Debit card.

[freestyle_Shadow]

Ever worried about carrying money on the streets without losing them? Do you need to pay something fast but the bank is far from you ? Debit card is the solution (WARNING!: not lootable)!

The debit card would have a maximum value of 10k, whenever you fill it, you will be asked to play a tax at the bank ( 0.24*howmuchyouwant )

WARNING: debit cards can only be filled to maximum to prevent abuse.

EDIT: You can use it to buy/transaction at different shops (access to your bank account) and even wire from it or fill it.

[brian1996]

This reminds me of that ATM idea i had back 3 years ago.

[Kessu]

As far as I know loot script was declared as total crap and will be removed (atleast I hope so, or then a rework to it), the use of debit card most likely would be useless since you could just roleplay it. Also the bank is not too far away so ATMs would be useless also (to brian's idea)

EDIT: Forum search is quite effective

/c loot is to be removed ASAP and is not necessary to the concept of loss on death as we thought before. People are only using it to money-munch in battlezones and to DM people for cash. This idea is no good.

[Klaus]

I'm sure this idea has been put forward before in the past.

[SugarD]

I'm sure this idea has been put forward before in the past.

I believe I've also suggested it in SA:MP's Ideas board once too. Overall not a bad idea, but it's hard to make it useful in our kind of RP servers given that most monetary things automatically take your on-hand money.

[~Legend~]

A great idea and we can see what the benefits would be. However, in practice, it's not something that would work in Vice City I would say, due to the physical size of the islands.

The bank is in a decently accessible location and giving other methods of retrieving money may mean that less people end up utilising the bank's service, although the 10k cap might get over this.

Perhaps to get over this you could introduce cheques when undertaking large transactions between players (in person) if looting is a concern. At the same time, the handing over of the cheque could be roleplayed and /wire made use of, although in some situations this may not be so ideal.

The situation of /c loot in the upcoming server version(s) may yet to be cleared, so who knows, we may not have to worry about it at all. : )

[SugarD]

Perhaps to get over this you could introduce cheques when undertaking large transactions between players (in person) if looting is a concern.

A check and a debit card transaction are literally the same thing, except one just goes through different inspections since it's on paper and moves through "snail mail", whereas the other is electronic, so automated confirmations are instant.

[Klaus]

it's not something that would work in Vice City I would say

Agreed. Plus even if looting was still kept, hardly anyone would even bother carrying around cash making looting even more pointless than it already is.

[stormeus]

/c loot is definitely removed in 2.1 and may even be removed in 1.9x in the future if 2.1 deployment isn't timely enough.

As for this idea, debit cards are hardly necessary, though ATMs are something that may be worth implementing in a very basic form. There's one ATM in the Ocean Beach mall and another in the North Point Mall, which can be used by shoppers or people who are too lazy/in a rush to complete a roleplay to drive all the way to Little Haiti and return to whatever RP they may be in the middle of.

[Klaus]

Oh yeah, I remember showing you the ATM's since you didn't even know any existed

[Jaga848]

Oh yeah, I remember showing you the ATM's since you didn't even know any existed

Storm was like "ATM's in 80's? Are you kidding me?" before you showed him

[stormeus]

Storm was like "ATM's in 80's? Are you kidding me?"

huehuehuehue

[SugarD]

I'm actually quite surprised too, as I don't remember seeing them. D:

[~Legend~]

Klaus put them in last year for jks.