Improvement for taxi driver.

[Ritz]

Your name: Ritz
Suggestion headline: Improving the taxi driver class
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Importance of suggestion: 5/10
Why should it be accepted: So I've tried to play as a taxi driver back in few days and experiencing it again as a helper today, the experiences was bad in overall.

-The pick up distance and and drop off distance is too far from one location to another considering the pay.
- Like I said, the pay is low, it's capped at 2.5K even you have to drive from Los Santos to San Fierro , but you get 1.1K by picking up at Market and drop off at Commerce.
-The white text color when an NPC is requesting for a taxi tends to make use confuse the pick up location with the drop off location.
- The vehicles for taxi is too slow for such long distance of travelling, it's easily making us feel exhausted instead of feeling enjoyable therefore - no one is playing as a taxi driver.

Here is what I suggest :

-I know the travelling far distance is all about taxi , but maybe we can at least make the pick location closer to us, at least make the request in the city we are in.

-Improve the fares or increase the fares cap for long distance drop off

- Make the NPC request text green colored just like the taxi's green color.

- Add one or a few choices of four seated vehicles for taxi drivers/ Let us make one of our own owned vehicle as a taxi vehicle if it's possible.

I think these improvements is crucial as the class is not much enjoyable as it meant to be from my personal view, thanks for your time reading and please kindly leave a vote to this suggestion, thanks again.

[Devries]

+1, Very interesting idea, good luck

[Panda]

I'm all for this, especially the last one. We all know that the taxi isn't that fast even with a nitro and it doesn't have a nice grip on the road. We are barely making it in time to pick up the NPC passengers as they are always spawning in the other City. I think if we use our own vehicle such as Sultan we won't have to worry about it plus it's realistic since there is this app where you can book motorcycle/cars to take you from point A to point B.

Regarding the payment, Ritz is right it seems like the pay are just identical to each other whether it's a long ride one (far one) or short (near one).

About the NPC Request one it's indeed easy to miss the announcement especially when you're busy driving around so making it green will be more noticeable.

Last but not the least it's also logical that as a taxi driver you will consider the distance between you and the passenger you will pick up, why do we have to travel far distance inorder to pick them up? Even with the app above you'll only book someone who took it (usually the nearest one).

So far Ritz's suggestions seems logical and reasonable unless you guys have a reason not to or its not possible to code.

[Jojitatin]

Driving through three different cities just to pick up a single passenger in under four minutes makes us look like we're in Fast & Furious. We're taxi drivers, not race car drivers.

After driving around the cities and taking the risk to drive as fast as possible just to reach the passenger and complete the trip, receiving only $2,500 for the entire 1 round trip doesn't feel rewarding. The payout isn't enough to justify the time, distance, and effort involved.

Because of this we are more encouraged to prioritize robbing over using the taxi job since it offers a much better return. Taxi driving should be worthwhile role, not something players avoid because of low earnings.

I highly recommend increasing the taxi payment or adjusting the pickup system so drivers aren't forced to travel across multiple cities for such a small reward. This would make the job more balanced, enjoyable and worth doing.

[Naruto]

+1 for this suggestion

[Nilikos]

Would be nice to see this improved.
+1

[Notorious]

I highly recommend increasing the taxi payment
+1

[Thursday]

Another chilling class that worth it +1

[Milyn]

Cool suggestion tho, additonally IMO There should be a minimum fare as the drivers have to cover up some distance before picking up the customer, a minimum amount of idk 500?

We can also have some helicopters for air taxi, i sure would book one if there were air taxis and to make this special a score limit of 700(taxi score) or such to qualify to ride a taxi helicopter, a vehicle that no other class can touch

[Vic]

+1 I support this suggestion. One thing I'd like to add is that NPC taxi requests should only appear in the city where the taxi driver is currently on duty. If I'm working in Los Santos, I shouldn't receive pickup requests from San Fierro or Las Venturas. This would improve the gameplay and reduce long, unnecessary pickup trips.