Casino stuff

[Duubz]

Thought I'd start this issue so we can sort out what type of system we're going to implement.

I figure the best thing to do in terms of gangs taking it over is: Gang takes over the casino in same (or similar) way as gang hideout The casino pays protection money to that gang's gang fund. Other gangs can still take over the casino and basically steal it from whoever had it before hand. If the casino is successfully robbed it doesn't pay any more protection money that server session. After server restart everything starts over again.

[Duubz]

In regards to the robbery system - I was thinking something along the lines of the below. IMO I think the room upstairs is too small to put a safe in. Thoughts?

[preister]

Looks good, is there a ladder on the building or would you always have to use a chopper to get to the box without raising an alarm?

In regards of the Safe, we could have the option to either blow it up (would be faster but a random amount of valuables will be destroyed) or use a drill (takes longer and has a small chance of failing all together but would always give you the full amount in the safe when successful) - what do you think?

[Duubz]

Nope there's no ladder on the building so you'd have to use a chopper in some way.

The bomb and drill option sounds good.

[Duubz]

Just thought. Is it possible to lock those doors in particular without locking the other doors in the building as well?

[preister]

Yes, we just need to figure out the exact names of the doors - I might need to write a little tool of that ...

[preister]

OK starting work in this, current ToDo list:

• Refactor the federal reserve code so we can use it for stuff like the casino as well (main thing here is to pull out the code which locks specific doors in a building and all handling regarding it - there is already a bug with repairing the doors already, I believe.)
• Refactor the capture Hideout code so we can use it to capture different objectives - this will be useful for capturing Kavala as well.
• Find a nice way to place objects in buildings (or better even attach them to prevent things sinking into the "ground") - sorry I'm just too lazy to adjust stuff in the map editor ^^

... yeah that's enough work for now I think :D but there is definitely more to come.

I also have some questions in regards of gameplay:

• having the casino go bust until the next server restart seems a bit harsh, especially if there is only one casino around?
• How much money is in the vault? Is it always a fixed amount or does it increase over time?
• We talked about the vault holding money stacks, what happens if somebody steals them and the gang which controls the casino captures the person and gets the money back? I don't think we want them to be able to launder that - unless of course this actually represents their gang money which they lost during the theft?

[Duubz]

• having the casino go bust until the next server restart seems a bit harsh, especially if there is only one casino around? - Yeah I think you're right, there's probably better ways of doing this.
• How much money is in the vault? Is it always a fixed amount or does it increase over time? - This could probably relate to the amount of gang funds the gang has that holds the casino maybe. Or it could just increase overtime somehow.
• We talked about the vault holding money stacks, what happens if somebody steals them and the gang which controls the casino captures the person and gets the money back? I don't think we want them to be able to launder that - unless of course this actually represents their gang money which they lost during the theft? - I'd like it to be a Y item so the cash bundles do drop - the gang could in theory launder the money as it's the casinos money, it gives them more incentive to stop the robber.

We'll have a talk about it on TS with the other guys and figure it out.

[preister]

Just scribling down some stuff @CeltS-Dubbz261 can you take a look and let me know what you think?

Casino capture stage 1:

• Gang can capture the casino as a result a paycheck (value configurable) will be payed to the gang funds
• A check is done every x minutes to check if a gang member is still in the vicinity of the casino, if not the casino is returned to un-captured state (There should be at least a small price to pay for getting free cash XD )
• Another gang capture the casino any time to stop the payment to the first gang and rather get the payment into their own gang funds.

Another idea I had was to maybe increase the paycheck for cops if the Casino is uncaptured? And of course allow cops to uncapture the casino.

[preister]

http://www.altisliferpg.com/topic/7754-howto-papabears-slot-machine/

[Duubz]

ooo awesome, that's the same guy I got the blackjack script from. I'll get than one working tomorrow me things, Just need to find myself some decent pics to use etc.

[preister]

Lets get it working first ^^ nice look is for later :D

[Duubz]

ok i'll make a separate branch for it to separate it from the casino stuff you're doing. If his last tutorial is anything to go by I should get it working tonight.

[preister]

Yeah I think there is even still a branch for blackjack :D