While brainstorming interesting ways to interconnect classes (specially the Trashman), I came across an epiphany:
A pullable, portable, wheelie bin trashcan.
It's intended use would be a more specialized tip jar for the Trash Man - People deposit their trash every once in a while in the neighborhood trash can. In technical-ish terms (as I know this shit is hard to code), it'd function almost identically to a tip jar. People 'donate' their 'internal' garbage value to the bin. The only difference, however, is that it's contents would be publically viewable and available to remove/put inside, and HERE'S WHY:
This has a lot of potential for interactions with other classes too:
By limiting bins to one or more per trashman, you'd also not be adding too many entities to the server either, not contributing meaningfully to server lag. And going even further (and along with my previous suggestion, bins could be upgradable to hold more trash, be lockable (and pickable) or even automatically refine trash into useful things. The sky is the limit and the more it does, the more people will want to screw with it, making the game more fun!
I understand I'm shooting for the stars here, but if accepted, it's a nice long term project to shoot towards
Thank you!
The Twash Wemoval Specialist
A pullable, portable, wheelie bin trashcan.
It's intended use would be a more specialized tip jar for the Trash Man - People deposit their trash every once in a while in the neighborhood trash can. In technical-ish terms (as I know this shit is hard to code), it'd function almost identically to a tip jar. People 'donate' their 'internal' garbage value to the bin. The only difference, however, is that it's contents would be publically viewable and available to remove/put inside, and HERE'S WHY:
This has a lot of potential for interactions with other classes too:
- Hobos can rummage the trash, suiting RP and maybe finding interesting items;
- Other Trashpeople can attempt to steal trash from eachother's bins, adding a nice layer of RP motivation to the class;
- Bins can be used as reference drop off points for shipments of illegal things between people who wish to RP outside of the overprotected bases.
By limiting bins to one or more per trashman, you'd also not be adding too many entities to the server either, not contributing meaningfully to server lag. And going even further (and along with my previous suggestion, bins could be upgradable to hold more trash, be lockable (and pickable) or even automatically refine trash into useful things. The sky is the limit and the more it does, the more people will want to screw with it, making the game more fun!
I understand I'm shooting for the stars here, but if accepted, it's a nice long term project to shoot towards
Thank you!
The Twash Wemoval Specialist
