Buildable Bikes

[sp86 508]

So, I had an idea the other day that was fucking goofy, but I think it has merit. I haven't played in a server yet where the vehicles weren't hoarded in one godforsaken corner or another, and looking for them seems totally pointless unless you intend to invest a lot of time on a server. So my idea was to add a lootable bike kit to the game, find them in Residential or Industrial High values and right click use generates a bike. If you limited it to one spawn per player you would at most be adding 50 objects to the game, and it would solve the critical lack of transportation.

You could balance this any way you wanted, either by make it a rare spawn on par with GPS's or similar top tier equipment, or if you want to be almost gamebreaking, allowing fresh spawns to have one in their immediate inventory.

[RapturJesus 90]

Or just have more bikes.

[sp86 508]

Or just have more bikes.

Doesn't address the hoarding problem. It just means a server operators camp would have 20 bikes in it instead of 5.

[RapturJesus 90]

And people wont hoard the buildable bikes?

[sp86 508]

And people wont hoard the buildable bikes?

The idea here is the potential for availability. Currently there is none/very little; I've seen two bikes in almost a month of play. If anybody can go into an apartment building, get a bike kit and then ride away on it that in my opinion greatly reduces the potential for monopoly through hoarding. It sounds like balancing, but given that bikes are one of the most common luxury items in the world, I don't think it's that much of a stretch.

[RapturJesus 90]

I don't see how it would reduce any hoarding. It would just make them common. People hoard everything.

I do agree there needs to be more bikes. I've only seen two as well. Yet ive seen 5 helicopters and hundreds of cars. I think the ability to have a kit where you can build and spawn in a bike is good idea but that wouldn't seem to very common. I mean who owns a bike assembly kit with all the parts?

['Friendly * Nazar' 4]

Dont put this in the game, please.

I dont want that in Elektro ore in Cherno (just 2 random cities) 10 people ore something, are driving around in their bicycle.

Thats not fun, just let it how it is. :l

[sp86 508]

I don't see how it would reduce any hoarding. It would just make them common. People hoard everything.

I do agree there needs to be more bikes. I've only seen two as well. Yet ive seen 5 helicopters and hundreds of cars. I think the ability to have a kit where you can build and spawn in a bike is good idea but that wouldn't seem to very common. I mean who owns a bike assembly kit with all the parts?

People hoard all sort of weird shit in crisis, it's not any less inconceivable than readily available reproductions of 100 year old American firearms in what is ostensibly an ex-soviet republic.

The idea of hoarding is not only that you have a lot of something, but that you're denying its use to other players as well (as I said, monopolizing through hoarding). Being able to go into Cherno or Elektro in a popular server at night, loot a bike, spawn it and ride around would completely shift the balance away from server operators and entrenched clans by allowing newbies and server nomads alike to rapidly scout a server through diligent looting.

Dont put this in the game, please.

I dont want that in Elektro ore in Cherno (just 2 random cities) 10 people ore something, are driving around in their bicycle.

Thats not fun, just let it how it is. :l

So, keep the fresh spawns in the areas that have turned into deathmatch zones, ensure they can't leave with any kind of velocity. Cause getting killed over and over again in Cherno by KOS assholes and hackers is tons of fun.

I don't understand that rationale at all.

Edited August 6, 2012 by sp86