Shady Shores content and love
Giving Sandy Shores more content and reasons to visit. As it is a ghost town.
I love hanging out in sandy in most cities as it fits my character’s vibe and persona.
But in Echo I rarely, if ever, see anyone other than officers from PD that take off to other places mostly.
I have tried to RP reasons for others to visit, and hang out there. But it’s an uphill battle for the reasons below:
The new mall is nice, but it has nothing you cannot get in the city, so no reason to come here for it. It’s also the only lobby bank where you cannot collect your check at it. The one in town and Paleto you can.
Also Sandy has no Motel, while Paleto does. There is a well-suited motel right at the entrance to Sandy with plenty of rooms for people.
Perhaps move the trucker job here? as the guy for it is randomly standing on the side of the road out near Stab City and seems out of place hanging out on the side of the road.
There is no hospital out there, so not even a chance for people to be coming/leaving the area for medical assistance.
I am not sure how the citizen ran restaurants work. Do they work like mechanics where they need ‘supplies’ from the farm the way mechs need parts sold to them. If so, move/make the supply area out here? It would drive truck traffic to the area.
Overall I would love to see/help spread the population around, and make it less so the south ½ of the map is populated, and the top ½ is just ‘there’ with 95% of the players not spending any time more north than the prison.
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searynox
Sep 20, 2024
Also i have to addd, there is a hospital in sandy :)
DX Warlock
Sep 23, 2024
Yea I noticed that, it wasn’t marked on the map, so I never went into it assuming it wasn’t functional :)
DX Warlock
Sep 20, 2024
That’s great to hear!
A bit sad at times to see 350/350 online and I go there and see like 1 person every 10 minutes :(
I feel adding some reason to ‘be/go’ there would encourage more diversity of RP types of players. And give a more organic feel to the areas of the map.
City has ‘city folk’, and Sandy would have the ‘rural folk’.
Some of my most enjoyable RP flying into other cities was with the rural folk hanging around the local gas station as they smoked meth, and got into beer-fueled fist fights to have the local PD show up and argue with Cletus and Clemp about “How many times we got to tell you boys about this?” type things :)
Paul
Sep 20, 2024
I will say, we are working on the sandy motel and getting that implemented, we are just awaiting for some things from the original mapper of the motel
DX Warlock
Sep 20, 2024
Also and/or move the chop buyer out there?
It’s about the same distance to drive from the legal chopping to get to him if moved. His current location seems out of place: A man who buys used questionable car parts and catalytic convertors, in a nice neighborhood.
Would feel more realistic to be selling them to a guy living in an old dirty trailer with a dirt yard.
DX Warlock
Sep 20, 2024
I stand corrected, I just realized there IS a working hospital out there. it’s just not marked on the map so I never tried to use it. And do not think I ever woke up from local EMS there even when being incapacitated near sandy.
bountyrogger
Sep 20, 2024
When taking local EMS you will always wake up in Pillbox.