#New delivery methods

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tired flint
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Some ideas:

  • Bikes: The label is a bike. Deliveries only on Sat. and Sun.
  • Drones: Label is a simple drone. Delivery on...maybe the days where the airplane isn't active?
  • Shop pick-up: Symbol could be a house, or a packaging station. Delivery on Mon. to Fri.

Chutes:

  • Bikes & Shop: Get their own chute
  • Drones: Chute shared with airplanes
jagged junco
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I like the idea of the shop pickup. Depending on space available, the chute could maybe be the inverse of our deliveries? Where we load it onto a truck instead of a chute? I dunno how practical that is from a physics perspective though 🤔

tired flint
jagged junco
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Yeah, I was thinking you could have a conveyor upgrade like the one we have bringing things out of the trucks, but my worry is the capacity. If you're dumping dozens into one truck, I have a feeling the physics might go a bit nuts. (And deviates from the 'ship batches of packages at once for a bonus at the risk of them being wrong' gameplay loop

But would be interested in Dan's thoughts, since he knows the game, and it's physics, best 🤣

lament axle
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Yeah, I was thinking you could have...
this is exactly why chutes exist

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the game essentially just makes the parcels "disappear" when they go out of view down the chute

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it actually, many moons ago, used to work in this way - you'd place parcels physically into trucks

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but the issue is that yeah, when the trucks get full the physics on the boxes start fighting against each other

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an alternative, but similar, idea, is that this cargo type could be a sort of express/local van style, where you place that 1 single parcel into the van and it departs immediately with the parcel

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just thinking out loud though, not sure how well that'd fit into the core loop 👍

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@young crow didn't you have an "express shipments" idea ages ago that worked this way? I think it was you anyway

tired flint
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or you can just say that these packages get picked up directly at the warehouse for some reason

lament axle
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I think the local thing is a fair enough reason

jagged junco
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lament axle
strong estuary
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I Know right :D I'm kind of impressed with myself xD