I was thinking about how to make this delivery game fun-ish.

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I was thinking about how to make this delivery game fun-ish.

The big point is you don't know where you're delivering, just the planet.

Once you pick a landing spot, you have a Fallout 2 style map you can roam across. Eventually, maybe you find pointers or encounters.

BUT before you commit-

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Various tiles on the map are marked in advance with different icons.

If you do the matching kind of research - for example, sensor scanning, interviewing survivors, researching historical records, etc - you get to see what's in that tile AND get a clue as to the nearest major signal.

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So I'm running a fever and have taken quite a lot of Dayquil, but I think this sounds fun, because it means you can spend your time researching before you descend.

Everything you do has a time cost, whether it's research or movement or space travel, and that's the main cost of the game. Time.