This is the official topic for the upcoming drug script! This contains an overview of the planned and expirimental features. Do you have suggestions or questions? Please let us know here!
Weed:There's fertile land and not-so fertile land around Red County, Flint County, and Whetstone. The challenge is to find these fertile lands and plant your seeds. No, we will not release the map of these fertile land zones, but be assured, there's more than enough.
There will be two ways to get seeds, you either buy some from the 24/7 like it has always been, or recover some seeds from your harvested plants.
Once you got seeds, you need a shovel, which you can get from ammunation. Once you got a shovel, go exploring. Look for places you think would be reasonable to support weed growth. Then type /use cannabis seeds with the shovel in your hand and a message will either say you're not on fertile land or it will succeed and the seeds will be planted.
The wait is about 3 hours. After 1 hour of planting, the plant object will show, but it won't be ripe. The plant will be very light green to indicate its still maturing. 2 more hours and it will be dark green, ready to harvest. If it's not harvested in 1 hour after that (4 hours total), it will turn brown, indicating the plant has died.
Once it's mature, you can go up to the plant and type /harvestweed. The weed grams it yields is randomized. Nothing being the least, and 8 grams being the most. Yes, it is possible to have a plant but it not yield anything. That's the risk you take with any sort of farming. After it's harvested you will be given some grams of weed and a random amount of seeds (1-4).
Note: The plants are almost completely database driven. Therefore, your plants will stay upon server restart.
The rest is obvious. From there you can either smoke it or sell it.
The benefits of smoking? There really isn't one. You might get a slight buzz of "drunkness" that can impair your maneuverability, but other than that, it's just a aesthetic / party drug.
Heroin:We put a lot of thought into this therefore it will be a bit more complex than the weed system.
To order heroin, you need to find a drug cartel's phone number. Of course it's not gonna be in any phonebook, so you will need to ask around.
Once you have the number, you can call them and they will answer. From there, you will tell them how much heroin you want, they will say the grand total, and once its agreed upon by you, they will give you an ETA on delivery, usually its between 1-4 hours. Once they are ready, they will SMS you a meeting point at a RANDOM dock/port.
You will then have 30 minutes to get to the meeting point. If you make it on time, you will see them as NPC actors. You can then approach them and give them the money they asked, and they will in turn give you the heroin. If you don't make it on time, or don't bring enough cash, they will get angry and leave.
You don't want to make the cartel angry, as they may at any time decide to no longer do business with you. On the bright side, if you become a frequent buyer, they may come down on the price sometimes, and if they run out of stock, they may even give you the phone number of another cartel! Yes, there will be multiple cartels to do business with, but the challenge will be to discover their phone numbers. These cartels will come from different countries known for smuggling - Mexican, Cuban, Brazilian, Colombian, etc, etc.
Obviously if you are doing this, your intention is to resell it on the streets. But those who decide to use it will have some sort of experience.
Heroin will make you less sufficient to damage from hits and gunshots during it's effect. But that comes with a cost. The first time you use heroin, you will be addicted. If you don't buy more soon after you last injection, you will go through withdrawal symptoms, which can be deadly. To get cured of addiction you must admit yourself to a hospital and pay quite a bit a money. If you take too much, you will pass out of overdose. If EMS does not reach you soon to reverse it, you will die of the overdose.
Market:At this point, the market will be kept as-is.
Other drugs:There will be other drugs! There will be many new features introduced in the next fe weeks!
That's all for now. Let us know what you think.