Hello everyone - here's a nice update that adds new capabilities, to add some more fun and make cargo deliveries more productive.
Cargo can now be transported to several destinations around the Island by using the new Coastal Cargo Ship. For example, a large load of supplies can be picked up in the seaport and taken to the Hidden Cove warehouse - a convenient location to supply the factories on the North Shore. Products can then be collected there for transport back to the seaport. The ship can be refuelled at various locations, and maintenance is done in the slip on the north side of the Boat Yard building.
Hidden Cove is also home to a new float plane operation. It's inspired by the bush plane operations found along the Pacific coast. For now, the plane is located at the Hidden Cove Warehouse dock - until the pilots build a proper base for their service! It can be refuelled and maintained at the dock, as well. I think it's actually quite fun to zoom around the Island with the float plane - I can see why they are so popular on the coast.
This update also introduces Notice Boards which display "notices", of course. There are 2 types of notice boards: a "community notice board" which in the future will contain hints and suggestions related to story lines (that's a hint about what I'm currently working on!) and other info, and regular "notice boards" which are posted at buildings. The latter show messages about the cargo contracts that are currently available for that building - essentially, suggestions for cargo deliveries that the building needs to make in order to keep its operations running smoothly. BTW, active cargo contracts can be reviewed by pressing in 'R' on the keyboard which opens the management UI panels for cargo, equipment, and buildings - and now also "cargo contracts".