Scrayard Vehicle Bug - Unregistered Vehicle Issue

[SteveD]

Date and time (provide timezone): 31/AUG/2023 - 19:00 UTC

Character name: Steve Smyth

Issue/bug you are reporting: 

A scrapyard vehicle was bought by a criminal, who was then caught driving the unregistered vehicle. Police policy is to then give them a citation for doing this, and then impounding the vehicle. 

Expected behavior:  

In the past, this would basically "scrap" the vehicle, aka, delete it completely. It's unregistered. Instead, it now assigns it to the person who bought it's impound slot. So then, police have to /viewimpound and /releaseimpound the vehicle, but then, since its unregistered... technically we have to once again cite them for driving it, and then impound it again, leaving an infinite loop. Furthermore, since it's assigned to "their impound list", that logically means its registered to them... but its not.. which kinda defines the bug.,

Evidence, notes worth mentioning, steps to replicate: 

Buy a car from scrapyard, check on the MDC that its not registered, then, impound it, do /viewimpound to see its assigned to a player, and when released, they get charged a payment for it.

Vehicle license plate number*: N/A

[Victor Einhart]

My understanding of the previous behaviour was the vehicle got deleted. Player would lose their investment and the vehicle was gone, not taking up any vehicle slots and unable to be retrieved again.

Edited September 1, 2023 by Victor Einhart

[pixiejewels]

My understanding is that they are treated much the same as rental trucks and Vetirs where rp is done to call the company or scrapyard to pick up the vehicle and then they are deleted via admin staff.  Maybe it is a glitch that these are impoundable and shouldn't be?  

 

[AnnoyingOne]

It worked before and it doesn't make sense that admins have to be involved anyway. The experience on the server should be smooth with minimal involvement of staff team unless a severe rulebreak occurs. 

If Impounded or otherwise destroyed the vehicle should be removed from player.

[Requiem]

This bug has been an issue for 1-2 years at least now. 

[Demonmit1]

This is not a bug. there's a way to re-obtain the scrap vehicle without having an officer un-impound it. Impounding the vehicle should not destroy it.