Add a taxi skin/job for cars

[Lowlander]

Suggestion Name:  Add a taxi job and accompanying skin for cars, or perhaps only the possibility to add a taxi 'beacon' (or both).  

Suggestion Description: See above. 

Any example images: 

Why should it be added?:

Just some more variation, it does no harm.

 

You could incorporate taxi jobs at the bus stops, or perhaps hotel areas on the map!   You could have a kind of default taxi/hub pickup at each city, say, close to the bus station. It would be 'realistic' in a sense that people could take a taxi after having taken the bus somewhere. Buses don't go everywhere. It would also add some more variation on the road. It wouldn't necessarily require new vehicles.

I know this is a *trucking* game but sometimes you just want to change things up. I just like for all players to place nice together, whether it's in a truck, or sometimes in a bus, car, etc. 

As for the jobs themselves, you wouldn't need pedestrians actually entering the car (as in, emoted  pedestrians). Though it would be cool, I'm not sure if that's possible to make. You can do it just like this:

-> Go to taxi stand near bus station > See available missions > Accept mission > Person is now magically in car > drive to destination. 

 

Instead of having to incorporate this into the job dispatcher, you could make it so you set your own destination, and then check a taxi stand if there's anyone wanting to go to the destination you set. If not, you can change your destination. Available 'jobs' would change after some time (TBD). Or you could make it so there's always someone wanting to go to the destination you chose, as it's meant more for fun than much profit. 

Rewards would vary on distance, perhaps jobs with 1 or 2 passengers ? Just thinking out loud here .



EDIT: I am not sure if it is possible to accept bus jobs with a car, currently. I think it is, as I know you can accept them with a truck, I think? 
If this works (will test this at some point), perhaps the only addition that'd be 'needed' would be the skin and/or taxi 'beacon', just for variety's sake. 

[LimeUnlimited]

I can agree with the taxi skin part but I don't agree with the actual job itself. While a good idea I think it will be rarely used by anyone since most of the people are going to be trucking or driving around in cars aimlessly.

[kaaaali.]

I also don't think the Taxi job would be really used in-game. This would cause more cars in the traffic and yeah, they bring more variety but we all know the stereotype opinion about them. 

Adding the Taxi paintjob or at least Taxi beacon, to put on the roof, would be a good, fun addition though.

[InsanoDeath]

Nice Suggestion!

[Bolorer]

The taxi job seems like a good idea but I don't think it's going to last long enough for TruckersMP to put in efforts for that. The reason for it being that, carrying passengers at first would seem something unique to do but after a point carrying passengers over and over again would become quite monotonous thus people might end up losing interest in it. 

 

However, the taxi skin idea can definitely be implemented and should be a good refresh for the cars in the form of a new skin.

[SourCrowd.de]

I would say: Absolutely no. This suggestion going out of context of this Game, its a Truck Simulator. In my opinion the DBus was allready a bad idea, 'cause how i said "Out of context of this Game". How so ever, it just my opinion.

[TheBengaliMan]

Taxi skin and Beacon is a good idea. But I don't think the Taxi job would be long last in the end.

[glooooock]

I'm not in favor of this idea as it is game about driving a truck after all. Adding jobs or even more vehicles that have nothing to do with trucks disturbs the primal sense of the game. I don't think adding either taxi skin or taxi job is meaningful.