#Crop dusting rework

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wise coral
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(Yeah someone wanted this before but not to this depth.)
The crop dusting job is an overlooked and underutilized job type in the game as a whole
and worst of all: Its boring. Even the devs I've poked into doing crop dusting dont like it.
The issues I see are the lack of challenge, and lack of variety, and the lack of any worthwhile mechanics.

As is the "crop dusting gameplay loop" is lobotomy-level-simple. Take off, fly over a field in any direction until out of product, land, repeat.
At gaston, the crop dusting jobs technically come from clarence, and are given full "distance modifiers" for fields right next to the airport!

Crop dusting as a job in real life is an intense and delicate dance done at 150 miles an hour, 5 feet off the ground.
Dodging telephone wires, trees, gravity, stalling, the list goes on.
Gameplay, even if simplified, should reflect this intensity.

Now, to make this work.
At every field possible to crop dust on, (yes, thats a LOT of bloat. I know.)
Waypoints should guide you to a specific field (we have options, you know), which has an array of boxes on it.
These are drop zones for the product.
(Possible visual instead of whole bounding box cubes, fences? fake-walls? giant boxes are kinda ugly.)

As you drop product, the section will turn green.
Notification for "area 1 complete" or so when done.
Note, you can overfill an area, but it does not complete anything else, so watch what you doing.
Multiple passes will be needed, and it should be noted returning to the airport will refill the hopper for more passes IS OK / SHOULD HAVE A NOTICE.

Ideally this will encourage people to do this, however, increased rewards should be accounted for, as rewards are currently very poor.

Any questions I will try my best to answer!

Thank you for listening to my suggestions talk, Have an included "Dusty Buddy" for your enjoyment / repainting.

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cursive remnant
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Rare top tier suggestion, very nice

shy gulch
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oo very cool

ocean bane
paper socket
golden orbit
tough lichen
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Crop dusters my beloved

tepid belfry
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Chat pls starboard this so the community at large can see this

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this is absolutely needed game wise, great for the greater GA field, and an AMAZING suggestion

wise coral
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I was originally going to just say "oh, to make it work it could be a modified version of the circuit flying job"
And then I played that job and nooOoo that wouldn't work.

In theory to cut down on bloat this would make, each field would need its own subclass (which, technically, they are)
The game already knows what is and isn't a field. We just need to build it's class type up.

orchid crescent
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this is how we do it

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also make the units change

ionic tiger
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This is fucking needed W suggestion

late sun
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Also if balanced have helicopters able to refuel near the barn

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realistically you wouldn't need to go back to base for just a refuel of pesticides in a helicopter

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And would balance the slowness of a helicopter

magic bluff
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yeah i cant say im satisfied with how crop dusting jobs are set up rn, they are a bit of an old one on the configuring side and hence is manually setup per airport which is why they are a rarity

cursive remnant
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Maybe you could make new crop fields specifically for this job, they'd have the section blocks setup and we'd just need to copy-paste them anywhere, and the game would automatically use nearby ones for the jobs

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Though of course it's easier said than done

magic bluff
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manual labour McDSprite

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ill think of something

late sun
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Also if you have god tier hands and coding levels of a singularity there's this

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Basically, hover over an area without pesticides

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Since you actually use the propwash itself to dry the cherries

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Helicopter only

lament dagger
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There's two sides of the suggestion channel:

  • This well-constructed suggestion (absolute peak)
  • "add COMPLETE plane interiors, it would be cool lol"
wise coral
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even the devs know
Crop dusting is fun

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orchid crescent
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korn

wise coral
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also: If we didnt want really big and ugly boxes to do, as well as issues with making people do it again, in ye olde days they had a guy with a flag at the front and end of the run to tell where people should go.
(in game, either one or two aeronauticans with little flags, and they are on opposite sides of the field)
(however, this isnt as clear)

normal smelt
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Excellent suggestion

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Love to see it

vital ermine
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amazing

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it even got planned LETSGOLETSGOLETSGO

fallen prism
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Truly a peak suggestion. Crop dusting should become a decent job payout. Like PTS but for farming

unborn kraken
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Crop dusting gives small amount of money

tough lichen
dapper anvil
wise coral
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(Was it really that well put together???)
Also: payout irl is like, 20 dollars an acre now, but we need to have this be a job type that's interesting

shadow quartz
late sun
sick steppe
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honestly i will actually find this fun as an end game player

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could have a rework on the license training if we were to add these colored boxes too especially at the Hold! part

orchid crescent
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first dusty buddy reskin real

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wise coral
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Technically not the first, that goes to:

sleek moon
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just look on Bell 206 and MD520 (I added crop dust custom on them)

wise coral
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the method I suggested SHOULD be able to handle helicopter dusting too

(I want the KA-26 duster so much)

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And helicopter product-refills, not sure how to balance that right.

With a fixed wing, irl, you have to refill every 10 minutes sometimes.

vocal pewter
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finally a good suggestion

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Big W

wise coral
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get ready for worse from me at some point soon.

normal smelt
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I love that thing such a goofy wacky heli

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I want to get some dusting done in the belphegor

little star
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I would hope pay would go up because crop duster pilots are going to have to put fries in the bag in order to pay for costs

unborn kraken
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Honest PZL M-15 belphegor reaction:

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magic delta
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this would be so cool. Crop Dusting and Weather Recon are both in need of an update

cobalt yacht
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its a firefighter cropduster trust

sturdy bison
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hell yeah god teir suggestion

wise coral
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I might be talking out of my ass but I feel it should be doable to code

(also, @wheat mortar why vote no?)

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2wp for your thoughts

wheat mortar
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been there before, I don't need to say

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mayhaps I did the exact same thing that u just did

wise coral
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????
2000 wp for your thoughts

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if theres issues i'd like to know em (plus it gives others thought)

normal smelt
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"hmm today i will vote no and when prompted about it will respond but not give a straightforward answer"

wheat mortar
normal smelt
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i have no idea what you mean by what you originally said

wheat mortar
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I might not be able to find it if the channel was deleted

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like suggestions but for discussions

wise coral
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Oh like you had the same ish idea I had?

unborn kraken
cobalt yacht
unborn kraken
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the canadair sccooper will finnaly have an use

scenic patrol
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Another suggestion is to make this as a emoji

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I liek crop duster plaen png thinjgy

wise coral
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(If its gonna be an emote or whatever I could make a better one)

scenic patrol
wise coral
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well I wont push my luckwith suggestions 3fold, yall suggest it with my blessing lol

tough lichen
scenic patrol
tough lichen
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self reactor

wise coral
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I can make a better one

dapper anvil
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desperately

true pecan
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ob

obtuse valley
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Great suggestion

limber fern
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All we need is a pt-13 stearman and we’ll be golden

solar girder
tough lichen
wise coral
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ogh wake me up from my slumberrrr
I'll get on it.
Dusty Buddy will be remade.

tough lichen