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Last edited by PowerPC603; 17/03/2016 at 08:55 PM.
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I've added some extra parameters to the script which allow the server-owner to enable/disable vehiclemodels per class and set their level as well.
This level can be adjusted per vehiclemodel and per class.
These levels will be used when you request a vehicle at your spawn-location.
You won't be able to spawn a vehicle which you're not allowed to drive yet.
And don't bother to ask a high-level player to spawn one for you, you still won't be able to enter it and use it.
There is also a level for the houses (which aren't implemented yet) so it will be possible to link certain vehicles to a certain house-level.
Every vehicle also has an admin-level and this is used when an admin spawns a vehicle using the /v command.
There are 6 admin-levels and it's already possible to link vehiclemodels to admin-levels as well.
So a level 1 admin won't have all vehiclemodels available in that menu.
Linking vehiclemodels to classes is done because basically, every class is separate like most MMORPG games have different characters in your account.
Those games don't allow your newly created level 1 Summoner to use the same armor, weapons and other stuff your level 50 Sorcerer is using, as every character uses it's own data.
PPC Trucking V2 will use the same system.
So, your level 5 courier won't be able to use a Roadtrain vehicle just because your trucker is at level 50 and can use a Roadtrain just fine.
The linking is there because this allows you to fine-tune which vehicles are available for which class.
When you spawn at a spawn-location, there will be a vehicle-request pickup nearby where you can request a mission vehicle.
The models available to you are determined by your class and level.
In V1, there were a few vehicles spawned at each spawn-location and you could just enter a vehicle and start a job.
Since V2 uses so many levels and vehiclemodels per level+class, the vehicle-limit would be reached very soon because there need to be multiple vehicles per level-range to accomodate every player.
Having only 2 vehicles meant for level 1-4 truckers at each spawn-location would be too limited and when there are more than 2 lowbie truckers, that would mean some players don't have a vehicle to start earning money.
It's better to allow everyone requesting a vehicle that's available for them and automatically linking it to their character.
When you already requested a vehicle before and you request a new one, the first one will be deleted.
This will prevent having too many un-used vehicles all over the place.
A level 1 trucker only has a handful of vehicles available to him while a level 50 trucker has all trucker vehicles unlocked.
This also means that not ALL vehicles in the game are linked to the trucker class.
Truckers basically have no use for sportcars or bikes, so they won't be able to choose those, even when they're at max level (level 50).
Same as busdrivers don't have any use for planes or helicopters.
Or pilots using a flatbed truck or some other weird combo.
But when they buy a house and a house-vehicle, then they WILL be able to use their own vehicle to transport stuff as long as the vehiclemodel has the ability to transport that product.
A trucker won't be able to request an Elegy for example at their spawn-location as mission-vehicle, but the Elegy will still be able to transport "Bottled Beer" for example.
So if that trucker buys a house and an Elegy as house-vehicle, he can transport "Bottled Beer" with his Elegy.
This is not recommended though, because the Elegy cannot hold that much beer in his trunk (cargobay).
Your profit will be far less than using an actual trucker vehicle as those will have a larger cargobay so you can transport more at once, making more profit per run.
Same for almost any other class.
Being a pilot doesn't mean you're restricted to helicopters and planes to transport passengers.
You won't be able to select a bus at your spawn-location but you can still buy a bus as house-vehicle.
With a bus as house-vehicle, pilots could also use that bus to transport their passengers because the bus is designed to transport passengers as well.
But your house-vehicle won't refuel for free like mission vehicles do.
So you're better off in the end requesting a mission vehicle to do your jobs instead of using your own house-vehicles.
On the other hand, certain vehiclemodels won't be available as mission-vehicle.
Sportcars don't have any direct use for any class, so they won't appear in the vehicle-menu's at spawn-locations.
But you'll be able to buy and tune them and park them in front of your house and use them for jobs as well.
Since nobody else can use your house-vehicles (these are restricted to be driven by their owner only), truckers will be safe from mafia's when they're doing jobs with their own house-vehicle.
Mafia's need to steal the trucker's vehicle and drive away with it and it's cargo to make a profit. Mafia's also have their own jobs in case too few truckers are online.
Trailers on the other hand aren't safe as they can still be detached and attached to the mafia's truck.
Houses and house-vehicles won't come cheap though (but that's up to the server-owner as he can change the prices). So don't expect newcomers to buy their first house and house-vehicle on day 1 after having completed a few jobs.
Also, not every house will be able to be upgraded to level 10.
Roadtrains will be linked to level 10 houses, so if you buy a house which can only go as high as level 8, you'll never be able to buy that Roadtrain.
Also, besides paying alot of money to buy a house, you also need to pay for your house on a weekly basis to keep it.
This will be part of the auto-evict system.
When a player stops playing, he'll eventually run out of money and the house becomes available again to be bought by other players.
When you lose your house because you ran out of money, all vehicles linked to that house will be gone as well.
And you won't get a refund.
House-vehicles on the other hand are insured automatically (you had to insure your vehicles by hand in V1), so when they're destroyed, you won't lose them.
I may set their health to 50% or so after they're destroyed so you still need to pay for repairs, I'm not sure about this yet.
I'm trying to make every class useable, even when no other player is online.
Assistance in V1 was pretty useless when nobody else was online or nobody needed assistance.
This class will now also get their own jobs so they can be played without the need to wait for hours hoping someone calls for assistance.
I'll soon be in the process to link every vehicle to each class and determine the levels at which they are unlocked per level.
As soon as I have those values setup, I'm starting on the job-system itself, which will be huge and complex.
It has to account for every possibility like explained above.
It also needs to be able to use different cargotypes like flammable goods like alcohol, explosive goods such as gas canisters, deterioration goods like food (they have a limited time to be delivered to the destination or they get wasted and you won't get paid for those) and much more.
This level can be adjusted per vehiclemodel and per class.
These levels will be used when you request a vehicle at your spawn-location.
You won't be able to spawn a vehicle which you're not allowed to drive yet.
And don't bother to ask a high-level player to spawn one for you, you still won't be able to enter it and use it.
There is also a level for the houses (which aren't implemented yet) so it will be possible to link certain vehicles to a certain house-level.
Every vehicle also has an admin-level and this is used when an admin spawns a vehicle using the /v command.
There are 6 admin-levels and it's already possible to link vehiclemodels to admin-levels as well.
So a level 1 admin won't have all vehiclemodels available in that menu.
Linking vehiclemodels to classes is done because basically, every class is separate like most MMORPG games have different characters in your account.
Those games don't allow your newly created level 1 Summoner to use the same armor, weapons and other stuff your level 50 Sorcerer is using, as every character uses it's own data.
PPC Trucking V2 will use the same system.
So, your level 5 courier won't be able to use a Roadtrain vehicle just because your trucker is at level 50 and can use a Roadtrain just fine.
The linking is there because this allows you to fine-tune which vehicles are available for which class.
When you spawn at a spawn-location, there will be a vehicle-request pickup nearby where you can request a mission vehicle.
The models available to you are determined by your class and level.
In V1, there were a few vehicles spawned at each spawn-location and you could just enter a vehicle and start a job.
Since V2 uses so many levels and vehiclemodels per level+class, the vehicle-limit would be reached very soon because there need to be multiple vehicles per level-range to accomodate every player.
Having only 2 vehicles meant for level 1-4 truckers at each spawn-location would be too limited and when there are more than 2 lowbie truckers, that would mean some players don't have a vehicle to start earning money.
It's better to allow everyone requesting a vehicle that's available for them and automatically linking it to their character.
When you already requested a vehicle before and you request a new one, the first one will be deleted.
This will prevent having too many un-used vehicles all over the place.
A level 1 trucker only has a handful of vehicles available to him while a level 50 trucker has all trucker vehicles unlocked.
This also means that not ALL vehicles in the game are linked to the trucker class.
Truckers basically have no use for sportcars or bikes, so they won't be able to choose those, even when they're at max level (level 50).
Same as busdrivers don't have any use for planes or helicopters.
Or pilots using a flatbed truck or some other weird combo.
But when they buy a house and a house-vehicle, then they WILL be able to use their own vehicle to transport stuff as long as the vehiclemodel has the ability to transport that product.
A trucker won't be able to request an Elegy for example at their spawn-location as mission-vehicle, but the Elegy will still be able to transport "Bottled Beer" for example.
So if that trucker buys a house and an Elegy as house-vehicle, he can transport "Bottled Beer" with his Elegy.
This is not recommended though, because the Elegy cannot hold that much beer in his trunk (cargobay).
Your profit will be far less than using an actual trucker vehicle as those will have a larger cargobay so you can transport more at once, making more profit per run.
Same for almost any other class.
Being a pilot doesn't mean you're restricted to helicopters and planes to transport passengers.
You won't be able to select a bus at your spawn-location but you can still buy a bus as house-vehicle.
With a bus as house-vehicle, pilots could also use that bus to transport their passengers because the bus is designed to transport passengers as well.
But your house-vehicle won't refuel for free like mission vehicles do.
So you're better off in the end requesting a mission vehicle to do your jobs instead of using your own house-vehicles.
On the other hand, certain vehiclemodels won't be available as mission-vehicle.
Sportcars don't have any direct use for any class, so they won't appear in the vehicle-menu's at spawn-locations.
But you'll be able to buy and tune them and park them in front of your house and use them for jobs as well.
Since nobody else can use your house-vehicles (these are restricted to be driven by their owner only), truckers will be safe from mafia's when they're doing jobs with their own house-vehicle.
Mafia's need to steal the trucker's vehicle and drive away with it and it's cargo to make a profit. Mafia's also have their own jobs in case too few truckers are online.
Trailers on the other hand aren't safe as they can still be detached and attached to the mafia's truck.
Houses and house-vehicles won't come cheap though (but that's up to the server-owner as he can change the prices). So don't expect newcomers to buy their first house and house-vehicle on day 1 after having completed a few jobs.
Also, not every house will be able to be upgraded to level 10.
Roadtrains will be linked to level 10 houses, so if you buy a house which can only go as high as level 8, you'll never be able to buy that Roadtrain.
Also, besides paying alot of money to buy a house, you also need to pay for your house on a weekly basis to keep it.
This will be part of the auto-evict system.
When a player stops playing, he'll eventually run out of money and the house becomes available again to be bought by other players.
When you lose your house because you ran out of money, all vehicles linked to that house will be gone as well.
And you won't get a refund.
House-vehicles on the other hand are insured automatically (you had to insure your vehicles by hand in V1), so when they're destroyed, you won't lose them.
I may set their health to 50% or so after they're destroyed so you still need to pay for repairs, I'm not sure about this yet.
I'm trying to make every class useable, even when no other player is online.
Assistance in V1 was pretty useless when nobody else was online or nobody needed assistance.
This class will now also get their own jobs so they can be played without the need to wait for hours hoping someone calls for assistance.
I'll soon be in the process to link every vehicle to each class and determine the levels at which they are unlocked per level.
As soon as I have those values setup, I'm starting on the job-system itself, which will be huge and complex.
It has to account for every possibility like explained above.
It also needs to be able to use different cargotypes like flammable goods like alcohol, explosive goods such as gas canisters, deterioration goods like food (they have a limited time to be delivered to the destination or they get wasted and you won't get paid for those) and much more.