Car Speaker change

[SaltyPoiosn]

I've never really understood the reason as to why car speakers are items, It would just make more sense to press a keybind and have a little custom UI pop up, and have every car come pre installed with a "car speaker" and remove the current car speaker item. Its expensive, its heavy and makes no sense to have it in your glovebox. 

[Diligo]

This is what I thought speaker mod was for before I discovered what it actually is

[aus7oo]

+1/-1, I think speakers remaining an item is totally fine, adding a UI to all speakers instead of chat commands would be much nicer however.

[Moose]

I would suggest also to steer away from youtube and finding an alternative as its highly unreliable as you see already it works somedays and somedays not

[Earl Mud]

On 4/15/2025 at 2:54 PM, Moose said:

I would suggest also to steer away from youtube and finding an alternative as its highly unreliable as you see already it works somedays and somedays not

I just want to be able to throw on spotify playlists so I don't have to constantly go to YouTube to search single songs. Especially doing things like trucking 

[Mikazuki Ueno]

Just play Spotify and listen to it yourself. ECRP is not going to develop some new music system that is just going to let you play whatever Spotify playlists you want streamed to all users in the area. YouTube is chosen for a reason.

[Quietthecutie]

Not sure i would want this change. Car speakers are expensive and can be stolen, it motivates more creative criminal roleplay. one time i responded to a call at an event, found a guy with lockpicks, 4 car speakers and nothing else on him. laughed my ass off.

[SaltyPoiosn]

19 hours ago, Mikazuki Ueno said:

Just play Spotify and listen to it yourself. ECRP is not going to develop some new music system that is just going to let you play whatever Spotify playlists you want streamed to all users in the area. YouTube is chosen for a reason.

The whole point of the car speaker is other people hearing it, adds more atmosphere to the server. What a weird point that is to make, of course spotify is an option. I have it on 24/7. Them adding a more user friendly, and to be honest, a MUCH more realistic way of playing music within the server makes so much sense.

[SaltyPoiosn]

On 4/18/2025 at 9:07 AM, Quietthecutie said:

Not sure i would want this change. Car speakers are expensive and can be stolen, it motivates more creative criminal roleplay. one time i responded to a call at an event, found a guy with lockpicks, 4 car speakers and nothing else on him. laughed my ass off.

Counterpoint, just allow this new speaker or car stereo to be stolen. My original point does still stand, the current speaker is flawed and makes no realistic sense. If they implemented this correctly you could always make it possible to steal this new one with a potential new mini game or skill check kind of thing, similar to lockpicking or maybe even similar to a lockpicking mechanic seen on many games, most famously on skyrim, and of course a new item with a market value. If stolen you would then need to get your new speaker installed at a mechanic or a "DIY" one you buy from the store and you would install is like how you apply the licence plates.

[jason]

YouTube is used because other options are not possible. The old system used online radio, but that was exploited and removed. Spotify is not possible for a large number of reasons.

[SaltyPoiosn]

16 hours ago, jason said:

YouTube is used because other options are not possible. The old system used online radio, but that was exploited and removed. Spotify is not possible for a large number of reasons.

This suggestion has nothing to do with spotify though, its other poeple suggesting that. My original point still stands no?

[jason]

I don't disagree with your point, I'm addressing those who mentioned what's relevant to my reply.