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  1. Hey team, As the title states, I am having an issue where I am trying to purchase a .50 Pistol with a color skin applied and it won't allow me to. As soon as I apply a color before I purchase it in the customization menu, I then click confirm (which normally is supposed to go back to the main shop menu). Upon which the entire UI for the shop disappears and I cannot click on anything. I have to press ESC to back out of the shop entirely. Below are photos of what is happening. Any help solving this would be greatly appreciated
  2. One other thing I thought of but forgot to mention, the possibility of a queue system that tells customers how many other requests there are or how many unaccepted calls there are ahead of them. This would be especially beneficial when there is only a small number of drivers on but with a large number of requests, you finally get to your customer and they don't suddenly get huffy and go:
  3. Downtown Cab Co – In-Game Phone App Refresh So the Downtown Cab Co App has been around for a fair while now and is a great piece of script for players to request a pickup for a taxi. I remember back when it was a /taxi to do a request, then evolved to dialling 1111 on the phone, to currently now we have an app to request certain vehicles for certain situations. But the system needs to evolve again slightly with some newer features. I will go over some potential quality of life improvements that would be very beneficial, in my opinion as a DDC employee, that would improve in immense ways. If these are at all possible within the ability of the modders. Live Tracking for Customers One big thing that we see a lot of is from our newer players, and sometimes from our more seasoned ones too, is that they will move away from the requested location of the taxi pickup point, automatically cancelling the ride request. Our drivers are then often wondering in the back of their minds “Did they intentionally move away and cancel, or did they do this accidently and not notice that we are no longer on the way”. They then submit a new request, which if it is a busy time, they get bumped down the queue of requests. Instead of drivers tracking to the location of the pickup point, we now track the location of the player (or in the RP sense, the players phone) with live tracking. This would be the same sense as the LEO factions pressing the panic button on their radio and other units responding to them. If the player requesting the taxi moves, the location moves with them. This gives the player requesting the fare a greater amount of leniency that they can perform other activities whilst waiting for a taxi. For example, someone makes a request to be picked up at Braddock Pass, but they are on the way to the city. They can continue to walk further down the highway if they can or need to and still having the possibility of getting picked up. Fix Available vehicles on App At DCC we have a comprehensive list of vehicles available to us to use for different fares, at the moment though, if a driver takes out a service of any kind apart from the regular taxi vehicle, it does not show as available on the right hand side, but at the top it shows that we have Active Drivers and Free Drivers. If passengers see that there are active drivers but no free taxis in this list, then it has the potential to make them confused. To fix this, it would be better off to categorise the different types of vehicles on the App, rather than specifically having only a few vehicles linked to the App. The list wouldn’t be final but an idea of how to categorise the vehicles would be: - Regular: Stainer Taxi, I-Wagen, Moonbeam, Dynasty, Eudora, Broadway - Luxury: Super Diamond, Omnis E-GT, Jubilee, Baller, Radius, XLS, Mesa, Deity, Raiden - Party: Stretch, Patriot Stretch - Commercial: Dashound, Shuttle In the list of the vehicles, I would also put down the cost per km for both city and county. That way there is not a surprise or a “I didn’t know it would cost that much” Cancelling a Taxi Request With the change of the script of automatically cancelling the request if you move too far away from the request location, it would then be asked “How does a player cancel a request?”. So, there would be a few ways that a request can be cancelled off. - Firstly, would be from the customer themselves. At the bottom of the DCC app there would be a “Cancel my Request” button that, as the name implies, immediately cancels your last request with the DCC tracking system. - The second way would be from the taxi drivers side of things, similar to how LEO factions can “/closecall [Call ID]” for a 911 call, taxi drivers would be able to “/cantr [TR-ID]” to manually cancel a taxi request of a customer if a request has been open for too long/no taxi drivers are able to take the call type (if the request is for a type of vehicle that the current drivers on shift can handle)/or if the individual requesting the taxi is Blacklisted. This would be done RPly through the company tablets that we are asked to take out on each shift. - Thirdly, taxi request would be closed if there was no response from a taxi driver for 30 minutes or more, much like the 911 system, the call then automatically closes. - Finally, a taxi request could be automatically closed if the last driver on duty goes off duty or disconnects. Implemented Blacklist Script System A big piece of Role-Play that takes place in DCC is the Blacklist System. With the App changes, it would be beneficial to have a scripted Blacklist System (that only DCC High Command can make changes to). If a player is Blacklisted, then the App would still show for them, however if they try to request a taxi from DCC of any kind, a message would appear saying “You are currently Blacklisted from Downtown Cab Co. If you more information about this, go to www.downtowncabco.com”. A list of commands would be: - /showblacklist [page number] (Available to all Taxi Drivers to view) - /blacklist [fname_lname] [DD/MM/YYYY – end date] [Reason] (e.g. /blacklist Donald_Trump 31/12/9999 Killing cab drivers) (Only available to DCC Command and higher) - /unblacklist [fname_lname] (Only available to DCC Command and higher) The great thing about having a scripted Blacklist would be that if a player changes their name, then like the criminal record system, they would not be removed from the Blacklist.
  4. So this suggestion is going to be similar to how having a GPS in a faction vehicle. While the GPS is in the faction scripted vehicle, other on duty faction members can see where the faction vehicle is. Having a transponder as an item, would give information much like a GPS item (Showing the GPS on the HUD) but also transmits the aircraft location to other airborne aircraft. Such information could be things like the Tail Number / Callsign, the altitude in small print next to the blip, as well as blip color, representing the different faction: Blue - LSPD Red - LSEMS Green - LSDOC Tan - LSSD Pink - Weazel News Pale Blue - SASG White - Private / Non-Government Business aircraft If SAAA were to be manning the Air Traffic Control tower, they could also have somewhere they can see the aircraft blips and advise them on their flights and altitudes. Advising them if they are coming too close to restricted airspaces or if there are any nearby emergency aircraft. The other thing with these items is that they are "locked" into place, much like car speakers are in faction vehicles. Once criminals start to use aircraft more to their advantage they would have to use a screwdriver to remove the transponder so they could fly off the radar. To quote a line from the movie Con Air: Francisco Cindino: [in the cockpit of the plane] Don't they have a way of tracking these planes? Swamp Thing: Oh, yeah. It's called a transponder. Every plane's got one, Cindino. Nathan 'Diamond Dog' Jones: [sarcastic] Swamp, where is the transponder? Cyrus Grissom: [looks at the empty bay] Ah! Where, indeed? The second part of this is to add an additional UI to add to ones when you get inside any vehicle. You see the Vehicles Health, Fuel (Percentage) and Speed (which in aircraft is Airspeed or climb/decent speed). Since there are now many private aircraft starting to slowly enter the skies. We have been told by the SAAA to fly at 2,000ft. We can see this if we look at the internal gauge on the helicopters, however it is much easier to fly in 3rd person. The other argument is that you can see the altitude lines on the GPS when flying. This is also true, but these lines refer to the height above terrain, not height above Mean Sea Level.
  5. +1 on this. One of my characters is going through Pilot's training now and I know that others in PD/SD/MD/SAAA/Weazel would really find this sort of thing useful. Also others in comments are right. The lines on the GPS on hud are based off the height above terrain, not Mean Sea Level.
  6. Had this happen to me the other day, pm'd the player and told them that was super nonrp. Asked for a taxi ride then bolted. He returned it after I told him that was very much nonrp. For this reason alone big time +1
  7. +1 to this idea 100%! Along with a pushbike being an item rather than a vehicle. That way you can "Carry" a bike up the mountain on the cable car to then be able to ride the bike down.
  8. Issue Being Reported: As described, the autofill function by pressing TAB to complete a command isn't working. For example, previously when you type in /fme and press TAB it fills out completely for /fmembers. Or it you typed /removefu and pressed TAB it would completely fill out /removefurniture. /afk and pressing TAB would result with /afkmath. Date and Time of Issue: 24/JAN/2022 AEDT Your characters name: Joshua Fellows Other player(s) involved: N/A. However, other players have noticed this issue in Discord. Evidence and/or notes worth mentioning: When the chat box is shown there is no text cursor displayed anymore
  9. Hello @Scott_Chegg, Try logging out of the Panel first, then log back in. Once you are logged in try clicking on the email link again. Hope this helps. Varakai Administrator EclipseRP
  10. Tech support issue resolved. Locked and Archieved. Kind Regards Varakai Senior Moderator EclipseRP
  11. Varakai

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    Tech support issue resolved. Locked and Archieved. Kind Regards Varakai Senior Moderator EclipseRP
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