Vehicles

Milestone: In the tree (M1) Extends: VehicleLock, LicensePlate, Shop

Player loop

A player buys a base-game vehicle from a lot, receives a key, locks it, and registers a plate. Other players do not drive it unless they hold a key.

In scope

• A vehicle shop sells a config list of vanilla vehicle prefabs for cash (large purchases may require the ATM balance, paid at the lot).
• Purchase spawns that prefab, assigns an owner, and gives one key. Extra keys are a config action for the owner.
• Lock and unlock use the existing vehicle lock components.
• Plates use the existing generator, with the current off-by-one and uniqueness bugs fixed so two vehicles do not share a plate by construction.
• Store the vehicle record by a stable id so a restart can restore ownership. The world spawn follows the persistence rules already used for characters.

Out of scope

• New vehicle models, aircraft, or armed variants authored for this mod.
• Tuning, paint shops, or a garage interior. A parked-vehicle slot for organizations is only a flag in organizations.
• Impound. Police impound can follow after plates and ownership are reliable.

Assets

Keep EL_VehicleLockComponent and {9D94B834AF514B4A}Prefabs/Items/Roleplay/VehicleKey.et. LNGC_VehicleKeyLockComponent is a prototype that keys a virtual item; use it as the replication checklist (RplProp plus BumpMe), not as the class to drop in.

Garage persistence is the piece we do not have. Port LNGC_GarageComponent, LNGC_GarageDialog, and LNGC_VehicleSpawnPointComponent. Lot pad: Garage_E_01. First catalog, all base game, several already wrapped as locked prefabs in LNGC:

• Prefabs/Vehicles/Wheeled/S105/S105_beige.et (and the other colors)
• UAZ469_covered_CIV_*.et / UAZ469_uncovered_CIV_*.et
• S1203_transport_beige.et
• UAZ452 locked base
• M923A1_transport.et for cargo
• Police-only, not on the civilian lot: M151A2_Police_Base.et, LNGC S105_police.et

No aircraft. See sources.

First slice

Buy one configured vanilla vehicle, lock it against another player, restart, and still be the owner with a working key.

Depends on

• EL_VehicleLockComponent and keys
• EL_LicensePlateManager (fix the generator's character and number range, and remember issued plates)
• Money and the shop purchase rules
• Persistence

Proof

• Logic: plate generator can emit the full alphabet and the top number; a second issue does not collide with a live plate.
• World: purchase, key, lock.
• Persistence: owner and key still match after a restart.