Criminal car mods/making HSW illegal

[Doctor_Diddler]

So the big problem around town is that every gang, regardless of origin, is driving around $6M supercars and electric protoype cars like the La Co... well you know what it is. Not to mention, the entire meta revolves around cars that essentially accelerate the fastest, with every other type of car that can go fast but are slow to accelerate basically being relegated.

My proposal is that cars will start with their baseline and then the mods that actually turn them into meta cars - like the HSW upgrade - are the result of underground modding scenes adding illegally obtained and illegal-to-own parts. You can still own your incredible hihg speed electric 240 super car, but unfortunately it now poses an additional risk; if you're caught, or you dump it, you're about to lose those parts. 

That's right! Lose them! When cars are impounded, LEO's will need to check for illegal car modifications, which they can miss. However, if they catch them, they can confiscate them, which lowers the vehicle's stats unless the car is re-modded. 

These car parts could be potentially obtained through things like the illegal trucking shipments or drops. Perhaps you could peruse parts on those laptops that are basically useless? A new dark mode app? Eh? Finally, Benny's mechanics can be criminals while on duty!

The benefit is simple; it shifts the "meta" to focus more on picking and choosing your battles as well as adding potential for underground illegal mod shops (maybe an addition to chop shops?). More RP server wide with more cars getting the spotlight; for example, while a niobe might hit 240 easily, its mods might be far more expensive than, say, a vigero which is a significantly more common car in real life. With a tiered car part system to boot, suddenly every bank robbery becomes significantly more tactical and fun for all parties. Suddenly rolling out with your expensive monstrociti to a store robbery doesn't sound like a good proposition - maybe take a caracara or somesuch. 

Now, suddenly the width of usable vehicles becomes far more expansive, RP-friendly, and immersive. Police chases no longer end in 5 consecutive vehicle swaps after dumping your net worth at the pier to go for a swim. Gangs whose lore is being a local street gang will have more opportunity to drive more appropriate cars rather than whatever hits 240 the fastest. 

You want more RP on the server? Well brother, we're gonna have RP for days. You're going to have a thriving underground modding scene complete. You're going to have LEO's RPing taking cars apart. You're going to have interactions based on simply retrieving the car parts and fighting over which gang might get the upgraded pistons or whatever. The fun never ends, truly.

 

Why would I support this when it means I wasted all my money on an HSW only to have it now be illegal?

I think this could easily be solved with a buyback program. After all, it would be unfair to criminalize everyone who had one installed prior to it becoming illegal. Where there's a will, there's a way.

Should this apply to every vehicle?

I don't necessarily think so. I don't think anything would be significantly improved by, say, removing turbo mods from a packer or mule or something - their primary purposes is essentially just bulk storage and they aren't very fast to begin with.  Perhaps something to be looked at if this suggestion is ever accepted, such as if pounders become the new battering rams. 

Edited May 10 by Doctor_Diddler

[Carl Vespucci]

Honestly, it would be really cool if to get HSW, you would have to build the parts with set amount of materials you had to farm, such as from mining update and other updates. 

[Eliza]

I think FM should crack down more on enforcing lore vehicles instead of meta cars for gangs

[Doctor_Diddler]

5 hours ago, Carl Vespucci said:

Honestly, it would be really cool if to get HSW, you would have to build the parts with set amount of materials you had to farm, such as from mining update and other updates. 

You know this got me thinking - who's to say some of these car materials couldn't also be found rarely from chopping cars? Or perhaps guaranteed if you chop a more expensive car that has them installed, such as someone else's supercar? 

Edited May 10 by Doctor_Diddler

[SneakySniper]

+1

 

[arminass]

-1

[Lucidrgimme]

+1

[Doctor_Diddler]

I was thinking as well recently that this could also be molded into community events, such as a server staff-initiated group of supercars racing through the city, or being transported by a truck as if purchased by some bigshot and imported from overseas. Stealing it will cause a lot of ruckus but could reward some high tier parts if you can manage to get away and chop them. 

Throw in some news coverage, and suddenly everyone might be fighting over a single car a la GTAO's lobby events.