JellyCat

I'm LOVING what's being done with vehicles so far! Being able to make big looting runs and travel more easily to other parts of the map is SO USEFUL.  I see a few texture overlap issues sometimes, such as driving on a railroad and having the road on top of the car (specifically, I've seen this on the railroad between West Point and Valley Station), but no game breaking bugs. My biggest issue is the vehicle capacity, though. I understand not wanting to get too crazy with it (and that this is a discussion that never seems to die (sorry)), but here's where the current capacities don't make sense to me:
 
A standard car seat holds 20 (kg? I've never seen a unit attached to the weight, but that seems to make sense in terms of character weights). An average person in PZ weighs about 80. How is a person able to sit in a car seat if it can't hold them? Obviously getting literal here would be a problem: your character weighs 81 and the seat holds 80 so you can't drive the car--that would be ridiculous.  But a capacity that's at least in the ballpark of the average human would make more sense. This also applies to trunk capacity. If four people can sit comfortably in the bed of a pickup, it should be able to hold more than 85-90. Also, the entire purpose of a pickup or other large vehicle is to be able to move very heavy loads. I'm not saying I should be able to move all of my possessions into a new safe house in one trip, but something around 320 would make more sense using the weight-of-a-person method of measurement.
 
Or maybe I just have too much stuff. That's also totally possible.  Maybe if increasing capacity is a little too game-breaky, we could have detachable trailers? Maybe you have to have a certain Mechanics skill to use them and they slow you down some/affect your braking/etc. Or perhaps vehicle capacity could work the way your own inventory does: you can hold more than your capacity, but it starts to slow you down and wear you out. It could slow you down/affect your braking/damage your suspension and trunk over time. (I'm mostly just throwing thoughts into the wind here at this point.)

I'm LOVING what's being done with vehicles so far! Being able to make big looting runs and travel more easily to other parts of the map is SO USEFUL.  I see a few texture overlap issues sometimes, such as driving on a railroad and having the road on top of the car (specifically, I've seen this on the railroad between West Point and Valley Station), but no game breaking bugs. My biggest issue is the vehicle capacity, though. I understand not wanting to get too crazy with it (and that this is a discussion that never seems to die (sorry)), but here's where the current capacities don't make sense to me:
 
A standard car seat holds 20 (kg? I've never seen a unit attached to the weight, but that seems to make sense in terms of character weights). An average person in PZ weighs about 80. How is a person able to sit in a car seat if it can't hold them? Obviously getting literal here would be a problem: your character weighs 81 and the seat holds 80 so you can't drive the car--that would be ridiculous.  But a capacity that's at least in the ballpark of the average human would make more sense. This also applies to trunk capacity. If four people can sit comfortably in the bed of a pickup, it should be able to hold more than 85-90. Also, the entire purpose of a pickup or other large vehicle is to be able to move very heavy loads. I'm not saying I should be able to move all of my possessions into a new safe house in one trip, but something around 320 would make more sense using the weight-of-a-person method of measurement.
 
Or maybe I just have too much stuff. That's also totally possible.  Maybe if increasing capacity is a little too game-breaky, we could have detachable trailers? Maybe you have to have a certain Mechanics skill to use them and they slow you down some/affect your braking/etc. Or perhaps vehicle capacity could work the way your own inventory does: you can hold more than your capacity, but it starts to slow you down and wear you out. It could slow you down/affect your braking/damage your suspension and trunk over time. (I'm mostly just throwing thoughts into the wind here at this point.)