This page goes deep: what FreeTime_Garage can do and why the implementation is, in many places, different – and in our opinion better – than what you usually see. The green Advantage boxes highlight what matters in each case.

The foundation everything else stands on. FreeTime_Garage keeps the live state of every vehicle in RAM (cache) and uses the database only as background persistence.

• ▪1 query per login loads all of a player's vehicles – after that, everything runs from memory.
• ▪Write-behind: changes are written in batches; critical state changes (park-in/park-out) are written immediately (write-through).
• ▪StateBags instead of event spam for synchronization, with a guard that resets and logs foreign tampering.
• ▪Server-side spawn – anti-dupe-friendly and cleanly typed.

One system for all use cases – no patchwork of multiple resources:

Plus cross-park (parking a vehicle in a garage other than its home) and transfer (permanently moving a vehicle to another garage) – both configurable granularly per garage type.

Nearly every setting lives in the database and is editable at runtime from the panel – no resource restart, no file editing.

• ▪Garage editor with two modes (aerial / on foot) and live preview.
• ▪Search hub for vehicles & players with quick actions (each with confirmation + audit).
• ▪Every functional area can be toggled on/off individually, plus detail settings.
• ▪Guided wizards (setup, key system) and in-game tours instead of pages of documentation.

Vehicles keep their real state: damage, color, tuning, extras, fuel, dirt and lock state – not only on park-in/park-out, but also for vehicles left out in the world (via a trust-checked client live report).

• ▪Type-aware condition view: cars show tires/windows/doors/hood/trunk separately; bikes only tires, helis only windows, etc. – with fine-grained damage levels.
• ▪Cosmetics persist instantly: repaints/tuning are applied fail-safe, without "please park first".
• ▪Fuel kept by type via the fuel bridge (otherwise the car would come back full or empty).

A full-featured, immersive key system – or a clean hand-off to an external one.

• ▪Physical key items with metadata – works even with inventories that have no vehicle keys of their own.
• ▪"Keys only" roleplay mode: granular per action (driving, park-in/park-out, lock/unlock, services). Stealing a key → driving the car becomes real gameplay.
• ▪Copy keys (spare key) and change lock (invalidates all old keys) – as the owner or job/rank-bound.
• ▪Lock/unlock at the vehicle with animation, hazard lights and engine control.
• ▪Guided setup wizard with profiles (Simple / Midcore RP / Hardcore RP) and automatic dependency resolution, so no two settings contradict each other.

• ▪Impound: impounding with fees, hold times, two modes (lock/storage), reason and officer attribution. Forced release for authorized jobs.
• ▪Vehicle inspection: a real inspection sheet in-game (condition, maintenance, history, new inspection), connectable to mechanic workflows; a failed inspection can take the vehicle off the road → impound.

Two full-featured models in parallel:

• ▪System A – personal, job/rank-bound: each employee has their own vehicle, access by rank.
• ▪System B – pool: the vehicle belongs to the job; multiple employees share the fleet.
• ▪Trunk/glovebox management server-side by plate (view, empty, take out) and "flag when contents".

• ▪Sharing: share your own vehicles or entire garages with others – configurable per garage(type), with rights per share, time limits and offline targets.
• ▪Lock garage: lock an entire garage with a reason (also against cross-park circumvention).
• ▪Opening hours: real real-time opening hours per garage (days/times); parking in stays allowed.

• ▪Garage NPCs or markers per garage – markers fully customizable (type, color, size, stretch, height, animation) with live preview in the editor, without saving.
• ▪Grouped blips on the map (garages of the same kind are combined in the legend).
• ▪Unique vehicle VIN in a freely definable pattern – also as a permanent "vehicle number" for roleplay.

• ▪Personal layouts & themes: each player picks their view (e.g. list, grid, compact) and design – saved per player.
• ▪Per-player vehicle behavior: door automation, engine auto-start/-stop.
• ▪Detailed vehicle cards with condition, VIN, impound information and actions.

Multilingual throughout – including console output and the NUI. Languages are provided as JSON and can be extended without an NUI build.

• ▪Server-authoritative in every critical decision; NUI/client payloads and exports are never trusted blindly.
• ▪Export guard: writing exports apply only to the creating resource; repeated abuse blocks the resource automatically (unblockable in the panel).
• ▪Audit log as a central throttle – the Discord integration hangs off it, among others.

• ▪Export API (server & client) for tow jobs, MDTs, dealerships, PD menus and much more.
• ▪Add-on system: optional, anti-spoof extension resources that register themselves and bring their own panel tab.
• ▪Vehicle store mode: either your own table or directly on the framework vehicles – without import.