Gimmick Job: Pizza Delivery

[Souricelle]

This suggestion comes from Discord, I can't take credit for it but I volunteered to post it, I think it's wonderful.

Pizza Delivery Driver
Access: None (not a Nanotrasen employee)


The Pizza Delivery Driver starts in a Pizza Satellite, which is a tiny offsite station that has a pizza delivery console. They have no internals or useful equipment, just a goofy little outfit. They are not on the crew manifest. At round start, the console randomly assigns one delivery job to the Driver, who is informed they have 10 minutes to complete their delivery or their implanted microbomb will go off, instantly killing them. Deliveries can be to any department on station.

The console spits out a boxed pizza in a stay-fresh tamper-proof package that will only open when emagged or in its designated location. The Driver must then take their single-seater shitty weaponless pod down to the station and complete the delivery, which will stop the timer and allow them to go on living. The challenge then is for the driver to get their pizza into whatever department they're supposed to be delivering to before they die without having proper access. Maybe they can just ask, but maybe Cargonia or Artlab or whoever is being shitty about it and won't let them in. Maybe they have to attempt a break-in. Maybe they need to get AA from the HoP, or have the Captain escort them to their delivery location.

Once their first delivery is complete they can just fuck off and the microbomb timer won't restart, but there should be a way (maybe via QM?) for people to place further pizza orders. These wouldn't automatically start a new timer, the Driver would have to go back out to the console and accept the job for it to do that. The timer could even shorten by 2 minutes for every delivery, adding a sense of heightened challenge over the course of the round.

Traitor drivers could get weapons to trick out their delivery pod with, or unbelievably hot red chili flakes. But the true chads would get a katana so they could be The Deliverator.

This would be my #1 job pick every round.

[DimWhat]

I'd say it should be a alternate micro bomb that deals no damage to the station. Maybe a cortex bomb that makes only their head blow up?

[Souricelle]

Yeah that's fine. It's supposed to kill the poor pizza guy, not be a griefing tool.

[Splints]

A few QoL suggestions:

IMO the timer shouldn't start until they leave the satellite. From what I've seen, round start is the most likely time for a client crash and it wouldn't be great to lose a minute due to technical difficulties. Maybe the player presses a button to unlock the exit to the pod hanger and that starts the timer?

It would be nice if they had some sort of wristwatch device or something else to track their timer. It could make close calls that much more nail-biting.

Maybe there should be some incentive to get them to make additional deliveries. Relatively large cash payouts? Fun items?

I'd be happy to help out coding this, if real life allows the time. I'm just not great with sprites so it would need to be a collaboration.

[Technature]

Yes.

Do it.

Fucking do it.

Maybe make it so you have to have had some time on the server so you know basic controls and don't have less than ten minutes to learn how to drag the pizza around.

[Katzen]

I think you should just get paid for delivering the pizza on time and not actual DEATH. That sounds more like an admin gimmick version.

[Jakson]

I think you should just get paid for delivering the pizza on time and not actual DEATH. That sounds more like an admin gimmick version.

No, it would be funny to have a pizza guy come to your apartment doorstep yelling frantically at the AI to open the door only for his head to explode when the AI says, “You don’t have access to this department”

[Bartimeus]

A few ideas:
Let the pizza delivery suit let you ride mail chutes. Simply to help out a bit with delivery.
Expand the pizza vendor so that more variety of toppings are available. Also increase the price of vending machine pizzas so that player handled pizzas can be more competitive.

How about: When someone orders a pizza, the pizza delivery console gets the request, like on a QM console, except that the user can enter a "tip" for the delivery. When accepting the request, the timer is longer if there is no tip, and shorter the bigger the tip is.

One last idea, the person delivering the pizza has a special branded cap with a camera inside, similar to the camera helmets in security and science. When interacting with the pizza request console, you have the option to watch the pizza delivery in real time so you know wether your pizza is on the way, or wether the delivery has been lost to the depths of space.

[Frank_Stein]

Make it an opt in ghost job that becomes available when someone orders a pizza. Ghost takes the role, does the job, gets spacebux or whatever as a reward, then goes back to being a ghost

[Cal]

kinda morbid with the bomb aspect. cant they just make money?

[Ikea]

This idea does have a lot of potiental, here are my takes. Have the pizza satellite be a prefab, only have the job be available when the prefab is there. Job is latejoin only. Anyone can order a pizza, the areas they can only order the pizza to be delivered too are the ones they have on there id however (exception of listening post). This comes with the additional caveat of the harder the place is to access, the far more expensive the delivery is (So the HoS ordering a pizza to be delivered to the armory would cost 10x as much as ordering it to be delivered to medbay). In order to encourage people ordering pizza, the pizza can give special food buffs/contains good chems (think omnizine, meth, etc) at slightly more cost.

Upon completion of a delivery, the pizza man gets unique company script (pizzacoin or something like that) that can be used to purchase goodies that makes there job easier. The amount of pizzacoin they get depends on how fast they deliver the pizza, and how hard the area they deliver to is to access. Here are a few ideas:

Have the putt start off very slow and weak, the pizza man can purchase a crate that contains all parts that can construct a putt with the exception of not carrying armor. The pizza man can purchase various armor (Gold armor for a low hp but fast putt, indy armor for high hp slow putt, sec armor for jack of all trades armor). Various pod weaponry and better engines can be purchased as well.

Pizza delivery is the seventh most dangerous job, they need weaponry to defend themselves. At a high cost, the slicer can be purchased. The slicer uses unique pizza blade ammo (ammo does not come included and also has to be purchased). The pizza blades are shot out from the gun at high speeds, dealing 25 damage and significant bleed.

Pizza heater mark 1, 2 and 3. Purchasing a pizza heater increases the amount of time that you can take to deliver the pizza. Each upgrade increases the time you can take by two minutes.

Pizza delivery car, a unique car that has a custom sprite to look like a pizza delivery car (mostly a meme purchase).

Nanotrasen partnership, this can be purchased multiple times, however each time its more costly. Each purchase gives your id additional access, first purchase would be something like maintence access, and last purchase gives you about the same amount of access as a janitor.

Pizza delivery access tool, A handheld device that automatically uses packet hacking to hack open any door. An alternative to traditional hacking tools for breaking and enterring.

Pizza delivery spacesuit: A unique spacesuit with low slowdown, useful for delivering pizza regardless of the stations condition.

Hacking tools, name says it all.

[McDougie]

Pizza dude shouldnt explode. Instead they should turn into a smoke powder cloud of pizza reagant like a wiz golum. Even if they fail to deliver their pizza the crew still gets pizza.

Or a macro bomb.

[Rilor]

This idea does have a lot of potiental, here are my takes. Have the pizza satellite be a prefab, only have the job be available when the prefab is there. Job is latejoin only. Anyone can order a pizza, the areas they can only order the pizza to be delivered too are the ones they have on there id however (exception of listening post). This comes with the additional caveat of the harder the place is to access, the far more expensive the delivery is (So the HoS ordering a pizza to be delivered to the armory would cost 10x as much as ordering it to be delivered to medbay). In order to encourage people ordering pizza, the pizza can give special food buffs/contains good chems (think omnizine, meth, etc) at slightly more cost.

Upon completion of a delivery, the pizza man gets unique company script (pizzacoin or something like that) that can be used to purchase goodies that makes there job easier. The amount of pizzacoin they get depends on how fast they deliver the pizza, and how hard the area they deliver to is to access. Here are a few ideas:

Have the putt start off very slow and weak, the pizza man can purchase a crate that contains all parts that can construct a putt with the exception of not carrying armor. The pizza man can purchase various armor (Gold armor for a low hp but fast putt, indy armor for high hp slow putt, sec armor for jack of all trades armor). Various pod weaponry and better engines can be purchased as well.

Pizza delivery is the seventh most dangerous job, they need weaponry to defend themselves. At a high cost, the slicer can be purchased. The slicer uses unique pizza blade ammo (ammo does not come included and also has to be purchased). The pizza blades are shot out from the gun at high speeds, dealing 25 damage and significant bleed.

Pizza heater mark 1, 2 and 3. Purchasing a pizza heater increases the amount of time that you can take to deliver the pizza. Each upgrade increases the time you can take by two minutes.

Pizza delivery car, a unique car that has a custom sprite to look like a pizza delivery car (mostly a meme purchase).

Nanotrasen partnership, this can be purchased multiple times, however each time its more costly. Each purchase gives your id additional access, first purchase would be something like maintence access, and last purchase gives you about the same amount of access as a janitor.

Pizza delivery access tool, A handheld device that automatically uses packet hacking to hack open any door. An alternative to traditional hacking tools for breaking and enterring.

Pizza delivery spacesuit: A unique spacesuit with low slowdown, useful for delivering pizza regardless of the stations condition.

Hacking tools, name says it all.

The nanotrasen partnership seems a bit weak and thatd itd be redundant if the hop or cap are willing to give them AA or even just plain more access, which is reasonable because if they dont make the delivery they'll die

Pizza deliver access tool would be hard to detect as hacking and kind of makes the hacking tools redundent

Any armour other than gold would probably be completly unessasary in most situations considering how speed reliant the pizza delivery person is

I feel like giving the pizza delivery man a weapon kind of ruins the point, be a lot more intresting if they had to find a weapon or just live without it on the most dangerous space station in the galaxy

I like the idea of a unique space suit and the pizza giving buffs, the space suits makes them more unique looking and the buffs means that people on main will actually have a reason to order pizza beyond to make the life of the pizza delivery person miserable

kinda morbid with the bomb aspect. cant they just make money?

Perhaps on the RP servers the pizza delivery person either gets more time or the option to go without the bomb implant but they dont get as much from delivering pizza's? maybe they start with an implanter and the "speed encouragement" implant, perhaps its DNA locked to only work in the pizza delivery person (or someone who used stable mutagen to become the pizza delivery person) unless its emaged or something??

[Ikea]

Pizza deliver access tool would be hard to detect as hacking and kind of makes the hacking tools redundent

Any armour other than gold would probably be completly unessasary in most situations considering how speed reliant the pizza delivery person is

I feel like giving the pizza delivery man a weapon kind of ruins the point, be a lot more intresting if they had to find a weapon or just live without it on the most dangerous space station in the galaxy

To note when I said that the pizza deliver access tool used packets, I meant it. It should have a very noticeable in hand sprite, and take as long as packet hacking. Itd be a stealthy yet slower alternative to hacking tools. You could make the gold armor far more expensive then other armor to make it not the defacto one. Weapon isnt there because they need it, I just think itd be cool. The slicer would basically just be a phaser dps wise that takes expensive ammo but causes bleed.

[THISISANICEGAME]

I like the idea of it being a ghost role, someone orders a pizza, they spawn in a pod somewhere in space and the pod has the pizza on it's cargo hold and it can't warp now they have to somehow make their way to the delivery area and put the pizza there, they should get no access, and some pizza themed clothing, radio and pda too, along with the objective to deliver pizza to said area of course, once they deliver the pizza/25 minutes pass they get teleported to some facility and put on a cryogenic unit or something that just forces them into a ghost. There should also be some cool message for managing to deliver the pizza and eating the pizza should gib you if you are the delivery person.