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LimeTrack™

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What it is

LimeTrack™ is the GPS vehicle-tracking service fitted to cars in the city. When a tracked vehicle is being stolen it raises an automatic alarm to the police with the vehicle, plate and location. It is the in-universe reason a boosted car draws a police response, and the thing a thief has to defeat by disabling the tracker.

Voice

  • Automated and clipped, like a machine reporting a fault: "Automatic vehicle theft alarm at …", "Final signal at …".
  • Always written LimeTrack™ with the mark when it is the speaker.
  • Reports use the standard 911 chat format and colours, so it reads as one more dispatch source and not a new channel. The label is LimeTrack™: with no surrounding brackets.

Where players see it

Surface What it says
911 chat Alerts while a tracked vehicle is being driven, and a final-location alert when the tracker is disabled
Boosting Tablet Contract help text that mentions LimeTrack reporting more aggressively while the vehicle is driven

In the repo

  • Mechanics and the tracker-removal challenges: car-boosting.md
  • Live test steps: car-boosting-live-test-plan.md (BST-04)
  • Alert text: gamemodes/cityrp_2_by_limelightgaming/gamemode/core/plugins/carboosting/sv_init.lua (alertPolice)
  • Net message CityRP.CarBoosting.LimeTrack, shown by carboosting/cl_init.lua

Open questions

  • TODO(lore): whether LimeTrack™ is a police contractor or a service sold to vehicle owners.
  • TODO(lore): whether the other tracker entities (cityrp_vehicle_tracker, ent_tracker) are LimeTrack™ products or something else.