[game/?] Bike Safety

[vol5]

Assurance: Yes

Summary: Create a new item that gives the player benefit of more safety for motorcycle driving.

Item: Bike Armor

Reduces incoming high-velocity physical damage by 90% when not in a vehicle Purple armor bar color

Crafting:

1 Sheet Metal 2 Leather 1 Rubber Item Weight 20lb

This item will replace the bar for armor with the (purple bar) bike armor and will only protect against physical damage. This will not protect you from projectile damage or explosive damage. You will lose the armor upon getting downed, when you put on another armor type and when it decays from use.

Reason: After driving around on a bike for some time now after the previous EDM rotation. Something of this nature would be awesome to have. I would use Bike Armor over Body Armor any day. Those with bikes would feel more incentive to use bikes since they will not die every time they crash. Most people are not good drivers, and this would help alleviate their pain.

[nunsia]

I think this is a great suggestion, I'm unsure if he solely thought it for motorcycles, but I know normal bicycles would benefit from it too. PD have bicycles which I like to ride around on from time to time, but always end up downed at least 2 times which then forces me to put it away because I would be wasting units coming to get me.

I do however suggest that rather than 90% it would be 70-80% for testing, then if it's too low, could be bumped up to 90%.

[vol5]

I think this is a great suggestion, I'm unsure if he solely thought it for motorcycles, but I know normal bicycles would benefit from it too. PD have bicycles which I like to ride around on from time to time, but always end up downed at least 2 times which then forces me to put it away because I would be wasting units coming to get me.

I do however suggest that rather than 90% it would be 70-80% for testing, then if it's too low, could be bumped up to 90%.

The suggestion was mainly to reduce that of which you said. People going down to fall damage/crash damage on bikes. More protection from falling off the bike is a benefit IMO. I did not think of pedal bikes, so thank you for mentioning it since it adds value there as well. The main pushback was that something like this would promote motorcycle usage and make them "OP" in the cop vs crim scene. I do not think it would have a huge influence in that regard, since if you crash a motorcycle, you go flying. As you said, the value would most likely be lower than 90% but the goal is the same. Giving players the option to better the pedal bike/motorbike experience.

[PedroTheTurtle]

I also think this suggestion is great. I enjoy driving the EDM bikes in the city, but most of the time I end up having to put them away because of how much I get downed by the Locals swerving into me, or because of a small crash. The addition of bike armor to help with this would definitely make me want to pull out my bike from the garage again.

[xEleyna]

This would be a very useful addition. Driving a bike in this city sometimes is like jumping off mount chiliad, especially cause the locals seem to hate bikes.