Wrong.
Take into account a hit and run, or a car following someone. A person should be able to see at a glance what color the car is, right?
Wrong.
Take into account a hit and run, or a car following someone. A person should be able to see at a glance what color the car is, right?
Instead of "A Holden VT XS is parked here", it would be a "pink holden VT XS is parked here".
I imagine that vehicles should be able to visit the various garages for paint jobs if they were equipped with a location based function similar to how there's an object for redying the %color of dynafiber that enabled a mechanic to change a vehicle's %color with a clever @message that made sense for quick drying, accurate, laser-like paint spray with no mess. It's the future after all!
There are so few cars of any given model in the game that I think players SHOUL OOCly "look" to be able to scan anything other than model.
Pink Holden would be an instant giveaway as to whose car went by, realistically (speaking of the realities of gameplay, not of in-game realism).
Also: DynaFiber dyeing is not available, though "help tailoring" does make clear that it was planned at one point. I'm following this tangent to save players a lot of frustration when they get the idea to try to look for this option, which does not exist ICly no matter what Help Tailoring says. If it does become available and I'm still playing, I'll remember to bum this topic and state so.
Back to the cars: If "ambient traffic" spammed all kinds of cars in all the colors which player cars came in at us, obfuscating that player's Pink Holden among noise, including OTHER "virtual" pink Holdens, that might make the situation different.
My 2c, for what it's worth.
People who DO use their cars to follow other characters already are handicapped by the vanishingly small numbers of cars in-game.
People who roleplay recognizing that they're being followed hopefully ARE putting a LOT of thought into how their character has picked this car up out of the hundreds which should be visible at any goven time in most street locations.
I've seen and tested the IC color dyeing equipment, whether or not it's seeded in the game beyond the original ones I couldn't say.