Vehicle Health and Maintenance

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• All vehicles has vehicle condition that has a range from 0% to 100%. Every brand new vehicle starts at 100%.
• new vehicle starts at 100.
• As you use them, their health declines with steady rate.
• You are required to maintain the car at Car Mechanic or Car Dealership after every 2500 km amount of kilometres.
• Every car will have a total lifetime distance of 20,000 km.
• You can drive a car without maintaining it, but its health declines quicker (can make its rate increase the more appointments you miss).
• After  vehicle health hits 0.0%:
  • Car breaks down and gets sent off to scrapyard (removed from player).

Scrapped these:

• Certain factors cause the vehicle health to decline further:
  • Hit metal or concrete objects.
  • Hit other players.

Condition Range

• Stored as condition_value (int): 0 = 100% (brand new), 100,000 = 0% (broken down).
• Display formula: 100 - (condition_value / 1000.0) => shows as percentage.

Degradation Rate

• Base rate: 100,000 points over 25,000 km => 1 point per 250 meters
• Service interval: every 2,500 km
• Each properly-maintained 2,500 km costs ~10,000 points (10% condition)
• Missed services increase the degradation rate (each missed appointment stacks further)

Servicing

• Location: Car Mechanic only
• Cost: €5,000 flat fee.
  • In the case that a player has missed multiple appointments, the formula will be: (€5,000 * missed_appointments)
• Restores: 2.5% condition (2,500 points off condition_value)
• Resets the missed_appointment counter back to 0
• Updates the last_service_distance on the vehicle

Breaking down (0% condition)

• Player is auto-spectated
• Announcement in chat
• Vehicle removed from player (registration is nulled)

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New table columns needed for VehicleRegistration.

Column	Data Type	Purpose
condition_value	int	Already added, needs migration
missed_services	int	Tracks skipped 2,500 km checkpoints
last_service_distance	double	Odometer at last service