X-Press Delivery 1.2.0

The big one: a full overhaul of progression, new delivery events, achievements, and a UI cleanup. Includes everything from the unreleased 1.1.3. Save-compatible: existing saves keep their rank and history, and every new field is backfilled automatically.

Progression

• The rank ladder is now six rungs: Trainee, Courier (5 satisfied customers), Senior Courier (12), Route Captain (20), Lead Driver (30), and X-Press Elite (45).
• Every rank now changes how a shift plays, not just the wage: base pay climbs from $250 to $650, tips scale with a per-rank multiplier (x1.0 up to x2.5), higher ranks carry more packages per shift (5-8 up to 7-10), and special deliveries come knocking more often (30% up to 40%).
• The promotion screen was rebuilt: your current rank card, a progress bar to the next rank, and the full ladder with every rank's pay, tip rate, and perk on display.
• Tips now actually matter at high rank. Previously they were flat, so the better your wage got, the less the "satisfied customers" part of the job was worth. Backwards. Fixed.
• Old saves: your rank carries over and base pay re-syncs to the new table.

Routes

• From Courier up, you pick your route at the start of each shift:
  • Maple Grove suburbs: quiet streets, gentler customers, fewer special deliveries, and tips on the generous side.
  • Standard route: the usual mix.
  • The Docks district: far more special deliveries, pushier customers, bigger tips.

Regular customers

• Fully satisfy a customer and he may start watching for your van. Regulars (up to five) can answer the door on later specials: they remember you, start warmer, tip 25% better, and notice when you wear something new for them.
• Your regulars are listed by name at the depot.

New special deliveries

• Named doorsteps, each on its own cooldown:
  • Bruce answers a delivery and is exactly what you would expect. Satisfy him properly and he tips a Basic pill, on the house.
  • Dredd takes deliveries at his penthouse. Requires BLACKED installed and a compatible body; without it he simply never appears.
  • A package addressed to your own house, and your stepdad at the door paying $40 for your discretion. About deliveries. In general.
  • Hailey signs for her components with earnest courier etiquette.
  • Vince takes delivery of studio equipment and leaves a question hanging (requires Become a Star).
• X-Fans recognition: if you are a creator with an audience, a customer may recognize exactly who just knocked. Fame-scaled chance, unique dialogue, tips at x1.5, and if you own a handheld camera he will agree to be filmed without so much as a charm check. You still choose.
• Package temptation: occasionally a parcel from the X-Change Pharmacy rattles. Deliver it honestly for a $15 discretion bonus, peek inside, or keep it and pocket a random pill from the live pharmacy shelf. If the customer complains (35% chance), the claim comes out of your pay at sign-out: $150, rising to $250 once the depot has a file on you.

Scenes

• Creampie and facial finishes now play the full post-coitus aftermath before the results screen, with all its reactive variants (including Bruce's own), instead of jump-cutting to the tip.
• The tip formula is now satisfaction base ($150 / $75 / $25) times rank, route, recognition, and regular multipliers.
• The getting-caught recovery no longer misbehaves: getting interrupted mid-delivery now means grabbing your clothes and getting back on the route, not a fresh customer materializing at the bedroom door.

The uniform problem

• Both X-Change funnels (the recruiter's free pill and the supervisor's $100 one) now play a proper swallow beat: the pink box slides across the desk, you can hand it back, and the transformation plays full screen like any pill should.
• Backing out of the supervisor's pill refunds the $100 charge.
• Fixed the stray leftover buttons on the application screen (the infamous double Leave).
• "Sign Contract" now actually hires you. Previously you were hired the moment you transformed and the signature was theater.

UI

• The depot has a status strip: rank, pay, tip rate, satisfied customers, shifts worked, lifetime earnings, and your regulars.
• The schedule screen updates in place when you toggle days instead of reloading the whole screen per click.
• Sign-out is a proper receipt: base pay, tips, pill deduction, any complaint, the total, and your progress to the next rank.
• A 📦 status icon shows in the sidebar during shifts with packages left and tips so far.
• Prose polish throughout: capitalization fixes, and customers stopped being referred to as "they" in the results.

Achievements

• Twelve achievements in a new X-Press Delivery pack: nine visible, three hidden. Special deliveries, satisfied customers, regulars, promotions, routes, a delivery milestone, fame, and three things the depot would rather you did not do.

Under the hood

• Config-at-point-of-use: all tuning tables rebuild on load, so balance changes reach existing saves with no migration.
• The mod self-heals its state at every entry point, including on resumed browser sessions where the mod was freshly installed.
• Removed a stale duplicate version stamp, an orphaned passage, and two dead state fields.
• Verified compatible with TheWharf, Neon Desires Wharf, and Get Caged wrapping the same base passages.
• Balance from playtesting: suburbs tips x1.15, docks tips x1.3 (down from 1.4), fan recognition chance capped at 30%.

Requirements and integrations

• Base game 0.25 or newer. Nothing else required.
• Optional, used when present: X-Fans (recording deliveries, the recognition beat), BLACKED (Dredd), Become a Star (Vince), Paradise Mall Expanded (the kiosk moves to the East Wing Lower Level), AnyJob (registers as a job).