AMAZING IDEA!!

[Pr0ph3t]

Okay, seriously I'm not joking.

Ever played that taxi game on arcade where you drive around people and drop them off to destination and pick up others? Well this could be a little coffee break thing. YOu generate random ppl, with radon destinations and voila OFP Crazy Taxi. You know how awesome that would be?

[Ade]

Sounds cool, I think it would work best in MP. Put an overall time limit on the mission and whoever gets the most fares wins.

The basic car that each player starts with could be this desirable model:

http://ofp.gamezone.cz/index.php?showthis=2845

This Gaz 24 pack includes, would you believe, a taxi  

http://ofp.gamezone.cz/index.php?showthis=4381

Then as the game progresses you could get hold of faster cars. The players would have to choose between picking up a fare or looking for a better car. Great fun!

Ade  

[Pr0ph3t]

I was thinking helicopters too.. Like fares make you money and can purchase better stuff..

[bluehand]

I agree, it sounds like a lot of fun.    You could stick a bunch of guys at different towns, then when you pick one up, he names another town at random & asks to be taken there.  I've got some code to do that bit already, because of my own odd idea that I'll post next (random assaults).
You could scatter a few vehicles at different towns, and then the player could go looking for them, with an expectation that something is parked near (say) Chapoi, but not knowing whether it'll be a M113 or UH-60.

[Dubieman]

The only problem is cars get wrecked so fast. And trying to push your competition off the road ends up in two cars melding together.

But it would be a nice break. Add some nitro scripts and stuff... ;D

[Pr0ph3t]

SO LET'S DO IT!

[Serial Killer]

Who? Me? I can do it! ;D

[greg147]

Just one suggestion  

You could make it so if your passenger dies whilst you're taking them to their destination (so, if you get run off the road and they die), you could lose loads of points and money  

[dmakatra]

There's just one slight problem... Most people find driving in OFP being dead boring.

:beat: *Gets Shot* :beat:

[Pr0ph3t]

Not if you super power the car it isn't. Check it out, you make the vehicle (except airborn ones) invulnerable. Then you keep camcreating shells behind it and voila. Super nitro system.

[Artak]

Yeah, sounds like a really good mission. doh.  

[Pr0ph3t]

yah yah. its a coffeebreak thing not a graceful campaign

[Dubieman]

There are better ways to give a car nitro, no need for shells. Setvelocity... ;D

The only "good" way to improve on OFP driving is to say, code the cars like tanks. So you say, they don't "turn", so what, it'd keep cars from melding together and add some speed to it and it might be interesting.

Maybe...

[dmakatra]

OFP is not a racing game. You can turn it into a RPG because the scripting supports it. You can turn it into a RTS because the scripting supports it. But you can't turn it into a racing game because the physics engine forbids it. Have anyone of you actually seen how fucked up OFP's physics engine is? Even if you'd config them as tanks they'd still bounce around like my neighbour's dog. Not to mention how great the AI would handle rammings or just taking a turn with decent speed and not drive half way to Las Vegas off-road.

:beat: *Gets Shot* :beat:

[Dubieman]

I was just suggesting that coding them like tanks would be better than 2 cars melding together. It'd be a tough mission to make and make well.

Even if you'd config them as tanks they'd still bounce around like my neighbour's dog

Um.... ;D