Suggestion regarding Vehicles(NOT SPAWN RATES, ETC)

[sneekygreenman 196]

Basic Idea

As it stands, vehicles have fixed positions within them that can be assigned to players, driver, backseat, etc. This is a solid system, prevents people spassing out(though this happens enough already :P), however it has some basic flaws.

1:It is quite easy to steal a vehicle whilst the driver is out of it, example, you have requested a pickup on from the coast and some kind sod has agreed, he picks you up and as he's driving, a tire pops. He pulls over to fix it, fixes s it and before he can get back in, you're 200m down the road laughing like Donald duck.

2: You simply pop where ever you want to in the car almost instantly.

3: Gear can be accessed from anywhere in the vehicle.

Solutions(as i see them

The player should have to open doors to get in, the "open door" part of this should be included within the "get into" action. Inside the vehicle, the player should have to move from seat to seat, for instance, a back seat player would have to actually move from their seat to the drivers seat. thus being more obvious they are moving.

Slight tangent

Vehicles should have keys to them, with a few exceptions(huey, boats, bicycles). However finding the key to a vehicle shouldn't be essential to starting it. With a toolbox you could hot-wire it for instance. Keys should spawn in the car, on a body in the car(long dead driver) or say for instance you are looting the berezino apartment buildings. inside one of the rooms is a key rack with a car key on it. you take it and head outside, pull the tarp off a battered GAZ and hit the road.

Idea regarding larger vehicles

This regards URAL's, bus's, UAZ's and pick-ups. The seating areas in the bus and ural should be open, so for instance i enter the bus, pay my beans to the driver and then walk down the aisle picking a seat beside the least bandity* looking person. You should be able to sit in the back of pick ups but more on this later. Gear and such should be able to be thrown into the back of these vehicles and be visible.eg, i throw my AKM into the pick up, it should be sitting in the back of the pick-up, etc.

Shooting from vehicles

I'm well aware of the impracticality of this idea but the reasoning i have behind this is "I could potentially to this IRL so why not in game?". Obviously shooting whilst driving is not a good idea at all, one, its hard as hell, two, you will crash. I would suggest that a passenger should be able to lean out a window and fire from it, the longer the weapon, the longer it would take to get out to fire. If the car turns sharply, brakes hard or crashes the leaning player may fall out and hurt themselves.

Larger vehicles like the bus would provide a stabler shooting platform and you would be able to take cover as well.

Feedback on these ideas would be greatly appreciated and hopefully we could make this a solid idea that the devs would consider implementing.

Sneeky