Steal from the Car Dealer

[Tommer]

Stealing a Vehicle

The Car Dealer menu would have a new option 'Steal' on the car page next to Buy now.

A stolen car will show up in your garage and it will have its own VIN.

You may make only one theft attempt a day but can have as many stolen cars as your garage can fit.

Driving a stolen car

The stolen car can be set as the primary car like any other car but may only be driven as a civilian.

When driving a stolen car, you do not earn or lose money, you do not collect trip bonuses, you are 'outside of the system' so to speak.

Selling a stolen car

There is a 40 minute timer attached to the stolen car that only counts down whilst you are in motion outside of the safe zone and there are active cops in the server. During this time you cannot sell a stolen car because it is 'too hot'.

Once this time period ends and you manage to not be caught in this time you can sell a stolen car to the 'black market' from the home menu for 20% of it's estimated value.

You may not sell the car to the dealer or to another player because it is stolen.

How it works with Police

You have a permanent wanted level that is attached to your VIN for as long as you are driving the car. Cops who have purchased an ANPR-camera and fitted it to their car will see that it is stolen.

A theft won't be reported when leaving the pits in a stolen car. This incentivizes the thief to drive normally to avoid arousing suspicion as some cops won't know it's stolen, and also incentivizes Cops to invest in ANPR-Camera's to earn more money and detect stolen cars.

If you are caught, you receive double the usual chase fine making it a high risk decision to steal a car. You will of course lose the car and be sent into spec.

Final thoughts

The idea here is to make being a thief more interesting, stealing a car being a high-risk, high rewards game, with incentive to stay low and get the car off the road and sold out of your hands as quick as you can.

I imagine it would be pretty intense feeling driving a stolen car hoping not to be noticed by Police that are roaming the server long enough for the counter to go down.

As a cop it would make the ANPR Camera a more valuable and interesting tool for catching stolen cars, as you will receive twice the usual fine if you manage to catch someone driving a stolen car.

Let me know what you think, good idea overall? bad? needs tweaks?