Increase / remove vehicle despawn time

[SuleG2]

What does this suggestion suggest? :
  - The time it takes for vehicles to despawn and return to the garage is currently 2 minutes (from what i've timed. if there are other factors in play it is likely not accounting them.) I believe that the timer should be either uped to the higher ends (15+ minutes before despawn) OR removed entirely.

At least 2 Possible positives of this suggestion : 
  More LARP, YAY! (Will be explained below)
  QoL update! 

At least 2 negaitives of this suggestion : 
 Dev time 
Could cause lag if theres too many vehicles at a given time. (Will explain more below as well)

Overall summary : 
  I've noticed a lot that people in the midst of talking to someone or eating at a resturant just trying to RP, have to literally leave and stop what their doing every so often to go unlock, enter, and relock their vehicle to stop it from despawning. I understand its likely done to prevent lag / build ups of vehicles. But I do believe it is wayy to short of a timer. PD have this issue as they can't end up arresting someone without having to WALK them back half the time. Or people like me who just enjoy parking and eating at places / interacting with those in groups around the map for my car to despawn infront of me several times.

 I think if it can at least be expieremented with higher despawn times to kinda test performance to see how it'll go overall it'd be a great thing for everyone

Apologizes if this has been something denied before / not following a format if there was one already. Kinda just making this without looking into all that

[Geo_Zeus]

Yeah that's not happening gang  There's already enough lag that comes from vehicles, i don't think the despawn time will ever be changed.

[Hg0tros]

Hello, first i gotta point out there aint really a exact countdown for cars to despawn on the server. when there is more cars out and the server gets laggy asf with high ping/ms/tps, the despawn timer starts getting shorter the more players get online and more cars are currently spawned. If u log in during dead hours in the morning and leave ur car outside, you will notice its barely even despawns at all, and even if it does it takes way longer than usual.  (AS I KNOW)

your suggestion honestly makes sense and trust me UA would probably love make it happen too, but there is a reason this system exists in the first place. Garrys mod is literally just an old half-life mod and the game is so OLD, so the car plugin (SIMFPHYS) causes insane lag and fps issues for players once too many vehicles are spawned. Since the game is old there is not really many options to fix it up, so the only real solution is clearing unused cars ASAP to keep the server stable. Idk if u ever noticed before but sometimes the server straight up won’t even let u spawn a car and gives that “You can’t spawn a vehicle right now” message in the top right. Long story short the idea is good but realistically its not possible to make it work.

Edited 1 hour ago by Hg0tros

[Adka]

13 hours ago, SuleG2 said:

What does this suggestion suggest? :
  - The time it takes for vehicles to despawn and return to the garage is currently 2 minutes (from what i've timed. if there are other factors in play it is likely not accounting them.) I believe that the timer should be either uped to the higher ends (15+ minutes before despawn) OR removed entirely.

At least 2 Possible positives of this suggestion : 
  More LARP, YAY! (Will be explained below)
  QoL update! 

At least 2 negaitives of this suggestion : 
 Dev time 
Could cause lag if theres too many vehicles at a given time. (Will explain more below as well)

Overall summary : 
  I've noticed a lot that people in the midst of talking to someone or eating at a resturant just trying to RP, have to literally leave and stop what their doing every so often to go unlock, enter, and relock their vehicle to stop it from despawning. I understand its likely done to prevent lag / build ups of vehicles. But I do believe it is wayy to short of a timer. PD have this issue as they can't end up arresting someone without having to WALK them back half the time. Or people like me who just enjoy parking and eating at places / interacting with those in groups around the map for my car to despawn infront of me several times.

 I think if it can at least be expieremented with higher despawn times to kinda test performance to see how it'll go overall it'd be a great thing for everyone

Apologizes if this has been something denied before / not following a format if there was one already. Kinda just making this without looking into all that

Nah, clearly you weren’t there when there wasn’t a despawn timer

 

i ain’t going back to no cars after a certain hour because too many people are in the server 

[Hg0tros]

5 minutes ago, Adka said:

Nah, clearly you weren’t there when there wasn’t a despawn timer

 

i ain’t going back to no cars after a certain hour because too many people are in the server 

I been playing on Diverge for over 2 years now and honestly I never really paid attention to whether there was a despawn timer back then or not, but im telling you rn it would turn into a complete shitshow during crowded hours.

[Adka]

1 minute ago, Hg0tros said:

I been playing on Diverge for over 2 years now and honestly I never really paid attention to whether there was a despawn timer back then or not, but im telling you rn it would turn into a complete shitshow during crowded hours.

I don’t know when it was added, but long ago before time had a name, after like 100 people were on the server at once cars were despawned and couldn’t be spawned again until enough people left the server 

[Hg0tros]

Just now, Adka said:

I don’t know when it was added, but long ago before time had a name, after like 100 people were on the server at once cars were despawned and couldn’t be spawned again until enough people left the server 

Thats true. +1 On all the things this guy said