Right off the bat, are these truck stops or rest stops? Our own development team tends to use the terms interchangeably.
TL;DRThey are internally rebranding away from 'truck stop' to 'rest stop', since many kinds of players use them, and drew on real-world truck stops and highway service plazas as references.
Yeah, we're trying to do a rebranding internally to make sure that people stop using truck stop because obviously it's not really what it is.
Space trucks, space truckers, but it's not quite the term that's honed in on. In general, it's more of these rest stops, especially for how people are using it and the breadth of people who go visit these locations in the universe. It isn't just for these long-haul space truckers per se. Everyone needs to stop at these things out there. It's how you fuel. It's how, if you're in a single-seater, you go to the bathroom. Stretch your legs walking around.
I mean, a lot of the references that we were using initially when talking about them was actually Iowa 80, which is a very big, I think it might be one of the largest, if not the largest, truck stops, I think it's actually on Interstate 80. And on the New Jersey Turnpike, on 95 on the East Coast, those standardized rest stops that you come across where they have the KFC or McDonald's and stuff like that. Just to give you two varieties that we drew from. So those were the more standardized because they always look the same. They just have different amenities.
There's one company out there selling designs for truck stops around the country.
And they're populating them with whatever restaurants and stuff like that. So yeah, those were sort of the original properties, kickoff type thing. But yeah, hence why it was very common to just have them internally be known as truck stops.