What's the Sandbox project about?
Like the name says, the mod will be like a giant Sandbox where the community will have the power to make the city bigger or reconstruct any area of the map. The project starts with a small town with every infrastructure you see in a modern country town or small city.
The objective is to provide a roleplay community core, how the city evolves depends on the people that live within. Try to imagine a cross between GTA, Sim City and any Role Playing Game; this is what the project is all about, we want to give the community the power to create new infrastructures and new parts of the city while playing the game, the city will grow up with the community. This doesn’t mean that we will change the GTA game play; there will be gangs, and a whole organized crime world, but there will be normal people too, cars salesman, dock workers and a whole role of jobs to be played by any user.
But this doesn’t mean that we can have 50 mobsters and then a few normal users that just want to live their peaceful life in the Big Sandbox, no, we will impose a limit for everything related to jobs in the game, there will be a limit of gangs and a limit of users per faction.
Instead of adapting your roleplay theme to the map, we allow you to adapt the map to your theme. This means that if you're a business man or a big crime boss you can hire a construction company (usually represented by project developers) and build a new car stand or a bigger mansion for your crime activities. Once again, to keep things balanced, we'll impose
some construction rules. The height of your building will depend of the other ones around. You will be able to buy some lots for construction and then build anything allowed by the Mayor’s Office (again represented by developers), you will have to pay for each building or reconstruction that you make, the game will have its own economy this way.
We'll provide the basic infrastructures for the city like a Health Clinic, a Sheriff Departament, it'll be on your hands to update it to a hospital and to the city's police department. Anything added to the world will have to be approved by the Mayor’s Office (Dev team), there will be imposed limits for the number of vehicles that you can have/see in the world, this limits will be created so the mod looks more real.
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We're currently planning most of the things out, but already started working on a part of the map:
Our current team:
uni ( Former GTA:New York dev )
.Project Leader // .Map Modeller
Commando ( Former GTA:New York dev )
.Project Leader // .Map Modeller
Wizegui ( Former GTA:New York dev )
.Vehicle Modeller
MeGaMeTaL
.Coder
Mike
.Coder
Although we're obviously recruiting, we are also looking for people that currently play on RolePlay servers to give us input, suggestions.
You either can do that on our forums or at this thread.