The current active jobs are alright but aren’t that engaging once you’ve done it once. Some alternative active jobs with a good game play loop would be to add active jobs around navigating the city.
As suggested in this video adding an active job for driving people around like a taxi driver, or food delivery would allow players to quickly become familiar with the world and engage with Zois. It also serves as a good use case to add a GPS feature.
Better Active Jobs
- Ride Share Driver: Pay varies by peak hours and distance, tips vary based on whether you get Zois to their destination on time, avoid accidents, etc.
- Pocket Market Food Delivery: Deliver food around the city and on time before the food gets cold to earn better tips. Maybe even encounter scammers who claim their food wasn’t delivered.
- City Sanitation Worker: Pick up trash, sweep the streets, paint over graffiti. There are already NPC Zois in yellow vests that clean around the city, so it should not be much to allow that to be a job for players. Since there is already a city control for “City Sanitation” this job can be activated if the control is set to a certain level.
Also these kinds of jobs are great for rags to riches storylines.