Different ways of purchasing items

[[VF] November]

Hello, I'd like to suggest a few ways to improve the shopping / ordering experience in Hydroneer. I've recently scaled my mine to the point that I can afford pretty much anything in the shops (~40k per smelting run), and am often buying large pallets and truckfuls of items to build out new automation pieces in my mine.

However, this process often involves clipping items in the back of the truck, and/or pallet organization issues, trying to get the large quantity of stuff to fit on a pallet. Therefore, these two options might help this issue for people in the late-game of Hydroneer.

1. Implement a Radio, an item you can craft or buy that opens a menu where you can create shopping lists and send in remote orders to the shops.

2. Offer two modes for remote orders:

a. Packing Service Orders: When you create a packing service order, the shops involved pack all the goods that you ordered onto pallets for you, optimizing space to a reasonable height and weight. They charge you a 20% premium for this service, plus the cost of the pallets. They post the pallets in a prominent location in Bridgeport.

b. Delivery Orders: When you create a delivery order, the shops pack up what you ordered onto pallets, just like a Packing Service order, but they deliver it to the signpost in the mine of your choice. They charge a 40% premium for this service, plus the cost of the pallets.

I figure that the shops in this game would offer something like this to miners who are starting to become richer than the shop owners, a way to cater to increasing money supplies and increasing need for help with the logistics of bigger mines.

[MRBOOOYA]

I really like this idea, me personally though i'd do 35% for packing service orders and 50% for delivery considering thee amount of money we can make in the game.

[King Nothing]

I take you never played Gold rush.

[MRBOOOYA]

Originally posted by King Nothing:

I take you never played Gold rush.

Yes I have. My honest opinion that games garbage. but i do get where your getting at with the ordering and delivery stuff

[King Nothing]

Honesty that would make the game empty and bare

[Mikemk]

There should be a drop off point for pallets to be used instead of having to buy a new pallet every time... for a lot of orders, the pallet would cost more than the items on it.

[Zorz]

just let us craft all items in assembly machines.. issue fixed..