Vehicle Despawn Petition

[tilr]

I want to start a petition to make despawns longer. It happens all too often where I'm doing jobs that take a few minutes and I go to my car (or at least where it was parked) and it's gone, losing me a trunkload of commodities to sell and leaving me stranded. Sign you're name if you think Vehicle Despawns should be longer too cause this is atrocious. 

[Scott]

So many new players come here and complain about despawn time. I would rather have a shorter timer than more lag. It takes one or maybe 2 times for you to forget to tap your car before it's an easy thing you're used to doing every few minutes.

[HotWings]

Ive filled hemmt with stuff and never had a problem. Only time I ever had issues was at the hunting grounds.

[Phil.]

Seems fine to me, less shit on the map causing lag the better.

[Anzy]

make sure also that you mark your vehicle in group chat on the map because you could just be losing due to thinking it was somewhere but it actually was somewhere else

[Cynica]

Just shoot your vehicle...it's been done as long as the server has been around. A quick tap to the ol' vehicle will stop it from despawning.

Edited October 4, 2016 by Cynica

[BioHazard]

I suggest just making a poll for this sort of stuff as it's easier to count for/against votes.

And no way because the servers are laggy as hell and it will only decrease performance. Also, just tap your vehicle every few mins and you'll be fine.

Edited October 4, 2016 by BioHazard

[Churu]

id rather have it so if you're within a certain distance the timer wont start but if you run away from it say... 200 meters then it will take 5 min for it to despawn unless someone with keys is within 200 meters.

[Haych]

We've been waiting on a distance check for a long time now, but god knows when it'll be added. Even a extended timer wouldn't add any lag what so ever. It's a massive issue for new players and it really does need to be addressed. I don't think the Devs realise how devastating it is for new players have their truck despawn on them, especially when they don't know it's going to happen.

[Crow]

No.

[Eric916]

5 hours ago, tilr said:

I want to start a petition to make despawns longer. It happens all too often where I'm doing jobs that take a few minutes and I go to my car (or at least where it was parked) and it's gone, losing me a trunkload of commodities to sell and leaving me stranded. Sign you're name if you think Vehicle Despawns should be longer too cause this is atrocious. 

I don't get how this is a problem. tap your car every 9 minutes it's not hard...? I've even done things that take awhile and when I got back my truck is always there. I've actually been waiting for it to despawn before and kept checking and it was still on my keyring for days.. I don't see this happening as lag is already an issue. Sorry bud my best suggestion is to keep tapping it so it doesn't despawn

[Cassettes]

+1 You never know what can happen in real life where you need to be excused for few minutes and are tied up with the work, people with kids and a family usually have emergencies like this, it's happened to me too often too where I thought I'd be gone for only 3-5 minutes and end up being gone for 30 and come back to nothing while being stranded. 

I don't see any big cons into which increasing the time would have an effect on it, it's worth the risk imo, if someone lock-picks my shit while I'm AFK then GG, rather go to good waste than it disappear into nothingness/ 

[glenglen]

I think that the despawn timer is a good thing personally, too many people spawn in multiple vehicles that they don't even use.

[₴avagє]

On 10/4/2016 at 9:08 AM, Gnashes said:

If you do pretty much anything to your truck it updates. It also has a 10 minute despawn timer.

Except yesterday I tried to inventory a locked truck and then also began a repair on it to keep it from depspawning. Came back 2 mins later with lockpicks and it was gone. 

[₴avagє]

30 minutes ago, Gnashes said:

And yet, you didn't actually finish a repair or get into the inventory.

Sorry, clarification. I did fully repair the vehicle. Though one would think that even being denied access to inventory should keep it from despawning. 

[Budbringer]

I don't think a vehicle should despawn if the owner is less than x meters away from it. A lot of new players are displeased that their vehicles despawn =/