Send Item Along ....

[Fierce_Deity]

Implement a new option on roadsigns/roads that appears when you are lifting an object that will give you the option to send it along the road system. Might crowd up the flower menu too much however, so just tacking on a "Send Item Along ..." option may not be the best approach. Maybe shift right clicking it could bring up a submenu with more intricate options like sending along objects/animals.
The item will look within a small radius around the end of the roadsign for a place to be dropped, and return an error message if there isn't room. The idea here is so we don't have to travel to the end of the road every time to set down a barrel of water or a boulder for example.

[ven]

It would make more sense if it had to be attached to an animal.

Related: viewtopic.php?f=48&t=52448&p=694365

[Fierce_Deity]

I guess having to attach it to an animal would make more sense, but what I'm aiming for with this idea is convenience and to decrease the tedium with transporting large amounts of trivial things along roads, or even small amounts. Being able to send animals along would be nice as well, but what I really want is to be able to send just a lifted item. I want to decrease the time it takes to move things to the end of roads by half, so we don't have to go back and forth continuously. Who cares if its magically reaching the end without us. If someone wants to risk their things at the end of a road, let em.

Your idea of sending things to peoples hearth fires is similar only in that items are moving from one point to another, and all other similarities end there. I'm not suggesting charter stones get to have items sent along them either, just normal road systems.

[ven]

I also meant the discussion in that thread. Loftar expressed there that he's not keen on easy item teleportation, and that there must be some effort from the player to earn such convenience.
With that in mind, I think your idea could be made more appealing to the devs if porting items through roads somehow costed you some work beforehand. Like crating items that would be spent each time you sent something liftable down the road, or simply costing you XP.

[Fierce_Deity]

Then lets just have a more expensive milestone type structure that can extend the extra functionality to whats been previously suggested. It could be a small building or just a metal milestone requiring various types of metal, including silver or gold.

[jorb]

Yeah, no. Not a fan of that one. Would rather implement a specific mailbox system in that case, and am none too keen on that either.