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Brief Summary:
This suggestion is to get a look from not only the outside perspective but inside of car dealerships. This suggestion revolves around how car dealerships are run, how cars are sold and how prices are constructed.
Detailed Suggestion:
The focus of car dealerships obviously are to sell cars however its been seen that being a car dealer reaps massive rewards and you tend to be one of the richest players on LS due to the profit made off of the deals.
I propose the following, Cars be made purchasable on finance. With finance, players would be obligated to pay x percentage of the cars worth every week. This would mean that if a player was to buy a car for i.e £100,000 it would be within the deal of the dealers and yourself to have to pay a certain amount of the cars worth every week. This gives opportunity for the dealers to make a percentage profit margin buy requiring players to pay little extra. This, I would believe, will give players an incentive to obtain money throughout their time playing and not be obligated to spend hours grinding straight off the bat to pay for a car. I'm also not stating remove the ability to purchase cars straight out but instead have it so when a player does want to buy a car straight out, they have a massive penalty of an additional charge. i.e You buy a car on finance for £100,000 and in the end you end up paying £120,000 but if you buy it straight out you could end up paying £150,000-£170,000 (extreme circumstance but just to get the point across) as we want to encourage players to have a reason to play and obtain money on the server as not to have the current situation where a lot of players state they are bored.
I also would propose a cap on how many people can work at a car dealership. I am not including those who simply get paid for collecting cars from the docks but those who physically sell the cars. As stated being in this position gives you a large RP interaction with the server population (if you're good at your job) and a good amount of money. This I feel should mean that If you want to be in this position of buying and selling cars, you should be a very active individual on the server and if the load becomes too much for you, and you become inactive, that position should fall to someone else, so I propose that in each car dealership their should be a max of 3 people employed there including the owner as the owner should be one of the most active as with the addition of finance, it would be their obligation to have to tract down and repo cars that players have not paid for.
Finally I propose that ALL cars be limited on the island. This would mean that i.e if you wanted to buy a Porsche 911 only 5-10 will be available to be sold and depending on the car it could drop to what currently happens of 1-3 or even 1 ever being sold. This would encourage the player market to sell their old unused cars to newer players working their way up through dealers, who would take a portion of the profit. This would help with the uniqueness of each player as not everyone would be seen driving the same car. In addition to this it could be looked into of having to pay a fee each week on storing your car in a public car park which would rack up with the amount of unsure/useless cars you may own and potentially limit how many car slots you have in your home which would be free of charge.
All of this is in hopes to attempt to help not only the player market but give players reason to play each day to sustain the life they want to live on LS and If the life is a rich man/women/toaster, then you have to work hard to stay there.
If you like the general Idea but aspects of the suggestion you feel wont work/you don't like, please still upvote and say so in the responses so we can see that you feel like change is needed and the best solution can be found.
This suggestion is to get a look from not only the outside perspective but inside of car dealerships. This suggestion revolves around how car dealerships are run, how cars are sold and how prices are constructed.
Detailed Suggestion:
The focus of car dealerships obviously are to sell cars however its been seen that being a car dealer reaps massive rewards and you tend to be one of the richest players on LS due to the profit made off of the deals.
I propose the following, Cars be made purchasable on finance. With finance, players would be obligated to pay x percentage of the cars worth every week. This would mean that if a player was to buy a car for i.e £100,000 it would be within the deal of the dealers and yourself to have to pay a certain amount of the cars worth every week. This gives opportunity for the dealers to make a percentage profit margin buy requiring players to pay little extra. This, I would believe, will give players an incentive to obtain money throughout their time playing and not be obligated to spend hours grinding straight off the bat to pay for a car. I'm also not stating remove the ability to purchase cars straight out but instead have it so when a player does want to buy a car straight out, they have a massive penalty of an additional charge. i.e You buy a car on finance for £100,000 and in the end you end up paying £120,000 but if you buy it straight out you could end up paying £150,000-£170,000 (extreme circumstance but just to get the point across) as we want to encourage players to have a reason to play and obtain money on the server as not to have the current situation where a lot of players state they are bored.
I also would propose a cap on how many people can work at a car dealership. I am not including those who simply get paid for collecting cars from the docks but those who physically sell the cars. As stated being in this position gives you a large RP interaction with the server population (if you're good at your job) and a good amount of money. This I feel should mean that If you want to be in this position of buying and selling cars, you should be a very active individual on the server and if the load becomes too much for you, and you become inactive, that position should fall to someone else, so I propose that in each car dealership their should be a max of 3 people employed there including the owner as the owner should be one of the most active as with the addition of finance, it would be their obligation to have to tract down and repo cars that players have not paid for.
Finally I propose that ALL cars be limited on the island. This would mean that i.e if you wanted to buy a Porsche 911 only 5-10 will be available to be sold and depending on the car it could drop to what currently happens of 1-3 or even 1 ever being sold. This would encourage the player market to sell their old unused cars to newer players working their way up through dealers, who would take a portion of the profit. This would help with the uniqueness of each player as not everyone would be seen driving the same car. In addition to this it could be looked into of having to pay a fee each week on storing your car in a public car park which would rack up with the amount of unsure/useless cars you may own and potentially limit how many car slots you have in your home which would be free of charge.
All of this is in hopes to attempt to help not only the player market but give players reason to play each day to sustain the life they want to live on LS and If the life is a rich man/women/toaster, then you have to work hard to stay there.
If you like the general Idea but aspects of the suggestion you feel wont work/you don't like, please still upvote and say so in the responses so we can see that you feel like change is needed and the best solution can be found.
