GTA Real life

[waddle48]

I have thouhgt of this idea, to turn GTA:SA into a more real life experience.

 

Ok, here it goes:

First of, you start a new game with 3 modes:Easy, Normal, Hard and instead of you going to the introduction videos and missions. You get to choose:

What island you live on (i.e. LS, SF, LV.) and you have to choose what property you would like to live in. After that, you choose what clothes you wear, and then, choose what car you want for the game (only in the begining.)

 

The 3 modes explained:

Easy = Start of with alot of money, (i.e $30,000)

Normal = Start with an average amount of money, (I.e.$10,000)

Hard = Start of with a low amount of money, (I.e. $5,000)

 

After you start the new game and have moved in your house, you then have a choice, to get a job, (I.e. Burger Shot, Taxi, Police etc..) or to be a serial killer, or whatever you want! Each path you choose has its downsides:

Being a serial killer = Police come after you when you kill someone.

Getting a job = bills you have to pay? or maybe tax or something like that.

 

After you go through the game for a while, you start to earn, more and more money, then you can buy new clothes, cars and new houses, and if you want can sell your old house! businesses can be apart of it to, like you can buy Burger shot, and then gain more money.

 

Other job ideas could be:

Join the army,

Join the navy,

Join the Police Service,

Join the Health Service,

Join the Fire Service,

Become a Movie star,

Become manager of Burger Shot, or Pizza Stack,

Become the owner of a clothes store,

Or Even become a drug dealer!

 

So, anyone up for the challenge? I can put forward more ideas, and for anymore information, just ask.

 

Thanks for spending you time to read this!

 

EDIT

Other new ideas:

Another job idea is to become a superhero! (telephone boxes in the street that act as wardrobes, so you can quick change into a premade superhero costume, that possibly replaces the GIMP suit? and maybe missions similar to vigilante missions!)

 

Get a job with a news company, flying the VCN chopper, driving the News van, and taking photos for the newspaper!

 

 

Edited June 22, 2005 by waddle48

[MrTi]

so sorta like the sims?

 

i like the idea. sounds like a fun mod.

[Urban Legend]

sounds like a pain in the ass

[gamersdg]

if you can do it i would download it

[waddle48]

so sorta like the sims?

 

i like the idea. sounds like a fun mod.

Yea, sort of.

 

But if no one likes the idea, maybe the jobs i thought of, could work instead, like:

Being a binman = drive the trashmaser around collecting rubbish!

Newsreporter = drive the newsvan around, and ake photos of police chases and fights!

join the army

join the navy

etc...

[ThaMastah]

Cool mod....I added you at mineMSN Messenger? I can help you with little bit .scm coding and modeling(Buildings) and graphics

[DexX]

sounds like a pain in the ass

the man has a point. most of what you want could be done to a point, and some of it already has (police missions = vigilante missions). the odd jobs around the city are meant to be just that - odd jobs. alot of people play gta to escape reality, not replicate it.

 

i dunno, sounds too much like the sims to me. if i wanted to play a game like that, id just go for the real deal. the eating and clothing stuff in SA is already enough, imo.

[trypio]

i dunno, sounds too much like the sims to me. if i wanted to play a game like that, id just go for the real deal. the eating and clothing stuff in SA is already enough, imo.

There is no sims game where you have to drive to your work, or do your job yourself. It's a cool idea I think. Another idea: getting married and stuff like that. And where you have to buy food and your furniture and stuff. but not by looking in a catalog like in the sims, but by really going to a furniture shop.

Sounds nice to me

[tsc]

Dealing drugs would be fun I think. Is it going to be possible to code that though? Perhaps using some of the code from :Dealer?

[anihalator]

sounds great you could also make more upgrades for cars stuff like turbos waste gauges and sh*t like that also

itd be sick if you nos up the bike and

since the shop is already available should be possible

well good luck id like to c this finished

[dertyjerzian]

and then there were ten replies...

[Albi4ever]

sounds really cool, actually. Give the player a sense of responsiblity. if they get busted or wasted, have them be demoted at work. make it so you can only steal parked cars so you cant break the law so damn easy. lol!

 

GTA:Sims. sure, it wouldnt be everyones cup of tea, but thats why people MOD! hello!?

 

trash jobs and news media jobs would be cooool!

 

i would also expand on the policing too. take that one escort mission that CJ does and have that for cops to do. like, ecorting celebs, majors, etc from place to place without damaging the car or getting them killed by attackers.

 

I dont know how hard it is to rip missions from the game code and tinker with them to make your own stuff, but i would go through all the missions in the game and see how you could make them into a "career". the more there is to do, the less "pain in the ass" it would be.

[dertyjerzian]

when in the proper garb you can recruit trash men to ride on your trash truck and grab the cans thats something for the next gen aspect of the series. we may see a lot of these ideas in 4 or 5 we'll see.

[Mouzerball11]

That sounds really cool! I have some ideas, and will come out with more as time goes on. Well, here they are!:

-Pilot

-Security Guard

-Clothing Designer

-Prison Guard

-Navy Seal

-Freight Worker (Works in the ships off coast af SF)

-Soldier (Area 69 underground worker)

-AmmuNation Owner

-Weapon Creator

 

My idea for weapon creator is that you have parts of weapons (grips, scopes, clips, laser sights, etc.) and you pick the caliber, clip size, damage, scope color, grip, size, and more to create a weapon that automatically overwrites another weapon of your choice!

I really want this to go through because I always wanted a real life mod, and this looks great!

Edited July 21, 2005 by Mouzerball11

[wlsksl]

haha hell of a cool idea man

but if u make this mod

its ganna be more like a new game then

a mod

would be kool

new idea: u could run ur own bussiness mayb?

buy an old company and make it a famous one and then

sell then do another company like kinda like a CEO

or soemthin and u could hire hitman to kill other rival company

leaders

[wijiwang]

1. Freight loader (I like this one).. just have a steady stream of semi's bringing you trailers that need to be loaded up on the cargo ship.

 

2. Trashman (I like this one too).

 

3. Fireman (Make it harder, like hooking your fire hose up to a hydrant?)

 

4. Police/Fire/Medic dispatcher.. perhaps using a HUD of the city and use the mouse to 'click' what spots on the map to dispatch to. This would be interesting.

 

5. Drug dealer.. I'd like to see gang territories with dope spots added in as well.

 

6. Gas station attendant.. the ability to sell houses would be cool, but more properties would be needed.. remember Donald Love? A real estate tycoon mixed with gang wars, breakins, assassinations, etc. would be great. Maybe buyable businesses?

[DexX]

 

My idea for weapon creator is that you have parts of weapons (grips, scopes, clips, laser sights, etc.) and you pick the caliber, clip size, damage, scope color, grip, size, and more to create a weapon that automatically overwrites another weapon of your choice!

This isn't actually possible to do afaik.

 

i already commented on what i think of the rest of the mod. but since you foo..er, people are so real-life gung ho, i'll add my own ideas.

 

All parked cars are locked, except the crappy ones no would drive anyway.

The police will pull you over for anything and everything you do wrong when driving, from speeding, to being in the wrong lane to passing a stop sign w/out stopping.

if pulled over, you'll actually get a ticket. if your going over a certain speed, say 100, they will arrest you. from there you will be taken to jail and prison raped until the offense is taken care of. the prison part is applicable to all crimes you commit btw.

All cops and thugs can kill you with one well-placed shot. same for being hit by a car.

If you buy property, an additional 10-20% of your cash is taken for taxes. so an apartment for $20,000, will actually cost you $22,000. this will be reflected in your cash display, but not on the "price" of the property.

you have to pay taxes on items you buy too, like guns. paying is not optional.

all health / armor / weapon pickups are removed. there arent typically rocket launchers and uzi's lying under bridges and behind walls anyway. the only method of weapon aquisition is killing authorities, or random thugs.

when doing taxi missions, random pedestrians who are drunk will vomit in your car. you dont have to clean it up, but it will affect business. also, some peds will think you overcharged them, and will refuse to pay. they will laave, and you will not get your money.

some of the food you eat will be poorly cooked, and will DEPLETE your health anywhere from 5-85%, depending on the food, and severity.

Bums will ask you for change, and may attack you and/or follow you.

You will need to shower everyday to maitain your respect.

If you have a "Job" and you are "late", your boss will warn you. repreat warns and you are fired. the property will no longer be fully accessible depending on what the job was. but it its say, a warehouse, you will no longer be able to go "in" it. then you will be trespassing, and the authorities will be called.

 

When your character realizes what a sh*t life he has, then the best new feature of all will be revealed: suicide. not only will it kill your character, but the "suicide" feature will optionally erase your save data and uninstall the game too, so you can go back to your nice REAL life.

 

*wonders who will think my ideas are serious...*

[Phosgene]

LOL @ most of these replies...

 

When I first read the title of this thread, I thought it was going to be about large mod to replace all ingame vehicles/stores/restaurants/weapons with real ones, kinda like the one that was made for VC. But, in all actuality, this isn't a bad idea, as long as it isn't made TOO realistic. Honestly, who here ENJOYS spending an hour in traffic on the way to work, or ENJOYS having to go pay bills or whatever?

[DuPz0r]

yeah, it sounds pretty cool, i'd download it if it was made.

[Mouzerball11]

My weapon creator idea was just put there because it was a job, in case it may have been possible, though. I figured it wasn't possible, but I just wanted to make sure.

More ideas:

-Writing checks (bank accounts, writing bad checks and getting arrested)

-Being a POW in the army

You know, roll call, mess hall, kinda like The Great Escape and Prisoners of War, etc.

-Creating types of food (menus for a resteraunt)

-locksmith

-Sporting Goods Shop owner

-Fisherman (Lobsters, Fish, Crawfish, Crabs, and so on)

-Prison (not getting food that refreshes health alot, prison gym, smoking a cigarette or cigar and forced to do drugs which makes the screen wavy like when you are underwater)

-Prison Guard (guard the people who are in prison whenever they try to break out)

-Zero's RC shop employee

-Construction worker (behind Doherty Garage)

-Improved Quarry missions

-Improved trucking missions

 

And maybe way different weapons, like archery and crossbows, berettas, glocks, S&W, and others to give the gunshop/sporting goods store a realistic feel.

Oh, and a really cool idea:

Being able to buy exploding targets (satchel charges) that explode ONLY when you shoot them!

More ideas to make it realistic:

-Tear Gas Rounds

-Tracers

-Targets (regular)

-Not being able to jack cars (just buy them at an auto shop)

-Different clips (you can buy upgrades for the clip)

-Gun upgrades (Firepower, Reload speed, Colors, Clips, etc.)

 

Thats all I can really think of now. Why don't we start recruiting for people to help?

Edited July 23, 2005 by Mouzerball11

[dertyjerzian]

 

i already commented on what i think of the rest of the mod. but since you foo..er, people

 

hahahahaha

 

Personally, I just wanna take the trash out. Maybe actually get a bag of somethin when the dealers talk to me... that'd be enough lol.

[Woodpeckersam]

Fantastic Ideas! I bet this will take like 2 year to make to get it to perfection , btw i have some ideaz aswell that'll make tis cool..

 

Pilot-

Fly planes from Boeings to Concorde (depending on your piloting skills) to different places around San Andreas, Los Santos, San Fierro and Las Venturas, transporting people. Also, random chance like 3% out of 100% a terrorist comes on board the plane and threatens to blow it up, you have to listen to what he says like land on a flat bit of land or get shot, and when you land you would have to find a way of either escaping or capturing or either killing the terrorist without hurting the passengers.

 

Engineer/Engineering Manager-

Work in a garage, random times, 1 - 4 people can come in to ask for their cars to be fixed, you take a look carefully at the car, if u see where it is dammage, u get your hammer out and starting working on that part, depending on what type of damage it is, e.g hammer and a welder to be used for straigthen and joining loose parts of the shell of the car, and if its an oil leak, you can raise the platforms any height you want so you can get under the car and fix it and also to have people working with you if you need help. Also, you could have it that if you realise that one of your customers is on the run from the police and is a terrorist, you could sneakily try and call the police without them knowing and fix their car for them anyway. If you skill goes up from Engineer to Engineering Manager (other skills between that) you can tell what you want your workers to do and allow them to work for you if you want (they must tell you about their life, what conditions they are in, are they strong enough? ar they nice people?) edit: also to clean their car if you had a chance

 

Inspector-

Find clues from murders to bomb threats to blown vehicles, if you find anything, send news to the police and help track down the source to the event.

 

(already said idea, just to add a little more to it) Clothing Designer/Clothing Designer Manager-

Designer clothes using a tool very much like paint, use different techniques from basic colouring to pure shading and editing colours to other clothes. When you get to manager, you control what people you want to do what and how many you want them to make, over work them too much they resign from their job leaving you with less people, complete some clothes? they goto the Fashion show, if they are liked you may see people in the streets wearing your colours or you can wear them yourself (not womens clothing).

 

Security Guard-

Patrol the building you work for as a security guard, go from ground level to level 13 patrol every room from 9:00 pm to 6:00 am, see a suspect, try by any means neccesary to trap him like lock him in a room, hide and grab him, or beat him unconcious and call the cops. You keep doing this, you'll eventually get promoted and you can work with dogs on the outside grounds, see a hole in a fence? see a bit of clothing on the ground where the fence has been cut? get your dog to smell the clothing and make him go after the suspect, use your dog finder to track where your dog is. Get promoted to manager? Tell all your workers where to work, over work them they will resign leaving you with less staff.

 

Hot Dog Man-

If you are a hot dog man, people will come to your stalls and ask for what they want, you have to remember what they say and make what they want in the order they say it, eg. someone asks for mustard,sausage,mustard,ketchup,cabbage you have to remember all that when they say it and make it in that order using your mouse to drag those parts to the hotdog, if you got it right, they will be happy and reward you, if you got it wrong, they may either walk away cursing at you, start to beat you up or call the cops, you could get de promoted or fired, if you get to manager, you can control what part of the city you want your staff to work, over work them, they will resign leaving you with less staff.

 

Ice Cream guy-

Ice Cream guy, you get no promotion except to manager, your manager tells you what route you should take and where to stop for people and you must follow it accordingly, if you dont do what he says after 4 trys, you will get fired. If you become manager, you can control what route you must make your staffs should take, sometimes they follow it sometimes not, but its up to you if you want to fire them or not.

 

Burger Stalls

Same as hotdog stall.

 

 

 

blimey those are all my ideas??? well i have loads more but i wont write them now, if you really are planning to release a mod, i can give yiou more ideas, any idea when you gonna start it? (i dont really want to be part of a team but i dont mind giving ideas)

Edited July 29, 2005 by Woodpeckersam

[red light]

ok i have a 2 great ideas. one has been been running in and out of my head since vc came out, it is that you have to do jobs to get keys to cars and you can not drive the car untill you have the right keys for that car. another idea is that you are like 19 years old cause that is like when your life starts getting to jobs and marrige and stuff.

[red light]

More ideas to make it realistic:

-Tear Gas Rounds

they already got tear gas in vice city and san andreas dont they?

[Woodpeckersam]

Im not sure, maybe they do but if they dont, it will be included in this mod if it comes out right? tear gas rounds...... but hey, any1 thinking of doin this mod then? Wish i could help n all but i got no exp.. i mean NO exp.

 

Woodpeckersam out!