QOL: Garage Car Fixing

Just a few QOL “fixes” for how the car looks, repairs, and destroys itself when you park a car. I know a lot of people are going to hate me for some of these but some of these are needed. Sorry for the long post. Just a lot has been running through my mind.

(1) Currently, you park a car and it fixes its body. However, there’s an underlayment that people don’t see that can be tracked via the vehicle app. This can be really confusing for players. Some could say “skill issue” or “find out in character” but it simply wouldn’t make sense for a garage to fix a car. Or even the RP about a valet taking the car.

(2) Additionally, when they bring it back out, it will have $0 in repairs when a mechanic looks at the vehicle (this is super exploitable by lowering the cost of repair for the vehicle).

For instance, if I park my car after crashing it a few times and getting stalled a couple times and I have a car at 80%, I put it in the garage and bring it back out, it looks like it is at 100% but the app will say 80%. Additionally, it will say it has $0 damage when a mechanic looks at the car.

I’m not sure about storms because they seem a little weird with how they’re scripted. But I have had storms fully repair vehicle’s bodies (engine on phone app).

ALSO, a huge thing that seems to annoy a lot of people about garaging is:

(3) Gas seems to be randomized on how much is in the vehicle. I have put my car away at near 100% gas and it comes out at around 40% gas. It would be wonderful if this could be fixed. People (including me) have even pulled their car out and it not having gas in it but it was parked with plenty of gas.

(4) The fact that you lose your harness/NOS. I know people have suggested making harnesses a permanent thing like stancing but it may meet in the middle to just allow people to park their cars to keep harnesses so they can go in somewhere without the fear their car is going to get stolen or get towed by a local and then losing the NOS/harness anyway. I think maybe making the harnesses stay until a storm and maybe nerf the amount of times they can be used.

(5) Gas leaking issue when pulling out bikes is a huge issue. People pull out their bikes and it instantly starts leaking gas even though it wasn’t like that when they put it away.