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Ralph
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CURRENT ISSUE

The different gas prices across the city is awesome, it does add a nice element of realism but currently there is too much of a range between the gas stations.

WHAT TO CHANGE

I would love to see a range brought in keeping fuel between $1.00 and $1.50 per tick instead of having someone places range from $1.00 through to $3.00+

WHAT'S THE IMPACT?

It just makes more sense, if fuel prices were to hike you'd never be able to go from Grove - Strawberry and find a $2.00 per tick difference, it's frustrating when low on fuel and you find somewhere that just slaps you in the face so hard to find 300 metres away you could've got it 1/3 the price.

Quality of life change.

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Greed702

Would it be possible to have the gas prices change based on how often the store is robbed? Like an attempt from the owner to recoup lost money. Maybe only cap at .50 difference.

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Ralph
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Would it be possible to have the gas prices change based on how often the store is robbed? Like an attempt from the owner to recoup lost money. Maybe only cap at .50 difference.

Not all gas stations have shops that would be the downside.

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Greed702
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Not all gas stations have shops that would be the downside.

True, but under the same name. Spread out in the city and rural areas. Gas stations near highways should already be higher than the average. 

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Zopfco

Less random prices would be interesting but sounds complicated. It does make sense that more remote stations would be charging a higher price.

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New Chance
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Any system to make this more defined would be very complicated to do properly. That’s why they’re random right now and have situations where gas stations just down the street may be much higher priced. It could be accomplished but at what cost? Are hours of dev worth it?

Changing the randomness is easy though. I could do a random $1.00 spread and have the floor and ceiling change every server cycle.

So at server start choose a random amount between $1 and $3 and then go $0.50 plus and minus that amount for the range of prices of gas. So some days it might be between $2.50 and $3.50 where other days it could be between $0.50 and $1.50

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Ralph
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Any system to make this more defined would be very complicated to do properly. That’s why they’re random right now and have situations where gas stations just down the street may be much higher priced. It could be accomplished but at what cost? Are hours of dev worth it?

Changing the randomness is easy though. I could do a random $1.00 spread and have the floor and ceiling change every server cycle.

So at server start choose a random amount between $1 and $3 and then go $0.50 plus and minus that amount for the range of prices of gas. So some days it might be between $2.50 and $3.50 where other days it could be between $0.50 and $1.50

Personally makes more sense being like this over 2 gas stations being 50 meters apart being $2.00 difference.


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