Guide

Reading the street before you step into it

What is actually happening outside the shop in Supermarket Simulator, so going out to the street is a decision rather than a gamble.

Applies to

1.6.0 (223), read from the copy of the game this site was built from (see the sources page)

Before you start

• A shop with a street outside it
• Some reason to go out — a delivery, a pump or a vehicle
• A little patience

Steps

1. Treat the street as a place of its own rather than as scenery.
   the roads are objects of their own — a base, a creator, a drawer and a loader — and a road knows its connections
2. Watch the traffic rather than the markings.
   traffic follows waypoints that carry data of their own, with a navigator working along them
3. Cross where a light is reporting a state rather than where it looks clear.
   a traffic light reports a change of its own state
4. Expect a vehicle to change lanes as part of its route, not as a warning to you.
   changing lanes is part of following a route
5. Remember who is holding the traffic together.
   the street's traffic is run by a manager and a holder of its own
6. In a shared shop, expect the traffic to be shared too.
   the street's traffic has a shared form as well as a local one
7. Know what is actually out there before you plan a trip.
   the street has a petrol station with a pump, street lighting with a controller behind it, and deliveries and storage tied to the street

Common mistakes

• Stepping out because the road looks empty rather than because a light says so.
• Assuming a vehicle that is changing lanes has seen you.
• Forgetting that a delivery can be tied to the street rather than to the shop floor.
• Treating the road as something drawn rather than something built from its own pieces.

Related entries

Running the shopThe street outside the shopThe street has a petrol station with a pump of its own.VehiclesThe road traffic and its signalsTraffic follows waypoints that carry data of their own, with a navigator that works along them.VehiclesHow a vehicle drives and answers the controlsA vehicle has a controller of its own, with a separate one for the car kind.

Sources

A local copy of the game, read only. Grounding for each step is on the technical reference pages; no number is estimated.