New delivery methods

[tired flint]

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]

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]

Ohh, that'd make sense. Honestly, in that case maybe you can just chuck these packages back into the trucks whenever they arrive.

[jagged junco]

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]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[young crow]

Yes I did have express shipment idea. https://discord.com/channels/1104333836118138901/1346815947582869535

[tired flint]

that'd also work well. maybe with the reason behind being "well, packing stations are in town so we'll just do smaller, but faster deliveries"

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

[lament axle]

I think the local thing is a fair enough reason

[jagged junco]

I had a feeling that was the case, but was worth a suggestion. Chutes are still cool, love a good chute 🤣

[strong estuary]

Maybe there could be a package locker at the Warehouse, were you need to put in the packages from the back side. As an upgrade there could be a Robot-Arm to input the Packages automatically :D

[lament axle]

ooo that is a very cool idea 😄

[strong estuary]

I Know right :D I'm kind of impressed with myself xD

[tired flint]

Thats also a really good idea!