Tuesday, August 05, 2025

Proposal: Hungry Customers

If “Late Fees” was enacted, the rest of this Proposal has no effect.

In the rule “Menus” add the following text:

(From Tomorrow:) An Open Truck is Ready if its menu has at least three Dishes

In the rule “Fittings”, add the following to the Fittings table:

|-
! Negative Social Media Post
| During the “Refresh” step of the Night action, set this Truck’s Operating Status to Closed instead of Open. (Negative Social Media Post is a Temporary Fitting.)
|-
! Coming Soon Sign
| During the “Refresh” step of the Night action, set this Truck’s Operating Status to Dark instead of Open. (Coming Soon Sign is a Temporary Fitting.)

In the rule “Trading Day”, add a subrule named “Deadlines” with the following text:

(From Tomorrow:) 48 hours after the most recent Prep Phase has started, every Open Truck that is not Ready gains a Negative Social Media Post to their Fittings if they don’t already have it.

(From Tomorrow:) 48 hours after the most recent Serve Phase has started, every Closed Truck gains a Coming Soon Sign to their Fittings if they don’t already have it.

An alternative to the idea proposed in “Late Fees”.

Trucks that don’t perform actions within 48 hours of a Phase will be force-opted out of the next Trading Day. Closed isn’t the end of the world since a Closed Truck could add a beneficial Fitting or perform some other Serve action, but they’ll still need to do so within 48 hours of the Serve phase starting or risk losing out on both phases the next Trading Day.

This is all still easily overcome because Trucks can still set their Operating Status during the Prep phase, so none of this is a huge penalty if a player simply loses track of time, as long as they catch up the next Trading Day.

Comments

arthexis: he/him

05-08-2025 16:03:59 UTC

for

Clucky: he/him

05-08-2025 16:51:29 UTC

a bit worried that losing a whole trading day is a big loss and failing to get a move in could just be an honest mistake

JonathanDark: he/him

05-08-2025 21:03:25 UTC

@Clucky: Here’s how that would likely play out in the worst-case scenario:

* Trading Day 7 Prep Phase: SlowPokeJoe fails to set their Menu within 48 hours, gets the Negative Social Media Post fitting

* Trading Day 7 Serve Phase: SlowerPokeJane fails to perform any Serve action for 48 hours, gets the Coming Soon Sign fitting

* Trading Day 8 Prep Phase: SlowPokeJoe is Closed, SlowerPokeJane is Dark

Both SlowPokeJoe and SlowerPokeJane can still set their Operating Status to Open on Trading Day 8 as long as they do so before the rest of the Open Trucks have set their Menus, and will have not lost a Trading Day at all if they do so.

I think the time period between each Trading Day is a sufficient amount of time that an honest mistake could be recovered without penalty.

Clucky: he/him

05-08-2025 21:44:06 UTC

ah yeah. forgot that my proposal to force people to decide they want to go dark at the start of a round failed

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