So I've got three ideas for how hauling trailers could be improved, and two ideas on how collecting salvage could be tweaked. First off, I feel like specialty trailer hauling could use some major price buffs (though it may be that it's tweaked to be simpler/lower on the Recommended settings and harder/higher on the Driver and Hardcore settings). Like how we see with Sour Candy and Barrow, it could be interesting if you were able to take specialty contracts that you weren't yet qualified for to net the better payout they provide, but if you fail them or damage the trailer too much, or even run afoul of a weight check which would alert the Galactic DMV that you're operating outside of your parameters, you could end up getting fined and blacklisted from taking them until you officially unlock the skill (or perhaps to make it more than a mere slap of the wrist, until you FULLY unlock the skill). For example, if you haul a Heavy Load without a Heavy Load license and fail to deliver it satisfactorily, you'd need to unlock Heavy Loads 3 before you can take ANY Heavy Loads again. Another thing could be if Black Markets not only traded supplies, but also offered EXTREMELY lucrative contracts for under the radar shipping jobs (ranging from anywhere from x2 to x5 times the base contract)... however, if you take the container through too high a security system, you can end up getting the entire trailer confiscated and slapped with a punitive shipping contract for the Galactic DMV (with minimal payout of $500). Meaning you might have to take a longer route to get it to its destination safely. Lastly, it could be nice if you enter a system without a container Moon Baby would sometimes contact you with the co-ordinates of a derelict container to be picked up and returned to the Junk Fields. There'd be no penalty for denying it, and there'd be no time limit, but it would only provide a flat $1000. However, it would be a way to make a bit of money between major jobs. The further along her storyline you are, the more often she'd contact you with a pick up. On to salvage, as you point out, it seems like salvaging is the best way to make money (which kind of undermines the whole trucking aspect of Star 'Trucker'). It could be good if salvage was generally less valuable (always having some degree of damage), but would still be useful for picking up supplies like Batteries, UCC's, and Air Filters. That way, the aim of salvaging would be to get cheap replacements instead of making money, but you could still make some money doing so. On a related note, salvage, particularly the drink packs (which are invariably low value regardless of rarity or contraband status) could have a secondary use. Now, I don't know if hard mode incorporates a health/hunger/thirst/energy system for the main character, but if not, it would sort of make sense seeing as there's food, drinks, and a bed available in the game, the latter of which seemingly having no use save for a shelf. Another idea however, is that each of the side characters could have a favorite drink (with one for each of them) and that every so often, there'll be a party in Spark City with 2-4 of the side characters in attendance. If you have their preferred drink in your cab, they may give you a tip or a bonus. G-Bee - Iced Coffee - Overlooks a three traffic violations Red Eddie - Energy Drinks - EVA Suit gets a temporary jet booster (lasts for three evac sessions) Sour Candy - Soda - EVA Suit gets a temporary grav tether (lasts for three evac sessions) Barrow - Green Tea - Gives you an Algae Meal Box (It's base selling price permanently goes up by $100 every time it's sold) Dusty Bear - Beer - Gives you a dashboard bobble (one for each side character/their truck) Moon Baby - Fruit Juice - Gives you co-ordinates for a busted container (has numerous, quality, and/or rare salvage) Rosso - Water - Overlooks three weight inspections
Here is a cargo hauling thought, you can accept up to 3 jobs at any job board. Some areas have no job board, but do have jobs. The trick is to plan a route where you take loads to the towns with no job board and pick up trailers there. If you see a job from town a to town b and another job from town b to somewhere, you can plan that out. I believe hauling is deeper than it seems, you just gotta dig 8nto those job boards and use all 3 job slots.. Now do a video where you just haul and plan it out so you always have 2 or 3 hauls lined up. How many loads can you haul in a row this way by planning out your loads way in advance. Be careful with those on time loads. On a side note, I would love to see a switch to just turn off the reverse thrusters so coasting is a bit safer. You can still accelerate and turn, and also brake but auto slowing is turned off. I love coasting clean areas, but either you have to shut off each thruster one at a time, or turn off the automatic system altogether and fly manually. Adding a switch to the top of the dash to simply shut off the automatic slowing that happens when you let off the hammer doesn't happen. What do you think? What's the best way to contact dev's with ideas like this? One last thought, if you have a weird crash and you recently entered the area, the autosave happens every time you pass through a gate. You can just restart at the autosave. Sort of a last ditch idea to save some frustration, or waste money on repairs, or simply scratched that perfect paint job.
Thanks for the suggestion! I do plan on doing an episode for ONLY hauling. I need to get some levels and as far as I know that is the only way to get XP. I will give your idea a shot and see if it works! As for the idea's, I am not sure the best way to go about that but the devs have a discord and I am sure you can reach someone there or submit feedback on this page rawfury.atlassian.net/servicedesk/customer/portal/1
Interesting--maybe I haven't hung out there much in a 31 hour game so far (which unfortunately is bugged, can't get the scanner upgrade), I've never seen a solar flare there.
It might have been possible to stick the Pizzas for the lan party in the smuggler's hold, but I don't know how the confinement would have affected their quality.
So when I delivered the pizza that I had put in the box, its durability was at 1/100. I think that the boxes degrade them because they aren't being exposed to the temperature in the cab? Not sure exactly.
I really need to get back into this game. I'm still trying to get the hang of it and kinda sorta rage quit the game for a while cause I couldn't get past the first few missions in the beginning cause I have trouble keeping my truck in good condition.
I hear ya! When you get some money do the hull upgrades and it helps a LOT. You saw when I crashed I only had a single leak, thats because of those upgrades.
From what I can tell it has to be exposed to the cabin temps or it loses durability. That's why the airlock pizza and hardcase pizza both were down really far but the stack of pizzas that i left on the floor was good.
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Keep going man! Love the series
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I think you shouldnt leave the pizza in the air lock
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Me too
So I've got three ideas for how hauling trailers could be improved, and two ideas on how collecting salvage could be tweaked.
First off, I feel like specialty trailer hauling could use some major price buffs (though it may be that it's tweaked to be simpler/lower on the Recommended settings and harder/higher on the Driver and Hardcore settings).
Like how we see with Sour Candy and Barrow, it could be interesting if you were able to take specialty contracts that you weren't yet qualified for to net the better payout they provide, but if you fail them or damage the trailer too much, or even run afoul of a weight check which would alert the Galactic DMV that you're operating outside of your parameters, you could end up getting fined and blacklisted from taking them until you officially unlock the skill (or perhaps to make it more than a mere slap of the wrist, until you FULLY unlock the skill). For example, if you haul a Heavy Load without a Heavy Load license and fail to deliver it satisfactorily, you'd need to unlock Heavy Loads 3 before you can take ANY Heavy Loads again.
Another thing could be if Black Markets not only traded supplies, but also offered EXTREMELY lucrative contracts for under the radar shipping jobs (ranging from anywhere from x2 to x5 times the base contract)... however, if you take the container through too high a security system, you can end up getting the entire trailer confiscated and slapped with a punitive shipping contract for the Galactic DMV (with minimal payout of $500). Meaning you might have to take a longer route to get it to its destination safely.
Lastly, it could be nice if you enter a system without a container Moon Baby would sometimes contact you with the co-ordinates of a derelict container to be picked up and returned to the Junk Fields. There'd be no penalty for denying it, and there'd be no time limit, but it would only provide a flat $1000. However, it would be a way to make a bit of money between major jobs. The further along her storyline you are, the more often she'd contact you with a pick up.
On to salvage, as you point out, it seems like salvaging is the best way to make money (which kind of undermines the whole trucking aspect of Star 'Trucker'). It could be good if salvage was generally less valuable (always having some degree of damage), but would still be useful for picking up supplies like Batteries, UCC's, and Air Filters. That way, the aim of salvaging would be to get cheap replacements instead of making money, but you could still make some money doing so.
On a related note, salvage, particularly the drink packs (which are invariably low value regardless of rarity or contraband status) could have a secondary use.
Now, I don't know if hard mode incorporates a health/hunger/thirst/energy system for the main character, but if not, it would sort of make sense seeing as there's food, drinks, and a bed available in the game, the latter of which seemingly having no use save for a shelf.
Another idea however, is that each of the side characters could have a favorite drink (with one for each of them) and that every so often, there'll be a party in Spark City with 2-4 of the side characters in attendance. If you have their preferred drink in your cab, they may give you a tip or a bonus.
G-Bee - Iced Coffee - Overlooks a three traffic violations
Red Eddie - Energy Drinks - EVA Suit gets a temporary jet booster (lasts for three evac sessions)
Sour Candy - Soda - EVA Suit gets a temporary grav tether (lasts for three evac sessions)
Barrow - Green Tea - Gives you an Algae Meal Box (It's base selling price permanently goes up by $100 every time it's sold)
Dusty Bear - Beer - Gives you a dashboard bobble (one for each side character/their truck)
Moon Baby - Fruit Juice - Gives you co-ordinates for a busted container (has numerous, quality, and/or rare salvage)
Rosso - Water - Overlooks three weight inspections
Cool Ideas! I certainly hope that they keep expanding upon some of these mechanics. You should drop this in their discord as well.
Here is a cargo hauling thought, you can accept up to 3 jobs at any job board. Some areas have no job board, but do have jobs. The trick is to plan a route where you take loads to the towns with no job board and pick up trailers there. If you see a job from town a to town b and another job from town b to somewhere, you can plan that out. I believe hauling is deeper than it seems, you just gotta dig 8nto those job boards and use all 3 job slots.. Now do a video where you just haul and plan it out so you always have 2 or 3 hauls lined up. How many loads can you haul in a row this way by planning out your loads way in advance. Be careful with those on time loads.
On a side note, I would love to see a switch to just turn off the reverse thrusters so coasting is a bit safer. You can still accelerate and turn, and also brake but auto slowing is turned off. I love coasting clean areas, but either you have to shut off each thruster one at a time, or turn off the automatic system altogether and fly manually. Adding a switch to the top of the dash to simply shut off the automatic slowing that happens when you let off the hammer doesn't happen. What do you think?
What's the best way to contact dev's with ideas like this?
One last thought, if you have a weird crash and you recently entered the area, the autosave happens every time you pass through a gate. You can just restart at the autosave. Sort of a last ditch idea to save some frustration, or waste money on repairs, or simply scratched that perfect paint job.
Thanks for the suggestion! I do plan on doing an episode for ONLY hauling. I need to get some levels and as far as I know that is the only way to get XP. I will give your idea a shot and see if it works!
As for the idea's, I am not sure the best way to go about that but the devs have a discord and I am sure you can reach someone there or submit feedback on this page rawfury.atlassian.net/servicedesk/customer/portal/1
you held word.
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ooh im first :)
Yes you are!
I've seen 2 solar flares in redsock
Do you remember how hot they got?
@@hugmuffinzz6559 700ish I think. Know I didn't have to use shutters
Interesting--maybe I haven't hung out there much in a 31 hour game so far (which unfortunately is bugged, can't get the scanner upgrade), I've never seen a solar flare there.
About the accident, you may have been on the wrong side of the road,The roads look like they are only two lane roads
I probably was! lol.
It might have been possible to stick the Pizzas for the lan party in the smuggler's hold, but I don't know how the confinement would have affected their quality.
So when I delivered the pizza that I had put in the box, its durability was at 1/100. I think that the boxes degrade them because they aren't being exposed to the temperature in the cab? Not sure exactly.
Ya definitely not the cab being so hot you almost spontaneously combusted. Btw keep it up I enjoy your content.
I really need to get back into this game. I'm still trying to get the hang of it and kinda sorta rage quit the game for a while cause I couldn't get past the first few missions in the beginning cause I have trouble keeping my truck in good condition.
I hear ya! When you get some money do the hull upgrades and it helps a LOT. You saw when I crashed I only had a single leak, thats because of those upgrades.
@@hugmuffinzz6559 yeah. I’m not a very good driver apparently 😂
@cohenb18 you get free repairs in the beginning until your warranty expires.
Do you deliver to australia on earth? If so i would like a ham and cheese pizza
😂
the pizza was in your airlock not in a hard case that why it took damage i think
From what I can tell it has to be exposed to the cabin temps or it loses durability. That's why the airlock pizza and hardcase pizza both were down really far but the stack of pizzas that i left on the floor was good.
eeh, you are NOT on the White. you are slightly to cool for Pizza.
78° should fit??
We never know since you not try. ^^
I am not sure exactly how to get 78. Warm put it at 77 and if I go hot that would put it in the 90's.
hallo can i get a peperony pizza with extra chees please
hugs: that will be $120.000
me: that the price of 2024 for a pizza
😂