Better convoy bonus (hear me out before instalock)

[Joshy]

Again, another topic of which I've pondered a lot to post or not. One critical point with this suggestion however is you need a stable host to pull off big convoys unless you enjoy having 10 car lengths between trucks, taking up the entirety of SF-LV bridge.

[hide=extra irrelevant info]If this sounds rushed by the end, this post was written on 30 December 2013 (saved as convoybonus.txt).[/hide]
Start the tape...

i. Introduction
Convoys, is well... a pretty fundamental part of this considering its name is Convoy Trucking. It is also well established that convoys are most fun when there are more players in it, if you have 20 players in a convoy it can be a good laugh and experience, whilst also getting some additional money. However, this isn't really promoted nowadays since it's troublesome to conduct a convoy with spontaneous lag spikes and Terrorista trying to ram his Dodo down your truck exhaust pipe, but that's a story for a different day. What I'm trying to get across here is: we should have a better incentive to perform these bigger convoys.

ii. Why do we need this incentive?
When you compare the efficiency of a lone trucker to a large convoy, you will quickly see that the lone trucker is quicker than the convoy. The convoy is subsidized this by having a convoy bonus, but more often than not the convoy bonus still doesn't really match up to being a solo trucker. It takes time for convoys to load/unload, and accidents do occur more frequently during convoys because of numerous reasons which isn't quite yet understood by modern scientists (it has been suggested it is to do with the "lag boson" which may or may not exist, although psychology experts claim adrenaline rush is the cause, I don't know myself).

iii. Well so what if you receive less pay/minute than a trucker, it's about the fun right?
Well yes, games are a lot about fun. But at the moment, not enough players are experiencing the fun because they have other reasons not to experience it, such as less money, more accidents, takes more time. I'm trying to say we should convince more people to participate in large convoys by making convoys better than solo trucking.

iv. So how you gonna' do that?
Well considering vehicles/insurance/houses are pretty expensive, I think increased payout is a good proposal to persuade people to join convoys. Let's see the current situation, as-is on the server:

Graph showing current convoy bonus
The most efficient number of players to get money right is 2 players in convoy. Why? Because 2 players can be very efficient taking only a few seconds more than a solo player, and you get a 20% increase in pay! After that the larger convoys are only paying in lost efficiency.

v. OK... what should be done about that? Nothing more complicated is mathematically possible, right?
Well, you could increase the pay percentage in proportion to the number of players. There are many ways to do this but the way that makes most sense is a linear increase per player in convoy.

10% increase in payout per player in convoy

vi. Holy crap Batman! Wait, what will this do again?
It adds an incentive to convoy bonuses by compensating lost efficiency with higher payout, therefore more people in convoys = more people playing the original purpose of this server (Convoy Trucking) = more fun = happy days.

Note: I know scripters have a topic about this in their little cavern but this is a public suggestion and opinions should be heard imo.

[Matias]

I was wondering when you were going to post this suggestion

I told you i liked it a few days ago but you didn't post it. It's perfectly possible to increase the convoy bonus based on members. And i can check this along with dobby when i get back by february if mick likes it.

[Marccc]

Convoying made me come here, driving till midnight in convoys of 20 or more players, every day...

Convoying here is completely destroyed, we should get it back but with this community we reach nothing.

Thats all i can say.

[sardarji]

God damn guys add this. Leave all things and work on this update. It will get more players back, convoys like old time. I remember a convoy of more than 30 players.

Convoy is the main theme of the server.

Please do it.

[GeneralLee]

Very good point! I think that this will be implemented..
But let's take a look.. 3 years ago a 2 slots price was 2,000,000$ now is 3,000,000$
a 3 slots house was 3,000,000$ now is 7-8 million dollars.. I don't remember what was price for a 4slots but now is 16,000,000$ and still the old payment system..
As Joshy said

"The most efficient number of players to get money right is 2 players in convoy"

And we all know that,doesn't need to be explained.. I miss old 30 players convoys:D


Sooo  a totaly +1 !

[Wizzer]

God damn guys add this. Leave all things and work on this update. It will get more players back, convoys like old time. I remember a convoy of more than 30 players.

Convoy is the main theme of the server.

Please do it.

^ This

[DeHavilland]

God damn guys add this. Leave all things and work on this update. It will get more players back, convoys like old time. I remember a convoy of more than 30 players.

Convoy is the main theme of the server.

Please do it.

^ This

Also for Joshy, best suggestion ever! Cookie for you!

[Salam]

God damn guys add this. Leave all things and work on this update. It will get more players back, convoys like old time. I remember a convoy of more than 30 players.

Convoy is the main theme of the server.

Please do it.

[TheSandman]

You have my full support, (i know a lot of others have suggested this, but this topic have supporting information, which makes it 10000x better, you get credit too), then again, so should all players because i havent met anyone who doesnt want this.