In “Food Trucks”, replace “may be either Open or Closed” with:-
may be either Open, Closed or Dark
After “with an Operating Status of Open is considered an Open Truck,”, add “a Truck with an Operating Status of Dark is considered a Dark Truck,”.
In “The Night”, remove “or all Closed Trucks have performed a Closed Action”.
Replace “Wash up: Blank all Trucks’ Menus and blank the Closed Action of all Open Trucks” with:-
* Wash up: Blank all Trucks’ Menus
* Tear down: For each of a Truck’s Fittings that wasn’t put there during the current Trading Day, remove it
In “Reminders”, replace “If only one or two Closed Trucks have not set a Closed Action, then the Yard is permitted to remind them to set a Closed Action” with:-
If only one or two Trucks are Closed and the game is in the Serve phase, then the Yard is permitted to remind them to take a Serve Action
In “Food Trucks”, remove “Each Truck has a publicly tracked list of Decorations, where each Decoration has a Name (a flavour-text string).” (if it is there) and add a subrule to Food Trucks called “Fittings”:-
Each Truck has a publicly tracked list of Fittings. Each Fitting has a Name and an Effect, and the available Fittings are:-
* Second Station: A Truck with a Second Station may have up to seven Dishes in their Menu instead of five.
* Lighting Rig: The prices of all Dishes for a Truck with a Lighting Rig are treated as $2 lower (to a minimum of $1) than they actually are during the ‘‘They look around’’ step of the Sale action.
* Drinks Fridge: A Truck with a Drinks Fridge gains a bonus of 2 Dollars from each Sale that they perform.The effects of a Truck’s Fittings do not apply while that Truck is Closed or Dark.
As a Serve Action, a Closed Truck may add a Fitting to their Fittings, and set their Operating Status to Dark.
Repeal “Closed Actions”.
A mechanical merge of Closed Actions and Decorations!
The New Hire, Marketing and Food Handler Certification actions become Second Station, Lighting Rig and Drinks Fridge “fittings” which have equivalent effects. Any future Decorations could just be a type of Fitting, and have some effect when installed. Whether a Closed Truck has taken their day’s action becomes tracked by shifting them to a third Operating Status of “Dark”: Night is processed when every Truck is either Open or Dark.
This is intended to all be functionally identical to the current Closed Actions. It would make more sense narratively and in gameplay terms for Fittings to be permanent (is anyone really going to give up a full Night’s takings to get a possible one-off $2 the next day, under the current ruleset?) but since that’s a game balance issue I’ll leave it for others to propose.
Am I missing something or is there nothing here stopping
Desertfrog: