LOGistICAL

by Sacada (2nd edition: 15 Mar 2017)

Objective

• Complete all the towns over the map

Sub objectives

• Fix all the broken roads on the map

• Upgrade all the existing industries to level 3

• Upgrade all the existing stores to level 3

• Buy all the different types of industries

• Buy a new truck of each type

• Achieve all the achievements

Methods

• Buy trucks and deliver cargo

• Deliver cargoes to towns and suburbs to “complete” the towns

• Deliver cargoes to industries to facilitate production of secondary and tertiary cargoes

• Deliver cargoes to industries to allow industries to upgrade

• Build storage depots to allow delivery of large quantities of cargo long distances

• Build industries to facilitate the production of cargoes in new areas

Game Interface

• Main Buttons

  • Settings

    • Click to open. Click to close

    • X - click to close window

    • Name of Player

    • Maps - turn the image of map on/off can increase interface speed

    • Friends - turn images of friends on/off on the map

    • Town Names - turn town names on map on/off

    • Music - turn the music on/off

    • Sound Fx - turn the sound effects on/off

    • Buy Game - Click to buy the game (required after fixing 20 towns)

    • Meta Data of current player

  • Truck List

    • Click to hide/unhide truck list. Default not hidden

  • Industry List

    • Click to open/close industry list

    • Shows all industries that have been found by the player

    • Sort by industries and then stores

    • Sort by Alpha title of industry/store

    • X - click to close window

    • 3 icon - indicates an industry of that type has been upgraded to level 3

    • MouseOver - shows industry with inputs and outputs

  • Contracts and Achievements

    • Number on button indicates current amount of outstanding contracts

    • Click to open/close Contracts/Achievements window

    • X - Close window

    • Up/Down Arrow  - expand/contract all contracts or not complete contracts

    • Contracts/Achievements - toggle window between the two lists

    • Contract List

      • Blue info icon - click to open contract window

      • Red info icon - current selected contract

        • Highlights towns in red indicated on contract

      • Contract title

      • Complete - highlighted if contract is complete

      • Contract Page

        • X - click to close window

        • Contract Title

        • Red - Contract reward

        • Text - explanation of current contract

        • Image - ghosted image of contract type

    • Achievements

      • List of all the regions on the map

      • Totals for states and country

      • Image icons to identify all achievements that are complete

      • Image icons make up a large image

  • Numbers and Symbols

    • Click to show/hide Payments Window

      • X - click to close window

      • Payments Title

      • List of last payments made

        • Net income

        • Gross income

        • Expenditure

        • Cargo Type

        • From

        • To

    • MouseOver to show quick help on each number

    • Current Money - if negative you can’t buy new trucks

    • Image of statue

    • Number of statues - number of the towns currently complete

    • Number of Roads - number of roads fixed

    • Number of Level 3s - number of industries upgraded to Level 3

    • Number of Own - number of industries and stores that you have built

    • Last Transaction - Net value of last transaction

• The Truck List

  • Left/Right arrow in top left

    • Expand/contract truck list (auto for small screens)

  • Paint palette icon

    • On/Off mode to paint trucks

    • Click truck to cycle through colour choices

  • Image of truck

    • Click on truck image to highlight truck and center truck on map

  • Truck Warning

    • Indicates if truck has stopped due to cargo out or industry is full

    • Click on image to highlight truck and center truck on map

    • Truck warning flashes on the Truck Dash

  • Truck Number and Name

    • Name only visible in expanded mode

    • Type of Truck

    • Click to highlight truck

  • Booster (B), Power Boost (P), Loader (L)

    • Written under truck name if truck has functionality installed

    • Letter written after truck number if functioning in contracted mode

    • Click to highlight truck

  • Truck cargo

    • Image of current truck cargo

    • Click to highlight truck without moving map

  • From Town, To Town

    • The “From Town” is where the cargo is being delivered from

    • The “To Town” is where the cargo is being delivered to

    • Click on either to highlight truck and center that town on map

  • Repeat symbol

    • Indicates if the truck is on a continuous repeat cycle

    • Click to highlight truck

  • Green light indicator

    • On = truck will fully unload cargo

    • Off = truck will stop unloading when town has enough cargo

  • Cargo Empty - Full indicator

    • Identify as a pie chart how full the truck is

    • Click to highlight truck

• Truck Dash

  • Click on truck in the truck list to show the current truck’s dash

  • Dial for the current speed of the truck

  • Colour and speed maximum to identify truck type

  • Number and name of the current truck

  • Flashing warning message if triggered

  • Odometer reading - entire kms truck has travelled

  • Booster - kms left with speeder option that doubles empty speed

  • Power Boost -  kms left with grunter option that doubles empty and full speed

  • Loader - number of loaders left with 5 x speed when loading cargo

  • MouseOver - kms since owning the current truck

  • MouseOver - total $ income of the current truck

  • MouseOver - total $ expense of current truck

  • Full/empty of cargo (not fuel)

  • Size of the truck in tonne (t)

  • Image of current cargo

  • Green light and button to stop truck from fully unloading when destination is satisfied (off = don’t unload).

  • “+” button - zoom into map

  • “-” button - zoom out of map

  • “Repeat” button - truck will repeat current trip until destination is satisfied

  • “...” button - extra options for current truck. Click to skip

  • “Skip” button - skip the current loading and send truck to destination

  • “Cancel Load” button - dump the current load at cost of cargo (min cost $1000.00)

  • “Sell Truck” button - sell the current truck and cancel current load

  • “Power” button - start/stop truck load, unload or movement

• The Map

  • Shows all the towns across the map

    • Towns with a population over 500,000 are in larger typeface

  • Shows the industries of towns that have been found

    • MouseOver town to show closeup of town and industries

    • Industries needing an upgrade will have the upgrade cargo shown

  • Shows the roads between the towns

    • Colour of the road indicates the top speed on that road

    • MouseDown - colour of the road indicates that smallest vehicle that can travel on it

  • Icons of the trucks in respect to where they are

  • Image of cargo within the truck

  • Image of cargo loading/unloading for the truck

  • Red rings - current selected truck

  • Yellow/green rings - current selected town

  • Red flag - Current selected town

  • Green flag - Depot town where you can buy trucks

  • Click on town to show town popup window

  • Yellow/green route of current truck

  • Yellow/Red route of current truck if on repeat

  • Conveyor belt icon representation of truck’s current cargo

  • Quarantine icon to identify that not all cargo types can travel on that road

    • MouseOver - ring list quarantine items that can’t be transported along road

  • Drag screen to move map

  • Mouse to edge of screen to move map

  • Wheely mouse to zoom in/out

• Town Popup

  • The town popup show information about the currently selected town

  • You can click on another town to bring up the next towns information

  • X - click to close window

  • Town Title

  • Town region and state

  • Town population - this value drives the needs of the towns

  • Buy Industry

    • Shows if there are any industries that are upgraded to a level 3

    • Shows if the town has less than four industries

    • Shows if town’s population divided by 5000 is greater than the current number of industries in that town

    • Click for industry buying pop-up

    • MouseOver - shows the price of the industry

    • Drag mouse up/down to change the size and cost of the industry

    • Smaller industries produce at smaller rates

    • Smaller industries have smaller input and output holding areas

    • Click on an industry at the price you want to purchase the industry

    • Click the close box if you no longer want the industry

  • Buy Truck

    • Only towns with a depot and green flag have the buy truck button

    • Only a total of 15 trucks can be owned at any time

    • X - click to close the window

    • Title of the truck shop

    • Only trucks that are cheaper than your current money are available for purchase

    • Trucks with a red strike through them cannot be purchased

    • Truck image

    • Truck price

    • New or Used

    • Truck name

    • Truck kms on odometer

    • Description about current truck

    • Carrying capacity of truck

  • Town Needs

    • Series of bars indicating what the town needs

    • Left side of bar indicates the cargoes needed to satisfy the town needs

      • Multiple bars indicate multiple cargoes needed to be delivered simultaneously

      • Multiple cargoes in any single bar indicate all the different cargoes that can increase this bar

      • Question marks show cargoes that have not yet been found

    • The right hand side of the bar shows how much cargo has been delivered to the town as a percentage

    • The number at the right hand side shows the amount of tonnes the town needs to reach 100% capacity

      • Once any cargo is delivered to a town, the bar changes colour to indicate the percentage that the town currently has

      • The bar is red until 50%

      • The bar is yellow until 90%. Once the bar is yellow the consumption rate is reduced

      • The bar is green after 90% and the consumption rate is reduced again

      • The town will be satisfied once all bars are simultaneously above 90%

    • Drag a cargo image onto the map and the map changes to highlight towns that provide that cargo. Each town has a number to indicate the number of tonnes that are available to be delivered at the current time. The current selected truck will have a new route created once the mouse is dropped over a highlighted town with a blue circle

      • The map will show a line from the currently selected town that requires the cargo to the mouse icon

      • The mouse end show an image and the number and name of the currently selected truck that will have it’s route changed

      • A series of cargo icons will scroll towards the town indicating the town needs this cargo delivered

      • Drag the mouse on top of a town with a blue circle and the town popup will change to that town so the player can see more details of the town

      • The player can drop the icon onto the highlighted town to create the new route

      • The player can drop the icon anywhere that is not a highlighted town to cancel the action

      • The new route will be one-way (ie no repeat)

      • Storage to storage: Mouse over town with storage and notice direction. Move mouse away from town and back on to town and direction swaps.

    • Drag anywhere in the cargo list (highlighted black) to show all towns that have any of the cargoes available to satisfy that blocks needs

    • Drag the “All” button onto the map to highlight all towns that can provide for all cargo block needs

  • Industry

    • The list of industries that the town has sorted by Industry then Storage, sorted alphabetically

    • Industries are centered

    • Storages are left justified

    • Industries

      • Center - Icon showing the industry

      • Title of the industry

        • White circle with number - shows tonnes of cargo to be delivered to or from industry before next possible upgrade

        • Green circle with number - shows tonnes of upgrade cargo required to upgrade the industry to the next level

        • Flashing image and title - the cargo that is required to upgrade the industry

        • When the industry has a green circle, drag the industry icon onto the map to find towns that have the upgrade cargo and set up a route for the current truck

      • Inputs - left of industry

        • List of cargoes required to input into the industry to produce output

        • Not all industries require input. These industries will continue to produce output without any required input

        • Each cargo is required to produce any output

        • Yellow circle with number - shows the maximum tonnes available for storage and the percentage full. Industries are able to store more, but the trucks are halted

        • Drag the input onto the map to find towns that can provide input cargo for the industry and to set up a route for the current truck

      • Outputs - right of industry

        • List of output cargos that the industry produces

        • Yellow circle with number - shows the maximum tonnage available at the storage. Industries cannot produce more than is available

        • Drag the output onto the map to find towns that require that cargo for either their town needs, their industry inputs, road maintenance or storage

        • The icons will generally scroll away from the town indicating the cargo is moving out, but can scroll back into town when delivery is to a storage industry

    • Storage

      • Icons are left justified

      • The word “Storage” is to the left of the industry icon to indicate storage

      • The storage industry has upgrade circles, numbers and cargo icons the same as for any industry

      • Inputs and outputs - right of the industry

        • All inputs into the storage industry immediately become outputs

        • The yellow circle with number - shows the maximum storage capacity of the storage

        • Storage can exceed the maximum value, but the truck will stop

    • Roads, Bridges, Ferries, etc

      • This area shows all roads that start or end at the town that are damaged

      • The cargo type needed to fix the road is represented

      • The yellow circle and number - shows the tonnage needed to fix the road and the current percentage complete

      • Some roads require boats for transport across water

      • If there are more than one damaged road, the cargoes show up in no particular order

      • Towns choose which roads are fixed first

Some Rules

• Towns choose where cargo input into the town go, but the general rule of thumb is Town Needs, Industry Upgrade, Road Maintenance, Industry Inputs, Storage

• The larger the truck, the less places it can travel

• Players can only have a maximum of 15 trucks

• If you can’t afford the truck, you can’t purchase it

• You can stop a truck and redirect it to another town that requires the same input

• You can cancel a truck’s delivery with the cancel button on the truck’s dash

• If you sell a truck you can’t get it back

• Trucks will continue to deliver cargoes to a destination if another truck has satisfied destinations need

  • These trucks can be stopped and redirected

• Only small trucks can travel on ferries

• Towns will consume cargoes delivered until these needs have been satisfied

• Towns consumption rate decreases once the bar goes yellow

Game Architecture

• The game requires a mouse to play

• The player logs into the game with your Steam account

• The player’s current game is saved in Steam cloud storage

That's enough. Go out and enjoy it.