#Resting in The Car
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I think this option has merit, but I would take it one step further. Yes, resting in the vehicles is a good start, but I would love to see the ability to fast travel back to the vehicles. I've debated this internally and had a few different convos about it, and I'm convinced the usability gain trumps the exploitative nature. Ton's of people have asked for tents, and that's a hard pass. But having one option to park the jeep wherever you want and fast travel to it - I like. It becomes a choice... do you use the jeep to travel around in - or use it as a single location you can FT to? Benefit / loss in one.
I think the "faster hunters" would really enjoy it, as they could drive to find herds - then spot n stalk from the jeep - once that hunt is done, instead of the boring walk back - FT and take off again. (if they really wanted to punish that use, they could take the distance for the FT and add in a time penalty based on how long it would take to walk back, but I don't think that is even necessary.) I think this use would make a lot of "run-n-gun" hunters very happy. Dev's may want to increase the spook distance of the jeep, so it could make "road hunting" much more difficult.
For the "slower hunters" it would make for a strategy call -- there could be a place they want to start a hunt near, that doesn't have a camp close by. By giving up the ability to drive around, they have their own custom FT point. So they would go park the jeep at that overlook they love. Then when they want to hunt there - just FT to that ONE custom location.
Adding in sleeping just makes either/both or any other use just more efficient. It's super easy to FT to a cabin, sleep, then jump back in the jeep - this just takes a few steps out and lets you avoid the "retravel". Faster, more efficient hunting. I'm all for it.
I believe this is just making things harder and complicated. Adding one tent per player, with limited usage (cooldowns, limited usage to certain hours of the day, etc) would be ideal.