Wednesday, August 13, 2025

Proposal: Spice of Life

Add the following to the list of things a customer can consists of

Allergy

Can be any one ingredient or “none”. When the Yard creates a Customer, they should secretly random determine a possible Allergy for a Customer, with equal weight given to all ingredients and to “none”. A Customer whose allergy is not none can never select an dish which contains an ingredient which matches their allergy—those dishes are always excluded from any selections the customer might make (including upgrading to a signature dish)

in the Sale atomic action after “The Yard selects a random item on that Truck’s Menu to be the Active Customer’s Choice” add ” (if no items are available due to Allergies or other restrictions to the Customer’s selection, skip to the “They leave the plaza” step)

Still think we need some stuff that encourages people not just to pick 3-4 ingredients and create three dishes that permute them to keep your cost overhead low.

Comments

Desertfrog:

13-08-2025 07:06:08 UTC

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Kevan: Yard he/him

13-08-2025 07:49:29 UTC

The small-permutation menu seems like the better thing to me, both narratively (a truck specialises in chicken and sells variations of the same dish) and for gameplay (if a truck is locked in to a specialised chicken dish and cheaps out by selling permutations of it, other trucks are more likely to be able to guess those permutations).

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