Hey playtesters! This update contains a bunch of new things, tweaks, and improvements, getting Parcel Simulator one step closer to a public demo.
🪪 Criteria Licences!
Previously in Parcel Simulator, new parcel criteria would be assigned to you automatically at a relatively arbitrary cadence. Now, licences are directly tied to a given criteria, and once unlocked will mean that all parcels going forward will contain that criteria. Doing so will make your life harder with the new checks, but will also allow you to unlock new warehouse tiers, and in turn more licences.
🏗️ Freeplace System
To give you a sense of control over your warehouse, you can now freely place many objects including the inspection table, the statistics dashboard, and all inspection items.
🔎 Inspection Table Overhaul
One of the biggest complaints in previous playtests was the interactions at the inspection table not feeling very fluid. Now, you're able to drag items around freely, interact and focus items without them knocking each other off the table, rotate items, and many more things.
🛒 Pallet Improvements
Pallets are now much, much better. You'll get a handy snapping system come in to play when you hover over one with a pallet in your hands, allowing you to easily attach and remove parcels to pallets.
🖥️ Submit display
To make it easier to digest where the income/losses are coming from for each submission, the export screen has had a major overhaul, giving you granular information and detail on each submission. Additionally, it also now costs $5 per submission to encourage parcels to be submitted in batches rather than individually. Finally, the inspection tablet now alerts you with a modal if there is an incorrect submission with the parcel in question that was incorrectly submitted, and the reason for the incorrect submission.
🚀 And a bunch more stuff!
A lot of other stuff has changed, be it tweaks and bug fixes, or changes and refactoring to underlying systems. A lot of moving pieces are hard to see, but hopefully have made a big impact still. Happy playtesting!