Pod Arrivals Method Proposal

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I think that the best solution to the queuing problem is to not allow people to go to a dock that's already chosen until it's clear. To prevent frustration, have a dock's selection button colored green if open and red if in transit (with an eta counter?)

However, I think there needs to be a fix for late join afkers who don't get traitor and will leave afk pods filling up the dock

With regard to obstacles, I think having it destroy objects in the way sounds hilarious and in keeping with cogmap's belt hell spirit.

Finally, I think the pods should be named "unescape pods"

Afk clogs could be fixed by having the pods work like a ski lift in that, after dropping off its payload, the pod turns around and flies back out.

In general, the queueing problem is less of an issue than the "dock area gets wrecked during transit" issue, as mentioned by the solution points under the problem item (for example, a reason is given for not liking the "prevent selection of dock if already picked by another player" solution).

I forgot to put this in the original post but my idea for AFKers is simply to boot the dude out of the pod once it arrives at the dock, at which point the pod gets sorta consumed into the dock structure and incinerated/scrapped/whatever'd to free it up for a new arrival.