Impound Warrants

[Demonmit1]

Ok, so I brainstormed This idea while replying to balas criminal revival thread but I wanted to make a new post for it to go into more detail by itself.

 

So here's the concept I'm thinking of. Law enforcement will now have a new warrant that they can place called an impound warrant which would allow officers to submit a piece of paperwork for a vehicle that is confirmed to be involved in a felony crime to seize and impound that vehicle. An impound warrant would work very similarly to how a current arrest warrant works. You would still need to support your evidence and explain the situation just like an arrest warrant. 

 

The thing that makes this really interesting and the end goal of the impound warrant becoming a thing is to provide higher risk versus reward for criminal players to weigh whether or not it's worth using their best vehicles to evade or commit other felonies. Currently there is a bolo system that law enforcement use but heavily underutilized, mostly ignored and randomly wiped by some supervisor every couple of hours once bolos get too old. 

 

With the ability to switch license plates and to steal other people's license plates, it adds on another layer that criminals can do if they don't want to get a impound warrant place on their vehicle and they also successfully invade. But if they get caught that's an extra charge. So again it's another risk versus reward system. 

 

This could also bring in new game mechanics for either a new freelance job or new system that the legal mechanic factions can do. Whoever ends up being able to do this job would have access to a very minimal version of a MDC plate scanner that would notify if a vehicle that they just scanned has an impound warrant for it, more or less making them a repo man to some extent, getting some commission or benefit from then towing the vehicle and bringing it to the impound lot.

 

 

[aka121]

great idea +1
would definitely increase roleplaying

tho your vehicles getting impounded is still pain when doing a crime with it
theres already a risk of impound when you do a crime  which is annoying that you cant use your vehicle for a while
but its for roleplaying so why not add an impound warrant too

[Eliza]

If someone else uses your car and ends up getting an impound warrant on it, what’s stopping the actual owner from just going down to impound, paying a fee, and driving it off like nothing happened? It kinda feels like this system just punishes people for the sake of punishment. I’m not really seeing how it adds meaningful gameplay, especially when people can just rotate cars or fake plates anyway. It seems like more hassle than it's worth.