Should Bike Racks be added to Epoch?

[TheRockGaming]

I was thinking about how everyone uses SUV's in Epoch because they are good offroad and on-road, but hardly anyone uses crappy sedans like GAZ's. Well, I think a great addition to the game would be bike racks. Going somewhere deep into the forest? Park your sedan along the road, unload your bike, and off you go. The bike rack could be sold at a vehicle parts trader and added to any vehicle. What do you guys think?

[Incar]

I was actually thinking of something along these lines awhile ago. I like using mountain bikes for silence, but for long range travel they're not always ideal, so would be nice to have it brought with you. Ofc there is the script where you can unpack/repack bikes with toolbox, but not a big fan of that. This is something I was actually gonna look into trying to do sometime in the near future, along with loading dirtbikes onto pickups. Pretty sure towing scripts will be a good reference for this.

[cen]

most servers have deploy/pack bike scripts already.

[Mystykall]

You could edit the bike script to deploy from an item and use that for bike racks.

[TheRockGaming]

most servers have deploy/pack bike scripts already.

 

Yea, but I've never been a fan of the magical bike showing up after I right-click on my toolbox or use the scrollwheel option. I think this would be a bit more of an immersive option for players, and would fit into the Epoch setting well. I was also never a fan of giving up my toolbox for a bike, and mods like Overwatch infecting you when you pack a bike sometimes. I would like to see bike racks that would fit two, maybe three bikes as well.

 

I was actually thinking of something along these lines awhile ago. I like using mountain bikes for silence, but for long range travel they're not always ideal, so would be nice to have it brought with you. Ofc there is the script where you can unpack/repack bikes with toolbox, but not a big fan of that. This is something I was actually gonna look into trying to do sometime in the near future, along with loading dirtbikes onto pickups. Pretty sure towing scripts will be a good reference for this.

 

I really like your idea to load dirtbikes into pickups!

[Saizyn]

You can set up vehicles that can tow specific items via the R3F tow/lift/cargo script , in the Addons Config folder, in Epoch Objects, just edit out any vehicle you don't want to tow, lift, or load cargo. Adjust the "weight" of the bikes to match with any truck/suv you want to carry them, and there you go.

 

This also works well to adjust what vehicles can tow, just edit out everything but the Urals, V3S's or Hummers (or whatever you'd like) to make it more interesting for players.

 

That topic and the plethora of others will answer any specific questions you might have on further adjustments of the script.

[TheRockGaming]

You can set up vehicles that can tow specific items via the R3F tow/lift/cargo script , in the Addons Config folder, in Epoch Objects, just edit out any vehicle you don't want to tow, lift, or load cargo. Adjust the "weight" of the bikes to match with any truck/suv you want to carry them, and there you go.

 

This also works well to adjust what vehicles can tow, just edit out everything but the Urals, V3S's or Hummers (or whatever you'd like) to make it more interesting for players.

 

That topic and the plethora of others will answer any specific questions you might have on further adjustments of the script.

 

I understand server admins could just add a script to make this happen, but it would be much better if they added it as an Epoch gameplay mechanic. I think it would be great to see the bike rack actually added to the car, and bikes populating that bike rack as you add them. I'm no programmer, so I don't know how much work would have to go into adding something like this into the game, but it would be a nice addition, nonetheless.

[NoxSicarius]

I came in to say that R3F has it in the script, but someone beat me to it. In all reality it would be great if Epoch had a large number of these scripts integrated, but it does not. I can name a good many that people would love to see in the main build, but for some reason they don't get in. It might be helpful for mods to go ahead and ask these people to add their mod to the github. I personally don't want to waste hours of integrating scripts and proposing it through github to simply have someone say no (making those hours wasted time). If the mods openly asked the script writers to do it, then I could see them taking the time to add it in.