Sunday, July 27, 2025

Proposal: Customs Agent

failed 3-9, chiiika.

Adminned at 29 Jul 2025 03:09:30 UTC

Add the following properties to the list of what “Customers” consists of

Hunger Status:

A value which is either “Full” or “Hungry” and by default is “Hungry”

Favorite:

An Ingredient, which is privately tracked by the Yard rather than being publicly tracked. Can be empty, but if a Customer does not have a favorite, the Yard should privately randomly select a favorite for them at the Yard’s earliest convivence.

In “The Night” replace “The Yard selects a Customer at random from the list of Customers” with “The Yard selects a Customer at random from the list of Hungry Customers”

In “The Night” replace “The Yard selects a random item on that Truck’s Menu to be the Active Customer’s Choice.” with “The Yard selects a random item on that Truck’s Menu to be the Active Customer’s Choice. If any items on that Truck’s Menu contain the Customer’s favorite ingredient, the random selection is made only from only those items. “

In “The Night” replace “Remove the Active Customer from the list of Customers.” with “Set that Customers to be Full”

Add a new step called “Digest: Set all Customers to be Hungry” to the Serve atomic action, right after the “Go home” step.

Idea is that customers stay around, and people can keep an eye on what dishes they are ordering to determine the customers favorites and adjust their menus accordingly

Comments

Trapdoorspyder: he/him

28-07-2025 05:54:26 UTC

for

Kevan: Yard he/him

28-07-2025 08:08:32 UTC

imperial Has potential as a mechanic, but it’ll need something else to get out of the narrative strangeness of the same twelve people returning to the food trucks every night.

Josh: he/they

28-07-2025 09:57:32 UTC

against

aria: she/they

28-07-2025 11:22:31 UTC

against I can see this being an interesting mechanic, but only if it is also paired with some rotation of customers to add some variety, or if most customers leave but some come back (I think I prefer the latter). As it is right now I don’t like it.

Chiiika: she/her

28-07-2025 11:34:33 UTC

against

eternalservererror:

28-07-2025 12:41:39 UTC

against
For the same reasons as Aria. I do agree with the premise behind the proposal of being able to cater to the needs of the customer. But I would also like to see some more variety first.

JonathanDark: he/him

28-07-2025 12:57:45 UTC

against for the same reasons

arthexis: he/him

28-07-2025 15:00:17 UTC

against

Darknight: he/him

28-07-2025 15:14:22 UTC

against

Desertfrog:

28-07-2025 18:51:46 UTC

against

Vovix: he/him

28-07-2025 19:04:48 UTC

for I agree we might want some way for new customers to show up, but I like the idea of having a pool of recurring customers.

Clucky: he/him

28-07-2025 19:51:06 UTC

yeah I thought about doubling the customer pool in this, but didn’t want to go overboard with too many changes in one proposal seemed like the kind of thing that could easily be adjusted later

DoomedIdeas: he/him

28-07-2025 20:49:46 UTC

against