Subscription boxes

[Lamandus]

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I am playing around the idea of adding "subscription boxes" to the game. Right now, there is no incentive to put money in your bank account. So why not making it possible to get "loot boxes" every ingame week to a location. We are in the "near future" so delivery drones should still be a thing. And most processes are still automatic. There should be "self sufficient" terminals, where you can subscribe to a box in question, and the sum is being withdrawn from your account. The "address" you get it to, should be the nearest post office or even doorstep.

Following boxes should be available: Home and Garden: Boxes with a random selection of seeds and a booklet (training surviving/fabrication to 1 or 2) Guns and Ammo: Basic: just get some ammo, Premium: get a gun, and 2 filled magazines, deluxe: get a gun, 4 filled magazines (could be rare high capacity ones) and a gunmod. The Bowman: get some bow stuff (arrows, mod) Goodbye Rotten: Assortment of food products, unperishable The Survivor: get surviving tools and books about surviving. Techguy: some electic gadgets you may or may not use (also components) and books Le Clothier: high amount of patches of different kinds and threats to make you some clothes (also with recipe books) Chemicals for enthusiasts: books and ingredients for chemical stuff

Those should have a fairly high cost but would make money more important (also adds some kind of fun randomness into the game)...

What do you think?

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[3t3rn4lfl4m3]

Why random weekly boxes instead of ordering specific delivery on demand?

[DrPariah]

Why not both?  But I like the idea either way. There was a mod on the Japanese fork of C:DDA that let you use a laptop, cash cards, and craftable order forms to buy items. Changed the dynamic of the game in a good way, and was super easy (barely an inconvenience!) to add modded items to the buy lists.

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[Ignaramico]

Why not both? But I like the idea either way. There was a mod on the Japanese fork of C:DDA that let you use a laptop, cash cards, and craftable order forms to buy items. Changed the dynamic of the game in a good way, and was super easy (barely an inconvenience!) to add modded items to the buy lists. Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android On Thu, Feb 15, 2024 at 7:26 AM, @.> wrote: Why random weekly boxes instead of ordering specific delivery on demand? — Message ID: @.>

that kinda sounds familiar to project kawaii mod, except it isnt that complex, since the mod lets you craft a "currency" to use and craft the deliveries, but iirc it uses lua for the recipes to add them

[DrPariah]

There was a version of Kawaii that did use Lua, IIRC, but its not necessary. Current version does it without, it just has you craft items into the currency used and use the currency as crafting material. It's possible to do it either way, direct charges from cash card or crafted 'currency', it's all JSON in the end and not especially finicky JSON at that.

[RoyalFox2140]

So here's how you can add this in JSON right now without any code support. Unpacking an item such as an MRE supports item groups, which itself supports chances either as a collection or distribution. You can add a lootbox with a distribution and set your chances.

https://github.com/thhoney08/ZombieHighMod/blob/361af2b28dbd4ce02f0190b9c566e21258d07966/Zhigh_mod/ZhighWeapons/ZhighCards.json#L1406