"You are too close to your Current Personal Vehicle"

[5.7]

I think they don't want people to have that mentality. I'm guessing they want to keep it at least somewhat grounded, so that you actually have to do some foot work - rather than just teleporting a car to your feet when you're slightly offroad.

This would be more R* logic behind it:

hijack a car (worth $1500) > receive msg "you jacked my ride. I'm going to have you on a slab" > "Unkown as placed a $7000 on [PLAYERS ID]".

 

Players need that dough $

Edited March 8, 2015 by Miauuu5_7

[Geisterfaust]

Ha! How about this: if you order second PV, your first is not available for you or anybody else anymore. Why?

Maybe I want my mate to drive my Super Diamond for me when I'm in my Dubsta?

Edited March 8, 2015 by hei3enberg

[Crystal3lf]

Because imagine if everyone called in 30 vehicles each. Firstly no consoles can handle that many streamed in entities, and secondly it would be annoying as f*ck to be driving down a road only to smash into someones cars that they've blocked the entire road up with.

[a3HeadedMonkey]

There's nothing worse than calling your mechanic because you are too far away from your personal vehicle, only to be told "you are too close to your current personal vehicle".

 

[..GhosT]

The whole "spawn one of my personal car" system is bullsh*t, another thing that makes the game too easy and boring.

I'd love if you have to go to your garage everytime you wanna drive one of your cars...

 

Guess i prefer my games to be realistic.

[Trishan99]

Because imagine if everyone called in 30 vehicles each. Firstly no consoles can handle that many streamed in entities, and secondly it would be annoying as f*ck to be driving down a road only to smash into someones cars that they've blocked the entire road up with.

Or just make the cars despawn.

[TCA]

I ask myself the same thing. Why bother with making us go far away? Certain vehicles spawn out of nowhere already, so why not with personal vehicles?

Rockstar logic. I find it kinda dumb too and at times you're a good two blocks away

Edited March 8, 2015 by TCA

[JC Hammer]

I'd like to see R* bring back "johnny on the spot", then he could drive your old car back

[saintsrow]

The real reason is that you could get all of your cars out to a location where you could take awesome photos of them together, and that would be "fun", sorry, not allowed.

Edited March 8, 2015 by saintsrow

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Probably to do with de-spawning your current car so that the new one can be set as your PV

Edited March 8, 2015 by -----

[matajuegos01]

weird thing is that every time you call for your car it appears on the opposite side from where you're facing at and if for some reason you happen to turn your back just as your car is about to appear it will lag the whole game.

[Bootels]

*Calls Mechanic to order Turismo R*

*Goes too quick and accidentaly orders Akuma*

 

"f*ck".

[CarimboHanky]

they did this to stop a duping glitch last year, around the same time they removed johnny on the spot...

 

everyday i see cop cars vanish the moment the cops step out, but they cant make my car spawn next to me or allow me to call for another car while next to my current PV...

 

 

R* logic at it finest!!!

[Misanthrope Z]

this combined with how PVs have an annoying tendency to spawn in stupid ass areas, either forcing you to have to run a marathon to it, or having to kill yourself just to get to your car. would be much better if your car just spawned within a few feet, right in front/behind/beside you, depending on the camera angle.

 

i had my car spawn in the sewers while i was above ground once. if anyone can make any sense out of this, please do.

[JC Hammer]

The real reason is that you could get all of your cars out to a location where you could take awesome photos of them together, and that would be "fun", sorry, not allowed.

I've managed to get 3 of them out at one time

 

[BigJoe_1]

This is one of the things that has bugged me since release day, where is the logic in saying that because you're too close to one car you can't get your mechanic to bring you a different one.

 

It's like saying, correct me if I'm wrong, that you can't order another pegasus vehicle when your already in another and as far as I know that is not a rule.

 

I've never understood why R* put in these completely pointless features:

 

- Steal cars from gang attacks

- Pick up more ammo than you can buy

- Chrome wheels (as of right now)

- Sprint in apartments

- Have 4 people in a 4 seater, 2 door coupe, ie cars like the Gauntlet and Sentinel

- Paint stock rims without having to glitch

 

This and the other annoyances stated above really bug me and sometimes ruin the game for me, it's took R* nearly a year and a half to release chrome as an option for wheels color so who knows how long it's going to be before we can actually do the things I stated above.

[hugh750]

i guess it's gtao's own way of trolling us, today i did a mission with a friend of mine, i had one of my convertibles with me but for some reason the game spawned it about a block away from me, we just went and ran to the mission start point (it was not far from us).

they did this to stop a duping glitch last year, around the same time they removed johnny on the spot...

everyday i see cop cars vanish the moment the cops step out, but they cant make my car spawn next to me or allow me to call for another car while next to my current PV...


R* logic at it finest!!!

i miss johnny on the spot, he was a great way to have fun by killing him.

[Trishan99]

i guess it's gtao's own way of trolling us, today i did a mission with a friend of mine, i had one of my convertibles with me but for some reason the game spawned it about a block away from me, we just went and ran to the mission start point (it was not far from us).

they did this to stop a duping glitch last year, around the same time they removed johnny on the spot...

 

everyday i see cop cars vanish the moment the cops step out, but they cant make my car spawn next to me or allow me to call for another car while next to my current PV...

 

 

R* logic at it finest!!!

i miss johnny on the spot, he was a great way to have fun by killing him.

Someone should start a petition to bring him back.

[The First Hunter]

I hate when your car is completely destroyed (not exploded) and it says your PV is close:|

[Trishan99]

I hate when your car is completely destroyed (not exploded) and it says your PV is close:|

Oh yeah this. When its undriveable but it's not technically destroyed. You just can't turn on the engine.

[iddqdvie]

The Logic is so sound it confuses R*.

 

Me: Driving Car A, calls Mechanic for Car B.

 

Mechanic: Drives Car B to my Current Location and collects Car A to drive it back to my Garage.

 

Me: Now driving Car B.

 

Edit: Of course the Mechanic would not physically appear. Car A would be bricked (kicking you out if you are in it) and Car B would become your active Personal Vehicle and appear nearby.

 

 

woah, awsome idea: a physical mechanic that brings you your PV. for real!! he shows up IN your car and than just parks it there and leaves. and u can just shoot him for fun or somethign like that. brilliant idea! but it could get a bit buggy...

[Butterfly57]

It is crazy not to be able to order another pv while close to another. You can order one no problem just standing right outside your garage, so why not standing near a vehicle.

 

We are paying our mechanic after all!

 

I guess there is some technical reason why not, but if not then we shouldn't have to get ourselves further away by however we can.

[yello cactus]

 

The real reason is that you could get all of your cars out to a location where you could take awesome photos of them together, and that would be "fun", sorry, not allowed.

I've managed to get 3 of them out at one time

 

 

Yes, but you can only drive one of them.

I've done it many times just to take some photos but if there's a bunch of people doing the same thing, i.e a car meet, there's a chance that they may dissapear becuase there are too many cars together at one time.

[-GXP-]

This was one of my favorite glitches and unfortunately it's been patched. Another harmless non game breaking glitch bites the dust.

[luisniko]

they did this to stop a duping glitch last year, around the same time they removed johnny on the spot...

 

everyday i see cop cars vanish the moment the cops step out, but they cant make my car spawn next to me or allow me to call for another car while next to my current PV...

 

 

R* logic at it finest!!!

 

Conclusion:

 

You are not allowed to drive away.

[Locce]

One would think the mechanic would be happy to bring me another vehicle with the current one nearby as opposed to half a mile down the road. Less running around for him and for me.

I find this especially annoying when I do several contact missions in a row. A job leads me into rough terrain? Yay, let's take the big truck! Next job has a timer and I need a fast car? Umm, let me jog in that direction for while... -.-

It would be great if we could at least choose our vehicle before a mission just like in heists, but as it is you can hardly choose a fun vehicle for a mission because you might have to pay for that fun at the start of the next mission when you have to outrun a timer or catch up to a fast vehicle in a Surfer or Voodoo.

[jobnocky71]

My "request vehicle" in select menu is always shaded, i can't select it. why?

[Wallly]

Thirty players all calling thirty cars at once would be amazing.

But that would be fun and no fun allowed in gta.

[psymin]

This was one of my favorite glitches and unfortunately it's been patched. Another harmless non game breaking glitch bites the dust.

I know ive watched pv's disappearing before mine very eyes. Hopefully they did it to help bump the overall graphics, as to me they do look better since heists.

[WWEMichaelB]

I miss the old days when we could just shoot our mechanic. lol