Developer Diary - New Mini-Missions

[Fuzzie]

Developer Diary - New Mini-Missions

Hello Argonathians,

The last 2 mini-missions were a success. Many players who tried them out love 'em. Haven't tried it out yet? Head in-game and experience it yourself! As we inch closer to the release of the highly anticipated Bank Rob, we wanna treat out players to another 2 more similarly themed mini-missions to get players hyped up. Here they are,


Diamond Heist

Businesses are blooming all over Vice City. The jewel stores in the city are stock piling tons of diamonds to sell to their customers. Based on the classic robbery, players will have to rob a jewel store and protect the lead robber while doing so for not 1, not 2 but 5 minutes! After successfully surviving that, they have to sell the diamonds to the dealer at the Old Warehouse, Vice Port. (The place where Lance's brother got killed in the opening cut-scene. Don't know where it is? Go and player Single-player and watch the first cut-scene. ) How much could you get from this?

• Jewellery Shop, NPM: $500 - $1,000
• Jewellery Shop, Vice Point: $750 - $1,200
• Jewellery Shop, Downtown: $1,000 - $1,400

Commands: /robjewelstore


Armoured Truck

Bearer bonds. Every criminal wants it. This mini-mission is all about driving skills. Players will have to drive a bullet-proof Securicar parked behind V.A.J Finance, Downtown (The place where you first pick up Candy Suxx. Don't know where it is? Go play Single-player until you buy the Film Studios and play their first mission. ) and drive it all the way to either 8-Balls Garage, Vice Port for criminals or the back of El Banco Corrupto Grande, Little Havana and unload the goods with up to $500 for cops and $1,000 for criminals. Think it's gonna be an easy ride? Think again.

Commands: /unloadtruck


More mini-missions as well as new scripts will be added to the server in the future. Until then, head in-game and experience it for yourselves.

[Klaus]

Excellent work Fuzzie.

[Pizza4_Games]

Amazing stuff man! I tried it, hilarious that I lost my packs so many times 

[brian1996]

I expected the armoured truck to be more like a hit on a transport with unkown goods inside, pretty much like Heat and Payday.

[Nylez]

VCPD will have a lot of problem thinking about what's their priority. Surviving or killing the truck carrying the goods. Lovely idea. Thanks Fuzzie.

[Kessu]

Added commands to the first post to make it more clear how to actually do the minimissions

[rObInX]

Great work.

And please fix this:

Spoiler for Hiden:

[Marcell]

Do you need any ideas for new events, or is scripting them only limited to time constraints?

[Fuzzie]

Any new ideas and suggestions are definitely welcomed and no. There are no specific time as to when new mini-missions/events are released. I just found a way to connect these 2 mini-missions to bank rob. Otherwise, they were developed as two completely separate ideas.

[Call_me_Dad]

Great work.

And please fix this:

Spoiler for Hiden:

This has been fixed.

[Marcell]

some feedback based on my experiences
1. it would be great if you'd add more variants of the armored truck event because it's kinda weird to have it spawn only in 1 place all the time
2. axxo told me the events happen only if there's 2 cops online. this is somewhat unfair, because it means if you play as cop with your friend and no other players you can earn free money, but if you play as civs/crims alone on the server you can not. either make it so that events are available with no cops too (the competition is still there! the players will race to the truck and stores to be the robber to get the money for themselves) or make a check so there needs to be 2 cops + 2 civs.
3. the jewelry store robbery is horribly unbalanced. you need to stay around jewelry store for 5 mins - this is as much as a bankrob, yet the location is way worse to defend....yet you only get 10% of bankrob's reward. also the way this works - cops don't know who's robbing the store, so you can just step out and pretend you're smoking a cigarette or something....what are they meant to do? suspect you for refusing to leave? the fact that they need to be gone kinda pushes player into deathmatching......if you ask me, rebalance the robbery time into 1 minute or 1 minute 30 seconds, but add auto suspection.

[Klaus]

you only get 10% of bankrob's reward

But it happens a lot more frequently than a bankrob.

[brian1996]

The rewards of mini missions should be increased a bit IMO.

[Kessu]

The rewards of mini missions should be increased a bit IMO.

And no again, rewards from the minimissions are balanced around everything else.

[Fuzzie]

1. it would be great if you'd add more variants of the armored truck event because it's kinda weird to have it spawn only in 1 place all the time

More variants will be added for all if not most of the mini-missions in the near future. *cough*#shiternet*cough*

2. axxo told me the events happen only if there's 2 cops online. this is somewhat unfair, because it means if you play as cop with your friend and no other players you can earn free money, but if you play as civs/crims alone on the server you can not. either make it so that events are available with no cops too (the competition is still there! the players will race to the truck and stores to be the robber to get the money for themselves) or make a check so there needs to be 2 cops + 2 civs.

It actually does work this way. So even if there are 2 cops online but not enough non-cops player, the mini-mission won't happen

3. the jewelry store robbery is horribly unbalanced. you need to stay around jewelry store for 5 mins - this is as much as a bankrob ... rebalance the robbery time into 1 minute or 1 minute 30 seconds

IMO, the lowest I would even go for will be 3 minutes

3. ... yet you only get 10% of bankrob's reward. ...

Mini-missions were never suppose to outshine smuggle and bank rob. It was just an addition to give players something else to do while waiting for bank rob to be done and to keep new players interested in playing on Argonath.

3. ..  cops don't know who's robbing the store, so you can just step out and pretend you're smoking a cigarette or something....what are they meant to do? suspect you for refusing to leave? the fact that they need to be gone kinda pushes player into deathmatching......

3. ... but add auto suspection.

Improvements and changes will be made to all the existing mini-missions to make it more informative.