A Better Hunting System

[jason]

Hunting as-is feels very lackluster in terms of RP and civilian life.

Here's a few things that would, in my opinion, improve the RP feeling of hunting:

• Make it a scripted job requiring a hunting license.
  • This would not disallow those without a hunting license from shooting and gutting animals in the forest, but would instead restrict them to only using that meat for personal use and not monetary gain, as they wouldn't be able to sell it to a butcher/trader directly.
  • Hunting licenses would be limited to non-violent and non-criminal individuals, similar to a firearm's license.
  • These licenses would also be required to sell the meat at a trader/butcher location, which discourages people from constantly robbing hunters. (This in itself is horrible RP to begin with, who the heck rolls up on a dude with a rifle in the forest to steal their wallet or meat?)
• Restrict said job within a certain area in forests/rural zones.
  • Doing so should stop people from wandering into the city or the highway with a rifle for the purpose of self defense/aggroing other players.

These changes would not only make hunting feel better in terms of RP, but it also provides a good civ RP option for those who don't want to RP in a faction.

[BellamyJames]

+1 I don't hunt so I have no real horse in that race, but the logic is there, so, plus.

[37hh]

+1

[TheWishfire]

+1

[Wifye]

+1

I have a further suggestion for this as well.

 

You could probably tie a whole bunch of things together with this, I'll give a brief list as an example.

1- implement an actual hunter job like suggested by the OP.

2- create a farming job for getting crops like wheat for bread

3- create processing plants that refine meat and crops in large quantities into the actual food products like burgers that can only be purchased via order mechanics by stores and not individual consumers. Each processing plant would pay for the items received from hunters/farmers based on order mechanics.

3.5- create restaurants that can create actual food products from the meat/crops like the processing plants but at far reduced quantities and speed. With the reduced quantities and speed drawbacks, the restaurants would be able to sell their product directly to consumers unlike processing plants that can only sell to general stores.

4- The products created by the processing plants can be ordered by the store in order to do restocking. Shipments can be made via the current order system. Just instead of throwing money at an import mechanic with a magical supply, the processing plants create actual stock. 

 

When you have a complete processing chain like above, you create multiple new job opportunities and new businesses where everyone has a hand in the process as well as making some money along the way which is a win for everyone. 

Edited May 20, 2019 by Wifye

[dawpi]

+1

[Flamefriends]

+1 to this and all the suggestions wifye mentioned. Farming jobs already exist, so it wouldn't be that big of a stretch to make this whole thing one big community-driven market. 

[KeistuoliZ]

+1

[Whitney]

+

Edited December 29, 2020 by Asterisk

[John Kovach]

+1 

[freshprinceIE]

-1 for the legal restrictions.

+1 for everything else.

Huting needs to be improved. Sometimes there are tons of animals and sometimes there are none. Something needs to be done, but removing a hunting license because someone got a felony GTA or whatever sucks.

[Xoza]

Definitely needs an increase. I rarely see animals now and not enough to hunt / make a living.