[2.0] VC:MP - What's New in Beta?

[stormeus]

Business System
One of the biggest changes in 2.0, running a business will require effort. A business owner will be forced to restock their business when running low on goods, or they will not be able to make a profit. Businesses selling more expensive goods will be a higher risk to run, since their imports can be stolen and taken to another business. For example, Sunshine Autos' imports can be stolen and delivered at Roxor. aXXo will be running Sunshine Autos during beta to demonstrate how to run a high-risk business.

Citizenship and Migration
Having a passport and drivers' license will now be possible in 2.0. Passports will be issued by the Citizenship and Migration Board and drivers' licenses can be issued by roleplay driving schools. Until the CMB is formed and a driving school is made, the administration will be the de-facto CMB and an example driving school will be run by myself.

A passport will be required to buy businesses and properties. A drivers' license will be required to buy cars.

Criminal / Cop System
Police will no longer gain $99,999 for killing a high heat criminal. However, they will be paid according to department and personal credits. Department credits are gained and lost by the actions of all officers (killing a criminal gains credits, killing a civilian loses them). Personal credits only apply to one officer and work similarly to department credits. Officers will be paid according to Department Credits * Personal Credits, and these are never negative. An officer who does no work (0 credits) gets nothing, and receive their paydays every 30 minutes.

Criminals will still have a wanted level and heat like in 1.9. However, they will also have wanted stars that work as follows:

• WL 1-7: 1 Star
• WL 8-14: 2 Stars
• WL 15-24: 3 Stars
• WL 25-40: 4 Stars
• WL 41-60: 5 Stars
• WL 61+: 6 Stars

Gambling
The Malibu Club and the Biker Bar will no longer sell food. Rather, they will be gambling businesses. The business owner will have to buy "gambling credits" which determines the maximum bet during a gambling session. While other gambling games can be roleplayed with /c rolldice, the scripted gambling game will be a stripped down version of Blackjack. As many as four players can join. If all players bust or leave, the casino wins the pool of bets as profit.

Weed Growing and Drugs
Weed will be able to be grown and picked at certain points in the map. Drugs will also become rarer and harder to get due to the oversaturation of the drug market in 1.9. One weed spot can be found in Little Haiti.

Another major change is that extacy will not exist in 2.0 due to abuse of it for healing in combat.

Food
Food will not be as advantageous as it was in 1.9 due to abuse of it for healing during combat. Food businesses, however, will be able to set prices for custom food items, as well as how much HP it yields.

Loss on death
Players will lose a random percentage of money between 15% and 35% on death. Be careful!

Intentional Desync
Admins will now be able to desync players intentionally instead of freezing them, keeping them from being killed or killing other people while frozen.

[~Legend~]

Was just reading through the topics. Can't wait for the beta. 2.0 is shaping up really well.

[Klaus]

1. Cop cars need new colours. Black and white is old, reminds me too much of 1.1 days.
2. Spawn screen background should be changed and have a more up close angle
3. Too many different spawn skins, limit them more

Thats all my opinions for now

[Jaga848]

Man, this will be EPIC!!! But, FUCK!!, I won't be able to see it until 1st of sep.    Oh, but maybe with my laptop.... I'll come for a little maybe... Anyways, can't wait for 2.0 to come out! 

[Ave]

1. Cop cars need new colours. Black and white is old, reminds me too much of 1.1 days.

http://www.gtagarage.com/mods/show.php?id=16744

[Zeke]

Cant connect, not loading.
It just says "Connected succes.Loading network game"
And thats it it just stops there.

[Marcell]

Cant connect, not loading.
It just says "Connected succes.Loading network game"
And thats it it just stops there.

The server has crashed, but it shows online for some reason...we expected Squirrel to hold the attacks down, whereas its even more fucked up than Pawn - instead, the server crashes, but it doesnt say that in the server browser.

[Willy]

Please lock beta server, its huge saracasam there right now, make a beta testing team ffs

[SugarD]

Please lock beta server, its huge saracasam there right now, make a beta testing team ffs

Maybe you can't read the title "Beta". The reason why it was made available to everyone was so people could report all of the bugs instead of having a small team do it and only find some of them. Don't flame the Developers' work. They've been working hard on this for quite some time. If you don't like it, you don't have to play here. Simple as that.

@Ave: Lol those are the GTA III beta colors on the VC cop cars. VC's Beta cars were white, like in RS1.x for VC:MP. They do look nice in those colors, though!

[Marcell]

Maybe you can't read the title "Beta". The reason why it was made available to everyone was so people could report all of the bugs instead of having a small team do it and only find some of them. Don't flame the Developers' work. They've been working hard on this for quite some time. If you don't like it, you don't have to play here. Simple as that.

The server is literally unplayable due to all scripting errors (drawback of not testing the scripts after making 'em) thus we had to revert to old version for now.

[SugarD]

The server is literally unplayable due to all scripting errors (drawback of not testing the scripts after making 'em) thus we had to revert to old version for now.

It's not unplayable, just difficult, but I understand what you mean. What you're saying is totally different than the other guy's comment though. Thank you for being respectful about it.

As for the Beta itself, why not keep the open beta going on another VC:MP server available to the public? Then they can continue to report the bugs as they find them.

[Marcell]

It's not unplayable, just difficult, but I understand what you mean. What you're saying is totally different than the other guy's comment though. Thank you for being respectful about it.

As for the Beta itself, why not keep the open beta going on another VC:MP server available to the public? Then they can continue to report the bugs as they find them.

Agreed with the beta thing idea, since 10 players will definately find more bugs than few admins even if we already found a lot of 'em...

the problem is, Gandie says what is associated with Argonath, stays on Argonath servers - we don't have 2 servers to keep 1.9 on one and beta on other one, unless Gandalf allows us to host a new one without Sauron's help or unless Sauron will host the beta server on other IP for us

[SugarD]

Agreed with the beta thing idea, since 10 players will definately find more bugs than few admins even if we already found a lot of 'em...

the problem is, Gandie says what is associated with Argonath, stays on Argonath servers - we don't have 2 servers to keep 1.9 on one and beta on other one, unless Gandalf allows us to host a new one without Sauron's help or unless Sauron will host the beta server on other IP for us

Has anyone spoken with him about it? I know SA:MP has had it's own Argonath-hosted test server before for beta testing the upcoming "Rock Stars RPG" scripts, so I don't see why he wouldn't be willing to throw up a temporary server for VC:MP unless lag or hosting is an issue for him right now.

[Marcell]

Has anyone spoken with him about it? I know SA:MP has had it's own Argonath-hosted test server before for beta testing the upcoming "Rock Stars RPG" scripts, so I don't see why he wouldn't be willing to throw up a temporary server for VC:MP unless lag or hosting is an issue for him right now.

Let's wait for aXXo/Storm to drop a word here, since they have been in contact with the owners recently, due to launch of 2.0

i'll PM one of 'em

[SugarD]

Let's wait for aXXo/Storm to drop a word here, since they have been in contact with the owners recently, due to launch of 2.0

i'll PM one of 'em

Sounds good to me! With some of the changes already implemented in 2.0, I can already see a very large positive change in the VC:MP community's morale, so I hope they agree to this, because I would love to see VC:MP RS2 be released as soon as possible. This is a very large step for this part of Argo, and I can tell the players are just as excited as me too!