate fps, played for everyone regardless where you were etc etc but we’ll see.
Flower also had a playable piano mod in the works but I guess life = busy
Yeah if Levi was here maybe he could have helped out a bit with scripting the scripts but he seems to be super busy too. Yeah I think we should need a big update for the server adding new things and maybe we will start getting new people joining the server which would be really nice to have.
Another nice feature that would be great is offedit adapted so multiples of people could build at the same time and be able to save their maps separate from each other. I think we’ve discussed this before.
That way people could build around their houses etc and their maps could be loaded in when they join. But I think the map would become a large download as more ppl join in loading maps
Just want to clear up will the f1 menu be completely removed or will it stay. Becuase we might have this gun shop, but what about the Vehicles. Will we get a paint job place where we can buy the Vehicles with money or we gonna keep them on the f1 menu?
If anything it will just be the weapons menu, vehicles will remain as is, don’t really want to monetize vehicles at this stage.
An option that we could look into is maybe the ability to sell your vehicles with the custom handlings and attachments etc.
But we would have to work out a system that would prevent someone saving the handling and attachments as their own. This would also mean having to save vehicles etc.
These are super interesting, since im a car guy might aswell request car stuff here, how about having like a tuning shop/detailing shop, where you can customize and upgrade your cars?
Take NFS:SA for example, they have their own modeled bumpers even wheels, tuning system which work quite well, and a good sounding cars, something like that would make money come into play (since the majority of MTA likes cars), i like the idea of selling your handling or share your handling to other people, but im afraid people will just share ram handlings, and sell them in a very cheap price to everybody
So if I’m correct, there are /akina blah blah that are floating maps ??
Which means it is possible to map another one…
I was thinking that there could be a map that has several arenas for FAIR deathmatches…
And the spectators/players can bet on one player and earn money or whatever like that.
Each arena should be something e.g. 1 vs 1 /free for all/ teams/ a car chase or something like that (where there’s two in one car and ya’ll have to drive in this arena trying to blow up each others cars… Ban repairs for that… You could also let the team buy or attach upgrades to that vehicle to make it more realistic in terms of money)
Basically the flow of money could be spread for evenly and it will encourage players to work for it and use it properly.
On this arena there could be a “chillzone” that you purchase “passes” to get in.
And ONE radio that will act as a jukebox, therefore players will pay a certain amount to play one song …
Therefore /radio shouldn’t work on this map (if that’s possible, probably not but its a good idea)
SECOND IDEA:
have a PLAIN map built in the sky, a huge plain like surface that’s flat and empty.
Players can purchase passes only for that area (if its possible) and then practice mapping/attaching on there or learning from each other…
Players will then have to pay which stimulates the flow of money realistically…
Players cant repair there cars, unless there is a pit stop in that arena where they purchase a “repair” . They can pay before the match starts to attach there car in a way that makes their car less vulnerable to damage. Attaching your car to ram others will result in a disqualification and that team (2 people in one car) have to pay a fine.
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About the car thing:
Players cant repair there cars, unless there is a pit stop in that arena where they purchase a “repair” . They can pay before the match starts to attach there car in a way that makes their car less vulnerable to damage. Attaching your car to ram others will result in a disqualification and that team (2 people in one car) have to pay a fine.
A shit idea sounds way to much like going into a Roleplay server when this server is a FREEROAM
Each arena should be something e.g. 1 vs 1 /free for all/ teams/ a car chase or something like that (where there’s two in one car and ya’ll have to drive in this arena trying to blow up each others cars… Ban repairs for that… You could also let the team buy or attach upgrades to that vehicle to make it more realistic in terms of money)
Go play Deathmatch or TeamDeathmatch.
On this arena there could be a “chillzone” that you purchase “passes” to get in.
And ONE radio that will act as a jukebox, therefore players will pay a certain amount to play one song …
Therefore /radio shouldn’t work on this map (if that’s possible, probably not but its a good idea)
a kinder of a good idea but do not need to make a new area. we could just use the chillzone area.
have a PLAIN map built in the sky, a huge plain like surface that’s flat and empty.
Players can purchase passes only for that area (if its possible) and then practice mapping/attaching on there or learning from each other…
Players will then have to pay which stimulates the flow of money realistically…
can do that already just put a plain road up there a practice mapping, if you can’t do this yourself then you should not be mapping. we should not need to put a plain bit in the sky for you.
