Rentals & Charging

This page explains how players rent, ride, dock, and charge scooters. Configuration is split across configs/shared/rentals.lua, configs/shared/battery.lua, and configs/extras.json.

How It Works

1. Open the SCOOT app on the phone to see nearby scooters, bunkers, and charging stations on a live map
2. Rent a scooter - unlock one parked nearby, rent one from a bunker, or unlock one from a charging station's screen
3. Pay the unlock fee - taken when the ride starts, plus the fee of any customisation picked
4. Ride - the battery drains while you ride
5. End the ride - from the app, or by docking at a charging station
6. Pay per minute - the ride is billed per started minute and a receipt is shown

INFO

A player can only have one active ride at a time. Rides older than MaxRideMinutes (default 180) are ended and billed automatically.

Renting a Scooter

There are three ways to start a ride:

Method	Where	Distance Rule
Unlock nearby	Any available scooter parked in the world, from the app	Within RentDistance (12 m)
Rent at a bunker	A rental bunker, from the app	Within StationDistance (12 m)
Unlock at a station	A docked scooter, from the charging station's screen	Within RentDistance (12 m) of the station

Scooters below Battery.MinToRent (default 15%) show Needs charge and cannot be unlocked.

Bunker Dispensing

Renting at a bunker takes one scooter from its stock. The bunker rises out of the pavement, opens its shutter, lowers a ramp, and pushes the scooter out. Its stem then snaps upright and the ride begins. Everyone within DispenseRadius (200 m) sees the same animation.

A bunker with no stock left cannot dispense. Stock is refilled when rides are docked back into it, or set directly from the Bunkers tab of the admin panel.

Customisation

When renting at a bunker, players pick a paint colour and can customise the scooter. Each option adds its fee to the unlock fee:

Category	Options	Fee
Rear	Rear carrier, Delivery bag + rack	$2 / $5
Trim	Stealth black, Brushed silver, Burnt orange, Lime, Violet	$1
Lighting	15 underglow colours	$2
Bell	Black, Electronic	$1
Decal	Racing stripes, Race number, Custom name	$1

Underglow and trim are picked from colour swatches, the same way as the paint. Labels and fees are set in configs/extras.json - see Rental Customisation.

Riding

• Riders use a custom standing animation set
• Press E (rebindable) to ring the bell. Nearby players hear it
• Idle scooters are locked (LockIdle), so they can only be ridden through the app
• The renter is handed the keys for the ride through your key script (see Supported Vehicle Keys)

Ending a Ride

End the ride from the app, or dock the scooter at a charging station. Where the scooter goes depends on where the ride ends:

Ride Ends	What Happens
Within DockDistance of a charging station with a free dock	The scooter glides into the dock and starts charging (if paid charging allows it)
Within DockDistance of a bunker	The scooter goes back into the bunker's stock
Anywhere else	The scooter stays parked where it stopped, locked and available to the next renter

Docking at a Station

Ride up to a charging station and a prompt appears once you're within Dock.PromptDistance (3 m) of a free dock. Hold E to dock. Docking your own rental ends the ride. Docking an unrented fleet scooter parks it in the dock. Docking a scooter that isn't part of the fleet adds it to the fleet.

Billing

The per-minute cost is taken when the ride ends. A scooter can't be held hostage by an empty account - if the rider can't pay, the ride still ends and is recorded as unpaid in the admin panel's ride history.

If a rider disconnects mid-ride, the ride is closed automatically and the scooter is freed.

Battery

Mechanic	Default	Setting
Drain while riding	2.5% per minute	DrainPerMinute
Minimum charge to rent	15%	MinToRent
Charge rate when docked	20% per minute	ChargePerMinute
Flat scooter recovery	30 minutes	FlatRecoverMinutes

Running Flat

When a scooter's battery reaches 0% mid-ride, the ride ends and is billed as normal, and the rider is notified. The scooter locks where it stands as flat. After FlatRecoverMinutes the fleet collects it.

Charging

Every charging station has a pay screen on its totem. Walk up to it and use the View charger screen target option (or the text prompt without ox_target) to open a close-up view with a mouse cursor.

From the screen, players can:

• See every dock with its scooter's plate and battery level
• Buy a charge - pick a target percent (or a preset like 50 / 75 / 100) and pay by card or cash
• Raise an active charge target - only the added percent is billed
• Stop a charge early - the undelivered percent is refunded when RefundOnStop is enabled
• Unlock a docked scooter to start a ride

Pricing

Paid = {
    Enabled = true,
    Account = 'bank',
    PricePerPercent = 0.1,
    MinimumFee = 1,
    Step = 5,
    Presets = { 50, 75, 100 },
    RefundOnStop = true,
},

The bill is the percent bought times PricePerPercent, rounded up, and never less than MinimumFee. With the defaults, charging from 20% to 100% costs $8.

Free charging

Set Battery.Paid.Enabled = false and every docked scooter charges to full for free, with no screen purchase needed.

Dock Lights

Each occupied dock shows its state on the status lens and with a matching glow:

Colour	State
Blue	Docked and connected, not charging
Amber (breathing)	Charging
Green	Full