Good morning everyone,
I am here to discuss with some of you the roots of "Delivery job".
When you start the Delivery Job, you get to drive a burrito, which can only carry 5 crates and at the end of trip you get a message saying "If you work hard enough, you'll be able to drive a bigger vehicle" (or something along the lines of that), so I start grinding and grinding until it dawns on me:
I need 100 trips to start using the "Mule", which can carry up to 12 crates.
And I started using simple maths.
-I need to buy a crate at $150, and I sell it to the business at $230. That means I get exactly ((230 - 150) x 5 = 400) $400 per trip.
-One trip takes about 10 minutes (more or less), meaning I get an average of 6 trips per hour if I am speeding like crazy (because if I follow the rules it will probably take 15-20 minutes)
$400 for 10 minutes worth of work.
And 400 x 6 = $2400. I get paid $2400 per hour IF I speed like a mad man and break all the traffic rules.
-Now let's see how long it will take me to get upgraded to a bigger vehicle.
If one trip takes around 10 minutes (again, if I speed like a madman) that means 100 divided by 6 = 16.6. That means it will take me a little less than 17 hours if I work non-stop to get promoted to a slightly bigger vehicle.
Please tell me, is this fair for a newcomer?
Not to mention to drive a truck you need 500 DELIVERIES.
And driving a bigger vehicle with take you LONGER so let's say it is 15 minutes per trip with a bigger vehicle. 15 x (500-100) = 26. I only need 26 hours ontop of the 17 hours to actually drive a truck and start making decent money.
Now here are my suggestions:
-Make it less trips to get a promotion, money is not great at all, but it should compensate if we get less deliveries per promotion.
-Make money being deducted from the bank account instead of player holding money when buying a crate (i need to get to an ATM every 2 deliveries)
-Make it possible if you buy a truck, you can actually use a truck instead of having to deliver 500 deliveries to use your OWN truck.