Yeah, the thought was to have it pause when it is doing a pickup, you'll notice it doesn't when there is no "trash". It sounds like that didn't translate very well though. Originally I was going to have the trash animate into the truck but never got that good enough to put in. Really appreciate the feedback!
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That's a good suggestion. It will tell you if you do all of them, but putting it in the UI might help. I was also thinking of making it mouse-based, and letting you plot it out a bit to make it less tedious.
EDIT: Also have the animated items working now for post judging. Hopefully that makes the stopping more obvious.