The sky is the limit, literally! Introducing Airplane Delivery!

Hi everyone, my name is Masterflare, Trikshot360 on Reddit or on Hay Day, LastFPS. I'm fairly new to this community and the forums in general after my lost account was lost. I've come to the forums today to showcase an idea myself and a few other came up with in the /r/HayDay discord chat.

So without further a do... Introducing the Airport Delivery Service!

What is it?
It's basically a new area called the Airport. It's a brand new area, and uses the same expansion materials for new land like your farms and fishing areas already use. It has an airfield and a new type of "shipping house" when you first unlock it. The goal of the shipping house is to fill and send out large bulk orders, which will be accumulated in the shipping house itself. Once you fill your order, your plane is on the move!
The Airplane(s)
There are a few main parts to your brand new Airport. One of those is the Airplane. Stored inside of your hanger, which can be upgraded using materials only found from Airplane missions and doing tasks around your Airport. You hanger, when upgraded, now has the option to hold more/bigger planes. Allowing you to have multiple planes all going to different missions at once. Planes will be locked by either level, or by mission completed barriers(For example, you need to do 9 plane missions before upgrading/buying a new plane!) for X amount of coins, increasing per plane.
The Shipping House
This is the main area where you do your tasks. Orders come and go inside of the main office, and once you pick one up, fill it up with the help of your friends or neighborhood(Friends + Neighborhood can contribute 10% of total needed goods for one item). Remember, these orders are bulk, so that means they are huge! For example, an order can look like: 1000 Wheat, 1000 Corn, 50 brown sugar, and X amount of other items. Depending on the amount/rarity of the items, the reward will be different for the missions given. Now the way these items get stored is the cool part. No more taking up barn space! Drop the items you need directly into the shipping house, and they will stay there until the order is done. Be careful though, dropping the order will make you lose all of the items inside of the shipping house! The level of the shipping house directly effects how big your orders can be, and how often they show up.
The Rewards
Rewards are always a big part of doing missions. Since these orders take up so much time, and effort, the rewards should be pretty worth while. Where it might come short of shop prices, maybe mimicking 80% of the maximum price, the XP reward would be high, rewarding a minimum of 1000 XP per shipment, and 2-5 vouchers depending on order size/speed. Rewards are collected after your Airplane returns to the runway.
Possible Additions
Something that could make this more interesting is having a plane break down, and need repairs in the hanger, meaning it needs time before it gets out again. This can be shortened by your friends by requesting help, or with the use of diamonds. Another possibility is having the ability to fly your townspeople out to places, for high ticket costs. But this would require a new type of a plane, possibly one like a passenger plane, and a cargo plane for cargo.

Feedback is extremely welcome! As this is my first post, I'm still pretty new around here. If you have an idea to add to this, feel free, I hope this can be something amazing to make Hay Day even more exciting than it already is!

Thanks for reading, and have a great day! XD

If anyone has any feedback or comments on the idea, please leave them here, hoping for a discussion!

I accidentally voted no! I meant to say yes, like the idea - it has been suggested a few times over the last few months. However, the suggested size of the orders sounds a bit too much. 1000 wheat - no problem. 50 sugar or anything else that takes 30 minutes or more to make or grow - way too tedious and would tie up your machines or fields for days on end and pretty much bring everything else to a halt. It would really only be doable for high level players with mega sized barns who can prepare for these orders a long time in advance. As I've said in previous threads about plane deliveries, other orders (trucks, boats, town) would have to be reduced somewhat, or it would become too much to keep up with everything IMO.

The rewards would have to be really good, maybe they would have to be known in advance too, so you don't slave away for days and end up with something you don't need. Like, would I be prepared to risk 50+ of an item to end up with 5 green vouchers? Probably not. A choice of rewards would be good.

I like the idea of having different planes, that would be super cool.

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Originally Posted by CottonTail

I accidentally voted no! I meant to say yes, like the idea - it has been suggested a few times over the last few months. However, the suggested size of the orders sounds a bit too much. 1000 wheat - no problem. 50 sugar or anything else that takes 30 minutes or more to make or grow - way too tedious and would tie up your machines or fields for days on end and pretty much bring everything else to a halt. It would really only be doable for high level players with mega sized barns who can prepare for these orders a long time in advance. As I've said in previous threads about plane deliveries, other orders (trucks, boats, town) would have to be reduced somewhat, or it would become too much to keep up with everything IMO.

The rewards would have to be really good, maybe they would have to be known in advance too, so you don't slave away for days and end up with something you don't need. Like, would I be prepared to risk 50+ of an item to end up with 5 green vouchers? Probably not. A choice of rewards would be good.

I like the idea of having different planes, that would be super cool.

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Definitely get what you are saying about the order sizes. However, I don't want them to be timed, sort of like "Do them when you want" and slowly fill them up. Good point on the rewards, they should be shown ahead of time, but also depends on the order you send. Orders that take a long time, would reward you with a lot more.

It's a good idea, my only real concern with something like this would be finding an appropriate reward for the effort.

I'm projecting a bit here, but I think the high level players able to do this sort of thing already have enough cash and vouchers and don't need expansion materials. So what would make this worth the trouble? (Incidentally this is how I already feel about truck and boat orders).

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Originally Posted by CheddarLimbo

It's a good idea, my only real concern with something like this would be finding an appropriate reward for the effort.

I'm projecting a bit here, but I think the high level players able to do this sort of thing already have enough cash and vouchers and don't need expansion materials. So what would make this worth the trouble? (Incidentally this is how I already feel about truck and boat orders).

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That's true. Most high level players already have everything they need so there is no real point. But for newish players still getting into the game this seems pretty fun. Also, there are loads of ways to make it worth while, add it to derby missions(I.E fill up 200 x in your plane) or you can have a leaderboard. For whoever makes the most trips and so on.

A reward for high level players is a large amount of experience points since they need a lot to level up.

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Originally Posted by MasterFlare

That's true. Most high level players already have everything they need so there is no real point. But for newish players still getting into the game this seems pretty fun. Also, there are loads of ways to make it worth while, add it to derby missions(I.E fill up 200 x in your plane) or you can have a leaderboard. For whoever makes the most trips and so on.

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Right, so again this is just me, but in either of those scenarios I would be VERY unlikely to use the feature. I don't care about comparing my progress to someone else on a leaderboard. And as a Derby task it sounds like it would be a lot of trouble for the reward, given that there are a bunch of other things I could do for the same Derby points.

Pretty much the only thing that keeps me doing town tasks right now is because it's the only way to get town expansions, and I haven't maxed out every single building yet.

If the airport had some similar kind of upgrade or expansion element that could only be completed by doing airport jobs then I would get into it.

I think that this would be fun for any level but especially for higher level players this would be great. I'm level 121 and I would love some new challenges and more ways to get expansion materials and xp. It takes sooooo long to upgrade and level now. I'd love something like this that had an achievement attached as well since I'm almost out of those. Maybe airport expansions could use up some of the land expansion materials I get as well.

I really like that it doesn't have a time limit but you get better rewards for finishing your orders sooner.

Would there be the ability to send away a plane if it asks for like 50 syrup or something?

Ich finde die idee mit dem Flughafen auch super . Wäre toll wenn Sie umgesetzt würde. Vielleicht das auch niedrigere lvl da schon mitmachen können.

Sure. That's a good idea too!