Cargo Runs (Potential Crim Addon)

[Jordan]

I'm not a game dev, or designer in literally anyway. But I like to think that any suggestion is a good one since the bad ones could just be ignored. I feel like currently crim gameplay is very boring/routine. Most gangs roll labs, or chop to make the majority of their money. Sure theres the occasional bank robbery, but other than that most of the time you're going to see your money come from labs. House Robberies are cool, but it would be nice if we added some other solo stuff you can do. I propose some sort of "Cargo Run" Job. It could be similar to civ jobs scriptly, but essentially it would work like house robberies mixed with the go postal job.

You would go to a NPC somewhere on the map (more than likely in the Industrial area) where you would buy a contract to transport goods. There could be different tiers aswell, think of it like an upgrade from house robberies, or even just another method. You could make Tier 1 be like 10k the next 15, and so on. You would then have a location marked on your GPS where you would find a van/truck with goods in it. The goods themselves don't really matter that much, but you could say with each tier the luggage is something better. Moonshine, or maybe even illegal gun parts, something like that.

You would go to this location but you have a time limit. If you don't reach the location in time, you lose the job and your money. If you do you'll get a substantial reward. You could make it vary, I'd prefer straight up packed cash, but it could also be like packed cash and a vintage pistol or something.

A couple of questions I can see being asked that i'll answer ahead of time:

Why a time limit?: I think a time limit would make it so it gives the job a sense of urgency that way you are forced to drive faster meaning police or crims could catch onto what youre doing and try to rob you for it, or pull you over and want to investigate the vehicle and then finding the illegal goods.

Why pay to get the contract?: Like I said it gives you a sense of urgency so you feel that need to get the job done as optimal as possible. It also means that you can be holding cash to purchase it much like the house robberies it gives the job more risk.

I understand there's probably a better way to do it aswell. Like I said before i'm not a game dev nor do I have any experience in development. but I think we should have some more crim stuff to do to keep the gameplay fresh. The devs have been hard at work I mean HELLA stuff has dropped in the past couple months. A problem I see with my pitch is OOC Toxicity/Metagaming Crims could just as easily know what trucks/vans have what and use that to judge if they rob you or not. Maybe you could make it to where you need a certain amount of trunk space, so you can use your car (Just not a super car) But hopefully these ideas if utilized at all could serve as building blocks to something that actual experienced devs can make into a full working crim activity.

Thanks for reading I know its long.

TLDR:
Cargo job that works similarly to house robberies.
1. Buy Contract
2. Go to location retrieve vehicle
3. Make it to a location within a certain timeframe
4. Reward

Edited August 15, 2024 by JordanJustJordan

[fweasy]

i personally love this, instead of using your car i think that maybe it could incorporate the use of local cars (ones people steal to chop) and you could have to get a specific car to pickup the goods (or the goods would be in the local car already) and you would have to steal the car like any normal person would have to do. This would give the cops a little more edge to be able to spot out some of these deliveries so it’s not to op for crims but also gives another edge. The local car system would still be the same in the essence of after a couple minutes the car would be reported as stolen (like locals are normally) which would give more urgency as cops can scan the plate of the car and it would come up as stolen.

 

another idea is that you would need to buy a scrapyard car to pick up the goods meaning you have to spend a little more money to gain more money 

 

idk what i said makes sense but i love the idea of cargo runs