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Hello all, This is something I think I suggested years ago and it never saw much attention or came to fruition. Perhaps I didn't explain it well enough, there wasn't enough interest from the community or it didn't seem like a rewarding enough feature to implement by the previous development team. Nevertheless, I have come to the crossroad again where such a feature would help me tremendously in-game and I know such a feature would help many others, so here-goes. How many of you have spent a lot of time and effort designing a car in APB? Now, how many of you had to spend a similar amount of time making the same or similar design on the same exact make and model car because you purchased one with a different number of modification slots? Allow me to expound on the suggested feature: What if LO made it so that when someone hit the "Duplicate" button on a vehicle, it opened a menu that allowed you to select the number of mod slots, restricted to those you have unlocked, with the corresponding price, and duplicated the selected vehicle's design onto that model? Example 1: A player spent a lot of time designing their 2-Slot Pioneer. They decide it is time to upgrade to a 4-Slot Pioneer and have saved up the money to do so. Instead of buying the 4-Slot Pioneer and having to completely re-design the car from scratch, with my suggested feature, they can click "Duplicate" and select "Nulander Pioneer (4-Slot)". Boom, the design from their 2-Slot Pioneer is duplicated onto a 4-Slot Pioneer, they are charged the $1,000,000 associated with the 4-slot, and they don't have to spend any time trying to replicate the same design on the same make/model car just because they changed the number of mod slots. Example 2: A player purchases a 4-Slot Jericho from Armas and spends a significant amount of time customizing it. Their friend takes a liking to the Jericho and asks if they could have one. Using the suggested feature, the owner of the Jericho clicks "Duplicate" and selects "Patriot V20 Jericho (4-Slot)". Boom, the design from their untradable 4-Slot Jericho is duplicated onto a tradable 4-Slot Jericho, they are charged the $1,000,000 associated with the 4-slot, and they don't have to spend the time trying to replicate the same design since they can't duplicate and trade their Armas vehicle. Obviously there would be some constraints to implementing such a feature. This likely couldn't be feasibly implemented across different makes/models of vehicles, so it would have to stay Jericho-to-Jericho, Rapier-to-Rapier or Pioneer-to-Pioneer. It couldn't be feasibly performed while in a trade either, so the menu would only be accessible through a locker, mailbox or kiosk. An alternative to this suggestion could be to allow the creator of a vehicle to upgrade/downgrade their vehicle's number of modification slots based on which vehicles they have unlocked and available to them. Downgrading an existing vehicle's modification slots could issue a refund of the difference in vehicle cost, while upgrading a vehicle's modification slots would cost the difference in price between the two models. The example to my alternative would involve duplicating the existing vehicle, then adjusting the modification slots via upgrade/downgrade as needed. If you think this suggestion is something that could help new players and veterans alike (like I think it can), please give it a like and/or a reply so we can potentially have another useful feature implemented into the game. Thanks for reading, be safe everyone.