Hey all,
As I mentioned on Discord, I have rented a GTA5 server to mess around with for a little while, with some help from Sparko we have managed to tweak things and have a better understanding of how custom servers work.
My plan with it was to do some street races so I have added a very handy street racing addon.
Racing works like so:
- Someone starts a race by doing press T and in the text box typing /race record
- They open the in game map and double click on the map to enter a check point, much like you would a waypoint.
- You add all the check points you want to create your race course
- Once complete, you press T and do /race start [amountNumber] [optionalNumber]
- The [amountNumber] is how much it will cost to enter the race
- The [optionalNumber] is how long after doing /race start the race begins
- Anyone wanting to enter the race goes to the starting position and presses E to join
- Race starts after the timer
- Winner takes the money
The server has been setup with some additional role play addons. These do serveral things:
- It allows you to create your own character when starting.
- You get a starting amount of cash and money in the bank, both configurable.
- You go and buy a car from Simeons car garage
- You can customise it as you would normally in GTA Online
- Cars are saved to the garage you take it to
- I can add custom cars and am in the process of adding some, such as an Audi A6, a Lambo, several Ferraris and more.
- A handling mod to make the cars feel different from each other.
By having the above elements, it means we can race for money and upgrade our cars or buy new ones when we earn enough.
For anyone that runs out of money(and doesn't want to do an in game job to earn more), I can easily give them more via admin commands so they can continue to race if they so wish.
On top of the street racing, the server also has jobs you can do. These jobs include, police, ambulance, delivery driving, mining, fishing, butchering, banking and half a dozen more. These will award you with in game money for doing them. So if you wanted to earn a bit more money to do up you car as the races aren't going well, you could do these, or just let me know you need additional money to compete.
With the police job, there is potential for those who take up the police job to try and stop those from racing and make the racing more difficult. Police have spike strips!
The server is 32 player and we can have more than one racing happening at any given time.
In order to join the server, an additional download is required: https://fivem.net/
This will provide a server browser in order to be able to join as well as allow all the custom server addons to work.
The IP address is:
51.89.152.210:30256 No password, but it is hidden from public view.
Is it limited to the racing/various jobs? Or can you still do the normal GTA 5 Heists/missions etc?
Thanks for the info. My lads being playing a bit of GTA Online with a friend... he's a troll and has much to learn. That said, I liked the look of the heists, seems to be more of them now and might be good to play some coop with dMw.
That said, racing mod looks cool, if I'm about I'll try and join you.
We should definitely arrange to get some racing done some time soon. Really enjoyed the few test sessions we have had so would be good if others who like GTA could get involved.
We can do other stuff too, fivem really gives you that freedom within GTA to do lots of fun stuff, it's a great laugh!