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1 hour ago, Abnor Mole said:

With a bit of altering of terminology the makers of the game could add a level of detail that shifts the roleplay in Bellisseria from taking goods from one imaginary business to another to delivery and pick-up of packages to residences. All without much change in actual gameplay.

Can't let on much about what is planned in GTFO Gen 2

Moving forward GTFO will be able to do this, but realistically will be a little while as the whole gameplay database has to be rebuilt from scratch. The existing one is only region based and can't be changed without breaking it.

HUBS and HUDS are too close naming and gets confusing. So there is talk of changing this naming and will likely be more worded towards being more towards friendly names

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I will just add that, normally GTFO HUBS have a rez zone on them, so if your ever stuck for a place to rez a vehicle look on the map for a green GTFO logo, the same for Leeward Cruising Club locations normally marked with a yellow LCC showing on the map. These are all public accessible rez areas normally with about 5 minutes auto return

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20 minutes ago, Rabid Cheetah said:

But somebody could, if they wanted to, make a land or sea GTFO hub, yes?  Or are those too big?  Are they prepackaged to a certain size, or is it just a lilcensing and scripting thing, where you could build something free-form?

There is nothing standard in GTFO except it should be accessible from protected Linden land be it water or road(even air should have access available along public roads to avoid ban lines etc. Requests are submitted on a web site and then someone will come and assess what your parcel can accommodate. You then become an entry only in a database quoting region your on, location, name you wish to be called, and maximum vehicle sizes allowed there. So you can never accept planes unless you have a runway long enough for at least a small aircraft, but can accept helicopters if un-obstructed access is available. this could never happen in Bellisseria due to over hanging trees and the size of the parcels. The same with water, a Bellisseria houseboat could be set as a HUB but would only at maximum have a small classification, so you will never get any boat larger then a small craft around. Due to the nature of roads in Bellisseria you could never get a semi on the roads so would normally be a small van at most. As Fritigern Gothly mentioned above, if Hubs were added in Bellisseria they would more then likely be a small sign in the yard somewhere and 99% of people would not even notice it

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There are many groups who use Bellisseria for their Role Play, be it the Bellisseria Boat parade every week, other boating groups who sail around Bellisseria, driving groups who drive and fly around in teams or even our own riding groups. 5 of the top 10  Bellisseria groups are vehicle (in some way) role play groups.

GTFO being the nature of the game might add 1 more person to a region every few days on average.

GTFO is not like other "games" in SL where you advance in the game with bots etc, as can be seen with the circles of green dots seen on the maps, or have to buy items to keep some "living" thing alive, or extras you buy to give yourself an advantage in the game for example some fishing games.

GTFO has always been claimed to be the reason for region lag because there is one of their "hubs" on the region. Where in fact the game uses no rezzed objects at all, and is all run from a HUD worn by the person playing the game with all the "hub" information being stored on a database that the HUD accesses.

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1 hour ago, Fritigern Gothly said:

To the best of my knowledge there are currently no GTFO!-ready horses but a planned future update should take care of that, fingers crossed.

*** Watch for updates!

Now, I seem to remember that Belli only has one GTFO! hub, and that's Dogbone Island in Coral Waters but perhaps that has changed. (EDIT I think the Fairground is also a hub, but that's as far as my knowledge goes)

******At the moment All lighthouses and both airports are set up as HUB locations as well as SS Galaxy is a drop Zone

******With GTFO there is no actual in-world item needed to mark a HUB so they can be anywhere, normally places with a rez zone and publicly accessible

Having said all that, if I recall correctly., the GTFO! team had been talking to either the LDPW or LL about allowing hubs to be operated on Belliseria, but my information is well over a year old and I don't remember what came out of this. 

*****The talks in the early days of Bellisseria was based on if sky signs were allowed which of course they are not, and there was a small discussion about if LL would allow a specific area for GTFO use as well as other groups like SLCG

 

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2 hours ago, Abnor Mole said:

Perhaps this is opportunity for the creators to expand the game. Maybe instead hauling large amounts of freight between hubs the goal is package pick up or delivery to and from homes and a hub/distribution center? That might be an interesting variation on the game that would fit right in with the residential tone of Bellisseria. 

All I will say is stay tuned and watch for GTFO Generation 2!

Meanwhile get the free game and give it a go in what ever type of vehicles you like (there is an extensive list of supported vehicles on https://sl-gtfo.com/vehicle-creators/ ) and watch for the next updates which will bring it closer to GTFO Generation 2

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Since @Patch Linden has commented on this thread we know it will get looked into further, and if he can he will help sort something out.